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Blind Eye: The Terrifying True Story of a Doctor Who Got Away with Murder
Blind Eye: The Terrifying True Story of a Doctor Who Got Away with Murder
by James B Stewart
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No one could believe the handsome young doctor might be a serial killer. Wherever he was hired -- in Ohio, Illinois, New York, South Dakota -- Michael Swango at first seemed the model physician. Then his patients began dying under suspicious... (read more)

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Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story
Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story
by Timothy B. Tyson
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"We cannot address the place we find ourselves because we will not acknowledge the road that brought us here." No law can ever change the hearts of men. Timothy B. Tyson chronicles the painful legacies of racism in Oxford, North Carolina, in 1970. The... (read more)

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Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy
Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy
by Jim Marrs
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What really happened in Dallas on November 22, 1963? Was the assassination of John F. Kennedy simply the work of a warped, solitary young man, or was something more nefarious afoot? Pulling together a wealth of evidence, including rare photos, documents,... (read more)

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Juvenile Justice: A Collection of True-Crime Cases (Prentice Hall's Reality Reading)
Juvenile Justice: A Collection of True-Crime Cases (Prentice Hall's Reality Reading)
by Debbie J Goodman
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The Reality Reading Series: provides the reader with provocative, true cases that coincide with the most popular Criminal Justice courses offered at colleges, universities, and police academies throughout the United States.  Because of the unique... (read more)

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Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America
Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America
by J Anthony Lukas
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Hailed as "toweringly important" (Baltimore Sun), "a work of scrupulous and significant reportage" (E. L. Doctorow), and "an unforgettable historical drama" (Chicago Sun-Times), Big Trouble brings to life the astonishing case that ultimately engaged... (read more)

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The Informant: A True Story
The Informant: A True Story
by Kurt Eichenwald
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From an award-winning New York Times investigative reporter comes an outrageous story of greed, corruption, and conspiracy—which left the FBI and Justice Department counting on the cooperation of one man . . . It was one of the FBI's biggest... (read more)

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Murdering Mckinley : the Making of Theodore Roosevelt's America (03 Edition)
Murdering Mckinley : the Making of Theodore Roosevelt's America (03 Edition)
by Eric Rauchway
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When President William McKinley was murdered at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, on September 6, 1901, Americans were bereaved and frightened. Rumor ran rampant: A wild-eyed foreign anarchist with an unpronounceable name had killed the... (read more)

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Den of Thieves
Den of Thieves
by James B Stewart
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A number-one bestseller from coast to coast, andlt;Iandgt;Den of Thievesandlt;/Iandgt; tells, in masterfully reported detail, the full story of the insider-trading scandal that nearly destroyed Wall Street, the men who pulled it off, and the chase that... (read more)

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The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession
by Allison Hoover Bartlett
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Wow! What a fascinating book about a fascinating man: John Gilkey, professional book thief. Hoover Bartlett seems to have a hard time untangling herself from her story, which gives the book an interesting discordant feel. It is practically impossible to... (read more)

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Warren Commission Report : Report of President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy (91 Edition)
Warren Commission Report : Report of President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy (91 Edition)
by Warren Commission
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President Lyndon B. Johnson, by Executive Order No. 11130 dated November 29, 1963, created this Commission to investigate the assassination on November 22,1963, of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States. The President directed... (read more)

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Fist Stick Knife Gun : a Personal History of Violence in America (95 Edition)
Fist Stick Knife Gun : a Personal History of Violence in America (95 Edition)
by Geoffrey Canada
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A new edition, including the story of the founding of the Harlem Children’s Zone   Long before the avalanche of praise for his work—from Oprah Winfrey, from President Bill Clinton, from President Barack Obama—long before he became... (read more)

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Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters
Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters
by Peter Vronsky
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In this unique book, Peter Vronsky documents the psychological, investigative, and cultural aspects of serial murder, beginning with its first recorded instance in Ancient Rome, through fifteenth-century France, up to such notorious contemporary cases as... (read more)

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Blood Justice : the Lynching of Mack Charles Parker (86 Edition)
Blood Justice : the Lynching of Mack Charles Parker (86 Edition)
by Howard Smead
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Riveting in its moment-by-moment detail, Blood Justice meticulously reconstructs the story of one of the last lynchings in America--a grim, dramatic, but nearly forgotten episode from the Civil Rights era. The year was 1959; the place, Poplarville... (read more)

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Best Intentions: The Education and Killing of Edmund Perry
Best Intentions: The Education and Killing of Edmund Perry
by Robert Sam Anson
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An exploration of how Edmund Perry, a 17 year old black honors student from Harlem, was killed soon after graduation by a young white plain clothes policeman in an alleged mugging attempt.... (read more)

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I, Pierre Riviere, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister, and My Brother--: A Case of Parricide in the 19th Century
I, Pierre Riviere, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister, and My Brother--: A Case of Parricide in the 19th Century
by Michel Foucault
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To free his father and himself from his mother's tyranny, Pierre Rivière decided to kill her. On June 3,1835, he went inside his small Normandy house with a pruning hook and cut to death his mother, his eighteen-year-old sister, and his... (read more)

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Jack-roller : a Delinquent Boy's Own Story (66 Edition)
Jack-roller : a Delinquent Boy's Own Story (66 Edition)
by Clifford R. Shaw
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Vivid, authentic, this is the autobiography of a delinquent—his experiences, influences, attitudes, and values. The Jack-Roller helped to establish the life-history or "own story" as an important instrument of sociological research. The book... (read more)

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Mind for Murder (04 Edition)
Mind for Murder (04 Edition)
by Alston Chase
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This is a radically new interpretation of the life and motives of the infamous Unabomber. Alston Chase's gripping account follows Ted Kaczynski from an unhappy adolescence in Illinois to Harvard, where he was subject not only to the despairing... (read more)

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Poisoned Chalice (02 Edition)
Poisoned Chalice (02 Edition)
by Jeffrey Freedman
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"Elegantly written and a delight to read, this book is certainly an example of microhistory at its best. It brings to life a strange, long-neglected incident in the history of Zurich and uses it to analyze the relationship between religion and the... (read more)

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Getting Away With Murder : True Story of the Emmett Till Case (03 Edition)
Getting Away With Murder : True Story of the Emmett Till Case (03 Edition)
by Chris Crowe
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The kidnapping and murder of Emmett Till is famous as a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement. Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old Black teenager from Chicago, was visiting family in a small town in Mississippi during the summer of 1955. Likely showing... (read more)

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The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara
The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara
by David I Kertzer
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National Book Award Finalist Bologna: nightfall, June 1858. A knock sounds at the door of the Jewish merchant Momolo Mortara. Two officers of the Inquisition bust inside and seize Mortara's six-year-old son, Edgardo. As the boy is wrenched from his... (read more)

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