True crime

For most people, grocery shopping is a mundane activity.

Cannibals, necrophiles, spree killers, axe wielding maniacs, violent thieves, gunmen, child killers, arsonists, deadly suave conmen, medical professional killers, graverobbers.

In the tradition of her acclaimed mother, Ann Rule, author of The Stranger Beside Me, bestselling author Leslie Rule exposes the trail of a sadistic sociopath, identity thief, and killer .

The first English-language book to document the men who emerged from the Soviet-era gulags to become Russia's international criminal class.

In the early twentieth century, China was stigmatized as the Land of Famine.

Complete with a foreword by the late Terry Bogg, this handy pocketbook provides accessible guidance to health and social care practitioners on the day-to-day aspects of using and applying the Mental Capacity Act.

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In 1931, a 12-year-old boy shot and killed the sheriff of Asotin, Washington.

';Michael is living proof that love always has the power to bring you home.

Winner: Dorothy Schwieder Excellence in Research AwardTucked into the files of Iowa State Universitys Cooperative Extension Service is a small, innocuous looking pamphlet with the title Lenders: Working through the Farmer-Lender Crisis.

Well documented by public records, actual court reports, and newspaper accounts, this book is a true story of greed, ambition and murder in the first degree.

Following independence, most countries in Africa sought to develop, but their governments pursued policies that actually undermined their rural economies.

Listening to Killers offers an inside look at twenty years' worth of murder files from Dr.

A richly illustrated account of the story of ancient vinicultureThe history of civilization is, in many ways, the history of wine.

Eating disorders (EDs) have become a social epidemic in the developed world.

An incisive and sympathetic examination of the case for ending the practice of imprisonmentDespite its omnipresence and long history, imprisonment is a deeply troubling practice.

Touted in his time as one of the ';great men of the West,' Stephen Wallace Dorsey was a Reconstruction carpetbagger who went to Arkansas and finagled and bribed his way into getting elected to the US Senate after living only two years in the state before heading West to seek his fortune.

A Vineyard Odyssey is a fascinating saga of wine-the journey from vine to bottle-that takes the reader on a travelogue of the many hazards that lie along the way.

Harvey Kid Curry Logan was an outlaw, gunfighter and infamous member of the Butch Cassidy gang.

This engrossing saga begins when Generoso Pope, Sr.

After high school graduation, Carl enlisted in the U.

Texas convicts and inmates have made the Texas prison system the most colorful in the world over the past 150 years.

World famous author and former police lieutenant T.

Prepare to be shocked as the grisly details about the murder of San Marino computer geek John Sohus are revealed in Frank C.

This book is a non-fiction, painfully true account of an American whistle blower whose silencing was attempted by conflicted and vengeful bureaucrats.

This book relates true stories of adventures, both dangerous and humorous, which I encountered while working in the convenience store business.

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Some of the law officers who served the West during the last half of the nineteenth century drifted from one side of the law to the other and sold their talents to whichever side offered the most advantage.

Sometimes humorous, sometimes tongue-in-cheek, sometimes deeply sad and movingsuch are the biographies of fifteen Texas bad girls.

Laura Laforce Psychic Medium can see what few others see.

A self-made Crazy Irishman who was and is fearless on bringing bad guys to justice.

Documents uncovered from the late FBI director's secret files reveal for the first time the shocking extent of FBI activities in collecting and using derogatory information about prominent Americans and political groups.

France is often held up as a bastion of gastronomic refinement and as a model of artisanal agriculture and husbandry.

Death in a Texas Desert is a fast-paced collection of 17 compelling true crime stories from the pages of the award-winning The Dallas Observer.

In 1932, the city of Natchez, Mississippi, reckoned with an unexpected influx of journalists and tourists as the lurid story of a local murder was splashed across headlines nationwide.

In The Edible South, Marcie Cohen Ferris presents food as a new way to chronicle the American South's larger history.

InJanuary 2007, two boys were found in the home of Michael J.

A classic about real-life WWII espionage,as conducted by its modern master*A Man Called Intrepid is the classic true story of Sir William Stephenson (codenamed Intrepid) and the spy network he founded that would ultimately stall the Nazi war machine and help winWorld War II.

Over 13 months in 1976--1977, four children were abducted in the Detroit suburbs, each of them held for days before their still-warm bodies were dumped in the snow near public roadsides.

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Whether as wine, beer, or spirits, alcohol has had a constant and often controversial role in social life.

Some criminals become household names, while others--even those who seek recognition through their crimes--are forgotten.

This is a comprehensive collection of authentic recipes, some 500 in all, for drinks and dishes that more than 150 American authors since the late 18th century are known to have enjoyed.

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In the midst of gangland activities during the Roaring Twenties, a thief plagued the New York City area by breaking into people's homes and stealing radios, possibly the costliest thing a family could own.

Indiana State Police Captain Matt Leach led the hunt for John Dillinger during the violent early 1930s.

For six decades, Pittsburgh-based forensic scientist Cyril Wecht has been an outspoken authority when horrible things happen to everyday people--murders, childhood deaths, tragic accidents and police brutality.

A trunk dripping blood, discovered at a railway station in Stockton in 1906, launched one of the most famous murder investigations in California history--still debated by crime historians.

This chronicle of ten controversial mid-Victorian trials features brother versus brother, aristocrats fighting commoners, an imposter to a family's fortune, and an ex-priest suing his ex-wife, a nun.

Americans began chewing gum long before 1850, scraping resin from spruce trees, removing any bits of bark or insects and chewing the finished product.