True Stories
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Perilous Trails, Dangerous Men
Linden Publishing (US)£16.99| /Punctuated by gunshots and posse hoofbeats, these true tales, many told for the first time, illustrate, in both words and rare photographs, perilou...
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Police Craft
Linden Publishing (US)£17.99| /A veteran police officer gives his thoughtful, balanced views on police shootings, racial profiling, community relations, and every other aspect of...
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Policing Las Vegas
Huntington Press Inc (US)£18.99| /This book chronicles the evolution of law enforcement in Las Vegas and Clark County from the days of night watchmen and cops who carted drunks to j...
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Prairie Murders
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /These eight true tales explore the dark side of 20th-century prairie history. A Saskatchewan farmhouse is burned to the ground to conceal the bruta...
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Prison on Wheels
Daimon Verlag (CH)£26.99| /"Prison on Wheels" is a remarkable diary kept by a young Hungarian woman, Eva Dános, during sixteen horror-filled days and nights of deportation by...
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Prisoner of Dreams
Strategic Media Books (US)£19.99| /An African American soldier returns home to New York City from the Vietnam War in the late 1960s. It is a time and turbulence and change. Racism is...
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Prodigal Sons
Linden Publishing (US)£16.99| /This factual story about how Christopher Evans and John Sontag came to be the most wanted men in California in 1893 is also the story of life in th...
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Quicksilver
Huntington Press Inc (US)£14.99| /It was Las Vegas' crime of the century. Lonnie "Ted" Binion, ne'er-do-well son of the famed casino owner Benny Binion, was found dead in his home S...
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Sane in Damascus
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£15.99| /A story of sacrifice and heroism, Sane in Damascus tells the compelling and engaging tale of Amnon Sharon, an officer in the Israel Defense Forces ...
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Shadow of Doubt
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /Winner, New Brunswick Book Award for Non-FictionShortlisted, Arthur Ellis Best Non-Fiction Crime Book AwardOn July 6, 2011, Richard Oland, scion of...
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Shadow of Doubt
Goose Lane Editions£17.99| /A national bestseller, now updated, expanded, and revised to tell an even bigger story.On July 6, 2011, Richard Oland, scion of the Moosehead brewi...
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Shattered Silence
Americas Group Publications (US)£15.99| /This book describes the hopes, hardships and happenings of former Soviets based on the voluminous correspondence and recent visits of the author. T...
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Shepherd's Life
Linden Publishing£17.99| /Originally published in England in 1910, this story of a shepherd, Caleb Bawcombe, describes life in the south-central English county of Wiltshire ...
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Sicilian Mafia
Strategic Media Books (US)£19.99| /This is the first book of its kind in any language: the ultimate Italian gangland experience. Since 2006 Carl Russo has photographed Mafia hotspots...
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Sickert & the Ripper Crimes
Mandrake of Oxford (UK)£12.99| /In the autumn of 1888 London women lived under the shadow of the Ripper murders -- killings perhaps unmatched in their sadistic brutality. Florence...
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Smoke in the Cockpit
NeWest Press (CA)£19.99| /The true story of Canadian bush pilot Don 'Smokey' Patry is a succession of brave take-offs, daring landings, and high intensity turbulence every m...
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Smugglers of the West
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /Do you think the smuggling of drugs and people is a new phenomenon in Canada's west? Think again! Between the mid-19th and mid-20th centuries, many...
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Spy of David
Strategic Media Books (US)£19.99| /Winston Churchill's description of Stalinist Russia in 1939 -- he called it a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma -- easily could have b...
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Stories of Service
Linden Publishing (US)£25.99| /This compilation of 76 World War II veterans' stirring recollections presents a remarkable array of stories from all of the major theatres of the w...
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Straddling the Borders
Branden Publishing Co (US)£15.99| /Jo, an Italian-American woman, moves to Italy to connect, on a spiritual level, with her nonno, the grandfather she never knew, along the way, she ...
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Straight from the Hood
Strategic Media Books (US)£19.99| /Tales featuring drug king pins, entertainers, hit men, street gangs, con men, corrupt cops and reformed gang-bangers. Read about the most feared ma...
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Strangers on the Praia
Blacksmith Books£7.99| /Based on true stories and new research, Paul French weaves together the stories of those Jewish refugees who moved on from wartime Shanghai to seek...
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Surviving the Mob
Huntington Press Inc (US)£15.99| /What do you do when the law wants you behind bars and the New York crime families want you buried? Surviving the Mob is a cautionary tale of the ha...
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Tarnished Heels
Strategic Media Books (US)£19.99| /This book chronicles the numerous events that have affected the University of North Carolina and seriously brought into question what was once a st...
