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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 in the middle of the Depression to an unmarried fifteen-year-old, Manson lived through a bewildering succession of changing homes and substitute parents, until his mother finally...
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Neal returns to Boston from his tour in Iraq only to discover that the country he vowed to protect has little use for him now. Royce, a fellow vet, offers him a much-needed job-- using his military skills to intercept major drug deals, taking the dirty money while destroying the product. It's almost too good to be true ...
3) The hot rock
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Dortmunder novels volume 1
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Fresh out of prison, Dortmunder plans a heist that could mean war John Dortmunder leaves jail with ten dollars, a train ticket, and nothing to make money on but his good name. Thankfully, his reputation goes far. No one plans a caper better than Dortmunder. His friend Kelp picks him up in a stolen Cadillac and drives him away from Sing-Sing, telling a story of a $500,000 emerald that they just have to steal. Dortmunder doesn't hesitate to agree. ...
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"Beatrice Carraway has dreams. Although she's aged out of the childhood pageant circuit, she's intent on carrying her talents all the way to the big screen--if only she can escape the poverty of West Dallas first. But as the Great Depression drags the working class further and further under, Beatrice struggles just to keep herself, her mother, and her younger sister afloat. After a string of failed auditions, she feels defeated.And then in walks Jack...
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The true story of one of Hitler's most feared and brutal killers: his life and crimes, postwar atrocities, and forty-year evasion of justice. During World War II, SS Hauptsturmführer Nikolaus "Klaus" Barbie earned a reputation for sadistic cruelty unmatched by all but a handful of his contemporaries in Adolf Hitler's Gestapo. In 1942, he was dispatched to Nazi-occupied France after leaving his bloodstained mark on the Netherlands. In Lyons, Barbie...
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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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Based on a true story, this gripping debut novel tells the tale of a young lady entering womanhood, ensnared in the vicious cycle of dematerialized soul tie symptoms, addiction, violence, and crime. A single mother in a world where other women knew their position, she played the game. Set against the gritty backdrop of a harsh world, the protagonist grapples with the loss of loved ones and battles addiction to crack cocaine while navigating the perilous...
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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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La historia de Jeffrey Epstein y otras historias ha capturado la atención del mundo entero. Este financiero multimillonario, conocido por su relación con prominentes figuras políticas, celebridades y empresarios, fue acusado de dirigir una red de tráfico sexual de menores y enfrentaba graves cargos criminales. Sin embargo, su muerte en prisión en agosto de 2019, oficialmente catalogada como suicidio, dejó muchas preguntas sin respuesta y alimentó...
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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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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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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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Jack Ruby changed history with one bold, violent action: killing accused presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald on live TV two days after the November 22, 1963, murder of President John F. Kennedy. But who was Jack Ruby-and how did he come to be in that spot on that day?
As we approach the sixtieth anniversaries of the murders of Kennedy and Oswald, Jack Ruby's motives are as maddeningly ambiguous today as they were the day that he pulled the trigger.
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This story will take you through the life of John Palermo: how I grew up, and how I was influenced by some of the most celebrated historical top organized-crime figures in America for over thirty years. This journey by one child and a man will take you through some of the most corrupt courts, mob-controlled towns, and politicians. This story is my firsthand account of corruption in my own situations and what I have been told and seen. I formed my...
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Finalist for the Edgar Award: The gripping account of a sexual predator's reign of terror and the manhunt that sought to bring him to justice From 1983 to 1988, a serial rapist preyed on the women of Cleveland's West Side. His victims were spied on, stalked, and brutally assaulted, their most intimate moments invaded by a vicious stranger. Arrested more than a dozen times for other crimes, Ronnie Shelton slipped through the cracks of an overburdened...
17) X Rubicone: Attraversare la vita, il sesso, l'amore, Uccidere nelle guerre per procura della CIA: Un
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"Il libro di Sean conduce il lettore in modo veritiero attraverso gli orrendi due anni e mezzo di inganno e di morte, e gli oltre 40 anni in cui ha rinchiuso emozioni e verità. La sua compassione emerge quando descrive le conseguenze del PTSD. Si tratta di una narrazione sconvolgente, ma c'è la sensazione che conoscere la verità ci inviti a cambiare la realtà della nostra storia d'amore con l'esercito. Possiamo svegliarci, prendere coscienza di...
18) 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...
19) Oswald's Game
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While much was written in the wake of Lee Harvey Oswald's assassination of President John F. Kennedy, few journalists stopped to ask who Oswald really was, and what was driving him. In Oswald's Game, Davison slices to the core of the man, revealing Oswald's most formative moments, beginning with his days as a difficult but intelligent child. She traces his erratic service in the Marine Corps, his youthful marriage, and the radical interests that...
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In 1920s London, pickpocket Alice Diamond scrambles to survive in her gritty neighborhood. With her father in prison and her brother in debt to a crime syndicate, she struggles to protect her father's territory. Recruited by Mary Carr, Alice joins a female gang, the Forty Elephants, and tastes success. But it's not long before she wants more--no matter the cost.
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