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121) From Gangster to God
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Writing my true-crime autobiography is only half the story. The second half is my redemption and repentance to my Lord and savior Jesus Christ. The book is 100 percent truth, from my wild childhood days in New York City to me joining the US Navy at age sixteen and serving eight years honorably. The only problem, I was living a double life. I was also a mob associate and worked with a crew from one of the five families. It was the early 1990s, the...
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First published in 1914, this detailed account of female hobos is a rare and beautiful example of early American storytelling. The Adventures of a Female Tramp is social history, presenting vagabond underground culture with humor, excitement and a flare for the dramatic. Each of the cross-country adventures are, told by "the famous hobo" A. No. 1, who authored several books about tramping, including From Coast to Coast with Jack London, which inspired...
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He plotted to kill Pope John Paul...to crash a plane into CIA headquarters...to blow 11 airliners flying from Asia to the United States. But it isn't the things that he plotted that he is known for-it's the one that was carried out: the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Today the attack is largely overshadowed by 9/11, but at the time it was one of the most memorable attacks on American soil.
This book provides insight into Yousef life, his planning...
124) The Real Life Sherlock Holmes: A Biography of Joseph Bell - The True Inspiration of Sherlock Holm
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How did Sir Arthur Conan Doyle create a character so real and life-like? In a nutshell: he didn't! As is often the case, fiction stems from real life. In the case of Sherlock Holmes, Doyle's inspiration was Joseph Bell.
While Joseph Bell doesn't have near the fame of his fictitious counterpart, Bell was actually a pioneer of forensic science. Bell's unique skills at observation and deduction made him a celebrity and a famous lecturer in his homeland...
125) Pure Evil
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A book about some of the world's most famous serial killers and the crimes that they committed. In this book you will read about Richard Ramirez, Ed Gein, John Wayne Gacy, Andrei Chikatilo ,Gary Ridgway and Charles Starkweather and the inhuman acts that they committed. Their crimes forever changed the way the world looked at murder and introduced countless people to the concept of the serial killer and the pure evil that drives them.
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When John Wilkes Booth died-shot inside a burning barn and dragged out twelve days after he assassinated President Lincoln-all he had in his pocket were a compass, a candle, a diary, and five photographs of five different women. They were not ordinary women. Four of them were among the most beautiful actresses of the day; the fifth was Booth's wealthy fiancé.
And those five women are just the tip of the iceberg.
Before he shot the president...
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Odette Barr and her partner, YoAnne Beauchamp, spent nearly ten years completely immersed in Inuit culture in the decade prior to the official birth of Nunavut Territory. Teaching at the Top of the World is the account of their experiences as teachers and community members in Pangnirtung, Hall Beach, and Grise Fiord. The focus of the writing centers on Grise Fiord, Canada's most northern permanently inhabited community, nestled on the south shore...
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When his lawsuit money starts to get low, Sonny Brown finds out from the most unusual sources that the pimp life may have been just a natural call of the wild.
The system hasn't been too kind to Angela "Angel" Cooper either, so she connects with Sonny on her eighteenth birthday since foster care is about to throw her to the wolves anyway.
There are many obstacles, and they find themselves in more than a few perplexing predicaments where Sonny...
129) Prison Dogs
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Guy Jones a natural athlete with a competitive spirit always had one foot on the slippery slope of life. The natural athlete turned into a natural fighter. Jones' path landed him in a Florida prison. Prison is one of Life's "Last Chance Hotels". They are designed so that a person can change his life if he chooses. You can learn a trade and further your education, but you have to do it in an over crowded jail, dominated by gangs, rife with drugs and...
130) Oh! Susannah
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What was it really like living as a woman in rural Ohio before, during, and after the Civil War? Beckley's grandfather's grandfather was the son of an unpretentious woman who did just that. Unknowingly, she became a family matriarch, and through the use of family documents handed down over the generations, along with governmental archives, and courthouse documents, Beckley is able to reconstruct her life. His research leads him to overgrown vacant...
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This book chronicles the eighteen years that a teacher worked in a maximum-security prison. Coming from twenty-five years in sales, Stan Lockshin had made the bold career transition to forever change his life. At the age of forty-six, there was an eager, burning question that prodded him: what will he do when he "grows" up?
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Kate Kelly, the daring sister of legendary bushranger Ned Kelly, was mysteriously found dead in a lagoon outside the NSW town of Forbes in 1898.
At the inquest, Kate's husband Bricky Foster claimed that she was addicted to drink and frequently spoke of suicide. However, a neighbour testified that she had only known Kate to drink since the recent birth of her baby and that she never spoke of suicide. Was it suicide, accident or murder, and why had...
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This is the story of a woman stricken with grief by the unexpected loss of her husband. Unbeknownst to her, this grief, which she suppressed because she was a "very strong and fearless person," became very vulnerable and fell victim to a network of intrigue and lies. Penney-a strong, independent woman, who would be the very last person one would think, who would fall prey to a scam-proves that if it happened to her, it could happen to anyone.
Having...
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Modern Christian denominations are deeply split about whether or not heterosexual relationships between one man and one woman are the only sexual relationships permitted by God. Several denominations, including the one to which the author belongs, consider evidence of any sexual relationships other than heterosexual relationships to be sufficient evidence to bar the participants from church membership. The book you are holding contains the story of...
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Hay muchas personas que han manifestado su incredulidad con respecto al hecho de que todo este libro sea en sí, la narración de un terrorista, y tienen dudas sobre la veracidad de la historia. Me gustaría responderles a todos ellos con ese adagio tan conocido de que: "A veces, la realidad supera a la ficción " Lo que tenemos que entender aquí es que, la mayoría de los terroristas en el mundo son jóvenes engañados; sus mentes han sido manipuladas,...
137) Me and My Brothers
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An updated edition of the bestselling autobiography of Charlie Kray, elder brother of the Kray twins, Ronnie and Reggie, who are brought to the screen this autumn in a major motion picture. Charlie Kray was the only person who knew the truth behind the terrifying violence of his notorious twin brothers, Ronnie and Reggie. In his dying days, reflecting on how the Kray name destroyed his life, Charlie reveals what he really thought about the twins -...
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Ming presents his life through the eyes of Mike Lee, just coming home from prison and trying to make a life for himself. The obstacles Mike faces and his handling of them dictates the course of his life as he tries to better himself and find a place in this world. While trying to get his life together, a series of events leads Mike down a familiar path. This Book is not to Glorify one's past but, to share a person’s mistakes. As Mike deals with...
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Bikies consider themselves 'the last free people in society'; unrestricted by the laws that rule ordinary citizens. Yet they have strict joining rules and jealously guard their privacy. The twenty-first century has seen bikie culture move from secretive disorganized crime to far more threatening organized criminal activities that led to the death of a Hells Angel's associate at Sydney airport in 2009, and the gang-style killings that preceded it. Arthur...
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At last! After a lifetime of silence; a man who actually knew the ZODIAC KILLER steps from the shadows and tells his story. Finally we hear the REAL truth about The ZODIAC KILLER. This is the story of America's most methodical planner and notorious serial killer. A man who was completely obsessed with death and who had two life-long accomplices. This is the story of the Zodiac Killer's personal relationship with the author of this book. A relationship...
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