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Sunshine State Mafia: A History of Florida's Mobsters, Hit Men, and Wise Guys - Paperback
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by Doug Kelly (Author)Inside accounts and little known stories of criminal networksin Florida's past A vivid, wildride through a century of Mafia lore, this book tells stories of organizedcrime rings that have settled in Florida and made the state their base ofoperations for bootlegging, gambling, extortion, money laundering, and drugrunning. Sunshine State Mafia divulges the hidden history of the mobfrom the Keys to Pensacola and Jacksonville. Featuring Al Capone and crime ringsin Miami a...
The Riders Come Out at Night: Brutality, Corruption, and Cover-Up in Oakland - Paperback
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by Ali Winston (Author), Darwin Bondgraham (Author)From the Polk Award-winning investigative duo comes "a meticulously researched and enraging account" (Shane Bauer, New York Times bestselling author) of the systematic corruption and brutality within the Oakland Police Department, and the more than two-decades-long saga of attempted reforms and explosive scandals. No municipality has been under court oversight to reform its police department as long as the city of Oakland. It is, quite simply...
Danger Close: Domestic Extremist #1 Comes Clean - Paperback
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by Patrick Byrne (Author)A narrative seamlessly blending entrepreneurial prowess with covert government operations. As the visionary founder of Overstock.com, Byrne, once lauded as the "National Entrepreneur of the Year 2011" and hailed as the "Messiah of Bitcoin," reveals an astonishing twist in August 2019-his role as a secret operative for the U.S. Government.This memoir lays bare Byrne's integral involvement in the "Russian Collusion Delusion" and the Clinton Investigation, exposing them ...
Broken Pieces Exposed In The Light - Paperback
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by Patricia G. Godfrey (Author)"From only a few feet away, my attacker fired her large caliber handgun directly at me. Round afterround struck my body as I began praying even more fervently than I already had been. She had broken into my home and laid in wait for Glenn and me to return home from a family outing. She had already delivered two rounds into Glenn downstairs before rushing upstairs to kill me. But as I prayed, God's strength welled-up inside me and I walked away from her as she ye...
Vida Y Muerte del Cartel de Medellín / Life and Death of the Medellin Cartel - Paperback
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by Carlos Lehder (Author)El increíble relato en primera persona de Carlos Lehder sobre su vida como narcotraficante y sobre la creación y la evolución del cartel de Medellín. Por más de treinta años se han tejido todo tipo de leyendas en torno al afamado narcotraficante Carlos Lehder. Por primera vez, los lectores podrán leer su versión en primera persona, que abarca desde sus inicios en el delito hasta su extradición a los Estados Unidos, y que cubre con especial énfasis su papel en la crea...
We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America - Paperback
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by Roxanna Asgarian (Author)Winner of the 2023 National Book Critics Circle for Nonfiction and the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeA Washington Post best nonfiction book of 2023 Winner of the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction"A riveting indictment of the child welfare system . . . [A] bracing gut punch of a book." --Robert Kolker, The Washington Post "[A] moving and superbly reported book." --Jessica Winter, The New Yorker "A harrowing account . . . [and] a powerful critique of [the] fo...
Crimson Code: The Price of Success - Hardcover
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by Desmond Jackson (Author), Christopher Love (Author)The stakes are high for one of the world's most powerful corporations. With hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts at risk, an international conglomerate and its team of lawyers pursue an eighteen-year-old college student who creates the code that could bring it all down. Crimson Code is the true story of University of Alabama student Desmond Jackson, an ambitious cybersecurity expert and entrepreneur. This is Desmond's first-person ...
The Serial Killer's Apprentice - Hardcover
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by Katherine Ramsland (Author), Tracy Ullman (Author)Elmer Wayne Henley, Jr. was only fourteen when he first became entangled with serial rapist and murderer Dean Corll in 1971. Fellow Houston, Texas, teenager David Brooks had already been ensnared by the charming older man, bribed with cash to help lure boys to Corll's home. When Henley unwittingly entered the trap, Corll evidently sensed he'd be of more use as a second accomplice than another victim. He baited Henley with the same deal he'd...
Everywhere I Look - Paperback
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by Ona Gritz (Author)In 1982, twenty-five-year-old Angie Boggs, pregnant with her second child, was brutally murdered, along with her husband and infant son. Ill equipped for the horror of that violence and the enormity of her loss, Angie's sister Ona, a college sophomore, felt numb. She also felt deeply ashamed of her inability to grieve.But shame, like her sister's absence, was something Ona knew well. For as long as she could remember, she'd felt ashamed of being their parents' blatantly f...
