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The Republican Revolution of 1994 is the wicked seed that killed Nicole Brown Simpson. This seed was planted to produce a hostile, racial climate in America in order to repeal Affirmative Action Legislation that advanced African-Americans and other minorities since the Civil Rights Movement of 1964. Advancements such as higher education, college admissions, and equal employment opportunities had begun to accelerate the extinction of the Political...
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Good Night, Hollywood is a critical look at the events leading up to the death of Marilyn Monroe. For years, the notion that she killed herself has floated round the public's eye due to this idea being falsely portrayed by her last known personal psychiatrist. This book details the absurdity of his claims and takes an in-depth look at the details of circumstances that surrounded her last days by outlining statements made by witnesses and by some of...
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Retired Phoenix Police Sergeant Darren Burch captivates you on another wild police ride-along with outrageously macabre and compelling stories from his thirty-year career as a rookie cop, sex crime detective, and night detective sergeant in the Phoenix Police Department's Homicide Unit in this gut-clinching, horrific, and oftentimes laugh-out-loud funny follow-up to Darren's award-winning true-crime book, Twisted But True. Darren's dark humor reemerges...
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Devin had his whole life figured out-high school, college, and then the NFL. Who knew one accident would set a world of chaos in motion? Karma has a way of creeping up on you. Who's with you, when it seems everyone is against? Do you retreat or boss up and come out with guns blazing? Devin had a plan to change his life, but would he get to put his plans in motion? Forces beyond his control would be coming to take him down. Will he or the detectives...
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The Forgotten Soldier is a true-life story of a young male adolescent who struggles through life and overcomes many challenges and difficulties to become a successful military officer. The story is an epic adventure of a Black male who grew up in the ghetto and still found a way to make a positive impact inside his home, the community, and the United States Army. This phenomenal endeavor highlights the harsh lifestyle of guns, violence, deception,...
6) Prey
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With the help of a mysterious and sexy FBI agent, he must put an end to the killer's reign of terror. What they encounter is more than either of them bargained for. Former SFPD Detective Frank Crenshaw is asked to solve a string of copycat murders. It's not going to be an easy job. When the killings are linked to his past, Frank must work fast to reveal the person responsible. Assigned to him is Sarah Coulson, a mysterious and sexy FBI agent with...
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The streets of Detroit become a maze of terror as the killer zeroes in on unknowing victims and escalates more tension as the public loses fate in their Police Department. With time ticking till the next kill, a detective is called back on duty to add five detectives in the hunt for a serial killer, who has been killing girls and leaving them in the public to be found. With the pressure on, one of the media alerts the public, the detectives find themselves...
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A federal judge is executed in New Orleans. An unknown assassin hangs him from a giant oak tree in Audubon Park. A female reporter happens upon the scene soon after it happens and scoops this sensational story for her newspaper. She attempts to follow up story but finds the police baffled. She meets and falls in love with an older FBI agent assigned to the case.
Michael Bannister, the antihero, is embittered and frustrated at the federal judicial...
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Vivianne Knebel was born illegitimate in 1943 in the epicenter of Nazi power, Berlin, Germany. Her free-spirited and strong-willed mother, Marija, fought to keep her alive among falling bombs and Soviet attacks. After the end of World War II, with much of Berlin razed to the ground, Vivianne came to know poverty and constant hunger. As a teenager, she immigrated to Canada, but in her new homeland, times became so desperate that she had to beg for...
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A police detective pursues a serial killer stalking the streets of a south Chicago neighborhood and learns that what first looked to be random murders are not random at all. It's urban Chicago circa 1995, and a street-savvy police detective, Kyle McNally, has the lead on a task force following the trail of an interstate serial killer. The investigation tracks McNally and his antagonist, appropriately tagged "Slugger," through a maze of suspects, political...
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Her dance partner said the pill was called Rapture. And indeed, it catapulted her senses to a new level-initially. Before long, a strange sensation welled up inside her like a slow rush of water. As seconds ticked by, her pulse rate rapidly increased. Believing her heart would pound right out of her body, she grasped her chest. Her mouth suddenly felt as dry as sun-bleached bone. Bile crept up her throat. She gurgled. Eyes now dilated, her vision...
12) Monster Eyes
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Monster Eyes will take you on an unbelievable journey of betrayal and murder and into the mind of a cold blooded, sexual deviant killer. A killer that lay in the midst of a small-town where he was known by everyone. It travels through many genres of socio-economic lives of the characters herein. I believe it encompasses everything a good novel should; from a psychological thriller to crime drama. From love to hate, from rich to poor and from rags...
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Leonard Szczesny was born in 1931 on the Polish-Russian border to a Polish family. Because in 1933 his father Josef was banished for five years of hard labor to Siberia and was not allowed to ever return to within two hundred kilometers of his village, Leonard's travels started at an early age. In 1937, with his mother Antonina and his older brother Jan, he traveled east to rejoin his father at a new place of employment. World War II broke out in...
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The Statesville Prison experience will pull you right in, if not already. It was surreal being a White male in his forties locked up in one of the most horrific prisons in the country, Statesville Penitentiary. After another blink of an eye, he's transferred to minimum-security East Moline Illinois Prison. The bus ride experience is straight out of Hollywood, except it's real. His time spent in sweet Moline doesn't last long as expected due to some...
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La trata de blanca es algo real. "La catastrófica vida en la prostitución" es escrito por una víctima real de ello.
Los "padrotes" (hombres que explotan mujeres) existen, acechan a sus víctimas, las amenazan con sus familiares y muchas veces hasta las embarazan a la fuerza para amenazarlas con sus propios hijos, es una realidad y se vive a diario, sin darse cuenta vecinos, están cerca de ellos. Las mujeres no son rescatadas y mueren a mano de...
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This is a story about Kurtis Camble, who has been fighting his demons his whole life. Kurtis-KC, as he is better known-has chosen to allow the streets to raise him. Deep in his heart, he wants to leave the streets and make a change, but the streets refuse to allow him to leave. When these same streets murder his son, he confronts these streets and they respond by threatening to destroy him as well.
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The seemingly accidental discovery of a 1968 Mustang in a swamp reopened a fifty-year-old case that had never been solved involving the disappearance of three high school girls. It tore the scab off some old wounds that most people thought were healed and pretty much forgotten. Sheriff Mack Becker thought that he knew just the man to figure out what happened those many years ago. He contacted recently retired FBI agent Mark Bellingham, who specialized...
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The title is about how God and Jesus changed my life around, and I was brought up learning bought God and Jesus and in my teens through my late twenties. I was lost and did not know who I was. No one is perfect and I understand that, but I made a lot of mistakes in my life and I had a hard time dealing with that.
Then one day, I learned that God and Jesus never left me. I left them. They watched over me through it all. This is also a story about...
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When I was a young man, I loved traditional English murder mysteries, the ones in which all the suspects were assembled at the end of the book and some wily detective explained the reasoning and clues that led to the identity of the murderer. It was so exciting to watch the detective eliminate suspects and discard certain clues while embracing the clues, which led to the actual murderer. I would then reread the sections involving the murderer and...
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