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Blood, Money, & Power exposes the secret, high-level conspiracy in Texas that led to President John F. Kennedy’s death and the succession of Lyndon B. Johnson as president in 1963. Attorney Barr McClellan, a former member of L.B.J.’s legal team, uses hundreds of newly released documents, including insider interviews, court papers, and the Warren Commission, to illuminate the maneuvers, payoffs, and power plays that revolved around the assassination of Kennedy and to expose L.B.J.’s involvement in the murder plot.

Fugitive Colors is a gripping debut novel of an artist's indomitable vengeance after World War II. Julian Klein, a young American artist, rebels against his religious upbringing and is eager for the artistic freedom of 1930s Paris. He flees Chicago only to find himself consumed by a world in which a paintbrush is far more lethal than a gun. An artist turned spy, Julian at the same time competes with jealous inferior artists who feverishly attempt to destroy those with true talent.

Serial Killer Couples: Bonded by Sexual Depravity, Abduction, and Murder chronicles the true crimes of sexually motivated serial killers who are intimates. In this latest true crime book from award-winning, best-selling criminologist R. Barri Flowers, nine gripping tales examine killer couples from America, England, and Canada whose murderous reigns of terror knows no end till they were brought to justice.

Many of us think about ghosts and ghost stories happening anywhere, but particularly in and around houses. But ghosts appear to be everywhere, and there are many reasons why they might appear too. This short ghost storybook is part of a trilogy series, based on actual, real-life personal stories. We are never alone, so to speak.

Jeune journaliste ambitieuse, June Roth se voit confier une mission délicate par Dan Mansfield, célèbre reporter d'investigation de Chicago, celle de retrouver un tableau volé par les nazis il y a 75 ans de cela. Ce dernier a promis à l'un de ses vieux amis de retrouver un tableau volé par les nazis : La Femme en feu, dernière toile du peintre expressionniste allemand Ernst Engel. En France, Margaux de Laurent, richissime héritière et galeriste de premier plan, a elle aussi ses raisons pour mettre la main sur l'œuvre, quel qu'en soit le prix.

Anna Pigeon, in her career as a National Park Service ranger, has had to deal with all manner of crimes and misdemeanors, but cyberbullying and stalking are new ones. The target is Elizabeth, the adopted teenage daughter of her friend, Heath Jarrod. Elizabeth is driven to despair by the disgusting rumors spreading online and bullying texts. Until one day Heath finds her daughter, Elizabeth, in the midst of an unsuccessful suicide attempt. And then she calls in the cavalry - her aunt Gwen and her friend, Anna Pigeon.

For decades, osteopathic physician Larry Nassar built a sterling reputation as the go-to doctor for America's Olympians while treating countless others at his office on Michigan State University's campus. It was largely within the high-pressure world of competitive gymnastics that Nassar exploited young girls, sexually assaulting hundreds of them under the guise of medical treatment. In Start by Believing, John Barr and Dan Murphy confront Nassar's acts, which represent the largest sex abuse scandal to impact the sporting world.

One case that stood out to Flowers for its sheer brutality as well as shocking aftermath was that of Karla Faye Tucker and Daniel Garrett, who used a pickaxe to hack to death two people. It began in the wee hours of June 13, 1983, in Houston, Texas, as lovers Tucker and Garrett broke into the apartment of Jerry Lynn Dean. By the time the couple left, Dean and his companion, Deborah Thornton, were dead following a vicious attack with a pickaxe and hammer.

In this frightening tale of dark fantasies, pornography, rape, and murder, British serial killers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley targeted children in the early 1960s - killing five and burying most of them in the Saddleworth Moor in Northern England - before being brought to justice. Included as a bonus is a complete true crime short, The Sunset Strip Killers, about serial killers Douglas Clark and Carol Mary Bundy, who targeted runaways and prostitutes in Hollywood, California in 1980 for rape, torture and murder.

Wie sieht das Leben aus, wenn man nicht mehr trinken darf? Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre erzählt davon, was bleibt, wenn man nicht mehr mitmachen kann. Und wie die anderen wirken, die weiter munter dabei sind. Selten ist so verdichtet darüber geschrieben worden, wie der Umgang mit der legalen Droge Alkohol die Menschen unterscheidet und das Leben prägt. Und dann führt Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre den Gegenversuch durch, indem er am Weltnichtrauchertag eben nicht aufhört, sondern seinen Tagesablauf als Raucher protokolliert, von der ersten Zigarette im Stehcafé über diverse Schreibtischzigaretten, Spazierganglungenzüge bis zur letzten spätabends auf dem Balkon.

