School Shootings Fiction

"Ich glaubte schon lange nicht mehr daran, dass es eine Frau gab, die mich aus meiner Einsamkeit erlösen und mir die Dunkelheit ein wenig erträglicher machen konnte. Denn wer sollte einen Mann wie mich schon um sich ertragen können?" Molly Parker arbeitet als Escortdame, um die Miete für ihre Glaswerkstatt zu finanzieren. Dabei hat sie zwei klare Grundsätze. Erstens: Keine Aufträge ohne ihre Schwester. Zweitens: Kein Sex mit Kunden. Die Männer zahlen nur für ihre Begleitung. Doch dann braucht Molly akut Geld und ihre Schwester ist nicht da. Also nimmt sie einen Einzelauftrag an.

He has a goal and a plan. If he carries through with the plan, his sister will die first. His ex will die next, and he will die last. In between, he’ll take out as many people as he can. Students. Security guards. Teachers. First responders. They are all fair game.

Eva never really wanted to be a mother - and certainly not the mother of a boy who ends up murdering seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker, and a much-adored teacher who tried to befriend him, all two days before his 16th birthday. Now, two years later, it is time for her to come to terms with marriage, career, family, parenthood, and Kevin’s horrific rampage, in a series of startlingly direct correspondences with her estranged husband, Franklin.

Attorney Scott Ellis is defending Lester Garrison, a 16-year-old accused of opening fire one Sunday afternoon on a gathering of high-school students. While fighting for Lester's freedom, Scott volunteers at Catawba High School and stumbles onto a tangible evil that is fueling a rage-filled hate to its breaking point.

Cameron: "Deep inside, you know that whoever gets up in your face gets there because he knows you're nothing, and he knows that you know it too."

After her son, Lydan, suffers traumatic injuries in a school shooting, single mom Elisabeth Ross grows enraged at men in power. If they won’t do anything to help end this epidemic of violence, she will. Believing it’s her destiny, she sets out to awaken the world to the cowards these men are and commits her own shocking act of violence.

Sinnlich, erotisch, anders ... Louis Rogers ist ein Voyeur. Das ist Gracie inzwischen klar. Um an ihn heranzukommen, muss sie ihm eine gute Show bieten und zögert nicht, als er ihr vorschlägt, ihn nach Fuerteventura zu begleiten. Selbst wenn das bedeutet, dass sie Ayden dafür vor den Kopf stoßen muss. Auf der Insel angekommen, erwarten sie nicht nur neue Herausforderungen, sondern auch reale Gefahren. Denn Aydens Onkel Richard schwört Rache und versucht alles, um Gracie für die Schmach büßen zu lassen, die er ihretwegen erlitten hat. Plötzlich braucht sie Ayden mehr als jemals zuvor.

Sinnlich, erotisch, anders ... Gracie rückt ihrem Ziel jeden Tag etwas näher: Einem Date mit Louis Rogers. Doch vorher muss sie noch einige Prüfungen bestehen, die sie an ihre persönlichen Grenzen bringen und sie immer wieder zweifeln lassen, ob Rogers diesen Aufwand wirklich wert ist. Ayden hat indes seine ganz eigenen Probleme. Sein Onkel will das Geld, das er ihm schuldet, und um es aufzutreiben, kehrt Ayden zu einer alten Leidenschaft zurück, und das sind illegale Undergroundfights. Gracie wiederzusehen wäre dabei nur eine unnötige Ablenkung.

Sinnlich, verführerisch, anders ... Pleite, erniedrigt und arbeitslos. Seitdem Gracies Vater seine Millionen verloren hat und wegen Betrugs im Knast gelandet ist, steht die verwöhnte Erbin vor den Scherben ihrer Existenz. Ihre einzige Hoffnung, aus der Misere wieder herauszukommen, ist Luis Rogers, der begehrteste Milliardär von ganz England. Um an ihn heranzukommen, will Gracie bei einem höchst exklusiven Escortservice anfangen, von dem Rogers regelmäßig Mädchen als Begleitung anfordert. Fest entschlossen, bewirbt sie sich, ohne die geringste Ahnung zu haben, worauf sie sich einlässt.

