We have two books in our New Adult Nonfiction section, both of which cover the Cleveland abductions committed by Ariel Castro
In 'The Lost Girls', investigative journalist John Glatt goes into the story behind the headlines of the Cleveland abductions of three unrelated women starting in 2003 and not ending until 2013 when Amanda Berry broke free of the house with the assistance of Angel Cordero and Charles Ramsey, calling the police and setting into motion the release of her fellow prisoners, Michelle Knight and Gina DeJesus.
Glatt used the information gathered from over eighteen months of interviews and research, piecing together the story of Ariel Castro, their kidnapper, from his childhood to his suicide after his arrest. But mostly, the story is about three women thrust into captivity who managed to survive and gain their freedom.
The second book, 'Hope', is the story of two of the survivors, Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus. Washington Post reporters, Mary Jordan and Kevin Sullivan, worked with the two women using their recollections and the diary Amanda Berry kept to tell their story as well as using the original reporting on the girls disappearances to fill in the blanks for a full telling of their years in the Castro house in Cleveland.
Amanda Berry (who was kidnapped in 2003, one day before her seventeenth birthday) and Gina DeJesus (a fourteen year old who was kidnapped almost a year later) share their thoughts and frustrations as well as how they have restarted their lives since finally regaining their freedom.
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