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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.Bones: discovering the first Americans
By Elaine Dewar. 2001
With Native American activists, white supremacists, DNA experts, and anthropologists all vying for control of ancient remains, Dewar explores the…
ambiguous terrain left behind when a long-standing paradigm is swept away by new discoveries. Presents stories that rarely find their way into scientific journals or newspapers - stories of mysterious deaths, of the bones of evil shamans, and the shadows that fall on the lives of scientists who've pulled them from the ground. 2001.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.Bones of contention: controversies in the search for human origins
By Roger Lewin. 1987
By focusing on several landmark fossil discoveries, the author reveals how the interpretation of data is heavily dependent upon an…
anthropologist's cultural and personal biases, emotions, pre-conceptions, and professional loyalties. 1987.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.Ascent to civilization: the archaeology of early man
By John Gowlett. 1984
Ancient people of the Arctic
By Robert McGhee. 1996
McGhee, a curator of archeology with the Canadian Museum of Civilization, traces the lives of the Palaeo-Eskimos, who entered the…
northern extremes of the North American continent four thousand years ago. McGhee reconstructs what their life was like, explains how they dealt with sharp climate changes, and speculates on their eventual demise. 1996.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.A violent act
By Alec Wilkinson. 1992
On the morning of September 22, 1986, Mike Wayne Jackson, forty, shot and killed Tom Gahl, his probation officer. Within…
eight hours, Jackson gunned down two more people and made the FBI's Most Wanted List. Wilkinson looks at those whose lives have been altered forever by acts of violence, especially those affected by Jackson's savage behaviour, including Nancy Gahl, the probation officer's wife, and her two children. Violence. 1992.A new kind of monster: the secret life and chilling crimes of Colonel Russell Williams
By Timothy Appleby. 2011
A decorated air force colonel, Russell Williams was living a double life as a sado-sexual home invader, burglar, pedophile and,…
ultimately, murderer. While a model officer and elite pilot, he broke into 82 homes; stole lingerie; committed two bizarre sexual assaults; and eventually, two rape-murders. Crime reporter Appleby chronicles a true story that could have come from the pages of pulp fiction, one that offers fascinating - and troubling - insights on human psychopathology. Some descriptions of sex, some strong language, explicit descriptions of violence. 2011.A hand in the water: the many lies of Albert Walker
By Bill Schiller. 1998
In 1990 Albert Walker disappeared without a trace along with millions of dollars of investors' money and his 15 year…
old daughter, Sheena. Six years later he was found living in England and using a murdered man's name as his own. Stiller traces Walker's life on the run from Canada to the Cayman Islands to Europe and attempts to unravel the mystery of how he came to be living under Ronald Platt's name.A Canadian tragedy: JoAnn and Colin Thatcher : a story of love and hate
By Douglas Gibson, Maggie Siggins. 1985
57 hours: a survivor's account of the Moscow hostage drama
By Vesselin Nedkov, Paul R Wilson. 2003
A witness account of being trapped inside a theatre by suicidal Chechen rebels, loaded with explosives, demanding an end to…
the bloody civil war in Chechnya. Outside, Russian special forces prepared to storm the theatre, refusing to negotiate with the rebels. Through fifty-seven hours of fear and fatigue, Nedkov discovered courage and ingenuity, while describing the maelstrom of the civil war that still plagues Russia. Some strong language. Descriptions of violence. 2003.A death in Belmont
By Sebastian Junger. 2006
Examines the 1963 arrest, trial, and conviction of African American Roy Smith for the murder of Boston-area resident Bessie Goldberg.…
Describes how Smith's case was later called into question by the dubious confession of the Boston Strangler, Albert DeSalvo. Some descriptions of sex, some violence, and some strong language. 2006.