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Ever since its inception in 1995, Malta University Distributors has produced and sold scholarly works and journals of research relevant to any branch of studies at the University of Malta. It continues to produce books that do credit to Malta’s rich cultural heritage. It also publishes and sells textbooks that are on the syllabus for the matriculation exams and the University.

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• Iċ-Ċittadinanza fis-Soċjetà Demokratika ta’ Żmienna (Noti għall-Ezami taċ-ĊES tal-Istudji Soċjali)
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Here we have compiled information on the websites of Malta’s publishers and booksellers from where you can order all the books you desire, from novels to academic works, poetry, children’s books and more.

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AVC Publishers

Audio Visual Centre is the leading provider of education products in Malta. Their product portfolio includes books, audiovisual equipment, interactive software solutions and quality furniture for schools, academies, colleges and universities.

T +356 21330886   | E [email protected]                                         merlinlibrary.com

BDL Publishing & OCTAVO

BDL Publishing specialises in quality books ranging from children’s literature to prestigious books of Melitensia. OCTAVO is a digital reading platform developed to elevate the experience of reading.

T +356 2138 0351   |   E   [email protected]   [email protected]                   bdlbooks.com

ĊAK are the publishers of more than 280 religious titles and have lately became the official publisher of Church and Papal documents thanks to a mutual agreement with the Maltese Episcopal Conference and Libreria Editrice Vaticana.

T +356 2149 8343   | E [email protected]                                                           ruhmalta.com

Deer Publications

Deer Publications focus on books for children and adults on religious and local traditional themes. Its flagship publication is Colours of Maltese Festas , a photographic encyclopaedia of traditional Maltese feasts.

T +356 9938 5496 / +356 7905 8691   |   E [email protected]               bdlbooks.com/publisher/deer-publications

Ede Books specialises in producing ‘art books’ – books of predominantly visual, rich content, which touch upon architecture, photography, design and urban culture.

T +356 2133 4224 / +356 7982 7522   |   E   [email protected]                         edebooks.eu

Faraxa Publishing

Faraxa was established  in 2011, with the aim of publishing literary and non-literary translations into Maltese, while not excluding other genres of writing.

T +356 9982 0157   | E [email protected]                                           faraxapublishing.com

Horizons is one of the leading book publishers on the island. Its titles have been awarded the National Book Prize in various categories and has published established as well as introducing upcoming authors.

T +356 2144 1604   |   E   [email protected]                                               horizons.com.mt

Infinity Books Ltd.

Infinity Books was founded in 2018 and publishes Christian books, academic works, novels, comics, and classics from English and Italian literature.

T +356 99532366   |   E [email protected]                                   infinitybooksmalta.com

Kite Group has become synonymous with high-quality content of excellent presentation, which includes biographies, art and culture books, architecture, history, academic books, novels and children’s books.

T +356   9993 2592   |   E [email protected]                                               kitegroup.com.mt

Malta Online Bookshop

Malta Online Bookshop sells different kinds of Maltese and English books and specialises in antique works of Melitensia

E [email protected]                                                                   maltaonlinebookshop.com

Merlin Publishers

Home to most of Malta’s key authors, Merlin prides itself on its back list of Maltese literature, as well as on its nurturing of new authors with innovative styles and expression. 

T +356 2124 6472   |   E [email protected]           merlinpublishers.com

Midsea Books & Klabb Kotba Maltin

Over the past 45 years, Midsea Books and Klabb Kotba Maltins have become a household name in Maltese publications and a hallmark for quality books about anything that represents Malta. A number of their books are award winners or have been short-listed for awards both in Malta and overseas.

T +356 2149 7046 / +356 2123 9039   |   E [email protected]         midseabooks.com

Milan Haluska

Milan Haluska represents two publishing houses from the Czech Republic that have large collections of books for children from the age of 3 to 12 in the English language.

T +356 99346247   |   E [email protected]

Agenda Bookshop (Miller Publishers)

Miller represent a large number of foreign and local publishers at all publishing levels, from children’s books to university texts and beyond.

T +356 21 66 4488   |   E [email protected]     www.agendabookshop.com

SKS Publishers

SKS specialises in a few, but significant, literary genres, such as literature, political theory, liberal democracy, current affairs, biographies, and culture.

