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  No Safe Place - Murdered by our...

  Bekhal Mahmod, Dr Hannana Siddiqui

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  "My life will always be in danger. My beautiful sister Banaz Mahmod was murdered in an ‘honour killing’ ordered by our father and uncle. If those evil men find me, they will kill me too." 
  Bekhal Mahmod was one of six siblings from a Sunni Muslim family in Iraqi Kurdistan who sought a new life as asylum seekers and arrived in London in 1998. 
  When Bekhal's father tried to force her into an arranged marriage at 15, she ran away. This caused her father to ‘lose respect’ within the Kurdish community and Bekhal became the target of an honour killing and her younger sisters Banaz and Payzee were quickly married off to restore the family's reputation. 
  When Banaz left her husband, claiming he'd beaten and raped her, Mahmod decided this 'shame' to the family meant Banaz must die. Within weeks, she had vanished. 
  Her body was finally discovered, crammed into a suitcase and buried in a garden in Birmingham. Banaz, age 20, had been raped and killed in a sickening plot orchestrated by her father and uncle. 
  Still fearing for her own life, Bekhal bravely faced her father and uncle in court - making her the first female in British legal history to give evidence against family members in an honour killing trial - and won justice for her beloved sister Banaz. 
  Bekhal now has a new identity after entering the police witness protection programme. She lives in terror of her father’s release from jail. 
  This is her story.

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  True Crime Horror Stories - 4...

  Lucas Hale

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.  
  Most of us believe that if we lock our doors and stay in the light, the darkness stays outside. But what happens when the shadow is already in the room? 
  True Crime Horror Stories: 4 Chilling Cases of Real Life Terror and Unsolved Mysteries is more than just a collection of true crime unsolved mysteries; it is an exploration of the moments where reality becomes more frightening than fiction. This audiobook delivers real life horror stories that defied logic and shattered the peace of small-town America. This isn’t a dry retelling of cold case investigations; instead, it is a masterclass in immersive crime storytelling that takes you deep into the psychological dread of the unknown. 
  In these terrifying true crime narratives, you will step into the eerie silence of the Sierra Nevadas. From the Keddie Cabin murders explained in visceral detail to the historical axe murders mystery in Villisca, Iowa—where mirrors were covered and a killer lingered long after the deed was done—the tension is relentless. You’ll feel the heavy humidity of the Texas border as the phantom killer Texarkana stalks the moonlit roads, and you'll witness the heartbreaking Sodder children disappearance case, where five siblings vanished into the smoke of a Christmas Eve fire. 
  These are chilling unsolved disappearances that left no trace of ash or bone behind. Perfect for fans of paranormal true crime audiobooks and atmospheric crime thrillers, this collection captures the bone chilling real terror of dark history unsolved crimes. These are scary stories based on truth, narrated for those who crave depth, atmosphere, and human emotion. 
  Are you ready to look into the abyss? These cases are haunting reminders of the mysteries that live just off the edge of the map.

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  No in The Best Friendship -...

  Ashmeet Arora

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  Part of the No in the Best Friendship is we get to see different psychologies. The psychology of not being able to move on, of being heedless, but primarily the psychology that is burdened under the obsession. With a collection of faux lust, anger, vengeance, incidents, accidents, murder, deception, jealousy, an inner fight with emotions like antipathy and regression, and even death I Ashmeet Arora gives you my first fiction Psychological Thriller.

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  The Intelligent Spy's Handbook

  Robin Renwick

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  Few professions comprise such an eclectic mix of personalities as that of intelligence. The characteristics required to thrive as a spy – ideological conviction, ego, the ability to manipulate, deceive and remain cold – have created some of the most compelling and enduring figures in history.
  In The Intelligent Spy's Handbook, Robin Renwick provides an overview of the biggest names in the world of espionage, with a wonderful eye for the details that bring each of them to life. We hear, for instance, of how Kim Philby, to have fun at the expense of his colleagues, kept a photograph in his office of Mount Ararat – taken from the Soviet side.
  We see how the audacious, far-fetched ideas of the naval officer Ian Fleming, aside from creating the most famous of all spies, may have actually inspired the real-life Operation Mincemeat. And the darker side of some of our more heroic stories is exposed, from the chemical castration of Alan Turing to the personal sacrifices Oleg Gordievsky made to become Britain's most successful Soviet mole.
  Whether you're a seasoned veteran or a first-time reader, this book is the perfect primer on the best-known individuals in the history of intelligence.

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  Stolen Fragments - Black Markets...

  Roberta Mazza

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  In 2012, Steve Green, billionaire and president of Hobby Lobby, announced a purchase of a Biblical artefact—a fragment of papyrus carrying lines from Paul's letter to the Romans, and dated to the second century CE. Noted scholar Roberta Mazza was stunned. When was this piece discovered, and how could Green acquire such a rare item? The answers, which Mazza spent the next ten years uncovering, came as a shock: the fragment had come from a famous collection held at Oxford University, and its rightful owners had no idea it had been sold. 
   
   
   
  The letter to the Romans was not the only extraordinary piece in the Green collection. They soon announced newly recovered fragments from the Gospels and writings of Sappho. Mazza's quest to confirm the provenance of these priceless fragments revealed shadowy global networks that make big business of ancient manuscripts. 
   
   
   
  Mazza's investigation forces us to ask what happens when the supposed custodians of our ancient heritage act in ways that threaten to destroy it. Stolen Fragments illuminates how these recent dealings are not isolated events, but the inevitable result of longstanding colonial practices and the outcome of generations of scholars who have profited from extracting the cultural heritage of places they claim they wish to preserve. Where is the boundary between protection and exploitation?

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  Mafia Boss Sam Giancana - The...

  Susan McNicoll

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  Sent to Reformatory at the age of 10, Sicilian-American Sam Giancana lived a gilded life as mobster and mob boss at a pivotal point in history when the mafia decided who ruled America, who lived and who died. 
   
   
  Born in 1908, in The Patch, Chicago, Giancana joined the Forty-Two gang of lawless juvenile punks in 1921 and quickly proved himself as a skilled 'wheel man' (or getaway driver), extortionist and vicious killer. Called up to the ranks of the Outfit, he reputedly held talks with the CIA about assassinating Fidel Castro, shared a girlfriend with John F. Kennedy and had friends in high places, including Sammy Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Marilyn Monroe and, some say, the Kennedys, although he fell out with them. 
   
  The story of Sam Giancana will overturn many of your beliefs about America during the Kennedy era. If you want to know Giancana's role in the brother's deaths, and more of the intrigue surrounding that of Marilyn Monroe, this book will fill you in on the murky lives of many shady characters who really ruled the day, both in Chicago and elsewhere.

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