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Par Elly Danica. 1988
The author graphically describes the humiliation and terrible pain she suffered as a victim of incest. She endured verbal abuse,…
beatings and degradation as her father sold her services to strange men, and forced her to pose and perform in his pornographic photo studio. Strong language and extreme descriptions of sex and violence. 1990, c1988.Par Kate Lines. 2015
A criminal profiler, former Chief Superintendent of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), recounts her remarkable story using pivotal cases she…
worked on during the course of her career. Always taking care not to aggrandize in any way the notorious criminals whose names we know all too well, Kate knows that it is much more important to focus on the courage of the victims and their families. Bestseller. 2015.Par Edith Marks, Rita Montauredes. 1997
Six M.I.T. students figured out how to beat the casinos and managed to get away with more than three million…
dollars in less than two years' time by playing the blackjack tables. Includes an explanation of how card counting is done. 2002.Par Bruce Cutler, Lionel Rene Saporta. 2003
Known for his tenacious defence of John Gotti, Cutler became almost as infamous as his client. Recounts his time as…
an aggressive assistant DA and how he switched sides and became a defence attorney. This is the inside story of how Cutler and Gotti frustrated the feds so much that they had to break the rules to convict the Teflon Don. 2003.Par James B Stewart. 1999
Questions why Dr. Michael Swango was allowed to continue practising medicine despite clear evidence that he was a serial psychopathic…
killer and a convicted felon - for poisoning his fellow workers. Criticizes the medical establishment's "code of silence." Bestseller. 1999.Par Ann Rule. 1997
Rule tells the story of a wealthy Kansas physician who, unable to accept her husband's infidelity and abandonment, sets her…
home on fire while her children sleep inside. Two of the children died and the physician, Debora Green, is now spending 45 years in prison. 1997.Par Peter Edwards, Antonio Nicaso. 2015
Until Vito Rizzuto went to prison in 2006 for his role in a decades-old Brooklyn triple murder, he ruled the…
Port of Montreal, the northern gateway to the major American drug markets. A master diplomat, he won the respect of rival mafia clans, bikers and street gangs, and criminal business thrived on his turf. His family prospered and his empire grew--until one of North America's true Teflon dons finally lost his veneer. As he watched helplessly from his Colorado prison, the murders of his son and father made international headlines; the killings of his lieutenants and friends filled the pages of Canadian news; and the influence of the 'Ndrangheta, the Calabrian Mafia, spread across Montreal faster than the blood of Rizzuto's crime family. In 2012, Vito Rizzuto emerged from prison, a 66-year-old man who could carefully rebuild his criminal empire or seek bloody revenge and damn the consequences. Bestseller. 2015.Par Zaira Cattaneo, Tomaso Vecchi. 2011
Italian researchers examine the effects of blindness on the development and functioning of the human cognitive system. They demonstrate the…
ways other senses evolve to help compensate for the absence of sight. 2011.After a tour in Vietnam and a stretch in prison, Alex Caine fell into the cloak-and-dagger world of a contracted…
agent or "kite": infiltrating criminal groups that cops across North America and around the globe were unable to penetrate themselves. Over twenty-five years, his assignments ran the gamut from bikers to triad toughs. He describes the toll such a life takes, one that often left Caine wondering who he really was, and whether justice was ever truly served. Descriptions of violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. c2008.Par Patrick O'Brian, Henri Charrière. 1973
Banco completes Papillon's struggle to climb up the drain into which the brutal French penal system had pushed him. It's…
the story of a man who, after 13 years in prison, discovers how to function in society and how to earn his living without resorting to murky schemes. 1973.Par Ann Rule. 1999
Describes the 1996 disappearance of Anne Marie Fahey, the thirty-year-old scheduling secretary for the governor of Delaware. When her former…
married lover, attorney Thomas Capano, was accused of murdering her and disposing of the body, he tried to blame his other longtime mistress. Details the two relationships and the trial. Bestseller 1999.Russia, 1878. Vera Zasulich walked into the office of the governor of St. Petersburg and shot General Trepov point blank,…
as revenge for the governor's brutal treatment of a political prisoner. Her subsequent trial was followed by people all across Europe and America, and she was written about by Dostoyevsky, Wilde, and Engels. Vera became the public face of a burgeoning revolutionary fervour, and the inspiration for a whole generation of Russian and European revolutionaries to embrace violence and martyrdom. Some descriptions of violence. 2008.Par Dan Herbeck, Lou Michel. 2001
Account of the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City by Timothy McVeigh on April 19, 1995. In addition…
to prison interviews with McVeigh, the authors document his childhood, military career, and drifter lifestyle in an attempt to fathom his motives and personality. Some strong language. c2001.Par Laurie Capogna, Barbara Pelletier. 2011
Dr. Laurie Capogna et Dr. Barbara Pelletier ont élaboré un guide pour améliorer la santé oculaire et prévenir, ralentir ou…
supprimer les maladies oculaires les plus communes. Muni des derniers résultats scientifiques, de conseils pratiques, d’idées de repas et de recettes… c’est un guide complet, facile à suivre sur la science et la sante. c2011.Par Sylvain Larocque. 2010
L'ex-sergent-détective partage avec le personnage qui lui a valu son surnom un flair redoutable et des méthodes inusitées. Sa lutte…
est avant tout celle de la défense des artistes, premières victimes de délits qui ne touchent pas que des musées et de riches collectionneurs. Du voleur au receleur, en passant par le faussaire et le spécialiste du blanchiment d'argent, la criminalité dans le milieu de l'art a de multiples visages. 2010.Par William Gilkerson. 2009
Introduces the major characters and incidents that connect the scattered history of seagoing bandits, including England's "Sea Dog" Francis Drake,…
the "pirate queen of Ireland" Granuaile, and Scotland's Captain Kidd. Describes their high-seas adventure and skullduggery, sea chases and bloody battles, dangerous coastal lairs and buried treasure. Grades 5-8. Some descriptions of violence. 2009.Par Alec Wilkinson. 1992
On the morning of September 22, 1986, Mike Wayne Jackson, forty, shot and killed Tom Gahl, his probation officer. Within…
eight hours, Jackson gunned down two more people and made the FBI's Most Wanted List. Wilkinson looks at those whose lives have been altered forever by acts of violence, especially those affected by Jackson's savage behaviour, including Nancy Gahl, the probation officer's wife, and her two children. Violence. 1992.Par Timothy Appleby. 2011
A decorated air force colonel, Russell Williams was living a double life as a sado-sexual home invader, burglar, pedophile and,…
ultimately, murderer. While a model officer and elite pilot, he broke into 82 homes; stole lingerie; committed two bizarre sexual assaults; and eventually, two rape-murders. Crime reporter Appleby chronicles a true story that could have come from the pages of pulp fiction, one that offers fascinating - and troubling - insights on human psychopathology. Some descriptions of sex, some strong language, explicit descriptions of violence. 2011.Par Bill Schiller. 1998
In 1990 Albert Walker disappeared without a trace along with millions of dollars of investors' money and his 15 year…
old daughter, Sheena. Six years later he was found living in England and using a murdered man's name as his own. Stiller traces Walker's life on the run from Canada to the Cayman Islands to Europe and attempts to unravel the mystery of how he came to be living under Ronald Platt's name.