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The definitive, devastating account of the largest sex abuse scandal in American sports history-with new details and insights into the institutional failures, as well as the bravery that brought it to light. For decades, osteopathic physician Larry Nassar built a sterling reputation as the go-to...

Cradled in the Arms of Compassion is at once a narrative of psychological transformation and a spiritual autobiography that details the survivor’s journey. Rogers shows how he found recovery through a combination of reflective retreats, therapy, creative expression, and an extraordinary application of imaginative meditation that spiritual seekers and practitioners will find utterly fascinating.

From Christina Lamb, the coauthor of the bestselling I Am Malala and an award-winning journalist—an essential, groundbreaking examination of how women experience war. In Our Bodies, Their Battlefields, longtime intrepid war correspondent Christina Lamb makes us witness to the lives of women in...

True Crime Case Histories - Volume 16 brings you twelve shocking true crime stories that never made major headlines but are just as disturbing as the most famous cases. In “The Highway of Tears,” a simple traffic stop reveals bloody tools and a suspiciously calm driver. Police soon learn he wasn’t just killing women along remote highways—he was hunting them.

All Becky wanted was a summer job. And when the perfect opportunity presents itself, fifteen-year-old Becky is on top of the world. Yet, within hours of her newfound employment, a graphic, heart wrenching journey begins. Becky is raped…brutally raped. But her attacker isn’t a stalker, a jealous boyfriend, or even a pervert met online. He is the father of the five children she has been entrusted to watch over. Roy is a ruthless narcissist without a soul. He sexually assaults Becky again and again and again, chipping away at her humanity. Not only does Roy rob Becky of her innocence, he ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER An unforgettable story of an ordinary woman in astonishing circumstances who defies the odds. Timea Nagy was twenty years old when she answered a newspaper ad in Budapest, Hungary, calling for young women to work as babysitters and housekeepers in Canada. Hired by what seemed...

When Lizzy Hershberger turns fourteen, her schooling ends at eighth grade, and she has no choice but to leave home to work as an unpaid maid for another family. To avoid being rejected by her ultra-conservative Swartzentruber Amish family and community, Lizzy is forced to abandon her dreams because they are “too worldly.” After being raped by an Amish deacon over two dozen times, Lizzy makes her first attempt at “jumping the fence” to pursue a non-Amish lifestyle. But without any modern life experience or education, Lizzy must decide whether the risks of this unpredictable and ...

Current Edition - Updated Annually Step into the shadowy realm of humanity's most notorious figures The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers: Who, When, Where, Why! delves into the lives, methodologies, and dark motives of the world's most infamous predators. From Victorian London's fog-laden alleys to the modern streets of Beijing, each page unveils chilling tales and mind-boggling mysteries. Discover not just the crimes, but the twisted psyches behind them. Learn about the tireless detectives, the unsolved enigmas, and the very fabric of what creates a killer. A great research tool and a must-...

There is perhaps no crime more disturbing than the abuse of a child—and no court cases as upsetting as those in which juveniles who have faced abuse are tried for fighting back. In this gripping memoir Sara Kruzan, a survivor of childhood abuse and sex trafficking, tells the honest, disturbing...

Uncover the shocking and brutal truths behind some of the most heinous crimes, committed against innocent victims in Killer Case Files, the true crime anthology that takes you on a gripping journey into the minds of depraved murderers.

From the world's #1 bestselling author comes a collection of Discovery ID true crime stories where the bonds of matrimony and love can tear you brutally apart. Til Murder Do Us Part: Kathi Spiars can't believe she's found such a good man to marry as Stephen Marcum. Twelve years later, she starts...

“Arresting, deeply reported. . . . a patient reporter who embeds with her subjects long enough to write about their inner worlds with authority and nuance. . . . The Furies is deeply respectful of its subjects’ autonomy, including their self-justifications and mistakes. Flock largely...

In April 1999, reporter Tamara Leitner woke to an active crime scene outside her Arizona apartment. Her neighbor had been sexually assaulted by a man who would later be identified as Claude Dean Hull II, a serial rapist who escaped justice for decades. New identities. New states. New victims—more than one hundred suspected across the country and thousands more victimized in myriad ways. Tamara’s twenty-year compulsion to follow the investigation began.

Nobody's Girl er Virginia Roberts Giuffres personlige og medrivende fortælling om sit liv og ikke mindst om de mange år med overgreb, der begyndte da hun var 7 og fortsatte gennem teenageårene, hvor hun blev misbrugt af Jeffrey Epstein og Ghislaine Maxwell og kredsen omkring dem, indtil hun som 19-årig slap ud af deres greb. Bogen er hendes åbenhjertige fortælling om, hvad der skete. En fortælling om at være en helt almindelig pige, hvis almindelige liv blev taget fra hende. Men også om at finde viljestyrken til at slippe ud og evnen til at vende sine egne traumer til en kamp for ofrene.

Three gripping true-crime classics in one volume, from the New York Times best-selling author. From the acclaimed journalist and author, three chilling tales of depravity, death, and detective work.

She was a successful attorney who prosecuted domestic abusers for a living. Then she fell in love with one. Shelley Lynne Levisay was an accomplished prosecutor, a respected attorney, and the valedictorian of her class. From the outside, she had it all. But inside, a lifetime of feeling overlooked and a deep-seated desire for love left her vulnerable. When she met Matthew—a handsome, decorated Air Force veteran with a tragic story—she thought her prayers had finally been answered. He was charming, attentive, and made her feel like the center of the universe. But the whirlwind romance ...

Journey through my troubled childhood as I went from victim to victimizer. Explore my punishment and experience my distress as I tried to make sense of the incomprehensible.

Sixteen-year-old Patricia Columbo began working for pharmacist Frank DeLuca, a married father of five, in the 1970s, and the two soon entered into a sexual relationship. Against her father's wishes, Patricia and Frank moved in together. Then, in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, Patricia's father was brutally murdered, along with her mother and 13-year-old brother. Police were suspicious of Patricia's strange behavior after the bodies were discovered, and following their investigation, they arrested both Patricia and Frank.

On January 9, 2002, twelve-year-old Ashley Pond left her family’s apartment in Oregon City, Oregon, to catch her bus to school. Then, she vanished. Ashley loved her single-parent mother, but she hated her drinking, and the father figures in her life had come and gone. So she had learned to rely on her friends. Recently, however, things in her life had become even more complicated, so when she disappeared, many people believed she’d simply run away. But Janine O’Neill had prosecuted crimes against children in Oregon City for seven years.

Fall into the sugaring underworld with Brook, who worked behind the scenes at notorious sugar daddy website SeekingArrangement while trying her own luck as a sugar baby. Part coming of age memoir and part exposé with a twist of grim dating advice, Brook’s story parallels her unusual relationship history with her ascension working for a pseudo-dating website designed to protect predatory men.