In the opulent estate of the affluent Thompson family, sixteen-year-old Elena lives a life of silent suffering and relentless servitude. Her days are filled with arduous chores, her existence overshadowed by the indifference and mistreatment of her wealthy employers. Despite the lavish surroundings, Elena's world is one of constant hardship and humiliation. When a priceless heirloom goes missing, Elena is wrongfully accused of theft, plunging her already fragile world into chaos. Faced wit...

What began that night shocked Duke University and Durham, North Carolina.And it continues to captivate the nation: the Duke lacrosse team members' alleged rape of an African-American stripper and the unraveling of the case against them.In this ever-deepening American tragedy, Stuart Taylor Jr. and KC Johnson argue, law enforcement, a campaigning prosecutor, biased journalists, and left-leaning academics repeatedly refused to pursue the truth while scapegoats...

In recent years, politicians led by President Obama and prominent senators and governors have teamed with extremists on campus to portray our nation’s institutions of higher learning as awash in a violent crime wave—and to suggest (preposterously) that university leaders, professors, and students are indifferent to female sexual assault victims in their midst. Neither of these claims has any bearing to reality. But they have achieved widespread acceptance, thanks in part to misleading alar...