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By Thomas Hauser. 1982
Un journaliste américain vivant au Chili est arrêté chez lui quelques jours après le coup d'état de 1973. Un mois…
plus tard son cadavre sera identifié à la morgue de Santiago. Sa femme et son père veulent faire toute la lumière sur cette affaire. Descriptions régulières de violence. 1982. Titre uniforme: Execution of Charles Horman.By Léa Marcou, Kai Hermann, Horst Rieck. 1981
Ce livre raconte l'histoire de Christiane, une jeune fille sensible et intelligente, qui, moins de deux ans après avoir fumé…
son premier "joint", se prostitue à la sortie de l'école afin de trouver l'argent nécessaire à l'achat de sa dose quotidienne d'héroïne. Quelques descriptions de violence. 1981.By Michael Lewis. 2003
Author of "The New New Thing" describes how Billy Beane, general manager of baseball's Oakland Athletics, came in first place…
in the American League West in 2002. Examines Beane's use of computers, statistics, and scouting to achieve success despite a minor league budget. Strong language. Bestseller. 2003.By Susan Orlean, Sarah Church, Sophie Brunet. 1999
En 1994, John Laroche et trois Indiens Séminoles sont accusés d'un vol d'orchidées rares dans les marais de Floride. Ce…
fait divers constitue le point de départ d'une passionnante enquête de la journaliste Susan Orlean dans une Floride inconnue des guides touristiques. 1999, c1998. Titre uniforme: The orchid thief.By Lee Israel. 2018
Before turning to her life of crime, running a one-woman forgery business out of a phone booth in a Greenwich…
Village bar and even dodging the FBI, Lee Israel had a legitimate career as an author of biographies. Her first book on Tallulah Bankhead was a New York Times bestseller, and her second, on the late journalist and reporter Dorothy Kilgallen, made a splash in the headlines. But by 1990, almost broke and desperate to hang onto her Upper West Side studio, Lee made a bold and irreversible career change: inspired by a letter she'd received once from Katharine Hepburn, and armed with her considerable skills as a researcher and celebrity biographer, she began to forge letters in the voices of literary greats. Between 1990 and 1991, she wrote more than three hundred letters in the voices of, among others, Dorothy Parker, Louise Brooks, Edna Ferber, Lillian Hellman, and Noel Coward, and sold the forgeries to memorabilia and autograph dealers. 2018.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.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.By Michael Finkel. 2005
In 2002, Finkel, a rising star at the Times, was fired for fabricating a character in a story. Just as…
this was about to become public, he learned that a man named Christian Longo, arrested in Mexico for murder, had been living under an assumed identity: Michael Finkel of The New York Times. Sensing a story - and an opportunity for redemption - Finkel contacted Longo, initiating a relationship that would grow increasingly complex over the course of Longo's trial and conviction. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2005.By Philip Carlo. 2008
Top Mafia hit man and doting father - for 30 years Richard 'the Ice Man' Kuklinski led a double life,…
becoming one of the most notorious professional assassins in American history while hosting neighbourhood barbecues. John Gotti hired him to kill his neighbour and he was also intimately involved in the killing of Jimmy Hoffa. By his own estimate, he killed over 200 men, taking enormous pride in his cunning and the ferocity of his technique. 2008.By Roger Borniche. 1973
By H. G Bissinger. 1990
The depressed oil town of Odessa, Texas takes its high school football seriously, with 20,000 fans at every Friday night…
game. Students suffer debilitating injuries as well as psychological traumas as they literally fight for the honour of their town. 1990.By Michael Jan Friedman, Hulk Hogan, Wwf Staff. 2002
The autobiography of Hulk Hogan, professional wrestler and seven-time world-title holder, from his boyhood as Terry Bollea, an overweight kid…
from Tampa, Florida. Hogan looks at the many phases of his career, his metamorphosis from wrestler to entertainer, steroid use, and the price of fame and success. Strong language. 2002By John E Douglas, Mark Olshaker. 1995
Douglas, who pioneered criminal profiling, gives an inside account of the FBI's elite Investigative Support Unit. He recounts some of…
his most famous cases and describes various tactics used to identify and prosecute serial criminals. Violence, descriptions of sex, and some strong language. 1995.By Henri Charrière. 1970
The autobiography of a man sentenced to life imprisonment on a murder charge. He describes his prison experiences and his…
attempts to escape from Devil's Island which were eventually successful. 1970. Uniform title: Papillon.