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      <title>While They Slept by Kathryn Harrison</title>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345516602&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780345516602&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345516602&quot;&gt;While They Slept&lt;/a&gt; An Inquiry into the Murder of a Family&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=12063&quot;&gt;Kathryn Harrison&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Paperback&lt;/b&gt;, 288 pages | Ballantine Books | True Crime | &lt;b&gt;$7.99&lt;/b&gt; | November 24, 2009 | 978-0-345-51660-2 (0-345-51660-5)&lt;p&gt;Early on an April morning, eighteen-year-old Billy Frank Gilley, Jr., killed his sleeping parents. Surprised in the act by his younger sister, Becky, he turned on her as well. Billy then climbed the stairs to the bedroom of his other sister, Jody, and said, &amp;#8220;We&amp;#8217;re free.&amp;#8221; But is one ever free after an unredeemable act of violence? In this mesmerizing book&amp;#8211;based on interviews with Billy and Jody as well as with friends, police, and social workers involved in the case&amp;#8211;bestselling writer Kathryn Harrison brilliantly uncovers the true story behind this shocking crime and examines the extent as well as the limits of psychic resilience in the aftermath of tragedy.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
      <dc:date>2009-11-24T00:30:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>The Fat Mexican by Alex Caine</title>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307372765&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307372765&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307372765&quot;&gt;The Fat Mexican&lt;/a&gt; The Bloody Rise of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=76247&quot;&gt;Alex Caine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;eBook&lt;/b&gt; | Random House Canada | True Crime | &lt;b&gt;$&lt;/b&gt; | October 27, 2009 | 978-0-307-37276-5 (0-307-37276-6)&lt;p&gt;From the #1 national bestselling author of &lt;b&gt;Befriend and Betray&lt;/b&gt;, an intimate expos&amp;#233; of a criminal empire and the massacre that nearly started a global biker war.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Having once infiltrated the Bandidos for three years in a landmark police operation, Alex Caine is uniquely positioned to reveal the untold story of the Hells Angels&amp;#8217; fiercest rivals.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Grounded in the crucible of the little understood Shedden massacre of 2006 and one unlikely prospect&amp;#8217;s descent into the biker lifestyle, &lt;b&gt;The Fat Mexican&lt;/b&gt; exposes the violent criminal history of the Bandidos motorcycle club, the Hells Angels&amp;#8217; fiercest competition: their violent beginnings, the terror their aggressive expansion caused rivals and innocents alike, and the internal politics and rivalries that drive them to this day.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;From the Hardcover edition.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
      <dc:date>2009-10-27T00:30:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Stalemate by John Philpin</title>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307574008&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307574008&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307574008&quot;&gt;Stalemate&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=23919&quot;&gt;John Philpin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;eBook&lt;/b&gt;, 400 pages | Bantam | True Crime - Murder | &lt;b&gt;$23.00&lt;/b&gt; | October 21, 2009 | 978-0-307-57400-8 (0-307-57400-8)&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
      <dc:date>2009-10-21T00:30:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Tokyo Vice by Jake  Adelstein</title>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307713162&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307713162&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307713162&quot;&gt;Tokyo Vice&lt;/a&gt; An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=108946&quot;&gt;Jake  Adelstein&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;Read by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=108946&quot;&gt;Jake  Adelstein&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Unabridged Audiobook Download&lt;/b&gt; | Random House Audio | True Crime - Organized Crime | &lt;b&gt;$20.00&lt;/b&gt; | October 20, 2009 | 978-0-307-71316-2 (0-307-71316-4)&lt;p&gt;From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police press club: a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;At nineteen, Jake Adelstein went to Japan in search of peace and tranquility. What he got was a life of crime . . . crime reporting, that is, at the prestigious &lt;i&gt;Yomiuri Shinbun&lt;/i&gt;. For twelve years of eighty-hour workweeks, he covered the seedy side of Japan, where extortion, murder, human trafficking, and corruption are as familiar as ramen noodles and sake. But when his final scoop brought him face to face with Japan&amp;#8217;s most infamous &lt;i&gt;yakuza&lt;/i&gt; boss&amp;#8212;and the threat of death for him and his family&amp;#8212;Adelstein decided to step down . . . momentarily. Then, he fought back.