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Rain of Bullets: The True Story of Ernest Ingenito's Bloody Family Massacre

by Patricia A. Martinelli

Published: 2010-01-15

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The notorious murders that tore a New Jersey family apartReports from the scene of the crimeRiveting courtroom testimonyOn the night of November 17, 1950, Ernie Ingenito entered the house of his in-laws and opened fire on his wife Tessie and her parents. He then walked across the street an...

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Sting

by Sandra Brown

Published: 2016-08-16

Hardcover: 416 pages

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#1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Sandra Brown jolts the reader from the first page of this heart-pounding story of corruption, treachery, and ceaseless deception . . . where nothing is what it seems and every truth brought to light exposes a darker lie. When Jordie Bennet...

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Queen Elizabeth's Daughter: A Novel of Elizabeth I

by Anne Clinard Barnhill

Published: 2014-03-18

Paperback: 384 pages

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From Anne Barnhill, the author of At the Mercy of the Queen, comes the gripping tale of Mary Shelton, Elizabeth I's young cousin and ward, set against the glittering backdrop of the Elizabethan courtMistress Mary Shelton is Queen Elizabeth's favorite ward, enjoying every privilege the posi...

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If You Left

by Ashley Prentice Norton

Published: 2016-06-14

Paperback: 256 pages

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A seductive novel about a privileged but damaged Manhattan wife whose main source of stability — her marriage — comes under threat, from forces both without and within. For most of their marriage, Althea has fluctuated between extreme depressive and manic states — what she calls �...

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The Light of Paris

by Eleanor Brown

Published: 2016-07-12

Hardcover: 320 pages

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"I adored The Light of Paris. It’s so lovely and big-hearted—it made me long for Paris."  —Jojo Moyes, New York Times-bestselling author of Me Before You and After YouThe Light of Paris is the miraculous new novel from New York Times–bestselling author Eleanor Brown, whose debu...

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Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa

by Jason Stearns

Published: 2012-03-27

Paperback: 416 pages

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A Best Book of the Year- The Economist & the Wall Street JournalAt the heart of Africa is the Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations, that since 1996 has been wracked by a brutal war in which millions have died. In Dancing in the Glory of Monsters, renown...

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Travesty in Haiti: A true account of Christian missions, orphanages, fraud, food aid and drug trafficking

by Timothy T Schwartz Ph.D.

Published: 2008-07-05

Paperback: 332 pages

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TRAVESTY is an anthropologist’s personal story of working with foreign aid agencies and discovering that fraud, greed, corruption, apathy, and political agendas permeate the industry. It is a story of failed agricultural, health and credit projects; violent struggles for control over foreign aid; corrupt...

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AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame

by Paul Farmer

Published: 2006-05-03

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Does the scientific ?theory” that HIV came to North America from Haiti stem from underlying attitudes of racism and ethnocentrism in the United States rather than from hard evidence? Award-winning author and anthropologist-physician Paul Farmer answers with this, the first full-length et...

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Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues, Updated with a New Preface

by Paul Farmer

Published: 2001-02-23

Paperback: 419 pages

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Paul Farmer has battled AIDS in rural Haiti and deadly strains of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the slums of Peru. A physician-anthropologist with more than fifteen years in the field, Farmer writes from the front lines of the war against these modern plagues and shows why, even more than...

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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, 20th-Anniversary Edition

by Randy Shilts

Published: 2007-11-27

Paperback: 656 pages

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Upon it's first publication twenty years ago, And The Band Played on was quickly recognized as a masterpiece of investigative reporting. An international bestseller, a nominee for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and made into a critically acclaimed movie, Shilts' expose revealed wh...