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Domestic Violence Booklist

Page Modified: June 19, 2009

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Fiction

  • The Woman Who Walked Into Doors
    Author: Doyle, Roddy
    Publisher: Viking $ 22.95 ISBN: 0670867756 Date: 1996
    star Bookliststar Kirkusstar PW
    Doyle's 1993 Booker Prize-winning Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha was hailed as "a small, resonant masterpiece . . . heartbreakingly right" (Entertainment Weekly). His latest book, his richest work yet, will astonish readers with its heartrending story of a woman struggling to reclaim her dignity after marriage to an abusive husband and a worsening drinking problem.
    Updated 10.11.05
  • Bellows Falls
    Author: Mayor, Archer
    Publisher: Mysterious List Price: $ 22 ISBN: 08902966378 Date: 1997
    star PW
    NYTBR Notable
    Vermont homicide detective Joe Gunther takes on a disturbing case of spousal abuse, police corruption and murder in his latest outing. Asked to conduct a minor Internal Affairs investigation in Bellows Falls, Gunther has to work quickly to separate fact from fiction - but nothing he's heard will prepare him for what he's about to see.
    Suggested Reading: Cops
  • Whispers
    Author: Plain, Belva
    Publisher: Delacorte $ 22.95 ISBN: 0385299281 Date: 1993
    star Kirkus
    Plain tells an engrossing tale of a contemporary family and the realities that lie below the surface of their perfect lives. A woman is unable to admit to anyone, much to herself, that her idyllic life is based on a lie. She struggles to free herself from a cycle of violence, contrition, and more violence--and finally emerges in triumph.
    Updated 10.11.05
  • Harm Done: Inspector Wexford
    Author: Rendell, Ruth
    Publisher: Crown List Price: $ 24 ISBN: 060960547x Date: 1999
    star PW
    Inspector Wexford is plunged into the ubiquitous, secretive realm of domestic violence, where meting out justice is a complex and often delicate business. He knows that these hidden family dramas of humiliation and violence may spill their bounds - and death will claim another victim.
  • Crows Over a Wheatfield
    Author: Sharp, Paula
    Publisher: Hyperion $ 22.95 ISBN: 0786861177 Date: 2005
    star PW
    Timely, provocative, and fine-tuned emotionally--written with an insider's knowledge of the legal system--this new novel by the author of The Woman Who Was Not All There tells a tautly dramatic, emotionally overwhelming story about how domestic violence destroys families.
    Updated 10.11.05

For Teens

  • What Jamie Saw
    Author: Coman, Carolyn
    Publisher: Front Street $ 15.95 ISBN: 1886910022 Date: 1995
    star Bookliststar Kirkusstar PWstar SLJ
    Newbery Honor Book | National Book Award Finalist
    Having fled to a family friend's hillside trailer after his mother's boyfriend tried to throw his baby sister against a wall, nine-year-old Jamie finds himself living an existence full of uncertainty and fear.
    Grades: 7+
    Updated 10.11.05

Nonfiction

  • Next Time She'll Be Dead: Battering and How to Stop It
    Author: Jones, Ann
    Publisher: Beacon $ 22 ISBN: 0807067709 Date: 2005
    star PW
    Citing numerous recent cases, Jones shows that judges, police, journalists, ane even many feminists still hold women themselves responsible for appeasing men and absorbing their violence. An eye-opening book for everyone.
    Updated 10.11.05
  • The Stalking of Kristin: A Father Investigates the Murder of his Daughter
    Author: Lardner, George
    Publisher: Atlantic $ 23 ISBN: 0871136139 Date: 1995
    star PW
    Based on Lardner's Pulitzer Prize-winning article in the Washington Post, this book tells a poignant and wrenching story of senseless murder--and provides readers with a pointed discussion of the tragic flaws in the justice system and its failure to take domestic violence seriously.
    Updated 10.11.05
  • Not to People Like Us: Hidden Abuse in Upscale Marriages
    Author: Weitzman, Susan
    Publisher: Basic $ 15 ISBN: 0465097045 Date: 2005
    star LJ
    Updated 10.11.05

 

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