true crime / general

The true story of Anthony Ciaglia who suffers a traumatic brain injury that renders him incapable of judging or feeling repulsion, and subsequently becomes the most trusted confidant of numerous imprisoned serial killers.

Presents an account of the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut, that left twenty-six people dead, twenty of them school children between the ages of six and seven, chronicling the horrific events and providing insight into the mind of the gunman, Adam Lanza.

Examines the unsolved murder of four teenage girls in an Austin, Texas, frozen yogurt shop on December 6, 1991.

"A daring investigation into the mysterious death of Heavyweight Champion Sonny Liston, set against the dawn of the 1970s, when the mob was fighting to keep control of the Las Vegas Strip, Richard Nixon was launching America's first war on heroin, and boxing was in its glory days"--.

When an eleven-year-old James Renner fell in love with Amy Mihaljevic, the missing girl seen on posters all over his neighborhood, it was the beginning of a lifelong obsession with true crime. That obsession leads James to a successful career as an investigative journalist. It also gave him PTSD. In 2011, James began researching the strange disappearance of Maura Murray, a UMass student who went missing after wrecking her car in rural New Hampshire in 2004. Over the course of his investigation, he uncovers numerous important and shocking new clues about what may have happened to Maura, but also finds himself in increasingly dangerous situations with little regard for his own well-being. As his quest to find Maura deepens, the case starts taking a toll on his personal life, which begins to spiral out of control. The result is an absorbing dual investigation of the complicated story of the All-American girl who went missing and James's own equally complicated true crime addiction.

In 1933 Prohibition gave rise to the American gangster. Local cops were unauthorized to cross state lines in pursuit of criminals and kidnappers and there was no national police force. George "Machine Gun" Kelly and his wife, Kathryn, were two of the most celebrated gangsters of the era. When other sources of income dried up, they decided to cash in on the easy-money racket of kidnapping. J. Edgar Hoover needed a successful Justice Department prosecution to save his job. Hoover's agents were given the sole authority to follow the kidnappers across state lines. The twenty-thousand mile chase over the back roads of Depression-era America, across sixteen state lines, produced results and launched the FBI.

"A shocking expos? of sexual abuse and the struggle for justice at one of America's most prestigious schools The Horace Mann School, located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, represents the pinnacle of private education. With all its accolades and prestige, few could have anticipated the scandal that erupted in 2012 when The New York Times Magazine ran a cover story by the journalist and Horace Mann alumnus Amos Kamil detailing a decades-long pattern of sexual abuse by teachers. In Great Is the Truth, Kamil and his coauthor, Sean Elder, uncover the full story of what happened at Horace Mann, and recount what has occurred in the aftermath of Kamil's watershed article. With craft and poise, they reveal a high-stakes environment of demanding academics and barely hidden debauchery, where many faculty members exploited their unchecked and undue influence to horrifying ends. Fast-forwarding to the present, Kamil and Elder relate how survivors emerged and petitioned for redress with the aid of celebrity lawyers while administrators and trustees scrambled to protect the school and themselves. They also look closely at how other schools have responded to scandal, often with far greater compassion and candor. How can institutions rectify their complicity in abuse and prevent it from recurring? How can victims achieve their due? "Great is the truth and it prevails," may be the motto of Horace Mann, but for many alumni, the truth remains all too hard to come by"--.

"New York Times bestselling crime writer John Glatt tells the true story behind the kidnappings and long-overdue rescue of three women found in a Cleveland basement. The Lost Girls tells the truly amazing story of Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight, who were kidnapped, imprisoned, and repeatedly raped and beaten in a Cleveland house for over a decade by Ariel Castro, and their amazing escape in May 2013, which made headlines all over the world. The book has an exclusive interview and photographs of Ariel Castro's secret fiance;, who spent many romantic nights in his house of horror, without realizing he had bound and chained captives just a few feet away. There are also revealing interviews with several Castro family members, musician friends and several neighbors who witnessed the dramatic rescue"--.

Michael Morton relates how he was sentenced to life for the murder of his wife and how the wrongful conviction affected his life, and describes the twenty-five year process to prove his innocence.

"HEROES IN THE NIGHT traces journalist Tea Krulos's journey into the strange subculture of Real Life Superheroes, random citizens who have adopted comic book-style personas and hit the streets to fight injustice--helping the homeless, gathering donations for food banks, or patrolling their neighborhoods looking for crime to fight. Through historic research, extensive interviews, and many long hours walking on patrol in Brooklyn and Seattle, San Diego, Minneapolis, and Vancouver, British Columbia, Krulos discovered what being a RLSH is all about. HEROES IN THE NIGHT profiles dozens of RLSHs and shares not only their shining, triumphant moments but some of their ill-advised, terrifying disasters as well"--.