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In &lt;i&gt;Tokyo Vice&lt;/i&gt;, Adelstein tells the riveting, often humorous tale of his journey from an inexperienced cub reporter&amp;#8212;who made rookie mistakes like getting into a martial-arts battle with a senior editor&amp;#8212;to a daring, investigative journalist with a price on his head. With its vivid, visceral descriptions of crime in Japan and an exploration of the world of modern-day &lt;i&gt;yakuza&lt;/i&gt; that even few Japanese ever see, &lt;i&gt;Tokyo Vice&lt;/i&gt; is a fascination, and an education, from first to last.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;From the Hardcover edition.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
      <dc:date>2009-10-20T00:30:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Invisible Darkness by Stephen Williams</title>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307569653&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307569653&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307569653&quot;&gt;Invisible Darkness&lt;/a&gt; The Strange Case Of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=33303&quot;&gt;Stephen Williams&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;eBook&lt;/b&gt;, 544 pages | Bantam | True Crime - Murder | &lt;b&gt;$7.99&lt;/b&gt; | October 14, 2009 | 978-0-307-56965-3 (0-307-56965-9)&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Invisible Darkness&lt;/i&gt; is the story of one of the more bizarre cases in recent memory--killings so sensational that they prompted the Canadian government, in the interests of justice, to silence its national press and to lock foreign journalists out of the courts.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;To all appearances, Paul and Karla Bernardo had a fairytale marriage--beautiful working-class girl weds bright upper-middle-class guy and they buy a fashionable dream house in the suburbs. But, bored with his straight, prestigious accounting job, Paul soon went freelance as an international smuggler. He also revealed his boredom with conventional sex--enough so that, one Christmas Eve, he persuaded his wife to drug her own sister and engage in a menage a trois, during which the sister died (a bungling coroner ruled her death accidental).The couple then upped the ante, kidnapping and imprisoning several high school girls for sexual marathons, which they videotaped before savagely murdering their captives. When the girls' bodies were found, the police were stymied (although Paul had been accused of rape and given a DNA test that vanished for two years and only recently was linked to some fifty sexual-assault cases) until Karla tried to have her husband arrested for wife beating. During questioning, she confessed to the crimes and is now serving two concurrent twelve-year sentences for manslaughter in exchange for testifying against her husband who was jailed for life.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;From the Paperback edition.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
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      <title>Tokyo Vice by Jake  Adelstein</title>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307378798&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307378798&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307378798&quot;&gt;Tokyo Vice&lt;/a&gt; An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=108946&quot;&gt;Jake  Adelstein&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Hardcover&lt;/b&gt;, 352 pages | Pantheon | True Crime - Organized Crime; Language Arts - Journalism; Travel - Asia - Japan | &lt;b&gt;$26.00&lt;/b&gt; | October 13, 2009 | 978-0-307-37879-8 (0-307-37879-9)&lt;p&gt;From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police press club: a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;At nineteen, Jake Adelstein went to Japan in search of peace and tranquility. What he got was a life of crime . . . crime reporting, that is, at the prestigious &lt;i&gt;Yomiuri Shinbun&lt;/i&gt;. For twelve years of eighty-hour workweeks, he covered the seedy side of Japan, where extortion, murder, human trafficking, and corruption are as familiar as ramen noodles and sake. But when his final scoop brought him face to face with Japan&amp;#8217;s most infamous &lt;i&gt;yakuza&lt;/i&gt; boss&amp;#8212;and the threat of death for him and his family&amp;#8212;Adelstein decided to step down . . . momentarily. Then, he fought back.