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If I Don't Make It, I Love You: Survivors in the Aftermath of School Shootings - Paperback

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by Amye Archer (Editor), Loren Kleinman (Editor)"The result is an important and horrifyingly thick anthology of mass murders...Highly difficult to read in one sitting, but we must not look away." --Kirkus Reviews A harrowing collection of sixty narratives--covering over fifty years of shootings in America--written by those most directly affected by school shootings: the survivors. "If I Don't Make It, I Love You," a text sent from inside the war zone like scene of a mass shooting, a text mean...

Blood in the Wilderness: The Story of the Harps, America's First Serial Killers - Paperback

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by Jack Edward Shay (Author)Early August, 1799. A wilderness clearing along the Mud River...a few miles northeast of Russellville, a small town in the vast, nearly unbroken frontier of western Kentucky. A pioneer family has stopped to rest. Two men. Three women. Three babies. A string of pack horses. It has been an exhausting journey, a dangerous one at times. The men are about thirty, the women some five to ten years younger. Each woman has a baby, her own child. The children, two girls and ...

Treasures of the Sea--A Novel - Paperback

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by Craig Nakken (Author)Daniel Ray, a serial killer specializing in high-worth older couples, has struck again. His first murder as an adolescent was a way to survive, to keep his own demons away; but now hunting is his way of life. Two detectives connect the dots and discover they are dealing with a serial killer. The stakes are raised. Daniel is now being hunted by Detective Bobby Collins, a recovering alcoholic, and his partner Detective Alex Hollander of the Phoenix Homicide Division. Dan...

From Convicted to Cop: How a Convicted Drug Dealer Became a Police Officer - Paperback

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by Tony Stewart (Author)Every word of my autobiography is accurate. Heavenly angels and demons from Hell fought over my life. Most battles were hidden. It was years before I realized they existed at all. Intercessory rescues came that can only be described as "miracles." The devil's most notable victory is to make people believe that he does not exist at all. This story proves otherwise and helps you spot and avoid losses before their damage becomes final. Horrible events in my life are share...

500 Horrible Ways to Die in Georgia: A Collection of Grim, Grisly, Gruesome, Ghastly, Gory, Grotesque, Lurid, Terrible, Tragic, Bizarre, and Sensation - Paperback

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by A. Stephen Johnson (Author)How did your ancestors die?Before 1920, most people didn't live to a ripe old age. And many didn't die in bed. In fact, some died suddenly, in unusual ways and odd places. Your ancestors might have been struck by lightning, blown to bits in a steamboat explosion, run over by a train, burned to death, murdered, or cut in half by a sawmill. Or they might have blown their brains out with a pistol, taken poison, or drowned. Deadly diseases like typhoid and tuberculos...

Focus on the Facts: The JFK Assassination Conspiracy - Paperback

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by Frank A. Cellura J. D. (Author)Author Cellura provides new insight into the events surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He firmly establishes that suspect Lee Harvey Oswald was not the "lone nut" sniper who gunned the President down from a sixth-floor window of a warehouse that bounded the Dallas motorcade route, that Oswald was set-up to be the "fall guy" for the shooting, and quickly silenced to conceal all traces of the conspiratorial plot. He shows there were two...

Ship of Blood: Mutiny and Slaughter Aboard the Harry A. Berwind, and the Quest for Justice - Hardcover

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by Charles Oldham (Author)ON AN OCTOBER NIGHT IN 1905, a horrifying scene was found on a wooden vessel off the coast of Cape Fear, North Carolina. Onboard the Harry A. Berwind, one crewman lay dead, his blood streaming down the deck. The four officers all were gone-murdered, too, it would turn out, their bodies dumped into the sea. Only three sailors remained alive, one tied up, all telling different stories, all blaming each other. The three sailors were Black. The dead officers were white. ...

Traveling History With Bonnie and Clyde: A Road Tripper's Guide to Gangster (and Gangster Movie) Sites in the Southwest - Paperback

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by Robin Cole-Jett (Author)Wanton criminals who forged a short but deadly path of destruction during the Great Depression, the exploits of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow continue to fascinate. With lives spent inside stolen cars while continuously evading law enforcement, their story creates a perfect backdrop for road trippers who seek authentic sites and experiences. This new, improved guide to actual locations frequented by Bonnie and Clyde takes the traveler throughout the American Southw...

From Gangland To Promised Land - Paperback

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by John Brian Pridmore (Author)Brought up in the East End of London, son of a policeman, John was already dabbling in crime by his early teens, ending up in a young offenders institute and then a borstal. Hed left home at 15 and the only occupation he knew was theft. He landed a job doing security at concerts for stars such as Simply Red, Queen and Bruce Springsteen and was lured deeper into the world of drugs and crime. By his 20s he was well-acquainted with the capitals criminal underworld....

