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1) 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.
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....
3) 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"--
4) 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...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Two years after a tragedy saddles him with viral fame, twelve-year-old Simon O'Keeffe and his family move to Grin And Bear It, Nebraska, where the internet and cell phones are banned so astrophysicists can scan the sky for signs of alien life, and where, with the help of two new friends, a puppy, and a giant radio telescope, Simon plans to restart the narrative of his life.
Author
Publisher
Sarabande Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
359 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"May and Otto Barnes have a perfect life: she an engineer, he a freelance artist, new friends in a new town, and a bright, 8 year-old boy. But their world is shattered when their son is wounded in a school shooting and his best friend killed, and, while Liam fights for life, hoaxers begin to harass Otto, trying to force him to admit the shooting never happened. Desperate to stop them, Otto tries to track down the lead hoaxer, a mysterious, hard to...
8) Columbine
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Ten years in the making and a masterpiece of reportage, "Columbine" is an award-winning journalist's definitive account of one of the most shocking massacres in American history.
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xviii, 279 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Examines forty-eight national and international cases of school shootings to dispel the myths, explore the motives, and expose the many factors that drive people to rampage attacks.
11) 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
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
Language
English
Description
On December 14, 2012, a gunman killed twenty first graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Ten years later, Sandy Hook has become a foundational story of how false conspiracy narratives and misinformation have gained traction in society. Some people insist it never occurred, or was staged by the federal government as a pretext for seizing Americans' firearms. They harass the victim's relatives and accuse...
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.
16) 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.
17) Mockingbird
Author
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Caitlin, who has Asperger's Syndrome, struggles to understand emotions, show empathy, and make friends at school, while at home she seeks closure by working on a project with her father.
18) Bang
Author
Series
Visions (Lisa McMann) volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A teen who used to see a vision of a crash must help her boyfriend as he is now seeing a vision of a school shooting"--
19) Monday, Monday
Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
On a Monday in August of 1966, a student and former marine named Charles Whitman hauled a footlocker of guns to the top of the University of Texas tower and began firing on pedestrians below. Before his rampage was over, sixteen people would be killed and thirty-two wouned. It was the first mass shooting of civilians on a campus in American history. This novel follows three students caught up in the massacre: Shelly, who left her math class and walked...
20) Belzebuth
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Special Agent Emanuel Ritter leads a police investigation into a series of shocking deaths. But after a priest from the Vatican finds a link between the murders and an ancient demon, a descent into horror ensues.
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