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Fille à papa
By Charlotte Vale Allen, Jean Chapdelaine Gagnon. 1982
Every secret thing
By Patricia Hearst, Alvin Moscow. 1982
Hearst describes her kidnapping by the Symbionese Liberation Army in 1974, her imprisonment in a closet for 57 days, her…
forced decision to join her captors, and her participation in the Hibernia Bank Robbery. Some strong language. 1982.Descent into madness (Op Ser.)
By Vernon Frolick. 1993
In March of 1985 the R.C.M.P. tracked down and killed a crazed murderer in a remote snowy region of northern…
B.C. The dead killer was Michael Oros, who had eluded police for years, and had kept diaries which chronicled the chase. Based on these accounts, the story of the manhunt and the killer is told. 1993.Down inside: thirty years in Canada's prison service
By Robert Clark. 2017
In his thirty years in the Canadian prison system, Robert Clark rose from student volunteer to deputy warden. He worked…
with some of Canada's most dangerous and notorious prisoners, including Paul Bernardo and Tyrone Conn. He dealt with escapes, lockdowns, prisoner murders, prisoner suicides, and a riot. But he also arranged ice-hockey games in a maximum-security institution, sat in a darkened gym watching movies with three hundred inmates, took parolees sightseeing, and consoled victims of violent crimes. He has managed cellblocks, been a parole officer, and investigated staff corruption. He challenges head-on the popular belief that a "tough-on-crime" approach makes prisons and communities safer, arguing instead for humane treatment and rehabilitation, and wades into the controversy about long-term solitary confinement. 2017.Don't: a woman's word
By Elly Danica. 1988
The author graphically describes the humiliation and terrible pain she suffered as a victim of incest. She endured verbal abuse,…
beatings and degradation as her father sold her services to strange men, and forced her to pose and perform in his pornographic photo studio. Strong language and extreme descriptions of sex and violence. 1990, c1988.Crime seen: from patrol cop to profiler, my stories from behind the yellow tape
By Kate Lines. 2015
A criminal profiler, former Chief Superintendent of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), recounts her remarkable story using pivotal cases she…
worked on during the course of her career. Always taking care not to aggrandize in any way the notorious criminals whose names we know all too well, Kate knows that it is much more important to focus on the courage of the victims and their families. Bestseller. 2015.Canada's first nations: a history of founding peoples
By Olive Patricia Dickason. 1992
Dickason traces the history of Canada's first nations, from the earliest habitation of North America through European settlement and to…
the present. She discusses current issues and controversies, including Meech Lake, the Oka crisis, and the debate over self-government. 1992.Six M.I.T. students figured out how to beat the casinos and managed to get away with more than three million…
dollars in less than two years' time by playing the blackjack tables. Includes an explanation of how card counting is done. 2002.Closing argument: defending (and befriending) John Gotti, and other legal battles I have waged
By Bruce Cutler, Lionel Rene Saporta. 2003
Known for his tenacious defence of John Gotti, Cutler became almost as infamous as his client. Recounts his time as…
an aggressive assistant DA and how he switched sides and became a defence attorney. This is the inside story of how Cutler and Gotti frustrated the feds so much that they had to break the rules to convict the Teflon Don. 2003.Blind eye: how the medical establishment let a doctor get away with murder
By James B Stewart. 1999
Questions why Dr. Michael Swango was allowed to continue practising medicine despite clear evidence that he was a serial psychopathic…
killer and a convicted felon - for poisoning his fellow workers. Criticizes the medical establishment's "code of silence." Bestseller. 1999.Bitter harvest: a woman's fury, a mother's sacrifice
By Ann Rule. 1997
Rule tells the story of a wealthy Kansas physician who, unable to accept her husband's infidelity and abandonment, sets her…
home on fire while her children sleep inside. Two of the children died and the physician, Debora Green, is now spending 45 years in prison. 1997.Business or blood: Mafia boss Vito Rizzuto's last war
By Peter Edwards, Antonio Nicaso. 2015
