Smith, Tanya
Summary: "In Never Saw Me Coming, Tanya Smith shares her deeply personal and remarkable story of how she went from a precocious young girl to a money-grabbing, computer-savvy wiz. It starts out as a keen interest in technology and innocently acquiring phone numbers to Michael Jackson, as well as other celebrities, and moves to her successfully stealing and depositing $5,000 into her grandmother's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company
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Summary: The child of an abusive parent learns that his "father" is a wanted child murderer and that everything he has been told about his past is false, thus sending him on a quest for justice and identity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Health Communications 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B ST.CLAIR StCMartin, Edna Cowell
Summary: "Edna's world turned upside down when her close cousin, Ted Bundy, was linked to the gruesome murders that had plagued her hometown of Seattle. Both devastating and dangerous, she reveals her journey of discovering the truth about her cousin who was more like a sibling, a man she loved, admired, and thought she knew so well. Edna delves into the unbelievable and chilling episodes she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Permuted Press 2024
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Summary: "Born in 1899 in Brooklyn, New York, to poor, Italian immigrant parents, Al Capone went on to become the most infamous gangster in American history. In 1925, during the height of Prohibition, Capone's multi-million-dollar Chicago bootlegging, prostitution, and gambling operation dominated the organized-crime scene. His competition with rival gangs was brutally violent, a long-running war that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CAPONE, AL BAIUrschel, Joe
Summary: "It's 1933 and Prohibition has given rise to the American gangster--now infamous names like Bonnie and Clyde and John Dillinger. Bank robberies at gunpoint are commonplace and kidnapping for ransom is the scourge of a lawless nation. With local cops unauthorized to cross state lines in pursuit and no national police force, safety for kidnappers is just a short trip on back roads they know well...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.15 URSScarpa, Linda
Summary: "Gregory Scarpa, Sr. was a stone-cold killer in the Colombo crime family, but to Linda, he was also a loving, devoted father. She reveals what it was like to grow up in the violent world of the mob and to come to grips with the truth about her father and the devastation he wrought"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 SCARPA, LINDA SCADash, Mike.
Summary: Using previously untapped Secret Service archives, prison records, and interviews with surviving family members, Dash presents the gripping story of the birth of the Italian Mafia in America, and brings to life the remarkable villains and unusual heroes of the Mafia's early years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: 364.1 DASHeilbroner, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 HEIScarpa, Linda.
Summary: "Gregory Scarpa, Sr. was a stone-cold killer in the Colombo crime family, but to Linda, he was also a loving, devoted father. She reveals what it was like to grow up in the violent world of the mob and to come to grips with the truth about her father and the devastation he wrought"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media Inc 2015
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 921 SCARPA, LINDA SCAGuinn, Jeff.
Summary: Guinn's biography answers lingering questions about the Manson Family murders, while delivering stunning revelations about the life of America's most notorious psychopath.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder's Mouth Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 JOEEdmonds, Andy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carol Pub. Group 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 EDMGuinn, Jeff.
Summary: An account of the exploits of Bonnie and Clyde explores the ways in which they captured the imaginations of people during and after their time, reveals the role of youth and luck in their two-year crime spree, and recounts the events that led to their deaths.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 GUISchneider, Paul.
Contents: Eastham -- Telico, Texas -- Cement city -- Under the viaduct -- West Dallas -- Root Square, Houston -- Waco -- Middletown, Ohio -- Waco, again -- Huntsville, Texas -- Burning hell -- The tank -- Back in business -- Fun while it lasted -- The beginning of the road -- Merry Christmas and a happy new year -- Joplin, Missouri -- The middle of the road -- Platte city -- Sowers -- Eastham, again --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.15 SCHBarber, Charles
Summary: "A dramatic narrative account of the life of William Juneboy Outlaw III, whose journey from housing-project youth to ruthless gangland kingpin to change-making community advocate represents a vital next chapter in the ongoing conversation about race and social justice in America"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OUTLAW, WILLIAM JUNEBUG, III BARJoey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder's Mouth Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 JOEGuinn, Jeff.
Summary: An account of one of the most notorious criminals in American history puts Manson in the context of his times, the turbulent end of the 1960s, revealing a rock star wannabe whose killings were directly related to his musical ambitions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MANSON, CHARLES GUIBarrow, Blanche Caldwell.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Oklahoma Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BARManuel, Ian
Summary: "The ... story of a fourteen-year-old sentenced to life in prison, of the extraordinary relationship that developed between him and the woman he shot, and of his release after twenty-six years of imprisonment through the efforts of ... legal activist Bryan Stevenson"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B MANUEL MANThomas, William G.
Summary: The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history, in which a number of enslaved families challenged their bondage in court.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 THOClinton, Chelsea
Summary: Profiles the lives of thirteen American women who have left their mark on U.S. history, including Harriet Tubman, Helen Keller, Margaret Chase Smith, and Oprah Winfrey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J920 CLIIsaacson, Walter
Summary: A portrait of the Nobel Prize-winning scientist explores the impact of James Watson's "The Double Helix" on her career and how her team's invention of CRISPR technology enabled revolutionary DNA-editing approaches to fighting disease, as well as curing diseases, fending off viruses, and enhancing our children
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021