Killing Time with John Wayne Gacy: Defending America's Most Evil Serial Killer on Death Row - Paperback
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by Karen Conti (Author)John Wayne Gacy raped, tortured, and murdered 33 boys and young men, burying most of them in the crawlspace under his Chicago home. Karen Conti was in high school at the time watching the bodies being removed on the television news.Fourteen years pass. Through a twist of fate, Conti, now a young and inexperienced attorney, is called upon to handle Gacy's final death row appeals. The serial killer soon becomes her most famous, difficult, and haunting client.Thirty years ...
In True Face: A Woman's Life in the Cia, Unmasked - Hardcover
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by Jonna Mendez (Author)The bestselling coauthor of The Moscow Rules and Argo tells her riveting, courageous story of being a female spy at the height of the Cold War Jonna Hiestand Mendez began her CIA career as a "contract wife" performing secretarial duties for the CIA as a convenience to her husband, a young officer stationed in Europe. She needed his permission to open a bank account or shut off the gas to their apartment. Yet Mendez had a talent for espionage, too, and she soon took on...
The Crimes of Paris: A True Story of Murder, Theft, and Detection - Hardcover
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by Dorothy Hoobler (Author), Thomas Hoobler (Author)Turn-of-the-century Paris was the beating heart of a rapidly changing world. Painters, scientists, revolutionaries, poets -- all were there. But so, too, were the shadows: Paris was a violent, criminal place, its sinister alleyways the haunts of Apache gangsters and its cafes the gathering places of murderous anarchists. In 1911, it fell victim to perhaps the greatest theft of all time -- the taking of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre. Immedia...
The Gacaca Courts, Post-Genocide Justice and Reconciliation in Rwanda - Hardcover
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by Phil Clark (Author)This is a timely empirical study and review of the Gacaca Courts which were established in 2001 in Rwanda as an attempt to prosecute suspects involved in the 1994 genocide. Based on the author's original field work which began in 2003 in Rwanda and which has been updated to the end of 2009, it includes responses from within the Rwandan population. Dr. Clark argues that, despite widespread international scepticism, the Gacaca process has achieved remarkable results in ter...
Fred Smith's Fedex Plantation - Paperback
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by Gary Grant Rullo Sr (Author)When I hired on with Fedex I figured like most, to work hard do a good job and if all went well to retire from there. But that wasn't going to happen. I found instead a company and CEO whose roots were steeped in Racism & Discrimination against Blacks as not seen in 75 years. Fred Smith and his Racist White Supremist Fedex management use the "Pen like a modern day Whip" to keep their Black Workers "in their Place". I learned that Fedex CEO Fred Smith was inv...
Satan's Summer in the City of Angels: The Social Impact of the Night Stalker - Paperback
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by James Ellroy (Foreword by), Glynn Martin (Author)LA has known its share of notorious murderers. Hickman, Glatman, Bashor, Sirhan, Manson, Turner, Bianchi and Buono, just to name an ugly few. These remain stories told once and again. Tragic cases that commanded varying degrees of attention. None upset the urban routine like the Night Stalker. His crimes activated insecurities previously foreign to Angelenos. Brutal and unthinkable killings moved millions to a state of near lockdown. Law enf...
When Satan Wore a Cross - Paperback
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by Fred Rosen (Author)In 1980 in Toledo, Ohio--on one of the holiest days of the church calendar--the body of a nun was discovered in the sacristy of a hospital chapel. Seventy-one-year-old Sister Margaret Ann had been strangled and stabbed, her corpse arranged in a shameful and stomach-churning pose. But the police's most likely suspect was inexplicably released and the investigation was quietly buried. Despite damning evidence, Father Gerald Robinson went free.Twenty-three years later the p...
Frank Cullotta's Greatest (Kitchen) Hits: A Gangster's Cookbook - Paperback
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by Frank Cullotta (Author), Dennis N. Griffin (Author)Frank Cullotta was best known for his exploits as an associate of the Chicago Outfit and his role as Tony Spilotro's enforcer and street lieutenant in Las Vegas. However, he had another interest besides crime. He loved to cook. In this book he shares some of his favorite recipes for your eating pleasure. Although Frank died on August 20, 2020 his memory will live on every time you prepare one of these lip-smacking dishes."I first met Frank...
Born to Be Wild - Paperback
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by Barry Bowe (Author)Born to Be Wild is an amalgam of Sons of Anarchy and Breaking Bad ─ except it's a true story and these outlaw bikers make the Sons look like a bunch of cub scouts. And their drug cartel is closer to Gus Fring's than it is to Walter White's.The story begins with Bobby Nauss having sex with his girlfriend Liz Lande on December 12, 1971, It ends twenty years later. In between is a roller coaster of kidnappings, rapes, murders, a prison break, and a manhunt that took nine ye...
Murder in the Parador, the Death of John Donne - Paperback
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by Paula B. Mays (Author)Only one thing was certain: John Donne was dead. That fact was verified after the wedding. Marco, a former police officer, currently a private detective and police consultant, must follow clues from Southern Spain to Morocco to determine if the brilliant scientist on the verge of one of the world's greatest discoveries, the cure to the insidious disease of cancer, had been murdered.Marco had been assigned to work with Alberto Flores, a detective from the police force ...
