victims of crimes

Tells the story of a young woman known as Sharon and as Tonya, her real identity unknown, who was abducted as a young child by paroled convict Franklin Floyd and endured years of molestation first as his "daughter" and then as his "wife" before he killed her, and whose son suffered at his hands as well.

Intelligence operative Lord Alexander Hawke matches wits with a brilliant but deadly psychopath in a desperate race to prevent an American Armageddon.

When Em Morales's older sister was raped, her world was turned upside down. Her family thought her sister was going to get real justice when the jury found the rapist guilty, but the judges sentences the rapist to no prison time, shattering any sense of hope. Em is sick with rage and guilt, but she finds a way to heal through writing poems about a fifteenth-century French noblewoman, Marguerite de Bressieux, who was legendary as an avenging knight for rape victims.

Ten years after leaving her hometown to escape a serial killer, Sasha Keaton returns to help run her family's inn, but when women start disappearing and disturbing calling cards are left for Sasha, FBI agent Cole Landis steps in to protect her.

After a mad dash to safety out of a windowless shack in the woods where her captor had been holding her, a young woman calling herself Lena returns to the world after fourteen years missing. However, this is only the beginning of a new nightmare--her family swears she is not their Lena, in spite of the matching scar she has. The little girl who Lena escape with is also a question mark--she is not saying everything she knows. Meanwhile, Lena fears her tormentor is not done with her, and will not rest until the whole truth about what happened in that shack in the woods.

"1969: the height of counterculture and the year universities would seek to curb the unruly spectacle of student protest the winter that Harvard University would begin the tumultuous process of merging with Radcliffe, its all-female sister school and the year that Jane Britton, an ambitious 23-year-old graduate student in Harvard's Anthropology Department and daughter of Radcliffe Vice President J. Boyd Britton, would be found bludgeoned to death in her Cambridge, Massachusetts apartment. Forty yearslater, Becky Cooper a curious undergrad, will hear the first whispers of the story. The story was this: a Harvard student had had an affair with her professor, and the professor had murdered her in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology because she'd threatened to talk about the affair. Though the rumor proves false, the story that unfolds, is even more complex"--Provided by publisher.

"A YA memoir of sexual abuse in the Air Force academy, and the author's survival and healing"--Provided by publisher.

"A boy must take up the search for his sister when she goes missing from a neighborhood where black girls' disappearances are too often overlooked"--OCLC.

"On a cold day in 1997, student Sara Morgan was killed in the woods surrounding her liberal arts college in upstate New York. Her boyfriend, Blake Campbell, confessed, his plea of temporary insanity raising more questions than it answered. In the aftermath of his acquittal, the case comes to haunt a strange and surprising network of community members, from the young woman who discovers Sara's body to the junior reporter who senses its connection to convicted local serial killer John Logan. Others are looking for retribution or explanation: Sara's half sister, stifled by her family's bereft silence about Blake, poses as a babysitter and seeks out her own form of justice, while the teenager Sara used to babysit starts writing to Logan in prison"--Provided by publisher.

"Detective Tom Moon and his multi-talented team face off against an international crime ring looking to seize control of America's most vibrant city, Miami. The city of Miami is Detective Tom Moon's back yard. He's always kept it local, attending University of Miami on a football scholarship, and, as a Miami PD officer, protecting the city's most vulnerable. Now, as the new leader of an FBI task force called "Operation Guardian," it's his mission to combat international crime. Moon's investigative team discovers that the opportunistic "Blood Brothers" -- Russian nationals Roman and Emile Rostoff -- have evaded authorities while building a vast, powerful, and deadly crime syndicate throughout Europe and metropolitan Miami. Moon played offense for UM, but he's on the other side of the field this time. And as the Rostoffs zero in on a target dear to Tom, they're not playing by anyone's rules"--Provided by publisher.