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Whispers in the Walls: Ghosts of the Rock Island Roadhouse - Paperback

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by Scott E. Bowser (Author)Step inside the mysterious and eerie world of the Rock Island Roadhouse, where echoes of the past linger within its walls. Whispers in the Walls delves into the dark history and paranormal activity of this infamous building. Once a bustling stopover during the Prohibition era, frequented by notorious gangsters like Al Capone and John Looney, the Roadhouse has since gained a reputation for being haunted by restless spirits. From shadowy figures that vanish into thin ...

Justice Never Rests: A U.S. Attorney's Battle Against Murderers, Drug Lords, Mob Kingpins & Cults - Paperback

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by William Kolibash (Author), Jon Land (With), Shariane Kolibash Taylor (Author)Groundbreaking U.S. Attorney William Kolibash's battle against organized crime, drug kingpins, cults, and more across his twenty-year career in the Northern District of West Virginia. As soon as I slid the contents from the envelope, I knew it was a bomb. So opens Justice Never Rests, the story of U.S. Attorney William Kolibash's relentless fight against organized crime in the foothills of West Virginia and beyond...

Many Restless Concerns: The Victims of Countess Bathory Speak in Chorus - Paperback

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by Gayle Brandeis (Author)"Although MANY RESTLESS CONCERNS illuminates the horror of absolute control over others, it also shines a beacon on the strength of women sharing their truths one by one, of spirits joining together to topple the seemingly untouchable. This work speaks to our own times, to our #metoo reckoning, to our power as survivors to take back our stories and reclaim the darkness. Oppression of any kind never holds, even if it takes the dead to bring it down. This book is a hau...

The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage - Paperback

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by Cliff Stoll (Author)In this white-knuckled true story that is "as exciting as any action novel" (The New York Times Book Review), an astronomer-turned-cyber-detective begins a personal quest to expose a hidden network of spies that threatens national security and leads all the way to the KGB. When Cliff Stoll followed the trail of a 75-cent accounting error at his workplace, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, it led him to the presence of an unauthorized user on the system. Suddenl...

Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds - Paperback

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by Michelle Horton (Author)In this "incendiary" memoir, a woman fights the criminal justice system to release her incarcerated sister after she kills her longtime abuser (Publishers Weekly). In September 2017, a knock on the door upends Michelle Horton's life: she learns that her sister has just shot her partner and is now in jail. Stunned, Michelle rearranges her life to raise Nikki's two young children alongside her own son. During the investigation that follows, Michelle is shocked to le...

The Big Book of Serial Killers: 150 Serial Killer Files of the World's Worst Murderers - Hardcover

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by Jack Rosewood (Author), Rebecca Lo (Author)There is little more terrifying than those who hunt, stalk and snatch their prey under the cloak of darkness. These hunters search not for animals, but for the touch, taste, and empowerment of human flesh. They are cannibals, vampires and monsters, and they walk among us. These serial killers are not mythical beasts with horns and shaggy hair. They are people living in society, going about their day-to-day activities until nightfall. They are the ...

The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder - Paperback

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by Douglas Preston (Author), David Grann (Foreword by)From the #1 bestselling author of The Lost City of the Monkey God, a jaw-dropping discovery of an Egyptian tomb opens up a slew of archaeological mysteries and deadly tales. Now in paperback with an EXCITING BONUS ADVENTURE! What's it like to be the first to enter an Egyptian burial chamber that's been sealed for thousands of years? What horrifying secret was found among the prehistoric ruins of the American Southwest? Who really was the ...

Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an Age of Fraud - Paperback

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by Tom Mueller (Author)"A call to arms and to action, for anyone with a conscience, anyone alarmed about the decline of our democracy." -- New York Times-bestselling author Wendell Potter "Powerful...His extensively reported tales of individual whistleblowers and their often cruel fates are compelling...They reveal what it can mean to live in an age of fraud." -- The Washington Post "Tom Mueller's authoritative and timely book reveals what drives a few brave souls to expose and denounce speci...

Let Me Take You Down: Inside the Mind of Mark David Chapman, the Man Who Killed John Lennon - Paperback

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by Jack Jones (Author)A top crime journalist reveals precisely how the world-shattering murder of John Lennon happened--and why In Let Me Take You Down, Jack Jones penetrates the borderline world of dangerous fantasy in which Mark David Chapman stalked and killed Lennon: Mark David Chapman rose early on the morning of December 8 to make final preparations. . . . Chapman had neatly arranged and left behind a curious assortment of personal items on top of the hotel dresser. In an orderly sem...

Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic - Paperback

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by Alexander Stille (Author)In 1992 Italy was convulsed by two brazen Mafia assassinations of high-ranking officials. The latest "excellent cadavers" were Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, the Sicilian magistrates who had been the Cosa Nostra's most implacable enemies. Yet in the aftermath of the murders, hundreds of "men of honor" were arrested and the government that ad protected them for nearly half a century was at last driven from office. This is the story that Stille tells with suc...

