On a Killing Day
Title | On a Killing Day PDF eBook |
Author | Dolores Kennedy |
Publisher | SP Books |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9781561712939 |
This is the bizarre story of "Lee" Wournos, the woman dubbed the "Lesbian Serial Man-killer" and sentenced to death in 1992. Two close observers of the trial now share the killer's sad story of childhood abuse, prostitution, and the killings she claimed were in self-defense.
Five Days at Memorial
Title | Five Days at Memorial PDF eBook |
Author | Sheri Fink |
Publisher | Crown |
Pages | 602 |
Release | 2016-01-26 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0307718972 |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The award-winning book that inspired an Apple Original series from Apple TV+ • A landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina—and the suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice—from a Pulitzer Prize–winning physician and reporter “An amazing tale, as inexorable as a Greek tragedy and as gripping as a whodunit.”—Dallas Morning News After Hurricane Katrina struck and power failed, amid rising floodwaters and heat, exhausted staff at Memorial Medical Center designated certain patients last for rescue. Months later, a doctor and two nurses were arrested and accused of injecting some of those patients with life-ending drugs. Five Days at Memorial, the culmination of six years of reporting by Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink, unspools the mystery, bringing us inside a hospital fighting for its life and into the most charged questions in health care: which patients should be prioritized, and can health care professionals ever be excused for hastening death? Transforming our understanding of human nature in crisis, Five Days at Memorial exposes the hidden dilemmas of end-of-life care and reveals how ill-prepared we are for large-scale disasters—and how we can do better. ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Chicago Tribune, Seattle Times, Entertainment Weekly, Christian Science Monitor, Kansas City Star WINNER: National Book Critics Circle Award, J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Ridenhour Book Prize, American Medical Writers Association Medical Book Award, National Association of Science Writers Science in Society Award
Another Day in the Death of America
Title | Another Day in the Death of America PDF eBook |
Author | Gary Younge |
Publisher | Bold Type Books |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2016-10-04 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 156858976X |
Winner of the 2017 J. Anthony Lukas PrizeShortlisted for the 2017 Hurston/Wright Foundation AwardFinalist for the 2017 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in JournalismLonglisted for the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non Fiction On an average day in America, seven children and teens will be shot dead. In Another Day in the Death of America, award-winning journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of the lives lost during one such day. It could have been any day, but he chose November 23, 2013. Black, white, and Latino, aged nine to nineteen, they fell at sleepovers, on street corners, in stairwells, and on their own doorsteps. From the rural Midwest to the barrios of Texas, the narrative crisscrosses the country over a period of twenty-four hours to reveal the full human stories behind the gun-violence statistics and the brief mentions in local papers of lives lost. This powerful and moving work puts a human face-a child's face-on the "collateral damage" of gun deaths across the country. This is not a book about gun control, but about what happens in a country where it does not exist. What emerges in these pages is a searing and urgent portrait of youth, family, and firearms in America today.
No Easy Day
Title | No Easy Day PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Owen |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 334 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0525953728 |
Mark Owen is a pseudonym for Matt Bissonnette.
The Killing Days
Title | The Killing Days PDF eBook |
Author | Kemal Pervanic |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Concentration camp inmates |
ISBN | 9781857823639 |
Keral Pervanic is a 31-year-old Bosnian refugeee who arrived in the UK at the beginning of 1993. He had survived seven months of brutaility, tragedy and hunger in two prison camps. On his escape to London, he won a place at University and gained an MA in English literature. This text is the first-hand record of an ordinary Bosnian citizen who has endured one of the bleakest chapters in the history of Europe.
On Killing
Title | On Killing PDF eBook |
Author | Dave Grossman |
Publisher | Open Road Media |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 2014-04-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1497629209 |
A controversial psychological examination of how soldiers’ willingness to kill has been encouraged and exploited to the detriment of contemporary civilian society. Psychologist and US Army Ranger Dave Grossman writes that the vast majority of soldiers are loath to pull the trigger in battle. Unfortunately, modern armies, using Pavlovian and operant conditioning, have developed sophisticated ways of overcoming this instinctive aversion. The mental cost for members of the military, as witnessed by the increase in post-traumatic stress, is devastating. The sociological cost for the rest of us is even worse: Contemporary civilian society, particularly the media, replicates the army’s conditioning techniques and, Grossman argues, is responsible for the rising rate of murder and violence, especially among the young. Drawing from interviews, personal accounts, and academic studies, On Killing is an important look at the techniques the military uses to overcome the powerful reluctance to kill, of how killing affects the soldier, and of the societal implications of escalating violence.
Kill Joy
Title | Kill Joy PDF eBook |
Author | Holly Jackson |
Publisher | Delacorte Press |
Pages | 209 |
Release | 2023-02-28 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 0593426231 |
You're invited to the murder mystery party of the year! Fans of the hit series A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder will love Pip’s final detective case in this mystery novella from #1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Jackson. Six suspects. Three hours. One murder… Pip is not in the mood for her friend’s murder mystery party. Especially one that involves 1920’s fancy dress and pretending that their town is an island called Joy. But when the game begins, Pip finds herself drawn into the make-believe world of intrigue, deception and murder. But as Pip plays detective, teasing out the identity of the killer clue-by-clue, the murder of the fictional Reginald Remy isn’t the only case on her mind …