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Three Crooked Kings
Three Crooked Kings
Three Crooked Kings is the shocking true story of Queensland and how a society was shaped by almost half a century of corruption. At its core is Terence Murray Lewis, deposed and jailed former police commissioner. From his entry into the force in 1949, Lewis rose through the ranks, becoming part of the so-called Rat Pack with detectives Glendon Patrick Hallahan and Tony Murphy under the guiding…
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Last Yakuza
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I Let Him Go
On February 12, 1993, Denise Fergus' life changed forever. As she was running errands at New Strand Shopping Centre, she let go of her two-year-old son's hand for a few seconds to take out her purse. Denise never saw her son again.
For the first time since that moment 25 years ago, Denise tells her extraordinary story in this heart-wrenching book, an unflinching account of that terrible day.…
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The Authentic Life of Billy, The Kid
Hankering for a mostly true tale about the hard-living desperadoes who inhabited America's desert Southwest in the mid-1800s? This biography of the ill-fated gunslinger Billy, the Kid was written by Pat Garrett, the sheriff who shot Billy down. Although some historians now question the veracity of some of the self-aggrandizing bluster Garrett and his ghostwriter included in the book, The…
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Killer with a badge
Details the shocking true account of rogue cop Antoinette Frank of the New Orleans police department, who, along with her drug dealer boyfriend Rogers LaCaze, murdered off-duty cop Ronald Wilson and two innocent bystanders in the name of misguided revenge.
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A history of autobiography in antiquity
A history of autobiography in antiquity
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Missing Persons
Missing Persons
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Outlaws
Outlaws
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Nice Girl
Nice Girl
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Two Sisters
Originally published in 1970 this fairly short novel (174 pages) contains, according to the blurb on the dust jacket of the first edition, “Gore Vidal’s singular speculations on love, sex, death, literature and politics.”
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Marse Henry : An Autobiography
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Mr. Nice
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Autobiography
Autobiography
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The Library of American Biography
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A Talent to Deceive
The kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh's infant son, and the subsequent trial and execution of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, have been a source of fascination for more than 70 years. Now, for the first time, William Norris delves into sources of information ignored by previous investigators and comes up with the identity of the true culprit. Lindbergh is exposed as having obstructed the…
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Witch
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The Force
"The explosive and sensational next novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Cartel"--
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Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge
Today Americans of all backgrounds are on the hunt for a different political model. In fact, such a model awaits them, if only they turn their eyes to their own past . . . to America's thirtieth president, Calvin Coolidge. Coolidge's masterful autobiography offers urgent lessons for our age of exploding debt, increasingly centralized power, and fierce partisan division. This expanded and…
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