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Open Road Media
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2023.
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A deeply researched account of Depression-era criminals who roamed the Midwest by the Pulitzer Prize–winning, New York Times– bestselling author. John Dillinger and his compatriots’ crime spree lasted a little over a year in the 1930s and left a trail of bodies in its wake. Dillinger’s bank robberies--and his ability to elude both a half-dozen state police forces and the FBI--kept Americans riveted during this bleak economic period. In this...
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Each volume in this series features approximately fifteen short biographies of notorious bad guys, perpetrators of mischief, visionary if misunderstood thinkers, and other colorful antiheroes from the history of a given state. The villainous, the misguided, and the misunderstood all get their due in these entertaining yet informing books.
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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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At the height of his powers, Howard Marks - or 'Mr. Nice' - was smuggling up to thirty tons of dope from Pakistan and Thailand to America and Canada. How did a nice Welsh boy and Oxford graduate end up with forty-three aliases, eighty-nine phone lines and twenty-five companies to his name, and contacts within MI6, the CIA, the IRA and the Mafia? Mr. Nice is Howard Marks' staggering story of Britain's most wanted man: the dazzling ascent and crashing...
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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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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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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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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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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 John Wilkes Booth died-shot inside a burning barn and dragged out twelve days after he assassinated President Lincoln-all he had in his pocket were a compass, a candle, a diary, and five photographs of five different women. They were not ordinary women. Four of them were among the most beautiful actresses of the day; the fifth was Booth's wealthy fiancé.
And those five women are just the tip of the iceberg.
Before he shot the president...
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In June 1948, 27-year-old petty criminal Caryl Chessman was sentenced in California on two counts of sexual assault, receiving two death sentences as punishment in a case that remains one of the most baffling episodes in American legal history. Maintaining his innocence of these crimes, Chessman lived in Cell 2455, a four-by-ten-foot space on Death Row in San Quentin for the twelve years between his sentencing and eventual execution. He spent this...
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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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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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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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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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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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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...
20) Sleepless city
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Nick Ryan novel volume 1
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"Every cop in the city knows his name, but no one says it out loud. In fact, they don't talk about him at all. He doesn't wear a uniform, but he is the most powerful cop in New York. Nick Ryan can find a criminal who's vanished. Or he can make a key witness disappear. He has cars, safe houses, money, and weapons hidden all over the city. He's the mayor's private cop, the fixer, the first call when the men and women who protect and serve are in trouble...
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