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Finding me: a decade of darkness, a life reclaimed : a memoir of the Cleveland kidnappings
Par Michelle Knight, Michelle Burford. 2014
Knight explains how troubled her life was even before her kidnapping in 2002 at age twenty-one by Cleveland school bus…
driver Ariel Castro. Details the ordeal she endured with two others, their escape in 2013, and their lives since then. Bestseller. 2014.Cartel wives: a true story of deadly decisions, steadfast love, and bringing down El Chapo
Par Mia Flores, Olivia Flores. 2017
Olivia and Mia Flores are married to the highest level drug traffickers ever to become US informants. Their husbands worked…
with--and then brought down--El Chapo, as well as dozens of high-level members of the Mexican cartels. They had everything money could buy: luxury cars, huge houses, and expensive jewelry--but they chose to give it all up when they cooperated with the US government. 2017.Confidential source ninety-six: the making of America's preeminent confidential informant
Par Robert Cea, Roman Caribe. 2017
A onetime mastermind narcotics distributor, C.S. 96 first saw the tragedies of the drug trade with his own eyes. By…
the time C.S. 96 was arrested in a drug bust, he had made up his mind to get out of the business for good. Rather than fight the charges, as his lawyer advised him to, he instead confessed, flipped sides, and worked for the federal government. 2017.Ghost in the wires: my adventures as the world's most wanted hacker
Par Steve Wozniak, Kevin D Mitnick, William L Simon. 2011
Kevin Mitnick, the most elusive computer hacker in history, was always three steps ahead of the authorities. Labeled unstoppable, he…
spent years skipping through cyberspace. But his hacking wasn't just about technological feats--it was a confidence game that required guile and deception to trick the unwitting out of valuable information. Driven by the urge to accomplish the impossible, Mitnick bypassed security systems and blazed into the world's biggest companies. But as the FBI's net tightened, Kevin went on the run, engaging in an increasingly sophisticated cat-and-mouse game that led through false identities, a host of cities, and to an ultimate showdown with the Feds. 2011.Gaddafi's harem: the story of a young woman and the abuses of power in Libya
Par Annick Cojean. 2013
Soraya was just fifteen, a schoolgirl in the coastal town of Sirte, when she was given the honour of presenting…
a bouquet of flowers to Colonel Gaddafi on a visit he was making to her school. This one meeting changed Soraya's life forever. Soon afterwards, she was summoned to Bab al-Azizia, Gaddafi's palatial compound near Tripoli, where she joined a number of young women who were violently abused, raped and degraded by Gaddafi. Sex and rape remain the highest taboos in Libya, and women like Soraya risk being disowned or even killed by their dishonoured family members. Tragic but ultimately redemptive, Soraya's story is the first of many that are just now beginning to be heard. 2013.Hurricane: the miraculous journey of Rubin Carter
Par James S Hirsch. 2000
In 1966, boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter was arrested for the murder of three white men in Paterson, New Jersey. Hirsch…
recounts Carter's rage over his imprisonment, his refusal to conform to prison rules, and his relentless efforts to prove his innocence. Strong language, and some descriptions of sex and violence. Bestseller 2000.Greenspan: the case for the defence
Par George Jonas, Edward L Greenspan. 1987
Greenspan, a leading Toronto criminal lawyer, examines twenty of his cases as well as some important issues relating to the…
criminal justice system. Co-author Jonas reveals the enigmatic personality and life of Greenspan. Bestseller 1987.Fresh-air fiend: travel writings 1985-2000
Par Paul Theroux. 2000
A collection of essays and articles written over a fifteen year period about the author's various experiences on five continents.…
In addition to the travel pieces, Theroux also includes his reminiscences, experiences as a kayaker and cyclist, readings from books of travel, profiles and appreciations of other writers, and works on the practices of other cultures. 2000.Halt!: I'm a Federal game warden : the amazing career of "the toughest game warden of them all"
Par Willie J Parker, Conway Robinson. 1977
Willie Parker reveals the inner world of the dedicated game warden in the 1970's. In a comical yet poignant account,…
he describes adventures to rival those of western sheriffs in the days of Billy the Kid. 1977.High: confessions of a pot smuggler
Par Brian O'Dea. 2006
The O'Dea family is well known in Newfoundland, but they could not protect their middle son from sexual abuse at…
the hands of priests, nor from turning to selling and using drugs as a teenager. Twenty-five years later, when the police knocked on his door at the end of a massive DEA investigation, he had given up the trade and was working as a drug addiction counselor in Santa Barbara. O'Dea interweaves extracts of his prison diary with the recounting of his outlaw years and the dawning recognition of those things in his life that were worth living for. 2006.Gross misconduct: the life of Spinner Spencer
Par Martin O'Malley. 1988
Brian "Spinner" Spencer had a 10-year career with the National Hockey League before he retired into obscurity. In January 1987,…
his name made headlines when he was arrested for a murder that occurred five years before. Some violence and some descriptions of sex. 1988.Full circle: Pacific Journey
Par Michael Palin. 1997
The author circumnavigated the Pacific Rim, travelling through the eighteen countries bordering this ocean. Volcanoes marked the journey, as well…
as mountains and gorges, glaciers and icebergs, great rivers and windswept beaches. From visiting a Gulag camp in Siberia to eating maggots in Mexico, rustling camels in Australia to singing with a choir in Vladivostok, he reveals a colourful, often hair-raising but almost always beautiful world. 1997.Home and away
Par Ronald Wright. 1993
Author Ronald Wright takes the reader on journeys of adventure: a mythical bullfight in the Peruvian Andes; the cities of…
Anatolia, carved eight stories into the earth; the jungles of Belize; the bars of southern Mexico; and the deceptive beauty of the tropical Marquesas Islands. 1993.Hole in my life
Par Jack Gantos. 2002
An autobiographical account of the author's youthful struggles to support himself, and the effects of a prison sentence for drug…
smuggling. Describes his constant fear of fellow prisoners and his determination to become a writer and obtain a college degree. Strong language and some descriptions of violence. For senior high readers. 2002.Go-boy!: memoirs of a life behind bars
Par Roger Caron. 1978
First dive to shark dive
Par Peter Lourie. 2011
Fille à papa
Par Charlotte Vale Allen, Jean Chapdelaine Gagnon. 1982
Eight feet in the Andes
Par Dervla Murphy. 1983
The eight feet belonged to Dervla Murphy, her nine-year-old daughter Rachel and Juana, their staunch and beloved mule. They set…
out to travel some 1300 miles through the Andes from Cajamarca to Cuzco. Along the way they met the descendants of the Incas, suffered hard-ships such as landslides and tormenting insects and revelled in the grandeur of their wild surroundings. 1983.Every secret thing
Par Patricia Hearst, Alvin Moscow. 1982
Hearst describes her kidnapping by the Symbionese Liberation Army in 1974, her imprisonment in a closet for 57 days, her…
forced decision to join her captors, and her participation in the Hibernia Bank Robbery. Some strong language. 1982.Descent into madness (Op Ser.)
Par Vernon Frolick. 1993
In March of 1985 the R.C.M.P. tracked down and killed a crazed murderer in a remote snowy region of northern…
B.C. The dead killer was Michael Oros, who had eluded police for years, and had kept diaries which chronicled the chase. Based on these accounts, the story of the manhunt and the killer is told. 1993.