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A cave in the clouds

a young woman's escape from ISIS
Badeeah Hassan, a Yazidi woman from Iraq, relates her story of captivity and escape from ISIS.
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The lynching of Louie Sam

a novel
A fictionalized account of the 1884 lynching of fourteen-year-old Louie Sam, a Native American, by a group of men from the Washington Territory, told from the point of view of fifteen-year-old George Gillies and his best friend, whose fathers were part of the lynch mob that traveled into British Columbia to get what they saw as justice for the murder of a white Washington settler.
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Violence against women

2016
A collection of essays that examines violence against women in the United States.
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The house on Foster Hill

2017
When Kaine Prescott's husband died two years ago, her pleas for further invegestigation fall on deaf ears, but when the house's dark history comes back to haunt her, Kaine realizes there's nowhere left to hide.
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American psycho

a novel
1991
Twenty-six-year old Patrick Bateman is an educated, intelligent, and handsome New York businessman, who comes from old money and murders people in his spare time.
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After Anna

2018
"Noah Alderman . . . has remarried a wonderful woman, Maggie, and for the first time in a long time he and his son are happy. But their lives are turned upside down when Maggie's trouble-maker daughter Anna moves in with them. Events take a deadly turn when Anna is murdered and Noah is accused of the crime. Maggie must face not only the devastation of losing her only daughter, but the realization that her daughter's murder was at the hands of a husband she loves. New information sends Maggie searching for the truth, leading her to discover something darker than she could have ever imagined"--Provided by publisher.
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The Da Vinci code

Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon and French cryptologist Sophie Neveu work to solve the murder of an elderly curator of the Louvre, a case which leads to clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci and a centuries-old secret society.

#MeToo

women speak out against sexual assault
Presents a collection of essays selected from the New York Times that looks at the history of the "#MeToo" movement in which women around the world share their stories of sexual assault and abuse.
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Accused

2014
"An easier and more peaceful life seemed to be destined for Ahmed and Tashera when they left Washington, DC and entered Georgia Atlantic University. But when Ahmed is accused of a crime that he didn't commit and begins to be tried in the media, his popularity plummets, his self-esteem suffers, and his dreams of playing college basketball disappear"--Back cover.
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Deep dark blue

2018
"A YA memoir of sexual abuse in the Air Force academy, and the author's survival and healing"--Provided by publisher.
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