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"If the dead can wake and walk among us, how can we know what is truly real? Roos Beckman has a spirit companion only she can see. Ruth-strange, corpse-like, and dead for centuries-is the light of Roos' life. That is, until the wealthy young widow Agnes Knoop visits one of Roos' backroom seances, and the two strike up a connection. Soon, Roos is whisked away to the crumbling estate Agnes inherited upon the death of her husband, where an ill woman...
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FAITS DIVERS DE TOUT LE XXE SIÈCLE EN PAYS DE BREST, D'IROISE, DES ABERS, DE LESNEVEN, DE LANDERNEAU…
"Lire un livre de Louis Gildas, c'est s'installer au coin du feu dans la pénombre, un verre de chouchen à la main, et entendre, à travers les mots, sa voix si reconnaissable qui résonne. C'est entamer un voyage breton, à travers les talus et les champs, à travers les âges." Baptiste SCHWEITZER, rédacteur en chef de France Bleu Breizh...
83) Death Cruise
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For pretty Ohioan Joan Rogers and her two teenaged daughters, a Florida sunset cruise was a dream come true. And even though all three were desperately afaid of the water, they were so taken with friendly boat owner Oba Chandler that they gladly accepted a ride with him on beautiful Tampa Bay.
Little did naive mom and two daughters know that behind Chandler's mask of a gracious host lurked a daring and ruthless ex-con, a thief and a liar, a seductive...
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Dive inside the twisted minds of some of the most heinous serial killers in history with this true-crime trove of stories about cannibalistic murderers.
Delving deep into the twisted actions of Hannibal Lecter—type murderers, Cannibal Serial Killers profiles the depraved individuals who prolong their horrific crimes beyond the thrill of the chase to a perverse ritualized finale. More than just stomach-churning stories, this terrifying book provides...
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In 1976, Dr. Al Carlisle and a team of
psychologists at the Utah State Prison
performed a 90-day Psychological
Assessment on Ted Bundy.
Ted had been convicted of attempted
kidnapping and the Court wanted to
know if he had a violent personality.
In 2017 Dr. Carlisle wrote "The 1976
Psychological Assessment of Ted Bundy"
about his experience with Ted. This is the
companion volume, including many of the
tests taken by...
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Albert Fish was a rapist, a child killer and a cannibal who not satisfied with the torture and murders of his young victims would write to the parents to detail all of the vile things he did to the children. One such letter in this book. Albert Fish may have been the sickest serial killer to ever live. He would keep his young victims alive for days and beat them constantly to tenderize their flesh for cooking.John Wayne Gacy, the Killer Clown, who...
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"Remarks on Prisons and Prison Discipline in the United States" by Dorothea Lynde Dix is a groundbreaking and influential work that highlights the dire conditions and urgent need for reform in American prisons during the 19th century.
In this meticulously researched and compellingly written treatise, Dix draws on her extensive investigations and firsthand observations of prisons across the United States. She exposes the inhumane conditions, overcrowding,...
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"I KILLED MY PARENTS."
Seventeen-year-old Tyler Hadley posted an invitation on Facebook: party at my crib tonight. But this was no ordinary house party in the Florida suburbs; it was a grisly crime scene. Later that night, Tyler revealed to his best friend, Michael, that he'd bludgeoned his parents to death with a hammer. Michael didn't believe him…until he entered the master bedroom and saw the bodies of Tyler's parents on the floor-murdered,...
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To neighbors, she was the brave single mother...
Raising her five kids alone in a rundown section of Sacramento, Theresa Cross Knorr seemed like the ultimate survivor. But her youngest daughter, 16-year-old Terry, told police another story: one almost too terrible to believe.
But accused of imprisoning her children in a house of horrors...
According to Terry, Theresa--no longer the petite brunette she once was--had turned insanely jealous of...
90) Escape velocity
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"Space Habitat Altaire is the premier luxury resort in low Earth orbit, playground of the privileged and the perfect location to host reunions for the Rochford Institute. Rochford boasts only the best: the wealthiest, most promising students with the most impressive pedigrees. Complete with space walks, these lavish reunions are a prime opportunity for alumni to jockey for power with old friends and rivals--and crucially, to advance their applications...
