A Sense of Freedom
ISBN: 9781785033032 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "'My life sentence had actually started the day I left my mother's womb . . ." Jimmy Boyle grew up in Glasgow's Gorbals. All around him the world was drinking, fighting, and thieving. To survive, he too had to fight and steal. Kids' gangs led to trouble with the police. Approved schools led to Borstal, and Jimmy was on his way to a career in crime. By his 20s he was a hardened villain, sleeping with prostitutes, running shebeens and money-lending rackets. Then they nailed him for murder. The sentence was life--the brutal, degrading eternity of a broken spirit in... "'My life sentence had actually started the day I left my mother's womb . . ." Jimmy Boyle grew up in Glasgow's Gorbals. All a... |
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Raised from the Dead
ISBN: 9781498458283 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. God's work can be subtle, or it can be dramatic and life altering On September 26, 2013 Lawrence Hodges had no pulse and no breath for 15 minutes. God brought him back to learn the reason for his terrifying attack: Brugada syndrome. His life was forever changed by the very likely chance he will experience another, possibly fatal, heart attack-at any time. This is not the first test God had placed before Lawrence. Years before, as a young man, he was headed down a path of gambling, violence, and theft. Trying desperately to find what was missing in his life, he continued to trust the wrong...
God's work can be subtle, or it can be dramatic and life altering On September 26, 2013 Lawrence Hodges had no pulse and no breath for 15 minutes. God...
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Stalin's Romeo Spy: : The Remarkable Rise and Fall of the KGB's Most Daring Operative
ISBN: 9781519281371 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Ned Kelly: The Man Behind the Mask
ISBN: 9781742234496 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We all think we know the story of Ned Kelly, Australia s most famous outlaw, but we ve never seen him in full color like this before Edward Ned Kelly was born in 1855 into a poor Irish immigrant family in rural Victoria. He grew up loyal to his family, angry at the injustice he saw in Australian society and desperate to better his situation by any means. Often in trouble with the police, with the so-called Kelly Gang he was involved in horse and cattle stealing, bank robbing, kidnapping and ultimately murder. But he was the only bushranger to write a famous and compelling letter explaining...
We all think we know the story of Ned Kelly, Australia s most famous outlaw, but we ve never seen him in full color like this before Edward Ned Kelly ...
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Double Cross: The Explosive Inside Story of the Mobster Who Controlled America
ISBN: 9781510711242 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the most feared Chicago mobsters Sam Giancana clawed his way to the top of the Mafia hierarchy by starting as a hit man for Al Capone. He was known as one of the best vehicle escape artists, a tenacious business man, and a ruthless killer. He partied with major stars such as Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe and did business with agents ranging from the CIA to the Vatican to the shah of Iran. When politician Joe Kennedy gave Giancana the chance to use mob muscle to get his son John elected, Giancana jumped at the task. But the Kennedy brothers double-crossed him, waging full-out war on...
One of the most feared Chicago mobsters Sam Giancana clawed his way to the top of the Mafia hierarchy by starting as a hit man for Al Capone. He was k...
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Bandit: A Daughter's Memoir
ISBN: 9780802125637 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Raw, poetic and compulsively readable. In Molly Brodak s dazzling memoir, Bandit, her eye is so honest, I found myself nodding like I was agreeing with her, sometimes cringing at what she sustained, and laughingoften. I can t wait to buy a copy for everyone I know. Kathryn Stockett, author of The Help
In the summer of 1994, when Molly Brodak was thirteen years old, her father robbed eleven banks, until the police finally caught up with him while he was sitting at a bar drinking beer, a bag of stolen money plainly visible in the backseat of his parked car. Dubbed the... Raw, poetic and compulsively readable. In Molly Brodak s dazzling memoir, Bandit, her eye is so honest, I found myself nodding like I was a...
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Truth In The Rear View Mirror: An Insider Exposes Americas Power Players Revealing their Dark Secrets, Lies and Hidden Agenda to the American People!
ISBN: 9780692630549 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Michael Maris' Truth In The Rear View Mirror divulges dark secrets, lies and hidden agendas of some of America's biggest power players. Maris' memoirs cover his 25 years as a Washington D.C. Executive Security Driver and more. You need to read this shocking book BEFORE you cast your vote for the next President of the United States of America. The eye-opening experiences and scandalous information Maris was privy to will awaken you to the underlying corruption happening behind the dark tinted windows of our beloved nation. He drove for government agencies, political officials, international...