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In &lt;i&gt;Tokyo Vice&lt;/i&gt;, Adelstein tells the riveting, often humorous tale of his journey from an inexperienced cub reporter&amp;#8212;who made rookie mistakes like getting into a martial-arts battle with a senior editor&amp;#8212;to a daring, investigative journalist with a price on his head. With its vivid, visceral descriptions of crime in Japan and an exploration of the world of modern-day &lt;i&gt;yakuza&lt;/i&gt; that even few Japanese ever see, &lt;i&gt;Tokyo Vice&lt;/i&gt; is a fascination, and an education, from first to last.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
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      <title>Tokyo Vice by Jake  Adelstein</title>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307378941&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307378941&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307378941&quot;&gt;Tokyo Vice&lt;/a&gt; An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=108946&quot;&gt;Jake  Adelstein&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;eBook&lt;/b&gt;, 336 pages | Pantheon | True Crime - Organized Crime; Language Arts - Journalism; Travel - Asia - Japan | &lt;b&gt;$26.00&lt;/b&gt; | October 13, 2009 | 978-0-307-37894-1 (0-307-37894-2)&lt;p&gt;From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police press club: a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;At nineteen, Jake Adelstein went to Japan in search of peace and tranquility. What he got was a life of crime . . . crime reporting, that is, at the prestigious &lt;i&gt;Yomiuri Shinbun&lt;/i&gt;. For twelve years of eighty-hour workweeks, he covered the seedy side of Japan, where extortion, murder, human trafficking, and corruption are as familiar as ramen noodles and sake. But when his final scoop brought him face to face with Japan&amp;#8217;s most infamous &lt;i&gt;yakuza&lt;/i&gt; boss&amp;#8212;and the threat of death for him and his family&amp;#8212;Adelstein decided to step down . . . momentarily. Then, he fought back.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In &lt;i&gt;Tokyo Vice&lt;/i&gt;, Adelstein tells the riveting, often humorous tale of his journey from an inexperienced cub reporter&amp;#8212;who made rookie mistakes like getting into a martial-arts battle with a senior editor&amp;#8212;to a daring, investigative journalist with a price on his head. With its vivid, visceral descriptions of crime in Japan and an exploration of the world of modern-day &lt;i&gt;yakuza&lt;/i&gt; that even few Japanese ever see, &lt;i&gt;Tokyo Vice&lt;/i&gt; is a fascination, and an education, from first to last.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;From the Hardcover edition.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
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      <title>American Lightning by Howard Blum</title>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307346957&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307346957&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307346957&quot;&gt;American Lightning&lt;/a&gt; Terror, Mystery, and the Birth of Hollywood&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=2604&quot;&gt;Howard Blum&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Trade Paperback&lt;/b&gt;, 352 pages | Three Rivers Press | History - United States - 20th Century; True Crime | &lt;b&gt;$15.00&lt;/b&gt; | October 6, 2009 | 978-0-307-34695-7 (0-307-34695-1)&lt;p&gt;In this masterpiece of narrative history, acclaimed author Howard Blum evokes the original &amp;quot;crime of the century&amp;quot; and an aftermath even more dramatic than the crime itself&amp;#8211;a seminal episode in America&amp;#8217;s history that would spark national debate and draw into its orbit master sleuth William J. Burns, crusading lawyer Clarence Darrow, and industry-shaping filmmaker D. W. Griffith.  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;Hugely engaging . . . has tremendous verve . . . &lt;i&gt;American Lightning &lt;/i&gt;throws valuable new light on an episode that seems, for us today, particularly pertinent. Terrorism happened here.&amp;quot; &lt;i&gt;&amp;#8211;Los Angeles Times&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&amp;quot;A fast-moving, skillfully constructed account . . . Blum&amp;#8217;s style is cinematic.&amp;quot; &lt;i&gt;&amp;#8211;Chicago Sun-Times&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&amp;quot;Compelling . . . a tense detective story.&amp;quot; &lt;i&gt;&amp;#8211;Seattle Times&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&amp;quot;A thumping-good drumroll of narrative history . . . the cross-country manhunt reads like a great mystery novel . . . Blum blows the dust off a page of America&amp;#8217;s own incendiary past and brings it to pulsating life.&amp;quot; &lt;i&gt;&amp;#8211;Dallas Morning News&lt;br&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
