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As tragedies in Oregon, Arkansas, and Colorado have shown, children as young as eight years old are capable of murder and violence. Experts ranging from law enforcement officials to guidance counselors are confused and conflicted about how to approach this tragic phenomenon. Best-selling novelist Jonathan Kellerman returns to his roots as a scientist and child psychologist to dissect a problem that is attacking our society: dangerous children who,...
3) Vera
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Lucy Entwhistle and Everard Wemyss are both reeling from recent unhappiness when they meet and swiftly fall in love. Lucy is Wemyss's 'sweet girl', and to Lucy, Everard is the whole world. The only blot on Lucy's happiness is the shadowy figure of Wemyss's first wife, Vera, who died in mysterious circumstances. But it is not until the happy couple return home and begin their life of wedded bliss that Lucy really begins to wonder- what did happen to...
4) Beaten
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Paige is thrilled when she starts dating Ty, the football team's star running back, but when Ty hits her out of anger and is arrested for assault, she realizes she needs to decide between being afraid and being alone.
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Covers the issue of gun violence in the United States, discussing its prevalence compared to other countries, its causes, and what can be done about it. Contains color photographs, text-related questions, a list of ways to take action, a timeline, a glossary, and further reading.
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"Following the Civil War, the Reconstruction era raised a new question to those in power in the US: Should African Americans, so many of them former slaves, be granted the right to vote? In a bitter partisan fight over the legislature and Constitution, the answer eventually became yes, though only after two constitutional amendments, two Reconstruction Acts, two Civil Rights Acts, three Enforcement Acts, the impeachment of a president, and an army...
7) See no evil
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When Jaris and his friends witness an alleged shooter escaping from a crime scene, he does not know if he should come forward with his information, even after discovering the victim was an innocent bystander.
8) Taking sides
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At odds with his sister, Tina, fourteen, who says their father murdered their mother, Todd, fifteen, who claims it was self-defense, begins to lose faith in their father when he pressures Todd to get Tina to change her story, and being in separate foster homes only makes things harder.
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Father and daughter, Cylin and John Busby, share their memories of the challenges they faced after their family was forced to go into hiding in order to protect themselves from a killer who had already shot John, a police officer, once and was determined to finish the job.
10) Mary underwater
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Gaining courage from Joan of Arc, fourteen-year-old Mary Murphy navigates the waters of Chesapeake Bay in a submersible built with her friend, Kip, escaping the home where her violent father has just returned from prison. Includes facts about domestic violence and submersibles.
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Many times, many people over the course of humanity's long lifetime have wondered about its proclivity towards evil. What makes us evil? Are we evil by choice or by nature? How can a man become evil?
These provocative questions are at the forefront of philosophical discussions all around the world. Humanity's dark side is rarely looked into for the fear that it would one day look back. We struggle to acknowledge this side of our nature because it...
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When brothers Max and Jay help a classmate in trouble, they struggle with the consequences of their violent actions and worry they may be more like their abusive father than they thought, so the brothers turn to their Bribri roots to find their way forward.
13) Mobbing at work
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This book describes the personal and professional wreckage through which people are victims of the so-called mobbing, or psycho-terror at work, which destroys the working capacity and psychological resistance of those who suffer it.
You have in your hands a practical self-help guide to recognizing the problem and learning to identify it in time, responding to it proactively rather than reactively.
The ways that bullying involves are described, as...
14) Stop the Killing
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There are many books on the subject of safety, but paper cannot protect you from the next shooter. Stop the Killing can help you transform the way you take control of your safety. This book provides you the keys to take action on what you can do to stop the mass shooting crisis in America.
The book is written by the nation's leading mass shooting expert and creator of the FBI's Active Shooter Program, Katherine Schweit. Stop The Killing shares an...
15) Serial Killers
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In a quiet town in Wichita, Kansas comes the Serial Killer that is known as Dennis Rader. He wasn't your typical murderer; no he was something more than this, a twisted and demented family man.
Jeffrey Dahmer and his cannibalistic murder spree
The Zodiac Killer who terrorized San Francisco
John Wayne Gacy, the Klown Killer
If you liked authors Jack Rosewood and Ryan Green, then you are going to be on the edge of your seat!
Delve deep into the...
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A chilling examination of the NRA and its powerful influence on America.
In 1996, deaths by gun violence in the United States totaled roughly 14,000. With so many casualties-along with an astounding rise of armed militias and the discovery of huge caches of weapons stockpiled in private residences-Americans were forced to re-examine what it meant to have the "right to bear arms." The scrutinizing public eye wasted no time in looking for answers from...
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A former Department of Homeland Security analyst takes a long view on the domestic terrorism threat from radicalized individuals and hate groups of various ideologies. America is a land in which extremism no longer belongs to the country's shadowy fringes, but comfortably exists in the national mainstream. That is the alarming conclusion by intelligence analyst Daryl Johnson, an expert on domestic extremism with more than twenty-five years of experience...
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"A mythic and emotionally charged hero's journey, Dune tells the story of Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, who must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet's exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence--a commodity capable of unlocking humanity's...
19) Will I See?
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Based on the story by Iskwé and Erin LeslieMay, a young teenage girl, traverses the city streets, finding keepsakes in different places along her journey. When May and her kookum make these keepsakes into a necklace, it opens a world of danger and fantasy. While May fights against a terrible reality, she learns that there is strength in the spirit of those who have passed. But will that strength be able to save her? A story of tragedy and beauty,...
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The passengers of United Airlines Flight 93 on September 11, 2001 have earned their rightful place among the pantheon of American heroes. Flight 93 provides a riveting narrative based on interviews, oral histories, transcripts, recordings, personal tours of the crash site, and voluminous trial evidence made public only in recent years. There also is plenty of chilling new detail for readers who think they know the story of the flight. Utilizing research...