T +356 2124 9900   |   E [email protected]                                           bdlbooks.com/publisher/sensiela-kotba-socjalisti

Wise Owl Publications

Wise Owl is an award-winning independent publishing house with a history that goes back to 1934. Their publications include colourful books for children of all ages, books on Maltese history, culture and folklore, natural history, novels, health, recipe books and workbooks.

T +356 21453303   |   E [email protected]                                                 wiseowlmalta.com

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Our programme also includes an ever increasing list of Academic books printed under the Agenda imprint, and additional reading material written by Malta’s leading University Professors and Lecturers whom we support and work closely with through our on-campus sourcing services and bookshops. These specialised services have enabled the publication of books that may have otherwise not have been produced and we are committed to widen our services and support in these areas.

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Bringing Free Maltese Digital Books to Malta Libraries!

Octavo is proud to be collaborating with Malta Libraries to add Maltese-language digital books to their online catalogues for the very first time. Readers from Malta and Gozo will now gain access to hundreds of free books written by Maltese authors, which will be available to borrow and read in digital format from the 23rd of April onwards. 

The islands’ network of public and national libraries, collectively known as Malta Libraries, have embraced this opportunity to add Maltese digital books to their online catalogue. This initiative aligns with their ongoing mission to encourage reading for educational and leisure purposes, while contributing to the conservation of Maltese documentary heritage.

Maltese-language books undoubtedly play a pivotal role in safeguarding the island’s national language, which contributes to the strengthening of Maltese culture and identity. As digital reading continues to gain popularity – revolutionising the way books are consumed across generations – this project marks a step in the right direction to ensure that Maltese-language books do not get left behind!  

Maltese Books Turn Digital

By converting Maltese books into a digital format known as ‘oBooks’ and sharing them among members of the Malta Libraries community, works of Maltese literature will become more accessible than ever before. Octavo is making this possible through its app that carries Maltese fonts, meaning that oBooks can be created using the Maltese language. 

The online catalogue, accessible through the Malta Libraries website, will feature a wide range of genres divided into two overarching categories; those suitable for adults as well as a selection of texts for readers under the age of 18.   

What makes oBooks stand out?

Compared to other digital book formats, Octavo’s oBooks enable easier navigation as content is designed to be scrolled-through, similar to a web page, rather than by flipping pages. Moreover, content can be brought to life when converted to an oBook by adding in educational exercises and artistic images during the design stage. 

With a wide range of customisable features, Octavo supports readers of different abilities and levels. Through the app, readers can choose the fonts and background colours that they find most comfortable to use from a selection that includes dyslexia-friendly fonts. Users can also look up words through the in-built dictionary function, as well as highlight pieces of text and leave notes within the app as they read. 

Moreover, oBooks are available offline after being downloaded so that readers can access them from any location even in the absence of a Wifi connection. 

How to access Maltese digital books through your Malta Libraries Card

To get access to Maltese oBooks, you first need a Malta Libraries account. New users can register for a new one through the Malta Libraries website. Once you have a library card number, you can fill in the form on the Malta Libraries website to request Maltese oBooks. To do this, go to www.maltalibraries.com and click on the icon ‘register to start borrowing oBooks in Maltese’.

N.B.: Ensure that the e-mail address used for your Malta Libraries account matches the one used for your Octavo account. (If you don’t have an Octavo account yet, you can create one for free by clicking ‘Login’ here: https://octavo.app/ .)

Once completed, you will be added to the Malta Libraries organisation and have access to the Maltese oBooks. You can the sign in to Octavo and find your borrowed Maltese oBooks in your library!

Remuneration for Authors

Authors are also set to benefit from this collaboration through the Public Lending Rights act, a remuneration scheme introduced by the National Book Council. PLR provides a stream of revenue for authors when their books are borrowed from the Malta Libraries digital platform. 

This project is being partially supported by the Covid-19 Relief Fund, issued by the National Book Council, and will last through to June 2022.

For help in setting up your account and registering for free oBooks, please contact Malta Libraries on   [email protected]  or call on +356 25983500.

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5 Replies to “Bringing Free Maltese Digital Books to Malta Libraries!”

My daughter needs online Maltese reading.

She is not a member of Malta libraries.

What can be done, please to have access?

Thanks Adriana

Hi Adriana!

Your daughter can benefit from all the free reading oBooks, including the Maltese Qari għal Qalbi levelled reading which is completely free.

