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Most of us only half-listen to the public service announcements about safety in the home. We lock our doors at night, but do little else to change habits that may make us the next victims of the dangerous individuals who are always on the watch for their next opportunity. This updated paperback edition takes readers through the mindset of predatory criminals - their motives, various plans of attack, and way of thinking - and then teaches simple lifestyle...

The classic study of crime victims updated with new Introductions and statistics. The author is a renowned victims advocate and victimologist, Dr. Jan Yager. Dr. Jan Yager is the award-winning author of 67 books translated into 36 languages. A sociologist, coach, and speaker, her relationship books include WHEN FRIENDSHIP HURTS (Simon & Schuster, Inc.), in 29 languages; FRIENDSHIFTS; PRODUCTIVE RLEATIONSHIPS; WHO'S THAT SITTING AT MY DESK?; FRIENDGEVITY;...

Dylan Truman, better known under her alias Lady Justice, is the bane of every grifter, cheater, and bully in the Bay Area. Alongside her best friend and hacktivist, Daniel Haas, she works as a revenge-for-hire vigilante, seeking retribution on behalf of her (predominantly female) clientele. When a prospective client brings up a fraud complaint against pharmaceutical CEO Brent Wilder, Dylan's business becomes personal: Years earlier, Wilder assaulted...

"Thirteen-year-old Asher Doyle is no stranger to misfortune. Bullied at school and struggling with problems at home, he dreams of the day he can leave it all behind him. That's when he receives an unexpected opportunity: an invitation to join the Factory -- a top-secret research facility that's supposedly developing renewable energy -- and Asher will be paid handsomely for his participation. It seems like the answer to all his problems. But not everything...

"When Sophie Thatcher wakes up in a room she doesn't recognize after a night she can't remember, she assumes she had too much to drink and went home with a date. Except...the date is nowhere to be found. No one is. The space she finds herself in is completely nondescript-the walls bare, fridge empty. And just when she thought things couldn't get bleaker or more confusing, she realizes the doors are locked from the outside. Trapped inside an unfamiliar...

Claudia Bishop's perfect life fell apart when the aftermath of a brutal assault left her with a crumbling marriage, a newborn daughter, and a constant sense of anxiety about the world around her. Now, looking for a fresh start with a home restoration project and growing blog, Claudia takes on a crumbling old house one that unbeknownst to her has an ugly history and may hide long buried secrets. For Zoey Drake the defining moment of her childhood was...

In the days that follow a tragic accident, a woman who the whole world knows slowly awakens with no memory of who she is. Every detail must be pieced back together--from a childhood in rural Mississippi to the early days of her career, from the unintentional hurt inflicted on her daughter to a fifteen year-old secret love affair that went tragically wrong. But for this woman an extraordinary opportunity has arisen in a life-threatening crisis: a second...

"A TINY UPWARD SHOVE is a fictionalized account of real life Canadian serial killer Willie Pickton and his final victim. In the debut novel of award-winning essayist, Melissa Chadburn, we follow the life of Filipina foster youth Marina Salles and are submerged in the confluence of violence and empathy, fabulism and realism. A story of how both victim and monster emerge from the same world."-- Provided by publisher.

After the deaths of her parents 17 years before, Irene Stenson left Dunsley. Now she's back and determined to discover the truth about what happened that night. Armed with a shocking new lead and her experience as an investigative reporter, Irene dives into the mystery and finds herself in trouble. Luckily, ex-Marine-turned-innkeeper Luke Danner is there to help. His quick-thinking response in the face of danger makes him the perfect ally and she'll...

In 1960's California, the Becker brothers are forced to confront their past when they discover the body of an old friend in an old orange-packing plant.