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21) Spring break
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"Reclusive, blind violin pedagogue Daniel Jacobus is invited to speak at a seemingly innocuous symposium on Baroque music at a prestigious music conservatory. He has no idea he is about to become enmeshed in an entrenched culture of sexual harassment and its cover-up at the highest levels. When a renowned faculty member dies of apparent natural causes, only the curious behavior of a violin student at Jacobus's master class is an indication that something...
22) This is pleasure
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"In this powerful short fiction, Mary Gaitskill--whose searing honesty about gender relations has been legendary since the appearance of Bad Behavior in the 1980s--considers our moment through the lens of a particular #metoo incident. The effervescent and well-dressed Quin, a successful book editor and fixture on the New York arts scene, has long been one of Margot's best friends. When several women in his field accuse him of inappropriate touching...
23) Loose lips
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Finding herself unexpectedly attracted to conservative criminal court judge and rival Benjamin Braddock, liberal-minded journalist Josephine Dawson finds herself in a difficult situation when he campaigns for a political office and is accused by a string of women of sexual harrassment.
25) Open secrets
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"The #MeToo movement has revealed the prevalence of sexual assault in society, especially as committed by powerful men. But it is an issue that also affects the lives of teen girls. This book tells the story of seventeen year-old Ana Santos, who has ambitions to make it big in music and signs a contract with the owner of a music café without knowing there are sexual strings attached. It looks at the darker side of the music industry, including sexual...
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Emma and Bobby Ross enjoy a charmed life on the shores of Miami Beach. They are a model family with a successful business, an uncomplicated marriage, and two blessedly typical twin daughters, Zoe and Lily. They are established members of a tight-knit community. Then, on the night of the girls' fifteenth birthday party, they learn of Zoe's heartbreaking mistake, a private and humiliating indiscretion that goes viral and thrusts her and her family into...
28) Accusation
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"An icon's life implodes--at two in the morning. World renowned, revered actor Aaron Julian is awakened at two a.m. by his agent who informs him that he has been accused of sexual harassment. Young actresses will break the story on prime-time TV that morning--with their lawyer, the attorney who led the charge in the priests' sexual abuse cases. Aaron and his celebrity pop-singer wife, Veda, vehemently deny the charges, and hire powerful defense lawyer...
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