The Pope of Pot: And Other True Stories of Marijuana and Related High Jinks - Paperback

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by Mike Sager (Author)The Pope of Pot: And Other True Stories of Marijuana and Related High Jinks is a pocket collection, by the award-winning journalist (and former Rolling Stone drugs correspondent) Mike Sager, highlighting his dispatches from the cannabis underground. In "When Should a Man Stop Smoking Weed?" Sager looks back on a half-century of pot smoking, starting on a humid night in summer at age 12. "Marijuana has served as a great equalizer, a frequent teacher, and a pleasant compan...

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by John Philip Stirling (Author)This is a true-life story of Captain John Philip Stirling who is one of the world's biggest drug and money smugglers. Just google him to find over 1000 news articles and then join him bringing 2,566 kilos of cocaine worth over $250,000,000.00 from the Colombia-Ecuador boarders back to Canada only to get busted in his final approach aboard the 109-foot Western Wind. Go to the jungles of Colombia where drug labs operate night and day. Learn smuggling out of Peru,...

The Punishment of Pirates: Interpretation and Institutional Order in the Early Modern British Empire - Hardcover

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by Matthew Norton (Author)A sociological investigation into maritime state power told through an exploration of how the British Empire policed piracy. Early in the seventeenth-century boom of seafaring, piracy allowed many enterprising and lawless men to make fortunes on the high seas, due in no small part to the lack of policing by the British crown. But as the British empire grew from being a collection of far-flung territories into a consolidated economic and political enterprise dependen...

Walking The Razor's Edge: The Dutchman and The Baron - Paperback

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by Tommy Wilkens (Author), Hilde Wilkens (Author)Who was George de Morhenschildt, and what was his connection to Lee Harvey Oswald the accused assassin of President John F Kennedy? This book tells the amazing true story of Dutch journalist Willem Oltmans, his ten-year investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and his efforts to find the truth by developing a close personal friendship and relationship with the mysterious George de Mohrenschildt. After exhaustive researc...

Sickert and the Ripper Crimes: 1888 Ripper Murders and the artist Walter Richard Sickert - Paperback

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by Jean Overton Fuller (Author)In the autumn of 1888, London women lived under the shadow of the Ripper murders-killings perhaps unmatched in their sadistic brutality.Sickert & The Ripper Crimes derives from the unsuspected testimony of the woman who had particular reason to fear for her life.Florence Pash, friend and colleague of the artist Walter Sickert and herself an artist, confided to the author's mother when in her late eighties, a terrible story that she had kept even from those c...

Snowjob: My Life in the Medellin Cartel - Paperback

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by Carlos Stier (Author), Michael O'Kane (Editor)After he shot off a man's face and beheaded a woman in Broward County, Florida, Carlos Stier started working as an informant for the Drug Enforcement Administration. His work led him to cross paths with another informant, Julio Diaz, a physician and Bay of Pigs veteran who had worked for both the FBI and CIA in matters deemed secret because they affect the security of the United States of America. The two undercover operations collided, and aft...

The Murder Gene: A True Story - Paperback

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by Karen Spears Zacharias (Author)As the soft-spoken, highly intelligent son of missionaries in Morganton, North Carolina, Luke Chang gave no indication of the killer he would become. But after hacking into a teacher's computer at his school, a stint in the Marines was his only option.As a young recruit, Luke was taunted for being a virgin who didn't cuss, drink, or smoke pot. That all changed when Luke met Casey Byrams, a fun-loving musician and fellow Marine from Cullman, Alabama. Their fri...

The Murder Gene: A True Story - Hardcover

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Mortal Danger and Other True Cases - Paperback

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by Ann Rule (Author)The thirteenth entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series from the "prolific and talented" (Publishers Weekly) Ann Rule focuses on crime victims who had no idea they were in life-threatening danger, often from the very people they trusted the most. In this collection's featured case, a family man dedicated to naturopathic healing embarks on a passionate affair with a flight attendant, but his jealous rages frighten her. When she finally leaves after a brutal attack,...

The Jerilderie Letter Part Two - Paperback

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by Shane Dowling (Author)The Jerilderie Letter Part Two: Australia's Corrupt Prime MinistersFrom the back cover: Australia's democracy was stolen long ago, if we ever had one, by corrupt political parties who are pillaging Australia's assets, at times using corrupt police and courts, for themselves and their mates. This book shines a light on that fact by focusing on corruption by the Prime Ministers who lead the parties. The book chronicles articles, over the last 12 years by investigative j...

The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History - Paperback

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by Margalit Fox (Author)NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The Great Escape for the Great War: the astonishing true story of two World War I prisoners who pulled off one of the most ingenious escapes of all time.FINALIST FOR THE EDGAR(R) AWARD - ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR - "Fox unspools Jones and Hill's delightfully elaborate scheme in nail-biting episodes that advance like a narrative Rube Goldberg machine."--The New York Times Book Review Imprisoned in a remote Turkish ...

