True stories: general

It was the most brutal murder in the history of Coffey County, Kansas.

Warm, funny and moving; the perfect summer read.

In 1939, four brutal murders occurred at three separate locations on a single day in "e;Cache Creek country,"e; a remote Alaska gold-mining region near Talkeetna.

The inspiration for Fox TV's drama series, ';Mob Doctor,' Il Dottore is the riveting true story of a Jewish kid from the Bronx who became a Mafia insider and physician to top NY Mafia dons such as John Gotti, Carlo Gambino, Paul Castellano, and Joe Bonanno.

The Years of the Locust is a true story of intrigue, paranoia, murder and money set in the shimmering cities of America's South in the 1990s.

Few crimes provoke such outrage and upset as the sex offence, making the subject - including the problems it poses to our society and criminal justice system - a natural one for sociologist Tony Parker, whose work consistently shed light into dark corners of human behaviour.

Having experienced many abnormal events, such as is found in God's word, Gerald Ervin Meyer is compelled to relate such miracles.

The story of two men who almost single-handedly saved their football club from extinction.

The Purple Gang was a loosely organized confederation of mobsters who dominated the Detroit underworld and whose tentacles reached across the country.

In January 2012, the hacker collective Anonymous brought down the FBI website in response to planned American laws against internet piracy.

The Chechen War was supposed to be over in 1996 after the first Yeltsin campaign, but in the summer of 1999, the new Putin government decided, in their own words, to 'do the job properly'.

'I was the shadow child no one ever saw.

This riveting inside story of the intense search for the Salt Lake City teenager reveals never-before-told details of the largest investigation in Utah state history.

Der berühmt-berüchtigte Verbrecher Johannes Bückler, genannt Schinderhannes, war ein Kind der Französischen Revolution, die unsere Heimat vor 200 Jahren gesellschaftlich auf den Kopf stellte.

The inside story of the street war between Canada's most violent biker gangs-the Outlaws and the Hell's Angels Once bikers who road together, Mario Parente and Walter Stadnick, are now mortal enemies, chiefs, respectively, of the Outlaws and Hell's Angels, embroiled in a bloody turf war over control of the lucrative drug, prostitution, and vice markets in Ontario's Golden Horseshoe.

DISCOVER THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY BEHIND NETFLIX'S BLOCKBUSTER MOVIE NYAD.

An upright citizen kidnapped in public and dumped in a shallow grave.

'If you are susceptible to Miss Marple and Harriet Vane you must read The Adventures of Maud West.

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Accessories - the cherry on the cake for those seeking to finish off their vintage look to perfection.

Midnight in Peking is a gripping true murder mystery by Paul FrenchTHE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4'A first-rate murder story, a thrilling narrative.

This true story is about the author who was born in Chicago in December 1922, where he grew up to become an adult on the South Side's black ghetto.

This book is a series of stories and anecdotes about my father, Thomas (Tommy Ryan) Eboli and me, Xavier Eboli.

A Richard & Judy Book Club PickNew York Times BestsellerA Goodreads Choice Award FinalistBright Young Women is an unflinching thriller based on Ted Bundy's heinous crimes, as two women search for justice in the wake of his brutal murders.

In 1942, five young German students and one professor at the University of Munich crossed the threshold of toleration to enter the realms of resistance, danger and death.

With an introduction by Andrew O'HaganWhen I think about her now, which is most of the time, it's like rewinding a silent film in my head: I see the crucial scenes in our lives together.

New Year's Day, 2009.

'An astonishing read, plunging you into a toxic world of Insta-wealth, betrayal and ruthless ambition.

True crime at its most potent: a riveting account of tracking down and convicting an evil serial killer by the detective who trapped him.

El libro analiza las cuestiones más acuciantes del actual sistema penitenciario argentino y latinoamericano : el hacinamiento de personas detenidas.

*THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*Four Hundred Souls is an epoch-defining history of African America, the first to appear in a generation, told by ninety leading Black voices -- co-curated by Ibram X.

After high school graduation, Carl enlisted in the U.

For decades, movies and television shows have portrayed FBI agents as fearless heroes leading glamorous lives, but this refreshingly original memoir strips away the fantasy and glamour and describes the day-to-day job of an FBI special agent.

In this book, After the Battle have explored entirely new ground to investigate 150 years of murder and present it through our ‘then and now’ theme of comparison photographs.

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The story of twelve friends who gathered to share and celebrate the extraordinary wines of Bordeaux.

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

'Absolutely riveting' The Guardian'Heart-pounding' Elle'Excellent' The TimesIt's the summer of 1965, and the streets of Queens, New York shimmer in a heatwave.

In the world of organized crime, the bosses grab the headlines.

Extrait : "Il existait, au XVIIIe siècle, en ce temps privilégié, à cet âge d'or, une alliance très heureuse et moins extraordinaire et invraisemblable qu'elle ne le paraît, au premier abord, entre les femmes et les gens d'esprit, une alliance qui n'était pas, reconnaissons-le, exclusif ni rédhibitoire.

1927.

This is a self-healing book about behavioral therapy.

A remarkable tale of greed, treachery and deceit in one of the most outlandish criminal stunts ever conceived: the theft of a nation In 1981, a small but heavily armed force of misfits from Canada and the United States set off on a preposterous mission: invade an impoverished Caribbean country, overthrow its government in a coup d'etat, install a puppet prime minister and transform the island into a crooks' paradise.