Dills and his mom have returned to Hamilton, her hometown, hoping to leave the horrors of Windsor behind. But it's impossible to escape the echoes of tragedy, and trouble always follows trouble. When Dills hurts a new classmate, it comes out in court that he was in the Windsor High library when the shooter came in. But he won't talk about what he saw, what he still sees whenever he closes his eyes.

Bloomland opens during finals week at a fictional southern university, when a student walks into the library with his roommate's semi-automatic rifle and opens fire. When he stops shooting, 12 people are dead. In this richly textured debut, John Englehardt explores how the origin and aftermath of the 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.

Listeners will engage with the main character's personal journey and witness their determination to make a positive impact. Explore a thought-provoking topic, learn about ABA, and discover practical strategies for reducing or eliminating school shootings in this gripping blend of fiction and reality.

When a massacre at an elite private high school leaves 17 dead and a city reeling with horror, Philadelphia assistant district attorney Jessica Black will stop at nothing to find justice for the victims. But doing so will require facing an adversary even more terrifying than the teenage shooter.

One of the most acclaimed essayists of his generation, Wesley Yang writes about race and sex without the jargon, formulas, and polite lies that bore us all. His powerful debut, The Souls of Yellow Folk, does more than collect a decade's worth of cult-reputation essays - it corrals new American herds of pickup artists, school shooters, mandarin zombies, and immigrant strivers, and exposes them to scrutiny, empathy, and polemical force.

Er ist der Dekan der Schule und absolut tabu für mich. Er wurde eingestellt, damit nicht noch jemand stirbt - wie meine beste Freundin. Wie dominant er ist, erfahre ich, als ich einen dummen Fehler begehe. Ich recherchiere die falschen Dinge auf dem Schulcomputer und lande in seinem Büro. Dass er heiß ist, macht es nicht einfacher, ihm meine tiefsten Geheimnisse zu offenbaren. Aber ich kann nicht anders. Nur er wird mich verstehen. Nur er kann... diesen Hunger befriedigen. Den Hunger, den erst er wirklich weckt. Sie ist eine Schülerin. Nicht weniger und niemals mehr.

In this life-affirming novel of trauma and recovery, a girl searches for a path forward after being forced to confront the reality of gun violence, for fans of Dusti Bowling and Jasmine Warga. Stevie Jane Cohen-Kaplan’s sheltered suburban life is shattered by a mass shooting at a festival...

A literary tour de force from the acclaimed author of The Blessings-a riveting novel about one of the most urgent crises of our time. One August afternoon, as single mother Maggie Daley prepares to send her only child off to college, their world is shattered by news of a mass shooting at the...

Talk show host Matthew Miller has made his fame by shining a spotlight on the most unlikely and bizarre secrets of society, exposing them on live television in front of millions of gawking viewers. However, the man behind The Mattie M Show remains a mystery - both to his enormous audience and to those who work alongside him every day. But when the high school students responsible for a mass shooting are found to be devoted fans, Mattie is thrust into the glare of public scrutiny, seen as the wry, detached herald of a culture going downhill and going way too far.

Beck and Vivian never could stand each other, but they always tried their best for their mutual friend, Cassie. After the town moves on from Cassie’s murder 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 won’t be forgotten. But Beck and Vivian are keeping secrets, like the third passenger riding in Beck’s VW bus with them - Cassie’s ghost.

Recently suspended for a so-called outburst, high school English teacher Anna Crawford is stewing over the injustice at home when she is shocked to see herself named on television as a suspect in a shooting at the school where she works. Though she is quickly exonerated, and the actual teenage murderer identified, her life is nevertheless held up for relentless scrutiny and judgment as this quiet town descends into media mania. Gun sales skyrocket, victims are transformed into martyrs, and the rules of public mourning are ruthlessly enforced.