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On the outside, twelve-year-old Jillian Maxwell is the perfect child. Helpful and studious, she has everything a girl could want: a beautiful home, a mother who adores her, and an attentive stepfather. But inside, Jillian harbors a terrible secret. Terrified to tell, convinced that her friends and loved ones, especially her mother, won't understand - and worse will blame her - Jillian endures her pain in silence, believing she's got everything under...
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"In 1969 Alabama, eleven-year-old Dixie Dupree learns that the family she once believed was happy has deep fractures and records everything in her diary in this coming-of-age story about mothers and daughters, the guilt and pain that pass between generations, and the truths that are impossible to hide, especially from ourselves"--
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"Growing up the eldest daughter in a large, highly controlled, fundamentalist Christian household, Jessica Willis was groomed to perform, and to conform to her father's disturbing and chaotic teachings. Cut off from anything unapproved by her father, Jessica was persistently curious about the outside world, always wondering what was normal or potentially dangerous about her upbringing. When the Willis family rocketed into fame after their appearances...
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The essential account of R. Kelly's actions and their consequences, a reckoning two decades in the making. Updated and expanded to include Kelly's 2021 trial and conviction. In 2000, Chicago journalist and music critic Jim DeRogatis received an anonymous fax that alleged that R. Kelly had a problem with "young girls." Weeks later, DeRogatis broke the shocking allegations--that the R&B superstar had groomed, sexually abused, and paid off young girls--wide...
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