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Author
Publisher
TED Books, Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Zak Ebrahim was only seven years old when, on November 5th, 1990, his father El-Sayyid Nosair shot and killed the leader of the Jewish Defense League. While in prison, Nosair helped plan the bombing of the World Trade Center. Though Ebrahim was subjected to a violent, intolerant ideology throughout his childhood, he did not become radicalized. Ebrahim argues that people conditioned to be terrorists are actually well positioned to combat terrorism,...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
""In this wondrous and richly detailed coming of age story, Tyler Wetherall follows the breadcrumbs of her childhood to discover a family home that is unlike any other." --Katy Lederer, author of Poker Face Tyler had lived in fifteen houses and five countries by the time she was nine. She didn't think this was strange until Scotland Yard showed up in her bucolic English village, and she discovered her family had been living a lie. Her father was a...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"It's 1933 and Prohibition has given rise to the American gangster. 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 from their bootlegging days. Geprge "Machine Gun" Kelly and his wife, Kathryn, are some of the most celebrated gangsters...
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"From a National Book Award-winning biographer, the first complete life of legendary gangster Al Capone to be produced with the cooperation of his family, who provided the author with exclusive access to personal testimony and archival documents. 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...
25) You can't win
Author
Publisher
Feral House
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
You Can't Win, the beloved memoir of real lowdown Americana by criminal hobo Jack Black, was first published in 1926, then reprinted in 1988 by Adam Parfreys Amok Press, featuring an introduction by William S. Burroughs. After its Amok Press edition went out of print, You Cant Win found popularity once again with the AK Press edition. Feral Houses new version will take this classic American narrative a lot further, including two remarkable nonfiction...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A rich biography of the legendary figure at the center of the centurys darkest secrets: an untold story of golden age Hollywood, modern Las Vegas, JFK-era scandal and international intrigue from Lee Server, the New York Times bestselling author of Ava Gardner: Love is Nothing A singular figure in the annals of the American underworld, Johnny Rossellis career flourished for an extraordinary fifty years, from the bloody years of bootlegging in the Roaring...
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