betrayal

A class of junior high students is taken to a deserted island, where they are given weapons and forced to kill one another until only one survivor is left standing.

Amir, haunted by his betrayal of Hassan, the son of his father's servant and a childhood friend, returns to Kabul as an adult after he learns Hassan has been killed, in an attempt to redeem himself by rescuing Hassan's son from a life of slavery to a Taliban official.

In seventeenth-century Scotland, sixteen-year-old Maggie Blair is sentenced to be hanged as a witch but escapes to the home of her uncle, placing him and his family in great danger as she risks her life to save them all from the king's men.

When fourteen-year-old Arisa, aided by Prince Edoran and Weasel, tries to find the long-lost sword, she faces betrayal of the worst kind.

Quiet, shy Addie, lured into the woods is afraid she is about die, but when she learns she has been betrayed by her best friend and publicly humiliated, she realizes that there are things worse than terror.

With help from her best friend Ava and Ava's boyfriend Noah, Hannah is recovering from being dumped by her boyfriend Sebastian, but on the first day of their senior year in high school, Ava learns that Hannah and Noah betrayed her while she was away.

A graphic novel adaptation of the author's novel about Amir, a forty-year-old novelist living in the U.S., who returns to his native Afghanistan to right a terrible wrong that ended his boyhood friendship with Hassan, a member of the persecuted Hazara people.

After dropping their children off at school, a group of fathers meet at a nearby coffee shop and discuss their lives. Over the course of a year, they reveal their hopes, dreams, and secrets as they confront the harsh realities of their lives and what they do to move forward.

Skye Brown, a game designer in Manhattan, dreams of her life as Mariah Quinn, who is haunted by a post-apocalyptic world in which she is a Moongazer who struggles against oppression while trying to determine her true identity.

Discusses in both human and scientific terms the central dimension of human attachment in coping with overwhelming experiences, laying bare the logic of forgotten abuse.