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      <title>Godfather of Night by Kevin Pappas</title>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345512239&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780345512239&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345512239&quot;&gt;Godfather of Night&lt;/a&gt; A Greek Mafia Father, a Drug Runner Son, and an Unexpected Shot at Redemption&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=92988&quot;&gt;Kevin Pappas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Hardcover&lt;/b&gt;, 272 pages | Ballantine Books | Biography &amp; Autobiography; True Crime | &lt;b&gt;$25.00&lt;/b&gt; | August 11, 2009 | 978-0-345-51223-9 (0-345-51223-5)&lt;p&gt;What if you belonged nowhere and to no one? What if you learned as a teenager that the father who had mistreated you for years wasn&amp;#8217;t your father at all&amp;#8211;and that you were actually born to the mistress of a Greek gangster? And what if the only way to connect with your real father was to become his fiercest rival?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Kevin Cunningham grew up in Tarpon Springs, Florida, just another kid from the wrong side of the tracks. But from his first days, Kevin gravitated toward power, and in Tarpon Springs that meant local crime boss Lukie Pappas. As a boy, Kevin hung out at the Pappas Restaurant, and he saw how the townspeople approached Lukie. How they respected him. How they came to him for help. How they called him nounos&amp;#8211;Greek for &amp;#8220;godfather.&amp;#8221; From the shadows, Kevin admired it all.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;When he turned seventeen, Kevin&amp;#8217;s world flipped upside down. His dying father confessed that Kevin was the son of another man&amp;#8211;and not just any man. He was the son of Lukie Pappas. Suddenly, Kevin&amp;#8217;s destiny was clear. His lineage became his fate. His rightful place was beside the Greek godfather who ruled his hometown. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;But Lukie coldly rejected him, as both a son and a colleague. Fueled by rage and pride, Kevin claimed the Pappas name as his own and embarked on his own criminal enterprise. From two-bit swindling he rose quickly to high-stakes drug trafficking. Money laundering, gunrunning, and racketeering polished his underworld r&amp;#233;sum&amp;#233;, even as they placed him squarely in the crosshairs of every federal agency with three initials and a most-wanted list. And when he got caught, Kevin&amp;#8217;s time behind bars only honed his criminal instinct, hardened his resolve, and cemented his reputation as a larger-than-life outlaw who sometimes went down but could never be taken out.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Still in his early twenties but as powerful as any crime boss, Kevin surrounded himself with an elite group, a posse that called itself the Band of Five. Flush with fast cars, boats, planes, and women, they wanted for nothing, but their antics invited violent attempts to bring Kevin to his senses&amp;#8211;or at least to his knees. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;More than a gripping tale, &lt;b&gt;Godfather of Night&lt;/b&gt; unveils the Greek American crime syndicate and its close alignment to power and takes readers to a dark place where family secrets collide with high-level crime and corruption. Kevin Pappas&amp;#8217;s story is a true-crime epic for a new generation of wiseguys&amp;#8211;full of the harrowing war stories and hard-won wisdom of a man who lived by his own rules, broke everyone else&amp;#8217;s, and dared the world to try to stop him.