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Confessions of the Oak Beach Drifter

Author : W

Publisher : Xlibris Corporation

Page : 299 pages

File Size : 22,37 MB

Release : 2012-10-04

Category : True Crime

ISBN : 1479718521

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From growing up on the tough streets of Queens NY as a child to struggling with the realities of growing into an adult on Long Island NY, this story is about the trials and tribulations of a young man who tried to do the right thing in life but due to unlucky circumstances, chose a life of crime, drugs and violence. This story chronicles the life of a man who lived in the fast lane for over twenty years and would eventually be led into one of the biggest unsolved multiple murder controversies that our country has ever endured. This is a high paced, gripping story that will not only keep you page turning, but will have you thinking long after you finish the book. W



Confessions of the Oak Beach Drifter

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Page : 298 pages

File Size : 14,93 MB

Release : 2012-10

Category : True Crime

ISBN : 9781479718504

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From growing up on the tough streets of Queens NY as a child to struggling with the realities of growing into an adult on Long Island NY, this story is about the trials and tribulations of a young man who tried to do the right thing in life but due to unlucky circumstances, chose a life of crime, drugs and violence. This story chronicles the life of a man who lived in the fast lane for over twenty years and would eventually be led into one of the biggest unsolved multiple murder controversies that our country has ever endured. This is a high paced, gripping story that will not only keep you page turning, but will have you thinking long after you finish the book. W



Lake Effect

Author : Rich Cohen

Publisher : Vintage

Page : 226 pages

File Size : 37,17 MB

Release : 2007-12-18

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 0307426548

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A bittersweet coming-of-age story that quietly bores to the essence of friendship and how it survives even as it is destined to change. “So outrageous and so true.... the book rockets along, powered by the high octane of Cohen’s candor [and] off-beat observations.” —The New York Times Book Review Raised in an affluent suburb on the North Shore of Chicago, Rich Cohen had a cluster of interesting friends, but none more interesting than Jamie Drew. Fatherless, reckless, and lower middle class in a place that wasn’t, Jamie possessed such an irresistible insouciance and charm that even the teachers called him Drew-licious. Through the high school years of parties and Cub games and girls, of summer nights on the beach and forbidden forays into the blues bars of Chicago’s notorious South Side, the two formed an inseparable bond. Even after Cohen went to college in New Orleans (Jamie went to Kansas) and then moved to New York, where he had a memorable interlude with the legendary New Yorker writer Joseph Mitchell, Jamie remained oddly crucial to his life.



Let the Faggots Burn

Author : Johnny Townsend

Publisher : Booklocker.com

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 25,76 MB

Release : 2011

Category : Arson

ISBN : 9781614344537

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On Gay Pride Day in 1973, someone set the entrance to a French Quarter gay bar on fire. In the terrible inferno that followed, thirty-two people lost their lives, including a third of the local congregation of the Metropolitan Community Church, their pastor burning to death halfway out a second-story window as he tried to claw his way to freedom. A mother who'd gone to the bar with her two gay sons died alongside them. A man who'd helped his friend escape first was found dead near the fire escape. Two children waited outside of a movie theater across town for a father and step-father who would never pick them up. During this era of rampant homophobia, several families refused to claim the bodies, and many churches refused to bury the dead. Author Johnny Townsend pored through old records and tracked down survivors of the fire and relatives and friends of those killed to compile this fascinating account of a forgotten moment in gay history.



CRY FROM AN UNHOLY GRAVE

Author : David Slater

Publisher : Xlibris Corporation

Page : 263 pages

File Size : 35,8 MB

Release : 2012-03-16

Category : True Crime

ISBN : 1469176939

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Two years after settling in Australia David befell a tragic event that dramatically changed his life forever – he simply placed his trust in a friendly stranger. The sinister circumstances of Cariad’s disappearance haunted David for almost two decades, when he was branded as a prime murder suspect, by Perth’s major crime squad detectives. Finally, the terrible truth about Cariad is revealed and Slater pulls no punches as he describes the events surrounding the gruesome discovery of his wife’s remains; but there was more.... Cry From an Unholy Grave; A Nineteen-year Cold Case is a shocking real-life cold case where David Slater tells the spine-tingling story of how he became the unwitting victim of a horrific crime he knew nothing about.



Love Lies

Author : Amanda Lamb

Publisher : Diversion Publishing Corp.

