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Under the Banner of Heaven : Story of Violent Faith (03 Edition)
by Jon Krakauer  
Powells.com Staff Pick "Under the Banner of Heaven is not a typical Krakauer book that takes you on an adventure into the wilderness. Instead, it delves into a world that is misunderstood by most of America, the world of Mormonism and Fundamental Mormonism...
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Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt's America
by Eric Rauchway Publisher Comments When President 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 Commander...
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The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
by John Grisham
Powells.com Staff Pick An equally absorbing and troubling inquiry into a case of criminal injustice, Grisham's nonfiction debut equals the storytelling of his unparalleled fiction. Recommended by Chandler, Powells.com...
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The Orchid Thief
by Susan Orlean
Publisher Comments The orchid thief in Susan Orlean's mesmerizing true story of beauty and obsession is John Laroche, a renegade plant dealer and sharply handsome guy, in spite of the fact that he is missing his front teeth and has the posture of al dente spaghetti. In...
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Homicide (06 Edition)
by David Simon Publisher Comments From the creator of HBO’s The Wire, the classic book about homicide investigation that became the basis for the hit television show The scene is Baltimore. Twice every three days another citizen is shot, stabbed, or bludgeoned to death. At the...
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And Never Let Her Go: Thomas Capano: The Deadly Seducer
by Ann Rule Publisher Comments The shattering crime story that shocked the nation: the Thomas Capano murder case On a June evening in 1996, 30-year-old Anne Marie Fahey, secretary to the governor of Delaware, vanished without a trace following a restaurant rendezvous with her secret...
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Fist Stick Knife Gun
by Geoffrey Canada Publisher Comments 'When award-winning educator and activist Geoff Canada was growing up in the Bronx, the \"sidewalk\" boys learned the codes of the block from their elders and were ranked--and to some degree protected--through the rituals of fist, stick, and knife...
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Among the Thugs (90 Edition)
by Bill Buford Publisher Comments They have names like Barmy Bernie, Daft Donald, and Steamin' Sammy. They like lager (in huge quantities), the Queen, football clubs (especially Manchester United), and themselves. Their dislike encompasses the rest of the known universe, and England's...
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Catch Me If You Can: The Amazing True Story of the Most Extraordinary Liar in the History of Fun and Profit
by Frank Abagnale and Stan Redding Publisher Comments Frank W. Abagnale, alias Frank Williams, Robert Conrad, Frank Adams, and Robert Monjo, was one of the most daring con men, forgers, imposters, and escape artists in history. In his brief but notorious criminal career, Abagnale donned a pilot's uniform...
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Westies (06 Edition)
by English Publisher Comments Even among the Mob, the Westies were feared. Starting with a partnership between two sadistic thugs, Jimmy Coonan and Mickey Featherstone, the gang rose out of the inferno of Hell’s Kitchen, a decaying tenderloin slice of New York City’s West...
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Serial Murderers and Their Victims - Text Only (4TH 06 Edition)
by Eric W. Hickey Publisher Comments This text provides an in-depth, scholarly, and broad-based examination of serial murderers and their victims. The coverage is supported by extensive data and research, and it profiles some of the most prominent murderers of our time. Author Eric Hickey...
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Of Long Memory: Mississippi and the Murder of Medgar Evers
by Adam Nossiter Publisher Comments The history is well known: On June 12, 1963, Mississippi's courageous NAACP chief, Medgar Evers, was gunned down by white supremacist Byron de la Beckwith. Tried twice by all-white juries, Beckwith escaped conviction for three decades. But then...
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Helter Skelter: TheTrue Story Of the Manson Murders
by Vincent Bugliosi Synopsis The #1 bestselling true crime book ever, this revised edition tells what really happened in the murders carried out by the Manson family. Taking a look at the man, the method and the madness, the book now features a new Afterword. of photos....
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I, Pierre Riviere, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister, and My Brother--: A Case of Parricide in the 19th Century
by Michel Foucault Publisher Comments 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 seven...
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Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story
by Timothy B. Tyson
Powells.com Staff Pick "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...
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Labyrinth: A Detective Investigates the Murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G., the Implication of Death Row Records' Suge Knight, and the Origins of the Los Angeles Police Scandal
by Randall Sullivan
Powells.com Staff Pick Who killed Tupac and Biggie? Randall Sullivan has the answer in this compelling true tale of political corruption and gangsta rap. Labyrinth follows Detective Russell Poole as he uncovers the dark morass within the LAPD and its connection to the death of...
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Encyclopedia of Serial Killers (00 Edition)
by Michael Newton Synopsis This guide examines the realities of serial murder versus popular myths depicted in film and television. From Jack the Ripper to Ted Bundy, the encyclopedia gives readers an overview of what is undoubtedly the most macabre and fascinating branch of crime...
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Trent 1475 : Stories of a Ritual Murder Trial (92 Edition)
by R. Po-chia Hsia Synopsis On Easter Sunday, 1475, the dead body of a two-year-old boy named Simon was found in the cellar of a Jewish family's house in Trent, Italy. Town magistrates arrested eighteen Jewish men and one Jewish woman on the charge of ritual murder - the killing of...
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Crossfire : the Plot That Killed Kennedy (90 Edition)
by Jim Marrs Publisher Comments The big daddy of the conspiracy books on the JFK assassination, and one that can't be taken lightly. A sheer tour de force that may be the final word until 2039--when government files on the case can be unlocked.--Kirkus...
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Warren Commission Report : Report of President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy (91 Edition)
by Warren Commission Publisher Comments 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...
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