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345515186&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780345515186&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345515186&quot;&gt;Godfather of Night&lt;/a&gt; A Greek Mafia Father, a Drug Runner Son, and an Unexpected Shot at Redemption&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=92988&quot;&gt;Kevin Pappas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;eBook&lt;/b&gt;, 256 pages | Ballantine Books | Biography &amp; Autobiography; True Crime | &lt;b&gt;$25.00&lt;/b&gt; | August 11, 2009 | 978-0-345-51518-6 (0-345-51518-8)&lt;p&gt;What if you belonged nowhere and to no one? What if you learned as a teenager that the father who had mistreated you for years wasn&amp;#8217;t your father at all&amp;#8211;and that you were actually born to the mistress of a Greek gangster? And what if the only way to connect with your real father was to become his fiercest rival?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Kevin Cunningham grew up in Tarpon Springs, Florida, just another kid from the wrong side of the tracks. But from his first days, Kevin gravitated toward power, and in Tarpon Springs that meant local crime boss Lukie Pappas. As a boy, Kevin hung out at the Pappas Restaurant, and he saw how the townspeople approached Lukie. How they respected him. How they came to him for help. How they called him nounos&amp;#8211;Greek for &amp;#8220;godfather.&amp;#8221; From the shadows, Kevin admired it all.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;When he turned seventeen, Kevin&amp;#8217;s world flipped upside down. His dying father confessed that Kevin was the son of another man&amp;#8211;and not just any man. He was the son of Lukie Pappas. Suddenly, Kevin&amp;#8217;s destiny was clear. His lineage became his fate. His rightful place was beside the Greek godfather who ruled his hometown. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;But Lukie coldly rejected him, as both a son and a colleague. Fueled by rage and pride, Kevin claimed the Pappas name as his own and embarked on his own criminal enterprise. From two-bit swindling he rose quickly to high-stakes drug trafficking. Money laundering, gunrunning, and racketeering polished his underworld r&amp;#233;sum&amp;#233;, even as they placed him squarely in the crosshairs of every federal agency with three initials and a most-wanted list. And when he got caught, Kevin&amp;#8217;s time behind bars only honed his criminal instinct, hardened his resolve, and cemented his reputation as a larger-than-life outlaw who sometimes went down but could never be taken out.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Still in his early twenties but as powerful as any crime boss, Kevin surrounded himself with an elite group, a posse that called itself the Band of Five. Flush with fast cars, boats, planes, and women, they wanted for nothing, but their antics invited violent attempts to bring Kevin to his senses&amp;#8211;or at least to his knees. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;More than a gripping tale, &lt;b&gt;Godfather of Night&lt;/b&gt; unveils the Greek American crime syndicate and its close alignment to power and takes readers to a dark place where family secrets collide with high-level crime and corruption. Kevin Pappas&amp;#8217;s story is a true-crime epic for a new generation of wiseguys&amp;#8211;full of the harrowing war stories and hard-won wisdom of a man who lived by his own rules, broke everyone else&amp;#8217;s, and dared the world to try to stop him.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;From the Hardcover edition.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400067220&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781400067220&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400067220&quot;&gt;The First Family&lt;/a&gt; Terror, Extortion, Revenge, Murder, and the Birth of the American Mafia&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=6433&quot;&gt;Mike Dash&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Hardcover&lt;/b&gt;, 416 pages | Random House | True Crime - Organized Crime; History - Social History | &lt;b&gt;$27.00&lt;/b&gt; | August 4, 2009 | 978-1-4000-6722-0 (1-4000-6722-7)&lt;p&gt;Before the notorious Five Families who dominated U.S. organized crime for a bloody half century, there was the one-fingered criminal genius Giuseppe Morello&amp;#8211;known as &amp;#8220;The Clutch Hand&amp;#8221;&amp;#8211;and his lethal coterie of associates. In &lt;b&gt;The First Family&lt;/b&gt;, historian, journalist, and &lt;i&gt;New York Times &lt;/i&gt;bestselling author Mike Dash brings to life this little-known story, following the rise of the Mafia in America from the 1890s to the 1920s, from the lawless villages of Sicily to the streets of Little Italy. Using an impressive array of primary sources&amp;#8211;hitherto untapped Secret Service archives, prison records, trial transcripts, and interviews with surviving family members&amp;#8211;this is the first Mafia history that applies scholarly rigor to the story of the Morello syndicate and the birth of organized crime on these shores.