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Retaliation : a novel
    Shiraz, Yasmin.
Publisher: Rolling Hills Press,
Pub date: c2007.
Pages: 264 p. ;
ISBN: 9780971817432
Item info: 1 copy available at Rome-Jervis Public Library.
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Summary
Violence runs rampant on the streets of Washington, DC, and on one seemingly quiet day, the Odom family finds its world destroyed when seventeen-year-old Tashera is brutally attacked by a group of high school girls. Retaliation exposes the corrupting existence of violence in our communities and the retaliatory measures families go through to protect themselves and their children. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

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Leader: amIa0c
key: ocn191089857
Data source: OCoLC
Date/time stamp: 20090601113313.0
Fixed field data: 080124s2007 vau d 000 1 eng d
ISBN: 9780971817432
ISBN: 097181743X (pbk.) : $14.95
Local system #: (OCoLC)191089857
Local call number: YA
Personal Author: Shiraz, Yasmin.
Title: Retaliation : a novel / by Yasmin Shiraz.
Publication info: Chantilly, VA : Rolling Hills Press, c2007.
Physical descrip: 264 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary: When a popular high school girl is badly beaten in a fight borne from jealousy, the girl, her family, and her DC community must choose whether to stay in the violent, dangerous status quo or rise above the violence and its deadly consequences that permeates every crevice of their community.
Subject term: African American women--Washington (D.C.)--Fiction.
Subject term: African American families--Washington (D.C.)--Fiction.
Subject term: Street life--Washington (D.C.)--Fiction.
Geographic term: Washington (D.C.)--Fiction.
Held by: ROME
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