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By Younge, Gary[2016]., General, Nation Books Call No: 303.6 Y78a Edition: First print edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "On an average day in America, seven young people aged nineteen or under will be shot dead. Guardian journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of the lives lost during the course of a single day in the United States. It could have been any day, but Younge has chosen November 23, 2013. From Jaiden Dixon (age 9), shot point-blank by his mother's ex-boyfriend on his doorstep in Ohio, to Pedro Dado Cortez (age 16), shot by an enemy gang on a street corner in California, the narrative crisscrosses the country over a period of twenty-four hours to reveal the powerful human stories behind the statistics. Far from a dry account of gun policy in the United States or a polemic about the dangers of gun violence, the book is a gripping chronicle of an ordinary but deadly day, and a series of character portraits of young people taken from us far too soon and those they left behind. Whether it's a father's unspeakable grief over his son who was at the wrong place at the wrong time, a mentor who tries to channel his rage by organizing, or a friend and neighbor who finds strength in faith, the lives lost on that day and the lives left behind become, in Younge's hands, impossible to ignore, or to forget. A searing portrait of youth, family, and the way that lives can be shattered in an instant. At a time when it has become indisputable that Americans need to rethink their position on guns, this narrative work puts a human face on the collateral damage of gun deaths across the country."--Provided by publisher.
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2005., Medallion Press Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: Julie Collins is stuck in a dead-end secretarial job with the Bear Butte County Sheriff's office, and still grieving over the unsolved murder of her Lakota half-brother. Lack of public interest in finding his murderer, or the killer of several other transient Native American men, has left Julie with a bone-deep cynicism she counters with tequila, cigarettes, and dangerous men. The one bright spot in her mundane life is the time she spends working part-time as a PI with her childhood friend, Kevin Wells. When the body of a sixteen-year old white girl is discovered in nearby Rapid Creek, Julie believes this victim will receive the attention others were denied. Then she learns Kevin has been hired, mysteriously, to find out where the murdered girl spent her last few days. Julie finds herself drawn into the case against her better judgment, and discovers not only the ugly reality of the young girl's tragic life and brutal death, but ties to her and Kevin's past that she is increasingly reluctant to revisit. On the surface the situation is eerily familiar. But the parallels end when Julie realizes some family secrets are best kept buried deep. Especially those serious enough to kill for.
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[2008]., Adult, Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Brave One Edition: Widescreen ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
![The brave one [DVD] (2008) Directed by Neil Jordan](/Library/images/~imageCT74447.JPG "The brave one [DVD] (2008) Directed by Neil Jordan")
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2017., Adult, House of Anansi Press Inc Edition: Unabridged. Connect to this eAudiobook title Summary Note: When Stella, a young Métis mother, looks out her window one evening and spots someone in trouble on the Break - a barren field on an isolated strip of land outside her house - she calls the police to alert them to a possible crime. In a series of shifting narratives, people who are connected, both directly and indirectly, with the victim - police, family, and friends - tell their personal stories leading up to that fateful night. Lou, a social worker, grapples with the departure of her live-in boyfriend. Cheryl, an artist, mourns the premature death of her sister Rain. Paulina, a single mother, struggles to trust her new partner. Phoenix, a homeless teenager, is released from a youth detention center. Officer Scott, a Métis policeman, feels caught between two worlds as he patrols the city. Through their various perspectives a larger, more comprehensive story about lives of the residents in Winnipeg's North End is exposed. A powerful intergenerational family saga, The Break showcases Vermette's abundant writing talent and positions her as an exciting new voice in Canadian literature.
![The break [eAudiobook]](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "The break [eAudiobook]")
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2023., Adult, Center Point Large Print Call No: NEW Fic Kno Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: January 15, 1978, is a night of promise, excitement, and desire. A serial killer's murderous spree in the Pacific Northwest couldn't be further from the minds of the vibrant young women at the top sorority on Florida State University's campus in Tallahassee. That night, Pamela Schumacher, president of the sorority, makes the unpopular decision to stay home. Startled awake at 3 a.m. by a strange sound, she makes the fateful decision to investigate. What she finds outside her bedroom door is a scene of implausible violence -- two of her sisters dead; two others, maimed. On the other side of the country, in Seattle, Tina Cannon has found peace after years of hardship. A chance encounter brings twenty-five-year-old Ruth Wachowsky into her life and they forge an instant connection. But then Ruth goes missing from Lake Sammamish State Park in broad daylight, the same day as another young woman, surrounded by thousands of beachgoers. Both vanish without a trace. Tina is convinced Ruth was a target of the man the papers refer to as the All-American Sex Killer. When she learns of the massacre in Tallahassee, Tina is convinced it's him again. She rushes to Florida, on a collision course with Pamela -- and one last impending tragedy.
