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1) Unspeakable
Author
Language
English
Description
On a ranch in Texas, a deaf widow is caught between two men, one a killer bent on revenge, the other a mysterious drifter who has been hired as a ranch hand. He might protect her, or betray her.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Celebrated author Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrator Floyd Cooper provide a powerful look at the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in our nation's history"--
The 1921 Tulsa, Oklahoma, race massacre was one of the worst incidents of racial violence in our nation's history. On May 31 and June 1 an armed mob looted homes and businesses as Black families fled. The police did nothing to protect Greenwood,...
3) Unspeakable
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Psychologist Diana Purlow attempts to map the mind of serial killer Jesse Mowatt and discovers images so twisted and horrific, she can't explain them. When Mowatt later escapes, she questions whether he is a serial killer or something unspeakable.
4) Unspeakable
Author
Series
Tracers ; 2
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Elaina McCord's dream of being an FBI profiler is threatened by her very first case - investigating a string of murders near a Texas beach resort. The victims, all young women, were brutally murdered, their bodies in abandoned in a desolate marshland. Elaina's hunch - met with disbelief by the local police - is that these are only the latest offerings from a serial killer who has been perfecting his art for years, growing bolder and more cunning with...
5) Unspeakable
Author
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Language
English
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Description
"A family of four murdered in their hotel room. A single mother and her boyfriend both stabbed to death. A sordid history of violent crimes, repeated over and over--but decades apart. Olivia Barker is a therapist with no connection to the murders. But she has heard things. Stories that keep her up at night. Details that only a killer would know. A killer who could be one of her patients. Olivia has no proof for her suspicions. But as the body count...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Cassie McDowell's life in 1980s Minnesota seems perfectly wholesome. She lives on a farm, loves school, and has a crush on the nicest boy in class. Yes, there are her parents' strange parties and their parade of deviant guests, but she's grown accustomed to them. All that changes when someone comes hunting in Lilydale. One by one, local boys go missing. One by one, they return changed--violent, moody, and withdrawn. What happened to them becomes...
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
A brilliant anthology of modern true-crime writing that illustrates the appeal of this powerful and popular genre, edited and curated by Sarah Weinman, the award-winning author of The Real Lolita
The appeal of true-crime stories has never been higher. With podcasts like My Favorite Murder and In the Dark, bestsellers like I'll Be Gone in the Dark and Furious Hours, and TV hits like American Crime Story and Wild Wild
...Publisher
ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Sarah Weinman brings together an exemplary collection of thirteen recent true crime tales by some of the most exciting journalists and chroniclers of crime working today. With an introduction by Patrick Radden Keefe, this collection showcases true crime writing across the broadest possible spectrum and reflects on why crime stories are so transfixing and irresistible to the modern reader." --
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Smart, clear-eyed, and irreverent, Unspeakable Things is a fresh look at gender and power in the twenty-first century, which asks difficult questions about dissent and desire, money and masculinity, sexual violence, menial work, mental health, queer politics, and the Internet. Celebrated journalist and activist Laurie Penny draws on a broad history of feminist thought and her own experience in radical subcultures in America and Britain to take on...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A master of the personal essay candidly explores love, death, and the counterfeit rituals of American life In her celebrated 2001 collection, My Misspent Youth, Meghan Daum offered a bold, witty, defining account of the artistic ambitions, financial anxieties, and mixed emotions of her generation. The Unspeakable is an equally bold and witty, but also a sadder and wiser, report from early middle age. It's a report tempered by hard times. In "Matricide,"...
12) Etched in sand: a true story of five siblings who survived an unspeakable childhood on Long Island
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Regina's Calcaterra memoir, Etched in Sand, is an inspiring and triumphant coming-of-age story of tenacity and hope.
Regina Calcaterra is a successful lawyer, New York State official, and activist. Her painful early life, however, was quite different. Regina and her four siblings survived an abusive and painful childhood only to find themselves faced with the challenges of the foster-care system and intermittent homelessness in the
Author
Publisher
W Publishing Group, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The eldest daughter in a large, highly controlled, fundamentalist Christian household who performed as the Willis Clan and presented themselves to the world as extraordinary and happy reveals what happened behind closed doors, in this harrowing story of the manipulation and codependence that defines abusive family relationships--and how she found her voice to break free. "--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[i.e. 2003]
Language
English
Description
In the tradition of In Cold Blood, The Executioner's Song, and A Civil Action, Suzanne O'Malley exposes the human mystery of the most horrifying crime in recent history and the legal drama surrounding it. As a journalist, Suzanne O'Malley began covering the murders of Noah, John, Paul, Luke, and Mary Yates hours after their mother, Andrea Yates, drowned them in their suburban Houston home in June 2001. Over twenty-four months, O'Malley interviewed...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Language
English
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Description
"In 1910 New York City, four years after her Irish immigrant father dies of tuberculosis, ten-year-old Essie's fear and anxiety continue to grow uncontrollably, so much that when her mother, a brave nurse, remarries and the family moves to North Brother Island, where Essie's new stepfather runs a quarantine hospital for the incurably sick, Essie imagines all manner of horrors, including the ghost of a little girl--which might not be imaginary after...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A strange, haunting, exhilarating debut novel about survival and love in all its forms: about sexual awakenings and dark secrets, about European refugee intellectuals who've fled Hitler's armies with dreams intact and who have come to an elusive new (American) "can-do, will-do" world they cannot seem to find. A novel steeped in surreal storytelling and beautiful music that transports its half-broken souls--and us--to another realm of the senses....
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