Why do people join gangs? Once entrenched in a life of crime with its realities of incarceration, addiction, power, and money, is it possible to ever walk away? This triumphant collection of ten personal life stories from ex-gang...
True crime stories
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Author:Mahon, AnneSummary: - Author:Virk, ManjitSummary:
Shortlisted for the 2009 George Ryga Award. This is the story of an average family that has never been the same . . . since its eldest child was swarmed and killed by her peers on a moonlit night, November 14, 1997 . . . It is the story...
- Author:Solovkine, AïkoSummary:
Au départ c'est un jeu. Une manière de tuer le temps. Trouver une proie, en l'occurrence une conductrice esseulée sur une route de campagne, puis la prendre en chasse. Faire crisser les pneus sur l'asphalte, serrer de...
- Author:Macintyre, Ben.Summary:
The incredible untold story of WWII's greatest secret fighting force, as told by our great modern master of wartime intrigue Britain's Special Air Service-or SAS-was the brainchild of David Stirling, a young, gadabout...
- Author:Keefe, Patrick RaddenSummary:
From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of SAY NOTHING and EMPIRE OF PAIN, twelve enthralling stories of skulduggery and intrigue by one of the most decorated journalists of our time "I read everything he writes....
- Author:Keefe, Patrick RaddenSummary:
From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of SAY NOTHING and EMPIRE OF PAIN, twelve enthralling stories of skulduggery and intrigue by one of the most decorated journalists of our time "I read everything he writes....
- Author:Fitzgerald, JackSummary:
Prohibition in the United States created new opportunities for organized crime to make profits even they couldn't imagine. It did not take long for the mobsters to push out the independent bootleggers and take control of the whole...
- Author:Andrieux, J. P.Summary:
Rumrunners is a history of the smuggling trade between the French Island colonies of St. Pierre and Miquelon and the United States, the Bahamas, and Newfoundland. The distribution of contraband alcohol has always been an...
- Author:Wells, JaneSummary:
Jane Wells was trapped in a nightmare. The man she married was an abusive, philandering maniac. The courts knew this, but because of a Kentucky law that forbids pregnant women to divorce, she was forced to endure a living hell. After...
- Author:Butts, EdwardSummary:
This book picks up where The Desperate Ones: Canada's Forgotten Outlaws left off. Here are more remarkable true stories about Canadian crimes and criminals -- most of them tales that have been buried for years. The stories begin in...
- Author:Nikiforuk, AndrewSummary:
At Trickle Creek in northern Alberta, Wiebo Ludwig thought he’d buffered his tiny religious community from civilization, but in 1990 civilization came calling. A Calgary oil company proposed to drill directly in view of the farm’s...
- Author:Greenberg, AndySummary:
From Wired senior writer Andy Greenberg comes the true story of the desperate hunt to identify and track an elite team of Russian agents bent on digital sabotage In 2014, the world witnessed the start of a mysterious series of...
- Author:Williamson, ElizabethSummary:
Based on hundreds of hours of research, interviews, and access to exclusive sources and materials, Sandy Hook is Elizabeth Williamson's landmark investigation of the aftermath of a school shooting, the work of Sandy Hook parents...
- Author:Keefe, Patrick RaddenSummary:
In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belfast home by masked intruders, her children clinging to her legs. They never saw her again. Her abduction was one of the most notorious...
- Author:Schroeder, AndreasSummary:
Scams! reveals 10 true tales of trickery that will mesmerize young readers. They will discover how the Germans planned to destroy the British economy during World War II by flooding the world with millions of fake British bank-notes....
- Author:Gasbarre, Kristine, Edmondson, SarahSummary:
The shocking and subversive memoir of a 12-year-NXIVM-member-turned-whistleblower, and her inspiring true story of abuse, escape, and redemption. "Master, would you brand me? It would be an honor." Scarred follows actress...
- Author:Blutrich, Michael D.Summary:
After Michael Blutrich founded a strip club with proceeds from an embezzlement scheme, he wanted to lay low, make the club a success, and put his criminal acts behind him. But when the Mafia got involved and then the FBI, Blutrich went...
- Author:Blutrich, Michael D.Summary:
A gay man who created New York's most notorious den of heterosexuality ... an anxious, anything-but-hardboiled lawyer who became one of the most successful undercover mob informants in history... . In this hilarious and fascinating...
- Author:Weinman, SarahSummary:
In the 1960s, Edgar Smith, in prison and sentenced to death for the murder of teenager Victoria Zielinski, struck up a correspondence with William F. Buckley, the founder of National Review. Buckley, who refused to believe that a man...
- Author:Donovan, KevinSummary:
It began as rumours. Whispers at dinner parties. Warnings about bad dates with a Canadian celebrity. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, superstar CBC broadcaster Jian Ghomeshi revealed his interest in "rough sex" in a long Facebook post,...
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