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2013., PBS Distribution Call No: BLK DVD 364.15 B963C Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Chronicles America's complicated perceptions of race and crime through the story of the "Central Park 5" -- a group of minority teenagers wrongfully convicted and jailed for brutally raping a white woman in New York.
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2023., Adult, The Mysterious Press Call No: NEW MYS Fic Ung Edition: First Mysterious Press edition. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Madeline Martin has built a life for herself as the young owner of a thriving business, The Next Chapter Bookshop, despite her tragic childhood and now needing to care for her infirm father. When Harley Granger, a failed novelist turned true crime podcaster, drifts into her shop in the days before Christmas, he seems intent on digging up events that Madeline would much rather forget. She's the only surviving victim of Evan Handy, the man who was convicted of murdering her best friend Steph, and is suspected in the disappearance of two sisters, also good friends of Madeline's, who have been missing for nearly a decade. Harley Granger has a gift for seeing things that others miss. He wasn't much of a novelist, but his work as a true crime author and podcaster has earned him fame and wealth-and some serious criticism for his various unethical practices. Still, visiting Little Valley to be closer to his dying father has caused him to look into a case that many people think is closed-and some want reopened. Since Evan Handy went to jail, three other young women have gone missing, most recently a young college dropout named Lolly. Five young women missing in the same area in a decade. Are they connected? Was Evan Handy innocent after all? Or was there some else there that night? Someone who is still satisfying his dark appetites?
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c2010., Adult, McClelland & Stewart Call No: Fic Hel Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: An attack by an unknown assailant leaves Kim Lystrander at the mercy of her fear. As Kim re-imagines in writing the hours and days leading up the assault, her father, Harold begins to unravel. Michael Helm, the Giller Prize shortlisted author of THE PROJECTIONIST and IN THE PLACE OF LAST THINGS offers a compelling and complex human drama, where mysteries live within mysteries, stories within stories. Tough, urban and thought-provoking, a novel with all the overtones of a literary thriller.
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2016., Adult, Doubleday Canada Call No: MYS Fic Lap Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Anne and Marco Conti seem to have it all--a loving relationship, a wonderful home, and their beautiful baby, Cora. But one night when they are at a dinner party next door, a terrible crime is committed. Suspicion immediately focuses on the parents. But the truth is a much more complicated story. Inside the curtained house, an unsettling account of what actually happened unfolds. Detective Rasbach knows that the panicked couple is hiding something. Both Anne and Marco soon discover that the other is keeping secrets, secrets they've kept for years. What follows is the nerve-racking unraveling of a family--a chilling tale of deception, duplicity, and unfaithfulness that will keep you breathless until the final shocking twist."--From publisher.
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c2009., Adult, Shaye Areheart Books Call No: MYS Fic Fly Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in (3z(BThe Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas.(3y (BAs her family lay dying, little Libby fled their tiny farmhouse into the freezing January snow. She lost some fingers and toes, but she survived<U+2013>and famously testified that her fifteen-year-old brother, Ben, was the killer. Twenty-five years later, Ben sits in prison, and troubled Libby lives off the dregs of a trust created by well-wishers who<U+2019>ve long forgotten her. The Kill Club is a macabre secret society obsessed with notorious crimes. When they locate Libby and pump her for details<U+2013>proof they hope may free Ben<U+2013>Libby hatches a plan to profit off her tragic history. For a fee, she<U+2019>ll reconnect with the players from that night and report her findings to the club-- and maybe she<U+2019>ll admit her testimony wasn<U+2019>t so solid after all. As Libby<U+2019>s search takes her from shabby Missouri strip clubs to abandoned Oklahoma tourist towns, the narrative flashes back to January 2, 1985. The events of that day are relayed through the eyes of Libby<U+2019>s doomed family members<U+2013>including Ben, a loner whose rage over his shiftless father and their failing farm have driven him into a disturbing friendship with the new girl in town. Piece by piece, the unimaginable truth emerges, and Libby finds herself right back where she started<U+2013>on the run from a killer."--Inside jacket.
