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In 1970s Brooklyn, with the promise of violence everywhere, a currency itself, this story of community, crime and gentrification chronicles more than 50 years of life in one neighborhood where the players write the headlines, the histories and the laws of the streets.
2) Panther Gap
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"The thrilling follow-up to the Edgar Award-winning Bearskin, about two siblings on the verge of inheriting millions but who discover dark secrets in their family's past. Siblings Bowman and Summer were raised by their father and two uncles on a remote Colorado ranch. They react differently to his radical teachings and the confusions of adolescence. As young adults, they become estranged but are brought back together in their thirties by the prospect...
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Over the last thirty years, many people who have heard my life's testimony suggested that I write this book. The book starts off with my verbally and emotional abusive relationship with my father that eventually caused me to accept atheism and to run away from home at the age of fourteen. I went to Hell's Kitchen in New York City and joined a local gang, the Park Rats.
The middle section shows my association with The Genovese Mafia due to work provided...
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Buddies are well-organized groups of teen hackers from Ivory Coast, West Africa. They can hack anything they want. They scam international institutions, credit and debit cards, international humanitarian organizations, armies, transport companies and more.
They work hand-in-hand with bank workers, law enforcement officers and men in power of different countries so that they can safely blow thousands of dollars in one night to have fun in nightclubs...
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Brendan Hughes' gritty, fast-paced memoir charts his rise through the ranks of the Irish Republican Army in the early years of The Troubles in Northern Ireland. Hughes reveals how his secret unit planned and executed the celebrated helicopter escape from Dublin's Mountjoy Jail in 1973 and carried out a series of audacious bank raids to fund the organisation's armed resistance to British rule. For the first time, he also tells the inside story of how...
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I'm an Irish author from Dublin.
This is my autobiography called,
"How Much Pain Can Our Hearts Endure"
My wife Audrey and I have been living a nightmare since Amy went missing in Spain back in 2008.
I write about the death of my stepson, Dean.
I also write about life behind bars in Dublin's notorious prisons, from Mountjoy, Wheatfield and Cloverhill.
The Shark, or should I say Cancer, that has affected all of my family...
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The truth about the disappearances in Mexico and the links between drug cartels and the Mexican government, that is basically the content of this book, the historical relationship between López Obrador, now president of Mexico, and the organized crime groups that have financed his electoral campaigns and a group of his favorites to gain power. A book about the degradation of democracy in the last five years, the collapse of the economy and the use...
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TONY ANTHONY knew no fear. Three-times World Kung Fu Champion, he was self-assured, powerful and at the pinnacle of his art. An extraordinary career awaited him. Working in the higher echelons of close protection security, he travelled the globe, guarding some of the world's wealthiest, most powerful, and influential people. This fast paced, compelling and, at times, chilling account is Tony's deeply moving true story. More extraordinary than fantasy,...
10) Scary Deaths
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The human brain is designed to look into the future, but with limitations. The only certainty that exists in life is that everyone dies; but despite this, the brain hides it for fear of maddening its bearer. This truth usually emerges from time to time as a "Fear of death". The fear that that moment will come and that there will be neither present nor future ends up being inevitable. The way it arrives adds uncertainty and horror: will it be sudden...
11) Raw: A Memoir
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Raw chronicles a childhood marred by physical, sexual and emotional abuse, and a man's subsequent innefective search for identity in gangs, dysfunctional relationships, the military and even politics. The ongoing impacts of childhood trauma reach a climax when Damien firebombs the home of a man accused of rape. He subsequently becomes an artist and writer in prison.
"Childhood trauma. Unanswered cries for help. Coming to terms with sex, love and...
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"El libro de Sean lleva al lector a través de dos años y medio de horrible decepción y muerte, y más de 40 años de encerrar las emociones y la verdad. Su compasión aflora cuando describe las secuelas del trastorno de estrés postraumático. Se trata de una narración estremecedora e inquietante, pero existe la sensación de que conocer la verdad nos invita a cambiar la realidad de nuestra historia de amor con el ejército. Podemos despertar,...
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"The Chicken Ranch was the one, great festering, frustrating sore on the face of law enforcement in Texas."The year was 1973. The State of Texas had just elected a new reform-minded governor and attorney general. And Houston's ABC-TV affiliate station at Channel 13 had just launched a new consumer-oriented investigative feature by hiring flamboyant former lawman Marvin Zindler to seize the spotlight. The roads from those disparate events crossed quickly...
14) The Iron Heart Reinhard Heydrich: Captivating Story of the Jewish Holocaust Architect, Reinhard H
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Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich, known to the Nazis as The Blond Beast and to others as Hangman Heydrich, was the main architect of Hitler's Final Solution, and one among the main architects of the Holocaust in which the Nazis intended to destroy the entire Jewish population of Europe. Heydrich was a cold, calculating manipulator without empathy. Heydrich was described as a guy with ruthless, brave, and cold intelligence for whom truth and goodness...
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In Education of a Felon, the reigning champion of prison novelists finally tells his own story. The son of an alcoholic stagehand father and a Busby Berkeley chorus girl, Bunker was--at seventeen--the youngest inmate ever in San Quentin. His hard-won experiences on L.A.'s meanest streets and in and out of prison gave him the material to write some of the grittiest and most affecting novels of our time.
From smoking a joint in the gas chamber to...
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Saddle up and embark on an epic journey through the untamed and captivating landscapes of the Old American West in volume three of A Fraternity of Gunslingers: True Stories of Wild West Gunmen. The Civil War may have been a defining chapter in American history, but it was also the catalyst that birthed the age of gunslingers. In this riveting non-fiction tome, you'll discover that the Old West is more than just the stuff of legends; it's a saga of...
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In the turbulent seas of the 17th century, where lawlessness reigned and fortunes were made and lost with the swing of a cutlass, the age of buccaneers and pirates forged legends that still captivate us today. This enthralling book delves into the heart of the buccaneer era, from 1600 to 1700, bringing to life the most notorious pirates who sailed the Caribbean and beyond.
Embark on a journey through treacherous waters, where the Jolly Roger...
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Lance Herndon was at the top of his game in 1996. At age forty-one he was a self-made millionaire, the owner of Access, Inc., a successful information-systems consulting company. As a prominent member of Atlanta's young, wealthy, and powerful set, he was surrounded by black Atlanta's "beautiful people." But when he failed to show up for work one day, friends and family started to worry. Their worry soon turned to horror when he was found murdered...
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The Pursuit of Freedom an autobiography by Mark Cass is Intriguing, captivating, enlightening, explosive, alarming, disturbing, inviting, embarrassing, disheartening, slanderous, scandalous, harmful, dangerous, and funny. - Harolene C. When was the last time you heard a book described this way? It kind of makes you want to read it, now doesn't it? Some have advised me not to publish this book without heavy redactions. I disagree. I think the raw honesty...
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The horrifying account of the Charles Stuart case, in which ambition drove a man to murder his pregnant wife-and blame a fictitious African-American killer. On October 23, 1989, affluent businessman Charles Stuart made a frantic 911 call from his car to report that he and his seven-months-pregnant wife, Carol, a lawyer, had been robbed and shot by a black male in the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston. By the time police arrived, Carol was dead,...
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