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1) Dark places
Author
Language
English
Description
For a price Libby Day will reconnect with the players that murdered her mother and two sisters in "The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas." Having testified that her brother Ben was the murderer on that fateful night twenty-five years ago, now she is not so sure as, piece by piece, the unimaginable truth emerges, and Libby finds herself right back where she started--on the run from a killer.
Author
Series
Kathryn Dance novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
From the author People magazine has hailed the New York Times bestselling author as "a master of ticking-bomb suspense," comes the third addition to the Kathryn Dance series, a chilling tale of a vigilante seeking revenge—in both the cyber world...and the real.
The Monterey Peninsula is rocked when a killer begins to leave roadside crosses beside local highways—not in memoriam, but as announcements of his intention...
The Monterey Peninsula is rocked when a killer begins to leave roadside crosses beside local highways—not in memoriam, but as announcements of his intention...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The first full account of the Slenderman stabbing, a true crime narrative of mental illness, the American judicial system, the trials of adolescence, and the power of the internet. On May 31, 2014, in the Milwaukee suburb of Waukesha, Wisconsin, two twelve-year-old girls attempted to stab their classmate to death. Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier's violence was extreme, but what seemed even more frightening was that they committed their crime under...
6) Heathers
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Heathers, is comprised of Heather Chandler, Heather Duke and Heather McNamara rounded out by Veronica Sawyer who is so fed up with the Heathers and the entire peer pressure cooker that she starts running with J.D., a mysterious, possible psychotic, motorcycle riding newcomer. But what begins as their noble effort to rid Westerburg of its bad apples ends up take a real toll. And their teen rebellion produces a serious and mounting body count.
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 150 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Damien Echols is a teen who dresses in all black and listens to heavy metal. He and his two friends are accused of the murder of three little boys, and are instantly condemned by a retribution-hungry public. Now they try to defend themselves against a dubious lack of proof.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A parent's worst nightmare.A lawyer's biggest challenge.A young boy's life on the line.The unimaginable has happened. A thirteen-year-old boy has fired a rifle into a baseball game, killing several of the kids on the field. Parents are devastated. The townspeople are horrified. When public opinion swells to an enraged cry for justice, an ambitious deputy district attorney sees his opportunity—a sensational trial that will catapult him into the D.A.'s...
9) The bad seed
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (129 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A single mother discovers that within her seemingly angelic daughter beats the heart of a cold-blooded serial murderer. One woman must make a terrible decision about the daughter she loves and desperately wants to protect in this classic thriller.
10) The healer
Author
Series
O'Malley series (Dee Henderson) volume 5
Language
English
Description
Rachel O'Malley works disasters for a living. Her specialty? Helping children through trauma. When a school shooting rips through her community, she finds herself dealing with more than just grief among the children she is trying to help. One of them saw the shooting, and the gun is still missing.
11) The wilderness of ruin: a tale of madness, fire, and the hunt for America's youngest serial killer
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Documents a series of child abductions against the backdrop of the Great Boston Fire of 1872, and the discovery of the teenaged killer that sparked a system-changing investigation and influential debates among the world's most revered medical minds.
12) Border crossing
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
215 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
13) Under the bridge
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
*Now a Hulu limited series starring Lily Gladstone, Riley Keough, and Archie Panjabi!*
"A swift, harrowing classic perfect for these unnerving times." —Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of Speculation
One moonlit night, fourteen-year-old Reena Virk went to join friends at a party and never returned home.
In this "tour de force of crime reportage" (Kirkus Reviews), acclaimed author Rebecca...
"A swift, harrowing classic perfect for these unnerving times." —Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of Speculation
One moonlit night, fourteen-year-old Reena Virk went to join friends at a party and never returned home.
In this "tour de force of crime reportage" (Kirkus Reviews), acclaimed author Rebecca...
15) Bang: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sebastian Cody did something horrible, something no one -- not even Sebastian himself -- can forgive. At the age of four, he accidentally shot and killed his infant sister with his father's gun. Now, ten years later, Sebastian has lived with the guilt and horror for his entire life. With his best friend away for the summer, Sebastian has only a new friend -- Aneesa -- to distract him from his darkest thoughts. But even this relationship cannot blunt...
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 231 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In the ten years since the school massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado, school shootings have become an alarming epidemic. While sociologists have attributed the trigger of violence to peer pressure, such as bullying and social isolation, prominent psychologist Peter Langman argues here that psychological causes are responsible. Drawing on 20 years of clinical experience, Langman offers surprising reasons for why some teens become violent....
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Formats
Description
*SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING REESE WITHERSPOON AND COLIN FIRTH *
The West Memphis Three. Accused, convicted...and set free. Do you know their story?
In 2011, one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in American legal history was set right when Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley were released after eighteen years in prison. Award-winning journalist Mara Leveritt's The Devil's Knot remains...
The West Memphis Three. Accused, convicted...and set free. Do you know their story?
In 2011, one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in American legal history was set right when Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley were released after eighteen years in prison. Award-winning journalist Mara Leveritt's The Devil's Knot remains...
Publisher
New Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Returns to West Memphis, Ark. to re-examine the controversial story of the child murders at Robin Hood Hills, the most notorious murder case in the state's history, revealing startling new evidence and exploring the ironies and ambiguities of a mystery that refuses to go away.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
378 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, genealogical table, maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In East London in the summer of 1895, Robert Coombes (age thirteen) and his brother Nattie (age twelve) were arrested for matricide and sent for trial at the Old Bailey. Robert confessed to having stabbed his mother, but his lawyers argued that he was insane. The judge sentenced him to detention in Broadmoor, the most infamous criminal lunatic asylum in the land. Shockingly, Broadmoor turned out to be the beginning of a new life for Robert. At a time...
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