Until Vito Rizzuto went to prison in 2006 for his role in a decades-old Brooklyn triple murder, he ruled the…
Port of Montreal, the northern gateway to the major American drug markets. A master diplomat, he won the respect of rival mafia clans, bikers and street gangs, and criminal business thrived on his turf. His family prospered and his empire grew--until one of North America's true Teflon dons finally lost his veneer. As he watched helplessly from his Colorado prison, the murders of his son and father made international headlines; the killings of his lieutenants and friends filled the pages of Canadian news; and the influence of the 'Ndrangheta, the Calabrian Mafia, spread across Montreal faster than the blood of Rizzuto's crime family. In 2012, Vito Rizzuto emerged from prison, a 66-year-old man who could carefully rebuild his criminal empire or seek bloody revenge and damn the consequences. Bestseller. 2015.Bury my heart at Wounded Knee: an Indian history of the American West
By Dee Alexander Brown. 1970
The author sets out to tell of the conquest of the American West as the victims experienced it, using their…
own words whenever possible; of the greedy invaders, murdering and destroying Indians who had set out to live in peace with their white neighbours. 1970.After a tour in Vietnam and a stretch in prison, Alex Caine fell into the cloak-and-dagger world of a contracted…
agent or "kite": infiltrating criminal groups that cops across North America and around the globe were unable to penetrate themselves. Over twenty-five years, his assignments ran the gamut from bikers to triad toughs. He describes the toll such a life takes, one that often left Caine wondering who he really was, and whether justice was ever truly served. Descriptions of violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. c2008.Banco: the further adventures of Papillon
By Patrick O'Brian, Henri Charrière. 1973
Banco completes Papillon's struggle to climb up the drain into which the brutal French penal system had pushed him. It's…
the story of a man who, after 13 years in prison, discovers how to function in society and how to earn his living without resorting to murky schemes. 1973.And never let her go: Thomas Capano: the deadly seducer
By Ann Rule. 1999
Describes the 1996 disappearance of Anne Marie Fahey, the thirty-year-old scheduling secretary for the governor of Delaware. When her former…
married lover, attorney Thomas Capano, was accused of murdering her and disposing of the body, he tried to blame his other longtime mistress. Details the two relationships and the trial. Bestseller 1999.Russia, 1878. Vera Zasulich walked into the office of the governor of St. Petersburg and shot General Trepov point blank,…
as revenge for the governor's brutal treatment of a political prisoner. Her subsequent trial was followed by people all across Europe and America, and she was written about by Dostoyevsky, Wilde, and Engels. Vera became the public face of a burgeoning revolutionary fervour, and the inspiration for a whole generation of Russian and European revolutionaries to embrace violence and martyrdom. Some descriptions of violence. 2008.American terrorist: Timothy McVeigh & the Oklahoma City bombing
By Dan Herbeck, Lou Michel. 2001
Account of the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City by Timothy McVeigh on April 19, 1995. In addition…
to prison interviews with McVeigh, the authors document his childhood, military career, and drifter lifestyle in an attempt to fathom his motives and personality. Some strong language. c2001.Alain Lacoursière, le Columbo de l'art
By Sylvain Larocque. 2010
L'ex-sergent-détective partage avec le personnage qui lui a valu son surnom un flair redoutable et des méthodes inusitées. Sa lutte…
est avant tout celle de la défense des artistes, premières victimes de délits qui ne touchent pas que des musées et de riches collectionneurs. Du voleur au receleur, en passant par le faussaire et le spécialiste du blanchiment d'argent, la criminalité dans le milieu de l'art a de multiples visages. 2010.A thousand years of pirates
By William Gilkerson. 2009
Introduces the major characters and incidents that connect the scattered history of seagoing bandits, including England's "Sea Dog" Francis Drake,…
the "pirate queen of Ireland" Granuaile, and Scotland's Captain Kidd. Describes their high-seas adventure and skullduggery, sea chases and bloody battles, dangerous coastal lairs and buried treasure. Grades 5-8. Some descriptions of violence. 2009.