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Summary: "A behind-the-scenes look at the creation and development of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit, written by the pioneering forensic nurse who transformed the way the FBI studies, profiles, and catches serial killers"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.3092 BURMonroe, Jana
Summary: An agent in the world-renowned FBI Behavioral Sciences Unit who consulted on more than 850 homicide cases, crossing paths with some of the world's most infamous serial killers, and the real-life model for The Silence of the Lambs's Clarice Starling, shares her incredible story for the first time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MONROE, JANA MONEnglish, T. J.
Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of The Westies and Paddy Whacked offers a front-row seat at the trial of Whitey Bulger, and an intimate view of the world of organized crime--and law enforcement--that made him the defining Irish American gangster.For sixteen years, Whitey Bulger eluded the long reach of the law. For decades one of the most dangerous men in America, Bulger--the brother of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 ENGCathcart, Brian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 539.762 CATSherman, Casey
Summary: Presents a portrait of the Irish-American gangster who worked as an informant on both sides of the law and describes the sixteen-year hunt for him and his final capture, arrest, and murder in prison.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1092 SHEFranscell, Ron
Summary: "The pulse-pounding story of the first time in history that the FBI Behavioral Unit created a profile to catch a serial killer. On June 25, 1973, a seven-year-old girl went missing from the Montana campground where her family was vacationing. Somebody hadslit open the back of her tent and snatched her from under their noses. None of them saw or heard anything. Susie Jaeger had vanished into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2022
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Summary: An Elizabethan expert describes the court of Queen Elizabeth I, painting a vivid picture of the gossip, conspiracy, intrigue, and romantic dalliances that surrounded the monarch and the daily lives of the women that attended her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942.05 WHIMaher, Kerri
Summary: London, 1938. Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy has taken England by storm. The effervescent It Girl of London society since her father was named the ambassador, Kick dances and drinks champagne at the hottest nightclubs and attends the horse races with nobility. Billy Hartington, the future Duke of Devonshire, sweeps Kick off her feet, but the obstacles to their love are many. Kick is American,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION MAHLevin, Daniel Barban
Summary: "A stunning firsthand account of the creation of a modern cult under conman Larry Ray and the horrifying costs paid by his young victims: his daughter's college roommates. In September 2010, at the beginning of the academic year at Sarah Lawrence College,a sophomore named Talia Ray asked her roommates if her father could stay with them for a while. No one objected. Her father, Larry Ray, was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEVIN, DANIEL BARBAN LEVPettit, Jayne.
Summary: A biography of the zoologist focussing on her work with the chimpanzees at the Gombe Stream Reserve in Tanzania.
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Publisher / Publication Date: F. Watts 1999
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB GOODALL PETSt. Clair, Chip.
Summary: The child of an abusive parent learns that his "father" is a wanted child murderer and that everything he has been told about his past is false, thus sending him on a quest for justice and identity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Health Communications 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B ST.CLAIR StCStonehouse, Frederick.
Summary: From Books Back Cover: Great Lakes Crime: murder, mayhem, booze & broads. -- It may not have been the "Spanish Main" but pirates did sail the Great Lakes as did all manner of thieves and murderers. The great Sweetwater Seas had their fair share of criminal activity. Captains sunk their ships to collect the insurance and honest light keepers were "done in" for their meager savings! Throughout...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Color Studios 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 364 STOMoss, Marissa
Summary: The gripping story of Lise Meitner, the physicist who discovered nuclear fission.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 921 MEIPartridge, Elizabeth
Summary: "Legendary photographers Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams all photographed the Japanese American incarceration, but with different approaches-and different results. This nonfiction picture book for middle grade readers examines the Japanese-American incarceration-and the complexity of documenting it-through the work of these three photographers"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.53 PARNorth, Dick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2005
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Summary: "In 1991, Shaka Senghor was sent to prison for second-degree murder. Today, he is a lecturer at the University of Michigan, a leading voice on criminal justice reform, and an inspiration to thousands. In life, it's not how you start that matters. It's how you finish. Shaka Senghor was raised in a middle class neighborhood on Detroit's east side during the height of the 1980s crack epidemic. An...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Convergent Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SENGHOR, SHAKA SENGarth, John.
Summary: This book tells the full story of how Tolkien embarked on the creation of Middle-earth as the world around him was plunged into the catastrophe of World War I. It reveals the horror and heroism that he experienced as a signals officer in the Battle of the Somme and introduces the circle of friends who spurred his mythology into life. It shows how, after two of these brilliant young men were...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio TolkienMoss, Marissa
Summary: "As a female Jewish physicist in Berlin during the early 20th century, Lise Meitner had to fight for an education, a job, and equal treatment in her field, like having her name listed on her own research papers. Meitner made groundbreaking strides in the study of radiation, but when Hitler came to power in Germany, she suddenly had to face not only sexism, but also life-threatening...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MEIWeir, Alison
Summary: "Packed with dramatic true stories from one of European history's most romantic and turbulent eras, this epic narrative chronicles the five vividly rendered queens of the Plantagenet kings who ruled England between 1299 and 1399. The Age of Chivalry describes a period of medieval history dominated by the social, religious, and moral code of knighthood that prized noble deeds, military greatness...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WEIEdsel, Robert M.
Summary: Describes two Americans in Italy--one an artist, the other a scholar--who tracked down and protected historic artwork worth billions by Michelangelo, Donatello, Titian, Caravaggio, and Botticelli in advance of the approaching Nazi army in 1943.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5345 EDSPentland, Jenny
Summary: "A funny, biting, and entertaining memoir about coming of age in the shadow of celebrity and finding your own way in the face of absolute chaos, one that is both a moving portrait of a complicated family and an exploration of the cost of fame." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PENTLAND, JENNY PENConkling, Winifred
Summary: "The ... little-known story of how two brilliant female physicists' groundbreaking discoveries led to the creation of the atomic bomb"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Young Readers, an imprint of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 CONKatwala, Amit
Summary: Summer, 1922. Henry Wilkens burst through the doors of the emergency room covered in his wife's blood. Was he a grieving husband, or a ruthless killer who had conspired with bandits to have her murdered? San Francisco police turned to a new machine that had just been invented in Berkeley. The inventors, John Larson, Gus Vollmer and Leonarde Keeler, hoped the lie detector would make the justice...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.25 KATLinehan, Marsha
Summary: Marsha Linehan tells the story of her journey from suicidal teenager to world-renowned developer of the life-saving behavioral therapy DBT, using her own struggle to develop life skills for others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020