Trafficking Hadassah: Collective Trauma, Cultural Memory, and Identity in the Book of Esther and in the African Diaspora - Paperback
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by Ericka Shawndricka Dunbar (Author)Trafficking Hadassah illuminates that Africana female bodies have been and continue to be colonized and sexualized, exploited for profit and pleasure, causing adverse physical, mental, sexual, socio-cultural, and spiritual consequences for the girls and women concerned. Author BiographyEricka Shawndricka Dunbar is Visiting Professor of Hebrew Bible, Payne Theological Seminary, Wilberforce, Ohio, USA.
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In Cold Blood: A Collection Of True Crime - Hardcover
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by Oj Modjeska (Author)A collection of three true crime titles by OJ Modjeska, now available in one volume!Ace In The Hole: A glamorous Hollywood actress and playwright seeks the insights of a notorious serial killer. But what starts as research for her new play quickly spirals into a twisted obsession as she underestimates the killer's charm. Love and madness intertwine, blurring the lines between fiction and reality, as the killer challenges her devotion in a deadly game mirroring her own p...
The Monographs: Becoming Sherlock Holmes - Hardcover
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by Ben Cardall (Author)The first iteration of The Monographs was comprehensive yet only introductory when thinking about how to do things in the same way that Sherlock Holmes did. This time, we go even deeper. From looking at the practices of neuroscience that we can follow in order to develop our emotional control and the sharpness of our minds. Not only useful for when we approach casework but also for how we look at someone in order to figure out what they do for a living. Especially inter...
The Disappearance of Connie Converse - Paperback
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by Stormy Donald (Author)Connie stands as one of the first known modern musicians to contribute to the singer-songwriter genre. During the 1950s, she worked around New York City but was barely recognized at that time. What is perhaps better known than her music is her personal story. In the summer of 1974, she left her home, disillusioned by her lack of success in pursuit of stardom. Then, seemingly of her own accord, she disappeared. Connie has been missing for nearly 44 years. Now, she has ...
A Doctor at Calvary: The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ as Described by a Surgeon - Hardcover
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by Pierre Barbet (Author)
Number of Pages: 192
Dimensions: 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN
Publication Date: May 13, 2024
The Cell: A Story Of Tragedy And Survival - Paperback
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by Barry Beck (Author)
Number of Pages: 184
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Publication Date: May 10, 2024
The Day My Mother Never Came Home - Paperback
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by Reginald L. Reed (Author)Reed invites you into his journey of healing and the pursuit of justice.With raw vulnerability, Reed delves into the depths of his trauma, offering glimpses into the psychological impact on his life while also offering a powerful message of hope and resilience. His story highlights the indomitable spirit that can arise from even the darkest of circumstances.The Day My Mother Never Came Home is not simply a true crime tale; it is a testament to the power of the huma...
No Way Home: A Memoir of Life on the Run - Paperback
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by Tyler Wetherall (Author)
Number of Pages: 320
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Publication Date: April 03, 2018
The End of Innocence - The Assassination of John F. Kennedy - Hardcover
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by John R. Young (Author)The End of Innocence is the culmination of John R. Young's thirty-five years of research into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. His comprehensive study will take readers through the infamous day of November 22nd, 1963, as well as provide key context for the major figures who will always be remembered for the parts they played prior to and following the death of the thirty-fifth President of the United States of America. Through this book, readers will no...
Ally and Sally Cousins of Atrocity: They Started The Fire That Will Never Burnout - Paperback
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by Karen Sue Kiey (Author)
Number of Pages: 192
Dimensions: 0.44 x 9 x 6 IN
Publication Date: April 24, 2024
Invisible Wounds: An Inside Story - Hardcover
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by Alexis Faere (Author)
Number of Pages: 282
Dimensions: 0.94 x 9 x 6 IN
Publication Date: May 02, 2024
The Two Sides - Hardcover
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by Chuck Waldron (Author)The Two Sides: the time between no longer and not yet. A story based on the murder and aftermath of a young, aspiring TV journalist covering a breaking story in Orlando, Florida on 22 February 23. Contacted by his fianc? and mother, I agreed to honor his life and use the opportunity to further the dialogue about gun violence and the safety of journalists. I've written the story to issue a call to action, at the same time describing the all-to-short life of a unique pe...
The Two Sides - Paperback
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by Chuck Waldron (Author)The Two Sides: the time between no longer and not yet. A story based on the murder and aftermath of a young, aspiring TV journalist covering a breaking story in Orlando, Florida on 22 February 23. Contacted by his fianc? and mother, I agreed to honor his life and use the opportunity to further the dialogue about gun violence and the safety of journalists. I've written the story to issue a call to action, at the same time describing the all-to-short life of a unique pe...
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