victims of crimes

"If it weren't for the 57 bus, Sasha and Richard never would have met. Both were high school students from Oakland, California, one of the most diverse cities in the country, but they inhabited different worlds. Sasha, a white teen, lived in the middle-class foothills and attended a small private school. Richard, a black teen, lived in the crime-plagued flatlands and attended a large public one. Each day, their paths overlapped for a mere eight minutes"--Provided by publisher.

Thirteen-year-old Lizzie relates, through a victim statement, her harrowing journey through the Adirondacks seeking her disabled friend, Matias, who was kidnapped by escaped convicts.

An introduction to the circumstances surrounding the murder of Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old boy from Chicago who visited family in Mississippi in 1955.

"Every morning and evening, Zoe Walker takes the same route to the train station, waits at a certain place on the platform, finds her favorite spot in the car, never suspecting that someone is watching her... It all starts with a classified ad. During her commute home one night, while glancing through her local paper, Zoe sees her own face staring back at her, a grainy photo along with a phone number and listing for a website called findtheone.com. Other women begin appearing in the same ad, a different one every day, and Zoe realizes they've become the victims of increasingly violent crimes--including rape and murder. Withthe help of a determined cop, she uncovers the ad's twisted purpose...a discovery that turns her paranoia into full-blown panic."--Provided by publisher.

Thirteen-year-old Lizzie relates, through a victim statement, her harrowing journey through the Adirondacks seeking her disabled friend, Matias, who was kidnapped by escaped convicts.

"... the murder of Nica Baker, beautiful, wild, enigmatic, and only sixteen. The crime is solved, and fast--a lonely classmate, unrequited love, a suicide-note confession--but memory and instinct won't allow Nica's older sister Grace to accept the case as closed ..."--Jacket flap.

When the body of a missing high school senior is found strangled by the edge of a frozen pond, the discovery shocks the small town. As the investigation unfolds, four characters share their interpretation of the story from vastly different perspectives--the victim's mother, a graduate student artist who becomes a suspect, a rescue diver, and the victim's best friend.

In a little copse near the east coast main line of Yorkshire, in a house that Daddy built himself, live siblings Daniel and Cathy. They roam their wood, completely free of modern living conventions. They know Daddy sometimes has to go off and do hard work to get money, but what exactly he does never enters their minds. Then one day a local landowner shows up on their doorstep, and the modern world seems like crashing in on their happy existence.

The murder of an English governess for the royal harem causes controversy at the palace and the British embassy as the search for the killer consumes the Ottoman Empire.

"If it weren't for the 57 bus, Sasha and Richard never would have met. Both were high school students from Oakland, California, one of the most diverse cities in the country, but they inhabited different worlds. Sasha, a white teen, lived in the middle-class foothills and attended a small private school. Richard, a black teen, lived in the crime-plagued flatlands and attended a large public one. Each day, their paths overlapped for a mere eight minutes"--Jacket flap.