DeKok, David.
Summary: " On Nov. 28, 1969, Betsy Aardsma, a 22-year-old graduate student in English at Penn State, was stabbed to death in the stacks of Pattee Library at the university's main campus in State College. For more than forty years, her murder went unsolved, though detectives with the Pennsylvania State Police and local citizens worked tirelessly to find her killer. The mystery was eventually...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Globe Pequot 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 DEKGerardot, Mark
Summary: Mark and Jennair Gerardot had been married nearly 25 years when Mark met someone who changed everything he had known about love. When what had begun as a harmless flirtation blossomed into a passionate love affair, Mark confessed his infidelity and began taking the painful steps toward what he thought was an amicable but long-overdue divorce. What he didn't realize, however, was that Jennair...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Green Heart Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 GERSummary: Filmmaker Kurt Kuenne begins making a film for Zachary, son of his oldest friend who was murdered by Zachary's mother. The film's focus shifts to Zachary's grandparents as they fight to win custody of Zachary from the woman who took their son's life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Pictures 2009
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DEAMcElhinney, Ann
Summary: In 2013 Dr Kermit Gosnell was convicted of killing four people, including three babies, but is thought to have killed hundreds, perhaps thousands more in a 30-year killing spree. Gosnell is currently serving three life sentences (without the possibility of parole) for murdering babies and patients at his "House of Horrors" abortion clinic. This book--now a major movie starring Dean Cain (Lois &...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Publishing, a division of Salem Media Group 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.152 MCESummary: A collection of essays by regional journalists, academics, and religious and community leaders commemorates the October 2018 mass shooting at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life Synagogue while describing how neighbors are working together to heal and help preventfuture tragedies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Pittsburgh Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 BOUSummary: In a continuous monologue, former death-row inmate Nick Yarris tells the story of how he was charged with the murder of a woman in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, sentenced to death, and, after twenty-one years behind bars, exhonerated based on DNA evidence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FEAButcher, Amy
Summary: "In this powerful and unforgettable memoir, award-winning writer Amy Butcher examines the shattering consequences of failing a friend when she felt he needed one most. Four weeks before their college graduation, twenty-one-year-old Kevin Schaeffer walked Amy Butcher to her home in their college town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Hours after parting ways with Amy, he fatally stabbed his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BUTCHER, AMY BUTBradley, Mark A. (Mark Andrew)
Summary: "The shocking assassination of a major rival to UMWA president Tony Boyle catalyzed groundbreaking reform in the coal mining industry. In the early hours of New Year's Eve 1969, in the small soft-coal mining borough of Clarksville, Pennsylvania, longtime trade union insider Joseph "Jock" Yablonski and his wife and daughter were brutally murdered in their old stone farmhouse. Seven months...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 BRAFreedman, Bryn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Faber and Faber 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 FRECooper, Candy J.
Summary: "Here is the explosive story of the Kids for Cash scandal in Pennsylvania, a judicial justice miscarriage that sent more than 2,500 children and teens to a for-profit detention center while two judges lined their pockets with cash, as told by Candy J. Cooper, an award-winning journalist and Pulitzer Prize finalist"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2024
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Summary: "The remarkable and inspiring story of William Still, an unknown abolitionist who dedicated his life to managing a critical section of the Underground Railroad in Philadelphia--the free state directly north of the Mason-Dixon line--helping hundreds of people escape from slavery"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022