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Random House presents the audiobook edition of A False Report by T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong, read by Hillary Huber with an epilogue read by Ken Armstrong and an authors' note read by T. Christian Miller. Two Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists uncover the true story of Marie. She said...

You fell in love with him. But over time you've come to realize he's in love with himself - and you feel trapped. His needs, his problems, and his plans always seem to take precedence over yours. Dr. David Hawkins, director of the Marriage Recovery Center, offers a guide to help you identify signs of narcissism, understand how your loved one's issues are affecting you, and prepare a biblical game plan for freeing yourself to live courageously in light of God's love.

Activists and change agents, restorative justice practitioners, faith leaders, and anybody engaged in social progress and shifting society will find this mindful approach to nonviolent action indispensable. 

We, as a nation, have become desensitized to the shock and pain in the wake of mass shootings. In the bottomless silence between gunshots, as political stalemate ensures inaction, the killing continues; the dying continues. From a Taller Tower attends to the silence that has left us empty in the aftermath of these atrocities. Veteran journalist Seamus McGraw chronicles the rise of the mass shooter to dismantle the myths we have constructed around the murderers and ourselves.

Candy Montgomery and Betty Gore had a lot in common: They sang together in the Methodist church choir, their daughters were best friends, and their husbands had good jobs working for technology companies in the North Dallas suburbs known as Silicon Prairie. But beneath the placid surface of their seemingly perfect lives, both women simmered with unspoken frustrations and unanswered desires. On a hot summer day in 1980, the secret passions and jealousies that linked Candy and Betty exploded into murderous rage. 

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The gripping, true story of one woman’s battle to expose and shut down a criminal online porn empire. Pornhub was the 10th most visited site on the Internet, often praised as a progressive champion of women. Then one day, an activist discovered a secret they had been...

Kadi har været udsat for incest, vold og mishandling. Hun flyttede hjemmefra, da hun blev 18 år, og der gik ikke længe, før hun blev diagnosticeret med borderline, PTSD og depression. Gennem årene førte Kadi dagbog, og hver eneste dag beskrev hun hændelser og tanker. Det er disse...

Что делать, если вас третируют в семье или на работе? Означает ли это, что вы действительно так жалки и никчемны, как некто убеждает вас? А может, вы просто имеете дело с психопатической личностью? Из рассказа журналистки Ауд Далсегг и юриста Ингер Вессе, специализирующимися на темах домашнего насилия и моббинга, вы узнаете о том, кто такие психопаты, почему они так ведут себя с другими людьми и с какой стати им многое сходит с рук.

Bloomsbury presents Don't Shoot: One Man, a Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America by David M. Kennedy, narrated by Patrick Lawlor. The remarkable story of David Kennedy's crusade to combat America's plague of gang- and drug-related violence - with methods that have...

Bloomsbury presents Don't Shoot: One Man, a Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America by David M. Kennedy, narrated by Patrick Lawlor. The remarkable story of David Kennedy's crusade to combat America's plague of gang- and drug-related violence - with methods that have...

Um quartel em obras na Bahia, uma clínica de araque no centro de Curitiba e um sítio particular perto de São Paulo foram os últimos endereços clandestinos usados por torturadores durante a ditadura...

The shocking secret history of twentieth-century orphanages—which for decades hid violence, abuse, and deaths within their walls. "Tenacious and jaw-dropping." —Jessica Garrison, author of The Devil's Harvest For much of the twentieth century, a series of terrible events—abuse, both...

In this provocative book, award-winning journalist Patricia Pearson argues that our culture is in denial of women's innate capacity for aggression. We don't believe that women batter their husbands or abuse the majority of children in North America. We ignore the 200 percent increase in crime by...

The Violence Project is about an examination of the phenomenon of mass shootings in America and an urgent call to implement evidence-based strategies to stop these tragedies. Using first-person accounts from the perpetrators themselves, along with data from the writers’ groundbreaking research on mass shooters, The Violence Project charts new pathways to prevention and innovative ways to stop the social contagion of violence.

How far would you go to bury the truth? While searching for a missing hill walker, Glencoe Mountain Rescue Team uncovers a body - just not the one they were looking for. Still dealing with the fallout from their last case, DCI Jack Logan and his team venture south from Inverness to investigate a brutal, gangland-style execution in the wilds of the Highland countryside. As the victim's dark secrets are gradually revealed, Jack uncovers the rot lurking beneath the stunning scenery, making himself the target of a criminal more dangerous than any he has faced before.

**Winner of the 2020 Audie Award for Best Non-Fiction** "This audiobook achieves an exceptional performance of an important work on a difficult subject--mass murder and its aftermath." - AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2019 * BARNES & NOBLE DISCOVER...

In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, J. M. Berger offers a nuanced introduction to extremist movements, explaining what extremism is, how extremist ideologies are constructed, and why extremism can escalate into violence. 

Imagine you are nine years old. Your best friend’s father is arrested, half your classmates disappear from school, and someone burns down the house across the road. Imagine you have to cross a snow-covered mountain range at night in order to escape the soldiers who are trying to kill you. How would you deal with these memories once you are an adult? Jones, a relief worker and child psychiatrist, interviewed over 40 Serb and Muslim children who came of age during the Bosnian War and now returns, 20 years after the war began, to discover the adults they have become.

Att våga ingripa En berättelse om våld, mod och vägen till frihet Vi tror gärna att våld i nära relationer är något som händer ”andra”. Något som pågår bakom stängda dörrar, långt ifrån vår egen trygga vardag. Men vad händer när fasaden rämnar hos en uppskattad...

At 18, Callie's encounter with Reed, a brooding and arty student four years her senior, begins a youthful infatuation, a casual "thing." But as their relationship deepens, what once seemed like innocent passion soon morphs into a cycle of manipulation, control, and violence. Callie shares the complexity of falling in love with someone who also hurt her — emotionally, physically, and sexually.