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Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & the Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream - Paperback

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by David McGowan (Author), Nick Bryant (Foreword by)As a native Angeleno who was born in 1960 and came of age in the 1970s, the music produced by the artists who populate this book provided the soundtrack to my youth, so it is a subject matter that is close to my heart. But what really set the hook was discovering, early on in my research, that there were a number of aspects of the Laurel Canyon scene that didn't really seem to fit in with the prevailing image of a hippie utopia that was oste...

Solving Cold Cases: True Crime Stories that Took Years to Crack - Paperback

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by Andrew J. Clark (Author)Chilling. One of the best words to describe the cases recounted in this book. These gruesome crimes seemed to hit a dead end... That is until the case was reopened for investigation years later and solved. From the more famous cases to the more obscure, the crimes and hardships that the victims had to suffer will send shivers down your spine. Notably detailing the disappearance of Chandra Levy to the multiple murders committed by Dennis Rader. You will find that t...

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by Freebird Publishers (Editor), Jamisi J. Calloway Sr (Author)God's Given Talents is the first of a series of books I am releasing from the lost forgotten incarcerated talents in five categories - Arts, Poems, Songs, Raps, Short Stories.Author BiographyFrom the windy city of the Bay Area San Francisco, The Home of the Brave Major League Giant Hitters Double Rock PJ's. My likes: everything fast cars, money, and women cause I haven't found the one to slow me down and put a lock on my bleeding ...

McStays, Taken Too Soon: A True Story - Paperback

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by Patrick McStay (Author)The last day anyone heard the voices of Joseph, Summer, Gianni or Joey Jr. McStay was on 2/4/10. The family's two beloved dogs were left abandoned in the backyard, food left out to rot, and a growing and thriving home-based business had orders pouring in unanswered. Joseph's father, Patrick, and other family members insisted their loved ones would never disappear voluntarily. Many suspected Joseph's contract employee of foul play. Yet for four years, the San Diego Sh...

Eaters of Children: The Pedocracy Exposed: How access to power is granted through the rape, torture and ritualistic slaughter of the innocent. - Paperback

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by Giovanni Augustino Cirucci (Author)The ultimate "conspiracy" is also the most horrible: a Satanic Elite controls all access to power. If you wish to join them, you must be like them-willing to do the worst things imaginable to the most innocent lives possible.They have been operating since the dawn of civilization. The "Christian Era" forced them underground but secretly these druids of depravity rule it all...and this book exposes them for you! -Sex messages hidden in Disney cartoons; Mol...

Zenith Man: Death, Love, and Redemption in a Georgia Courtroom - Hardcover

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by McCracken Poston (Author)Like a nonfiction John Grisham thriller with echoes of Rainman, Just Mercy, and a captivating smalltown Southern setting, this is the fascinating true story--sometimes humorous, sometimes heartbreaking--of an idealistic young lawyer determined to free an innocent neurodivergent man accused of murdering the wife no one knew he had. An inspiring argument for compassion in the pursuit of true justice for readers of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and Just Merc...

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by Kit Eldredge (Author)Winning the lottery seemed like free money, but somewhere along the line, you pay a price for everything you get and everything you do.The truth is...winning the lottery thrust my family into a terrifying situation, where it seemed no one could be trusted...maybe even myself.The Root of All Evil is a story about family drama, shattered dreams, greed, deception, and murder. In the end, I learned things aren't always as they appear.Five-Star Reader Reviews"Very engaging ...

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper - Paperback

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by Hallie Rubenhold (Author)Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction and of the Goodreads Choice Award for History & BiographyThe award-winning, best-selling book that changes the narrative of the "Ripper" murders foreverPolly, Annie, Elisabeth, Catherine, and Mary Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from some of London's wealthiest and poorest neighborhoods, from the factory towns of middle England, and from Wales and Sweden. They wrote ballads,...

Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Bone$: A personal account of a

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by Philip Joe Guyett Jr (Author)Americas largest freelance human body parts harvester, Philip Guyett, reveals how he got into the lucrative (and remarkably unregulated) body-parts business and the events that led up to his conviction for three counts of wire fraud, in his tell-all book Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Bones. Number of Pages: 288 Dimensions: 0.6 x 7.8 x 5.08 IN Publication Date: June 22, 2011

Scales of Justice: The Murders of Colette, Kimberley & Kristen MacDonald - Hardcover

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by Christina Masewicz (Author) Number of Pages: 684 Dimensions: 1.63 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: June 08, 2007

Mob Recipes to Die For. Meals and Mobsters in Photos - Paperback

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by Katherine Connolly (Author)What the Mobsters ate, where they ate and how to make it. Number of Pages: 312 Dimensions: 0.65 x 10 x 7.99 IN Publication Date: December 20, 2011

The Rent Collectors: Exploitation, Murder, and Redemption in Immigrant La - Hardcover

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by Jesse Katz (Author)"A searing account of gang violence and its consequences...Macedo's grim story, expertly documented by Katz, cries for a documentary series to follow his fortunes as, after years in prison, he strives for redemption. A masterful work of true crime--and, to be sure, true punishment."--Kirkus Reviews (Starred review)Baby-faced teen Giovanni Macedo is desperate to find belonging in one of LA's most predatory gangs, the Columbia Lil Cycos--so desperate that he agrees to kill...

