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The Shelton Gang: They Played in Peoria
ISBN: 9781413460124 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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93,63 |
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The Shelton Gang: They Played in Peoria
ISBN: 9781413460131 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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138,23 |
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Billy The Kid -: The Elder
ISBN: 9781414047898 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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51,07 |
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Very Much a Lady: The Untold Story of Jean Harris and Dr. Herman Tarnower (Original)
ISBN: 9781416509592 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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89,92 |
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Blue Rage, Black Redemption: A Memoir
ISBN: 9781416544494 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A gripping tale of personal revolution by a man who went from Crips co-founder to Nobel Peace Prize nominee, author, and antigang activist When his L.A. neighborhood was threatened by gangbangers, Stanley Tookie Williams and a friend formed the Crips, but what began as protection became worse than the original gangs. From deadly street fights with their rivals to drive-by shootings and stealing cars, the Crips' influence -- and Tookie's reputation -- began to spread across L.A. Soon he was regularly under police surveillance, and, as a result, was arrested often, though always...
A gripping tale of personal revolution by a man who went from Crips co-founder to Nobel Peace Prize nominee, author, and antigang activist ...
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82,47 |
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Everything Must Change
ISBN: 9781420851281 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Everything Must Change is about the ups and downs of the fast life. Also, it's about a botched jewelry store robbery that I committed, which lead to the tragic death of a father of three and how death subsequently led to years of moral anguish and bitter regret for my former actions. This story is also about the metamophosis of James Wells, Jr., a man-child, strong willed and misdirected, who finally evolved into a responsible adult. I believe that everyone was placed on this earth first and foremost to serve God. In addition to serving your Lord, we are placed here to find our niche. Having...
Everything Must Change is about the ups and downs of the fast life. Also, it's about a botched jewelry store robbery that I committed, which lead to t...
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96,35 |
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Forty Years Later: Life after Alcatraz
ISBN: 9781420852165 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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51,07 |
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Truth Be Told: Life Lessons From Death Row
ISBN: 9781420875928 / Angielski / Miękka / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nobody knows how long it will be before Rich is executed - if he is executed. For this, too, is a bewilderment. How he went from being assured by his attorney of manslaughter charges to being on death row is a story that comes to light in the letters, as do the details of a justice system that, once unjustly underway, cannot easily be restored. In November, 2004, when Agi and I sat in the office of Rich's public defender, he told us, "Rich does not belong on death row. And I have very little hope that he will not be executed." He said that publishing the letters might help Rich's cause. As...
Nobody knows how long it will be before Rich is executed - if he is executed. For this, too, is a bewilderment. How he went from being assured by his ...
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96,35 |
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Changed at San Quentin...for Better or Worse
ISBN: 9781425909994 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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56,64 |
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Free from Death Road
ISBN: 9781425921804 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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111,48 |
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Dead in El Paso
ISBN: 9781425923921 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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64,64 |
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Undoing Time: American Prisoners in Their Own Words
ISBN: 9781555534585 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The over two million men and women incarcerated in penitentiaries and jails have become America's forgotten population. This extraordinary anthology of autobiographical prison writings brings the reader inside their silent and hidden world. Culled from more than four hundred submissions nationwide, the thirty-six pieces here represent works by a broad spectrum of prisoners: young and old, unknown and infamous, minimum security check forgers and death row inmates. The authors include notorious "Preppie Murderer" Robert Chambers; an elderly truck driver who strangled the woman he professed...
The over two million men and women incarcerated in penitentiaries and jails have become America's forgotten population. This extraordinary anthology o...
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149,32 |
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My Bloody Life: The Making of a Latin King
ISBN: 9781556524271 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Looking for an escape from childhood abuse, Reymundo Sanchez turned away from school and baseball to drugs, alcohol, and then sex, and was left to fend for himself before age 14. The Latin Kings, one of the largest and most notorious street gangs in America, became his refuge and his world, but its violence cost him friends, freedom, self-respect, and nearly his life. This is a raw and powerful odyssey through the ranks of the new mafia, where the only people more dangerous than rival gangs are members of your own gang, who in one breath will say they ll die for you and in the next will order...
Looking for an escape from childhood abuse, Reymundo Sanchez turned away from school and baseball to drugs, alcohol, and then sex, and was left to fen...
