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"Nicole 'Coco' Martin is destined to have it all. As the only child of doting and successful parents, she has been given every opportunity in life. Having inherited her mother's stunning beauty and creativity, along with her father's work ethic and diligence, she has the world at her feet. Her graduation from Columbia is fast approaching, and with it the summer job of her dreams working at a magazine. Between work, leisurely weekends at her family's...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Kristine S. Ervin was just eight years old when her mother, Kathy Sue Engle, was abducted from an Oklahoma mall parking lot and violently murdered in an oil field. First, there was grief. Then the desire to know: what happened to her, what she felt in her last terrible moments, and all she was before these acts of violence defined her life. In her mother's absence, Ervin tries to reconstruct a woman she can never fully grasp-from her own memory,...
3) Eartheater
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 206 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Set in an unnamed slum in contemporary Argentina, Earth-eater is the story of a young woman who finds herself drawn to eating the earth--a compulsion that gives her visions of broken and lost lives. With her first taste of dirt, she learns the horrifying truth of her mother's death. Disturbed by what she witnesses, the woman keeps her visions to herself. But when Earth-eater begins an unlikely relationship with a withdrawn police officer, word of...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
562 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The unexpurgated first-person narrative of nineteen-year-old Skyler Rampike, the only surviving child of an infamous American family. A decade ago the Rampikes were destroyed by the murder of Skyler's six-year-old ice-skating champion sister, Bliss, and the media scrutiny that followed. Part investigation into the unsolved murder; part elegy for the lost Bliss and for Skyler's own lost childhood; and part corrosively funny expose of the pretensions...
Author
Publisher
Howard Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First Howard books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 347 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The author recounts how after fifty years he discovered that the mother that he was given to in the mistaken belief that he was her kidnapped son was not his real mother and describes his search for his identity and the whereabouts of the mother's original kidnapped child.
Author
Publisher
Witness Impulse, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
470 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
To uncover the truth, she'll have to break the code of the hills. In the Missouri Ozarks, some things aren't talked about ... even abuse. But prosecutor Elsie Arnold is determined to change that. When she is assigned to prosecute a high-profile incest case in which a father is accused of abusing his three young daughters, Elsie is ready to become the Ozarks' avenging angel. But as Elsie sinks her teeth into the case, everything begins to turn sour....
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xv, 380 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Restless Souls is the true, bone-chilling chronicle of the Manson Family murders and its aftermath, from the point of view of the victims' families.
When actress Sharon Tate and four others were brutally murdered by Charles Manson and his followers, the world was shocked. More than forty years later, the gruesome barbarity of the "Manson Family" still fascinates and horrifies.
This true crime memoir by Alisa Statman, a 20-year Tate family friend,...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Primera edición.
Physical Desc
302 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
Español
Description
"In the early hours of July 16, 1990, Liliana Rivera Garza was murdered by her abusive ex-boyfriend. A life full of promise and hope, cut tragically short, Liliana's story instead became subsumed into Mexico's dark and relentless history of domestic violence. With Liliana's case file abandoned by a corrupt criminal justice system, her family, including her older sister Cristina, was forced to process their grief and guilt in private, without any hope...
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (587 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Following a shocking murder, the lives of the police, suspects and victim's family are intricately woven together in this 'spellbinding' (TV Guide) series. This engrossing series has earned huge acclaim, as well as a Golden Globe nomination and multiple Emmy nominations in its first season.