Spies, Politics, and Power: El Departamento Confidencial En México - Paperback

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by Joseph A. Stout (Author)In the decades following the Mexican Revolution, regional strongmen vied with powerful generals and popular rebels for control of Mexico's future. During this era of uprisings, government corruption, and political intrigue, Mexico took its first, faltering steps toward democracy. In the midst of the turmoil, plainclothes agents, traveling under multiple aliases and reporting in code to their superiors, served as "the eyes and ears" of the national government. In Spi...

Fast Boat Nekkid: An Escapade by Sea from Alaska to Mexico - Paperback

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by Phil Phillips (Author)This is the story of one man's solo voyage from Homer, Alaska to the US-Mexico border, a distance of some 3,000 nautical miles, aboard a 31-foot, outboard powered boat appropriately named Rascal. It follows his four previous solo voyages aboard the same boat that taken together totaled more than 15,000 nautical miles. The book conveys to the reader what the author calls "the secret thrill of happening upon new places" and the special challenges of doing so alone in a ...

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by Dan Lawton (Author)"It sounds like the fictional plot of a blockbuster thriller... [W]ith his lawyer's eye and passion to expose injustice, Lawton makes this a timeless and borderless tale... [E]ssential reading for anyone who hopes to understand not only the Irish conflict, but how the rule of law can be subverted in any divided society." -MICHAEL BEATTIE, former Head of News and Current Affairs at Ulster Television, producer of television documentaries 'Unlocking the Maze' (UTV 1983) and...

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In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Poland, the United Nations War Crimes Commission, and the Search for Justice - Paperback

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by Michael Fleming (Author)In the midst of the Second World War, the Allies acknowledged Germany's ongoing programme of extermination. In the Shadow of the Holocaust examines the struggle to attain post-war justice and prosecution. Focusing on Poland's engagement with the United Nations War Crimes Commission, it analyses the different ways that the Polish Government in Exile (based in London from 1940) agitated for an Allied response to German atrocities. Michael Fleming shows that jurists as...

The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird - Paperback

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by Joshua Hammer (Author)A "well-written, engaging detective story" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) about a rogue who trades in rare birds and their eggs--and the wildlife detective determined to stop him.On May 3, 2010, an Irish national named Jeffrey Lendrum was apprehended at Britain's Birmingham International Airport with a suspicious parcel strapped to his stomach. Inside were fourteen rare peregrine falcon eggs snatched from a remote cliffside in Wales. So begins a "vivid tale of obses...

Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest - Paperback

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by Gregg Olsen (Author)In this true story--a haunting saga of medical murder set in an era of steamships and gaslights--Gregg Olsen reveals one of the most unusual and disturbing criminal cases in American history. In 1911 two wealthy British heiresses, Claire and Dora Williamson, arrived at a sanitorium in the forests of the Pacific Northwest to undergo the revolutionary "fasting treatment" of Dr. Linda Burfield Hazzard. It was supposed to be a holiday for the two sisters, but within a month...

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by V. D. Dominus (Author)How is the Vatican Bank structured? What secrets does the Vatican hold? Why are the Vatican archives closed? How is the Vatican Bank connected with the Italian mafia, Freemasons, and Nazis? Why did the Catholic Church support Mussolini? Who granted independence to the Vatican? How did the Pope earn from donations? Who was a client of the Vatican Bank? - We will talk about all this, as well as about the Vatican and the church as a whole in this book. Imagine "The Godfa...

John Dillinger Slept Here: A Crooks' Tour of Crime and Corruption in St. Paul, 1920-1936 - Paperback

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by Paul Maccabee (Author)Paul Maccabee's John Dillinger Slept Here is not just one of the best books ever written about Minneapolis-St. Paul, it is one of the best books of local history I have ever read -- about any city anywhere on Earth. While writing Public Enemies' I kept it on my desk at all times. I daresay one cannot call himself a real Minnesotan if you haven't read it. The book is just that darned good."--Bryan Burrough, author of Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and B...

The Elusive Purple Gang: Detroit's Kosher Nostra - Paperback

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by Gregory A. Fournier (Author)The Elusive Purple Gang: Detroit's Kosher Nostra is a concise history of one of America's most notorious Prohibition gangs. The Burnstein brothers and their associates were the only Jewish gang in the United States to dominate the rackets of a major American city. From their meteoric rise to the top of Detroit's underworld to their ultimate demise, this is an episodic account of the Purple Gang's corrosive pursuit of power and wealth and their inevitable plunge ...

