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Author
Publisher
Diversion Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In July 1978, two bodies were discovered in the sea off Guatemala. They were found to be the remains of Chris Farmer and his girlfriend Peta Frampton, two young British graduates. They had been beaten and tortured, then thrown, still alive, into the sea, their bodies weighted down and dumped from the yacht on which they had been crewing. For nearly forty years, no one was charged with these brutal murders. This is the shocking and compelling story...
Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Was journalist Dorothy Kilgallen murdered for writing a tell-all book about the JFK assassination? Or was her death from an overdose of barbiturates combined with alcohol, as reported? Shaw believes Kilgallen's death has always been suspect, and unfolds a list of suspects ranging from Frank Sinatra to a Mafia don, while speculating on the possibilities of reopening the case.
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Dante, whose Divine Comedy gave the world its most vividly imagined story of the afterlife, endured an extraordinary afterlife of his own. Exiled in death as in life, the Florentine poet has hardly rested in peace over the centuries. Like a saint's relics, his bones have been stolen, recovered, reburied, exhumed, examined, and, above all, worshiped. Actors in this graveyard history range from Lorenzo de' Medici, Michelangelo, and Pope Leo X to the...
Author
Publisher
W W Norton & Co Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An investigative journalist defends his theory that Adolf Hitler did not commit suicide, as commonly believed, and instead escaped from Germany to Indonesia at the end of World War II, where he married and worked in a hospital.
151) Deadly secrets
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Susan Fassett left her church choir practice when a killer emerged and mercilessly gunned her down. Stunned, the police suspected Fassett's husband, but they couldn't have been more wrong. Fassett had been living a secret life, lost in a world of dominance, lesbian sex, betrayal--and a depraved plan for murder. After detectives untangled a web of secrets and corruption hidden in plain sight, the town of Pleasant Valley would be rocked again when a...
Author
Publisher
Sentinel
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Did Jeffrey Epstein kill himself? On the morning of August 10, 2019, Jeffrey Epstein, jet-setting consigliere and friend to the rich and powerful, was found unresponsive in his prison cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan where he awaited his second trial for sexual predation and other crimes. He was rushed to a local hospital and one hour later pronounced dead. The coroner's verdict? Suicide. But cracks in the official...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The life and mysterious death of Otto Wachter, former Governor of Nazi-occupied Poland, who died in the Vatican after World War II"--
Baron Otto von Wächter, Austrian lawyer, husband, father, high Nazi official, senior SS officer, former governor of Galicia during the war, creator and overseer of the Krakow ghetto, indicted after as a war criminal for the mass murder of more than 100,000 Poles, hunted by the Soviets, the Americans, the British,...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The best-selling author of "Hitler: Ascent" and "Hitler: Downfall" reconstructs the chaotic, otherworldly last days of Nazi Germany. On April 30, 1945, in a bunker deep beneath the Old Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler and his newly wedded wife, Eva Braun, killed themselves. But Nazi Germany lived on, however briefly. The subsequent eight days were among the most turbulent in history, witnessing not only the final battles of World War II and the collapse...
157) My mother's ghost
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A journalist recalls his life lived in the aftermath of his mother's accidental death in a riding accident, a traumatic incident for which he has continued to blame himself and that had a profound impact on his family.
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Benjamin Franklin was not a gambling man. But at the end of his illustrious life, the Founder allowed himself a final wager on the survival of the United States: a gift of two thousand pounds to Boston and Philadelphia, to be lent out to tradesmen over the next two centuries to jump-start their careers. Each loan would be repaid with interest over ten years. If all went according to Franklin's inventive scheme, the accrued final payout in 1991 would...
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