Open the account for your daughter, since the accounts are personalised and Octavo keep the user’s progress adapted to their age. If you want more titles, just get the ones according to their age from the Octavo Store.

Happy reading!

Hi guys Could we have some books In Maltese Please?

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For everyone whose relationship with mathematics is distant or broken, Jo Boaler , a professor at Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE), has ideas for repairing it. She particularly wants young people to feel comfortable with numbers from the start – to approach the subject with playfulness and curiosity, not anxiety or dread.

“Most people have only ever experienced what I call narrow mathematics – a set of procedures they need to follow, at speed,” Boaler says. “Mathematics should be flexible, conceptual, a place where we play with ideas and make connections. If we open it up and invite more creativity, more diverse thinking, we can completely transform the experience.”

Boaler, the Nomellini and Olivier Professor of Education at the GSE, is the co-founder and faculty director of Youcubed , a Stanford research center that provides resources for math learning that has reached more than 230 million students in over 140 countries. In 2013 Boaler, a former high school math teacher, produced How to Learn Math , the first massive open online course (MOOC) on mathematics education. She leads workshops and leadership summits for teachers and administrators, and her online courses have been taken by over a million users.

In her new book, Math-ish: Finding Creativity, Diversity, and Meaning in Mathematics , Boaler argues for a broad, inclusive approach to math education, offering strategies and activities for learners at any age. We spoke with her about why creativity is an important part of mathematics, the impact of representing numbers visually and physically, and how what she calls “ishing” a math problem can help students make better sense of the answer.

What do you mean by “math-ish” thinking?

It’s a way of thinking about numbers in the real world, which are usually imprecise estimates. If someone asks how old you are, how warm it is outside, how long it takes to drive to the airport – these are generally answered with what I call “ish” numbers, and that’s very different from the way we use and learn numbers in school.

In the book I share an example of a multiple-choice question from a nationwide exam where students are asked to estimate the sum of two fractions: 12/13 + 7/8. They’re given four choices for the closest answer: 1, 2, 19, or 21. Each of the fractions in the question is very close to 1, so the answer would be 2 – but the most common answer 13-year-olds gave was 19. The second most common was 21.

I’m not surprised, because when students learn fractions, they often don’t learn to think conceptually or to consider the relationship between the numerator or denominator. They learn rules about creating common denominators and adding or subtracting the numerators, without making sense of the fraction as a whole. But stepping back and judging whether a calculation is reasonable might be the most valuable mathematical skill a person can develop.

But don’t you also risk sending the message that mathematical precision isn’t important?

I’m not saying precision isn’t important. What I’m suggesting is that we ask students to estimate before they calculate, so when they come up with a precise answer, they’ll have a real sense for whether it makes sense. This also helps students learn how to move between big-picture and focused thinking, which are two different but equally important modes of reasoning.

Some people ask me, “Isn’t ‘ishing’ just estimating?” It is, but when we ask students to estimate, they often groan, thinking it’s yet another mathematical method. But when we ask them to “ish” a number, they're more willing to offer their thinking.

Ishing helps students develop a sense for numbers and shapes. It can help soften the sharp edges in mathematics, making it easier for kids to jump in and engage. It can buffer students against the dangers of perfectionism, which we know can be a damaging mindset. I think we all need a little more ish in our lives.

You also argue that mathematics should be taught in more visual ways. What do you mean by that?

For most people, mathematics is an almost entirely symbolic, numerical experience. Any visuals are usually sterile images in a textbook, showing bisecting angles, or circles divided into slices. But the way we function in life is by developing models of things in our minds. Take a stapler: Knowing what it looks like, what it feels and sounds like, how to interact with it, how it changes things – all of that contributes to our understanding of how it works.

There’s an activity we do with middle-school students where we show them an image of a 4 x 4 x 4 cm cube made up of smaller 1 cm cubes, like a Rubik’s Cube. The larger cube is dipped into a can of blue paint, and we ask the students, if they could take apart the little cubes, how many sides would be painted blue? Sometimes we give the students sugar cubes and have them physically build a larger 4 x 4 x 4 cube. This is an activity that leads into algebraic thinking.

Some years back we were interviewing students a year after they’d done that activity in our summer camp and asked what had stayed with them. One student said, “I’m in geometry class now, and I still remember that sugar cube, what it looked like and felt like.” His class had been asked to estimate the volume of their shoes, and he said he’d imagined his shoes filled with 1 cm sugar cubes in order to solve that question. He had built a mental model of a cube.

