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  Mobsters Madams & Murder in...

  Susan M. Guy

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  This true crime history chronicles more than a century in the life of a small Midwestern city with an outsized reputation for violence and vice. 
   
   
    
  Gambling, prostitution, and bootlegging have been going on in Steubenville for well over century. In its heyday, the city's Water Street red-light district drew men from hundreds of miles away, as well as underage runaways. The white slave trade was rampant, and along with all the vice crimes, murders became a weekly occurrence. This revealing history chronicles the rise of Steubenville's prodigious underworld from the 1890s to the modern day. 
   
   
    
  By the turn of the century, Steubenville's law enforcement seemed to turn a blind eye, and cries of political corruption were heard in the state capital. This scenario replayed itself over and over again during the past century as mobsters and madams ruled and murders plagued the city and surrounding county at an alarming rate. Newspapers nationwide would come to nickname this mecca of murder "Little Chicago."

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  Public Enemies

  Editors Charles River

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  Nobody was ever convicted for the “Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre,” the most famous gangland hit in American history, but it’s an open secret that it was the work of America’s most famous gangster, Al Capone. Indeed, “Scarface” has captured the nation’s popular imagination since Prohibition, managing to be the most notorious gangster in America while living a very visible and high profile life in Chicago. 	In the end, it wasn’t the bodies or the violence that landed Capone in the slammer; it was taxes. After being convicted, Capone managed to continue running his business rackets from behind bars, forcing authorities to move America’s most notorious gangster to America’s most notorious prison on Alcatraz Island.  
  	Two months after Franklin D. Roosevelt’s inauguration in 1933, a petty thief who had spent almost a decade behind bars for attempted theft and aggravated assault was released from jail. By the end of the year, that man, John Dillinger, would be America’s most famous outlaw: Public Enemy Number One. From the time of his first documented heist in early July 1933, until his dramatic death in late July of the following year, he would capture the nation’s attention as had no other outlaw since Jesse James. 
  	The man who became Public Enemy Number One after the deaths of John Dillinger and Pretty Boy Floyd was Lester Joseph Gillis, whose alias “George Nelson” eventually gave way to the nickname “Baby Face Nelson”. Despite the almost playfully innocent nickname, and the fact that he was not as notorious as two of his partners in crime, Dillinger and Floyd, Baby Face Nelson was the worst of them all.  
  While the Barrow Gang was no more murderous than other outlaws of the era, their romantic relationship and the discovery of photographs at one of their hideouts added a more human dimension to Bonnie and Clyde. In some way though, the sensationalized version of their life on the run is less interesting than reality.

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  Lucas - A Journey Beyond the Walls

  Scott G. Roix

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  Lucas: A Journey Beyond the Walls chronicles the extraordinary life of Lucas Brown, a man who defies the odds and radiates light even in the darkest of circumstances. Inspired by his own encounter with Lucas during incarceration, Scott Roix offers a deeply moving portrayal of a man whose positivity, wisdom, and compassion transcend his surroundings. Despite serving a lengthy prison sentence, Lucas embodies strength, discipline, and unwavering faith. Roix reveals him not merely as a man with a warm smile and kind words but as a pillar of resilience and inspiration. Through Roix’s heartfelt narrative, readers witness Lucas’s remarkable ability to uplift those around him, proving that even in confinement, the human spirit can soar. More than a story of survival, Lucas: A Journey Beyond the Walls is a profound testament to hope, redemption, and the enduring power of the human soul.

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  Age of Secrets - The Conspiracy...

