Rubin, Kathy Kleiner
Summary: "In January 1978, I slept in my bed at the Chi Omega sorority house at Florida State University as Ted Bundy stalked nearby. He grabbed an oak log from a stack of firewood, slipped through a back door with a broken padlock, and headed upstairs.He began twisting doorknobs. Room 9 was open, and he quietly and quickly killed one of my sleeping sorority sisters. Across the hall, he found another...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2024
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Summary: "In 1977, in an Ohio Amish community, pregnant wife and mother Ida Stutzman perished during a barn fire. The coroner's report: natural causes. Ida's husband, Eli, was never considered a suspect. But when he eventually rejected the faith and took his son, Danny, with him, murder followed. What really happened to Ida? The dubious circumstances of the tragic blaze were willfully ignored and Eli's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2024
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Contents: Prologue: a terrific fight -- Zeo Zoe -- Hoggie! hoggie! hoggie! -- Someday I'm going to be rich, rich, rich -- I will let him kiss me -- Dr. G. just adores me -- Poor B.B. -- The cigar girl -- Goodbye Zoe, forever -- The old man's darling -- Plucky old Mrs. Cunningham and the siren -- Love makes time go, time makes love go -- Wiles and machinations -- Someone will be admitting light into your...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 JAMSchultz, Mark
Summary: "The riveting true story-soon to be a high-profile film-of Olympic wrestling gold medal-winning brothers Mark Schultz and Dave Schultz and their fatal relationship with the eccentric John du Pont, heir to the du Pont dynasty. On January 26, 1996, Dave Schultz, Olympic gold medal winner and wrestling golden boy, was shot three times by du Pont family heir John E. du Pont at the famed Foxcatcher...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2014
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Summary: "The Life and Death of Latisha King examines a single incident, the shooting of 15-year-old Latisha King by 14-year-old Brandon McInerney in their junior high school classroom in Oxnard, California in 2008. The press coverage of the shooting, as well as the criminal trial that followed, referred to Latisha, assigned male at birth, as Larry. Unpacking the consequences of representing the victim...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.76 SALLane, Charles
Summary: Following the Civil War, Colfax, Louisiana, was a town, like many, where Negroes and whites mingled uneasily. But on April 13, 1873, a small army of white ex-Confederate soldiers, enraged after attempts by freedmen to assert their new rights, killed more than sixty Negroes who had occupied a courthouse. Now, journalist Charles Lane transforms this nearly forgotten incident into a historical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.367 LANRule, Ann.
Contents: The Deputy's Wife -- The Antique Dealer's Wife -- The Truck Driver's Wife -- The Convict's Wife -- The Chemist's Wife -- The Painter's Wife -- The Minister's Wife.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 364.1523 RULFreeman, Jim R.
Summary: As told by the three FBI agents who led the chase, this is the story of how the FBI broke its own rules, blasting away the layers of bureaucratic constraints that had plagued earlier efforts, to catch the notorious Unabomber and end his 16-year trail of terrorism.--Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: History Pub. Co. 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder's Mouth Press 2003
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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 MCESt. 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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Summary: How did two teenagers brutally murder an innocent child ... and why? And how did their brilliant lawyer save them from the death penalty in 1920s Chicago? Written by a prolific master of narrative nonfiction, this is a compulsively readable true-crime story based on an event dubbed the "crime of the century." In 1924, eighteen-year-old college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb made a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anne Schwartz Books 2022
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Summary: "In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and out of rehab, and in and out of Jarrett's life. His father is a mystery -- Jarrett doesn't know where to find him, or even what his name is. Jarrett lives with his grandparents -- two very loud, very loving,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Michaelis, Arno
Summary: Documents the story of the unlikely and powerful friendship between a Sikh and a former white supremacist in the aftermath of Wade Michael Page's murderous 2012 attack on a Wisconsin Sikh Temple, describing how they launched the Serve 2 Unite organization to promote community inclusion and fight hate crimes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018