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Progressing from small-time scams to counterfeiting rings to even bigger criminal enterprises, Giuseppe Morello exerted ruthless control of Italian neighborhoods in New York, and through adroit coordination with other Sicilian crime families, his Clutch Hand soon reached far beyond the Hudson River.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The men who battled Morello&amp;#8217;s crews were themselves colorful and legendary figures, including William Flynn, a fearless Secret Service agent, and Lieutenant Detective Giuseppe &amp;#8220;Joe&amp;#8221; Petrosino of the New York Police Department&amp;#8217;s elite Italian Squad, whose pursuit of the brutal gangs ultimately cost him his life. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Combining first-rate scholarship and pulse-quickening action, and set amid rustic Sicilian landscapes and the streets of old New York, &lt;b&gt;The First Family &lt;/b&gt;is a groundbreaking account of the crucial period when the American criminal underworld exploded with violent fury across the nation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781588368638&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781588368638&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781588368638&quot;&gt;The First Family&lt;/a&gt; Terror, Extortion, Revenge, Murder, and the Birth of the American Mafia&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=6433&quot;&gt;Mike Dash&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;eBook&lt;/b&gt; | Random House | True Crime - Organized Crime; History - Social History | &lt;b&gt;$27.00&lt;/b&gt; | August 4, 2009 | 978-1-58836-863-8 (1-58836-863-7)&lt;p&gt;Before the notorious Five Families who dominated U.S. organized crime for a bloody half century, there was the one-fingered criminal genius Giuseppe Morello&amp;#8211;known as &amp;#8220;The Clutch Hand&amp;#8221;&amp;#8211;and his lethal coterie of associates. In &lt;b&gt;The First Family&lt;/b&gt;, historian, journalist, and &lt;i&gt;New York Times &lt;/i&gt;bestselling author Mike Dash brings to life this little-known story, following the rise of the Mafia in America from the 1890s to the 1920s, from the lawless villages of Sicily to the streets of Little Italy. Using an impressive array of primary sources&amp;#8211;hitherto untapped Secret Service archives, prison records, trial transcripts, and interviews with surviving family members&amp;#8211;this is the first Mafia history that applies scholarly rigor to the story of the Morello syndicate and the birth of organized crime on these shores.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Progressing from small-time scams to counterfeiting rings to even bigger criminal enterprises, Giuseppe Morello exerted ruthless control of Italian neighborhoods in New York, and through adroit coordination with other Sicilian crime families, his Clutch Hand soon reached far beyond the Hudson River.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The men who battled Morello&amp;#8217;s crews were themselves colorful and legendary figures, including William Flynn, a fearless Secret Service agent, and Lieutenant Detective Giuseppe &amp;#8220;Joe&amp;#8221; Petrosino of the New York Police Department&amp;#8217;s elite Italian Squad, whose pursuit of the brutal gangs ultimately cost him his life. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Combining first-rate scholarship and pulse-quickening action, and set amid rustic Sicilian landscapes and the streets of old New York, &lt;b&gt;The First Family &lt;/b&gt;is a groundbreaking account of the crucial period when the American criminal underworld exploded with violent fury across the nation.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;From the Hardcover edition.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
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      <title>Runaway Devil by Sherri Zickefoose</title>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780771073601&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780771073601&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780771073601&quot;&gt;Runaway Devil&lt;/a&gt; How Forbidden Love Drove a 12-Year-Old to Murder Her Family&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=89750&quot;&gt;Robert Remington&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=89751&quot;&gt;Sherri Zickefoose&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Hardcover&lt;/b&gt;, 288 pages | McClelland &amp; Stewart | True Crime - Murder; True Crime; History - Modern - 21St Century | &lt;b&gt;$23.95&lt;/b&gt; | August 4, 2009 | 978-0-7710-7360-1 (0-7710-7360-7)&lt;p&gt;Marc and Debra seemed to have it all &amp;#8212; a lovely home in the Prairie town of Medicine Hat, fulfilling careers, a supportive marriage, and two beautiful children: eight-year-old Jacob and twelve-year-old JR. After years of struggle to reach this point, they finally felt their future held promise. But on April 23, 2006, their bodies were discovered in their basement, covered in savage stab wounds. Upstairs, Jacob lay dead on his bed, his toys spattered with blood.