9 Best biography books like Why Meadow Died: The People and Policies That Created The Parkland Shooter and Endanger America's Students by Andrew Pollack

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Why Meadow Died: The People and Policies That Created The Parkland Shooter and Endanger America's Students

By: Andrew Pollack

4.44

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Parkland school shooting was the most avoidable mass murder in American history. And the polici…

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1. Why Kids Kill: Inside the Minds of School Shooters

By: Peter Langman

3.83

Format: 193 pages, Hardcover

Ten years after the school massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado, school shootings are a ne… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • education
  • sociology
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2. A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy

By: Sue Klebold

4.14

Format: 336 pages, ebook

On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine High School in Littleton, Co… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • biography
  • true crime
"A faraway look—I have heard suicidologist Thomas Joiner refer to it as “the thousand-yard stare"

-Sue Klebold, A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy

"Asking 'why' only makes us feel hopeless. Asking 'how' points the way forward, and shows us what we must do"

-Sue Klebold, A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy

"Indeed, I would not achieve the integration I sought until I found two nutrients essential to so many survivors. First, I found community and then I found a way to contribute."

-Sue Klebold, A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy

"People refer to the fog of war, and I am sure something similar applies to my situation. If I hadn't kept a running record of the days, weeks, and years, the fog would have swallowed too much of the …"

-Sue Klebold, A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy

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3. Like the Willow Tree: The Diary of Lydia Amelia Pierce, Portland, Maine, 1918

By: Lois Lowry

4.29

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Two-time Newbery Award-winning author Lois Lowry brings a brand-new, beautiful diary to the Dear Am… read more

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4. Newtown: An American Tragedy

By: Matthew Lysiak

3.77

Format: 341 pages, ebook

A journalist for The Daily News (New York) offers a "meticulous account of the Newtown massacre and… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • sociology
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5. Columbine

By: Dave Cullen

4.29

Format: 417 pages, Hardcover

"The tragedies keep coming. As we reel from the latest horror . . . " So begins a new epilogue, ill… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • sociology
"The final portrait is often furthest from the truth."

-Dave Cullen, Columbine

"What good were special talents when there was no one to share them with?"

-Dave Cullen, Columbine

"The goal with hostages is to gradually lower expectations; in nonhostage crises, it's to lower emotions."

-Dave Cullen, Columbine

"You can't really teach a kid anything: you can only show him the way and motivate him to learn it himself."

-Dave Cullen, Columbine

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6. The I-5 Killer

By: Ann Rule

4.11

Format: 98 pages,

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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime

7. Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board

By: Sheryl Berk , Bethany Hamilton , Rick Bundschuh

3.69

Format: None pages, Paperback

They say Bethany Hamilton has saltwater in her veins. How else could one explain the passion that d… read more

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8. No Easy Answers: The Truth Behind Death at Columbine

By: Brooks Brown , None

3.84

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

On April 20, 1999, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, two seniors at Columbine High School in Littleton… read more

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9. The Holy Barbarians

By: Lawrence Lipton

3.44

Format: None pages,

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10. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

By: Antonia Hylton

4.27

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of  The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more

Similar categories in Antonia Hylton's Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum book and Andrew Pollack's Why Meadow Died: The People and Policies That Created The Parkland Shooter and Endanger America's Students

  • nonfiction
  • history
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11. Untouchable: How Powerful People Get Away With It

By: Elie Honig

4.00

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An exploration of America’s two-tier justice system, explaining how the rich, the famous, and the p… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • sociology
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12. Class Act (New Kid, #2)

By: Jerry Craft

4.28

Format: 249 pages, Paperback

In this companion book to New Kid this time it’s Jordan’s friend Drew who takes center stage in a s… read more

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13. Battle for the American Mind: Uprooting a Century of Miseducation

By: Pete Hegseth

4.07

Format: 288 pages, ebook

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! FOX News host Pete Hegseth is back with what he says is his most i… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • education
Cover of Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans by Jane Marie

14. Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans

By: Jane Marie

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Peabody and Emmy Award–winning journalist Jane Marie expands on her popular podcast The Dream to ex… read more

Similar categories in Jane Marie's Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans book and Andrew Pollack's Why Meadow Died: The People and Policies That Created The Parkland Shooter and Endanger America's Students

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • true crime
  • sociology
Cover of Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences by Joan Biskupic

15. Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences

By: Joan Biskupic

4.00

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Editor's Choice "Biskupic, an accomplished and well-sourced journalist, knows the co… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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16. Stolen Youth: How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation

By: Bethany Mandel

3.86

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

American children are facing a crisis unlike any in human their very extinction. Every day, thousa… read more

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  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • sociology
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17. The Courage to Be Free: Florida's Blueprint for America's Revival

By: Ron DeSantis

4.03

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

No American leader has accomplished more for his state than Governor Ron DeSantis. Now he reveals h… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession by Alexandra Robbins

18. The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession

By: Alexandra Robbins

4.19

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

The hit national bestseller - a New York Times Spring Nonfiction Pick, USA Today "Hottest New Book… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • sociology
"Teachers deserve a well-defined, realistic job description and enough protected school day planning time to fulfill that job within their paid contracted hours."

-Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession

"Teachers deserve to helm every committee determining school operations rather than policymakers who proclaim what should happen in the classroom despite never having taught in one."

-Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession

"Teachers deserve a safe working environment in which violence is not tolerated from students, parents, or staff, and educators can report it and other transgressions without fear of retaliation."

-Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession

"By the fall of 2021, schools across the country had lost a staggering number of teachers, paraeducators, substitutes, bus drivers, and other staff who quit, retired early, got sick, or died because o…"

-Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession

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19. Why I Stand

By: Jonathan Isaac

4.51

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Facing public criticism, peer hostility, and widespread disapproval, would you compromise your prin… read more

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  • politics
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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20. Why Meadow Died: The People and Policies That Created The Parkland Shooter and Endanger America's Students

By: Andrew Pollack

4.44

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Parkland school shooting was the most avoidable mass murder in American history. And the polici… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Pollack's Why Meadow Died: The People and Policies That Created The Parkland Shooter and Endanger America's Students book and Andrew Pollack's Why Meadow Died: The People and Policies That Created The Parkland Shooter and Endanger America's Students

  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • activism
  • crime
  • education
  • sociology
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21. Pulse: The Untold Story

By: Trevor Aaronson

4.09

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Pulse: The Untold Story, an Audible Original from journalist Trevor Aaronson and Western Sound, inv… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • history
  • true crime

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