On June 26, 1996, an international outcry was heard over the assassination of Irish journalist Veronica Guerin, gunned down by Ireland's most vicious gang.
What happens when your worst fears as a parent come true, when you receive that dreaded phone call, the one you have always prayed you would never get?
I am ashamed of my former firm Morgan Stanley for representing to me, my former colleagues, and their clients a security known as the Kemper Lumbermens surplus notes as a bond instrument highly rated for investment-grade fixed-income clients when, in fact, it was not a bond but a surplus note--a totally alternate security.
Sins of the Mother is a powerful and inspiring story of a family whose love was tested but never broken, who finally found the strength to heal the past.
A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book for 2011 A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 TitleTiger, Tiger is a Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction title for 2011A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2011 title One summer day, Margaux Fragoso meets Peter Curran at the neighborhood swimming pool, and they begin to play.
The Hate Factories of AmericaIn the past fifty-seven years, Robert "e;Big Head"e; Whitcomb has spent over thirty-five years incarcerated in the state prison system and the federal prison system.
A police detective pursues a serial killer stalking the streets of a south Chicago neighborhood and learns that what first looked to be random murders are not random at all.
"e;A remarkable and very powerful"e; account by a stalking victim "e;conveys her own fear and mounting sense of physical discomfort so well that we feel it, too"e; (Booklist, starred review).
Willie describes the events of her growing up with various family members and being a firsthand eyewitness of segregation in the South during the 1950s, as she recalls.
A powerful, heartbreaking, and redemptive account of a boy who endured a childhood of poverty and abuse in an American Southwest trailer park named Cloud 9.
The flesh-and-blood story of the outlaw lovers who robbed banks and shot their way across Depression-era America, based on extensive archival research, declassified FBI documents, and interviewsThe daring movie revolutionized Hollywood-now the true story of Bonnie and Clyde is told in the lovers' own voices, with verisimilitude and drama to match Truman Capote's In Cold Blood.
The most comprehensive and explosive book on the worst scandal in the history of sports, Game Over investigates the devastating sexual abuse case that brought down Joe Paterno and forever tarnished the name of Penn State.
The title is about how God and Jesus changed my life around, and I was brought up learning bought God and Jesus and in my teens through my late twenties.
In the early morning of February 17, 1991, a nineteen-year-old Yale student on his way home from a party was shot through the heart on a New Haven street by a single bullet from a .
Based on true events, this is a riveting journey through a young woman's traumatic encounter with sexual violence during a college spring break trip - and an aftermath of remarkable coincidences that spiral out of control for the next three decades.
The Tragedy of Kabul Bank is the story of a massive fraud, deception and betrayal by a group of crony capitalists aided and abetted by the then highest political authorities of Afghanistan.
