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1301) Una Muerte Injusta
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Sinopsis Una muerte injusta, trata sobre la vida de un hombre clave, actor central de la serie Calor Humano. Es una obra breve, con anexos muy interesantes, cargados emocionalmente, que exploran la identidad, el sacrificio y la búsqueda de un propósito mayor. La narrativa genera conexión con los lectores desde las primeras palabras. Como se menciona a lo largo de sus publicaciones, el desarrollo personal de algunos, y dilemas que cuestionan los...
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From railroad towns like Ladore to cow towns like Newton and Wichita, southeast Kansas pulsed with rowdy activity during the late nineteenth century. The unruly atmosphere drew outlaws, including the Dalton Gang, and even crazed serial killers the likes of the Bender clan. Violent incidents, from gunfights to lynchings, punctuated the region's Wild West era, and the allure of the frontier also attracted the everyday people whose passions sometimes...
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The Reverend F. M. Buckelew started his life as one of a family of nine, born in 1852 in Union Parish, Louisiana. His father saw the opportunities out West and made travelled out into the wilds of Texas with his family to Cherokee County, Texas. As the author recounts, life there was hard, and before long his mother was dead along with one of his sisters; worse was to follow as he was captured by Lipan Indians at the age of fourteen. In his extraordinary...
1304) Prison Notes
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It is a book that talks about the emergence of self-defense groups in an indigenous community on the coast of Michoacan, its disarmament and the description of life in a federal prison, chilling stories confessed by criminals who belonged to cartels. It is a book that helped the author not to fall into despair and maintain his posture and his ideals firmly.
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Described in graphic & amusing detail, making a living from the sea. The artistic Ms. Hadman went to Alaska in 1938 to paint and draw, but while there met and married a fisherman in the Southeast. Here she tells of their isolated life in the village of Craig, and later in Sitka (hardly a metropolis then, either); of how she too became fisherfolk and a native, and how the War affected them and their neighbors.
1306) She Cries Alone
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Was it murder on New York's Hudson River or merely a tragic accident? Should this young woman go down in the annals of America's female murderers or is she just one more victim of a fractured court system.
Angelika Graswald claims she's not a cold-blooded killer, but New York prosecutors say she purposely pulled a plug on her fiancé’s kayak so he'd drown in the storm-tossed waves of the Hudson River. She Cries Alone: A Shocking True Crime Story...
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When it comes to America's most famous and notorious criminals, no legend has been larger than real life than that of the robber duo Bonnie and Clyde.
The murderous lovers found each other in the slums of Depression-era Dallas and embarked on a wild crime and killing spree, so why is it their love that sustains their legend?
Over a two-year period from 1932-34, during the height of the Great Depression in America, Bonnie & Clyde evolved from petty...
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Saddle up and embark on an epic journey through the untamed and captivating landscapes of the Old American West in volume three of A Fraternity of Gunslingers: True Stories of Wild West Gunmen. The Civil War may have been a defining chapter in American history, but it was also the catalyst that birthed the age of gunslingers. In this riveting non-fiction tome, you'll discover that the Old West is more than just the stuff of legends; it's a saga of...
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Born on October 27, 1940, in the South Bronx, New York, John Gotti would face run-ins with the law several times, including a four-year prison term for manslaughter, before becoming head of the Gambino crime family. Nicknamed "Teflon Don" for his ability to remain free, Gotti was eventually convicted on multiple criminal counts and sentenced to life in prison. He died on June 10, 2002. We will journey through the life, crimes and jail time of "The...
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John's life story shows the reader that his life's experiences always revolved around fishing and the great outdoors. In his youth his family moved to many states with the military. With a fishing rod in his hand he would make friends with total strangers who sometimes became his mentors. As a young man in Alaska he made some wild reckless social decisions and still made time to fish. His priority's in life were always fishing, friendships, fishing,...
