Childhood Tragedy

The acclaimed New York Times bestseller by Sue Klebold, mother of one of the Columbine shooters, about living in the aftermath of Columbine. On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Over the course of minutes, they would kill...

Joe Simpson, with just his partner Simon Yates, tackled the unclimbed West Face of the remote 21,000 foot Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in June 1995. But before they reached the summit, disaster struck. A few days later, Simon staggered into Base Camp, exhausted and frostbitten, to tell...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER A heartbreaking memoir from a girl who escaped county line trafficking only to become prey to other abusers… Emily has always felt like an outsider, so when a family friend takes her under his wing she is delighted. But soon it becomes clear that his motives...

“It has been said, ‘Seek not your destiny for it is seeking you.’” So begins this new and powerful novel from Richard Paul Evans, #1 bestselling author of The Christmas Box, The Walk series, and more. In the wake of personal tragedy, two people meet on a humanitarian mission in Peru...

**Completely updated December/2016** In today’s world we are faced with wars in the Middle East, terrorist attacks around the world, mass murders and shootings even in the United States. The tragedies and traumas of today are far more violent than what used to shock us. Yet each trauma is felt and responded to differently by different people. This book explains the kinds of tragedies, traumas, and losses that we might experience in our lives. It also spells out the effects these losses have on us, whether physical, emotional, social, or academic. Tragedy, trauma, and loss that are ...

A brand-new collection of four intense, claustrophobic and terrifying horror tales from the Bram Stoker Award®-nominated and Splatterpunk Award-winning author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke.

In this, perhaps Dickens' most profound and personal novel, we are invited to share in the sentimental education of Pip, the poor boy from the village forge who risks losing himself in snobbery and selfishness when he mysteriously inherits a fortune. The story moves from the bleak Kentish marshes of Pip's childhood to a thrilling climax that mingles tragedy and triumph.

Experience the power of Long Walk Up, a deeply moving, inspirational tale of a young African orphan's extraordinary journey from poverty and despair to becoming Africa's first female president. This powerful story is a celebration of triumph, resilience, and the unshakable belief in one's destiny. If you loved The Alchemist, The Color Purple, The Prophet, and The Audacity of Hope, you'll be captivated by Long Walk Up. Set against the backdrop of Liberia's historic moment- its first woman president being sworn in - Long Walk Up unfolds the inspiring fictional life of a young East African ...

In this striking novel about an unforgettable childhood, four Nigerian brothers encounter a madman whose mystic prophecy of violence threatens the core of their close-knit family Told by nine-year-old Benjamin, the youngest of four brothers, The Fishermen is the Cain and Abel-esque story of a...

In a chance meeting, a powerful businesswoman named Ann and a troubled homeless man named Edward take a journey together that is as heart wrenching as it is heartwarming. While Edward battles his inner demons and struggles to stay alive on the streets, Ann relentlessly works to gain his trust and find him a home to call his own. As she fights to save the man she barely knows, she's forced to confront the wounds from her own past. Through the twists and turns of this unlikely friendship, we're taken on an emotional ride that touches the heart and opens the eyes.

Hannah, Isha, Mina, Francie, Vicky, and Amber bonded in nursery school and became lifelong friends. Now decades later, one of them has been kidnapped and it is up to the others to rescue her.... will they find her, or will she suffer the same fate as other women in the area who have gone missing?

Everyone in the neighborhood feared the hanging judge, whose spectral form sometimes appeared in the window of the room in the large old house where he had killed himself a hundred years earlier. Stevie Francis, a small boy whose father had recently drowned at sea, knew the legend of the hanging judge and feared him more than anyone, as he frequently had to pass his house and couldn’t prevent himself from looking up at the window to see if he was there. Then, one day, he saw him, a sighting that would change his life forever. Some said that the hanging judge was cursed, some said that ...

Introduced in ORCHIDS FOR ROSES, Ysonde Gaudreau's early years are revealed in BOUQUETS AND MOTORCYCLES. It tells how she became ward to her grandparents and how they loved the wildness out of her, until Ysonde's terrorist mother decides she wants sole custody of her daughter again. Even if it means destroying her own family. Eight-year-old Ysonde Gaudreau doesn't remember anything before she lived with her grandparents and Cousin Bernard. But the haunting nightmare that plague her nights hint at the abuse and neglect she'd suffered while her mother rampaged through Québec. While expelled ...

Teresa Newton-Terres never knew her dad. Losing him when she was only two, she lived with unresolved grief for almost 50 years. But when a dusty scrapbook hidden by her grandmother lands on her doorstep, she plunges into an abyss to uncover the story. In 1960, an eminent physicist and six other men including Newton-Terres' father left on a covert Raytheon-related underwater communications experiment.

One ordinary day, fractures three young lives beyond repair. A tragedy in San Diego forces children to grow up far too quickly. Separated by circumstance and driven by grief, each follows a different path—one seeking stability, another searching for meaning, and a third drifting into a life that edges ever closer to crime. Years pass. Distances grow. But the past does not loosen its grip. As buried truths surface and old wounds reopen, the choices they made in youth begin to collide with the people they have become. Survival demanded strength—but survival came at a cost none of them ...

*The Buzzy US Bestseller* *A Read With Jenna Book Club Pick* *A Spotify Book of the Year* 'An extraordinary book about the power of family and sisterhood' – Jenna Bush Hager 'A sparkling debut' – Jenny Jackson, author of Pineapple Street 'The family saga we all need' – Jessica Soffer, New...

Buried secrets and past betrayals, old friendships and new beginnings are at the heart of this rich bestseller from the “real and endearing” (Los Angeles Times) Fern Michaels. Twenty years after a tragic childhood accident, Cady Jordan has returned to her Pennsylvania hometown to care for...

In this, perhaps Dickens' most profound and personal novel, we are invited to share in the sentimental education of Pip, the poor boy from the village forge who risks losing himself in snobbery and selfishness when he mysteriously inherits a fortune. The story moves from the bleak Kentish marshes of Pip's childhood to a thrilling climax that mingles tragedy and triumph.

Captivating . . . Will appeal to fans of Room, The Lovely Bones and The Fault in Our Stars' – Independent Heartstopping. Heartbreaking. Heartwarming. Compelling, compassionate and powerful, Rhiannon Navin's Only Child is the most heartfelt book you'll read this year. We all went to school that...

Buried secrets and past betrayals, old friendships and new beginnings are at the heart of this rich bestseller from the “real and endearing” (Los Angeles Times) Fern Michaels. Twenty years after a tragic childhood accident, Cady Jordan has returned to her Pennsylvania hometown to care for...