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Three friends from reform school embark on a bloody rampage Troy was born in Beverly Hills but raised in the prisons of Southern California. Two days before his parole from reform school, a run-in with a young black tough threatens to derail his release. He prepares to fight, ready to sacrifice freedom to maintain his reputation, but a friend comes to his rescue. Armed with two razor blades, Mad Dog takes out Troy's assailant, allowing his friend...
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"It's 1933 and Prohibition has given rise to the American gangster--now infamous names like Bonnie and Clyde and John Dillinger. Bank robberies at gunpoint are commonplace and kidnapping for ransom is the scourge of a lawless nation. With local cops unauthorized to cross state lines in pursuit and no national police force, safety for kidnappers is just a short trip on back roads they know well from their bootlegging days. Gangster George "Machine...
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"Beatrice Carraway has dreams. Although she's aged out of the childhood pageant circuit, she's intent on carrying her talents all the way to the big screen--if only she can escape the poverty of West Dallas first. But as the Great Depression drags the working class further and further under, Beatrice struggles just to keep herself, her mother, and her younger sister afloat. After a string of failed auditions, she feels defeated. And then in walks...
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Over the last thirty years, many people who have heard my life's testimony suggested that I write this book. The book starts off with my verbally and emotional abusive relationship with my father that eventually caused me to accept atheism and to run away from home at the age of fourteen. I went to Hell's Kitchen in New York City and joined a local gang, the Park Rats.
The middle section shows my association with The Genovese Mafia due to work provided...
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Caught by a Pimp is the true story about a pimp who turns a young girl out. She's trying to take care of her daughter and sick mother. He's on crack, and the young girl knows nothing about drugs. The young girl gets married at the age of sixteen because she has a baby. Her husband goes to prison for armed robbery and leaves her to take care of their baby by herself.
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Married to a Kingpin is about a young girl who met a man whom she falls in love with. She's been with him for almost two years. The first week she was with him, she realized he was a kingpin. He bought her and her family everything. They drove Jaguars and a new Blazer truck. He bought her new clothes, jewelry, and furs. He even took her off the ho stroll. What she didn't know was that he was married, and his wife.
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A true story of a young marine who escaped from a level 5 military prison on an island called Treasure Island. In the military, he graduated number one in his class; his future seemed bright. After his first love left him, his life spiraled out of control into drugs and crime. It's a true story of one unbelievable event after another. It will keep you wondering what's next and will give you hope if you've lost it.
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Pirate Narratives is a collection of authentic tales of some of the notorious buccaneers and marauders. It contains biographies, first-hand accounts, diary entries, court documents and many other sources that make up very interesting and informative history of the pirates, covering a broad spectrum from Nordic marauders in Middle Ages, through Arabian plunderers, Barbary swashbucklers and pirates of Indian Ocean, to the most famous Atlantic and Caribbean...
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The Pirates of Panama presents a true account of the famous adventures and daring deeds of Sir Henry Morgan and other notorious freebooters of the Spanish Main. Written by John Esquemeling, a Dutch merchant clerk who turned to piracy and served under Captain Morgan, witnessing and participating in their crimes, the book offers a firsthand account of many different aspects of piracy and the life of pirates.
Esquemelingdescribeshow the democracy works...
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Only by God's grace, I am still alive and not in prison. I was born in a federal housing project, and my mother was fifteen years old when she became pregnant with me. Both of my parents served time in prison for trafficking heroin. My father had eight sons, and I am the only one who did not spend time in the penitentiary. Two of my brothers and four of my nephews have been murdered in the streets because of gang wars. After being raided by the police,...
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An Unforgettable Look Inside the Godfather's Own House that Inspired the CBS Miniseries Love, Honor and Obey
She Was A Profaci. He Was A Bonanno.
Rosalie Profaci was a Mafia princess. Salvatore "Bill" Bonanno, oldest son of Mafia Don Joe Bonanno, the real-life model for The Godfather, was organized crime's crown prince. And Bill, deeply involved in his father's "business" of mob schemes thought pretty Rosalie knew what it meant to be a "Mafia wife."...
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Writing my true-crime autobiography is only half the story. The second half is my redemption and repentance to my Lord and savior Jesus Christ. The book is 100 percent truth, from my wild childhood days in New York City to me joining the US Navy at age sixteen and serving eight years honorably. The only problem, I was living a double life. I was also a mob associate and worked with a crew from one of the five families. It was the early 1990s, the...
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Not everyone gets a second chance, but Cino has taken many, but this time, his time may just be running out, with enemies lurking around death's corner. But one is in the shadows, or is he? Cino, Mayham, and Chanelle are about to learn a cold lesson: keep your friends close and your enemies closer. As Cino faces his greatest two foes, his demons, and one worthy opponent that he shares a cell with, he is plotting like only a true mastermind would do,...
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Based on a true story, this gripping debut novel tells the tale of a young lady entering womanhood, ensnared in the vicious cycle of dematerialized soul tie symptoms, addiction, violence, and crime. A single mother in a world where other women knew their position, she played the game. Set against the gritty backdrop of a harsh world, the protagonist grapples with the loss of loved ones and battles addiction to crack cocaine while navigating the perilous...
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When his lawsuit money starts to get low, Sonny Brown finds out from the most unusual sources that the pimp life may have been just a natural call of the wild.
The system hasn't been too kind to Angela "Angel" Cooper either, so she connects with Sonny on her eighteenth birthday since foster care is about to throw her to the wolves anyway.
There are many obstacles, and they find themselves in more than a few perplexing predicaments where Sonny...
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Have you ever pondered the circumstances surrounding COVID-19, when the entire world was under lockdown, and prison visitations were prohibited? Despite these restrictions, prisoners were still succumbing to overdoses. Have you ever wondered about the untold aspects that popular shows like "Locked Up," "Hard Time," and "Sixty Days In" fail to reveal? The media either lacks knowledge or chooses not to disclose the truth to the public, such as the compromising...
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Multiple award-winner Loren D. Estleman has produced a major biographical novel on the infamous Mobster known as Scarface, rigorously researched and deftly nuanced to offer an intimate portrait of the gangster whose terrible crimes and larger-than-life persona have both fascinated and appalled the world for nearly a century; whose legacy is still widely debated; and whose brutally ambitious career in the Mafia continues to inspire filmmakers and writers...
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Mit Gott in der Stammkneipe
"Wenn du mich heute hinter der Theke siehst, wirst du nicht glauben, was ich alles erlebt habe. Ich bin in der DDR aufgewachsen - das war kein einfaches Leben. Schließlich hatte ich Erfolg, aber dabei habe ich viele Menschen verletzt und betrogen. Dann bin ich im Knast gelandet - mein absoluter Tiefpunkt! Ich dachte, meine Schuld wäre zu groß, um vergeben zu werden, doch eine Begegnung mit Gott hat alles verändert....
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Touted in his time as one of the "great men of the West," Stephen Wallace Dorsey was a Reconstruction carpetbagger who went to Arkansas and finagled and bribed his way into getting elected to the US Senate after living only two years in the state before heading West to seek his fortune. From a fraudulent New Mexico land claim to taking up mining claims and real estate in Southern California, he used sheer cunning and guile to manipulate the system...
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