Die Ausgangssituation ist klassisch: Der Ich-Erzähler, gerade Anfang zwanzig, ist soeben von seiner Freundin verlassen worden; nach vierjähriger Beziehung nun per Fax der Schlussstrich. Ende, aus, vorbei. Natürlich ist der Verlassene im Moment des Aus so verliebt wie in all den Jahren nicht. Gebührend wird der Verflossenen hinterhergetrauert: Er ruft sie an, legt auf, ruft wieder an, geht joggen, sucht trinkend nach schnellem Ersatz, um doch nur wieder zurückzufallen, auf sie, auf sich und auf: OASIS.

Martin Suter (Linda Zervakis) und Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre (Caren Miosga) unterhalten sich über: Badehosen, Glitzer, Äähm, Hochzeiten, LSD, Teufel, Gott, Madonna, Arbeit, Ibiza, Kochen, Rechnungen, Siri, Fotos, Mundharmonika, Geldscheine, Verliebtheit, Wiedersehen. Den Schweizer Songtext im Kapitel "Arbeit" liest Stephan Eicher. Die Mundharmonika im Abspann spielt Martin Suter.

"Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre stand auf Platz eins der Bestseller-Liste, seine Lesereise war fast durchweg ausverkauft. Er, ein Ex-Kokainjunkie und Essgestörter, wurde schwer gefeiert - und das zu Recht. Er hat mit seinem Buch über sein Leben als Süchtiger viel riskiert, er hat sich selbst zum Zentrum einer Erzählung erhoben, die eigentlich ein Entwicklungsroman unserer Zeit ist und zugleich eine furios geschriebene Krankenakte... Ein Sprung ins Nichts - der sein Publikum bezauberte."

Dom ofrece un espectáculo erótico, una experiencia orgiástica en la que algunos espectadores son invitados a subir al escenario y participar en el show. Esta dominadora posee una intuición sobrenatural y este talento le permite descubrir los fetiches de los demás. En las tribunas del teatro, la tensión sexual es palpable, pero ella los controla a todos. Ian, un hombre distinguido, se interesa por la función. Este inversor no parece darse cuenta de a quién se enfrenta... ¿Cuál de estos dos depredadores dominará al otro?

La hermosa burguesa Mar, gracias a su silueta espigada y a unas prendas amplias, se hace pasar fácilmente por un hombre para no llamar la atención en las calles de Barcelona. Para ella, es la única manera de trabajar y utilizar su inteligencia en el siglo XVII. Su compañero, Naya, de músculos ahusados y dotado de un rostro de rasgos cincelados, no ha recibido la educación de Mar, pero es un ladrón endiabladamente astuto. ¿Qué es esa sensación que los inflama por el teatro? La adrenalina parece abrasar sus corazones y sus cuerpos, y la noche les reserva muchas emociones más...

It's 12 October 1984. An IRA bomb blows apart the Grand Hotel in Brighton. Miraculously, Margaret Thatcher survives. In small-town Scotland, eight-year-old Damian Barr watches in horror as his mum rips her wedding ring off and packs their bags. He knows he, too, must survive. Damian, his sister and his Catholic mum move in with her sinister new boyfriend while his Protestant dad shacks up with the glamorous Mary the Canary. Divided by sectarian suspicion, the community is held together by the sprawling Ravenscraig Steelworks.

Crimson Wilkinson may have narrowly escaped destruction at the hands of Delilah, but the cost of that escape proves to be a hefty one. As the first Amarant vampire in centuries, she is struggling with controlling both her demanding thirst and her insurmountable new powers. If that weren't enough, the Salem coven is without a leader, and Crimson owes them greatly. If she does not step up as their new leader, they may join her growing enemies and crush her. The stress of it all begins to go to her head, and she fears she is losing her mind.

In this absorbing tale of a sports legend, infidelity, jealousy, money, and murder, former NFL and college star quarterback Steve McNair and his attractive young lover Sahel Kazemi embark on a dangerous affair in Nashville that leaves both dead.

The gripping tale chronicles the lives of Britain's most infamous husband and wife serial killers couple. Over the course of two decades, Fred and Rosemary West murdered more than a dozen young females. Most of the murders were sexually motivated and took place at the couple's house of horrors on 25 Cromwell Street in Gloucester, in South West England. Only when the killers were brought to justice did their murderous reign of rape, torture, bondage, and terror come to an end.

A marriage made in hell.... Barely five feet tall, sweet and innocent looking, Charlene Gallego used all of her charms to beguile pretty teenage girls and young women into the back of a van, where her lethal husband, Gerald, lay waiting. A killer couple bound together by secrets, lies, and sex slave fantasies... Married multiple times and still in his early 30s, Gerald Gallego found the perfect companion in Charlene. Over a grisly period of twenty-six months, their bloody and brutal rampage of kidnapping, rape, and murder spanned three states and claimed 11 lives.