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Flying Close to the Sun is the stunning memoir of a white middle-class girl from Connecticut who became a member of the Weather Underground, one of the most notorious groups of the 1960s. Cathy Wilkerson, who famously escaped the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion, here wrestles with the
legacy of the movement, at times finding contradictions that many others have avoided: the absence of women's voices then, and in the retelling; the incompetence...
103) The Fall of an Angel
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The Fall of an Angel tells about how the United States justice department uses the charge of conspiracy to put anyone they want into federal prison without any physical evidence at all. The United States is the only country in the world that charges its citizens with conspiracy. This book is a true story that illustrates how the government can breach plea agreements and get away with it. Billy Leland plead guilty, entering a plea agreement with the...
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We all know there are "bad seeds" - those who show signs early in life of being troublemakers, deviants, or career criminals. By all accounts, Dwaine Casmey was one of those kids. Sent to juvie by his parents when they felt they could not control him, graduated through the system for discipline problems, and shifted from one facility to another in an attempt to rein him in. Dwaine seemed incapable of making a right or good choice for his life. In...
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Self-published in 1918, The Mother of the Hoboes is an extremely rare book about the life of train vagabonds culled from the personal experiences of A-No. 1, "the famous tramp." This is a dazzling and wild window into an underground culture that has largely vanished, although some of the adventures may feel familiar to contemporary train hoppers, squatters and zinesters. Includes many illustrations.
Warning to Those Who Read this Book: the Author,...
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Modern Christian denominations are deeply split about whether or not heterosexual relationships between one man and one woman are the only sexual relationships permitted by God. Several denominations, including the one to which the author belongs, consider evidence of any sexual relationships other than heterosexual relationships to be sufficient evidence to bar the participants from church membership. The book you are holding contains the story of...
107) Post Traumatic Quest
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From pain to purpose, purpose to peace. In 1999, Danny Sanchez was an inmate in San Quentin Prison. In 2012, he was commended for his work in youth violence prevention and named a Champion of Change by President Barak Obama. Experience his journey through the trauma that shaped his childhood, his spiral in self-destruction, then his radical transformation and quest to serve the community he loves. Danny grew up in the juvenile incarceration system...
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La historia de Jeffrey Epstein y otras historias ha capturado la atención del mundo entero. Este financiero multimillonario, conocido por su relación con prominentes figuras políticas, celebridades y empresarios, fue acusado de dirigir una red de tráfico sexual de menores y enfrentaba graves cargos criminales. Sin embargo, su muerte en prisión en agosto de 2019, oficialmente catalogada como suicidio, dejó muchas preguntas sin respuesta y alimentó...
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Out of Loneliness: Murder and Memoir opens on Memorial Day 1962 when Bev Waugh, a transgender man strode down a quiet street in a small South Dakota river town and shot Myron Menzie, a young Lakota engaged to Jeanie Stepon, Bev's pretty, teenage lover. Haug was sixteen-years-old that day and had no context for understanding the complications of a triangulated love affair that led to murder.
Forty years later, Haug discovers a picture of Bev. In her...
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This book is about my experience with the child support system in Ohio and how I met many obstacles dealing with the mother and the court system. It covers a fifteen-year battle with the mother and how it affected my family and my children's lives. Imagine being ordered to pay $1,200 a month for two children out of a monthly salary of $2,100 when you already are caring for an older child. Well, that is what happened to me.
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This is the story of a woman stricken with grief by the unexpected loss of her husband. Unbeknownst to her, this grief, which she suppressed because she was a "very strong and fearless person," became very vulnerable and fell victim to a network of intrigue and lies. Penney-a strong, independent woman, who would be the very last person one would think, who would fall prey to a scam-proves that if it happened to her, it could happen to anyone.
Having...
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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 in the 1960s is widely recognized by historians and scholars as epitomizing the controversies, the promise, and the problems of the New Left.
This memoir by Melville's son opens a...
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He plotted to kill Pope John Paul...to crash a plane into CIA headquarters...to blow 11 airliners flying from Asia to the United States. But it isn't the things that he plotted that he is known for-it's the one that was carried out: the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Today the attack is largely overshadowed by 9/11, but at the time it was one of the most memorable attacks on American soil.
This book provides insight into Yousef life, his planning...
114) Carceration State
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Carceration State is a riveting tale of one man's journey into the criminal justice system. It exposes the dark side of incarceration and the brutality and injustice for prison profit. Mr. Kühnel examines not only the revolving doors of prison, probation, and parole and the state making of career criminals, but he also takes a deep look within himself, finding his own humanity.
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In an age where the story of murder is told of perpetrators who are generally behind bars, by the families of the victims of crime, or by the authorities who have prosecuted killers, here is a story told from a different perspective. This is the story of Nicolas Claux, a self-confessed Vampire and Cannibal who, having been convicted of murder in the 1990's in France, and has since been subsequently released from prison. This is the story of his life,...
116) Ombres d'hommes
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À l'aube du XXe siècle qui sera celui des États-Unis, marginaux, ingouvernables et tous ceux qui n'entrent pas dans le jeu de la prospérité mènent une vie dangereuse. Ils sont harcelés par les policiers de toute sorte, expédiés en taule par les juges, lynchés par les bons citoyens. En prison, écroués pour avoir voyagé ou mangé sans payer, pour avoir trop bu ou pour avoir tué, les vagabonds du rail et autres délinquants devenus oiseaux...
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The dramatic story of a young man who grew up in a very dangerous part of town. A place where crime was commonplace and where most of the young boys and girls would do time in the juvenile reform system and many growing up only to serve time in prison. His single-parent mother strove to move into another part of town, hoping to avoid seeing him grow up to be a criminal.
But even, on the other side of town, seeing the neighborhood pimps driving expensive...
118) Shattered Windows
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I was robbed of $125,000,000 and I can prove it.
This is a true-life story of how I have gone from heiress to homeless.
My father created an empire, he started out in his two-car garage in 1953. My parents were married for 30 years but their marriage ended in divorce. After the divorce, my four siblings and I helped our father's business grow tremendously. We were consistently rated at the top in quality and prompt delivery. We had everything going...
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Summary of A Mother's Reckoning by Sue Klebold | Includes Analysis Preview: In her memoir A Mother's Reckoning, Sue Klebold struggles to come to terms with her son Dylan's role in the infamous Columbine High School shooting. Writing 16 years after the shooting, she reflects on when and where things went wrong for Dylan-and how she and her husband, who were loving parents, could have missed the warning signs. Klebold's story begins with the voicemail...
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As a kid, David used to always, look up to drug dealers, pimps, and players because he thought that they had everything-money, cars, and whores. Even though he wanted to be a lawyer, he wanted to live like them, but his mother was not having that kind of life for him and his big brother, Mike. She raised them like middle class even though they were poor. Growing up, David never saw drugs, pimps, or players. It was not until David turned eighteen that...
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