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This is the untold story of Collins Catch the Bear, a Lakota Sioux, who was wrongfully charged as part of a conspiracy with the murder of a white man.

The definitive, devastating account of the largest sex abuse scandal in American sports history: the crimes of osteopathic physician Larry Nassar who sexually assaulted hundreds of young gymnasts under the guise of medical treatment. John Barr and Dan Murphy confront Nassar's acts, through never-before-released interviews and documents they deconstruct the epic institutional failures and individuals who enabled him.

In 1939, a horrific triple murder occurred in Oklahoma. As pressure mounted to find a villain, prosecutors settled on a black farmer named W. D. Lyons, who was arrested and tortured into signing a confession. This book tells the story of Lyons v. Oklahoma, the oft-forgotten case that set Marshall and the NAACP on the path that led ultimately to victory in Brown v. Board of Education and the accompanying social revolution.

At fourteen, Christian Picciolini was recruited by skinheads and encouraged to fight to "protect the white race from extinction." Soon, he had become a neo-nazi terror. By the time he left the movement and was finally able to see clearly, Picciolini found his life and the nation were in shambles. This book tells the inside story of how extremists have overrun our political discourse and a guide for how to win it back.

Mars 20xx. Arielle, 14 ans, se rebelle contre l'autorité de son père. Elle ne voit qu'une solution pour faire bouger les choses : fuguer. Sa fuite la conduira droit en enfer... 8h : Arielle fait semblant de partir pour l'école à l'heure normale. 9h25 : Elle prend l'autobus en direction de Montréal et débarque au terminus Henri-Bourassa. 17h46 : Le jour décline. Désorientée, l'adolescente se réfugie sur un banc de parc, coin Pie-IX et Monselet. 22h15 : Epuisée, frigorifiée, elle s'endort.

Janvier 1984, Montréal. A la sortie de l'école, Véronique Rocheleau est abordée par un homme qui prétend la connaître. Convaincue par le discours de l'inconnu, la fillette de huit ans abandonne ses amies et le suit.  Véronique n'a aucune idée du cauchemar dans lequel l'attire François, celui dont le nom la hantera durant les trente prochaines années. Loin de s'arrêter à l'enlèvement, ce livre expose les conséquences qu'un tel drame peut engendrer chez la victime. Et si le plus difficile était de survivre?

In August 2016 Colten Boushie, a twenty-two-year-old Cree man from Red Pheasant First Nation, was fatally shot on a Saskatchewan farm by white farmer Gerald Stanley. In a trial that bitterly divided Canadians, Stanley was acquitted of both murder and manslaughter by a jury in Battleford with no visible Indigenous representation. In Canadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice Kent Roach critically reconstructs the Gerald Stanley/Colten Boushie case to examine how it may be a miscarriage of justice.

On July 6, 2011, Richard Oland, scion of the Moosehead brewing family, was murdered in his office. The brutal killing stunned the city of Saint John, and news of the crime reverberated across Canada. After a two-and-half-year police investigation, Oland's only son, Dennis, was arrested for second-degree murder and tried not once, but twice.This eBook edition is the complete transcript of the decision of Justice Terrence J. Morrison in the second trial.

From the outside looking in, Jennifer Pan seemed like a model daughter living a perfect life. The ideal child, the one her immigrant parents saw, was studying to become a pharmacist at the University of Toronto. But there was a dark, deceptive side to the angelic young woman. In reality, Jennifer spent her days in the arms of her high-school sweetheart, Daniel. In an attempt to lead the life she dreamed of, she would do almost anything: lie about her whereabouts, forge school documents, and invent fake jobs and a fictitious apartment. For many years she led this double life.

In 2002, acclaimed journalist Randall Sullivan's groundbreaking book LAbyrinth ignited a firestorm with its startling disclosures about corruption in the LAPD. It told the story of Russell Poole, a highly decorated LAPD detective, who uncovered a cabal of "gangsta cops" tied to Marion "Suge" Knight's notorious rap label, Death Row Records, and allegedly to the murders of Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. Over twenty years later, no one has been held accountable for their killings. Now, Dead Wrong tells the story of the last sixteen years in the B.I.G.