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Grace Baker is still reeling from the murder of her younger sister Nica. And even thought the class was closed after a classmate's suicide and suicide note murder confession, Grace is haunted by her sister's ghost and the nagging suspicion the real murderer is still out there.

Explores how the American culture seems to support rapists over their victims and offers ideas on how society can take sexual violence much more seriously without affecting the rights of the accused.

Esther and twenty-nine of her fellow classmates are abducted from their Catholic boarding school by Joseph Kony's rebel forces in Uganda and forced into the Lord's Resistance Army. When Jane, an American writer, comes to Africa to find and report on the thirty abducted girls, the two young women are brought together in the midst of violence and heartbreak.

Bernard-Henri Levy retraces the final days of Daniel Pearl and tries to uncover the truth behind the reporter's brutal on-camera murder by alleged fundamentalists.

Years after the death of a child serial killer, children begin dying again, and newspaper photographer Jim McGann stumbles on clues to the killer's identity that lead him to suspect the killer has returned.

When The Walker, a mysterious boy who walks constantly, intervenes in an argument between Sandpiper and a boy she used to see, their lives become entwined in ways that change them both.

This book presents case studies of serial killers from the late 19th to early 21st centuries.

Seventeen-year-old Dolina May Hunter doesn't quite know how to handle the generosity of the perfect strangers who take her in during her time of need--a Manitoba farm family that finds her in the rain after she jumps out of her abusive boyfriend's car.

Examines the "honor killings" of women around the world by their family members. Describes the author's struggle to change laws and expose countries that allow honor killings to continue without punishment. Includes dozens of personal stories.