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  The Good Rat - A True Story

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  A Pulitzer Prize winning journalist reveals a history of the American mob with “perfect diabolical detail. . . . A master at transforming crookery into opera” (New York Times Book Review). 
   
  In his inimitable New York voice, New York Times bestselling author Jimmy Breslin gives us a look through the keyhole at the people and places that define the Mafia—characters like John Gotti, Sammy “the Bull” Gravano, Anthony “Gaspipe” Casso (named for his weapon of choice), and Jimmy “the Clam” Eppolito—interwoven with the remarkable true-crime saga of the good rat himself, Burt Kaplan of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, the star witness in the trial of two NYPD detectives indicted for carrying out eight gangland executions. Through these unforgettable real-life and long-forgotten Mafia stories, Jimmy Breslin captures the moments in which the mob was made and broken. 
   
  “The ineffable Breslin, the mob’s Homer, may not have done much to ensure Kaplan’s longevity, but he has surely granted him immortality.” —Boston Globe 
   
  “Bad cops, good crook, great story.” —USA Today 
   
  “Breslin is a writer of the heart. It’s hard to name another author who demonstrates a better understanding of the passions of urban misrule.” —Playboy 
   
  “Completely sure of what he’s doing, the author knows how to hook a reader.” —New York Observer 
   
  “Brilliant . . . a colorfully nuanced depiction of Burt Kaplan.” —New York Daily News 
   
  “Jimmy Breslin at his best.” —New York Times 
   
   “The Good Rat tells us about the corkscrew workings of the criminal mind where Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment left off.” —Nicholas Pileggi, New York Times bestselling author of Wiseguy 
   
  “Smart and stinging . . . a winner.” —Kirkus Reviews 
   
  “[Breslin’s] writing, like the Mafia itself, breezily transitions from humorous to horrifying.” —Publishers Weekly

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  Third Stone from the Sun: the...

  Geoffrey Giuliano

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  Few know that Giuliano was a firm friend of Jimi Hendrix's family, staying for a weeks at a time at the home of Al Hendrix, Jimi's dad in the mid-1980s. He also knew Jimi's younger brother, Leon, as well as his aunts, uncles, cousins, and even 100-year-old grandmother, Nora Hendrix.In addition, he also became close friends with Hendrix's Experience alumni Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding along the way. Here then, is the private world of an American icon. With rare Hendrix interviews.

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  Ukrainian Scorpions - A Tale of...

  Grand Chief Ronald M. Derrickson

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  Award-winning author Grand Chief Ron Derrickson tells the story of his personal fight against Ukrainian political and economic forces alongside the larger story of the wider struggle for Ukraine to end the corruption that has plagued the country since the 1990s
  		 
  Ron Derrickson watched the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the country where he had spent much of the past 20 years, with a kind of anguish, knowing the country had been systematically shut out of the EU and left on its own. While doing business there, he had entered the rabbit hole of Ukrainian political and economic life, a land where gangsters controlled not only the heights of the economy but also the police, the courts, and the national parliament. At stake was his $28 million company stolen by a cast of characters that included a former governor and members of the national parliament.
  		 
  In the end, Derrickson spent a dozen years fighting for justice in the courts, in political and diplomatic spheres, and even with automatic weapon-toting mercenaries. Ukranian Scorpions tells not only the story of his personal battles but the much wider struggle of Ukraine to find its footing and shake off the gangsterism that has plagued it since the 1990s. In the end, Derrickson searches for signs that after the recent cataclysm, a new Ukraine might rise from the ashes.

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  Where The Dead Men Lie And Other...

  Barcroft Boake

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  Where The Dead Men Lie And Other PoemsBy Barcroft BoakeCollected and edited by A. G. StephensNarrated by Denis Daly and Amy SoakesIn his short life Australian poet Barcoft Boake completed thirty poems, the most famous of which is the pastoral lament, Where The Dead Men Lie, which was first published in the The Bulletin in December, 1891.This collection was prepared and edited by critic and anthologist, A. G. Stephens, who also appended a detailed memoir of the poet.Production copyright 2021 Voices of Today

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  The Washingtons Volume 2 -...

  Justin Glenn

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  This is the second volume of a comprehensive history that traces the “Presidential line” of the Washingtons. Volume one began with the immigrant John Washington who settled in Westmoreland Co., Va., in 1657, married Anne Pope, and was the great-grandfather of President George Washington. It continued the record of their descendants for a total of seven generations. Volume two is a collection of notable descendants of the next eight generations of John and Anne Washington’s descendants, including such luminaries as General George S. Patton, the author Shelby Foote, and the actor Lee Marvin. Future volumes will trace generations eight through fifteen, making a total of over 63,000 descendants. Although structured in a genealogical format for the sake of clarity, this is no bare bones genealogy but a true family history with over 1,200 detailed biographical narratives. These in turn strive to convey the greatness of the family that produced not only The Father of His Country but many others, great and humble, who struggled to build that country. The Washingtons includes the time-honored John Wright line which in recent years has been challenged largely on the basis of DNA evidence. Volumes one and two form a set, with a cumulative bibliography appearing at the end of volume two.

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