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Investigators worried for JR&amp;#8217;s safety, but unknown to them, the pretty honour roll student had been developing a disturbing alter ego online. Runaway Devil professed a fondness for a darker world of death metal music, the goth subculture, and a love for Jeremy Steinke, a twenty-three-year-old high-school dropout who lived in a rundown trailer park. Soon, shocking evidence in JR&amp;#8217;s school locker &amp;#8212; printed here for the first time &amp;#8212; led police to believe the girl was a suspect in her family&amp;#8217;s murders.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The case horrified parents everywhere. Journalists Robert Remington and Sherri Zickefoose have been covering it from the beginning, and in &lt;b&gt;Runaway Devil&lt;/b&gt;, they reveal what really happened: the unlikely young love, the teenage rebellion, a troubling world of adolescent drifters, and a small community torn apart by an unthinkable crime.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A modern cautionary tale, &lt;b&gt;Runaway Devil&lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;is also a chilling portrait of an approval-seeking man smitten with a manipulative young girl &amp;#8212; who would stop at nothing to get what she wanted.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781551992952&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781551992952&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781551992952&quot;&gt;Runaway Devil&lt;/a&gt; How Forbidden Love Drove a 12-Year-Old to Murder Her Family&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=89750&quot;&gt;Robert Remington&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=89751&quot;&gt;Sherri Zickefoose&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;eBook&lt;/b&gt; | McClelland &amp; Stewart | True Crime - Murder; True Crime; History - Modern - 21St Century | &lt;b&gt;$23.95&lt;/b&gt; | August 4, 2009 | 978-1-55199-295-2 (1-55199-295-7)&lt;p&gt;Marc and Debra seemed to have it all &amp;#8212; a lovely home in the Prairie town of Medicine Hat, fulfilling careers, a supportive marriage, and two beautiful children: eight-year-old Jacob and twelve-year-old JR. After years of struggle to reach this point, they finally felt their future held promise. But on April 23, 2006, their bodies were discovered in their basement, covered in savage stab wounds. Upstairs, Jacob lay dead on his bed, his toys spattered with blood.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Investigators worried for JR&amp;#8217;s safety, but unknown to them, the pretty honour roll student had been developing a disturbing alter ego online. Runaway Devil professed a fondness for a darker world of death metal music, the goth subculture, and a love for Jeremy Steinke, a twenty-three-year-old high-school dropout who lived in a rundown trailer park. Soon, shocking evidence in JR&amp;#8217;s school locker &amp;#8212; printed here for the first time &amp;#8212; led police to believe the girl was a suspect in her family&amp;#8217;s murders.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The case horrified parents everywhere. Journalists Robert Remington and Sherri Zickefoose have been covering it from the beginning, and in &lt;b&gt;Runaway Devil&lt;/b&gt;, they reveal what really happened: the unlikely young love, the teenage rebellion, a troubling world of adolescent drifters, and a small community torn apart by an unthinkable crime.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A modern cautionary tale, &lt;b&gt;Runaway Devil&lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;is also a chilling portrait of an approval-seeking man smitten with a manipulative young girl &amp;#8212; who would stop at nothing to get what she wanted.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;From the Hardcover edition.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
