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183) Blues for Willadean
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Willadean Winkler, the wife of a blue collar truck driver, does her best to manage and survive in the abusive prison her husband has built for her. With the help of her best friend, LaSonia, who lives in the trailer next door, and the musical encouragement of a mystical blues singer, Willadean fights to break the tragic cycle.
Author
Series
Gender and justice volume 8
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A profound, compelling argument for abolition feminism--to protect criminalized survivors of gender-based violence, we must dismantle the carceral system. Since the 1970s, anti-violence advocates have worked to make the legal system more responsive to gender-based violence. But greater state intervention in cases of intimate partner violence, rape, sexual assault, and trafficking has led to the arrest, prosecution, conviction, and incarceration of...
189) Crime after crime
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
[Widescreen].
Language
English
Description
In 1983, Deborah Peagler, a woman brutally abused by her boyfriend, was sentenced to 25 years-to-life for her connection to his murder. Twenty years later, California passed a law allowing incarcerated domestic violence survivors to reopen their cases. This documentary follows two attorneys who take Debbie's case and strive to attain testimonies of long lost witnesses, proof of perjured evidence, and new testimonies from the men who committed the...
190) The invisible man
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When a woman's ex-husband commits suicide, a series of coincidences leads her to believe that his death was a hoax, and that she is being stalked by a man whom no one can see.
191) East of Eden
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Adam and Charles Trask grow up in the shadow of their father, Cyrus. Cyrus prefers Adam, inciting jealousy in his younger son. Adam is signed up for the cavalry, while Charles works on the family farm. Reuniting years later, the brothers live in peace until a beautiful woman nearly beaten to death arrives on their front porch. Adam nurses her back to health and falls blindly in love. But Cathy hides a cruel past. Adam and Cathy marry and have twin...
Author
Series
McCutcheon Family volume 7
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
"When Roady Guthrie, longtime foreman for the McCutcheon ranch, takes time off to go bear hunting, he never expects to find a young woman asleep in his hunting cabin in the midst of a snowstorm. Worried what their unchaperoned situation will do to her reputation, Roady is uneasy when the snowfall keeps them stranded -- just long enough for him to lose his heart. Sally Stanford has a secret -- one that sent her running from St. Louis to Y Knot and...
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