True stories: general

A newly edited, single-volume commemorative edition of The Path to Power and The Downing Street Years; this is Margaret Thatcher in her own words.

A hub of sex, crime, and drugs, Boston's Combat Zone, the nation's largest adult entertainment district during the last half of the 20th century, lured white- and blue-collar workers, lawyers, professors, judges and cops to watch and chat up its adult performers, many of whom earned more than white-collar professionals.

Now updated with shocking details about the identity of Wayne Adam Ford's first victim revealed 25 years after her death the brand new edition of a true crime classic fromNew York Timesbestselling author Caitlin Rother delves into the disturbing mind and brutal crimes of the Humboldt County serial killer now on Death Row.

Sean Hartnett grew up in Cork in the 1970s where he observed the worst of the northern Troubles with fascination.

In Not Far Away, a semi-fictional memoir, Lois Beardslee gives a chilling acount of racism, particularly that leveled against Native women, in language that is supple, evocative, often comical, and always incisive.

From Diana Darke, the acclaimed author of My House in Damascus and The Merchant of Syria, comes the extraordinary true story of a heroic ambulance driver who created a cat sanctuary in the midst of war-torn Aleppo.

What Melania wants, Melania gets.

In 1902, on a prairie in southwest Louisiana, six members of a farming family are found murdered.

United Sates Marine Sergeant Tim Fortner survived 14 months in Vietnam as a door gunner in a CH-46 helicopter, completing 27 strike flight missions.

Odyssey of a Bombardier is the illustrated Prisoner of War "e;log"e; that depicts the experiences of bombardier Richard M.

As elected coroners came to be replaced by medical examiners with scientific training, the American public became fascinated with their work.

On a hot summer day in August of 1892, a double murder took place in Fall River, Massachusetts.

Our Promised Land takes readers inside radical Israeli settlements to explore how they were formed, what the people in them believe, and their role in the Middle East today.

The bestselling investigation of one of Northern Ireland's most brutal and infamous murder cases'Makes for gripping but altogether terrifying reading' Washington Times'Dillon is recommended reading for anyone wishing to understand the complexities of British-Irish politics.

The Neglected Childprovides everything educators and caregivers need to know to identify and intervene in neglectful situations, while also creating a safe, nurturing, and protective environment for young children.

This vintage book contains a fascinating and detailed biography of the heroic chief of German military intelligence who opposed Hitler at the cost of his own life; Wilhelm Franz Canaris.

How are the Crusades portrayed in popular culture today?

An “impressively well-crafted” true crime account of the murder of five girls in the early days of police investigations (Midwest Book Review).

ALDI – diese vier Buchstaben haben im Positiven wie auch im Negativen Konsumverhalten und Esskultur der Deutschen wesentlich geprägt.

Die Feuerwehren, Hilfsorganisationen und Rettungsdienste müssen auf der Grundlage der Gesetze und Schriften der Unfallversicherungsträger Gefährdungsbeurteilungen beispielsweise für Arbeitsabläufe und Arbeitsmittel erstellen.

'I'll be waiting for you, and when we beat this thing we are going to celebrate.

This is a revised version of the book which was privately published by the author in 1982.

A COLLECTION OF THE FUNNIEST, CRAZIEST, WITTIEST, MOST MEMORABLE FRONT PAGES FROM THE NT NEWS.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Why did I survive when so many others did not?

* BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK * LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA'S ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION AWARD *---'Impressive at every level' - Jeremy Vine'Poignant, funny, engrossing' - Jo Brand'A sensitive and immersive voyage through the career of a forensic psychiatrist' - Kerry Daynes'A beautifully balanced and compassionately written memoir.

From the moment I am born, I am like no-one else around me.

Dauntless journalist Julie K.

Ma Barker and Pretty Boy Floyd once shot their way across the state, and Bonnie and Clyde were known to travel within its borders.

This engrossing book tells the story of the Florescu family, from its feudal blood ties, to the notorious 15th century figure Vlad Tepes (Count Dracula), right up to present day, touching on such diverse personalities as the Kennedys, Bill Clinton, and Michael Jackson.

When Alfredo Sanchez was approached on the street in May of 1928, he received life-changing news about his own past.

On December 14, 1944, Japanese soldiers massacred 139 of 150 American POWs.

Of all the heroes produced by the Civil War, Robert E.

Nurses, midwives and health visitors have a statutory duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people.

'A wonderful, compelling read'Vassos Alexander, radio presenter and ultrarunnerWelcome to the Barkley Marathons, a fever dream of an ultra event, inspired by a prison break, heralded by a conch blast, paid for in cigarettes and socks, and completed only by a select few.

Read more than 80 of the most compelling true stories of canoeing, kayaking, and rafting rescues ever submitted to the American Whitewater Accident Database.

Two high-achieving African-Americans in the U.

Of all the extraordinary Victorian travelogues, The Malay Archipelago has a fair claim to be the greatest - both as a beautiful, alarming, vivid and gripping account of some eight years' travel across the entire Malay world - from Singapore to the western edges of New Guinea - and as the record of a great mind.

David McCampbell was the leader of the most successful naval air group in combat in World War II.

Not for King or Country tells the story of Edward Cecil-Smith, a dynamic propagandist for the Communist Party of Canada during the Great Depression.

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A look at the dark side of life, Victorian-style, when nothing was quite as it seemed and a public execution could be an entertaining family day out.

The inspiration for a major new BBC TV series, The Interceptor is Cam Addicott's true story of life undercover.

In 1975, Dr.

This evocative and gripping investigative look into romantic relationships between incarcerated people and their spouses on the outside ';is impossible to put down' (The Globe and Mail, Toronto).

The German invasion of Poland in September 1939 abruptly ended author Jan Rosinski's student life, and propelled him into an activist role in the Polish resistance organization Armia Krajowa.

War and American Literature examines representations of war throughout American literary history.

Nothing could prepare Imogen Clark for the shock of discovering that her daughter was a heroin addict.