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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...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"A woman with a secret past returns to the wilds of her youth to face the most dangerous man she's ever met: her father. Helena's seemingly ordinary life hides a dangerous truth: her estranged father is the infamous Marsh King, the man who kept her and her mother captive in the wilderness for years. When he escapes from prison, Helena is forced to confront her past, and--knowing that he will hunt for her--find the strength to outmaneuver the man who...
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Garrett County Press
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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The Wife I Won is No. 10 in a self-published nonfiction series by hobo writer A No. 1. Contains stories, observations and illustrations of life on the road. The Author has carefully, avoided the least mention of anything that would be, unfit reading for ladies or children. First published circa 1920.
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Garrett County Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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This is the second book in the famous hobo series by A No.1. The writing is thrilling, presenting true, hilarious stories of train hopping and tramping. Warning to Those Who Read this Book: the Author, who Has Led for Over a Quarter of a Century the Pitiful and Dangerous Life of a Tramp, gives this Well-Meant Advice:
DO NOT
Jump on Moving Trains or Street Cars, even if only to ride to the next street crossing, because this might arouse the "Wanderlust,"...
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Garrett County Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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First published in 1914, this detailed account of female hobos is a rare and beautiful example of early American storytelling. The Adventures of a Female Tramp is social history, presenting vagabond underground culture with humor, excitement and a flare for the dramatic. Each of the cross-country adventures are, told by "the famous hobo" A. No. 1, who authored several books about tramping, including From Coast to Coast with Jack London, which inspired...
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Garrett County Press
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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Published in 1912, The Curse of the Tramp is the third book in the series by A-No 1 "The Famous Tramp" who traveled 500,000 miles for only $7.61. This is a fabulous and true tour of prisons, train yards and railroads.
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Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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"American Time Bomb is a vital read for this moment. " —Heather Ann Thompson, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
Few stories are more central to understanding our history of racially biased incarceration and violent social activism than the life of Sam Melville. Melville was both reviled and admired as one of the most feared radicals in post–World War II history. His importance...
8) El padrino
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Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
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Hace más de treinta años, una obra clásica fue llevada. Un evocation que se chamuscaba del mundo terrenal de la mafia, esta novela introdujo a lectores a la primera familia de la ficción americana del crimen, al Corleones, y a la herencia de gran alcance de la tradición, de la sangre, y del honor que sería pasada encendido de padre al hijo. Los soportes de la novela hacia fuera debido a sus caracteres exquisitamente detallados que, a pesar de...
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Publisher
HarperCollins Espanol
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
Dinero, drogas y cárteles: eso es lo que el novato agente del FBI esperaba tener cuando lo enviaron al pueblo fronterizo de Laredo; pero en cambio, se encontró con una tarea sedentaria, redactando reportes de inteligencia acerca de la guerra contra el narcotráfico. Hasta que, un día, le piden a Lawson que chequee una pista anónima: un caballo que se vendió en una subasta en Oklahoma por un precio mucho más elevado de lo usual, y el comprador...
10) The bezzle
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Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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The year is 2006. Martin Hench is at the top of his game as a self-employed forensic accountant, a veteran of the long guerrilla war between people who want to hide money, and people who want to find it. He spends his downtime on Catalina Island, where scenic, imported bison wander the bluffs and frozen, reheated fast food burgers cost twenty-five dollars. Wait, what? When Marty disrupts a seemingly innocuous scheme during a vacation on Catalina Island,...
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Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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If history is right, a 26 year-old beauty named Winnie Ruth Judd murdered her two best girlfriends one hot Phoenix night in 1931. Then she hacked up their bodies, stuffed the pieces into a trunk, and took them by train to Los Angeles as her baggage. If history is right, she was sentenced to die but "cheated the gallows" by acting insane. She spent nearly 40 years in Arizona's insane asylum-flummoxing officials by escaping six times. If history is...
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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Neal Wooten traces five decades of his dirt-poor, Alabama mountain family as the years and secrets coalesce.
Neal Wooten grew up in a tiny community atop Sand Mountain, Alabama, where everyone was white, and everyone was poor. Prohibition was still embraced. If you wanted alcohol, you had to drive to Georgia or ask the bootlegger sitting next to you in church. Tent revivals, snake handlers, and sacred harp music were the norm, and everyone was welcome...
13) Butcher
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Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp.
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
His Goal: To Kill An "Even Fifty"
They called him "Uncle Willie." At night, Robert "Willie" Pickton visited the streets of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. The women he picked up never came back...
His Methods: Rape And Torture
For years, police built a long list of missing prostitutes, women at the edge of society. Some people claimed there was a serial killer. One detective lost his job for saying so. But investigators didn't have a single body......
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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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A rollicking true story of Bibles and bank robberies in Southern California, from a talented and highly praised gonzo journalist
Chas Smith grew up deeply enmeshed in the evangelical Christian world that grew out of Southern California in the late 1960s. His family included famous missionaries and megachurch pastors, but his cousin Daniel Courson was Grandma's favorite. Smith looked up to Cousin Danny. He was handsome, adventurous, and smart, earned...
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Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Bestselling author Douglas Century reveals the untold story of the epic rise and fall of Boris Nayfeld, also known as Biba, one of the most notorious Russian mob bosses of our era.
Boris Nayfeld, a.k.a. “Biba,” is the last living boss of the old-school Russian mob in America, and he’s survived to tell it all. Filled with sex, drugs, and murder, Biba’s story is a mind-boggling journey that took him from petty street crime in the USSR to billion-dollar...
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Series
Peter Ash novels volume 8
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Lewis has helped Peter Ash out of more trouble than Peter cares to remember. So he doesn't hesitate when Lewis asks a favor in return. Lewis has left his criminal past behind, but a former associate may be in trouble, and he and Peter must drive into the teeth of a blizzard to find him. When they discover blood in the snow and a smoldering cabin, both men know things are bad. Then they learn that someone has stolen notebooks full of incriminating...
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Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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The true story of the top-secret mission to capture the Russian billionaire arms dealer, the Merchant of Death: “This is James Bond meets Jason Bourne” (Bear Grylls, star of Man vs. Wild).
Viktor Bout was the world’s foremost arms dealer. From his hideout in Moscow, he masterminded the sale of weapons to dictators, rebels, despots, and terror groups worldwide—supplying anything from AK-47s to state-of-the-art...
Viktor Bout was the world’s foremost arms dealer. From his hideout in Moscow, he masterminded the sale of weapons to dictators, rebels, despots, and terror groups worldwide—supplying anything from AK-47s to state-of-the-art...
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Publisher
Chronicle Books Llc
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A feast for the senses, this sumptuously illustrated book will introduce you to some of the most infamous women throughout world history, united by their shared taste for poison. Welcome to the League of Lady Poisoners.
This riveting and well-researched volume by Lisa Perrin weaves together the stories of more than twenty-five accused women poisoners, exploring the circumstances and skill sets that led them to lives of crime....
This riveting and well-researched volume by Lisa Perrin weaves together the stories of more than twenty-five accused women poisoners, exploring the circumstances and skill sets that led them to lives of crime....
19) American me
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by a true story, this is the story of a vicious Latino prison gang leader, doomed by his past to a life of harsh, unforgiving violence after his release from jail. He grows up in East Los Angeles, joins a street gang and is in prison while he is still of an age to be in high school. By the time he is back on the streets again, he is a skillful, educated criminal. He goes back to his old neighborhood and tries to distance himself from the...
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