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  The Last Testament of Bill...

  Bill Bonanno, Gary B. Abromovitz

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  The final, tell-all memoir from the legendary mafia consigliere and son of infamous crime boss Joe Bonnano. 
   
  Born into a powerful mob family, Salvatore “Bill” Bonanno was privy to a criminal underworld that wielded immense power in America for decades—a world ruled by loyalty, secrecy, and survival at any cost: the Mafia. 
   
  The son of Joe Bonanno—the Godfather-like head of one of the original five New York Crime Families—Bill Bonanno came of age at the height of Mafia power. In this fascinating final testament, he ushers readers into that cloistered world, from its origins in medieval Sicilian and Italian history to its rise, tumultuous peak, and precipitous fall in America.  
   
  Complete with rare unpublished photographs of candid moments, major players, rituals, and ceremonies, The Last Testament of Bill Bonanno is the ultimate insider’s final word on one of the most secretive and misunderstood phenomena of our time.

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  Americana - Dispatches from the...

  Hampton Sides

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  For more than fifteen years, bestselling author and historian Hampton Sides has traveled widely across the continent exploring the America that lurks just behind the scrim of our mainstream culture.In these two dozen pieces, collected here for the first time, Sides gives us a fresh, alluring, and at times startling America brimming with fascinating subcultures and bizarre characters who could live nowhere else. Following Sides, we crash the redwood retreat of an apparent cabal of fabulously powerful military-industrialists, drop in on the Indy 500 of bass fishing, and join a giant techno-rave at the lip of the Grand Canyon. We meet a diverse gallery of American visionaries-from the impossibly perky founder of Tupperware to Indian radical Russell Means to skateboarding legend Tony Hawk. We retrace the route of the historic Bataan Death March with veterans from Sides's acclaimed World War II epic, Ghost Soldiers. Americana gives us a sparkling mosaic of our country today, in all its wild and poignant charm.

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  The Crunk Feminist Collection

  Susana M. Morris, Brittney C....

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  Essays on hip-hop feminism featuring relevant, real conversations about how race and gender politics intersect with pop culture and current events. 
   
  For the Crunk Feminist Collective, their academic day jobs were lacking in conversations they actually wanted. To address this void, they started a blog that turned into a widespread movement. The Collective’s writings foster dialogue about activist methods, intersectionality, and sisterhood. And the writers’ personal identities—as black women; as sisters, daughters, and lovers; and as television watchers, sports fans, and music lovers—are never far from the discussion at hand. 
   
  These essays explore “Sex and Power in the Black Church,” discuss how “Clair Huxtable is Dead,” list “Five Ways Talib Kweli Can Become a Better Ally to Women in Hip Hop,” and dwell on “Dating with a Doctorate (She Got a Big Ego?).” Self-described as “critical homegirls,” the authors tackle life stuck between loving hip hop and ratchet culture while hating patriarchy, misogyny, and sexism. 
   
  “Refreshing and timely.” —Bitch Magazine 
   
  “Our favorite sister bloggers.” —Elle 
   
  “By centering a Black Feminist lens, The Collection provides readers with a more nuanced perspective on everything from gender to race to sexuality to class to movement-building, packaged neatly in easy-to-read pieces that take on weighty and thorny ideas willingly and enthusiastically in pursuit of a more just world.” —Autostraddle 
   
  “Much like a good mix-tape, the book has an intro, outro, and different layers of based sound in the activist, scholar, feminist, women of color, media representation, sisterhood, trans, queer and questioning landscape.” —Lambda Literary Review

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  Unforgiven - Face to Face with...

  Liz Mcgregor

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  "Liz McGregor has always been a great journalist but only South Africa could have wrung out of her this single-minded account of the murder of her beloved father. The book is an indescribable duty, exquisitely done." – Peter Bruce
  "An enthralling account of the journey by a daughter to meet with those convicted of her father's murder." – Trevor Manuel
  A searing, intimate memoir tracing the author's attempt to find out the truth about her father's murder.
  Robin McGregor, an older man who has recently moved into a small town outside Cape Town, is brutally murdered in his home. Cecil Thomas is convicted for the crime, but his trial leaves more questions than answers. As much as his daughter Liz McGregor tries to move beyond her grief – she finds new work, she even discovers love – she still wants answers. What drove Thomas to torture and kill a complete stranger?
  The author meets the murderer's family and discovers that he comes from a loving, comfortable home. He is educated and skilled, there is no apparent reason for his descent into delinquency. After protracted obstruction from the prison authorities, she finally gets to confront him but not without putting herself in danger. She finds answers, but not the answers she is looking for.
  Unforgiven tells a story seldom told: what happens to a family when one of their own is murdered? In a country where, year upon year, tens of thousands of people lose a loved one to violence. Where restorative justice is preached but not practiced. Where prisons are universities of crime. What would it take to achieve redemption? For the victim, the perpetrator and the country?

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  Melissa Explains It All - Tales...

  Melissa Joan Hart

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  Melissa has been entertaining audiences most of her life; when there were no girls named Melissa on her favorite show, the forceful four year old decided she’d get on TV her way. From that moment on, Melissa has shown a singular determination and focus—whether it’s for booking three national commercials so her dad would build her a tree house or for nailing the audition for Clarissa.From her first commercial to her current starring role in ABC Family’s hit Melissa and Joey, Hart never let fame go to her head. She always had one foot in Hollywood and one foot in reality — and still does. Melissa makes us laugh along with her as she talks about:Guest appearances in shows like Saturday Night Live and The EqualizerAuditioning for Punky Brewster andClarissaHer early Broadway daysWacky parties she’s thrown and attendedThe actors who influenced her and whom she befriended, worked with and competed againstHer experiences both on and off-set — with Sabrina’s Salem the Cat and Elvis the Alligator on ClarissaHow she met the love of her life at the Kentucky DerbyMelissa Joan Hart explains all that she’s learned along the way — what’s kept her grounded, normal and working when others have not been so fortunate — and that she’s the approachable, hilarious girl-next-door her fans have always thought she’d be.A Macmillan Audio production.

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  Mad Dog - The Maurice Vachon Story

  Bertrand Hébert, Pat Laprade

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  The true story of one of pro wrestling’s most charismatic, feared, and beloved icons
   
  Who was Maurice the man, and who was Mad Dog the character? Maurice “Mad Dog” Vachon was a gold medalist, a pro-wrestling legend, and a pop culture icon — but he was also a son, husband, and father. Mad Dog explores Vachon’s career and personal struggles with painstakingly detailed historical research and through both Maurice’s own recollections and those of the people who knew him best.
   
  As a young man, Maurice could have chosen a dark criminal path, but then wrestling and family changed him. Chronicling his slow but steady rise to prominence across America and internationally in some of pro wrestling’s most important territories, this in-depth biography shows how Vachon’s life came to be defined by the words of Mark Twain: “It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.” Fiercely proud, motivated, and supremely talented, Vachon’s story is also the amazing tale of how a lifelong make-believe heel became a real-life hero outside of the ring.
   
  With a foreword by his brother, Paul Vachon, and an afterword by his widow, Kathie Vachon.

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