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One ordinary spring morning in Reykjavik, Iceland, Thordis Elva kisses her son and partner goodbye before boarding a plane to do a remarkable thing: fly seven thousand miles to South Africa to confront the man who raped her when she was just sixteen. Meanwhile, in Sydney, Australia, Tom Stranger nervously embarks on an equally life-changing journey to meet Thordis, wondering whether he is worthy of this milestone. After exchanging hundreds of searingly...

New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation, a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.

"Interweaving his account of the Steven Avery trial at the heart of Making a Murderer with other high profile cases from his criminal defense career, attorney Jerome F. Buting explains the flaws in America's criminal justice system and lays out a provocative, persuasive blue-print for reform. Over his career, Jerome F. Buting has spent hundreds of hours in courtrooms representing defendants in criminal trials. When he agreed to join Dean Strang as...

In the middle of her vibrant Mexican town, amid good friends, margaritas at sunset, salsa, yoga, mariachis, even before the rapist arrived, a midlife crisis had been brewing. Failed relationships, worn-out dreams, and wavering religous beliefs had tinged her life with despair, flat-lined it to gray. No longer sustained by the religious practices that had nourished her for years, she missed God and had been searching on the Internet for a monastery...

Mara y Owen son los gemelos más cercanos del mundo. Así que cuando él es acusado de violación, ella no sabe qué pensar. ¿Puede su hermano ser culpable de algo tan atroz? Dividida entre el amor por su familia y su sentido de la justicia, Mara deberá hacerle frente a un trauma del pasado que le impide ser libre y ser fuerte para enfrentar la realidad de su presente. Con sensibilidad y franqueza, esta novela encara el abuso sexual, la culpa que...

Tennessee Williams' classic drama studies the emotional disintegration of a Southern woman whose last chance for happiness is destroyed by her vindictive brother-in-law.

You're not going home. You're not going anywhere. You're mine now. Growing up in a deeply troubled family, 15-year-old Anna felt lost and alone in the world. So when a friendly taxi driver befriended her, Anna welcomed the attention, and agreed to go home with him to meet his family. She wouldn't escape for over a decade. Held captive by a sadistic paedophile, Anna was subjected to despicable levels of sexual abuse and torture. The unrelenting violence...

Seven years after a horrible event that caused Jake McCallister to move away and Emerson Lowe to lose credibility, the former best friends reunite on Bainbridge Island, but the future of their romance depends on their ability to confront the past.

A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.

The film is set in 1964 in a Bronx neighborhood called Five Corners, where a group of lower-middle-class young people is trying to deal with changing times. The incident that catalyzes the film's action is the return of Heinz, a psychotic bully who's been in prison for his attempted rape of Linda. Heinz carries a scar inflicted by Harry smashing during the rape attempt. Now, he wants to get even.