Younge, Gary
Summary: "On an average day in America, seven young people aged nineteen or under will be shot dead. In Another Day in the Death of America, award-winning Guardian journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of the lives lost during the course of a single day in theUnited States. It could have been any day, but Younge has chosen November 23, 2013. From Jaiden Dixon (9), shot point-blank by his mother's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2016
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Summary: Beginning in the summer of 1903, an insidious crime wave filled New York City, and then the entire country, with fear. The children of Italian immigrants were kidnapped, and dozens of innocent victims were gunned down. Bombs tore apart tenement buildings. Judges, senators, Rockefellers, and society matrons were threatened with gruesome deaths. The perpetrators seemed both omnipresent and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 TALDwyer, Kevin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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Summary: Presents twenty-five true crime stories behind the television show "Law and Order."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Boulevard 2006
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Summary: Two true-crime tales relate the stories of a couple who were tortured and left for dead after a home invasion, and a double homicide in Omaha, Nebraska.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 364 PATConnelly, Michael
Summary: From Connelly's first career as a prizewinning crime reporter--the true stories that inspired and informed his novels. Covering the homicide beat in Florida and Los Angeles in vivid, hard-hitting articles, Connelly leads the reader past the yellow police tape as he follows the investigators, the victims, their families and friends--and, of course, the killers--to tell the real stories of murder...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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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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Summary: From Connelly's first career as a prizewinning crime reporter--the true stories that inspired and informed his novels. Covering the homicide beat in Florida and Los Angeles in vivid, hard-hitting articles, Connelly leads the reader past the yellow police tape as he follows the investigators, the victims, their families and friends--and, of course, the killers--to tell the real stories of murder...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2006
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Summary: Using previously untapped Secret Service archives, prison records, and interviews with surviving family members, Dash presents the gripping story of the birth of the Italian Mafia in America, and brings to life the remarkable villains and unusual heroes of the Mafia's early years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2009
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Summary: "Throughout his long and illustrious career, Mark Bowden has written about crime and was recognized in 2010 with a lifetime achievement award by the International Thriller Writers organization. The Case of the Vanishing Blonde collects six of his most riveting pieces-accounts spanning four decades of searing characters and unsettling tales to illustrate all manner of crimes and the ways...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1 BOWGibson, Dirk Cameron
Contents: The Son of Sam -- The DC sniper -- The Mad Butcher -- The Unabomber -- The Zodiac -- The BTK strangler -- John Robinson Sr. -- Jack the Ripper -- William Heirens -- The Black Dahlia avenger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Praeger 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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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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Summary: Two true-crime thrillers include "Murder of Innocence," in which a global effort captures a serial predator; and "A Murderous Affair," in which a rookie FBI agent is set up by his informant.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2020
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Summary: "Through the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how hope, history, and racial denial collide in the suburbs and their schools Outside Atlanta, a middle-class Black family faces off with a school system seemingly bent on punishing their teenage son. North of Dallas, a conservative white family relocates to an affluent suburban enclave, but can't escape the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2024
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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: August, 2008. Marie, a teenager, reported being raped in her Seattle apartment by a masked man. Confronted with inconsistencies, she was charged with false reporting and branded a liar. Years later Colorado detectives discovered they were dealing with a serial rapist. Miller and Armstrong follow the tale of doubt, lies, and a hunt for justice-- and the long history of skepticism toward rape...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2018
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Summary: "Dauntless journalist Julie K. Brown recounts her uncompromising and risky investigation of Jeffrey Epstein's underage sex trafficking operation, and the explosive reporting for the Miami Herald that finally brought him to justice while exposing the powerful people and broken system that protected him"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey Street 2021
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Summary: Brock Turner had been sentenced to just six months in county jail after he was found sexually assaulting "Emily Doe" on Stanford's campus. Her victim impact statement was posted on BuzzFeed, where it instantly went viral, was translated globally, and read on the floor of Congress. It inspired changes in California law and the recall of the judge in the case. Now Miller reclaims her identity to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2019
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Summary: "An anonymous caller tells a detective in a small Oregon town that a woman has just bitten off a man's finger. But the man is not the victim, the caller says. The woman is. She's being held against her will by a group of faith-healing fanatics who are trying to cure her depression with violent exorcisms. The detective rescues her, but she is afraid to press charges against the people in her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2013
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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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Summary: Drugs, money, cartels: this is what FBI rookie Scott Lawson expected when he was sent to the border town of Laredo, but instead he's deskbound writing intelligence reports about the drug war. Then, one day, Lawson is asked to check out an anonymous tip: a horse was sold at an Oklahoma auction house for a record-topping price, and the buyer was Miguel Trevino, one of the leaders of the Zetas,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017