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Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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High plains drifter: When The Stranger rides into the sin-ridden town of Lago, bullets fly as he battles three ruthless gunmen in a pulse-pounding shoot-'em-up. Joe Kidd: Gunslinger Joe Kidd is hired by a wealthy landowner to quell a range war with Mexican revolutionaries, but he soon finds his loyalties in question when he falls for a beautiful rebel.
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"The New York Times bestselling author of The Westies and Paddy Whacked offers a front-row seat at the trial of Whitey Bulger, and an intimate view of the world of organized crime--and law enforcement--that made him the defining Irish American gangster.For sixteen years, Whitey Bulger eluded the long reach of the law. For decades one of the most dangerous men in America, Bulger--the brother of influential Massachusetts senator Billy Bulger--was often...
3) Taken
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English
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"Years after being abducted as a teenager and being forced to assist a crime family, Shannon contacts private investigator Matthew Dane for help, desperate for resolution to the mysteries and pain of her past and hoping for the freedom to begin a new life"--
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A powerful collection of stories about women who murdered—for revenge, for love, and even for pleasure—rife with historical details that will have any true crime junkie on the edge of their seat
In every tragic story, men are expected to be the killers. There are countless studies and works of art made about male violence. However, when women are featured in stories about murder, they are rarely portrayed as predators. They’re the prey. This...
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English
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The flesh-and-blood story of the outlaw lovers who robbed banks and shot their way across Depression-era America, based on extensive archival research, declassified FBI documents, and interviews
The daring movie revolutionized Hollywood-now the true story of Bonnie and Clyde is told in the lovers' own voices, with verisimilitude and drama to match Truman Capote's In Cold Blood.
Strictly nonfiction-no dialogue or other material has been made up-and...
Publisher
Fox Video
Pub. Date
A1992
Language
English
Description
Kevin McCallister is ready to turn the Big Apple into his own playground. The notorious Wet Bandits, still smarting from their last encounter with Kevin, are plotting a huge holiday heist in New York. Kevin's ready to welcome them with a battery of booby traps that the bumbling bandits will never forget.
11) Crime mysteries
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Publisher
Franklin Watts
Pub. Date
c1988
Language
English
Description
Retells the stories of five famous crimes, including a kidnapping, a double murder, a series of bombings, a bank robbery, and a disappearance, all of which remain mysterious.
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Publisher
Bounty
Pub. Date
2009.
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English
Description
In 501 Most Notorious Crimes, the reader will find a fascinating line-up of notorious crooks, criminals, villains and thieves, from the mysterious disappearance of Lord Lucan, the assassination of JFK to the treason committed by Guy Fawkes. This book provides a fascinating insight into the world's most notorious crimes.
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Grove Press
Pub. Date
1986
Language
English
Description
This astonishing book lays bare the life and the mind of a man whose acts have left us horrified. His story provides an enormous amount of new information about his life and how it led to the Tate-LaBianca murders and reminds us of the complexity of the human condition.
Born in the middle of the Depression to an unmarried fifteen-year-old, Manson lived through a bewildering succession of changing homes and substitute parents, until his mother finally...
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English
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Started by Italian brothers from North Denver, the high-profile Smaldone crime syndicate began in the bootlegging days of the 1920s and flourished into the 1980s. Connected to notorious crime figures, politicians, and presidents, Clyde Smaldone was the crime family's leader. Through candid interviews and firsthand accounts, Dick Kreck reveals the true sense of what it meant to be a Smaldone, not only the corrupt but also the virtuous. Dick Kreck retired...
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"Falcon MacCallister is heir to a proud Scottish tradition, a man who has built a legend of courage on the wild American frontier. Boyd Ackerman is no ordinary criminal. Trained by the U.S Army, commanding his band of killers with military efficiency, Ackerman has outsmarted and outfought every lawman who has tried to stop him. But he's never faced MacCallister before. Falcon MacCallister wasn't looking for a fight. Then Ackerman's Raiders kill his...
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English
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Everyone knows stories about the American Mafia and its varied forms of crime, from racketeering to stock manipulation to murder. American Mafia: Chicago explores the Windy City, strolling through its neighborhoods and imagining scenes from the past, telling the stories of the men, women, and families and revealing the events behind the legends and the history of the families' beginnings and founding members.
Featuring the most fascinating stories...
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English
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A grip of time (prison slang for a very long sentence behind bars) takes readers into a world most know little about--a maximum-security prison--and into the minds and hearts of the men who live there. These men, who are serving out life sentences for aggravated murder, join a fledgling Lifers' Writing Group started by award-winning author Lauren Kessler. Over the course of three years, meeting twice a month, the men reveal more and more about themselves,...
18) The drop
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English
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"Based on the screenplay he developed for Twentieth Century Fox from his short story "Animal Rescue," New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane's The Drop follows a former criminal whose efforts to build a new life with his girlfriend and pit bull rescue puppy fall apart when he becomes mixed up in a robbery gone wrong; scheduled for release in Fall 2014, Fox's film of the same title stars James Gandolfini (in his final on-screen performance),...
19) Ransom
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English
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When the strange new bus driver passes the last stop, the five teens on board know they'll be lucky to make it home alive. Valley Gardens is the last stop on the bus route after school. The neighborhood is known for its wealthy families, perhaps the richest in town. Marianne, Bruce, Glenn, Dexter, and Jesse live in Valley Gardens, and have no trouble guiding the new bus driver to the last stop of the day...but the strange substitute driver keeps driving....
20) The lock artist
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
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IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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Traumatized at the age of eight and pushed into a life of crime by reason of his unforgiveable talent--lock picking--Michael sees his chance to escape, and with one desperate gamble risks everything to come back home to the only person he ever loved,
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