When we learn about cubes, most of us don’t get to see and manipulate them. When we learn about square roots, we don’t take squares and look at their diagonals. We just manipulate numbers.

I wonder if people consider the physical representations more appropriate for younger kids.

That’s the thing – elementary school teachers are amazing at giving kids those experiences, but it dies out in middle school, and by high school it’s all symbolic. There’s a myth that there’s a hierarchy of sophistication where you start out with visual and physical representations and then build up to the symbolic. But so much of high-level mathematical work now is visual. Here in Silicon Valley, if you look at Tesla engineers, they're drawing, they're sketching, they're building models, and nobody says that's elementary mathematics.

There’s an example in the book where you’ve asked students how they would calculate 38 x 5 in their heads, and they come up with several different ways of arriving at the same answer. The creativity is fascinating, but wouldn’t it be easier to teach students one standard method?

A depiction of various ways to calculate 38 x 5, numerically and visually. | Courtesy Jo Boaler

That narrow, rigid version of mathematics where there’s only one right approach is what most students experience, and it’s a big part of why people have such math trauma. It keeps them from realizing the full range and power of mathematics. When you only have students blindly memorizing math facts, they’re not developing number sense. They don’t learn how to use numbers flexibly in different situations. It also makes students who think differently believe there’s something wrong with them.

When we open mathematics to acknowledge the different ways a concept or problem can be viewed, we also open the subject to many more students. Mathematical diversity, to me, is a concept that includes both the value of diversity in people and the diverse ways we can see and learn mathematics. When we bring those forms of diversity together, it’s powerful. If we want to value different ways of thinking and problem-solving in the world, we need to embrace mathematical diversity.

Cross-Disciplinary Impacts on Insurance Law

ESG Concerns, Financial and Technological Innovation

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• Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)
• Governmental Intervention in Insurance
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Insurance Is Accelerating Economic and Social Change in the United States: A Legal and Sociological Perspective

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The Role of Insurance in Dealing with Disasters: The Case of Agricultural Insurance

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Financial Innovation in Insurance Regulation

Historical, definitional, and implementational issues of financial services regulation in a small jurisdiction.

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Public/Private Risk Financing Innovation: The Case of Government Self-Insurance Risk Pools in the United States

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Comparison of Efficiency Levels of Turkish Insurance Companies with VZA Malmquist Total Factor Efficiency Analysis

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There’s a common misconception that university presses only publish academic work–monographs or detailed studies of a single specialized subject or other discipline-specific scholarly books. However, university presses, while housed in universities, also publish a broad range of award-winning books for general audiences, including memoirs, essay collections, novels, short story collections, poetry collections, and hybrid, mixed-genre works.

Even so, this category of creative work published by university presses is huge; I should start out by saying that. I have so many books by university presses that I just love on my bookshelves—both by friends and by strangers. So, this is a wildly incomplete list. To narrow the wide category that is university press books, I decided to choose books that were already on my bookshelves—books I had already read and loved, which I wanted to recommend to others. I also chose books that in some way connected to themes in my story collection, How to Make Your Mother Cry: fictions , which is being published by West Virginia University Press. Though my book is a story collection, I also think of it as genre queer: How to Make Your Mother Cry also contains poems, letters, photographs, drawings, and other ephemera. In my reading list, I looked at books across genre (story collections, poetry collections, essay collections, memoirs, and memoir-in-essays) that grapple with identity, that consider the relationships and journeys of women and girls, and books that explore how we live with loss as well as come to terms with what and who is home. 

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies: Stories by Deesha Philyaw

Deesha Philyaw’s blockbuster 2020 story collection,  The Secret Lives of Church Ladies , was a finalist for the National Book Award, and demonstrates that university presses are publishing some of the most exciting and innovative work out there. This West Virginia University Press title delves into the lives of Black women and girls and crackles with wit and energy. The nine stories in Philyaw’s collection feature characters who are figuring out who they want to be in the world, caught between the church’s strictures and their own desires. Two favorite stories of mine are the opening story, “Eula,” about a close and complicated friendship between two women and the poignant epistolary story, “Dear Sister.” 

