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Batchelor, Bob Mager, Kim Neff, James Renner, James Schwartzman, Nancy Stashower, Daniel Yoo, PaulaBatchelor, Bob
Summary: "On the 100th anniversary of The Volstead Act comes the epic, definitive story of the man who cracked the Prohibition system, became one of the world's richest criminal masterminds, and helped inspire The Great Gatsby"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC BATSchwartzman, Nancy
Summary: An incisive narrative about a teen rape case that divided a Rust Belt town, exposing the hostile and systemic undercurrents that enable sexual violence, and spotlighting ways to make change. In football-obsessed Steubenville, Ohio, on a summer night in 2012, an incapacitated sixteen-year-old girl was repeatedly assaulted by members of the "Big Red" high school football team. They took turns...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.15 SCHRenner, James
Summary: "In September of 1990, in the Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights, sixteen-year-old Lisa Pruett was on her way to a midnight tryst with her boyfriend when she was viciously stabbed to death only thirty feet from the boy's home. The murder cast a palpable gloom over the upscale community and sparked accusations, theories, and rumors among Lisa's friends and peers. Together they wove a damning...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 RENMager, Kim
Summary: "In this fascinating & profoundly chilling account, Detective Kim Mager, a real-life version of Clarice Starling, reveals how she closed in on--and broke--one of Ohio's most infamous serial killers. On September 13, 2016, in the small town of Ashland, Ohio, emergency dispatchers received a 911 call from a terrified woman who claimed to be kidnapped. The man holding her hostage was Shawn Grate,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 MAGStashower, Daniel
Summary: 1930s. In the depths of the Great Depression, Cleveland was terrorized by over a dozen bodies found scattered around the city. The bodies were dismembered with surgical precision and drained of blood. Cleveland's mayor turned to his newly appointed director of public safety: Eliot Ness. Stashower uncovers the story of Ness's hunt for the sadistic killer-- called the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 STANeff, James
Summary: " ... offers groundbreaking new revelations about DNA analyses, blood evidence, and negligent police work that were never admitted into any the three Sheppard trials."--Jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 345.73 NEFYoo, Paula
Summary: "A groundbreaking portrait of Vincent Chin and the murder case that took America's Asian American community to the streets in protest of injustice. America in 1982. Japanese car companies are on the rise and believed to be putting American autoworkers out of their jobs. Anti-Asian American sentiments simmer, especially in Detroit. A bar fight turns fatal, leaving Vincent Chin--a Chinese...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company 2021