91) The dead years
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"Siblings Cory and Crystal Pratt are still trying to get their lives together after a tragic accident which killed their parents years ago. The only thing that distracts them now is their jobs. With Crystal working as a newly minted detective at the Chicago Police Department and Cory owning a dog training academy with two human remains detection dogs of his own, their professional paths cross every now and then. Crime, and especially murder, in Chicago...
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The shocking murder of railroad laborers in nineteenth-century Pennsylvania-and the centuries-long coverup that followed-is revealed in this true crime history.
In June 1832, railroad contractor Philip Duffy hired fifty-seven Irish immigrant laborers to work on Pennsylvania's Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad. They were sent to a stretch of track in rural Chester County known as Duffy's Cut. Six weeks later, all of them were dead. For more than 180...
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A gripping account of how a vigilante mob of Pennsylvania frontiersmen butchered a Native American tribe-and got away with it.
On two chilly December days in 1763, bands of armed men raged through camps of peaceful Conestoga Indians. They killed twenty Susquehannock women, children and men, effectively wiping out the tribe. These murderous rampages by Lancaster County's Paxton Boys were the tragic culmination of a gruesomely violent conflict between...
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Lance Herndon was at the top of his game in 1996. At age forty-one he was a self-made millionaire, the owner of Access, Inc., a successful information-systems consulting company. As a prominent member of Atlanta's young, wealthy, and powerful set, he was surrounded by black Atlanta's "beautiful people." But when he failed to show up for work one day, friends and family started to worry. Their worry soon turned to horror when he was found murdered...
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Wealthy Men Only
Stella Sands
Nanette Johnston's personal ad made it clear: "I know how to take care of my man if he knows how to take care of me." Newport Beach millionaire Bill MacLaughlin made the fatal mistake of responding.
Within months, the gorgeous 28-year-old moved in with the middle-aged entrepreneur. Three years later, she began seeing another man on the side, a former NFL linebacker who took a job at a nearby nightclub. Three weeks...
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Explores ten ghastly news stories from 1995 to 2014 that directly involve Satanism in America. These disturbing true crime stories involve America's youth in particular. Is America's culture creating these monsters? If so then how do we stop it? This book discusses these topics and gives Christian answers to give us hope.
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A captivating journey into the heart of some of the world's most baffling disappearances. This book delves into the enigmatic world where people vanish without a trace, leaving behind a web of mystery and unanswered questions. Each case is a puzzle, a challenge to the conventional, and a testament to the unfathomable nature of human existence.
This volume explores a variety of disappearances that have baffled experts for decades, if not centuries....
98) Rock and Roll Murders: An Entrepreneur Finds that Murder is No Business Solution (Based on a True
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His jealousy and greed became a deadly murder for hire.Based on a true untold story. This story is set in the Inland Empire region of Southern California in the 1970s-1990s.Raymond McDade was dealing with the devil when he bought the radio station that made him wealthy. Now, with a young, beautiful wife, his next obsession was to keep her and the successful business for the rest of his life. He was proved wrong.What ensued was a circus of events consisting...
99) Fondant fumble
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Cupcake bakery mystery volume 16
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Professional football players Keogh Graham and Tyler Matthews want to open a Fairy Tale Cupcakes franchise. They're spending the off-season in Scottsdale working in Mel's bakery, learning about the business and how to bake show-stopping cupcakes. The popular athletes bring a boom of customers to the store as football fans flock to see the friends mixing batter and piping icing. Everyone's excited the athletes are pursuing their dream of owning a bakery-except...
100) Forget me never
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China Bayles mysteries volume 29
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"Olivia Andrews is locally famous for her blog and podcast, "Forget Me Not: A Crime Victim's Storyboard," which is dedicated to telling the stories of victims of crime. Now, she has a stunning story to tell about a decades-old murder mystery involving a prominent citizen of Pecan Springs-someone who isn't the man everybody thinks he is. But she is killed by a hit-and-run driver while she's out jogging early one morning. Was it an accident-or something...