Brain Games - Law & Order Puzzles - Spiral

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by Publications International Ltd (Author), Brain Games (Author)Don't leave these puzzles unsolved! Brain Games Law & Order Puzzles includes an assortment of more than 100 crime-themed puzzles. Collection features verbal, logic, memory, and visual puzzles. Readers can play detective to find witnesses or track down criminals through logical deductions. Answer key in back of the book. Spiral-bound, 192 pages. Number of Pages: 192 Dimensions: 0.5 x 9.1 x 7.6 IN Publication Date: March 15,...

Little Lindy Is Kidnapped: How the Media Covered the Crime of the Century - Hardcover

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by Thomas Doherty (Author)The biggest crime story in American history began on the night of March 1, 1932, when the twenty-month-old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh was snatched from his crib in Hopewell, New Jersey. The news shocked a nation enthralled with the aviator, the first person to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic. American law enforcement marshalled all its resources to return "Little Lindy" to the arms of his parents--and perhaps even more energized were the legions of journa...

Murder in the Bayou: Who Killed the Women Known as the Jeff Davis 8? - Paperback

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by Ethan Brown (Author)A New York Times Bestseller & the Basis for the Hit Showtime Docuseries Murder in the Bayou is a New York Times bestselling chronicle of a high-stakes investigation into the murders of eight women in a troubled Southern parish that is "part murder case, part corruption expos , and part Louisiana noir" (New York magazine). Between 2005 and 2009, the bodies of eight women were discovered in Jennings, Louisiana, a bayou town of 10,000 in the Jefferson Davis parish. Th...

Kill 'Em All: A True Story of Abuse, Revenge and the Making of a Monster - Paperback

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by Ryan Green (Author)"I have no desire whatever to reform myself. My only desire is to reform people who try to reform me. And I believe that the only way to reform people is to kill 'em. My motto is, Rob em all, Rape em all and Kill em all." - Carl Panzram In 1902, at the age of 11, Carl Panzram broke into a neighbour's home and stole some apples, a pie, and a revolver. As a frequent troublemaker, the court decided to make an example of him and placed him into the care of the Minnesota Stat...

Sexual Assault Kits and Reforming the Response to Rape - Paperback

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by Rachel E. Lovell (Editor), Jennifer Langhinrichsen-Rohling (Editor)Sexual Assault Kits and Reforming the Response to Rape curates the current state of untested sexual assault kit research and highlights emerging best practices by exploring the past, the present, and the future of our collective response to rape. This book is the first to address the most critical topics related to untested sexual assault kits and the Department of Justice's Sexual Assault Kit Initiative, bringing together ...

Kids Who Murder: Ten American Cases - Paperback

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by Ellie Hayes (Author)Generally naive about their world, children are thought to be nearly incapable of serious wrongdoing and are rarely suspects in violent crimes. Yet, from the 1960s to the mid-90s, the U.S. saw several waves of juvenile murders that caused widespread public concern. The phenomenon created longstanding debates about the sources or causes of a child killer's mindset. Some blame external triggers like video games, rock music or pornography, while others argue the causes are...

Devil in the Basement: White Supremacy, Satanic Ritual and My Family - Paperback

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by Charlotte Laws (Author)Devil in the Basement reveals the shocking truth about my family. I learned about the murders, bombings, and devil worship when I visited my ancestors' hometown of Fairmont, West Virginia. As a former private eye, I investigated what had happened and even ventured into the eerie basement where the satanic rituals had occurred. The story begins in 1928 when thousands of Ku Klux Klan members march through this sleepy town. My great uncle Jal's passions were ignited tha...

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by Truman Capote (Author)Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time From the Modern Library's new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Truman Capote--also available are Breakfast at Tiffany's and Other Voices, Other Rooms (in one volume), Portraits and Observations, and The Complete Stories Truman Capote's masterpiece, In Cold Blood, created a sensation when it was first published, serially, in The New Yorker in 1965. The intensively res...

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by Sarah Vowell (Author)New York Times bestselling author of The Wordy Shipmates and contributor to NPR's This American Life Sarah Vowell embarks on a road trip to sites of political violence, from Washington DC to Alaska, to better understand our nation's ever-evolving political system and history. Sarah Vowell exposes the glorious conundrums of American history and culture with wit, probity, and an irreverent sense of humor. With Assassination Vacation, she takes us on a road trip like no o...

The Hustlers: Gambling, Greed and the Perfect Con - Paperback

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by Douglas Thompson (Author)A racy, entertaining story of gambling, greed and the perfect con.Author BiographyDouglas Thompson is a bestselling author, biographer, broadcaster, international journalist, and regular contributor to newspapers and magazines worldwide. Number of Pages: 252 Dimensions: 0.9 x 7.5 x 5 IN Publication Date: February 01, 2008