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""In this wondrous and richly detailed coming of age story, Tyler Wetherall follows the breadcrumbs of her childhood to discover a family home that is unlike any other." --Katy Lederer, author of Poker Face Tyler had lived in fifteen houses and five countries by the time she was nine. She didn't think this was strange until Scotland Yard showed up in her bucolic English village, and she discovered her family had been living a lie. Her father was a...
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"Goodfellas meets Savages meets Catch Me If You Can in this true tale of high-stakes smuggling from pot's outlaw years. Richard Stratton was the unlikeliest of kingpins. A clean-cut Wellesley boy who entered outlaw culture on a trip to Mexico, he saw his search for a joint morph into a thrill-filled dope run smuggling two kilos across the border in his car door. He became a member of the Hippie Mafia, traveling the world to keep America high, living...
3) Impact statement: a family's fight for justice against Whitey Bulger, Stephen Flemmi, and the FBI
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No one can deny that mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger and Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi are two of the most brutal killers in American history-not even the two gangsters themselves. But a jury denied the Davis family closure for the slaying of Debbie Davis, Flemmi's beautiful young girlfriend, who went missing in 1981 and whose remains were found nearly twenty years later under the Neponset River Bridge in Quincy, Massachusetts.
Now serving a life...
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The values of our democracy and those of Mafia culture are separated by a thin line that's quickly disintegrating. No one sees this more clearly than former mob boss Michael Franzese. Born into one of New York's most feared crime families, Michael spent eight years in prison before he walked away from the Mafia for good. Now, he's sharing the undeniable parallels between mobster and politician. In Mafia Democracy, Michael exposes our government for...
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In this thrilling read, a member of a back-patched, outlaw motorcycle club tells a tale of the gritty, honor-bound, romantic life of a Sin City Biker. Based on an incredible true story, Sin City Retribution: Stolen Steel follows Rick Hart, known to his club as Turk, as he navigates the turbulent streets of '70s Vegas. Stripping bare the untold stories of an evasive and covert band of brothers, Turk recounts his exploits with the Noblemen Motorcycle...
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What would you do if your parent was snatched from his home by brutal thieves? It's a question most people thankfully never have to answer. But, when Syed Saqib, a Pakistani born American, arrives in his native country for what is supposed to be a celebratory family reunion, he quickly has to ask himself this very question in this real-life crime thriller.
After learning of his father's strange disappearance minutes after his touchdown in Pakistan,...
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Ronald Fino, one of the FBI's foremost undercover operatives, does not scare easily.
That is why he's not afraid to name names in this undercover exposé. For years, Fino wanted to write about his experiences, but each time the FBI managed to stop him. Even requests from major authors like, Tom Clancy were, placed on old. Today, Ronald Fino is, retired from his service to the FBI and is ready to tell his story. Because of his unique position as the...
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The names have been changed to protect the guilty, but this is an otherwise-authentic firsthand account of liquor smuggling during Prohibition. Crackling with excitement and adventure, it ranges from "Rum Row" (where boats anchor beyond the three-mile limit until their illicit cargo can be transferred to speedboats and delivered into the eager hands of bootleggers) to backwoods cabin hideaways and society drawing rooms. Danger haunts every step of...
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Based on the true story of a Sicilian girl who risked her life to save her father. Were Alexa's only choices to forever live someone else's life or to die with dignity? Was there another option for her? Perhaps. But the price was too high!
Alexa became the most respected girl on the island, with access to anything she could want: money, luxuries, pleasures, and friends. Many would call it a great life but, in reality, it came at a high cost. Involved...
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Kate Brennan's visceral memoir lays bare the mind of a stalker and shows how a smart, successful woman can fall prey to a warped and powerful man who has the money and connections to keep her under his watchful eye. Both frightening and insightful, In His Sights is a gripping tale of one woman's descent into the dark side of love and how she has fought--and still struggles--to free herself.--From publisher description.