Meet Behind Mars: Stories by Renee Simms

Meet Behind Mars is an eclectic mix of realist, fabulist, and satirical storytelling illustrating a surprising wit and generous sensibility. In these eleven stories published by Wayne State University Press in 2018, Renee Simms writes a range of characters and highlights character quirks, the relationships between parents and children, the specificity of places, and the kinds of things people say to writers, all with a deft hand. The opening story, “High Country,” sets the tone and many moments of understated humor such as when the protagonist “makes a fuzzy mental note: Tom’s Natural Deodorant does not work in the desert.” Later in the same story, literary characters come to life in a magical realist twist that stands out against some of the title story’s protagonist’s more mundane moves and travel.

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Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place by Neema Avashia

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"June 3, 2011. There was a different energy in the air around Bloomington, Indiana, this time of year. Late at night, the streets, usually bustling with college students, could be eerily silent."

So begins investigative reporter Shawn Cohen's book " College Girl, Missing: The True Story of How a Young Woman Disappeared in Plain Sight " ($17.99 from sourcebooks). The book hits stores May 28, six days before the 13th anniversary of the night Lauren Spierer vanished.

Spierer was the petite 20-year-old blond coed from Westchester, fresh off her sophomore year at Indiana University, who disappeared on one of the college town’s silent summer streets after a night of partying. She went off into the pre-dawn hours of June 3, 2011, and was never seen again.

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Her disappearance triggered a massive search, and has spawned a cottage industry of conspiracy theories, amateur sleuths, psychics, Reddit threads, true-crime podcasts and TV magazine stories.

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Where was Lauren? How could she vanish? Who knows the truth? Who isn't talking?

Cohen’s new book, written with the cooperation of Robert and Charlene Spierer and drawing on their private investigators' files, fills in key details of that fateful night. While it doesn't solve the case, it goes a long way to exploring the personalities and motivations of those at the center of the mystery, and the code of silence that has kept the Spierers in anguish for 13 years, not any closer to finding out what happened to their daughter.

Cohen is able to flesh out the story, to fill in the details beyond where Lauren went, from her off-campus apartment to a friend’s dinner party to a “pre-game” drinking bout to friend Jay Rosenbaum’s townhouse, to a local bar, on an odyssey during which she lost her shoes, her phone, her keys and, eventually, her life.

Cohen had unprecedented access

The Spierers granted Cohen access to the files of their private investigator Bo Deitl.

He sifted through that information, and supplemented it with interviews with case insiders. His knock-on-doors approach brings to light new elements of Lauren Spierer's final hours, permitting Cohen to craft a tantalizing single line that stands alone before the book’s preface, eight words to entice followers of the case: "This book contains information never before made public."

Cohen gets “persons of interest” Corey Rossman and Jay Rosenbaum — believed to be among the last people to see Spierer alive — to speak on the record about what happened that night. They are defensive and combative.

He describes a video not released to the public, one that shows Spierer and Rossman at about 3 a.m. At one point, Cohen writes, while Spierer slumps on the curb, Rossman makes two phone calls. Cohen tracks down the woman Rossman was reaching out to in the middle of a drunken night, as Spierer's friend sat incapacitated.

Cohen pulls apart discrepancies and inconsistencies in the various stories told through the years.

There have been so many theorized culprits, including: a serial killer who was active at the time; a man convicted of a late-night abduction of a female IU student; a former Indianapolis cop with a history of child exploitation; and an inmate who said he was told two men were with Lauren when she overdosed on ecstasy and they threw her body in the Ohio River.

Cohen follows the investigation’s rabbit holes — including one introduced by the Bloomington Police, in the form of a mysterious white van — just far enough to disprove them.

“I needed to mention those folks and point out why they were shot down as possibilities,” Cohen said in an interview.

He said the lack of details, the not knowing, gives onlookers license to fill that vacuum.

“In my crime reporting over the years, this case, the lack of answers, I couldn't believe the cottage industry that cropped up,” he said. “Even Charlene Spierer would be up in the middle of the night, looking at some of the message boards about what people were saying and wondering, 'Is there any truth to that?' And getting frustrated how people were going off without real facts in every single direction. Rabbit holes were followed in every single direction and I tried to keep my focus on the facts.”

Cohen said he kept coming back to one fact.

“Here we are 13 years later, and there's not a shred of evidence that Lauren ever made it out of that townhouse complex alive,” he said. “Then the question becomes a deep dive into what we do know, and confront the people who were in that townhouse complex and also people who they may have interacted with in the aftermath.”