Michael Maris' Truth In The Rear View Mirror divulges dark secrets, lies and hidden agendas of some of America's biggest power players. Maris' memoirs...
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The Lufthansa Heist: Behind the Six-Million-Dollar Cash Haul That Shook the World
ISBN: 9781493026647 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The inside story--from the organizer himself--of the largest unrecovered cash haul in history. This full account brings readers behind the heist memorialized in Goodfellas, a crime that has baffled law enforcement for decades. From Henry Hill himself, The Lufthansa Heist is the last book he worked on before his 2012 death. On December 11, 1978, a daring armed robbery rocked Kennedy Airport, resulting in the largest unrecovered cash haul in world history, totaling six million dollars. The perpetrators were never apprehended and thirteen people connected to the crime were murdered in homicides...
The inside story--from the organizer himself--of the largest unrecovered cash haul in history. This full account brings readers behind the heist memor...
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80,27 zł |
Entrapped: a true story
ISBN: 9781518880391 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A mysterious drug for two thousand years is spreading in secret among the humankind. Put around by Jesus Christ through his disciples, had been planned because it would bring the man to his end in the space of two thousand years and with the arrival of 2012, the purpose of such drugs would come to completion, 2012 would have been the end of the world as predicted by the Mayan calendar, the year in which the last human on earth, the only hope remained, the only one who still could in extremis reverse the fate of the world, would be tainted by this drug, leading humanity to an irreversible...
A mysterious drug for two thousand years is spreading in secret among the humankind. Put around by Jesus Christ through his disciples, had been planne...
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Cold Cases True Crime: 10 True Crime Stories Of Monsters And Serial Killers: Chilling Cold Cases True Crime Accounts
ISBN: 9781530075331 / Angielski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 10 True Crime Stories Of Monsters And Serial Killers: Chilling Cold Cases True Crime Accounts The world is full of mysteries. Despite the fact that people are living in a high-tech world, with many advances in science and technology, there are still many unsolved and unexplained crimes that occur over the centuries. It's quite sad and truly horrible to know that there are people who have the stomach to commit these crimes. What is more frustrating is the fact that some of these crimes don't appear to have any motive and are committed just for the fun of it. Others are killed simply because...
10 True Crime Stories Of Monsters And Serial Killers: Chilling Cold Cases True Crime Accounts The world is full of mysteries. Despite the fact that pe...
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Cold Cases True Crime: True Murder Stories And Accounts Of Incredible Murder Mysteries From The Last Century
ISBN: 9781530075263 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. True Murder Stories And Accounts Of Incredible Murder Mysteries From The Last Century Unsolved Mysteries, a famous show which started airing in 1987, continue to feature many stories of unsolved cases from missing persons, murders, wanted fugitives, and paranormal phenomena. Each episode, featuring 4 to 5 real-life cases, is aimed on publicizing the stories so that witnesses could come forward and report what they knew. With the show's success and good intentions, it was only natural for the crew and staff to receive letters of admiration and gratitude. However, on December 1993, Unsolved...
True Murder Stories And Accounts Of Incredible Murder Mysteries From The Last Century Unsolved Mysteries, a famous show which started airing in 1987, ...
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Did They Really Do It?: From Lizzie Borden to the 20th Hijacker
ISBN: 9781504035125 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nine of the most controversial violent crimes in America's history are reexamined in these compelling stories of true crime
Dr. Samuel Mudd set John Wilkes Booth's broken ankle, but was he actually part of the larger conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln? Did Lizzie Borden brutally murder her own parents in Massachusetts? Was admitted jihadist Zacarias Moussaoui really involved in the terrorist plot to destroy the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001? In a series of provocative and eye-opening true crime investigations, author Fred Rosen revisits some of... Nine of the most controversial violent crimes in America's history are reexamined in these compelling stories of true crime
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La Constantin
ISBN: 9781533146267 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Alexandre Dumas also known as Alexandre Dumas, pere, was a French writer. His works have been translated into nearly 100 languages, and he is one of the most widely read French authors. Many of his historical novels of high adventure were originally published as serials, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne: Ten Years Later. His novels have been adapted since the early twentieth century for nearly 200 films. Dumas' last novel, The Knight of Sainte-Hermine, unfinished at his death, was completed by a scholar and published...
Alexandre Dumas also known as Alexandre Dumas, pere, was a French writer. His works have been translated into nearly 100 languages, and he is one of t...