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      <title>Armed and Dangerous by Douglas Century</title>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345505989&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780345505989&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345505989&quot;&gt;Armed and Dangerous&lt;/a&gt; The Hunt for One of America's Most Wanted Criminals&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=52438&quot;&gt;William Queen&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=46017&quot;&gt;Douglas Century&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Paperback&lt;/b&gt;, 224 pages | Ballantine Books | True Crime | &lt;b&gt;$7.99&lt;/b&gt; | July 28, 2009 | 978-0-345-50598-9 (0-345-50598-0)&lt;p&gt;As an agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, William Queen must tackle a number of challenging cases. In the winter of 1985, he faces his toughest mission to date: He must apprehend Mark Stephens, a notorious narcotics trafficker who has been terrorizing the communities around Los Angeles with frequent rampages involving machine guns and hand grenades. A recluse living in the treacherous backwoods outside the city, Stephens is a wily survivalist. Nobody has been able to catch him, but Queen is determined to take him down. Queen&amp;#8217;s unique expertise is not taught in any police academy or ATF training seminar&amp;#8211;he honed his outdoorsman abilities as a kid. He is adept at hunting and trapping and living for weeks in the wild. Queen will use these skills&amp;#8211;along with surveillance, confidential informants, and intelligence gathering&amp;#8211;as he doggedly tracks his dangerous quarry, a chase that culminates in a gripping showdown high in the San Bernardino Mountains.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385509701&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780385509701&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385509701&quot;&gt;A Bright and Guilty Place&lt;/a&gt; Murder, Corruption, and L.A.'s Scandalous Coming of Age&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=25028&quot;&gt;Richard Rayner&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Hardcover&lt;/b&gt;, 288 pages | Doubleday | History - United States; History - United States - 20th Century; True Crime | &lt;b&gt;$25.00&lt;/b&gt; | June 23, 2009 | 978-0-385-50970-1 (0-385-50970-7)&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A captivating chronicle of how the City of Angels lost its soul&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Los Angeles was the fastest growing city in the world, mad with oil fever, get-rich-quick schemes, celebrity scandals, and religious fervor. It was also rife with organized crime, with a mayor in the pocket of the syndicates and a DA taking bribes to throw trials. In &lt;i&gt;A Bright and Guilty Place&lt;/i&gt;, Richard Rayner narrates the entwined lives of two men, Dave Clark and Leslie White, who were caught up in the crimes, murders, and swindles of the day. Over a few transformative years, as the boom times shaded into the Depression, the adventures of Clark and White would inspire pulp fiction and replace L.A.&amp;#8217;s reckless optimism with a new cynicism. Together, theirs is the tale of how the city of sunshine got noir. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;When &lt;i&gt;A Bright and Guilty Place&lt;/i&gt; begins, Leslie White is a na&amp;#239;ve young photographer who lands a job as a crime-scene investigator in the L.A. district attorney&amp;#8217;s office. There he meets Dave Clark, a young, movie-star handsome lawyer and a rising star prosecutor with big ambitions. The cases they tried were some of the first &amp;#8220;trials of the century,&amp;#8221; starring dark-hearted oil barons, sexually perverse starlets, and hookers with hearts of gold. Los Angeles was in the grip of organized crime, and White was dismayed to see that only the innocent paid while the powerful walked free. But Clark was entranced by L.A.&amp;#8217;s dangerous lures and lived the high life, marrying a beautiful woman, wearing custom-made suits, yachting with the rich and powerful, and jaunting off to Mexico for gambling and girls. In a shocking twist, when Charlie Crawford, the Al Capone of L.A., was found dead, the chief suspect was none other than golden boy Dave Clark. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;A Bright and Guilty Place &lt;/i&gt;is narrative nonfiction at its most gripping. Key to the tale are the story of the theft of water from the Owens River Valley that let L.A grow; the Teapot Dome scandal that brought shame to President Harding; and the emergence of crime writers like Raymond Chandler and James M. Cain, who helped mythologize L.A. In Rayner&amp;#8217;s hands, the ballad of Dave Clark is the story of the coming of age of a great American city.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
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