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  The Mayfair Mafia - The Lives...

  Dick Kirby

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  This true crime history reveals the shocking career of the London mafia family that ran a thriving prostitution empire for decades.   From the mid-1930s into the 1950s, one immigrant Italian family ran London’s thriving vice trade. The five Messina brothers imported prostitutes from the Continent on an industrial scale, acquiring British citizenship for the women by phony marriages. Taking 80% of these women’s earnings, the Messina family became fabulously wealthy, purchasing expensive properties, cars and influence.   As this revealing and absorbing account describes, the brothers ruled with a ruthless combination of charm, blackmail and threats of disfigurement and death that were all too credible. It took a sensational Sunday newspaper exposé to get the authorities to put an end to their criminal reign. A series of dramatic arrests and trials followed, as one by one the brothers were imprisoned and deported for crimes including immoral earnings, attempted bribery and firearms offenses.   Such was their fortune that numerous potential beneficiaries came forward, most recently in 2012. Dick Kirby, an author and former Metropolitan police officer, presents a vividly detailed and thoroughly researched narrative of the five Messina brothers in this revealing and riveting read.

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  George Harrison: Book Of Quotes...

  Quotes Station

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  GEORGE HARRISON: BOOK OF QUOTES 
    
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  ABOUT GEORGE HARRISON 
  George Harrison MBE (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English musician, singer-songwriter, and music and film producer who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles. Sometimes called "the quiet Beatle", Harrison embraced Indian culture and helped broaden the scope of popular music through his incorporation of Indian instrumentation and Hindu-aligned spirituality in the Beatles' work. Although the majority of the band's songs were written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, most Beatles albums from 1965 onwards contained at least two Harrison compositions. His songs for the group include "Taxman", "Within You Without You", "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", "Here Comes the Sun" and "Something". 
    
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  QUOTES SAMPLES 
    
  "With every mistake, we must surely be learning." 
    
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  "Everyone should have themselves regularly overwhelmed by Nature" 
    
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  "Heaven and hell is right now. ... You make it heaven or you make it hell by your actions." 
    
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  "The only thing we really have to work at in this life is how to manifest love." 
    
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  "Love one another (His last words)" 
    
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  "You can be standing right in front of the truth and not necessarily see it, and people only get it when they're ready to get it." 
    
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  "Sometimes I feel like I’m actually on the wrong planet. It’s great when I’m in my garden, but the minute I go out the gate I think, ‘What the hell am I doing here?"

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  American OZ: An Astonishing Year...

  Michael Sean Comerford

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  “MAJESTIC! ... DEEP OBSERVATIONS ON LIFE!” – CHICAGO TRIBUNE 
  	American OZ is a rollicking, gritty, adventurous year in the secretive subculture of traveling carnivals. You’ll never see your state fair or neighborhood festival the same again. 
  	It’s a new classic American road story! Comerford writes a bold, inspiring true story of a year working shoulder-to-shoulder with the colorful characters and legends of carnivals. 
  	Read stories of freaks, a carnival pimp, a tramp gold miner, and the last King of the Sideshows. An insult dunk tank clown is shot. Masked gunmen rob his carnival. And a young showman friend dies on the road. 
  	Hitchhike with him to shows in California, New Jersey, New York, Chicago, Alaska, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Texas, Georgia, and Florida where he works in a freak show. He becomes the #1 hitchhiker in the USA. 
  	Travel to the lawless foothills of Mexico to a village that empties out of men each season as they head north to carnivals 
  	Explore issues of the American caste system, working poor, immigration, and the life force of collective joy.  
  	People seek love and meaning on the road. And we find the world runs on untold stories.

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  The Passover Plot - Special 40th...

  Hugh Schonfield

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  Finally back in print, this special 40th anniversary edition of Dr. Schonfield’s international multimillion-copy bestseller is set to rock the establishment view of the life of Jesus all over again.There is probably no other figure in modern Jewish historical research who is more controversial or famous than Hugh J. Schonfield, who once said: “The scholars deplore that I have spilled the beans to the public. Several of them have said to me, ‘You ought to have kept this just among ourselves, you know.’”What he did to “spill the beans” was present historical evidence suggesting that Jesus was a mortal man, a young genius who believed himself to be the Messiah and deliberately and brilliantly planned his entire ministry according to the Old Testament prophecies—even to the extent of plotting his own arrest, crucifixion and resurrection.Since Schonfield’s death in 1988, his popularity and the interest in his prodigious work, which included over 40 books, has drawn increasing attention, particularly outside Judaism. In fact, it is probably fair to say that his contribution to the Gentile understanding of Jewish aspirations among those within the Christian cultural framework has been without parallel. In true Christian tradition, he has also been the cause of much contention.In the wake of resurgent interest in religious history spurred by Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ and Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code, this 40th anniversary edition of The Passover Plot is set to engage a completely new generation of readers searching for truth.

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  Doug Bradley's Spinechillers...

  H.P. Lovecraft, M. R. James,...

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  This triumphant final volume of Spinechillers begins with Doug Bradley's personal guide to the writers and the history of the stories.M.R. James' classic Number 13 starts off this volume with a mystery about a disappearing and reappearing hotel room, can you guess the room number?Story two is the tale of a cat that can not only talk, but spills secrets that should have been truly left behind.Next, we present one of the most famous stories by H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu.  Doug transports you into Lovecraft's world of indescribable horror, accompanied by Alistair Lock's outstanding orchestral score.Edgar Allan Poe's well-known allegory on our mortality, The Masque of the Red Death, follows.Then Jeffrey Combs reads the concluding part of Lovecraft's Herbert West: Reanimator series, The Tomb Legions.Finishing up Volume 13 is Poe's 1843-penned poem, "The Conqueror Worm".

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  The Colours of London Buses 1970s

  Kevin McCormack

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  This is a colour album of London Buses concentrating mainly on the 1970s which was the first decade since London Transport's inception in 1933 to feature a large number of buses on London streets which were not painted in the mainly all-red (or in a few c

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