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Terminal Private
Branden Publishing Co (US)£17.99| /Curtain in two minutes... one minute! Curtain in one minute! Well, here goes. I have been waiting until the very last moment to put on these damn c...
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Terrible Thunder, 2nd Edition
Garrett County Press (US)£20.99| /On New Year's Eve in New Orleans, 1972 Mark James Essex began one of the most violent and deadly sniper attacks on policemen that any American city...
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The Ballad of Jacob Peck
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /Shortlisted, Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical WritingOn a frigid February evening in 1805, Amos Babcock brutally murdered Mercy Hal...
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The Bastard of Fort Stikine
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /Winner, Canadian Authors Award for Canadian History, Jeanne Clarke Memorial Local History Award, and Prince Edward Island Book Award for Non-Fictio...
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The Boy with the Dancing Bells
Bok Bok Books£9.99| /Deshis Create series – Let's explore the lives of celebrated artists of Bangladeshi heritage shaping the creative world. Akram is a little boy who ...
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The Emperor's Grace
Monash University Publishing£23.99| /The Emperors Grace is the story of the men of C Force the first contingent of Australian, British and Dutch POWs shipped from Singapore to Japan...
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The Girl with the Cardboard Port
Digital Publishing Centre£25.99| /Starker than a tabloid report, more vivid than a television feature, McNeil's extraordinary, uncompromising autobiography takes you to the dark pla...
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The Importance of Being Cool
Interactive Press£25.99| /Explore an urban underworld where many people get lost, lose it or just disappear! Twenty-something Oli shapes a torrent of chemicals into a searin...
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The Killing of Emiliano Sala
Empire Publications (UK)£10.95| /When the single-engined Piper Malibu plane carrying Cardiff City's record £15m signing, Emiliano Sala, crashed into the English Channel on 21st Jan...
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The Lynching of Peter Wheeler
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /At 2:21 am on September 8, 1896, authorities in Nova Scotia killed an innocent man. Peter Wheeler -- a "coloured" man accused of murdering a white ...
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Touch the Flame
Northstone Publishing (CA)£14.99| /This is a heart-warming collection of first person stories from the Okanagan Mountain Park fire, summer 2003. Past and present residents of the Val...
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Trappers and Trailblazers
Caitlin Press (CA)£14.99| /In 1934 international entrepreneur and filmmaker Charles Bedeaux hired a team of Canadian men to trail blaze from Edmonton, Alberta, to Telegraph C...
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Travelogue of Horror
Schiffer£22.99| /Here is a travelogue for those whose idea of a perfect vacation doesn't involve amusement parks and tourist traps, a guidebook for fans of horror a...
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True Crime Canada Box Set
Folklore Publishing (CA)£33.99| /Crimes & Capers; Mobsters & Rumrunners; Canadian Crime Investigations
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True Stories of the Top End
Indra Publishing (AUS)£18.99| /A collection of stories behind the news, collected over many years as a senior journalist in Darwen. Ken White throws a new light on news stories -...
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Two Faces of Lee Harvey Oswald
Empire Publications (UK)£8.99| /Of all the millions of words written in anger or certainty regarding arguably the greatest murder mystery of all time, the assassination of Preside...
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Unabomber
History Publishing Co. Llc (US)£29.99| /The story of the way the FBI was forced to change its methods of operation to capture Theodore Kaczynski, the notorious Unabomber, provides a fasci...
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Unsolved New England
Schiffer£15.99| /New England has an alarming underbelly of mystery, murder, and chilling unsolved cases that will shock you. Delve into 20 unsettling incidents of h...
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Untold Until Now, World War Ii Stories
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£26.99| /A generation of men who fought for our freedom looks back at their lives; some with melancholy, some with unforgotten energy, and other with reluct...
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Vanished
Strategic Media Books (US)£17.99| /Nearly forty years after Jimmy Hoffa vanished from the face of the earth his disappearance still remains one of the biggest mysteries in crime hi...
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Vile: Peeking Under the Skin of Murderers
Schiffer£22.99| /Experience 42 horrific stories about the world's more extreme killers in this comprehensive tome of grisly lusts and depraved pleasures of people w...
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Who Loves You Like This
Paul Dry Books (US)£17.99| /This is an account of one woman's Holocaust survival and painful postwar years spent forging an adult identity out of the splinters of a girlhood d...
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Wind of Morning
Linden Publishing (US)£22.99| /Much more than a record of an extraordinary military career, the life story of Colonel Sir Hugh Boustead details how he spent the greater part of h...
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Wings Across the Desert
Hancock House Publishers (CA)£18.99| /This book documents a quest to determine if a flock of cranes could be trained to follow a truck on a long-distance migration and arrive wild enoug...
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