Crime Unknown, A Buck Taylor Novel


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A young black college student is found hanged in a campus basement. The local police declare the death a suicide, but is it? His parents, not getting any answers from the college or the local authorities, have come to Colorado seeking the truth, and they have turned to the one team they hope can provide those answers. Colorado Bureau of Investigation agent Buck Taylor and his team are sent to the idyllic mountain town of Copper Creek, Colorado, to determine the truth. Did the young man commit suicide, was it a terrible accident, or was it murder? The governor of Colorado wants answers before word of the hanging gets out, and civil unrest ensues. For Buck and his team, time is not on their side, but worse yet is the lack of cooperation they receive from the local authorities. As they dig deeper into the death, they discover things about the quaint little mountain town that make it clear that things are not what they seem. The beauty and tranquility on the surface hides an ugly underbelly, and their investigation could destroy things that have been in place for over a hundred years. Things that were supposed to remain hidden from prying eyes. The town is sitting on a powder keg, and Buck’s investigation is the spark that could set the whole thing off.




Bunny


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NATIONAL BESTSELLER Soon to be a major motion picture "Jon Swift + Witches of Eastwick + Kelly 'Get In Trouble' Link + Mean Girls + Creative Writing Degree Hell! No punches pulled, no hilarities dodged, no meme unmangled! O Bunny you are sooo genius!" —Margaret Atwood, via Twitter "A wild, audacious and ultimately unforgettable novel." —Michael Schaub, Los Angeles Times "Awad is a stone-cold genius." —Ann Bauer, The Washington Post The Vegetarian meets Heathers in this darkly funny, seductively strange novel from the acclaimed author of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl and Rouge "We were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make something beautiful. We nearly died. We very nearly did, didn't we?" Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other "Bunny," and seem to move and speak as one. But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' fabled "Smut Salon," and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door--ditching her only friend, Ava, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the Bunnies' sinister yet saccharine world, beginning to take part in the ritualistic off-campus "Workshop" where they conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur. Soon, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies will be brought into deadly collision. The spellbinding new novel from one of our most fearless chroniclers of the female experience, Bunny is a down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, friendship and desire, and the fantastic and terrible power of the imagination. Named a Best Book of 2019 by TIME, Vogue, Electric Literature, and The New York Public Library




Crime, Shame and Reintegration


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Crime, Shame and Reintegration is a contribution to general criminological theory. Its approach is as relevant to professional burglary as to episodic delinquency or white collar crime. Braithwaite argues that some societies have higher crime rates than others because of their different processes of shaming wrongdoing. Shaming can be counterproductive, making crime problems worse. But when shaming is done within a cultural context of respect for the offender, it can be an extraordinarily powerful, efficient and just form of social control. Braithwaite identifies the social conditions for such successful shaming. If his theory is right, radically different criminal justice policies are needed - a shift away from punitive social control toward greater emphasis on moralizing social control. This book will be of interest not only to criminologists and sociologists, but to those in law, public administration and politics who are concerned with social policy and social issues.




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The Athenaeum


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