11) You can't win
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You Can't Win, the beloved memoir of real lowdown Americana by criminal hobo Jack Black, was first published in 1926, then reprinted in 1988 by Adam Parfrey's Amok Press, featuring an introduction by William S. Burroughs.
After its Amok Press edition went out of print, You Can't Win found popularity once again with the AK Press edition.
Feral House's new version will take this classic American narrative a lot further,
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Take a ride-along with a 30-year veteran of the DEA. The non-stop pace and silver-screen drama make the reader feel like they're in an action movie!
This is a rare insight into the inside world of a DEA agent who went from the streets of Miami to the US Embassy in Brussels and beyond. He learned the extreme measures that the bad guys would take to get away with their crimes and operate in the underbelly of society. Nothing was off the table as far...
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This revealing first-person narrative, by one of the founders of the Witness Protection Program and a personal protector to more than five hundred informants, offers an eye-opening, dead-on authentic perspective on the safeguard institution. How did law enforcement's frustration with the criminal underworld and a serpentine series of hit-or-miss rules and mistakes give rise to one of the most significant and endlessly fascinating government-run programs...
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"In his first true crime memoir, undercover operator Norm Boucher recounts eight months spent infiltrating Vancouver's heroin scene, a world of paranoia, ripoffs, and violence. It is 1983 and the War on Drugs is intensifying. From his observer's seat in barrooms, Boucher candidly reveals the lives of heroin addicts who spend each day looking for their next hit. Their dangerous subculture, centred around three gritty hotels on the Granville Strip,...
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La segunda oportunidad de Flako, el butronero apodado "el Robin Hood de Vallecas" y acusado de haber perpetrado siete atracos , llegó con el cine y la literatura...
Todo el mundo tiene un don: el de Flako fue durante muchos años aprender a moverse como un fantasma por las cloacas de Madrid, donde excavaba butrones para atracar bancos. La prensa lo bautizó como el Robin Hood de Vallecas. Todo el mundo tiene una maldición: a Flako lo detuvieron...
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Chris Thrall left the Royal Marines to find his fortune in Hong Kong, but instead found himself homeless and addicted to crystal meth. Soon he began working for the 14K, Hong Kong's largest crime family, in the Wanchai red-light district. Dealing with the 'foreign triad', a secretive expat clique connected to the Chinese mafia, he had to survive in the world's most unforgiving city, addicted to the world's most dangerous drug.
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LYRIC NINO NASIR HAWKINS, hailing from SouthSide Jamaica Queens New York, is a Multi-Talented Lyricist, Performer, Mentor, Entrepreneur, and Published Author of a new creative autobiography non-fiction memoir, of organized crime, that will enlighten and spark the intellect of young minds --ROTT3N~$~APPLE: "FROM THUG 2 WALL STR33T" BL3$$3D & H8'D!
Lyric has been a lifelong poetry writer and lyrical performer who has opened shows for a multitude...
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Saying love is blind and unconditional are not just clichés.
To love a man and look past what most civilized people would see as the unthinkable, was easy for me.
It must have been, I did it for nearly three years, with the Feds on my tail, and my conscience eating away at me.
But during those moments, those wonderful, funny, sometimes scary moments, was sheer bliss.
I was in love with a criminal, a killer who treated me like a princess.
This...
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After losing her parents and many of her siblings during the genocide in Rwanda, Anamaliya was hunted 'like an animal' for weeks. Living through it all, she is able to tell the specific, cruel and inhumane acts of genocide. She becomes a woman who makes up her mind through her determined spirit to live and come out 'victorious over death, hell, and the grave'.
Anamaliya minces no words, telling the horrible truth about the 1994 genocide. "I heard...
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From a brilliant young investigative journalist, an unprecedented look at elite American fraternity life, tracing a multi-million-dollar drug ring that ended in a chain of betrayals and a murder.
When Max Marshall arrived on the campus of the College of Charleston in 2018, he hoped to investigate a small-time fraternity Xanax trafficking ring. Instead, he found a murder, several student deaths, and millions of dollars circulating around the Deep South....
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