Author: Gail Moock Miller
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780882702179
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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Author: Larry Park
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781535547352
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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In 1976 in Chowchilla, California, three men kidnapped twenty-six children and their driver from a school bus, drove them a hundred miles away to a rock quarry, forced them into a moving van, and then buried them alive. Miraculously, many hours later, two older children dug themselves out, helping everyone escape to freedom. Six-year-old Larry Park was one of those victims, and this is his story. Larry survived this horrific ordeal, but he's never been the same. He's spent nearly four decades battling mental illness, severe anxiety, drug addiction, and rage issues. He was diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder and has even contemplated suicide. But in this poignantly honest memoir, Park shares his tale in the hope of finally slaying his demons and putting his past to rest. Will Larry quell the voices in his head and the rage in his heart? Will he channel his hard-won knowledge into helping himself and millions of others suffering in the aftermath of trauma? And most importantly, will Larry make his peace with God? Dive into one incredible true-life story behind the Chowchilla kidnapping, and revel in the tenacity of the human spirit in the face of the evil of this world.

Author: Zachary Alan Fox
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
ISBN: 9781575661391
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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A man dressed as a clown boards a school bus promising 27 disabled young passengers a surprise. Minutes later, one child is dead and 26 others have disappeared without a trace in the Las Cruces desert. The kidnapping stuns Ellen Camacho, single mother, and one of only two detectives in the small Southern California town. Nothing has prepared her for the promise from the kidnapper that all the children will die in 38 hours. And soon, the kidnapper's true motives and his twisted connection to Ellen become all too clear.

Author: Lenore Terr
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0786725710
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 386

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In 1976 twenty-six California children were kidnapped from their school bus and buried alive for motives never explained. All the children survived. This bizarre event signaled the beginning of Lenore Terr's landmark study on the effect of trauma on children. In this book Terr shows how trauma has affected not only the children she's treated but all of us.

Author: William Inge
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1479436992
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 123

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Cherie was a chanteuse. She said, “I call m'self Cherie. Thass all the name ya need -- like Hidegarde. I won a amateur contest down in Joplin, Missouri, and that got me a job in a night club in Kanz City. But working in a night club ain't all roses..." Bo Decker had his picture taken by Life magazine because he was a champion professional rodeo rider. Bo had heard about women only he'd hardly ever seen one. Bo was a large, beautiful hunk of man -- but green as new grass when it came to Cherie. Bo and Cherie got together when they were stranded at a bus stop one night. Their story is one of high humor -- a mixture of brag, heartache, bluster, and the funniest tough love affair ever put on stage, screen, or between the covers of a book. It is filled with comedy, compassion and tenderness.

Author: Robert Cormier
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
ISBN: 0440208351
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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Who will be the next to die? They've taken the children. And the son of a general. But that isn't enough. More horrors must come...

Author: Jessica Buchanan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476725160
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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An account of the aid worker co-author's dramatic January 2012 rescue from kidnappers in Somalia by members of a Navy SEAL Team Six unit offers insight into the effective use of targeted U.S. military missions.

Author: Jack W. Baugh
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780440194682
Category : Kidnapping
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Author: Hugh Pentecost
Publisher: Gallery Books
ISBN: 9781501152399
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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From the creative mind of Hugh Pentecost comes a terrifying and prophetic novel that potentially influenced the Chowchilla kidnapping in 1976. The Day the Children Vanished is not for the faint of heart, as readers are taken down the rabbit hole of the mysterious disappearance of nine children, the school bus they rode on, and its driver. On a bright, clear winter afternoon, nine children in the town of Clayton disappeared from the face of the earth on their commute to the Regional School of Lakeview. Missing with the children are the bus in which they traveled and its driver…​ They vanished completely. So mysteriously so that some distraught citizen of Clayton suggest it was as if they’d been sucked up into outer space by a monstrous interplanetary vacuum cleaner. Dive into the mysterious, twisted mind of the winner of the Grand Master Award from Mystery Writers of America and see for yourself just how the nine children of Clayton disappeared that winter. One of Hugh Pentecost’s most tantalizing stories, Pentecost has “a certain hand and a crafty mind” (The New Yorker).

Author: Michael Newton
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438129882
Category : Kidnapping
Languages : en
Pages : 385

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Presents a historical survey of kidnappings from biblical times to the present.