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  The Art Heist - The True Story...

  Steve B. Davis

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  Stéphane Breitwieser and the Greatest Art Thief in History
   
  Between 1995 and 2001, a man walked into 239 museums across Europe and walked out with objects that did not belong to him. He stole paintings by Rubens, Brueghel, and Watteau. He took sculptures, manuscripts, and artifacts that had survived wars and centuries. He carried them out beneath his jacket while guards stood at exits and cameras recorded visitors passing through galleries. No one stopped him. For six years, no one even knew it was the same person.
   
  
   
  Stéphane Breitwieser did not steal for money. He never sold a single piece. He kept everything in a locked attic room in his mother's house in Mulhouse, France, where he sat alone for hours, surrounded by beauties.
   
  What seemed like an endless reign of theft would soon be shattered by one mistake that would unravel the whole empire of stolen treasures.

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  Watergate: The Scandal That...

  Editors Charles River

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  Increasingly and mistakenly viewed as a single scandal within the United States government, what is commonly referred to as the Watergate scandal serves as an overarching term for a series of scandals beginning in 1971 and extending through 1974, although more than any other, it refers to the specific break-in at the Watergate Hotel and office complex in Washington, D.C. The crisis, originating in a secretive battle between the two major political parties, the Nixon White House’s paranoia, and the ensuing conflict concerning the release of confidential information to the public, induced senior government officials into committing crimes (most notoriously petty burglary) and coverups for the purposes of character assassination and inter-political espionage, and it ultimately resulted in the first and only resignation of a sitting American president, Richard Milhous Nixon. Watergate has since become so synonymous with scandal that “gate” is typically added to the end of words associated with scandals even today. 
  	In the wake of the seemingly peculiar burglary, gradual media and judicial pursuits of the thread of scandals led from one thing to another over the following years until it began to culminate with Congressional impeachment proceedings and a momentous showdown between the President and the Supreme Court over the release of presidential tapes, a moment in which Nixon seriously considered defying the Court and initiating a constitutional crisis. When he at last surrendered them, excerpts were blatantly missing, most famously an 18 minute stretch. Given the flurry of activities, it has only been in recent years that historians have gained a full measure of the nation’s perilous status during the intense battle between the various branches of the federal government, and the American public’s view of government in general took a decidedly negative turn.

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  Love's Wantonness

  Thomas Lodge

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 different recordings of Love's Wantonness by Thomas Lodge, published in Tudor and Stuart Love Songs in 1902.  This was the weekly poetry project for the week of August 24th, 2008.

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  Mexican History - Drug Cartels...

  Kelly Mass

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  This book includes three titles about Mexico's history: 
  Cristero War - The Cristero War, also known as the Cristero Rebellion or La Cristiada [la kistjaa], was a widespread and deeply significant conflict that unfolded in central and western Mexico during the late 1920s. It was primarily driven by a violent response to the secularist and anti-clerical provisions of the 1917 Mexican Constitution, which sought to curtail the influence of the Catholic Church over the country's political and social life. The Constitution introduced sweeping reforms, including the restriction of church property rights and the severe limitations placed on the clergy’s ability to engage in public life. 
  Mexican Drug Cartels - The Mexican drug war, also known as the Guerra contra el narcotráfico en México, is the Mexican theater of the global war on drugs, a campaign led by the United States federal government. This war has resulted in a protracted, asymmetric low-intensity conflict between the Mexican government and various drug trafficking organizations. The Mexican government’s main objective when it intervened militarily in 2006 was to curb drug-related violence, which had escalated in the preceding years. The government’s stated aim, in collaboration with U.S. officials, was to eliminate the cartels and reduce the demand for drugs trafficking. 
  Pancho Villa - Francisco Villa, better known as Pancho Villa, was a key figure in the Mexican Revolution, known for his transformation from a bandit to one of the revolution’s most influential commanders. Villa’s rise to prominence in the early 20th century marked him as a central player in the violent upheavals that reshaped Mexico’s political landscape. In 1911, Villa became a significant actor in the revolutionary violence that led to the overthrow of President Porfirio Díaz, ushering in Francisco I. Madero’s government.

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  The Red Parts - Autobiography of...

  Maggie Nelson

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  A chilling genre-busting memoir by a major American essayist 
   Late in 2004, Maggie Nelson was looking forward to the publication of her book Jane: A Murder, a narrative in verse about the life and death of her aunt, who had been murdered thirty-five years before. The case remained unsolved, but Jane was assumed to have been the victim of an infamous serial killer in Michigan in 1969. 
  Then, one November afternoon, Nelson received a call from her mother, who announced that the case had been reopened; a new suspect would be arrested and tried on the basis of a DNA match. Over the months that followed, Nelson found herself attending the trial with her mother and reflecting anew on the aura of dread and fear that hung over her family and childhood—an aura that derived not only from the terrible facts of her aunt’s murder but also from her own complicated journey through sisterhood, daughterhood, and girlhood.  
  The Red Parts is a memoir, an account of a trial, and a provocative essay that interrogates the American obsession with violence and missing white women, and that scrupulously explores the nature of grief, justice, and empathy.

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  How to Buy Missiles and Sell...

  Jim Latrache

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  From the bustling streets of Copenhagen to covert operations in war zones, How to buy missiles and sell drugs is the electrifying true story of a man who lived a thousand lives in one.Born into chaos and shaped by the foster system, Jim Latrache-Qvortrup's early years were marked by rebellion, crime, and incarceration. But this is not just a tale of downfall—it's one of transformation. After leaving a life of crime, Jim reinvented himself time and again: as a successful businessman, as a French Foreign Legionnaire, and most astonishingly, as a secret agent for Danish intelligence, infiltrating global terror networks. Told with unflinching honesty and cinematic flair, How to buy missiles and sell drugs reveals the extraordinary journey of a man who defied all odds—an insider's account of the criminal underworld, the brutal brotherhood of the Legion, and the shadowy world of espionage.A story about survival, identity, and redemption, How to buy missiles and sell drugs is a powerful testament to how the human spirit can rise, fall, and rise again.

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