Circumstantial Evidence: Death, Life, and Justice in a Southern Town - Paperback

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by Pete Earley (Author)Author BiographyFormerly a reporter for The Washington Post, Pete Earley is the author of Family of Spies: Inside the John Walker Spy Ring and Circumstantial Evidence: Death, Life, and Justice in a Southern Town, winner of the Edgar Award and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. Number of Pages: 528 Dimensions: 1.07 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: August 01, 1995

The Forensic Psychology of Criminal Minds - Paperback

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by Katherine Ramsland (Author) The bestselling author of The Forensic Science of C.S.I. examines the real-life cases behind the hit television series Criminal Minds Week after week, the hit TV show Criminal Minds gives viewers a look inside the psyches of the fictional serial killers tracked by the BAU (Behavioral Analysis Unit). This elite team of FBI agents travels the country assisting law enforcement officials by examining the crime scene, "profiling" the perpetrator, and aiding in arres...

True Stories of CSI: The Real Crimes Behind the Best Episodes of the Popular TV Show - Paperback

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by Katherine Ramsland (Author)The bestselling forensic psychologist examines the true crimes that inspired the television smash hit, C.S.I. Katherine Ramsland follows the evidence and revisits some of the most absorbing episodes of the phenomenally popular C.S.I. television franchise, and explores the real-life crimes that inspired them. She also looks into the authenticity of the forensic investigations recreated for the dramatizations, and the painstaking real-life forensic process employe...

Comrade J: The Untold Secrets of Russia's Master Spy in America After the End of the Cold War - Paperback

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by Pete Earley (Author)When the Cold War ended, the spying that marked the era did not. An incredible true story from the Pulitzer Prize-nominated New York Times bestselling author of Crazy. Between 1995 and 2000, "Comrade J" was the go-to man for SVR (the successor to the KGB) intelligence in New York City, overseeing all covert operations against the U.S. and its allies in the United Nations. He personally handled every intelligence officer in New York. He knew the names of foreign diplomat...

The Architect of Desire: Beauty and Danger in the Stanford White Family - Paperback

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by Suzannah Lessard (Author)The story of Stanford White--his scandalous affair with the 16-year-old actress Evelyn Nesbit, his murder in 1906 by her husband, the millionaire Harry K. Thaw, and the hailstorm of publicity that surrounded "the trial of the century"--has proven irresistable to generations of novelists, historians, and biographers. The premier neoclassical architect of his day, White's legacy to the world were such masterpieces as New York's original Madison Square Garden, the Was...

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by Miles Corwin (Author)"Remarkable--great journalism, social commentary, and writing rolled into a fascinating, gripping, and at times heart-wrenching story."--Michael Connelly Gaining unprecedented access to the LAPD, crime reporter Miles Corwin shadows two homicide detectives on the mean streets of South Central L.A. Pete "Raz" Razanskas and Marcella Winn were unlikely partners: one a crusty, twenty-two-year veteran of the force; the other a street-smart woman who grew up in the neighborh...

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by Hiroshi Motomura (Author)In 1975, Texas adopted a law allowing school districts to bar children from public schools if they were in the United States unlawfully. The US Supreme Court responded in 1982 with a landmark decision, Plyler v. Doe, that kept open the schoolhouse doors, allowing these children to get the education that state law would have denied. The Court established a child's constitutional right to attend public elementary and secondary schools, regardless of immigration statu...

Midnight in Mexico: A Reporter's Journey Through a Country's Descent Into Darkness - Paperback

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by Alfredo Corchado (Author)One of Time Magazine's Sixteen Best True Crime Books of All Time A crusading Mexican-American journalist searches for justice and hope in an increasingly violent Mexico In the last decade, more than 100,000 people have been killed or disappeared in the Mexican drug war, and drug trafficking there is a multibillion-dollar business. In a country where the powerful are rarely scrutinized, noted Mexican-American journalist Alfredo Corchado refuses to shrink from report...

No Right to Remain Silent: What We've Learned from the Tragedy at Virginia Tech - Paperback

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by Lucinda Roy (Author)The world watched in horror in April 2007 when Virginia Tech student Seung-Hui Cho went on a killing rampage that resulted in the deaths of thirty-two students and faculty members before he ended his own life. Former Virginia Tech English department chair and distinguished professor Lucinda Roy saw the tragedy unfold on the TV screen in her home and had a terrible realization. Cho was the student she had struggled to get to know-the loner who found speech torturous. Aft...

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by Hock Hochheim (Author)True Crime! "Don't Even Think About It!" Crime and justice in the U.S. Army and Texas. It is a threat Hock issued to criminals at the moment of arrest when they looked like they would attack him or run off. Book 1 in the Hock Hochheim memoirs, covers the "patrol years." Book 2, "Dead Right There," covers his many detective years with the US Army Military Police, and Texas police. Hock's career spans three decades. Here in Book 1, he responds to a plethora of crimes an...

