child molesters

"From ESPN journalists whose investigation garnered a Peabody Award, the full devastating story of former physician Larry Nassar's serial abuse of America's elite gymnasts and others, revealing the win-at-all-costs culture in youth athletics and higher education that enabled him"--Provided by publisher.

"Larry Nassar, longtime doctor at Michigan State University and physician for the US Olympic gymnastics team, has been called one of the worst sexual predators in history. This is the inside story of how he got away with abusing hundreds of gymnasts for decades--and how a team of brave women, activists, and lawyers banded together to bring him down"--.

Summer 1939: twelve-year-old Angie finds the strength to defy the social norms of her small-town community when a dangerous man poses a threat to a friend.

The Fact of a Body is a book not only about how the story of one crime was constructed, but about how we understand our past, the nature of forgiveness, and whether a single narrative can ever really contain something as definitive as the truth.

Shares the story of Sandford Clark, brought as a thirteen-year-old boy from Canada in 1928 supposedly to help his uncle, Gordon Stewart Northcott, start a chicken farm in Wineville, California, but who was instead abused and forced to aid Northcott, a pedophile and serial killer, and tells of Clark's later life, during which he married, served in World War II, and raised two sons.

"On March 2, 1998, ten-year-old Natascha Kampusch was kidnapped, and found herself locked in a house that would be her home for the next eight years. She was starved, beaten, treated as a slave, and forced to work for her deranged captor. But she never forgot who she was - and she never gave up hope of returning to the world. This is her story."--Provided by publisher.

Offers advice to parents on how to protect their children from sexual predators, describing the characteristics of predators, their patterns of behavior, and different types of predators, including males, females, youth, and siblings; and provides information on Internet child abuse, sex offender registries, and prevention strategies.

The conflicts between several married couples in a quiet suburban community reach crisis stage when Sarah, the discontented feminist wife of a much older, porn-obsessed man, begins an affair with Todd, a handsome stay-at-home dad, and a convicted child molester moves back into the neighborhood to live with his mother.

Mary-Ann Tirone Smith chronicles her French-Italian family's struggle to survive in a housing project in Hartford, Connecticut, in the years following World War II.