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The Columbine Navigator

Section 5: Books

 

Several books have come out on the tragedy, mostly on specialized topics, particularly religion (including a good one by my now good friend Wendy Zoba). The obvious way to find them is to search on “Columbine” at Amazon, but I think you’ll get a lot of other crap.

 

The Columbine Research site has compiled a great list, so I suggest you start there.

 Here are some additional ideas: 

 

  No Easy Answers: The Truth Behind Death at Columbine,

 

by Brooks Brown, Rob Merritt by Brooks Brown, Rob Merritt. Oct 2002.

Amazon link.

Text of Chapter One (as published in the Denver Post.

 

 



Day of Reckoning: Columbine and the Search for America's Soul

by Wendy Murray Zoba (great lady: she began as an adversary of mine, now we're great friends. She addresses my reporting on Cassie Bernall directly in this book, and disagrees with me.) Feb 2001.

Amazon link.

 

 

 

 

Facing Forward


by Wendy Murray Zoba, Jan 2003.

 

(This book is not about Columbine, but there's an entire chapter about she and I, how we met through covering Columbine and developed the most unlikely relationship.)

Amazon link.

 

 

 

 

Related books on boys and violence. (I have not ready many and am not recommending them; they're just books I'm aware of that you might want to check out): 

r     Lost Boys : Why Our Sons Turn Violent and How We Can Save Them  by James Garbarino

r     The Scarred Heart: Understanding and Identifying Kids Who Kill  by Dr. Helen Smith

r     Straight Talk About Criminals : Understanding and Treating Antisocial Individuals by Stanton E. Samenow

r     Inside the Criminal Mind by Stanton E. Samenow

r     Before It's Too Late : Why Some Kids Get into Trouble--And What Parents Can Do About It by Stanton E. Samenow

r     When She Was Bad : How and Why Women Get Away With Murder by Patricia Pearson

r     Kids Who Kill by Charles Patrick Ewing

r     Night Falls Fast : Understanding Suicide by Kay Redfield Jamison

r     Taking the Bully by the Horns by Kathy Noll MA Carter, Jay, PsyD

r     Bullies & Victims : Helping Your Child Survive the Schoolyard Battlefield by Suellen Fried and Paula Fried

r     Mental Shielding to Brush Off Hostility --  Book and Cassette by Richard Driscoll "Highly recommended to reduce hostility" Dr. Helen Smith

r     Real Boys : Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood by William S. Pollack

 

Columbine Comments -- Open thread for readers.
This comment thread, begun in Oct 2003, is open to anything related to Columbine: about the Almanac, things you read elsewhere, questions about myths or rumors, current news on shooters or troubled youth . . . or anything else. I get email alerts on all comments now, so feel free to pose questions to me about Columbine, and I will do my best to answer.

My Slate story on the Columbine killers' motives: "The Depressive & The Psychopath."

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