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  Buddy Boys - When Good Cops Turn...

  Mike McAlary

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  A shocking true story of corruption and crime in the ranks of the NYPD in the worst police scandal since the revelations of Fred Serpico In the 1970s, New York City’s 77th Precinct was known as “the Alamo.” In Bedford-Stuyvesant and Crown Heights, Brooklyn—neighborhoods notorious for drugs and violent crime—some of the worst criminals wore police uniforms and carried badges. Henry Winter was a good cop when he first entered the infamous 77th station house that was already infamous as a home to the dregs of the NYPD. Before long, he and fellow officer Anthony Magno found themselves deeply entrenched in the Alamo’s culture of extortion, lies, corruption, and crime—and they were regularly supplementing their incomes by ripping off thieves, drug dealers, junkies, and honest citizens alike. But the gravy train couldn’t stay on the rails forever. Winter and Magno were caught and faced a devastating choice: They could betray their crooked friends and colleagues by helping investigators expose the rot that festered at the Alamo’s core—or spend the next several years behind bars.   In Buddy Boys, Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist Mike McAlary blows the doors off 1 of the worst scandals ever to taint New York’s uniformed guardians, the men and women sworn to protect and serve the populace. Blistering, shocking, and powerful, it’s a frightening look inside the NYPD and an eye-opening exploration of the daily temptations that can seduce a good cop over to the dark side.

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  Learning to Think - A Memoir of...

  Tracy King

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  Tracy King was raised in a house of contradictions—her family was happy and creative, yet shadowed by debt, phobias, her father's alcoholism, and the illusory promises of a born-again Christian church. The uneasy balance of the King household was irrevocably upended on a rainy spring night in 1988, when her father was killed by teenagers just blocks from their public housing estate.The account of her father's death remained hazy, made worse by the fact that four of the accused teenagers—neighborhood boys she could not avoid—were never charged. What could have triggered such an act of aggression?Over the years, in a bid to balm her grief and gaps in formal education, King journeyed through multiple belief systems: she distanced herself from fundamentalism, searching for clarity instead in the occult, paranormal beliefs, and conspiracy theories. Amid the chaos of her coming of age, she stumbled upon a copy of Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World on the shelves of a Birmingham bookshop—a discovery that proved transformative.Learning to Think is a resounding battle cry for the value of education and the freedom to think critically, imaginatively, and for oneself.

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  The General & His Daughter - The...

  Barbara Gavin Fauntleroy

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  The fascinating personal correspondence from a commanding general of the eighty-second Airborne Division to his young daughter during World War II.   James Maurice Gavin left for war in April 1943 as a colonel commanding the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the eighty-second Airborne Division—America’s first airborne division and the first to fight in World War II. In 1944, at age thirty-seven, “Slim Jim” Gavin, as he was known to his troops, became the eighty-second’s commanding general—the youngest Army officer to become a major general since the Civil War. At war’s end, this soldier’s soldier had become one of our greatest generals—and the eighty-second’s most decorated officer.   In this book, James Gavin’s letters home to his nine-year-old daughter, Barbara, provide a revealing portrait of the American experience in World War II through the eyes of one of its most dynamic officers. Written from ship decks, foxholes, and field tents—often just before or after a dangerous jump—they capture the day-to-day realities of combat and Gavin’s personal reactions to the war he helped to win. With more than 200 letters spanning from Fort Bragg in 1943 to New York’s victory parade, this collection provides an invaluable self-portrait of a great general, and a great American, in war and peace.  Includes a prologue and epilogue by Barbara Gavin Fauntleroy; a foreword by Rufus Broadaway; commentary and notes by Starlyn Jorgensen; and an introduction by Gerard M. Devlin.

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  My Inventions: The Autobiography...

  Nikola Tesla

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  My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla is an audiobook compiled and edited by Ben Johnston detailing the work of Nikola Tesla. The content was largely drawn from a series of articles that Nikola Tesla had written for Electrical Experimenter magazine in 1919, when he was 63 years old.This particular audio book has been masterfully crafted to provide the best possible listening experience from the narration down to the details of audio editing.

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  In My Own Footsteps

  Michael Pennington

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  Michael Pennington has been working as a professional actor and director for the past 57 years. He has performed in every kind of play -- Chekhov, Shakespeare, Pinter, Ibsen, Stoppard, and many others -- as well as in television, radio and film. He has appeared at the National Theatre, in the West End of London, and in theatres throughout the world. From 1986 to 1992 he ran his own company, the English Shakespeare Company. He is an Honorary Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company and has lectured extensively on Shakespeare.Pennington has written 11 books, including works on individual plays and playwrights and the craft of acting. His latest book, published in June 2021, tells the full and unabridged story of his life, work and friendships.

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  Dark Psychology - Body Language...

  Lucia Kohlers

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  What is dark psychology? You probably already know the answer to this question, but there is so much involved in it. 
  What is manipulation? And more importantly, how can you spot it fast when others use it? 
  These questions will be answered exactly in this elaborate book. A myriad of other subtopics will be addressed as well. We will talk about things like: 
  Seduction 
  Sex traffickers 
  Verbal abuse 
  Persuasion techniques 
  The Dark Triad 
  How people decide on things 
  Sociopaths 
  NLP 
  Serial killers 
  Mentalism 
  Propaganda 
  Emotions 
  Scams 
  Subconscious mind 
  And so many other things. You probably don’t realize how much of a jackpot you have hit when it comes to valuable content. I suggest you pick up this book now! Don’t wait any longer!

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