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A riveting look at life inside a Mafia family."-New York Times bestselling author George Anastasia The world called him a killer. She called him Dad . . . "We were always worried. Always looking over our shoulders . . ." Linda Scarpa had the best toys, the nicest clothes, and a close-knit family. Yet classmates avoided her; boys wouldn't date her. Eventually she learned why: they were afraid of her father. A made man in the Colombo crime family,...
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"This lively and comprehensive activity book teaches young readers everything they need to know about the nation's highest court. Organized around keystones of the Constitution-including free speech, freedom of religion, civil rights, criminal justice, and property rights-the book juxtaposes historical cases with similar current cases. Presented with opinions from both sides of the court cases, readers can make up their own minds on where they stand...
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Raskolnikov commits murder. He then must deal both with the police, and his own guilty conscience. Determined to overreach his humanity and assert his untrammelled individual will, Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the Tsars, commits an act of murder and theft and sets into motion a story which, for its excrutiating suspense, its atmospheric vividness, and its profundity of characterization and vision, is almost...
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John Blake
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2014.
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1 online resource (288 pages)
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English
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A fast-paced and funny, honest and uncompromising, this is the story of one of London's most connected crime bossesJimmy Tippett Junior is from gangster aristocracy. Son of the legendary boxer and South London heavy, Jimmy Tippett, he has lives his life rubbing shoulders with the most recognizable faces in British organized crime, including Ronnie and Reggie Kray.'Jimmy is a natural raconteur who has led an incredible life as a career criminal; from...
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"Have you ever wondered why people are asked to take off their shoes and have their bags scanned before they board an airplane? Airport security uses high-tech equipment and procedures created by the Department of Homeland Security to make sure that everyone stays safe. This highly-engaging book uses the latest information to explain how the DHS helps during disaster, protects the country's computer systems, and keeps America secure. Students can...
7) Eden
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Archer and Bennett thrillers volume 2
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English
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Winner of the Ned Kelly Award
Justice is good. Vengeance is better.
"A new murder mystery star--Candice Fox may just be your new literary addiction."--Primo Life
"I fool myself that Eden has a heart--that she would at least have trouble killing me..."
Most homicide detective teams run on trust, loyalty, and the shared desire to put killers behind bars. Frank Bennett's partner, Eden Archer,
...8) True Lies
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John Blake
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2014.
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1 online resource (288 pages)
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English
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When ex-soldier and police officer Ross Slater took on a close protection security job he got more than he bargained for. His job was to provide security for leading members of Greenpeace. But when he mentioned his new career to contacts in Special Branch they came up with an even juicier role for him--as a double agent spying on the activities of the environmental group. With split loyalties, Slater had to tread a fine line between fulfilling his...
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Kensington Publishing Corporation
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2015.
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1 online resource (320 pages)
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Heather Catterton was a beautiful, beloved seventeen-year-old when her body was found in the brush by a country road in South Carolina. Sweet-natured Randi Saldana's remains were then discovered, charred and unrecognizable, in a wooded area nearby. Bestselling investigative journalist M. William Phelps delves into the lives of Danny Hembree's victims and reconstructs the twisting path from his horrifying crimes to his high-profile trial and conviction....
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The Case That Shocked The World
In 1991, an 11-year-old-girl was abducted in broad daylight. Eighteen years later, a policewoman at UC Berkeley confronted a deranged man accompanied by two young girls. During questioning the next day, the girls' mother blurted: "I am Jaycee Lee Dugard." Her companion was identified as Phillip Craig Garrido-a convicted drug user, rapist and sexual predator. An astonishing story was about to unfold...
The Evil That...
11) The red taxis
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Benny Breakiron graphic novel volume 1
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Papercutz
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[2013].
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1 online resource (63 pages) : chiefly color illustrations.
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English
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A mysterious taxi service has moved into superboy Benny Breakdown's town threatening to put Benny's friend, taxi driver Mr. Dussiflard, out of business. The more Benny learns about the Red Taxi Company, the more he realizes something isn't right!
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Lake District mysteries volume 6
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English
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Death has come twice to Ravenbank, a remote community in England's Lake District, each time on Halloween. Just before the First World War, a young woman's corpse was found, with a makeshift shroud frozen to her battered face. Her ghost, the Faceless Woman, is said to walk through Ravenbank on Halloween. Five years ago, another woman, Katya Moss, was murdered, and again her face was covered to hide her injuries. Daniel Kind, a specialist in the history...
13) Mount Hideaway
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A spy moves back to her rural home and solves mysteries with the help of her home-schooled childhood friends.
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Archangel volume 1
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While in Moscow to attend a conference about the Soviet Archives, Professor Fluke Kelso meets a mysterious old man with ties to Joseph Stalin.
15) Bhagam Bhag
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Hindi
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Bunty and Babla are two wannabe actors and want to play the lead in their theatre's play. Soon, their inappropriate behaviour causes the female lead to quit and they get tasked to finding another which hilariously lands them in a convoluted trouble.
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One Day University presents a series of video lectures recorded in real-time from some of the top minds in the United States. Given by award-winning professors and experts in their field, these recorded lectures dive deep into the worlds of religion, government, literature, and social justice.Even if we know little about the law, most of us know something about one of law's great rituals, the trial. We are regularly fascinated when this or that legal...
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Archangel volume 3
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English
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As the clock ticks for the forest of Archangel, Professor Kelso is one step away from uncovering the life-altering truth about the legacy of Stalin.
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Archangel volume 2
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English
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Fluke tries to find out more about the missing notebook, but his investigation is put on hold when he's pursued by a relentless force.
19) Winterset
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Mio Romagna is certain that his father, Bartolomeo, was executed as the result of a wrongful murder conviction. More than a decade after the crime, Mio, piggybacking on the work of enterprising journalists, pursues the case's key figures, reconstructing a web of lies based on greed, incompetence, and bigotry against immigrants.
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