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Once a King, Always a King: The Unmaking of a Latin King
ISBN: 9781556525537 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This riveting sequel to "My Bloody Life" traces Reymundo Sanchez s struggle to create a normal life outside the Latin Kings, one of the nation's most notorious street gangs, and to move beyond his past. Sanchez illustrates how the Latin King motto once a king, always a king rings true and details the difficulty and danger of leaving that life behind. Filled with heart-pounding scenes of his backslide into drugs, sex, and violence, Once a King, Always a King recounts how Sanchez wound up behind bars and provides an engrossing firsthand account of how the Latin Kings are run from inside the...
This riveting sequel to "My Bloody Life" traces Reymundo Sanchez s struggle to create a normal life outside the Latin Kings, one of the nation's most ...
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Joey the Hitman: The Autobiography of a Mafia Killer
ISBN: 9781560253938 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Following up on the success of the Adrenaline title Mob: Stories of Death and Betrayal from Organized Crime, Adrenaline Classics brings back the New York Times bestseller (originally published as Killer) that helped pave the way for the latest generation of nouveau-mob stories, from Donnie Brasco to The Sopranos. -Joey---a journeyman Jewish hitman, numbers king, and loan shark--collaborated with David Fisher (co-editor of the hit Adrenaline title Wild Blue) to lay out the rackets in gripping detail. His story includes detailed accounts of his chillingly -professional- murders of thirty-eight...
Following up on the success of the Adrenaline title Mob: Stories of Death and Betrayal from Organized Crime, Adrenaline Classics brings back the New Y...
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Bloodsworth: The True Story of One Man's Triumph Over Injustice
ISBN: 9781565125148 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Chilling, heartbreaking, and ultimately inspiring. I urge you to read it."
--SISTER HELEN PREJEAN, author of Dead Man Walking CHARGED WITH THE RAPE AND MURDER of a nine-year-old girl in 1984, Kirk Bloodsworth was tried, convicted, and sentenced to die in Maryland's gas chamber. Maintaining his innocence, he read everything on criminal law available in the prison library and persuaded a new lawyer to petition for the then-innovative DNA testing. After nine years in one of the harshest prisons in America, Kirk Bloodsworth became the first death... "Chilling, heartbreaking, and ultimately inspiring. I urge you to read it."
--SISTER HELEN PREJEAN, author of Dead Man Walki... |
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Dead Men Tell No Tales: The Life and Legends of the Pirate Charles Gibbs
ISBN: 9781570036934 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A chronicle of murders, mutiny, and mayhem carried out by a real pirate of the Caribbean
A chronicle of murders, mutiny, and mayhem carried out by a real pirate of the Caribbean
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121,89 |
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Bonnie and Clyde: A Twenty-first-century Update
ISBN: 9781571687944 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A new contribution to the growing body of serious historical research on the outlaw couple, whose story has taken on near-mythical status but often has been told with little regard for the facts. Includes eyewitness accounts not seen elsewhere."They say the truth hurts, but it will also set you free. All this family has asked, if Clyde and Bonnie are going to be part of history, is that the history be the truth. I think Jim Knight and Jonathan Davis have tried to do justice to both." -- Buddy Williams, son of L.C. Barrow and nephew of Clyde Barrow
A new contribution to the growing body of serious historical research on the outlaw couple, whose story has taken on near-mythical status but often ha...
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All-American Monster
ISBN: 9781573920889 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At 9:02 A.M. on April 19, 1995, the serenity of America's heartland was destroyed when a massive explosion leveled one side of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, and the reality of terrorism shocked the nation. Damage from the blast covered many city blocks; 168 men, women, and children were killed; and an estimated 500 were injured. On April 21, Timothy McVeigh was formally charged as a suspect in the bombing. More than a year after the bombings, as the wheels of justice grind slowly toward a trial, the nation, in its shock and horror, still asks: Who is Timothy McVeigh?...
At 9:02 A.M. on April 19, 1995, the serenity of America's heartland was destroyed when a massive explosion leveled one side of the Alfred P. Murrah Fe...
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The Circle of Guilt
ISBN: 9781578069835 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1955 a New York City court sentenced Puerto Rican immigrant and teenage gang member Frank Santana to twenty-five years to life for second-degree murder. Fredric Wertham (1895-1981), one of the most influential authorities on child psychology in the twentieth century, was outraged and felt compelled to write The Circle of Guilt. He had conducted multiple interviews with Santana and created an extensive psychological profile on him. Wertham saw unsettling patterns in the ways in which the case was reported, investigated, and deliberated. Media portrayed the victim, a white... In 1955 a New York City court sentenced Puerto Rican immigrant and teenage gang member Frank Santana to twenty-five years to life for second-degree... |
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