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Beck and Vivian never could stand each other, but they always tried their best for their mutual friend, Cassie. Until Cassie was murdered by her ex-boyfriend at school five months ago. After the town moves on from that tragedy too fast, Beck and Vivian finally find common ground: vengeance. they memorialize Cassie by secretly painting murals of her around town, a message to the world that Cassie was there, and she won't be forgotten. But Beck and...
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"In this richly textured debut, John Englehardt explores how the origin and aftermath of a mass shooting impacts the lives of three characters: a disillusioned student, a grieving professor, and a young man whose valuation of fear and disconnection funnels him into the role of the aggressor. As the community wrestles with the fallout, Bloomland interrogates social and cultural dysfunction in a nation where mass violence has become all too familiar."--...
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"May and Otto Barnes have a perfect life: she an engineer, he a freelance artist, new friends in a new town, and a bright, 8 year-old boy. But their world is shattered when their son is wounded in a school shooting and his best friend killed, and, while Liam fights for life, hoaxers begin to harass Otto, trying to force him to admit the shooting never happened. Desperate to stop them, Otto tries to track down the lead hoaxer, a mysterious, hard to...
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August 1, 1966. A disenfranchised student and former marine named Charles Whitman hauled a footlocker of guns to the top of the Tower, the formidable main building of the University of Texas at Austin. He fired on pedestrians below, killing seventeen and wounding thirty-two. It was the first mass shooting of civilians on a campus in American history. With pathos and electrifying storytelling, Elizabeth Crook's Monday, Monday follows three students...
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