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From the New York Times bestselling author of Columbine, Dave Cullen, comes an intimate, deeply moving account of the Parkland shooting, highlighting the extraordinary kids leading the #neveragain movement, timed to publish on the one year anniversary of the tragedy.

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Nineteen years ago, Dave Cullen was among the first to arrive at Columbine High School, even before most of the SWAT teams went inside. While writing his stunning book on that tragedy, he suffered two bouts of secondary PTSD. He swore he would never go back. But a month ago, Cullen went to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School because something radically different was happening. In nearly twenty years of watching this epidemic escalate, he had never seen anything like the Douglas students. These extraordinary kids seized their story and their destiny from day one, and willed it into a movement of astonishing hope. Hope for change, drastic change. Now, the entire country is seized by their hope. Like Columbine, Cullen will tell this story selectively: through the lens of a handful of key participants who embody different elements of the movement-and of course, different personalities. Cullen also takes the reader back inside Douglas High School where seniors are still anxiously waiting to hear from colleges, where mid-terms are being conducted, and in a lighter and yet deeply touching key: kids are building sets, sewing costumes and rehearsing for the spring play, Yo, Vikings! Deeply researched and beautifully told, Parkland is an in depth examination of this galvanizing moment in our culture-and above all, a backstage look at what some of these extraordinary kids are like as kids. Highlighting the passion of these astonishing students, Cullen´s spellbinding new book is equal parts inspiration, manifesto, and template for change. https://www.davecullen.com/parkland

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