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by Robert L. Snow (Author)On December 1, 1971, the bodies of Robert Gierse, James Barker, and Robert Hinson were found in their blood-spattered Indianapolis home. All three had reputations as prodigious womanizers, hard-drinking bar fighters, and unscrupulous businessmen--the kind of men with more enemies than friends. When detectives searched the home and discovered an address book used as a sex contest scorecard, their new suspect list included jilted one-night stands, jealous boyfriends, a...

Killers in the Family: Killers in the Family: Inside a Real Family of Criminals Bound by Blood - Paperback

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by Robert L. Snow (Author)Everyone in the neighborhood thought the Reese family was no good, but it would be twenty-six years before they really learned how bad they were... In July 2008, there were a rash of murders in Indianapolis, three of which occurred during robberies committed by Brian Reese. It turned out he learned his life of crime at home: his father, Paul Sr., who served as his lookout man, had been in and out of prison numerous times, and his mother, Barbara--who was Brian's geta...

The Shark Net: Memories and Murder - Paperback

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by Robert Drewe (Author)Author BiographyRobert Drewe, one of Australia's premier literary novelists, has won many national and international awards for his work. He has written seven novels as well as short stories, plays, and articles. Number of Pages: 304 Dimensions: 0.7 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: July 01, 2001

Smalltime: A Story of My Family and the Mob - Paperback

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by Russell Shorto (Author)Best-selling author Russell Shorto, praised for his incisive works of narrative history, never thought to write about his own past. He grew up knowing his grandfather and namesake was a small-town mob boss but maintained an unspoken family vow of silence. Then an elderly relative prodded: You're a writer--what are you gonna do about the story? Smalltime is a mob story straight out of central casting--but with a difference, for the small-town mob, which stretched from...

A Columbine Book - We Are All Columbine: 25 Years of Healing - Paperback

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by C. Shepard (Author)25 years ago, a sleepy suburb in Denver was turnedupside-down when two armed teens attackedColumbine High in the worst school shooting ofits time. The road to recovery hasn't been easy forthe survivors and their families, but they'redetermined to make some good come from their loss. WE ARE ALL COLUMBINE takes you on a guidedtour of Columbine High School and the ColumbineMemorial for the 25th anniversary memorial service. With updated information about the school and thee...

We've Got Some Things to Say: Reshaping Narratives Around Sexual Violence - Paperback

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by Mary Simmerling (Editor)We've Got Some Things to Say: Reshaping Narratives Around Sexual Violence begins with a simple but profound mission: giving survivors back their stories, in their own words. Building on the work of We've Been Put Through Fire & Come Out Divine: Stories of Hope & Survival, this anthology tackles some of the harmful societal questions and myths that silence and shame survivors, confronting the thinly veiled accusations that lie behind questions such as "What w...

Joliet Prison Blues: A Century of Stories - Hardcover

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by Amy Kinzer Steidinger (Author)Named warden of the Illinois State Penitentiary in 1913, Edmund Allen arrived with a glamorous new wife and ambitious plans of reform that did away with years of striped uniforms and humiliating practices. Two years later, his wife was found murdered in her bed, shocking the country and throwing the prison into chaos. Over the past century, life behind bars at Joliet has often been a national spectacle. Infamous inmates like Leopold and Loeb, John Wayne Gacy, ...

Beyond the Green Widow: Consequences of the Piney Woods Creek Murders of 1921 - Paperback

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by Juanita Green Hollinghead (Author), Sherye S. Green (Author)Prohibition began as a well-intentioned and earnest effort by politicians and temperance movement leaders to stem the tide of evils threatening Americans due to the use of alcohol. However, none could have envisioned how differently and disastrously the period would end. Former President Herbert Hoover referred to Prohibition as "the great social and economic experiment." The good intentions inspiring these thirteen years were jux...

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by Leo A. Murray (Author), James M. Walsh Esq (Author) Number of Pages: 242 Dimensions: 0.55 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: December 25, 2024

Rooting Out Shame: A Son's Account of Child Sexual Abuse and Recovery - Paperback

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by Frank A. Root (Author) A dutiful son does whatever he can to earn his parent's approval and falls under their control and is subjected to child sexual abuse lasting nearly a decade. Repressing his memories for over 30 years, he faces his struggles as they emerge. Dealing with family, work, and a broken legal system, he overcomes and adapts to heal and recover.This book is non-fiction and very graphic. Readers should be aware of many triggering aspects of the content.Frank Root III has reti...

Object: A Memoir of Childhood Abuse and a Shocking Cover-Up at the Highest Ranks of Government - Paperback

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by Kristin Louise Duncombe (Author)What happens when an American diplomat is exposed as a sexual abuser of young girls? In her searing memoir, Kristin Louise Duncombe takes us back to her childhood in West Africa, where her life is a tapestry of lazy family days by the pool and secret abuse at the hands of an esteemed member of the close-knit US Embassy community. When the assailant is outed by one brave girl and more preteens come forward, the scandal is hushed up by the State Department, th...

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by Bob Brodnik (Author) Number of Pages: 280 Dimensions: 0.69 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: January 14, 2025