  Gerald Bellett

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  Fleeing from the world's most powerful intelligence agency, John Meier is hunted by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in his attempts to expose the Deep State and corruption at the highest levels of the U.S. Government in this riveting true story. 
  Includes revealing information on the Assassination of U.S. Presidential Candidate Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) and Critical Comments by New York Times bestselling author Jim Hougan. 
  NARRATED BY ACTOR DENNIS BOUTSIKARIS (THE BOURNE LEGACY / BETTER CALL SAUL / SUGAR) WHO HAS WON 8 AUDIE AWARDS 
  Immerse yourself in the International Political Thriller that exposes the illegal activites of the CIA, the real reason for Watergate, the 20th Century's most notorious political scandal and the biggest political scandal in U.S. History, and the hidden death of Howard Hughes, the world's wealthiest individual, in this Biography of John Meier, the U.S. Senate Candidate who was the right-hand man to Howard Hughes. 
  THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE IN DEVELOPMENT ‘MEIERGATE’ IS ABOUT THE LIFE STORY OF JOHN MEIER 
  Meier had Top Secret security clearance with the U.S. Government and has been referred to in the media as the man who brought down U.S. President Richard Nixon in Watergate and was the first person to expose the CIA’s involvement with the Hughes Organization and the only person to call for a congressional hearing into the death of Howard Hughes. 
  The CIA's worldwide pursuit of Meier to destroy him, in order to prevent him from exposing their illicit actives, included framing him for a number of offences including murder, and attempting to assassinate him 
  In the book Meier sums up his politically motivated battle by saying “My story is one of a man devastated by a corrupt system. Our governments are increasingly disrespectful of basic human rights such that we can no longer legitimately call our nations democracies. I hope that this story will contribute to changing this course”.

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  United States of True Crime:...

  Ashley Hudson

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  United States of True Crime is an anthology series with books devoted to the most disturbing cases in each of the 50 states. This book focuses on ten of the most chilling crimes in Colorado history. 
  True crime junkies may recognize some of the highly publicized cases, but also included are lesser-known, equally unsettling crimes. 
  The cases included in this book: 
  The Unsolved Murder of Maggie Long: Teenage girl murdered during a home invasion in 2017 
  Baby Hope and Baby Faith: Two infant girls found dead in 1996. Recent advances in DNA technology allowed law enforcement to find their mothers/murderers 
  Trey Styler: A retired doctor with financial troubles convicted of murdering his landlord alone, despite severe physical limitations 
  Scott Lee Kimball: Conman who tricked the FBI out of $50,000 and went on to brutally murder at least four women 
  Joseph Corbett Jr.: Abducted and killed the heir to the Coors Brewing fortune 
  Alfred Packer: Wilderness “guide” convicted of hunting and eating five men during a trek 
  Vincent Darrell Groves: Potentially the most prolific serial killer in Colorado history 
  Chris Watts: Murdered his pregnant wife and two young daughters 
  Isaac Grimes: Brainwashed by fellow high school students and participated in a plot to massacre a friend and his grandparents 
  Alan Lee Phillips: Sexually assaulted and murdered two beautiful young women in 1982, but went undetected for almost four decades 
  If you’re a true crime enthusiast who enjoys reading about some of the most depraved monsters in our country, you will love United States of True Crime. 
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  Shooting Crows - Mass Murder...

  Trevor Birney

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  Everyone knows where they were when Ray Houghton outfoxed the Italian goalkeeper in the 1994 World Cup finals. Every television in the country was tuned in to the match, and The Heights Bar in Loughinisland, Co. Down was no exception. But two miles down the road, three men with no interest in Ireland’s footballing progress were planning a deadly massacre. Shortly after half-time they burst through the door of the bar and opened fire, spraying bullets indiscriminately. As they fled the scene, six innocent men lay dead or dying. 
   
  In 2017 journalists Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey produced a groundbreaking documentary, No Stone Unturned, about Loughinisland and allegations of collusion between the RUC and the loyalist terrorists behind the attack. However, it was Birney and McCaffrey, not the perpetrators of violence who then found themselves the target of PSNI anger. 
   
  Shooting Crows tells a shocking story of collusion and betrayal, and of a State still willing to corrupt justice and persecute the innocent to hide the sins of its past.

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