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Tahiry
(Hardcover)
Antwan Ant Bank$
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R927
R801
Discovery Miles 8 010
Save R126 (14%)
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Jane had a pretty good life. She was a single mother, and she
worked hard for her three kids, who meant the world to her. One
autumn evening she met someone she believed to be the man of her
dreams-the only thing missing in her nearly perfect life. He was
handsome, gentle, quiet, and kind.
Eleven months later, they bought a home and were married. Jane
was so happy. Soon, however, her daughter, Michelle, began to
change; she became distant and withdrawn. Something was wrong, but
Jane couldn't figure out what it was. She never thought to look at
her husband as being the cause her daughter's moodiness or imagine
that it might be somehow related to sexual abuse. Her husband-a
young, handsome man with a nine-to-five job, an ex-wife and kids of
his own-was nothing like her image of a pedophile.
In her memoir, "I Am Gonna Tell," Jane recounts the nightmare
that she, her daughter and sons lived through due to the man Jane
brought into their lives. This is a mother's brutally honest
account of the horrifying discovery of her daughter's sexual abuse
at the hands of her husband-her daughter's stepfather.
In 1997, George Henderson, who was staying in a homeless shelter,
asked for the help of author, Dr. Bonnie Clark Douglass. George's
brother Paul Henderson, who was nicknamed "Poncho," was only 17
when he went missing on Halloween night. Poncho's lifeless body was
found a couple of weeks later on Nov. 14th, 1981, at the end of the
catwalk under the Centennial Bridge in Miramichi City. Poncho's
sneakers were found neatly placed, side by side, atop a pillar
approximately 50 yards from the body; not one police report
retrieved mentions this fact. George refused to "live with it,"
after the family was told Poncho fell off the bridge, and that was
not what the Pathologist's report concluded. "I'd say he was
beaten. When a person falls, you expect to see trademark injuries,
especially to the hands and face." Sheriff Pollard said that if he
did not know better, he would guess that someone put Poncho on a
rack and stretched him. (Telegraph Journal, February 6, 1999,
Calvin Pollard, with 25 years combined experience as a sheriff and
coroner). George and Dr. Bonnie dug up every piece of information
they could find. This included old RCMP records retrieved from the
New Brunswick Archives, and news articles from 1981. A
comprehensive written report was submitted to the N.B. RCMP Major
Crime Unit and, in 1999, the RCMP announced that the case was being
opened. After George's violent death in 2007, Dr. Bonnie knew that
one day she had to tell George's story, because of his tenacity and
courage in the face of a system that seemed dead against him.
George remained the eye of the storm, no matter what he came up
against. After starting a Facebook site, miraculously, 10 pages of
tips came in. The truth about that fateful night and what happened
on the catwalk began to unravel. Who would ever believe how the
truth surfaced because of social media? A loyal group of people,
who ravaged the storm and fought to honor George's vow for justice,
are revealed in the story.
Raised in a South Boston housing project, James "Whitey" Bulger
became the most wanted fugitive of his generation. In this riveting
story, rich with family ties and intrigue, award-winning Boston
Globe reporters Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy follow Whitey s
extraordinary criminal career from teenage thievery to bank
robberies to the building of his underworld empire and a string of
brutal murders.
It was after a nine-year stint in Alcatraz and other prisons
that Whitey reunited with his brother William "Billy" Bulger, who
was soon to become one of Massachusetts s most powerful
politicians. He also became reacquainted with John Connolly, who
had grown up around the corner from the Bulgers and was now with
Billy s help a rising star at the FBI. Once Whitey emerged
triumphant from the bloody Boston gang wars, Connolly recruited him
as an informant against the Mafia. Their clandestine relationship
made Whitey untouchable; the FBI overlooked gambling, drugs, and
even homicide to protect their source. Among the close-knit Irish
community in South Boston, nothing was more important than honor
and loyalty, and nothing was worse than being a rat. Whitey is
charged with the deaths of nineteen people killed over turf, for
business, and even for being informants; yet to this day he denies
he ever gave up his friends or landed anyone in jail.
Based on exclusive access and previously undisclosed documents,
Cullen and Murphy explore the truth of the Whitey Bulger story.
They reveal for the first time the extent of his two parallel
family lives with different women, as well as his lifelong paranoia
stemming in part from his experience in the CIA s MKULTRA program.
They describe his support of the IRA and his hitherto-unknown role
in the Boston busing crisis, and they show a keen understanding of
his mindset while on the lam and behind bars. The result is the
first full portrait of this legendary criminal figure a gripping
story of wiseguys and cops, horrendous government malfeasance, and
a sixteen-year manhunt that climaxed in Whitey s dramatic capture
in Santa Monica in June 2011. With a new afterword covering the
trial, this book promises to become a true-crime classic."
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Gein
(Hardcover)
Scott Bowser
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R1,189
Discovery Miles 11 890
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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