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  Mobsters Madams & Murder in...

  Susan M. Guy

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  This true crime history chronicles more than a century in the life of a small Midwestern city with an outsized reputation for violence and vice. Gambling, prostitution, and bootlegging have been going on in Steubenville for well over century. In its heyday, the city's Water Street red-light district drew men from hundreds of miles away, as well as underage runaways. The white slave trade was rampant, and along with all the vice crimes, murders became a weekly occurrence. This revealing history chronicles the rise of Steubenville's prodigious underworld from the 1890s to the modern day. By the turn of the century, Steubenville's law enforcement seemed to turn a blind eye, and cries of political corruption were heard in the state capital. This scenario replayed itself over and over again during the past century as mobsters and madams ruled and murders plagued the city and surrounding county at an alarming rate. Newspapers nationwide would come to nickname this mecca of murder "Little Chicago."

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  Hollywood Myths - The Shocking...

  Joel Williams

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  A film journalist’s insider account of the truth behind some of the movie industry’s biggest legends and scandals—a perfect gift for film buffs. 
   
  Hollywood exists to create and sell myth. Often, however, the myths created on screen are secondary to the rumors, half-truths, and lies that circulate through studio back lots and the press. Discover the real stories behind Hollywood’s greatest myths, as veteran film critic and Hollywood reporter Joe Williams sorts fact from fiction and examines how these tales came to be and how they persisted. Did Thomas Edison really invent the motion picture? Why has Charlie Chaplin survived as the undisputed king of the silent era? What about Fatty Arbuckle and that ill-fated boys’ weekend in San Francisco? Did Woody Allen really marry his adopted daughter? Was there actually a suicide on the set of The Wizard of Oz (or are any of the other countless rumors about that film true)? The tales featured in Hollywood Myths involve specific films, actors’ private lives, the industry itself, and urban legends that have existed as long as Hollywood has. Throughout, Williams illuminates what it was that made the biggest stars—from Marlon to Marilyn, Bogie to Brad—shine so brightly on the silver screen. In all, 56 enduring myths are examined, in the process revealing the machinations of myth-making in the fast, loose, and out-of-control world of Hollywood.

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  sTORI Telling

  Tori Spelling

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  The star of Beverly Hills 90210 offers a hilarious, insightful memoir about growing up on America’s favorite teen drama and her life after the show.She was television's most famous virgin—and, as Aaron Spelling's daughter, arguably its most famous case of nepotism. Portraying Donna Martin on Beverly Hills, 90210, Tori Spelling became one of the most recognizable young actresses of her generation, with a not-so-private personal life every bit as fascinating as her character's exploits. Yet years later the name Tori Spelling too often closed—and sometimes slammed—the same doors it had opened.sTORI telling is Tori's chance to finally tell her side of the tabloid-worthy life she's led, and she talks about it all: her decadent childhood birthday parties, her nose job, her fairy-tale wedding to the wrong man, her so-called feud with her mother. Tori has already revealed her flair for brilliant, self-effacing satire on her VH1 show So NoTORIous and Oxygen's Tori & Dean: Inn Love, but her memoir goes deeper, into the real life behind the rumors: her complicated relationship with her parents; her struggles as an actress after 90210; her accident-prone love life; and, ultimately, her quest to define herself on her own terms.From her over-the-top first wedding to finding new love to her much-publicized—and misunderstood—"disinheritance," sTORI telling is a juicy, eye-opening, enthralling look at what it really means to be Tori Spelling.

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  The Jodi Arias Murder Trial

  J. D. Rockefeller

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  When salesman Travis Victor Alexander hooked up with his girlfriend Jodi Ann Arias, little did he know that she was going to brutally murder him in his own apartment. Jodi killed Travis on the 4th of June, 2008 and she was sentenced to a natural life in state prison on the 13th of April, 2015. Jodi claimed in court that Travis would often beat her up and she killed him in self-defense. However, not many people believe that to be the reason, since Travis sustained multiple knife wounds and even a gunshot wound to the head. The Jodi Arias trial received widespread attention throughout the United States and here, where we will see who Travis and Jodi were, how Jodi killed him, how she was caught, and what happened during the court trial.

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  Abraham Lincoln - The Man Behind...

  Stephen B. Oates

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  “There is no better introduction to current thinking about Lincoln and his place in history.” —NewsdayAn essential book for any student of Lincoln and American history, Abraham Lincoln: The Man Behind the Myths is acclaimed Lincoln biographer Stephen B. Oates's unique exploration of America's sixteenth president in reality and memory. In this multifaceted portrait, Oates, "the most popular historical interpreter of Lincoln" (Gabor S. Boritt, New York Times Book Review), exposes the human side of the great and tragic president—including his depression, his difficulties with love, and his troubled and troubling attitudes about slavery—while also confronting the many legends that have arisen around "Honest Abe." Oates throughout raises timely questions about what the Lincoln mythos reveals about the American people.

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  Michael Jackson: Gone Too Soon:...

  Raymond Sturgis

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  THIS IS THE DELUXE EDITION: 
     Michael Jackson was and will always be a musical icon, whose talent inundated the world with his greatness. He fascinated the world as a preteen, and then made the world bow down at his feet with his musical performances as an adult. The world was saddened and shock by his untimely death, however, Michael Jackson forever live on in the hearts of all that love and respect his short time on earth. There will be only one Michael Joseph Jackson, and through these words, we will always keep his memory alive. 
   THIS IS AN IMPROVED VERSION FROM THE ONE THAT IS CURRENTLY PUBLISHED.........LISTEN AND ENJOY

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