Bala, Suruthi
Summary: The co-hosts of the smash hit true crime podcast Redhanded dissect the stories of killers in a way that challenges perceptions and asks the hard questions about society, gender, poverty, culture and even our politics to find out what makes a killer tick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 BALTipping, Danny
Summary: "What goes through the mind of a killer when they commit murder? Based on the massively successful Netflix documentary series of the same name, this book features ten of the most compelling cases from the series and is full of exclusive never-seen-before material. In each of the cases the inmate speaks openly about themselves and reflects on their life and their crimes. To gain a complete...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 TIPDouglas, John.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 364.1523 DOUDouglas, John E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.15 DOUDouglas, John E.
Summary: A legendary FBI criminal profiler presents a case that goes to the heart of extremism and domestic terrorism, examining his chilling pursuit of, and eventual prison confrontation with Joseph Paul Franklin, a White Nationalist serial killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 DOUPeterson, Jillian
Summary: Using research data, including first-person accounts from the perpetrators themselves, a special investigator and psychologist and a sociologist, who built The Violence Project, a comprehensive database of mass shooters, share their solutions for putting an end to these tragedies that have defined the modern era.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 PETFleming, Candace
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: 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: In April 2018, Nikki and Doug Mark's perfectly healthy twelve-year-old-son, Tommy, went to sleep one night and never woke up. They're still not exactly sure why. Devastated, Nikki embarked on an unconventional journey to create a legacy for Tommy and to heal her heart. She created a plan to transform neglected land in a Los Angeles public park into a state-of-the-art athletic field, honoring...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square & Co. 2023
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Summary: "I the span of fifteen years, Dr. Thomas Neill Cream murdered as many as ten people in the United States, Britain, and Canada. Poison was his weapon of choice. Structured around the doctor's London murder trial in 1892, The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream exposes the blind trust given to the medical practitioners, as well as the flawed detection methods, bungled investigations, corrupt...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC JOBBedrick, David
Summary: Why is today's diet industry pulling in 70 billion dollars every year, while when people go on a diet, only five percent of them succeed and the rest gain weight or stay the same? Here's why: A heavy, shamed body is a body with an unheard message and a thwarted quest, and until the secrets are unlocked and the wisdom is harvested, that impasse will be unbreachable. In these pages, Bedrick...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Belly Song Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.4 BEDSilver, Nate
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise, the definitive guide to our era of risk-and the players raising the stakes In the bestselling The Signal and the Noise, Nate Silver showed how forecasting would define the age of Big Data. Now, in this timely and riveting new book, Silver investigates "The River," or those whose mastery of risk allows them to shape-and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEIsenberg, Sheila
Summary: "Thirty years after she first asked, "Why do women fall in love with convicted murderers?," Sheila Isenberg answers the question anew in the age of smartphones, mass shootings, celebrity worship of murderers, and modern prison dating. Through research and interviews with women who seek relationships with convicted killers via snail and email, and through conversations with psychiatrists, social...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Diversion Books 2021