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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Lucas Goodgame lives in Majestic, Pennsylvania, a quaint suburb that has been torn apart by a recent tragedy. Everyone in Majestic sees Lucas as a hero -- everyone, that is, except Lucas himself. Insisting that his deceased wife, Darcy, visits him every night in the form of an angel, Lucas spends his time writing letters to his former Jungian analyst, Karl. It is only when Eli, an eighteen-year-old young man whom the community has ostracized, begins...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Sean Tennant and Molly Winter are living quietly in Houston when a troubled, obsessive stranger shatters the safety they have carefully constructed for themselves. Sean is at a shopping mall when Henry Alan Keen, scorned by a woman he's been dating, pulls out a gun at the store where she works and begins shooting everyone in sight. A former soldier, Sean rushes toward Keen and ends the slaughter with two well-placed shots--becoming a hero with his...
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Language
English
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"At a Texas county fair, amidst carousels and a bustling midway, children's book author Elle Portman is enjoying a rare night out with her favorite cowboy: her two-year-old son, Charlie. But just as they're about to head home, the unthinkable happens: a shooter opens fire into the crowd, causing widespread panic to erupt all around them. Also caught in the melee was corporate consultant Calder Hudson. Arrogant, self-centered, and high off his latest...
Author
Series
Capital crimes series volume 32
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"2002: A military transport on a secret run to dispose of its deadly contents vanishes without a trace. The present: A mass shooting on the steps of the Capitol nearly claims the life of Robert Brixton's grandson. No stranger to high-stakes investigations, Brixton embarks on a trail to uncover the motive behind the shooting. On the way he finds himself probing the attempted murder of the daughter his best friend, who works at the Washington offices...
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English
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"Unspeakable tragedy strikes the Amish hamlet of Johns Mill when an unstable Englischer opens fire in the Hochstedler General Store ... Joseph Hochstedler struggles to hold his shattered family together ... Born with a serious heart defect, optimist Naomi Schrock has always longed to live a life of service. She rolls up her sleeves, determined to help Joseph cope with this terrible crisis. But dare she hope that his friendship will finally deepen...
Author
Series
Clay Edison novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
"From the bestselling father-son team who write "brilliant, page-turning fiction" (Stephen King) comes the second installment in crime fiction's most intriguing new series. It's been a busy year for Alameda County Coroner's Deputy Clay Edison. He's solved a decades-old crime and redeemed an innocent man--earning himself a suspension in the process. Things are getting serious with his girlfriend. And his brother's fresh out of prison, bringing with...
7) There there
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Language
English
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Twelve Native Americans came to the Big Oakland Powwow for different reasons. Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to her family. Dene Oxedrene is pulling his life together and has come to work the powwow in his uncle's memory. Edwin Frank has come to find his true father. Bobby Big Medicine has come to drum the Grand Entry. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil Red Feather. Orvil has taught himself...
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English
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It was a typical evening at a mall outside Portland, Maine. Three teenage friends waited for the movie to start. A boy flirted with the girl selling sunglasses. Mothers and children shopped together, and the manager at the videogame store tending to customers. Then the shooters arrived. The chaos and carnage lasted only eight minutes before the killers were taken down. But for those who lived through it, the effects would last forever. In the years...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When a deadly shooting breaks out in a Portland shopping mall, six teens ends up trapped behind a store's security shutter: Miranda, Cole, Javier, Parker, Amina and Grace. To her own surprise, Miranda finds the others looking to her as their leader. The group has only three choices: Run, hide, or fight back. The wrong decision will have fatal consequences. The only thing the group has is common is that they all want to live. But not all of them will...
Publisher
RLJE Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After a mass shooting at a police funeral, reclusive ex-cop Gannon realizes that the killer belongs to the same militia he joined after quitting the force. Knowing the police will be closing in on them, Gannon quarantines his fellow militiamen in a remote lumber mill. There, he sets about a series of grueling interrogations, intent on ferreting out the killer and turning him over to the authorities to prevent further bloodshed.
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Series
Coastal guardians volume 3
Language
English
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"Coast Guard Flight Medic Brooke Kesler was caught in a mass shooting at a Coast Guard graduation-and little does she know that she overheard something that could expose the mastermind's identity. With targets on their backs, Brooke and her boyfriend CGIS Agent Noah Rowley must race to find the killer before he strikes again"--
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
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
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
143 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Dealing with the unthinkable It's never going to be you. Then one day you hear the clatter of automatic fire at the mall. You have been drawn into the chaos and terror of an active shooter event. What do you do? Who do you turn to? Be a Hero is the essential guide to terrorist attacks that will help you survive. Former Special Air Service terror expert John Geddes will explain how to cope with a life-threatening event. He shows you how to make clear...
15) A deadly divide
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 286 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From an award-winning Mother Jones editor comes the inside story of the decades-long search for identifiable profiles and warning signs of mass shooters, by way of the specialized teams of psychologists, cops, and ordinary citizens working to predict and prevent violence in America--a fearless, in-depth, and ultimately redemptive account of an epidemic that desperately needs solving"--
Author
Publisher
Central Recovery Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xvi, 269 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
After the horrific tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, local caregivers, civic leaders, and first responders had the daunting task of navigating emotional and physical trauma as they stitched their community back together. The recovery process takes years, and as the coordinator of the Newtown Recovery and Resiliency Team, Melissa Glaser managed the town's response. She developed a unique set of therapeutic and transferable...
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Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a madman goes on a shooting rampage in the Capitol building, Sully Carter is at the scene and witnesses the carnage firsthand. He files the first and most detailed account of the massacre. The shooter, Terry Waters, becomes obsessed with Sully, luring the reporter into the streets of D.C. during the manhunt. When Waters is finally caught, his rants in the courtroom quickly earn him a stay at Saint Elizabeth's mental hospital. The paper sends...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xii, 272 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"On July 20, 2012 in Aurora, Colorado, a man in dark body armor and a gas mask entered a midnight premiere of The Dark Knight Rises with a tactical shotgun, a high-capacity assault rifle, and a sidearm. He threw a canister of tear gas into the crowd and began firing. Soon twelve were dead and fifty-eight were wounded; young children and pregnant women were among them. The man was found calmly waiting at his car. He was detained without resistance....
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