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Summary of A Mother's Reckoning by Sue Klebold | Includes Analysis Preview: In her memoir A Mother's Reckoning, Sue Klebold struggles to come to terms with her son Dylan's role in the infamous Columbine High School shooting. Writing 16 years after the shooting, she reflects on when and where things went wrong for Dylan-and how she and her husband, who were loving parents, could have missed the warning signs. Klebold's story begins with the voicemail...
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Born in the shadows of a railroad yard, of a wandering mother who took her lovers where she found them and a father who was scarcely conscious of her arrival in the world, Bertha Thompson took to 'the road' as soon as the restless impulses of adolescence stirred in her. She was more interested in wanders than those who settled down in homes, more interested in criminals than law-abiding citizens. She wanted to see how they lived, live as they did,...
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Each century has its folk figures in which villainy and heroism combine to produce larger than life individuals who then become part of American history and legend celebrated in song and story. This is particularly true of the western United States in the 19th century when the restless expansion of a growing nation was reflected in an era of extreme individualism. This was not only the time of Horatio Alger's "rags to riches" sagas but also a time...
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A sterling collection of the year's most shocking, compelling, and gripping writing about real-life crime, the 2006 edition of The Best American Crime Writing offers fascinating vicarious journeys into a world of felons and their felonious acts. This thrilling compendium includes:
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Jeffrey Toobin's eye-opening exposé in The New Yorker about a famous prosecutor who may have put the wrong man on death row
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Skip Hollandsworth's amazing but...
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A collection of poetry and prose by six incarcerated men. Featuring an introduction by Amber Epps and an afterword by novelist John Edgar Wideman. The six authors of Life Sentences―Fly, Faruq, Khalifa, Malakki, Oscar, and Shawn―met at the State Correctional Institution in Pittsburgh and came together in 2013 to form the Elsinore Bennu Think Tank for Restorative Justice. The men met weekly for years, along with other writers, activists,...
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Los motociclistas fuera de la ley y los clubes de motociclistas del 1% siempre han protegido cuidadosamente su privacidad; sin embargo, en los últimos años se han escrito más y más libros sobre motociclistas fuera de la ley, el estilo de vida y las realidades de la vida dentro del mundo de los clubes de motociclistas parcheados.
Esta antología reúne a algunos de los mejores autores del mundo, que recientemente han escrito sobre clubes de motociclistas,...
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Outlaw bikers and 1%er motorcycle clubs have always carefully guarded their privacy, however in recent years more and more books have come to be written by and about outlaw bikers, the lifestyle, and the realities of life inside the patched motorcycle club world.
This anthology brings together some of the best authors in the world, who have recently written about motorcycle clubs, outlaw bikers and the biker culture. It features excerpts from...
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Les motards hors-la-loi et les clubs de motards 1% ont toujours soigneusement protégé leur vie privée, mais ces dernières années, de plus en plus de livres ont été écrits par et sur les motards hors-la-loi, le mode de vie et les réalités de la vie dans le monde des clubs de motards patchés.
Cette anthologie rassemble certains des meilleurs auteurs au monde, qui ont récemment écrit sur les clubs de motards, les motards hors-la-loi et...
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So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Fatal Vision tells you what you need to know before or after you read Joe McGinniss'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 Fatal Vision by Joe McGinniss includes: • Historical context • Section-by-section overviews • Detailed timeline of key events •...
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So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Executioner's Song tells you what you need to know-before or after you read Norman Mailer'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 summary of The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer includes: • Historical context • Part-by-part summaries • Detailed timeline of key events • Profiles...
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So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of In Cold Blood tells you what you need to know-before or after you read Truman Capote'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 In Cold Blood by Truman Capote includes: • Historical context • Chapter-by-chapter summaries • Detailed timeline of important events...
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A true crime anthology exploring the dangerous side of romance-with couples who bonded over murder, mayhem and more.
What brings criminal couples together? And what drives them apart? This volume of The Best New True Crime Stories attempts to answer these questions with a deep dive into true tales of lawless love. Everyone's heard of Bonnie and Clyde, but the annals of crime history are full of dysfunctional duos whose deadly escapades are equally...
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“Badasses of the Old West” brings together thirty-six tales of the worst (and best) robbers, rustlers, and bandits who shaped the history of the Wild West in one compelling volume. From the famous, such as Billy the Kid and the Wild Bunch, to the lesser-known but still colorful and wicked Charles Brown and Bud Stevens. Here are just some of the fascinating and forbidding faces you'll meet:
-Bud Stevens, whose murder of a cattle king's son rang...
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So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Black Mass tells you what you need to know-before or after you read Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill'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 Black Mass by Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill includes: Historical context, chapter-by-chapter summaries, detailed timeline...
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Comprising articles from the Chicago Tribune's in-depth coverage of the Rita Crundwell scandal, Draining Dixon is the true-life account of the Dixon, Illinois, comptroller who embezzled over $50 million from municipal coffers during a twenty-year career in local government. From 1983 to April 2012, Crundwell kept an eye over virtually every dollar that passed through the small town of Dixon's accounts, while also running one of the most successful...
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So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original "Psycho" tells you what you need to know-before or after you read Harold Schechter'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 Deviant includes: Historical context; Chapter-by-chapter overviews; Profiles...
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In this unprecedented and chilling monologue, a repentant Mexican hitman tells the unvarnished truth about the war on drugs on the American. El Sicario is the hidden face of America's war on drugs. He is a contract killer who functioned as a commandante in the Chihuahuan State police, who was trained in the US by the FBI, and who for twenty years kidnapped, tortured and murdered people for the drug industry at the behest of Mexican drug cartels. He...
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So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Stranger Beside Me tells you what you need to know-before or after you read Ann Rule'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 The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule includes: Historical context; Section-by-section summariesl Detailed timeline of important eventsl...
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This anthology brings together the creative work of men from four Oregon prisons: Mill Creek Correctional Facility, Salem; Deer Ridge Correctional Facility, Madras; Columbia River Correctional Facility, Portland; and Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem. The men's poems, essays, and artwork-collected by their devoted writing teacher, Michele Dishong McCormack-reach beyond the prison walls and bear witness to our common struggle. On the tenth anniversary...
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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;...
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