Page : 432 pages

File Size : 26,28 MB

Release : 2015-09-22

Category : True Crime

ISBN : 1626819424

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A suburban housewife’s picture-perfect life is shattered in this riveting true crime book from the author of Evil Next Door. When Nancy Cooper moved from Canada to Cary, North Carolina, with her new husband Brad, their future was bright. Living in one of the most picturesque towns in the United States, the couple mingled with neighbors, attended parties, and raised two daughters. Then, on July 14, 2008, the façade came crashing down when Nancy’s strangled body was found in a storm pond. Nancy’s husband claimed she had gone for a jog and never came back. But as the police investigation deepened, a complex web of affairs and lies involving multiple residents of Cary’s idyllic neighborhoods was uncovered, and Brad was brought to trial for the murder of his wife. At the heart of it stood the Coopers’ soured marriage, Nancy’s threat to leave with the children, and her own cold-blooded murder. It would take a mountain of damning evidence before justice was served.



Days of Darkness

Author : John Pearce

Publisher : University Press of Kentucky

Page : 260 pages

File Size : 27,36 MB

Release : 1994-11-15

Category : History

ISBN : 9780813118741

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" Among the darkest corners of Kentucky’s past are the grisly feuds that tore apart the hills of Eastern Kentucky from the late nineteenth century until well into the twentieth. Now, from the tangled threads of conflicting testimony, John Ed Pearce, Kentucky’s best known journalist, weaves engrossing accounts of six of the most notorior accounts to uncover what really happened and why. His story of those days of darkness brings to light new evidence, questions commonly held beliefs about the feuds, and us and long-running feuds—those in Breathitt, Clay Harlan, Perry, Pike, and Rowan counties. What caused the feuds that left Kentucky with its lingering reputation for violence? Who were the feudists, and what forces—social, political, financial—hurled them at each other? Did Big Jim Howard really kill Governor William Goebel? Did Joe Eversole die trying to protect small mountain landowners from ruthless Eastern mineral exploiters? Did the Hatfield-McCoy fight start over a hog? For years, Pearce has interviewed descendants of feuding families and examined skimpy court records and often fictional newspapeputs to rest some of the more popular legends.



The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Author : Carson MacCullers (pseud. van Lola Carson-Smith.)

Publisher :

Page : 355 pages

File Size : 46,3 MB

Release : 1940

Category : Deaf

ISBN :

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The World Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Volume Four T–Z

Author : Susan Hall

Publisher : WildBlue Press

Page : 359 pages

File Size : 25,23 MB

Release : 2021-01-05

Category : True Crime

ISBN : 1952225353

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The 4th volume of this comprehensive work features hundreds of serial killers from Sacramento to Soviet Russia—plus numerous unsolved cases. The World Encyclopedia of Serial Killers is the most complete reference guide on the subject, featuring more than 1,600 entries about the lives and crimes of serial killers from around the world. Defined by the FBI as a person who murders three or more people with a hiatus of weeks or months between murders, the serial killer has presented unique and terrifying challenges to have walked among us since the dawn of time—a fact this extensive record makes chillingly clear. The series concludes with Volume Four, T-Z. Entries include the Terminator Anatoly Yuriyovych Onoprienko; Trailside Killer David Joseph Carpenter; Vampire of Sacramento Richard Trenton Chase; and the Voroshilovgrad Maniac Zaven Almazyan; plus the unsolved cases of the Adelaide Child Murders; the Axeman of New Orleans; the Chillicothe Killer; the Dead Women of Juarez; the Korea Frog Boy Murders; and the Volga Maniac.



Keep This to Yourself

Author : Tom Ryan

Publisher : Albert Whitman & Company

Page : 291 pages

File Size : 48,34 MB

Release : 2019-05-21

Category : Young Adult Fiction

ISBN : 0807541508

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2020 Arthur Ellis Award, Best YA Crime Book 2020 ITW Thriller Award, Best Young Adult Novel 2020 ALA Rainbow Book List The Globe 100, The Globe and Mail 2019 Books of the Year, Quill & Quire Our Favourite Books of the Decade, The Canadian Children's Book Centre 2020 John Spray Mystery Award Finalist 2020 Amy Mathers Teen Book Award Finalist 2021 Ann Connor Brimer Award for Atlantic Canadian Literature 2021 TAYSHAS Reading List, Texas Library Association "Breathtakingly chilling...eerie and wholly immersive...A tightly plotted mystery." Kirkus Reviews starred review It's been a year since the Catalog Killer terrorized the sleepy seaside town of Camera Cove, killing four people before disappearing without a trace. Like everyone else in town, eighteen-year-old Mac Bell is trying to put that horrible summer behind him—easier said than done since Mac's best friend Connor was the murderer's final victim. But when he finds a cryptic message from Connor, he's drawn back into the search for the killer—who might not have been a random drifter after all. Now nobody—friends, neighbors, or even the sexy stranger with his own connection to the case—is beyond suspicion. Sensing that someone is following his every move, Mac struggles to come to terms with his true feelings towards Connor while scrambling to uncover the truth.