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1) Hood Legends
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What you are about to read is the first part of a multipart story about my life, parts of my life that involve gangbanging and not just any kind of gangbanging but gangbanging of the deepest type. Gangbanging on the notorious streets of South-Central Los Angeles. Moreover my life evolved from gangbanging to a leading role in America's drug culture. While these things are true about my life, I want to make one thing very clear: nothing that you are...
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Cid, a Filipino musician who defied being away from a loving and protective family, dared to go to Japan during the time when the story of Maricris, a Filipina entertainer who was allegedly killed by a yakuza by plunging his sword to her vagina, was all over the news back home.
He just wanted to work and earn his own money. What better way of doing it than to get paid doing what he enjoyed doing the most - singing."
With another singer, Maria, they...
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We take a journey with Big Man, the son of an Italian Mafia don whose only ambitions were to watch his son grow in the ranks of the family. What Big Man would soon find out is that the life of silk suits, Cadillacs, social clubs, and pinkie rings would not be enough. With a mixture of his new group of friends, the notorious west side Irish, women, drugs and fast money, his thirst for power would become unquenchable, his road to love unreachable, and...
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The Tragedy of Kabul Bank is the story of a massive fraud, deception and betrayal by a group of crony capitalists aided and abetted by the then highest political authorities of Afghanistan. It is an expose of rampant greed and excessive risk taking that shocked the world and caused enormous damage to Afghanistan's economy and image. The Tragedy of Kabul Bank is a narrative of a notorious case of corruption in post-Taliban Afghanistan, recipient of...
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From Doing Meth Shards to Running Prison Yards is an autobiography of an ordinary, average man from a ghost town in poverty-stricken eastern Kentucky known as Jenkins. It tells the true-life story of how moving to North Carolina to find work tragically ended up finding me addicted to meth and the treacherous and perilous life I lived for nearly a dozen years until the abundance of drug addiction fueled bad choices that finally led me to my consequences--my...
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Crime in Southeast Houston was at an all-time high with the highest concentration being along a seven-mile stretch of Telephone Road. This part of Houston was notorious for prostitution, drugs, robberies, burglaries, auto thefts, assaults, murders, police-involved shoot-outs, and all-around mayhem almost on a daily basis. The citizens living in communities just a mere block or two to either side of Telephone Road along its length were living in constant...
7) Fire Within
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He's caught up in love, lies, murder, and espionage.
This story is a riveting, complex thriller that takes its readers on a journey like no other.
In a neighborhood simply known as the Badlands, two roughnecks, Eric and Kenny, seem destined for life behind bars, if not death. They somehow manage to manipulate Timothy Johnson, a.k.a. Trouble. Timothy, who's typically a good kid with ambitions and dreams of someday getting out of the ghetto, sensing...
8) Officer Down
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2016 was a heartbreaking year for law enforcement agencies across the U.S., with 140 officers being killed in the line of duty. Their deaths, and the deaths of those who died so long ago, should never be forgotten. Officer Down, Vol. I, is a compilation of eighteen riveting stories of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty between 1850 and 1900.
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He had new medicine to help with his anger, and we saw Mary, our counselor, three times a week, alone and together. Things were going very well, and it was not uncommon for him to sleep over. In the following weeks, everything seemed fine, except we were anxious for him to come home. Maybe soon, Mary said, but we should keep doing what we were doing since it was going so well. Then our nightmare began. What was it that put him over the edge and become...
10) Southern Justice
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In 1879, Franklin County, Mississippi, George Walker Guice's seemingly normal life is forever altered as he quickly takes center stage in a feud with the neighboring Hawley family. The feud, which will end on the busy streets of Natchez, Mississippi, in 1881, quickly turns violent. Between 1879 and 1883, a very young George W. Guice will be shot by his nemesis, retaliate against his adversary, face a murder trial, lose an appeal to the Mississippi...
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Retired Army Special Forces Major John Burton and his team travel to Denver, Colorado, to kidnap the daughter of a wealthy communications magnate. The FBI is called in, the ransom is paid, and the chase is on.
Up-and-coming FBI agent Sally Martin and her boss, Jack Donovan, are assigned to track down the kidnapper and his crew, but nothing is as it seems.
The two agents follow their target through the south and up the East Coast until Burton disappears...
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Deputy U.S. Marshal Sam Carter has been a committed lawman for over thirty years. A decorated Vietnam veteran, he was highly regarded as a patriot and a man of indisputable principles. And now, a tragic event has caused him to question his own moral convictions. The year is 2003. A fanatical Sunni terrorist has entered the country undetected. With the collaboration of three jihadi radicals hell-bent on martyrdom, he successfully plans and executes...
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The journey of Cuttie started early back in New Orleans, when he witnessed countless murders, drug deals, lots of money laundering, and corrupt police and politicians. Cuttie never expected the things that life threw at him while he was trying to get revenge on the kingpin of New Orleans but found bullets flying toward his life.
After the revenge was best served cold, Cuttie started to become the person he didn't want to become. He found himself...
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In the days before the internet and social media, corrupt authorities in a small Southern town were determined to make an arrest for a capital murder... any arrest. This miscarriage of justice propelled a young man to find the courage to mount a desperate search for the one thing that would save his life-the truth. Follow Kerry Elmore as he pursues the truth. To fail would mean death.
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Conduct Unbecoming is a military courtroom drama. Commander Mike DeMarco, the Navy's most successful criminal defense attorney, is fed up with the bureaucracy and contemplates retirement. However, he takes one last case for a young sailor, Joshua Miller, who is charged with the murder of a marine war hero and is facing the death penalty. The evidence is largely circumstantial, yet Miller, for some reason, refuses to cooperate in his own defense. DeMarco...
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Bella, an autistic elementary school girl, comes from a well-to-do but uncaring home. Her mother and father frequently push her off onto the school that she attends but makes it difficult for the school to provide services for her special needs. Bella, unable to communicate, struggles with everyday life and needs to be assisted with simple things such as eating, using the bathroom, and changing. Things get worse for Bella before they get better. Bella's...
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The book has only two main characters: Belinda Zimmerman, the only one named, and a personified diary. Belinda records everything, including her innermost thoughts, in her diary. It has a life of its own.
This is the story of a self-taught con woman, Belinda Zimmerman, who becomes quite proficient at conning, lying, stealing, and cheating people, organizations, institutions, and the government. During her endeavor, she amasses a fortune that she...
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Arson Investigation consists of true actual cases of arson. Photographs that were taken are included to indicate how the fires were started.
These arsons include murder, organized crime, cover-up for other crimes, and more.
Investigative techniques prepare the investigator to obtain sufficient evidence in order to convict the fire setter and then present this information as an expert witness in a court of law.
Technical information is replete in...
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The force of lithium to power future electric vehicles and the renewable energy revolution ignites a race to control the world's largest deposit in the mountains of Uzbekistan.
Thanks to good luck and charm, Mitch Nolan, a philandering divinity school dropout, leads America's quest for the resource. A quest in which Mitch faces the Russian mob, the CIA, the DEA, an Afghan warlord, and an exotic Uzbek princess.
Join Mitch as he leads America's quest...
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