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La Última libertad humana: camino a la redención es una desgarradora historia sobre la batalla de Víctor con el abuso infantil, la inmigración, la pobreza, las pandillas y la prisión. En estas memorias, Víctor narra sus experiencias como niño inmigrante, creciendo en la pobreza en El Paso, Texas. Cuenta que fue arrestado cuando era un adolescente de dieciséis años y juzgado en un tribunal de adultos por un asesinato cometido por uno de sus...
1312) Major General George Crook's Use Of Counterinsurgency Compound Warfare During The Great Sioux War Of
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This thesis will analyze Major General George Crook's performance during the Sioux War of 1876-77 and attempt to answer whether or not Crook successfully fought the Native Americans by effectively implementing the concept of counterinsurgency compound warfare. Counterinsurgency Compound Warfare is the simultaneous use of a regular or conventional force and an irregular, indigenous force in unison against a common enemy. A highly skilled conventional...
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BJ has the answer to the Drug War, but with a criminal history, nobody is listening. Based on a true story. Optioned for a true crime movie.
Overzealous Narcotic Detective Pincher, on paid leave and under investigation, starts using drugs, and then is hired again as a Narcotic Detective in L.A where he steals heroin from the evidence locker until he is reeled in by the Mexican Mafia and the Hollywood Madam.
B.J, just released from prison, struggles...
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This is my story about growing up in Kentucky and my experience with law enforcement. After serving over thirty years, I retired from the Federal government with the United States Department of Justice as a Special Agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
“Fighting My Greatest Enemy, Myself” is my story to remind America, that this dirty and deadly game is still very much alive and well. As a reader, you can be assured you are not...
1315) Wasted Time
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A stark and honest memoir of thirty-five years spent in Canada's prison system.
Born and raised in Toronto's Regent Park, Edward Hertrich left high school in grade eleven to start working. A year later, he started dealing drugs in earnest, beginning a criminal career that resulted in him being incarcerated for thirty-five of his next forty years.
In Wasted Time, Hertrich describes his time behind bars. Once considered a serious threat to public...
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Charles Manson and other members of his so-called family were convicted of killing actress Sharon Tate and six other people during a bloody rampage in the Los Angeles area during two August nights in 1969. Since that night "Charles Manson" has become a household name. Over 40 years later we will revisit the gruesome crime scene and the carnage of that deadly night. And then we will visit each one of the "Family members" to see where they are today.
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The autobiography of Frank "Pistol Pete" Eaton, a one–time cowboy, scout, Indian fighter, trail rider, and Deputy United States Marshall Frank Eaton died at his home in Perkins, Oklahoma, at the age of 98. As a youth, Frank Eaton avenged his father's death when he was shot in cold blood by the Campseys and Ferbers, former Confederates who called themselves Regulators. Eaton witnessed his father's murder in 1868. In the intervening 19 years, Frank...
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There is believed to be more of what is called "True History" concerning the life of William H. Bonney, known in later years as Billy the Kid, than any other known outlaw during the years 1850-1900. It is claimed that at the age of twenty-one years old, he was believed to have been one of the most notorious and dangerous "pistol-tot-n" outlaws of the old west.
It is also claimed that he was only twelve years old when he killed his first man for insulting...
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Deeply moved by his mother's memories of a waning era and rapidly disappearing lifestyle, John Ise painstakingly recorded the adventures and adversities of his family and boyhood neighbors-the early homesteaders of Osborne County, Kansas. First published in 1936, his "nonfiction novel" Sod and Stubble has since become a widely read and much loved classic. In the original, Ise changed some identities and time sequences but accurately retained the uplifting...
1320) A Texas Style Witch Hunt
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In 1997, a court found Darlie Lynn Routier guilty of probably the worst of human crimes: killing two of her natural children in cold-blood. Motive is still a mystery, but the prosecution painted her as a shrewish, materialistic young woman who, sensing her lavish lifestyle crumbling, slew her two sons Damon and Devon in a mad attempt to resuscitate her and her husband's personal economy. The following story relates the events of the murder and those...
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