The Skies Belong to Us
Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking
Written by Brendan I. Koerner
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $26.00
In an America torn apart by the Vietnam War and the demise of sixties idealism, airplane hijackings were astonishingly routine. Over a five-year period starting in 1968, the desperate and disillusioned seized commercial jets nearly once a week, using guns, bombs, and jars of acid. Some hijackers wished to escape to...
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The Skies Belong to Us
Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking
Written by Brendan I. Koerner
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $12.99
In an America torn apart by the Vietnam War and the demise of sixties idealism, airplane hijackings were astonishingly routine. Over a five-year period starting in 1968, the desperate and disillusioned seized commercial jets nearly once a week, using guns, bombs, and jars of acid. Some hijackers wished to escape to...
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A Disposition to Be Rich
Ferdinand Ward, the Greatest Swindler of the Gilded Age
Written by Geoffrey C. Ward
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $16.00
A New York Times Notable Book
The compelling behind-the-scenes story of the greatest swindler of the Gilded Age, whose villainy bankrupted Ulysses S. Grant and stunned the world of finance—told by his great-grandson, award-winning historian Geoffrey C. Ward.
Ferdinand Ward, the son of a Protestant missionary and small-town pastor, moved to New York...
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The Iceman
The True Story of a Cold-Blooded Killer
Written by Anthony Bruno
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $16.00
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Michael Shannon, Winona Ryder, with Ray Liotta and Chris Evans He was smart, merciless, and deadly. And it took someone just as tough to bring him down. A mob contract killer known as “The Iceman” for hiding a body in an...
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The Iceman
The True Story of a Cold-Blooded Killer
Written by Anthony Bruno
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $11.99
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Michael Shannon, Winona Ryder, with Ray Liotta and Chris Evans He was smart, merciless, and deadly. And it took someone just as tough to bring him down. A mob contract killer known as “The Iceman” for hiding a body in an...
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Whitey
The Life of America's Most Notorious Mob Boss
Written by Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $27.00
From the bestselling authors of Black Mass comes the definitive biography of Whitey Bulger, the most brutal and sadistic crime boss since Al Capone. Drawing on a trove of sealed files and previously classified material,
Whitey digs deep into the mind of James J. “Whitey” Bulger, the crime boss and...
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Whitey
The Life of America's Most Notorious Mob Boss
Written by Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill
Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $13.99
From the bestselling authors of Black Mass comes the definitive biography of Whitey Bulger, the most brutal and sadistic crime boss since Al Capone. Drawing on a trove of sealed files and previously classified material,
Whitey digs deep into the mind of James J. “Whitey” Bulger, the crime boss and...
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Whitey
The Life of America's Most Notorious Mob Boss
Written by Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill
Read by John Rubinstein
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $20.00
From the bestselling authors of Black Mass comes the definitive biography of Whitey Bulger, the most brutal and sadistic crime boss since Al Capone. Drawing on a trove of sealed files and previously classified material,
Whitey digs deep into the mind of James J. “Whitey” Bulger, the crime boss and...
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El sicario
Autobiografia de un asesino a sueldo
Edited by Molly Malloy and Charles Bowden
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $15.00
“Todavía tengo problemas para recordar su rostro. Pero no me siento capaz de olvidar su historia”. —Charles Bowden. Editado por dos de los más respetados escritores sobre el crimen y la violencia en México,
El sicario es el testimonio de un asesino a sueldo que, afincado en el sangriento teatro del narcotráfico...
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Sex on the Moon
The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History
Written by Ben Mezrich
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2012
Price: $15.95
From the bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House, this is the incredible true story of how a college student and two female accomplices stole some of the rarest objects on the planet—moon rocks—from an "impregnable" high-tech vault.
But breaking into a highly secure laboratory wasn't easy. Thad Roberts, an intern in a prestigious...
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Breaking Blue
Written by Timothy Egan
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 16, 2011
Price: $14.99
“No one who enjoys mystery can fail to savor this study of a classic case of detection.”
—TONY HILLERMAN
On the night of September 14, 1935, George Conniff, a town marshal in Pend Oreille County in the state of Washington, was shot to death. A lawman had been killed, yet there...
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Sex on the Moon
The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in Histroy
Written by Ben Mezrich
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: July 12, 2011
Price: $11.99
Thad Roberts, a fellow in a prestigious NASA program had an idea—a romantic, albeit crazy, idea. He wanted to give his girlfriend the moon. Literally.
Thad convinced his girlfriend and another female accomplice, both NASA interns, to break into an impregnable laboratory at NASA—past security checkpoints, an electronically locked door with...
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Sex on the Moon
The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History
Written by Ben Mezrich
Read by Casey Affleck
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 12, 2011
Price: $17.50
Thad Roberts, a fellow in a prestigious NASA program had an idea—a romantic, albeit crazy, idea. He wanted to give his girlfriend the moon. Literally.
Thad convinced his girlfriend and another female accomplice, both NASA interns, to break into an impregnable laboratory at NASA—past security checkpoints, an electronically locked door with...
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In the Place of Justice
A Story of Punishment and Redemption
Written by Wilbert Rideau
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: May 3, 2011
Price: $16.00
Wilbert Rideau, an award-winning journalist who spent forty-four years in prison, delivers a remarkable memoir of crime, punishment, and ultimate triumph.
After killing a bank teller in a moment of panic during a botched robbery, Wilbert Rideau was sentenced to death at the age of nineteen. He spent several...
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