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Before You Know Kindness (Vintage Contemporaries)

Before You Know Kindness (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Chris Bohjalian

Chris Bohjalian, bestselling author of Midwives , presents his most ambitious and multi-layered novel to date--examining wildly divisive issues in today’s America with his trademark emotional heft and spellbinding storytelling skill. On a balmy July night in New Hampshire a shot rings out in a garden, and a man falls to the ground, terribly wounded. The wounded man is Spencer McCullough, the shot that hit him... (more)

The Justice Game

by Randy Singer

After the target of an investigative report storms a Virginia Beach television station, he kills one of the anchors before the SWAT team takes him down. Following the victim’s funeral, her family files a lawsuit against the gun company who manufactured the killer’s weapon of choice. The lawyers for the plaintiff and defendant—Kelly Starling and Jason Noble—are young, charismatic, and successful. They’re also easy... (more)

Political Common Sense for America

by Brian J. Boeheim

Are you tired of hearing about the complexities of the economy, unemployment, foreign policy, etc? Are you frustrated by politicians telling you the challenges America faces are too difficult for you to understand? I was too! So, I decided to dive headlong into each issue and find the real truth behind the 'so called' complexities, and what I found may surprise you. The issues of today aren't mind boggling. They... (more)

Crime is not the Problem: Lethal Violence in America (Studies in Crime and Public Policy)Franklin E. Zimring, Gordon Hawkins

Crime is not the Problem: Lethal Violence in America (Studies in Crime and Public Policy)

by Franklin E. Zimring, Gordon Hawkins

Deer hunting with Jesus: Despatches from America's Class WarJoe Bageant

Deer hunting with Jesus: Despatches from America's Class War

by Joe Bageant

Lethal Passage: The Story of a Gun

by Erik Larson

Follows the journey of a handgun, from its manufacture through its violent odyssey into the hands of a disturbed teenager who uses it to kill a teacher, and raises painful questions about the legal and cultural realities of firearms. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

The Samurai, the Mountie, and the Cowboy: Should America Adopt the Gun Controls of Other Democracies

The Samurai, the Mountie, and the Cowboy: Should America Adopt the Gun Controls of Other Democracies

by David B. Kopel

Gun control remains one of the hottest topics on America's agenda. Increased violence, gang wars in metropolitan areas, and the prevalence of guns in the United States frequently bring this debate to new crescendos of public concern. How can we find answers that maintain safety while protecting individual liberty? "The Samurai, the Mountie, and the Cowboy" offers a compelling look at how other democracies have... (more)

The Rifle

by Gary Paulsen

A treasured rifle passed down through generations is the cause of a tragic accident in this timely tale. With subtle mastery and precision, this tough, thought-provoking novel challenges the idea that firearms don't become instruments of destruction and murder until they are placed in human hands. Each book includes a reader's guide.

The Professor and the Prostitute And Other True TLinda Wolfe

The Professor and the Prostitute And Other True T

by Linda Wolfe

The murderers and manics in this collection of stories are all respectable folk, members of the professional, academic and business middle class. Though based on interviews, transcripts and other factual records, the tales are recounted as nonfiction short stories including an account of the double suicide of the Marcus twins, Manhattan gynecologists, which Wolfe expanded into a novel, Private Practices. These... (more)

Stupid White Men

And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!

by Michael Moore

In the winter of 2002, Stupid White Men took America -- and the world -- by storm. Tired and skeptical of George W. Bush's high approval ating, frightened by the implications of the Enron scandal -- and generally just looking for a voice of honest dissent in the thick atmosphere of jingoism that followed 9/11 -- book buyers from coast to coast swiftly embraced Michael Moore's in-your-face anti-Bush-era... (more)

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