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Running scared: for 22 years a fugitive - the corrupt cop busted by God
By Robert Leon Davis. 2010
He began with aspirations to be a great cop, but he was quickly exposed to a darker side of law…
enforcement. While partnered with a veteran, he witnessed an officer violating the very laws he had vowed to uphold and shared in his crime. One compromise led to another. Soon Davis faced arrest. From studying law at Loyola University and becoming and award-winning officer, he now became a fugitive and skilled survivalist, living off the land in remote forests in America and Canada, where he hid for over 20 years. Through a stranger's prayer the hostile atheist finally realized he was weary of running. He yielded his life to God and handed himself in. 2010.Runaway devil: how forbidden love drove a 12-year-old to murder her family
By Sherri Zickefoose, Robert Remington. 2009
Marc and Debra seemed to have it all - a lovely home in Medicine Hat, fulfilling careers, a supportive marriage,…
and two beautiful children: eight-year-old Jacob and twelve-year-old JR. But in April 2006, their bloodied dead bodies, along with Jacob's, were discovered. Investigators worried for JR's safety, but unknown to them, the pretty honour roll student had been developing a disturbing alter ego online, and a relationship with a twenty-three-year-old high school dropout. Explicit descriptions of sex and violence and explicit strong language. 2009.Rock-a-bye baby: a death behind bars
By Anne Kershaw, Mary Lasovich. 1991
In 1988, Marlene Moore, Canada's best-known female prisoner, committed suicide in the federal Prison for Women in Kingston, Ontario. The…
authors describe her childhood of abuse and her tragic life behind bars. For many, Marlene is an example of how badly our social and penal system can fail. Violence, strong language and descriptions of sex. 1991.Preaching to the chickens: the story of young John Lewis (Recorded Books new reader)
By Jabari Asim. 2017
John Lewis wants to be a preacher when he grows up - a leader whose words stir hearts to change,…
minds to think, and bodies to take action. But why wait? When John is put in charge of the family farm's flock of chickens, he discovers that they make a wonderful congregation! So he preaches to his flock, and they listen, content under his watchful care, riveted by the rhythm of his voice. Grades K-3. 2017.Policeman's patch (A Fontana original ; #6458)
By Harry Cole. 1982
Anything can happen to a policeman on his patch: he may find his neck entwined with the Rubenesque thighs of…
Rosie Rafferty; his search for a victim to become a Pied Piper tour of a whole tower block; the vandalizer of an old lady's flat may turn out to be the last person he'd imagined; he may even find himself on duty at a Royal Wedding. 1982.Pirates & outlaws of Canada, 1610-1932
By Edward Butts, Harold Andrew Horwood. 1984
Pablo Escobar, my father
By Andrea Rosenberg, Sebastián Marroquín. 2017
More than two decades after a full-fledged manhunt finally caught up with the most infamous drug kingpin of all time,…
Pablo Escobar's son Juan reveals an unabridged version of his father--a man capable of committing the most extreme acts of cruelty while professing infinite love for his family. 2017. Uniform title: Pablo Escobar, mi padre.Osama: the making of a terrorist
By Jonathan C. Randal. 2004
The author presents a look into the different stages of bin Laden's life, and how each battle hardened his resolve,…
deepened his sense of struggle, and intensified his anger. Randal also outlines the failures and miscalculations of the U.S. in its attempts to contain and thwart the elusive bin Laden - most notably, Clinton's series of bombings in Afghanistan and Sudan, which, in failing to kill bin Laden, led many Muslims to believe that Allah had saved him and boosted his reputation. 2004.One hour in Paris: a true story of rape and recovery
By Karyn L Freedman. 2014
Philosopher Karyn L. Freedman travels back to a Paris night in 1990 when she was twenty-two and, in one violent…
hour, her life was changed forever by a brutal rape. We follow Freedman from an apartment in Paris to a French courtroom, from a trauma centre in Toronto to a rape clinic in Africa. At a time when as many as one in three women in the world have been victims of sexual assault and when many women are still ashamed to come forward, Freedman's book is a moving and essential look at how survivors cope and persevere. Winner of the 2015 British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction. 2014.One breath away: the hiccup girl - from media darling to convicted killer
By M. William Phelps. 2016
When she was fifteen, Jennifer Mee developed an unrelenting case of the hiccups, hiccupping as many as fifty times a…
minute for months. Soon the Florida teen's strange story went viral. Dubbed the "Hiccup Girl" by the media, she gained international sympathy and appeared on a slew of popular TV shows. Eventually, Jennifer's hiccups went away, and so did her fame. Depressed and craving affection, Jennifer hooked up with the wrong people and slipped into drug dealing and street life - a downward spiral that led to the murder of an innocent young man. Now, investigative journalist Phelps expertly recounts Jennifer's shocking true story of thwarted desires, betrayed trust, and deadly manipulation. 2016.No one to tell: breaking my silence on life in the RCMP
