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1) Finding Jake
Author
Language
English
Description
"A heart-wrenching but redemptive story of psychological suspense told from the point of view of the father of a boy who is unaccounted for during a school shooting, in the vein of Reconstructing Amelia and Defending Jacob"--
2) 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.
4) Only child
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Surviving a horrific school shooting, a six-year-old boy retreats into the world of books and art while making sobering observations about his mother's determination to prosecute the shooter's parents and the wider community's efforts to make sense of the tragedy.
5) Twenty
Author
Series
Jack Swyteck novels volume 17
Language
English
Description
After a deadly school shooting claims twenty casualties at Riverside Day School, the tragedy prompts mass hysteria-- and dangerous speculation. The police haven't identified the shooter, but a handgun found on the school grounds is registered to a parent, a Muslim man named Amir Khoury. News of the gun goes viral, and Al Qaeda claims responsibility. When Xavier, Amir and Lilly's oldest child, an eighteen-year-old senior at Riverside, confesses to...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Minutes after the principal of Opportunity High School in Alabama finishes her speech welcoming the student body to a new semester, they discover that the auditorium doors will not open and someone starts shooting as four teens, each with a personal reason to fear the shooter, tell the tale from separate perspectives.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the three years since the Virgil County High School Massacre, a story has grown up around one of the victims, Sarah McHale, that says she died proclaiming her Christian faith -- but Leanne Bauer was there, and knows what happened, and she has a choice: stay silent and let people believe in Sarah's martyrdom, or tell the truth.
9) Besieged
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
While checking on a colleague's daughter, former Delta Captain Jake Mahegan is on site when a school is attacked and an autistic girl is kidnapped, sending him on a rescue mission that uncovers a plan for a devastating terrorist attack on the U.S.
Author
Language
English
Description
Followed by Grandpa Ed in his RV and backed by her brother and friends, Annabelle, eighteen, runs from Seattle to Washington, D.C., becoming a reluctant activist as people connect her journey to her recent trauma.
Annabelle is running. From Seattle to Washington, DC, through mountain passes and suburban landscapes, from long lonely roads to college towns. She's not ready to think about the tragedy from the past year, or The Taker that haunts her....
Author
Language
English
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Description
Eleven years ago a shooting rocked the small town of East Ridge, New Jersey and left eighteen first graders dead. Newly graduated, Matt Simpson and Cole Hewitt are still navigating their guilt, especially the absence of their friend Andy. Cole is "the boy in the picture" but remembers nothing about the shooting; Matt was absent that day. Will Cole and Matt ever be able to truly leave the ghosts of East Ridge behind, and move into a future where they...
12) The lucky ones
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the aftermath of a school tragedy, May and Zach struggle with grief, survivor's guilt, and the complex emotional impact of the event, learning how to heal and hope in the face of it all"--
13) Aftermath
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Three years after losing her brother Luka in a school shooting, Skye Gilchrist is moving home. But there's no sympathy for Skye and her family because Luka wasn't a victim; he was a shooter. Jesse Mandal knows all too well that the scars of the past don't heal easily. The shooting cost Jesse his brother and his best friend--Skye. Ripped apart by tragedy, Jesse and Skye can't resist reopening the mysteries of their past. But old wounds hide darker...
14) A thousand cuts
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
15) A good kill
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Police detective P.T. Marsh is sent to the Falls Magnet Middle School, where former journalist Jed Harrington has taken a teacher and three students hostage. Soon after Marsh positions himself to take out the shooter, he?s called by the governor, Toby Monroe, who?s in the midst of a fraught reelection campaign. Marsh owes the politician, who gave him a lead on the man responsible for killing Marsh?s wife and son. Monroe tells Marsh that his debt will...
16) The price
Author
Series
Toni Matthews novels volume 2
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
429 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Rachel Knight novels volume 4
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
404 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
While interviewing students in the aftermath of a school shooting in the San Fernando Valley, prosecutor Rachel Knight and Detective Bailey Keller realize the facts don't add up and the real killers may still be out there.
18) Aftershock
Author
Series
Aftershock novels (Andrew H. Vachss) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the shining star of the girls' softball team shoots and kills the most popular boy in school, Dolly, friend to the local teenage girls, asks her husband Dell to uncover the true motive behind the inexplicable crime.
19) More like her
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 309 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When Emma Dunham, the woman they believe is the height of female perfection, is murdered by her husband, Francis, Lisa and Jill discover that things aren't always what they seem, which forces them to come to terms with the secrets of their own lives.
20) Snapped
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Star Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First Pocket Star Books paperback edition.
Physical Desc
401 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
After surviving a sniper attack on the local college campus, crime lab technician Sophie Barrett comes to believe that it was not a random, senseless act and works to make homicide detective Jonah Macon believe her.
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