Swindler: A.E. Dawson and The Canadian Problem - Paperback

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by Leslie Y. Dawson (Author)Insurance salesman. Farm hand. Bay Street elite. Writer. Grandfather. International criminal.A.E. Dawson was all these things--and more. Part family memoir, part criminal history and part adventure story, Swindler journeys from the bucolic English countryside to Toronto's high society and a fetid Mexican jail. All the while it asks: what leads a decent man to crime? Leslie Dawson knew her grandfather had run afoul of the law, but it wasn't until she researched deep...

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by Peter Evans (Author)This is about my journey from birth to the current day, it tells of many strange things which unfold over many years cumulating in proving that we certainly are not alone, there forces outside of this world. I will not be influenced by my beliefs only the facts shown and I hope that you will do the same thing and by you reach the end of the book I am sure you will agree that it has been, Proven that we are not alone Number of Pages: 278 Dimensions: 0.58 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN...

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by Bill O'Neal (Author)2005 Book of the Year Award - National Association For Outlaw and Lawman History - In the early 1890s Wyoming's northern rangeland was torn by the Johnson County War, a violent western collision that pitted cattle barons and powerful politicians against homesteaders and rustlers. The range war, riddled with lynchings, ambushes, and an invasion by Texas hired gunmen, culminated in a valiant last stand and siege involving hundreds of combatants. These explosive events hav...

The Frank W. Angel Report on the Death of John H. Tunstall - Hardcover

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by David G. Thomas (Author)"In the matter of the cause and circumstances of the death of John H. Tunstall a British subject to the honorable Charles Devens, Attorney General...."So begins the single most important contemporary document recounting the origins of the Lincoln County War. That document is the "Report of Special Agent Frank Warner Angel on the Death of John Henry Tunstall," known today to historians as the "Angel Report."The 395-page, hand-written Report that Angel submitted on Oc...

A Killer by Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind - Paperback

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by Ann Wolbert Burgess (Author), Steven Matthew Constantine (With)A vivid behind-the-scenes look into the creation of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit and the evolution of criminal profiling, written by the pioneering forensic nurse who transformed the way the FBI studies, profiles, and catches serial killers. Lurking beneath the progressive activism and sex positivity in the 1970-80s, a dark undercurrent of violence rippled across the American landscape. With reported cases of sexual assaul...

BTK - Bind, Torture, Kill: The Horrifying True Crime Story of Serial Killer Dennis Rader - Paperback

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by James Richmond (Author)Discover the harrowing real-life story of the infamous BTK killer. Uncovering the disturbing true story of an unhinged psychopath and his nightmarish killing spree, this morbidly fascinating biography explores the twisted psychology of the infamous BTK killer, offering an unparalleled glimpse into the life and crimes of Dennis Lynn Rader.Delving into his disturbing childhood tendencies, his strange and unsettling fantasies, and the murders that struck fear into the h...

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by Keith Bettinger (Author)Stationhouse Tales is a collection of stories; some fact, others fiction. Some are believable; others, not so much.I'm happy to share these stories with you - the ones that I heard at the stationhouse. But there's one thing I'm not going to tell you: which stories are fact and which are not.You can decide for yourself who is the real hero and who is the urban legend in Stationhouse Tales: an exciting collection of true (and not so true) crime stories from former Suf...

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Trauma and the Rehabilitation of Trafficked Women: The Experiences of Yazidi Survivors - Paperback

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by S. Behnaz Hosseini (Author)Based on research in camps in Iraqi Kurdistan and among refugees in Germany, this book addresses the challenges, strategies and support systems that exist for the rehabilitation and reintegration of Yazidi women recovering from human trafficking. Through in-depth interviews, focus group discussions and case studies, it gives women trafficked by ISIS their own voice to express their experiences during captivity, whilst offering an overview of the forms of support ...

The Deadliest Man Alive: Count Dante, the Mob, and the War for American Martial Arts - Paperback

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by Benji Feldheim (Author)Before he became Count Dante, The Deadliest Man Alive . . . Before he began training Blacks and women in mixed martial arts and incited the deadly Dojo War in Chicago. Before he started wearing a cape, carrying a gold cane, and walking his pet lion around the Loop on a leash . . . Before he was-or was not - entangled with the Mob . . . Before he did-or did not-help organize Chicago's record-setting Purolator Heist, from which $1.5 million was never recovered . . . Be...

Deputy Death: Memoirs of a Retired Law Enforcement Officer Collision Reconstructionist - Paperback

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by Barty Bartlett (Author)Barty Bartlett writes as if he is talking directly to you. He recants the stories for the love of his work. He shares the gruesome events on how he became Deputy Death. He is a truth teller, protector, skilled officer, devoted family man and a ghost whisperer. Barty bravely shines his flashlight on fascinating police events and twisted traffic accidents.You will be exposed to true tales that quirky people get themselves into. Many stories will catch you off guard. So...