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(0)Miriam Toews
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English
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Between 2005 and 2009, in a remote religious Mennonite colony, over a hundred girls and women were knocked unconscious and raped, often repeatedly, by what many thought were ghosts or demons, as a punishment for their sins. As the women tentatively began to share the details of the attacks -- waking up sore and bleeding and not understanding why -- their stories were chalked up to 'wild female imagination'. Women Talking is an imagined response to...
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English
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Meet the Troutmans. Hatties boyfriend has just dumped her, her sister Mins back in the psych ward, and Min's kids, Logan and Thebes, are not talking and talking way too much, respectively. Then theres the past, in which Min tried to kill Hattie once and to kill herself a lot, in which Min threw the kids father out of the house, in which Hattie dropped out of school, in which Logan and his friends kidnapped a friend and drove around town with him in...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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In a small Mennonite town in southern Manitoba, teenager Nomi Nickel tries to find out the truth behind her mother's and sister's disappearances, and ultimately finds herself in conflict with her religious uncle and her community.
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McSweeney's Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Elfrieda, a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, happily married: she wants to die. Yolandi, divorced, broke, sleeping with the wrong men as she tries to find true love: she desperately wants to keep her older sister alive. But Elf's latest suicide attempt is a shock: she is three weeks away from the opening of her highly anticipated international tour. Can she be nursed back to "health" in time? Does it matter? As the situation becomes ever...