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Publisher
TI Inc. Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Fresh twists on notorious trials are the focus of True Crime Stories: Cases That Shocked America, a special edition of PEOPLE magazine. A companion to the new Investigation Discovery network series People Magazine Investigates, this edition explores crimes that have remained a mystery for years, the 1996 murder of toddler pageant contestant JonBenet Ramsey, the disappearance of little Lisa Irwin from her Kansas home in 2011, and reports on the latest...
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Publisher
WildBlue Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A young man's rebellion lands him in a Mexican prison, where theater becomes a lifeline in this memoir of angst, crime, friendship and redemption. Richard Jewkes was in his senior year as a University of Utah theater student when he became disenchanted with his strict Mormon upbringing. Over Christmas break, he and a college friend took off for Mexico seeking adventure. If the adventure hadn't included smuggling drugs, it might have just been another...
Author
Publisher
Normanby Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Strange & Prophetic Dreams of the Indian People. This is a touching story of a great grandmother instilling the Indian spirit in her great grandson. It gives guidelines for a glorious future: 'We have had enough now of talk. Let there be deeds.' In the words that follow we have written simply and wholly what we believe, believing that only God is the Knower. That men should love one another and understand one another is the great message of the visions...
Author
Publisher
WildBlue Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"This true crime memoir of Mafia-controlled NYC goes from mean streets to shadowy back rooms and the glittering Copacabana at its peak. Joe Silvestri was a tough kid from Queens who went on to be one of New York's most respected mafia muscle man. He worked security at the glamorous Copacabana, rubbing shoulders with the likes of Tom Jones and Frank Sinatra. He was there as a guest of Sammy Davis, Jr., the night Mickey Mantle and other legendary Yankees...
Publisher
Worth Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Escape from Alcatraz tells you what you need to know--before or after you read J. Campbell Bruce's book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader. This short summary and analysis of Escape from Alcatraz by J. Campbell Bruce includes: Historical context Chapter-by-chapter summaries Important quotes Fascinating...
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Publisher
Austin Macauley Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In an age where the story of murder is told of perpetrators who are generally behind bars, by the families of the victims of crime, or by the authorities who have prosecuted killers, here is a story told from a different perspective. This is the story of Nicolas Claux, a self-confessed Vampire and Cannibal who, having been convicted of murder in the 1990's in France, and has since been subsequently released from prison. This is the story of his life,...
7) The Real Mr. Big: How a Colombian Refugee Became the United Kingdom's Most Notorious Cocaine Kingpin
Author
Publisher
WildBlue Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"This true crime memoir is both a "high-speed train trip through the modern cocaine trade" and a story of reform, redemption and family (Gerald Posner, and author of Pharma ). Born in 1960, Jesus Ruiz Henao wanted to be rich like the drug dealers he saw as he grew up in the cocaine-producing region of Colombia's Valle of the Cauca. In 1985, he moved to the quiet London suburb of Hendon, where he and his wife held down mundane cleaning and bus driving...
Author
Publisher
Publication Consultants
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
I served as chief of police in the Alaska bush community of Seldovia for nearly 32 years. Alaska Bush Cop is the first of four books describing what actually took place during those years. When I took the chief's position, I had no training, and in this book, you'll find what I endured while learning how to be a police officer. I write about mistakes made and their repercussions. The events in Alaska Bush Cop did take place and are depicted the way...
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Series
Southwest panorama volume no. 3
Publisher
Borodino Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The saga of the great mule teams and giant wagons that are today's romantic symbol of Death Valley began long before the first muleskinner piloted his lumbering borax freighters out of the Big Sink. Its roots were in that night when Aaron and Rosie Winters crouched in their darkened camp at Furnace Creek and read their future in the green-flickering flame of burning borax. But its seed went farther back." First published in 1955, this is a wonderful...
Author
Publisher
Borodino Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The charm of Elliot Paul's storytelling is that nowhere does he allow relevancy to cloud the brilliance of his art. Mr. Paul seeks to pleasure you. Like a skillful skater on a frozen pond, he cuts intricate figures on memory's gleaming surface. If, here and there, the ice is thin he chances it rather than interrupt the onlooker's delight. To Mr. Paul, the figure's the thing. So, in A Ghost Town on the Yellowstone, which was first published in 1948;...
