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1) Holy ghost
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Virgil Flowers investigates a miracle...and a murder...in the wickedly entertaining new thriller from the master of pulse-pounding thrillers. Pinion, Minnesota: a huge city of all of seven hundred folks who define the phrase 'small town'. Nothing has ever happened in Pinion and nothing ever will...until the mayor of sorts (campaign promise: `I'll Do What I Can') comes up with a scheme to put Pinion on the map. He's heard of a place where a floating...
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Stumbling across a long-lost treasure, single mother Jesse Braddock must figure out how to keep it out of the hands of villains, while Ken Bortle, to lure tourists to his failing store, invents the "Everglades Melon Monster," inspiring a horde of TikTokers to swarm the swamp, inciting mayhem and hilarity.
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The investigative journalist and author of Acid Attack reveals the true story of one innocent man's battle to salvage his reputation and his life.
As army veteran Bill Johnstone watched his garage business burn to the ground, he was certain the fire had been started deliberately. And, when the police failed to investigate, he complained.
Johnstone then made a shocking discovery: an extensive criminal record had been applied to his name. He believes...
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In this stunning true crime thriller of Facebook, catfishing, and jealousy, a double-murder begins with the click of a button.
When Bill Payne and Billie Jean Hayworth began their romance, they unknowingly set in motion a diabolical plot that would end with them murdered in their own home, Hayworth holding their mercifully unharmed infant.
Chris was a CIA agent who was concerned about Jenelle. Seeing the cyberbullying she had endured, and worried...
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This book is in two parts. Part I is a researched account of cultural, historical, and ecological elements of south Louisiana, focusing on selected institutional and geologic elements that shape lives and governments. The Mississippi river and offshore oil and gas development feature largely in this narration, in lives and businesses and economics. This includes a narration of notable events in coastal Louisiana derived from public media, personal...
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Warden McCrea spent 23 years faithfully serving the citizens of South Dakota as a state game warden. His career, which spanned from 1983-2006, started in the Moody County Warden District in the small town of Flandreau. What made the Moody County Warden District so challenging is that prior to Warden McCrea's arrival, the district had been without a game warden for 25 years. His first serious challenge was overcoming the many vicious rumors started...
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The New York Times says the Knockout Game is a lie. USA Today says it is a myth, a product of white fear. This book settles that once and for all. This is the most complete collection of Knockout Game links and videos and stories ever assembled. "Knockout Game a Lie?" uses hundreds of links to videos and stories that provide the compelling answer: "Aww, hell no!" It also contains a link to a video with hundreds of examples. Created by the author of...
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This is the story of how a family can be destroyed by a chain of events that begin when one member puts her trust in a conman. At the beginning of the 21st century, the de Védrines were an ancient aristocratic Bordeaux family, educated and socially established. From the outside they had everything they could have wished for – wealth, love, friends, education and family. But the very closeness and trust they had with each other ended up splitting...
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The 2016 elections. Trump becomes possibly the most influential person in all of America. What he does with that power, though, twists the ideals of American freedom and democracy. Behind closed doors, President Trump plots to sway the lives of the American people, or possibly even further. The F.B.I., however, has other plans to reclaim America and return it to its constitutional heritage.
Who will become victorious in the chase for an entire nation,...
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Officer McCrea is starting his eighth year of service as a South Dakota Game Warden. His status as a naïve, rookie officer is in the distant past. He has matured professionally and has taken on additional, high-liability endeavors such as certified firearms instructor, head range master, and use of force expert. After just eight years he is bestowed with a tremendous professional honor: 1991 Wildlife Officer of the Year. He received this highest...
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Orville Nix: The Missing JFK Assassination Film is not the typical JFK Assassination book. This book does not attempt to answer "who" killed JFK but why we should question the actions of the time and why the truth was withheld from the people. Written in a narrative style, the book shares the story of Orville Nix and how he was intimidated yet remained adamant to what he witnessed that horrific day. His camera original film that shows the grassy knoll...
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A new look at some gruesome and riveting murders. In this grisly and gripping collection of essays-some revised and updated, some never before published, but all new to American audiences-prize-winning English crime historian Jonathan Goodman turns his attention to a variety of British and American crimes from the 1820s to the 1980s, some high profile and others not. With the author as detective, each of Goodman's essays examines a particularly notorious...
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Leslie "Ike" Atkinson is one of U. S. history's most original gangsters. According to law enforcement sources, he and his gang smuggled, by conservative estimates, 1,000 pounds of heroin annually from Bangkok, Thailand, to U. S. military bases during their period of operation from 1968 to 1975. The Bangkok Connection: Trafficking Heroin from Asia to the USA chronicles the story of Atkinson, a charismatic former U. S. army master sergeant, career smuggler,...
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A book of mystery and intrigue. The central character in this story, Mitch Conner, is starting a new life after moving from the fast pace and complex city of Atlanta to the serenity and relaxed atmosphere of a small town. Conner's adopted new home is nestled in the Blue Ridge mountains of Western Carolina. While out walking in the forests surrounding his rustic cabin one day, he stumbles on human remains. And the unplanned circumstances surrounding...
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The definitive inside story of the case that captivated the nation. . . and the verdict that no one saw coming.
It was the trial that stunned America. On July 5, 2011, nearly three years after her initial arrest, Casey Anthony walked away, virtually scot-free, from one of the most sensational murder trials of all time. She'd been accused of killing her daughter, Caylee, but the trial only left behind more questions: Was she actually innocent? What...
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Imagine a world where every wish was granted, love and laughter filled every day and lavish gifts were poured upon you. Then imagine everything that you thought was true never existed. This is a story of a non-fiction "Alice In Wonderland". Journey through a labyrinthine trail of joy, unbounded generosity, wonder, deceit, manipulation, mental and emotional contortions, and desperate love. Discover the fanatical obsession of a brilliant criminal who...
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The definitive account of audacious con woman Cassie Chadwick, the Carnegie Imposter
Queen of the Con tells the true story of Cassie Chadwick, a successful swindler and "one of the top 10 imposters of all time," according to Timemagazine. Born Betsy Bigley in 1857 in Canada, she first operated as Madame Devere, a European clairvoyant, and in 1890 was arrested for defrauding a Toledo bank of $20,000. In the mid-1890s, while working as a madam in Cleveland,...
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I wonder what you'd think of me if you found out that I've done something really serious ...'So begin the confessions of Thomas Quick - Scandinavia's most notorious serial killer.
In 1992, behind the barbed wire fence of a psychiatric hospital for the criminally insane, Thomas Quick confessed to the murder of an eleven-year-old boy who had been missing for twelve years. Over the next nine years, Quick confessed to more than thirty unsolved murders,...
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What made the over-sized tracks found in Bluff Creak, California, and other parts of America? A giant ape or just a big jape?
Does Bigfoot Exist?
In 1924, a group of miners, working in the Cascade Mountain Range in the state of Washington were, startled to see a huge simian creature staring at them from behind a tree. Panic-stricken, one of the men fired at it and although the bullet appeared to hit the giant ape in the head, the beast ran off,...