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Now one of Kirkus Reviews' "Best Books of the Year"
From Paul French, the New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Peking-winner of both the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime and the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction-comes City of Devils, a rags-to-riches tale of two self-made men set against a backdrop of crime and vice in the sprawling badlands of Shanghai.
Shanghai, 1930s: It was a haven for outlaws from all over the world: a place where...
2) The blinds
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Guilt, memory, and redemption swirl through this inventive science-fiction-based thriller from Edgar-finalist Sternbergh (Shovel Ready). In Caesura, an isolated Texas town that's part penal colony, part rehabilitation experiment, Sheriff Calvin Cooper keeps the peace in a community that mixes the most savage of criminals with the victims of horrible crimes. What allows the two groups to coexist is that all their memories have been selectively edited...
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Poke Rafferty Bangkok thrillers volume 3
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Poke Rafferty is writing the biography of a self-made billionaire with a criminal past. Unfortunately, he and his family become pawns in a dangerous power struggle between Thailand's richest, most ruthless citizens. He must save his family, or die trying.
4) Past crimes
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"Welcome to Earth+. The year is 2037, and nearly all human interactions have migrated to the virtual world. Now, true crime fans don't just listen to podcasts or watch documentaries - they participate in hyper-realistic simulations and hunt for clues to solve the most famous and gruesome crimes in history. Criminal entertainment is a multibillion-dollar industry, and at the forefront is Past Crimes: known by its millions of fans as the Disneyland...
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"Beatrice Carraway has dreams. Although she's aged out of the childhood pageant circuit, she's intent on carrying her talents all the way to the big screen--if only she can escape the poverty of West Dallas first. But as the Great Depression drags the working class further and further under, Beatrice struggles just to keep herself, her mother, and her younger sister afloat. After a string of failed auditions, she feels defeated. And then in walks...
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When John Wilkes Booth died-shot inside a burning barn and dragged out twelve days after he assassinated President Lincoln-all he had in his pocket were a compass, a candle, a diary, and five photographs of five different women. They were not ordinary women. Four of them were among the most beautiful actresses of the day; the fifth was Booth's wealthy fiancé.
And those five women are just the tip of the iceberg.
Before he shot the president...
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The U. S. Drug Enforcement Administration estimates that Americans in the early 1970s were smoking upwards of 35,000 pounds of marijuana per day. By the time the decade drew to a close, Time magazine reported that reefer had become "the most widely accepted illegal indulgence since drinking during Prohibition. " You can thank Jimmy Moree for helping to feed America's insatiable pot habit. Nicknamed "Jimmy Divine" for his teetotaling ways, he would...
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Forgotten five volume 3
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790L
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"Estero City is in an uproar following the exposure of President Fuerte as a supernatural, as well as the surprise announcement by Magdalia Palacio--Seven's mother--that she will oppose Fuerte in the upcoming election. The forgotten five and their allies know the president is corrupt to the core. But no one knows if Magdalia can be trusted. Meanwhile, Birdie, Seven, Tenner, and Brix are reeling from Cabot's decision to leave the group and join her...
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Over the last thirty years, many people who have heard my life's testimony suggested that I write this book. The book starts off with my verbally and emotional abusive relationship with my father that eventually caused me to accept atheism and to run away from home at the age of fourteen. I went to Hell's Kitchen in New York City and joined a local gang, the Park Rats.
The middle section shows my association with The Genovese Mafia due to work provided...
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La historia de Jeffrey Epstein y otras historias ha capturado la atención del mundo entero. Este financiero multimillonario, conocido por su relación con prominentes figuras políticas, celebridades y empresarios, fue acusado de dirigir una red de tráfico sexual de menores y enfrentaba graves cargos criminales. Sin embargo, su muerte en prisión en agosto de 2019, oficialmente catalogada como suicidio, dejó muchas preguntas sin respuesta y alimentó...
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Buddies are well-organized groups of teen hackers from Ivory Coast, West Africa. They can hack anything they want. They scam international institutions, credit and debit cards, international humanitarian organizations, armies, transport companies and more.
They work hand-in-hand with bank workers, law enforcement officers and men in power of different countries so that they can safely blow thousands of dollars in one night to have fun in nightclubs...
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I'm an Irish author from Dublin.
This is my autobiography called,
"How Much Pain Can Our Hearts Endure"
My wife Audrey and I have been living a nightmare since Amy went missing in Spain back in 2008.
I write about the death of my stepson, Dean.
I also write about life behind bars in Dublin's notorious prisons, from Mountjoy, Wheatfield and Cloverhill.
The Shark, or should I say Cancer, that has affected all of my family...
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The truth about the disappearances in Mexico and the links between drug cartels and the Mexican government, that is basically the content of this book, the historical relationship between López Obrador, now president of Mexico, and the organized crime groups that have financed his electoral campaigns and a group of his favorites to gain power. A book about the degradation of democracy in the last five years, the collapse of the economy and the use...
15) Raw: A Memoir
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Raw chronicles a childhood marred by physical, sexual and emotional abuse, and a man's subsequent innefective search for identity in gangs, dysfunctional relationships, the military and even politics. The ongoing impacts of childhood trauma reach a climax when Damien firebombs the home of a man accused of rape. He subsequently becomes an artist and writer in prison.
"Childhood trauma. Unanswered cries for help. Coming to terms with sex, love and...
16) X Rubicone: Attraversare la vita, il sesso, l'amore, Uccidere nelle guerre per procura della CIA: Un
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"Il libro di Sean conduce il lettore in modo veritiero attraverso gli orrendi due anni e mezzo di inganno e di morte, e gli oltre 40 anni in cui ha rinchiuso emozioni e verità. La sua compassione emerge quando descrive le conseguenze del PTSD. Si tratta di una narrazione sconvolgente, ma c'è la sensazione che conoscere la verità ci inviti a cambiare la realtà della nostra storia d'amore con l'esercito. Possiamo svegliarci, prendere coscienza di...
17) Eileen
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[2024]
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"In 1960s Boston, Eileen shuffles between her emotionally haunted home and the prison where she works. When an intoxicating woman joins the prison staff, Eileen is taken--but her newfound confidant entangles her in a shocking crime"--
19) We'll Find You
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We'll Find You: A Shocking True Crime Story is an intense, gripping story of one family's heartbreak and a community's response that you'll never forget. "We'll find you no matter what." When Mollie Tibbetts disappeared on July 18, 2018, her mother, Laura Calderwood, promised she would never quit searching.Mollie's father, two brothers, along with a legion of friends and other family members, took the same vow.A special law enforcement task force...
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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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