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2021., Charco Press Call No: MYS Fic Piñ Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: After Rita is found dead in the bell tower of the church she used to attend, the official investigation into the incident is quickly closed. Her sickly mother is the only person still determined to find the culprit. Chronicling a difficult journey across the suburbs of the city, an old debt and a revealing conversation, this book unravels the secrets of its characters and the hidden facets of authoritarianism and hypocrisy in our society.
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By Sager, Riley2017., Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House Call No: Fic Sag Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Ten years ago, college student Quincy Carpenter went on vacation with five friends and came back alone, the only survivor of a horror movie-scale massacre. In an instant, she became a member of a club no one wants to belong--a group of similar survivors known in the press as the Final Girls ... Now, Quincy is doing well ... That is, until Lisa, the first Final Girl, is found dead in her bathtub, wrists slit, and Sam, the second, appears on Quincy's doorstep"
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By Bose, Rana2019., Baraka Books of Montreal Call No: QWF Fic Bos Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A small plane was blown up in an act of sabotage over Northern Quebec, Canada. The incident was quickly analyzed and termed a mechanical failure. The case was closed in a rush. A young actor from Montreal dies in Afghanistan, killed by a missile from a drone. His death opens up wounds and discussions that are not in the public domain. These two seemingly disparate events form the backbone of a compelling contemporary "ideas thriller," set in Montreal's Main district and in the blue-green mountains of Kandahar. Past values, local history, neighborhood myths and intense psychosexual vectors are suddenly on a collision course with the current international context of wars, migration, exile, and terror. In the backdrop is the cold case of the airplane sabotage that occurred over a decade ago. Was the plane crash hushed-up? Why? Three friends from Montreal's Plateau and Mile End districts manage to de-freeze the cold case, burn up the fog, and hell breaks loose, not only in their personal lives, but in their own affiliations.
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2004., Atria Books Call No: MYS Fic Mac Edition: 1st Atria Books hardcover ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2008., Delacorte Press Call No: Fic Ste Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In the days that follow a tragic accident, a woman who the whole world knows slowly awakens with no memory of who she is. Every detail must be pieced back together--from a childhood in rural Mississippi to the early days of her career, from the unintentional hurt inflicted on her daughter to a fifteen year-old secret love affair that went tragically wrong. But for this woman an extraordinary opportunity has arisen in a life-threatening crisis: a second chance to count her blessings, heal wounded hearts, recapture lost love... and to live a life that will truly honor others--beginning with herself.--From publisher description.
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-- I would know you anywhere.c2010., W. Morrow Call No: Fic Lip Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Eliza Benedict's peaceful suburban life is shattered after being contacted by Walter Bowman, the man who kidnapped and held her hostage as a teen in 1985, and who now claims to want forgiveness while on death row. An edgy, utterly gripping tale of psychological manipulation.
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By Kane, Andreac2005., William Morrow Call No: MYS Fic Kan Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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-- Memoir of resilience.2019., Adult, University of Regina Press Call No: IND Bio K72i Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Regina collection.Summary Note: Helen Knott, a highly accomplished Indigenous woman, seems to have it all. But in her memoir, she offers a different perspective. In My Own Moccasins is an unflinching account of addiction, intergenerational trauma, and the wounds brought on by sexual violence. It is also the story of sisterhood, the power of ceremony, the love of family, and the possibility of redemption. With gripping moments of withdrawal, times of spiritual awareness, and historical insights going back to the signing of Treaty 8 by her great-great grandfather, Chief Bigfoot, her journey exposes the legacy of colonialism, while reclaiming her spirit. Helen Knott is a Dane Zaa, Nehiyaw, and mixed Euro-descent woman living in Fort St. John, British Columbia. In 2016 Helen was one of sixteen global change makers featured by the Nobel Women's Initiative for being committed to end gender-based violence. Helen was selected as a 2019 RBC Taylor Prize Emerging Author. This is her first book. Eden Robinson is the award-winning author of Monkey Beach, Son of a Trickster, and other novels. She is a member of the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations.
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2016., Severn House Publishers Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: A young woman returns to her hometown to confront her troubled past in this absorbing novel of romantic suspenseSix years after 'the incident' that no one will talk about, Victoria Myers returns to her small hometown in the Catskill Mountains. After years in therapy, she is determined to start living life to the full once again - particularly when she starts dating handsome Bart Stonefield, son of a wealthy local businessman. But the past has not yet been laid to rest. No one has ever been brought to justice for the crime committed against the teenage Victoria - and at least one person within the community is concealing the truth about what happened that night. Not everyone is happy about Victoria and Brad's developing relationship - and what is it that Brad is keeping from Victoria? Is she still in danger?.
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