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Escape from China: The Long Journey from Tiananmen to Freedom

Escape from China: The Long Journey from Tiananmen to...

Author: Zhang Boli
ISBN: 9780743431613
Format: Paperback
$36.96

Zhang Boli was a top student leader at Tiananmen Square who spent over two years eluding a deadly manhunt by Chinese...  Read More >>

The One True Platonic Heaven: A Scientific Fiction on the Limits of Knowledge

The One True Platonic Heaven: A Scientific Fiction on...

Author: John L. Casti ,  Joseph Henry Press
ISBN: 9780309085472
Format: Hardback
$60.59

In the fall of 1933 the newly founded Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, welcomed its first...  Read More >>

Munros and Tops, The: A Record-Setting Walk in the Scottish Highlands

Munros and Tops, The: A Record-Setting Walk in the Scottish...

Author: Chris Townsend
ISBN: 9781840187274
Format: Paperback
$52.77

When Chris Townsend reached the summit of Ben Hope in Sutherland, he walked his way into the record books.  Read More >>

The World's Most Mysterious Murders

The World's Most Mysterious Murders

Author: Lionel And Fanthorpe
ISBN: 9781770701434
Format: Electronic book text
$60.69

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The Oral Histories of Lts. Sandy Daniels, Tina-Marie D'Ercole, Maureen P. Foley, Chrystal A. Lewis, Barbette Henry Lowndes, and Pamela Wacek Svendsen, USN, U.S. Naval Academy Class of 1980

The Oral Histories of Lts. Sandy Daniels, Tina-Marie...

Author: Sandy Daniels ,  Tina-Marie D'Ercole
ISBN: 9781682690062
Format: Hardback
$135.00

Based on six interviews conducted by Susan B. Sweeney from November 1984 through December 1987, the volume contains...  Read More >>

The Reminiscences of Rear Adm. Julian T. Burke Jr., USN (Ret.): 1918-2011

The Reminiscences of Rear Adm. Julian T. Burke Jr.,...

Author: Julian T. Burke, Jr., USN (Ret.) ,  Paul L Stillwell, USNR (Ret.)
ISBN: 9781682699423
Format: Hardback
$150.00

Based on 12 interviews conducted by Paul Stillwell from January 1997 to June 1998. The volume contains 557 pages...  Read More >>

Forensic Casebook of Crime

Forensic Casebook of Crime

Author: John Sanders
ISBN: 9780330421065
Format: Paperback
$86.89

Quality management practices are essential in any organization, and service organizations are no exception. Service...  Read More >>

Snowshoes and Spotted Dick: Letters from a Wilderness Dweller

Snowshoes and Spotted Dick: Letters from a Wilderness...

Author: Chris Czajkowski
ISBN: 9781550172799
Format: Paperback
$44.99

The spellbinding and uplifting story of one woman's life in the raw wilderness.  Read More >>

Passage to Alaska: sea kayaking through the inside passage of BC and southeast Alaska

Passage to Alaska: sea kayaking through the inside passage...

Author: Tim Lydon
ISBN: 9780888395238
Format: Paperback
$39.47

A thrilling account of two friends kayaking 1000 miles though the Inside Passage of BC and southeast Alaska. This...  Read More >>

Lincoln and Booth: More Light on the Conspiracy

Lincoln and Booth: More Light on the Conspiracy

Author: H. Donald Winkler
ISBN: 9781581823424
Format: Paperback
$44.75

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Manx Murders: 150 Years of Island Madness, Mayhem and Manslaughter

Manx Murders: 150 Years of Island Madness, Mayhem and...

Author: Keith Wilkinson
ISBN: 9781840186925
Format: Paperback
$32.99

""Manx Murders"" is a mysterious collection of murder cases committed on the island over the last 150 years, from...  Read More >>

When Kids Kill

When Kids Kill

Author: Jonathan Paul
ISBN: 9780753507582
Format: Paperback
$14.99

Cases of child homicide are rare but they are especially horrific. The author goes behind the sensationalist headlines...  Read More >>

Remarkable Rogues: The Career of Some Notable Criminals of Europe and America

Remarkable Rogues: The Career of Some Notable Criminals...

