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Sometimes, there is nowhere safe to hide. It was a typical evening at a mall outside Portland, Maine. Three teenage friends waited for the movie to start. A boy flirted with the girl selling sunglasses. Mothers and children shopped together, and the manager at the video-game store tending to customers. Then the shooters arrived. The chaos and carnage lasted only eight minutes before the killers were taken down. But for those who lived through it,...
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"Everyone knows the story of the Alperton Angels: the cult who brainwashed a teenage girl into believing her baby was the Antichrist. When the girl came to her senses and called the police, the Angels committed suicide and the mother and baby disappeared. Now, true crime author Amanda Bailey is looking to revive her career by writing a book on the case. According to records, the Alperton baby has now turned eighteen; finding them both will be the...
3) Theme music
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For the lucky among us, life is what you make of it, but for Dixie Wheeler, the theme music for her story was chosen by another long ago, on the day her father butchered her mother and brothers and then slashed a knife across his own throat. Only one-year-old Dixie was left alive, infamously known as Baby Blue for the song left playing in the aftermath of the slaughter. Twenty-five years later, Dixie is still desperate for a connection to the family...
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Abraham Lincoln Book Award 2021
Celebrating the Freedom to Read: Teens
Coping with Gun Violence
OBD Hinsdale Central High School Summer Reading 2024 - YOUTH
Celebrating the Freedom to Read: Teens
Coping with Gun Violence
OBD Hinsdale Central High School Summer Reading 2024 - YOUTH
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Followed by Grandpa Ed in his RV and backed by her brother and friends, Annabelle, eighteen, runs from Seattle to Washington, D.C., becoming a reluctant activist as people connect her journey to her recent trauma.
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In the three years since the Virgil County High School Massacre, a story has grown up around one of the victims, Sarah McHale, that says she died proclaiming her Christian faith--but Leanne Bauer was there, and knows what happened, and she has a choice: stay silent and let people believe in Sarah's martyrdom, or tell the truth.
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A Gothic chiller about a young caregiver assigned to work for a woman accused of a Lizzie Borden-like massacre decades earlier. The Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most assume 17-year-old Lenora Hope was responsible, the police couldn't prove it. It's now 1983, and home-health aide Kit McDeere arrives at Hope's End to care for Lenora after her previous nurse fled in the middle of the night. In her seventies...
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The sole survivor of a brutal family massacre twenty years earlier, Kars McIntyre, when the person believed to be responsible for the killings is released, wonders how many times she can be the girl who survived as people around her die horrible deaths. All her life, she's been the girl who survived. Orphaned at age seven after a horrific killing spree at her family's Oregon cabin, Kara McIntyre is still searching for some kind of normal. But now,...
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"A moving memoir by a survivor of anti-Muslim violence in contemporary India that delicately weaves political and family histories in a tribute to India's vibrant multiethnic society and the resilience of its women and minorities, especially in the face of growing religious extremism. In 2002, Zara Chowdhary was sixteen years old and living with her family in Ahmedabad, one of India's fastest-growing metropolises, when a gruesome anti-Muslim pogrom...
10) The enforcer
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Games people play volume 2
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Security expert Matthias Clarke hunts down people who dont want to be found. His latest prey: the sole survivor of a massacre that killed his brother years ago. Kayla Roy claimed she was a victim of the carnage. Then she disappeared. Matthias thinks Kayla may have actually been the killer and he wants justice.
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"Amanda Bailey, una exitosa autora de novelas true crime, lo sabe todo sobre la tristemente célebre secta de los Ángeles de Alperton. Al fin y al cabo, se han escrito docenas de libros y hecho varias películas sobre ellos desde aquella aciaga noche, hace ya casi veinte años, en la que intentaron sacrificar a un bebé que afirmaban que era el Anticristo.Ahora, todos los miembros de la secta han muerto excepto su carismático líder, y parece que...
12) Underwater
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Ever since the mass shooting at her California high school, junior Morgan Grant has become increasingly agoraphobic until even the idea of stepping outside her door can bring on a panic attack, a situation not made any easier by the fact that her parents are divorced--but when Evan moves in next door she finds herself attracted to him and begins to find herself longing for the life she has been missing.
13) Soul's survivor
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Three years ago, while volunteering in South Sudan, Chicago native Daniel Bennett came face to face with evil personified when African warlord Kronte and his men brutally murdered his daughter, Victoria. The sole survivor of a brutal massacre, Dr. Bennett returned home broken and tormented by guilt and memories of an unforgivable crime allowed to go unpunished. Then the beautiful and mysterious United Nations crisis counselor Ayana Burundi walks into...
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Beard was not only a witness to two major battles against the Lakota; he also traveled with William "Buffalo Bill" Cody's Wild West show, worked as a Hollywood Indian, and witnessed the grand transformation of the Black Hills into a tourism mecca. Beard spent most of his later life fighting to reclaim his homeland and acting as "old Dewey Beard," a living relic of the "old West" for the tourists.
16) The fallout
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High school student Vada survives a school tragedy but then is faced with navigating relationships and life while coming to grips with her experience.
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For the kid I saw in my dreams volume 1
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"Senri Nakajou's twin brother was his everything, the one who protected him from their abusive father, the one whose pain he felt as his own. That is, until the day thirteen years ago when Senri's entire family was murdered before his eyes. He couldn't have cared less about his parents, but without his brother, his world ended. Ever since, finding the killer and making him pay has been Senri's only goal...and now-finally-he's caught a glimpse of a...
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When a party bus on its way to Burning Man filled with a bunch of sexy young adults breaks down in the desert and in the middle of a group of satanic worshippers, all hell literally breaks loose. A massacre leaves seven survivors trapped on the bus, fighting for their lives while wondering if someone or someones are not what they seem.
19) W ukryciu
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To był typowy wieczór w centrum handlowym pod Portland w stanie Maine. Trzej nastoletni przyjaciele czekali na rozpoczęcie filmu. Chłopiec flirtował z dziewczyną sprzedającą okulary przeciwsłoneczne. Matki i dzieci kupowały razem, a kierownik sklepu z grami grał na klientów. Potem przybyli strzelcy. Chaos i rzeź trwały zaledwie osiem minut przed zabiciem zabójców. Ale dla tych, którzy przeżyli, skutki będą trwać wiecznie. W następnych...
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"Certain his twin is alive, Senri shifts his goal from avenging his brother to finding him. Enan is happy to join the search, relieved to see her friend's face light up with hope after living in darkness for so long. Following the threads of distant memories, Senri uncovers new clues that suggest his parents' involvement in a tangled plot, one that may well have led to their deaths. And now, as events continue to unfold, Senri fears Kazuto may be...