offenses against the person

Frank Meyer, a former military contractor and mercenary who used to work with Joe Pike, loses his family when a professional crew raids his home, but when the police suspect Meyer to have been hiding something, Elvis Cole helps Pike search beyond grudges, blackmail, and double crosses in an effort to clear Meyer's name.

When a powerful editor is found murdered in the newsroom at the struggling "New York Globe, " an ambitious female NYPD detective, who teams up with Jude Hurley, a reporter, is assigned to the case and must contend with pressure from the mayor and the problem of too many suspects as more people turn up dead.

Sixteen-year-old Natalie Fuentes wants to concentrate on her self-published magazine and stay out of trouble at her new school, but her plan is quickly thwarted when she witnesses a brutal attack and becomes entrenched in a related mystery.

Provides readers with tips on how to stay safe and find help in a variety of dangerous situations, from a car breakdown to a confrontation with a burglar. Discusses how to avoid precarious moments and includes color photographs, a glossary, and further reading sources.

When she is taken hostage by a bank robber, Charlotte Emory finds that her experience provides her with a new perspective of her past life and the future she hopes to make for herself.

Margaret Chambers returns to her hometown to teach in the small, one-room school building, but the God-fearing citizens are threatened by Margaret, and their plans to run her out of town take a dangerous turn.

A violent attack on seventeen-year-old Tashera Odom by high school girls in Washington, D.C., has dangerous repercussions for the rest of the family, including her secretive mother Sheila, and her brother Khalil, who is willing to rejoin his gang in order to get revenge.

Mariane Pearl, wife of journalist Daniel Pearl, chronicles her husband's abduction and brutal murder at the hands of terrorists in Pakistan in 2002, her ill-fated quest to save him, and the birth of their son, Adam. Includes letters of support that the author received after Daniel's death and Adam's birth.

Simeon Wright, the cousin of Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old African-American who was beaten and killed in 1955 for whistling at a white woman, reflects on what it was like to grow up in Mississippi during the 1940s and 1950s, reveals details about the night Emmett was kidnapped, and reflects on how the crime and trial affected his family and the community.

Identity theft is one of the most common crimes in the world today, in large part because it's so easy to do. Through objective discussion, numerous direct quotes and full-color illustrations, this title examines the issue.