Author: Charles Kingston
ISBN: 9781410102331
Format: Paperback
$47.49

CONTENTS: A Russian Delilah An Infamous Female Poisoner Belle Star, The Girl Bushranger The Woman with the Fatal...  Read More >>

Coronation Everest

Coronation Everest

Author: Jan Morris
ISBN: 9780571219445
Format: Paperback
$27.99

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The Good, The Bad & The Inevitable: Stories of Hope, Loss and Apathy from Behind the Bench

The Good, The Bad & The Inevitable: Stories of Hope,...

Author: Estate of Barbara Holborow
ISBN: 9781740511902
Format: Paperback
$24.99

A collection of stories that tells of the good, the bad and the inevitable outcomes for so many of the kids the...  Read More >>

Profiles in Courage for Our Time

Profiles in Courage for Our Time

Author: Caroline Kennedy
ISBN: 9780786886784
Format: Paperback
$39.47

Nearly half a century after then-Senator John F. Kennedy was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for ""Profiles in Courage"",...  Read More >>

Crimes of Persuasion: Schemes, Scams, Frauds. How Con Artists Will Steal Your Savings and Inheritance Through Telemarketing Fraud, Investment Schemes and Internet Consumer Scams.

Crimes of Persuasion: Schemes, Scams, Frauds. How Con...

Author: Les Henderson
ISBN: 9780968713303
Format: Paperback
$79.07

In-depth fraud coverage of computer crimes such as pyramid schemes make this crime library of internet fraud the...  Read More >>

The Spy Who Spent the War in Bed: And Other Bizarre Tales from World War II

The Spy Who Spent the War in Bed: And Other Bizarre...

Author: William B. Breuer
ISBN: 9780471267393
Format: Paperback
$50.03

A rare treat for World War II history buffs and fans of the strange, absurd, and unexplained Acclaimed military...  Read More >>

Emergency (2nd Edition): Crisis On The Flight Deck

Emergency (2nd Edition): Crisis On The Flight Deck

Author: Stanley Stewart
ISBN: 9781840373936
Format: Paperback
$52.67

A collection of true stories about flights in civil airliners and smaller aircraft where disaster and massive loss...  Read More >>

I Dared to Call Him Father – The Miraculous Story of a Muslim Woman`s Encounter with God

I Dared to Call Him Father – The Miraculous Story of...

Author: Bilquis Sheikh ,  Richard H. Schneider
ISBN: 9780800793241
Format: Paperback
$36.93

A first-person account of a wealthy Muslim woman in Pakistan who, through a succession of supernatural events, came...  Read More >>

Pointing from the Grave: A True Story of Murder and DNA

Pointing from the Grave: A True Story of Murder and...

Author: Samantha Weinberg ,  Nadia May
ISBN: 9780786190126
Format: Audio
$65.87

In 1984 a young British DNA scientist was sexually assaulted in her San Francisco cottage. A year later, and hundreds...  Read More >>

Pointing from the Grave: A True Story of Murder and DNA

Pointing from the Grave: A True Story of Murder and...

Author: Samantha Weinberg ,  Nadia May
ISBN: 9780786191932
Format: Audio
$131.87

In 1984 a young British DNA scientist was sexually assaulted in her San Francisco cottage. A year later, and hundreds...  Read More >>

Don't Call Us Molls: Women of the John Dillinger Gang

Don't Call Us Molls: Women of the John Dillinger Gang...

Author: Ellen Poulsen
ISBN: 9780971720008
Format: Hardback
$52.67

Uncovers the history of the female companions of the Great Depression's bank-robbing gang. This work examines the...  Read More >>

Murder at Fort Huachuca

Murder at Fort Huachuca

Author: Darlene Fitzgerald
ISBN: 9780595271504
Format: Paperback
$36.83

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