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Publisher
Papamoa Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Through his work in motion pictures, Lloyd Bridges appreciated the impact of skin diving upon this medium and presented an exciting picture of future possibilities in underwater photography. The author's role in Sea Hunt made him keenly aware of the revolution developing in the fields of salvage diving, treasure hunting, search and rescue, science, gold mining, and other virgin areas open to skin divers with imagination and enterprise. He described...
Author
Publisher
Papamoa Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
" ... a fundamental work for anyone who desires both the English version of the story of this path-breaking voyage and an up-to-date evaluation of the scholarly production about the voyage that has appeared during the last four and a half centuries."-Lewis Hanke, Columbia University Today when men orbit the globe in a few minutes, it is difficult to imagine the awe that accompanied the news of the three years' voyage completing man's first circumnavigation...
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Publisher
Red Kestrel Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
COLD: The Record of an Antarctic Sledge Journey , first published in 1931, is the account of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition by its second in command, Laurence Gould. The book documents life at the Little America" base station and provides a lively account of the group's five-person, 1500 mile dog-sled journey across Antarctica. COLD , filled with details of cold-weather equipment and survival, cooking and food needs, the Antarctic landscape, their...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
John 'Goldfinger' Palmer was a multi-millionaire kingpin of the British underworld, who would go on to mastermind a criminal empire to dwarf any crook of his generation. Palmer hit the big time in 1983 with the Brink's-Mat gold bullion raid, netting £500 million in today's money for himself and Kenneth Noye - the biggest heist in UK criminal history at the time. While murders and lethal accidents befell at least 20 accomplices and police officers...
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Language
English
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Description
Looking for an escape from childhood abuse, Reymundo Sanchez turned away from school and baseball to drugs, alcohol, and sex. He was left to fend for himself before the age of 14. The Latin Kings, one of the largest and most notorious street gangs in America, became his refuge and his world, but its violence cost him friends, freedom, self-respect, and nearly his life. This is a raw and powerful odyssey through the ranks of the new mafia, where the...
16) Ghost Gold
Author
Publisher
Phocion Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Ghost Gold , first published in 1954, is the story of Arizona's Superstition Mountain and the Lost Dutchman Mine, a legendary mine containing a rich gold deposit (whether or not the mine does in fact exist remains an unanswered question). In a fascinating look at the mine's history, author Oren Arnold (1900-1980) recounts the known facts and legends about the exploration and 'discovery' of the mine and the fate of some its the notable personalities...
Author
Publisher
Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"Gives us a portrait close to the truth" of the man responsible for the Tate-LaBianca murders that changed Hollywood and ended the sixties ( The New York Times Book Review ). This astonishing book lays bare the life and the mind of a man whose acts have left us horrified. His story provides an enormous amount of new information about his life and how it led to the Tate-LaBianca murders and reminds us of the complexity of the human condition. Born...
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Series
Publisher
Borodino Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"We are dealing here with a living literature," wrote Morris Edward Opler in his preface to Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua Apache Indians. First published in 1942, this is another classic study by the author of Myths and Tales of the Jicarilla Apache Indians. Opler conducted field work among the Chiricahuas in the American Southwest, as he had earlier among the Jicarillas. The result is a definitive collection of their myths. They range from an...
Author
Publisher
Borodino Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Dale Van Every's soaring adventure saga of the untamed Kentucky wilderness, a savage woman and the young frontiersman who set out to conquer them both ... They weathered the brutal winter of '79 in an isolated cave deep in the Kentucky wilderness: Adam Frane, backwoodsman, rifleman, soldier; and Nita, the proud, passionate woman who had rejected her civilized past for the life of a Cherokee squaw. They shred that cruel season knowing that, when the...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Essex has certainly had its fair share of bad guys during its history. From highwaymen to smugglers, thieves to murderers, it can boast some of the country's most notorious figures. The legendary Dick Turpin was Essex born and bred, wreaking havoc in Epping Forest. At the other end of the county, in Manningtree, the ruthless Matthew Hopkins scoured the area in search of 'witches' - putting to death anyone who had as much as a wart on the end of their...
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