massacres

Eva Khatchadourian has been living a life plagued by guilt and denial since her son opened fire and killed seven of his classmates two years earlier, and as she tries to come to terms with her son's actions, she examines the parenting choices she made when raising him and wonders where she went wrong.

On July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik detonated a bomb outside the Norwegian prime minister's office in central Oslo, killing eight people. He then proceeded to a youth camp on the wooded island of Ut?ya, where he killed sixty-nine more, most of them teenage members of the country's governing Labour Party. In One of Us, the journalist ?sne Seierstad tells the story of this terrible day and its reverberations. How did Breivik, a gifted child from an affluent neighborhood in Oslo, become Europe's most reviled terrorist? How did he accomplish an astonishing one-man murder spree? And how did a famously peaceful and prosperous country cope with the slaughter of so many of its young?.

On July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik detonated a bomb outside the Norwegian prime minister's office in central Oslo, killing eight people. He then proceeded to a youth camp on the wooded island of Ut?ya, where he killed sixty-nine more, most of them teenage members of the country's governing Labour Party. How did Breivik, a gifted child from an affluent neighborhood in Oslo, become Europe's most reviled terrorist? How did he accomplish an astonishing one-man murder spree? And how did a famously peaceful and prosperous country cope with the slaughter of so many of its young?.

The tale of a disposed young man and the band of bloodthirsty mercenaries he joins up with in Mexico in the mid 1800s.

A graphic novel that explores the 1956 incident that left more than one hundred Palestinians dead in 1956 in Rafah, a small town at the tip of the Gaza Strip.

Native Peoples explores the fierce and bloody conflict between Euro-American immigrants and the indigenous peoples of North America, and the forced removal of Native Americans from their lands.

Examines the mass murders committed by the Nazi and Stalinist regimes, describing how the killings were more widespread than many believed, and explores how those crimes influenced other events in modern history.

The last time Nicolas saw his mother, she was slumped over him, mortally wounded by gunfire that erupted in a crowded plaza during a funeral for a martyred archbishop. Watching while her body is dragged away with other victims, Nicol?s believes that his mother is still alive. He vows to find her again, no matter what. Thus begins the young boy's harrowing journey through his war-ravaged country--a journey that brings him face-to-face with the danger, cruelty, and violence inflicted today on so many parts of the world by terrorism and repression. Inspired by real events.

Presents the idea that the notorious My Lai, Vietnam, massacre that occured during the Vietnam War, was not an isolated incident and that throughout Vietnam American troops systematically killed civilians.

A fact-based story in which twelve-year-old Ming, on an errand for his father on October 24, 1871, witnesses a shooting in the frontier town of Los Angeles that leads to rioting throughout Chinatown and the deaths of eighteen Chinese men and women.