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  How I Killed a Bear - From their...

  Charles Dudley Warner

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  The bookshelves of American literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors.  From this continent their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure.  Among them is Charles Dudley Warner.

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  Justice Never Rests - A US...

  Shariane Kolibash Taylor,...

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  Groundbreaking U.S. Attorney William Kolibash’s battle against organized crime, drug kingpins, cults, and more across his twenty-year career in the Northern District of West Virginia. 
    
  As soon as I slid the contents from the envelope, I knew it was a bomb. 
    
  So opens Justice Never Rests, the story of U.S. Attorney William Kolibash’s relentless fight against organized crime in the foothills of West Virginia and beyond. 
    
  Not content with only the investigative and prosecutorial tools at his disposal, Kolibash sought new and different means to put away kingpins who’d successfully skirted the law. Toward that end, he pioneered the use of the RICO statute to bring criminals to justice and became the first U.S Attorney ever to make use of multi-jurisdictional task forces and investigative grand juries. 
    
  In his twenty years in the Northern District of West Virginia, first as an assistant and then as the sitting U.S. Attorney, Kolibash prosecuted all manner of crimes and criminals, ranging from old-school moonshiners who operated a massive marijuana ring, to sex traffickers, to violent Jamaican posses, to major drug dealers at the forefront of the cocaine wave. He also convicted the notorious “Godfather” of midwestern crime, Paul Hankish, and finished his career by bringing down the murderous and corrupt swami of the Hare Krishna movement. 
    
  Hardly adverse to ruffling feathers within the judicial system itself, Kolibash assembled his own Untouchables-like team of local, state, and federal crime fighters as comfortable with numbers as they were with guns. Even when his own life was threatened, Bill Kolibash wasn’t about to rest. 
    
  Because justice never rests either.

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  Today or Someday? - “One bottle...

  JACEK SEVERSKY

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  One bottle was too many. A thousand was never enough.  
  For years, I told myself I had it handled. That it was just the stress. That I'd stop tomorrow. But tomorrow kept not coming.  
  This is the unvarnished story of the road from looking like a success to becoming someone I didn't recognize — and the longer road back. It's about how alcohol takes a life apart so slowly you don't notice until almost everything is gone. About a fear of therapy that was, somehow, bigger than the fear of drinking myself out of existence. About the single decision that split my life in two.  
  There's no triumph here. No twelve-step sermon. No "zero to hero." Just what actually happened — the lies, the mornings, the day I finally walked into that room, and everything that came after.  
  If you've ever poured one more while promising yourself it was the last… If you've watched someone you love vanish behind a glass… If you're still waiting for "tomorrow" to start —  
  You already know what this book is about.  
  A first-person account of denial, recovery, and the strange, hard truth of admitting you're not in control of the thing you swore you controlled.  
  I wrote it for one reason: so someone else could make the decision faster — without losing the years he lost. If even one listener hears this and decides to help themselves, it was worth writing.

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  Dark Journeys - Unmasking Israel...

  Myles Henman

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  In the shadowed corners of America, a predator moved unseen. Israel Keyes was a name unknown to most—a seemingly ordinary man who meticulously concealed a life of darkness beneath a veneer of normalcy. "Dark Journeys: Unmasking Israel Keyes's Hidden Trail" delves deep into the enigmatic existence of one of the most elusive serial killers in modern history. 
  This gripping account takes you on a journey through Keyes's life, from his isolated upbringing in rural America to his disciplined years in the U.S. Army, and into the calculated methods that allowed him to commit crimes across the country without detection. Unveiling the complex layers of his double life, the book explores how Keyes balanced his roles as a devoted father and small business owner with his hidden compulsions. 
  Through extensive research and compelling narrative, each chapter reveals how Keyes evaded law enforcement by exploiting gaps in the system, utilizing "kill kits" buried in multiple states, and selecting victims at random to avoid patterns. The detailed examination of his crimes—including the chilling abduction of Samantha Koenig—sheds light on his meticulous planning and the psychological mechanisms that enabled his actions. 
  The book also chronicles the relentless efforts of investigators who, piece by piece, uncovered the truth behind Keyes's facade. It highlights the challenges faced by law enforcement in tracking a criminal who defied conventional profiling and the breakthroughs that ultimately led to his capture. 
  "Dark Journeys" is more than a true crime story; it's a profound exploration of the human psyche and the profound impact one individual can have on countless lives. It raises critical questions about the nature of evil, the vulnerabilities within society, and the complexities of justice.

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  Obscurantism in power When...

  Brice Perrier

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  Over the last ten years or so, it has become commonplace to hear talk of an obscurantist threat linked to a rise in irrationality, manifested mainly by a mistrust of vaccination and conventional medicine. But obscurantism can also be found where we pride ourselves on fighting it. In this case, it is no longer the work of marginal or anti-establishment groups, but of a dominant way of thinking that presents itself as that of science and rationality. 
  The aim of this book is to lift the veil on this obscurantism in power. Through numerous examples, from impeded research into unexplained phenomena such as near-death experiences, to the vast field of medicine where the pharmaceutical industry has cornered the market on proving the usefulness of a treatment, Brice Perrier reveals how reason is transformed into dogmatism and hinders the advancement of knowledge. 
  The aim of the book is not to say what is true or false, nor to settle scientific controversies, but to understand why these debates, which have always been legitimate and even necessary in science, may simply no longer be allowed.

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  America's Boy - A Memoir

  Wade Rouse

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  "A revelatory story about acceptance, pride, and the many ways even a seemingly prejudiced family can surprise us" by the bestselling author of Magic Season (The Washington Post).
  Indie Next List "Great Read" Selection
  American Library Association's Inaugural "Rainbow List" Selection
  
  In this memoir, writer and journalist Wade Rouse delivers a humorous and heartwarming account of his Midwestern childhood and coming of age as a gay man.
  
  
  Born in Granby, a small farm town in the southwest Missouri Ozarks, Wade was a fish out of water as long as he could remember—or at least since he participated in his family's mock Miss America pageant when he was just five years old, clad in his grandmother's red "whore" heels and his mother's black-and-white polka-dot bikini.
  
  
  Life didn't get easier in Wade's conservative hometown, especially after his older brother died just a month after Wade graduated junior high school. It was then that Wade buried his brother—and his sexuality, so his parents wouldn't mourn the loss of a second son. Finally, after years of a descent into obsessive-compulsive behaviors and overeating, Wade was able to come out to himself, losing weight and gaining confidence until he had nothing left to hide.
  
  
  Filled with memories of happiness and heartbreak, America's Boy is both "a quirky tribute to [Rouse's] rural Ozark family, and an easily digestible, homespun tale of a bygone era in Middle America" (Time Out Chicago).
  
  "A storyteller and a memoirist in the best sense of the words. . . . Reading Rouse's memoir is more like sitting with a good friend and a cold beer, trading stories and remembering those things that may have been painful or tragic at the time, but must now be respected for what they are." —Metro Weekly

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