By Janet Merlo, Leslie Vryenhoek. 2013
Janet Merlo was among the first female RCMP officers to publicly allege she had experienced sexual harassment and gender discrimination…
while serving in Canada`s national police force. The women kept silent for so long, she says, because there was no one to tell. Janet recalls how her love of policing was soured by covert and overt sexism within the ranks and by an institutional culture that valued toughness and silence over ethics and accountability. Tracing her twenty years in uniform, Merlo’s story details the highs and lows of her career in the RCMP – while her mental health and personal life disintegrated. 2013.Nasty business: one biker gang's bloody war against the Hells Angels
By Peter Paradis. 2002
The 1990s biker war on the streets of Montreal pitted the established Hells Angels against upstarts the Rock Machine in…
a battle for the drug trade. After being shot by a Hells hit squad, Rock Machine boss Peter Paradis watched as the police closed in and the Hells begin winning the war, spurring a penniless and ostracized Paradis to turn informant. Descriptions of sex and violence, strong language. 2002.My father and Atticus Finch: a lawyer's fight for justice in 1930s Alabama (ITK audio)
By Joseph Madison Beck. 2016
A memoir about the author's father, whose courageous defense in a 1938 Alabama trial of a black man accused of…
raping a white woman calls to mind "To Kill a Mockingbird". 2016.My fair junkie: a memoir of getting dirty and staying clean
By Amy Dresner. 2017
In 2011 Amy Dresner was high on OxyContin, stupidly pulled a knife on her then-husband, and was promptly arrested. Within…
months, she found herself in a psych ward, penniless, and looking at 240 hours of community service. For the next two years she would sweep up syringes on Hollywood Boulevard as she bounced from rehabs to halfway houses, all while struggling with sobriety and starting life over in her forties. 2017.Mrs. Grace Humiston was an amazing lawyer and a traveling detective during a time when no women were practicing those…
professions. She focused on solving cases no one else wanted and advocating for innocents. The first female U.S. District Attorney, she made groundbreaking investigations into modern-day slavery, and the papers gave her the nickname of fiction's famous sleuth. One of her greatest accomplishments was solving the cold case of a missing eighteen-year-old girl, Ruth Cruger. Her work changed how the country viewed the problem of missing girls, but it came with a price: she learned all too well what happens when one woman upstages the entire NYPD. 2018.Murder without borders: dying for the story in the world's most dangerous places
By Terry Gould. 2009
Over four years, Terry Gould has travelled to Colombia, the Philippines, Bangladesh, Russia and Iraq - the countries in which…
journalists are most likely to be murdered on the job. Through conversations with their colleagues, their families and in some cases their murderers, he uncovers the lives of local reporters and broadcasters who stayed on a story to the point of death, and discovers the complex reasons for their bravery. Explicit descriptions of violence. c2009.Missing Sarah: a Vancouver woman remembers her vanished sister
By Maggie De Vries. 2003
Sarah de Vries disappeared in April of 1998. Her sister Maggie searches for clues and answers by reading Sarah's poetry…
and piecing together the collective memory of everyone who knew her. 2003.Monster: A Rapist Father, A Captive Daughter, A Secret Dungeon
By Allan Hall. 2008
Getting to the heart of one of the most horrific cases of child abuse ever recorded, Allan Hall reconstructs the…
monstrous personality of Josef Fritzl from interviews with psychologists, neighbours, colleagues and friends. Includes strong language. 2008.Member of the family: my story of Charles Manson, life inside his cult, and the darkness that ended the sixties
By Dianne Lake, Deborah Herman. 2017
At age fourteen Dianne Lake became one of "Charlie's girls." Over the course of two years, the teenager endured manipulation,…
psychological control, and physical abuse as the harsh realities of Charles Manson's true nature were revealed. This account from an actual Family member recreates in vivid detail one of the most horrifying and fascinating chapters in modern American history. 2017.Memoirs of a radical lawyer
By Michael Mansfield, Yvette Vanson. 2010
Michael Mansfield, QC, is Britain's most high-profile defense lawyer, whose unparalleled commitment to his clients and radical approach to forensics,…
evidence and disclosure have made him a scourge of the establishment and a champion of the individual in many miscarriages of justice cases. Passionate about unveiling corruption and unafraid to challenge received wisdom, he has taken on many of the most controversial cases of our times, including the Bloody Sunday Inquiry, and Dodi Fayed and Princess Diana. Dissecting these cases he offers a fascinating insight into the idiosyncrasies of the English legal system and how it has changed from the late 1960s to the present. Includes strong language. 2010.