There from the start

Shawn Cohen was there from the start, an investigative reporter dispatched by the Spierers’ hometown paper The Journal News to Indiana to follow a parent's worst nightmare: their college student vanishing, 800 miles from home.

Cohen started breaking news as soon as he arrived in Bloomington in June 2011. He tracked down video that showed Lauren hadn’t been with her boyfriend that night, but was with another student, Corey Rossman. Robert and Charlene Spierer weren’t fans of Cohen’s early coverage, saying it distracted from the work of Bloomington Police. Robert Spierer blasted Cohen, shouting: “Leave the investigating to the police.”

But the Bloomington Police weren’t making progress, stonewalled by key “persons of interest” — young men who were with Lauren that night and were among the last to see her alive — who had lawyered up and were declining to detail what they had seen. Despite the searches and the flyers and the press conferences, police were no closer to finding the girl who stood less than 5 feet tall and weighed 90 lbs.

The family grew frustrated with Bloomington Police, who Cohen said were more interested in giving updates on how many tips they’d received than cooperating with any and every law enforcement agency that could help them. The family would eventually hire their own private investigators.

Nine months after Lauren's disappearance, Charlene Spierer wrote an anguished letter, titled “You Know Where She Is,” and posted it to a blog. It detailed the nightmare the family was enduring and pleaded with those who knew about her daughter's whereabouts to come forward.

“You were with Lauren, you know what happened, and you know where she is,” Charlene wrote. “Whatever the events of the night, you hold the key to what happened to Lauren at night’s end.”

The Spierers, who still live in the Edgemont section of Greenburgh, in the home where they raised Lauren and her older sister, Rebecca, grew to trust their local reporter, or at least to see him as an important conduit.

In the recent interview, Cohen said: “At the one-year mark, I remember returning to Indiana and they really weren't giving many interviews, but they did agree to sit down with me because they knew that people were paying attention to the coverage. They started to open up about their honest feelings about the case at that point.”

(Charlene and Robert Spierer declined to be interviewed for this story.)

A brush with scandal

Fast forward 13 years. Lauren has still not been found.

Cohen moved on to the New York Post where he continued to break big news stories. But he became the story himself when it came to light that he had a relationship with a one-time source, a former sex-worker tied to one of his most sensational stories, about corruption in the NYPD. The revelation in 2018 cost him his job. The Post's competitor, New York Daily News, splashed the story on its pages.

Cohen writes that having to stay silent at the center of a tabloid scandal gave him a perspective on the people he had been writing about for years. He is now a senior reporter for the Daily Mail, traveling the country on breaking-news stories.

'You left these parents dangling'

The investigative files and the interviews he conducted, Cohen said, filled in “the various relationships, the motivations, the reality of that night — and that's what brings it to life.”

Thus prepared, he approached key persons of interest, including Mike Beth, Corey Rossman and Jay Rosenbaum, whom the Spierers sued unsuccessfully in 2013, hoping to shake loose details about Lauren’s final hours and current whereabouts.

Of Rosenbaum and Rossman, Cohen writes: “Clouds of suspicion had followed them into their adult lives.”

Cohen said he sees the book as a cautionary tale, of secrets kept by college students with their parents completely in the dark.

He quotes Stu Baggerly, a former Bloomington public defender, who said he believes there is a wall of silence surrounding the case, secrets held by young men of means with a lot to lose if the true story is told.

“If one of them cracks, all of them are going down,” Baggerly says. “Even if they weren’t directly involved, they’re going to be involved in the scandal. You left these parents dangling for a decade.”

Cohen says losing Lauren has “taken an immense toll” on the Spierers.

One of the most haunting images is of Charlene Spierer standing in a storage room upstairs in their Edgemont home, among plastic bins filled with papers related to the investigation, bins stacked higher than she is tall.

“It’s like a really weird existence,” she tells Cohen. “Because on the one hand, it’s almost like I’m hallucinating, because I have one side of me that’s living currently, and I have one side of me that’s living June 3. I would not say that we have grieved, because I think the not-knowing keeps you from moving forward.

“I’m just literally stuck on June 3,” she said. “It’s too painful to think about before, and there’s no after, because we don’t have any answers.”

Reach Peter D. Kramer at [email protected].

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