A Quiet Execution is a haunting, literary true-crime narrative that traces the life and death of Wanda Jean Allen, a woman shaped by poverty, trauma, and cognitive impairment—and ultimately executed by the state of Oklahoma in 2001.Told with restraint and psychological depth, the book follows Wanda from a childhood marked by neglect and injury, through her desperate search for love, to the moments of panic and violence that sealed her fate. As the legal system cons...

On the surface, Nicole Abusharif and Rebecca Klein shared a quiet suburban life—shared meals, shared secrets, shared years. But beneath the calm of Villa Park, Illinois, something darker was taking shape. Lies accumulated. Desire fractured loyalty. Love curdled into control.When Rebecca is found dead, bound and hidden in the trunk of her own car, the story that follows is not one of sudden violence, but of slow corrosion. As police unravel Nicole's shifting alibis, a younger woman ...

She came to Sydney chasing beauty and belonging.She left as evidence.In the mid-2000s, a young Swedish woman arrives in Australia and slips effortlessly into the city's glamorous nightlife. She works in an elite nightclub, moves among wealth and influence, and falls in love with a man who seems to offer both stability and excitement. Only gradually does she understand the truth beneath the luxury: he is not merely a businessman, but a figure...

Daniel Markel believed in justice as a moral discipline. A Harvard-educated law professor and scholar of punishment, he devoted his career to studying how the law should restrain cruelty rather than enable it. In his work, justice was measured, proportional, and bound by principle.On a summer morning in Tallahassee, he was murdered in his driveway.This book traces the quiet unraveling that led to that moment—and the long, painstaking reckoning that followed. Beginning with ...

In the spring of 1861, as the United States teetered on the brink of civil war, a young woman was quietly led to her death beneath a cottonwood tree in New Mexico Territory. Her name was Paula Angel. History almost forgot her.Nineteen years old, Mexican-American, and entangled in a forbidden affair with a married man, Paula Angel stood at the crossroads of love, desperation, and frontier justice. When her lover was killed in a moment of passion, the law moved swift...

On a humid summer night in rural Alabama, two seventeen-year-old best friends set out to celebrate a birthday—and never came home.J.B. Beasley and Tracie Hawlett were inseparable: high-school seniors with bright futures, laughter to spare, and plans that stretched beyond the small towns that raised them. When their bodies were discovered the next morning in the trunk of a car along a quiet Ozark road, the crime shattered a community and launched one of Alabama's mo...

What We Tell The Lonely is a haunting work of narrative nonfiction that traces a modern tragedy born not of violence, but of words.In the quiet glow of phone screens, two lonely teenagers form an intense bond—one built on late-night messages, shared despair, and the fragile hope that understanding might be enough. Conrad Roy III is a young man struggling with depression and anxiety, outwardly capable yet inwardly unraveling. Michelle Carter, isolated and desperate ...

She was noticed. She was warned about. She was never stopped.On a winter night in January 2006, a former postal worker entered a mail-processing facility in Goleta, California, and turned a system of order into a site of terror. By the end of the night, six people were dead. So was the woman who killed them.This book is not a procedural reconstruction of violence, nor a search for easy explanations. This is a meticulously reported, novelistic examination of...

When Nikki falls in love, she believes she is building a life. What she does not see—until it is too late—is how quietly a life can become a trap.Set in the margins between intimacy and fear, this novel traces Nikki's descent into a relationship where control disguises itself as care and survival becomes a daily calculation. As the abuse escalates behind closed doors, Nikki learns how silence can feel safer than escape—and how endurance, mistaken for loyalty, can erase the self.

One dog's search for a friend gets him into troubled places. He looks for Mr. Mouse and gets stuck in the cupboard. He is turned away from Mrs. Chipmunk and is then hit on the head with an acorn from Mr. Squirrel. His Mom and Dad take him to the Humane Society where he interviews a variety of furry critters, learning why they are there. This discussion gives soft lessons to children about caring for animals. He not only finds two new friends at the Humane Society, he finds another on the r...

Becoming a Teacher through Action Research, Third Edition skillfully interweaves the stories of pre-service teaching with the process of action research. This engaging text focuses specifically on the needs of pre-service teachers by providing assistance for all stages of the research experience, including guidance on how to select an area of focus, design a culturally-proficient study, collect and interpret data, and communicate findings.With an updated introduction and t...

In recent years there has been a growth in both the practice and research of dark tourism; the phenomenon of visiting sites of tragedy or disaster. Expanding on this trend, this book examines dark tourism through the new lens of pilgrimage. It focuses on dark tourism sites as pilgrimage destinations, dark tourists as pilgrims, and pilgrimage as a form of dark tourism. Taking a broad definition of pilgrimage so as to consider aspects of both religious and non-religious travel that might be ...