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Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"No other investigation across his entire FBI career would ever match the level of intensity, excitement, suspense, and drama of operation "Paesan Blues"-this book is the inside look at that undercover investigation centered on an Italian mafioso and his associates in Miami and Italy"--
2) Zenith man
Author
Publisher
Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Part true crime, part courtroom drama, this moving story of an unexpected friendship between two very different men recounts the case of Alvin Ridley, an autistic Zenith TV repair man accused of murdering the wife no one knew he had, and the lawyer who believe in--and proved--his innocence.
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A poignant and glorious photographic memoir that pays homage to the lifelong friendship between the legendary Cicely Tyson and acclaimed fashion designer B Michael, who worked with her to make her gorgeous through her last bow"--
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A portrait of one of the greatest leaders of modern history, George Catlett Marshall, and a distillation of the essential lessons his formation offers to the leaders of today and tomorrow. George Marshall was a soldier-statesman who guided the Allies to victory during World War II and set Europe on the postwar path to recovery with the plan that bears his name, receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953. But how did he become such an effective leader?...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
On a Sunday morning in the spring of 1921, a small boy made a grim discovery as he played on a riverbank in the cotton country of rural Georgia: the bodies of two drowned men, bound together with wire and chain and weighted with a hundred-pound sack of rocks. Within days a third body turned up in another nearby river, and in the weeks that followed, eight others. And with them a deeper horror: all eleven had been kept in virtual slavery before their...
Author
Publisher
Etruscan Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In late 2021, Diane Foley sat at a table across from her son's killer, Alexanda Kotey, a member of the ISIS group known as "The Beatles" who plead guilty to the kidnapping, torture, and murder of her son seven years before. Kotey was about to go serve life imprisonment and this was Diane's chance to talk to the man who had been involved with brutally taking her son's last breath. What would she say to his killer? What would he reveal to her? Might...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The harrowing true story of a cold-blooded murder and its tragic aftermath -- and the stunning revelations that would emerge decades later On a cold November night in 1990, an intruder entered Cathy and Lyndel Robertson's Missouri home while the couple and their children slept. Leaving the safe full of cash undisturbed, the person snuck into the main bedroom and fired at point-blank range, killing Cathy and injuring Lyndel. The investigation that...
Author
Publisher
University Press of Colorado
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"This fourth edition provides up-to-date information on how to effectively manage projects, programs, and portfolios. It includes new content at the end of each chapter and a mock exam to help prepare readers for the PMI certification exams to prepare the reader to become a certified PMP or CAPM" --
Author
Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Our age will be defined by the climate emergency. Contrary to the doomist narrative that's taken hold about the climate emergency, the world has already begun deploying the solutions needed to deal with it. On a journey across five continents, Climate Capitalism tracks the unlikely heroes driving the fight against climate change. From the Chinese bureaucrat who did more to make electric cars a reality than Elon Musk, to the Danish students who helped...
Author
Publisher
Tendencias
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Baek Sehee es una joven y exitosa directora de redes sociales en una editorial cuando comienza a consultar a un psiquiatra sobre ella, ¿cómo llamarlo? - ¿depresión? Se siente persistentemente deprimida, ansiosa, con infinitas dudas sobre sí misma, pero también muy crítica con los demás. Oculta bien sus sentimientos en el trabajo y con los amigos; experta en lograr la calma, incluso la tranquilidad, que exige su estilo de vida. El esfuerzo...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Kristine S. Ervin was just eight years old when her mother, Kathy Sue Engle, was abducted from an Oklahoma mall parking lot and violently murdered in an oil field. First, there was grief. Then the desire to know: what happened to her, what she felt in her last terrible moments, and all she was before these acts of violence defined her life. In her mother's absence, Ervin tries to reconstruct a woman she can never fully grasp--from her own memory,...
Author
Publisher
Marysue Rucci Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Genevieve (Gwen) Kingston's mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer when Gwen was just three years old. Defying the odds, she lived another eight years, during which time she filled a chest with gifts and letters to Gwen and her brother, Jamie, for every major milestone and birthday through age thirty. The day Gwen got her driver's license. The day she graduated from high school. Gwen is now in her thirties and, when Did I Ever Tell You? begins,...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"On January 6, 1986, Barry and Louise Berman set out for a stroll and never returned. Despite extensive investigations by local and federal authorities, the double homicide of the Kahlua heir and his wife remains unsolved"--
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