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Waltzing in the Dark: African American Vaudeville and Race Politics in the Swing Era

Waltzing in the Dark: African American Vaudeville and...

Author: B Dixon Gottschild
ISBN: 9786611366759
Format: Electronic book text
$475.20

This study focuses on the social, racial, and artistic climate for African-American performers working during the...  Read More >>

Crackin' Up: A Tale of Sex, and Drugs, and Northern Soul

Crackin' Up: A Tale of Sex, and Drugs, and Northern...

Author: Maxwell Murray
ISBN: 9780953644001
Format: Paperback
$18.09

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The FBI-KGB War: A Special Agent's Story

The FBI-KGB War: A Special Agent's Story

Author: Robert J. Lamphere ,  Tom Shachtman
ISBN: 9780865544772
Format: Paperback
$92.40

The names, we sometimes say, have been changed """"to protect the innocent"""". As regards those agents in KGB networks...  Read More >>

This Side of Heaven: Determining the Donnelly Murders, 1880

This Side of Heaven: Determining the Donnelly Murders,...

Author: Norman N. Feltes
ISBN: 9780802044860
Format: Hardback
$129.36

What motivated a group of men in southwestern Ontario to enter the Donnelly farmhouse in 1880 and bludgeon the family...  Read More >>

The Bloody Register: Crimes and Misdemeanors in the Eighteenth Century

The Bloody Register: Crimes and Misdemeanors in the...

Author: Nick Groom
ISBN: 9780415208932
Format: Mixed media product
$1740.00

Part sensationalist crime literature, part police and witness reports, and part accounts of judicial proceedings,...  Read More >>

Flying Solo: Reimagining Manhood, Courage, and Loss

Flying Solo: Reimagining Manhood, Courage, and Loss...

Author: Leonard Kriegel
ISBN: 9780807072318
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Childhood polio left Leonard Kriegel without the use of his legs. In Flying Solo, he writes in a lyrical, uncompromising...  Read More >>

Retrieving Bones: Stories and Poems of the Korean War

Retrieving Bones: Stories and Poems of the Korean War...

Author: W. D. Ehrhart ,  Philip K. Jason
ISBN: 9780813526393
Format: Paperback
$71.50

A collection of short stories and poems to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of the Korean War, this...  Read More >>

When Night Fell: An Anthology of Holocaust Short Stories

When Night Fell: An Anthology of Holocaust Short Stories...

Author: Linda Raphael ,  Marc Raphael
ISBN: 9780813526638
Format: Paperback
$73.70

A collection of short stories that interpret the Holocaust.  Read More >>

Son of Two Bloods

Son of Two Bloods

Author: Vincent L. Mendoza
ISBN: 9780803282575
Format: Paperback
$26.40

From the streets of Tulsa to the jungles of Vietnam, this autobiography of Vincent Mendoza presents a portray of...  Read More >>

The Kansas City Investigation: Pendergast's Downfall, 1938-39

The Kansas City Investigation: Pendergast's Downfall,...

Author: Rudolph H. Hartmann ,  Robert H. Ferrell
ISBN: 9780826212313
Format: Hardback
$92.27

Kansas City political boss Thomas J. Pendergast's reign came to an end in 1939, after an investigation led by Special...  Read More >>

The Jesse James Northfield Raid: Confessions of the Ninth Man

The Jesse James Northfield Raid: Confessions of the...

Author: John J Koblas
ISBN: 9780878391257
Format: Hardback
$65.87

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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Author: John Berendt
ISBN: 9780679751526
Format: Paperback
$39.60

The enormously engaging account of life and death in secluded and hauntingly beautiful Savannah, Georgia, continues...  Read More >>

15 Months in SOG: A Warrior's Tour

15 Months in SOG: A Warrior's Tour

Author: Thom Nicholson
ISBN: 9780804118729
Format: Paperback
$21.09

Nicholson offers a rare insider's account of a Vietnam vet's tour of duty with a highly secret Special Forces unit...  Read More >>

The Bell Tower: The Case of Jack the Ripper Finally Solved... in San Francisco

The Bell Tower: The Case of Jack the Ripper Finally...

Author: Robert Graysmith
ISBN: 9780895263247
Format: Hardback
$47.99

London, 1896: The Jack the Ripper murders have stopped as mysteriously as they started. Five years later, in San...  Read More >>

Return to the Scene of the Crime: A Guide to Infamous Places in Chicago

Return to the Scene of the Crime: A Guide to Infamous...

Author: Richard Lindberg
ISBN: 9781581820133
Format: Paperback
$50.03

Return to the Scene of the Crime: a Guide to Infamous Places in Chicago"", by Richard Lindberg, is an uncensored...  Read More >>

Man with the $100,000 Breasts: & Other Gambling Stories

Man with the $100,000 Breasts: & Other Gambling Stories...

Author: Michael Konik
ISBN: 9780929712727
Format: Hardback
$65.87

A collection of one of the renowned gambling writer's best magazine pieces. It includes stories that take you to...  Read More >>

The Bootlegger: A STORY of SMALL-TOWN AMERICA

The Bootlegger: A STORY of SMALL-TOWN AMERICA

Author: John E. Hallwas
ISBN: 9780252068447
Format: Paperback
$56.99

Functions as a portrait of small-town America emerging from frontier status into the corruption and violence of...  Read More >>

Chicken Soup For The Teenage Soul

Chicken Soup For The Teenage Soul

Author: Jack Canfield ,  Mark Victor Hansen
ISBN: 9780091826406
Format: Paperback
$43.96

Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul is your handbook for surviving and succeeding during the exciting teen years with...  Read More >>

The Tennis Partner

The Tennis Partner

Author: Abraham Verghese
ISBN: 9780099735014
Format: Paperback
$32.99

The Tennis Partner is Abraham Verghese's tribute to his friend and tennis partner; a courageous young man who struggled...  Read More >>

Hastened to the Grave

Hastened to the Grave

Author: Jack Olsen
ISBN: 9781250894885
Format: Paperback
$50.16

Jack Olsen follows Fay Faron as she retraces every step of a Gypsy family and the crimes they stand accused of,...  Read More >>

The Man Who Wanted Seven Wives: The Greenbrier Ghost and the Famous Murder Mystery of 1897

The Man Who Wanted Seven Wives: The Greenbrier Ghost...

Author: Katie Letcher Lyle
ISBN: 9781891852053
Format: Paperback
$34.19

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Studies in Murder

Studies in Murder

Author: Edmund Lester Pearson ,  Roger Lane (Benjamin R. Collins Professor of Social Studies, Haverford College, USA)
ISBN: 9780814250228
Format: Paperback
$57.95

This work contains the classic account of the Borden murders, described by Pearson as ""without parallel in the...  Read More >>

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

Author: Alfred Lansing
ISBN: 9780842308243
Format: Paperback
$39.57

The astonishing true account of Ernest Shackleton's voyage to the Antarctic - 'the greatest survival story of all...  Read More >>

Rebels in Blue: The Story of Keith and Malinda Blalock

Rebels in Blue: The Story of Keith and Malinda Blalock...

Author: Peter F. Stevens
ISBN: 9780878331666
Format: Hardback
$65.87

This Civil War story follows the real-life exploits of a married couple who fought side-by-side as soldiers for...  Read More >>

Studies in Murder

Studies in Murder

Author: Edmund Lester Pearson ,  Roger Lane (Benjamin R. Collins Professor of Social Studies, Haverford College, USA)
ISBN: 9780814208199
Format: Hardback
$102.83

"This work contains the classic account of the Borden murders, described by Pearson as ""without parallel in the...  Read More >>

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