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1) Papillon
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"A modern classic of courage and excitement." —The New Yorker • The source for the iconic prison-escape film starring Steve McQueen
Henri Charrière, nicknamed "Papillon," for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris in 1931 of a murder he did not commit. Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he became obsessed with one goal: escape. After planning and executing
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This true crime history examines the surprising connection between an infamous small-town murder and the bestselling novel it inspired.
Born and raised in Manchester, New Hampshire, Grace Metalious shocked the nation in 1956 with Peyton Place, her sexually charged debut novel about murder in a small town. It spawned a series of novels, two Hollywood movies, and a long-running television series on ABC. It also made Metalious a pariah...
Born and raised in Manchester, New Hampshire, Grace Metalious shocked the nation in 1956 with Peyton Place, her sexually charged debut novel about murder in a small town. It spawned a series of novels, two Hollywood movies, and a long-running television series on ABC. It also made Metalious a pariah...
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A Harrowing True Story of an Eight-Year-Old Girl Human Sex Trafficking and Organized Crime Survivor
Have you ever experienced total despair? Yuna was just an eight-year-old girl when she experienced total devastation. Growing up in the Mongolian countryside, she wasn't ready to face the darker side of the world. And yet she had to.
After she was kidnapped by an organized crime gang, Yuna had to overcome her fears at a young age and start taking...
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Immerse Yourself in A Psychological Thriller set in Sweden's Organized Crime Underworld, Brought to You By Luke G. Dahl!
Gangs of Stockholm chronicles the true crime mafia biography of Eric, a 15-year-old boy who is drawn deeper and deeper into Stockholm, Sweden's underworld, a dark and gritty lifestyle that exposes the young man to the dangerously enticing and lucrative world of drug trafficking and money laundering. Once he gets ingrained into...
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Seeds of Malevolence
Bat Erdene was the only child of rich oriental parents. Growing up, he had everything a kid should want, except the most important thing, parental affection. From the outside, Bat had a perfect childhood, but it was another story altogether when the doors were closed. Growing up in an environment where his mother was abused regularly by his father without respite, will damage Bat's psyche tremendously, and will lead to him committing...
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Une enfance et une vie violée retrace le parcours de vie d'Aniela Cohen, son auteure. Il explore les conséquences d'une enfance marquée par un manque d'affection parentale, d'assurance et de confiance en soi, déclencheurs d'un profond mal-être. Entre maltraitance et viol, traumatisme et blessure, l'auteure revient sur une période significative de sa vie et nous entraîne sur le chemin de sa résilience…
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7) Devenir fâme
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Devenir fâme est un témoignage sacré, un sacré témoignage. Au-delà du silence, des larmes, des douleurs, de la peine et de la culpabilité, c'est une graine plantée dans le champ de la réparation des blessures engendrées par les violences sexistes et sexuelles et plus particulièrement celles causées dans le cadre de l'inceste.
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Agathe Lesur se sert des mots pour exprimer ses tourments. Avec Devenir fâme, elle...
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Une autobiographie poignante qui illustre l'emprisonnement sous toutes ses coutures...
Entre quotidien carcéral et souvenirs, l'auteure partage sans réserve des moments de sa vie longtemps cachés sous des tonnes de honte et de culpabilité. Avec son écriture à fleur de peau, à la fois drle, crue et sensible, Marina interroge la vie sociale, notre rapport à autrui et plus précisément notre concept d'«emprisonnement». Parce que la cage n'est...
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The oddest book you may ever read, both fantastic autobiography and ground-breaking autofiction. Count Nicolas de Toulouse Lautrec de Savine was a hero in battle and a legendary lover in bed. A daring adventurer and a shameless swindler. A gambler ready to place the riskiest bets and a coward apt to flee his creditors in the middle of the night. Tsar of Bulgaria and a Chicago streetcar conductor. A racist, a chauvinist, and an antisemite. Was he all...
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Evocative and superbly rakish, these essays are a generous diagnosis of the often-offbeat worlds of family, writing, travel, sex and death as interpreted through the real life adventures of Susan Musgrave. Equally at home recounting the lore of her outlaw husband Stephen Reid, or interpreting the arcane rituals of her teenage girls, Musgrave brings to her literary essays that same invigorating freshness for which he has become known in her fiction...
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Abigaël avait trouvé l'amour, un amour fort, un amour passionné, passionnel.
Raphaël était quelqu'un d'énigmatique, il était soit démoniaque et malfaisant, soit enflammé et ardent. Personne des connaissances d'Abigaël n'aimait ce personnage. Abigaël ne les comprenait pas ou ne voulait rien voir, envoûtée par cet homme.
Elle le comprit à ses dépens au fil des années.
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«A l'encontre de l'idée reçue, l'éloquence n'est pas faite d'effets de manches. C'était peut-être vrai il y a un siècle ou même un demi-siècle mais cela a totalement changé aujourd'hui. J'ai eu la chance d'entendre de grandes plaidoiries, des plaidoiries que je qualifierais de "monumentales", énoncées d'un ton simple, sans formules "magiques", sans accents tonitruants, sans références littéraires, mais prononcées avec une foi et une...
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This memoir follows a punk rock pioneer on his slide into drug abuse and life as an armed robber, all the way through life in recovery and what it's like to look back on those times, knowing all the while that he is still under the threat of three strikes, a twenty-five-to-life prison sentence waiting. He has no choice but to deal with it all drug free. During punk rock's heyday, Patrick O'Neil worked at the San Francisco's legendary Mabuhay Gardens....
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Growing up in rural British Columbia, Deni Béchard had no idea his family was extraordinary. He took pleasure in typical boyish activities: salmon fishing with his father, a daring man with a penchant for brawling, and reading with his mother, who was interested in health food and the otherworldly.
Assigned to complete a family tree in school, Deni begins to wonder why he doesn't know more about his father's side of the family. His mother is from...
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