criminals

M Freeman has been homeschooled her entire life and when she leaves home to attend the prestigious Lawless School she realizes that her parents and tutors have been preparing her for a life of crime.

While helping out part time in a pet shop, the Alden children discover an employee who is smuggling and selling exotic animals.

After violating his parole, seventeen-year-old, semi-literate Dylan Dawson drives from California to Texas to try to see his father on death row in an attempt to figure out how his own life has gone so terribly awry.

Fifteen-year-old Moo Nelson, shy, overweight, and bullied by his classmates, finds his life spinning out of control after he witnesses a car chase and a fight that results in a murder.

A chilling expose is drawn from more than 150 hours of exclusive tape-recorded interviews with Ted Bundy. It is a shocking self-portrait of the self-described, 'most cold-blooded son of a bitch you'll ever meet' that was also recently made into a Netflix documentary.

A skillful hybrid of true crime and social history that examines the relationship between the media and popular culture in the portrayal of crimes against gay men in the decades before Stonewall. Stories of murder have never been just about killers and victims. Instead, crime stories take the shape of their times and reflect cultural notions and prejudices. In Indecent Advances, James Polchin recovers and recounts queer stories from the crime pages--often lurid and euphemistic--that reveal the hidden history of violence against gay men. What was left unsaid in the crime pages provides insight into the figure of the queer man as both criminal and victim, offering readers tales of vice and violence that aligned gender and sexual deviance with tragic, gruesome endings. Victims were often reported as having made "indecent advances," forcing the accused's hands in self-defense and reducing murder charges to manslaughter. Published in time for the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising on June 28, 1969, Indecent Advances investigates how queer men navigated a society that criminalized them and displayed little compassion for the violence they endured. Polchin shows, with masterful insight, how this discrimination was ultimately transformed by activists to help shape the burgeoning gay rights movement in the years leading up to Stonewall.

Chronicles the story of convicted killer Ted Bundy by a woman who had worked with him at a Seattle crisis clinic and analyzes the double personality of Bundy, who admitted to killing nearly forty women.

"They say he's been stealing art. But is Attila being framed? Outdoor art is disappearing all over the neighborhood! From elaborate Halloween decorations to the Stream of Dreams fish display across the fence at Stephen and Ren?e's school, it seems no art is safe. Ren?e's brother, Attila, has been cursing those model fish since he first had to make them as part of his community service. So everyone thinks Attila is behind it when they disappear. But, grumpy teen though he is, Attila can do no wrong in Ren?e's eyes, so she enlists Stephen's help to catch the real criminal"--Provided by publisher.

"A humorous look at how famous people got caught, including Joan of Arc, Blackbeard, Al Capone, and more! . . . Outlaw, assassin, art thief, and spy, these fourteen troublemakers and crooks--including Blackbeard the pirate, Typhoid Mary, and gangster Al Capone--have given the good guys a run for their money throughout the ages. Some were crooked, some were deadly, and some were merely out of line--but they all got Caught! as detailed in this . . . study of crime, culture, and forensic science. Featuring history's most wanted: Joan of Arc, Sir Walter Raleigh, Caravaggio, Blackbeard, John Wilkes Booth, Jesse James, Billy the Kid, Mata Hari, Typhoid Mary, Rasputin, Vincenzo Peruggia (Mona Lisa thief), Bernard Kuehn (Pearl Harbor spy), Anna Anderson (Anastasia impersonator), and Al Capone"--Provided by publisher.