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La Constantin
ISBN: 9781533187321 / Angielski / Miękka / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published as part of his eight-volume series "Celebrated Crimes" (1839-40), it recounts the semi-fictionalised story of Marie Leroux and her accomplice Claude. A history of the retribution which overtook these dastardly criminals, this tale of low morals and deep corruption in seventeenth century France will appeal to lovers of true crime literature. "La Constantin" is not to be missed by fans and collectors of Dumas's fantastic work.
First published as part of his eight-volume series "Celebrated Crimes" (1839-40), it recounts the semi-fictionalised story of Marie Leroux and her acc...
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30,44 zł |
Dead Man Tell No Lies
ISBN: 9780990870852 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lyndon Smith shares his story of survival to deliver a heartfelt memoir of his life in the fast lane. In Dead Man Tell No Lies, Smith chronicles his experience in the mean streets of LA, to his love affair with VH1 reality star Karen King, to his days as a hustler, drug lord, and ex-con. While on his road to personal deliverance and recovery, Smith was savagely assaulted by the ones he cared for and loved most. Written in his own words, this book is an honest, tell-all, open letter, allowing readers a glimpse into street life where the only the strongest can survive and where love... Lyndon Smith shares his story of survival to deliver a heartfelt memoir of his life in the fast lane. In Dead Man Tell No Lies, Smith chro... |
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76,91 zł |
This Is Where I Am: A Memoir
ISBN: 9780816695720 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Prison is where Zeke Caligiuri is. Powderhorn Park in South Minneapolis, dubbed "Murderapolis" the year he turned eighteen, is where he comes from. It was the same neighborhood his father grew up in but had changed dramatically by the early 1990s. Yet in Zeke's family, father and mother and grandmother kept things together while all around them the houses decayed and once-safe streets gave way to the crush of poverty and crime. This Is Where I Am is Zeke Caligiuri's clear-eyed account of how he got from there to here, how a boy who had every hope went from dreaming of freedom... Prison is where Zeke Caligiuri is. Powderhorn Park in South Minneapolis, dubbed "Murderapolis" the year he turned eighteen, is where he comes from.... |
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Violent Obsession
ISBN: 9780994491121 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Stalker Next Door - The amazing true story of lust, fixation, courage and survival To her, he was just the boy next door. To him she was something more. They were never lovers. They were never friends. They were never anything more than neighbours. But one day that would all change. If this story were not true it would be unbelievable. This is the story of Joan Eigner, a devoted wife and loving mother, and her struggle to survive twenty-four years of torment at the hands of a cruel and remorseless stalker. This is also a story of courage, endurance and strength of character. It details...
The Stalker Next Door - The amazing true story of lust, fixation, courage and survival To her, he was just the boy next door. To him she was something...
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95,96 zł |
One Time: The Story of A South Central Los Angeles Police Officer
ISBN: 9781890632038 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A hardcore look into the mind of a patrol officer working in South Central Los Angeles. The author uses personal testimony to illustrate how -Da Hood- changed him from a -community base- police officer into an aggressive predator of gang members. The LAPD recruitment posters forgot to mention that he would be shot at, called an -Uncle Tom, - and treated like an outsiders by his partners because he grew up and lived in the neighborhood he patrolled. The employment pamphlets failed to describe the helplessness he would feel while handling rape investigations or the sadness he would have to...
A hardcore look into the mind of a patrol officer working in South Central Los Angeles. The author uses personal testimony to illustrate how -Da Hood-...
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45,05 zł |
WILD THINGS Chloe Dee Noble Little Southern Book LARGE PRINT EDITION: Large Print Edition
ISBN: 9781533569912 / Angielski / Miękka / 66 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Murderous Women: True Crime Accounts of Australia's Worst Female Killers
ISBN: 9780995439405 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Murderous Women is a glimpse into the dark acts of some of Australia's most violent women. Thrill killings, sexually-motivated homicides and rage-fuelled murders are rarely committed by women. When they are, society is always left stunned. It's almost more horrifying to think that some women are just as capable, as so many men are, of committing murder simply because they want to. True crime writers Ruth Wykes and Lindy Cameron examine over a dozen cases from Australia and New Zealand where women have brutally ended the lives of others, either... Murderous Women is a glimpse into the dark acts of some of Australia's most violent women. Thrill killings, sexual... |
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96,15 zł |