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"Sarah's story begins as she's researching what she believes will be a book about her high school philosophy teacher, a charismatic instructor who taught her and her classmates to question everything -- in the end, even the reality of historical atrocities. As she digs into the effects of his teachings, her life takes a turn into the fantastical when her wife, Marta, is notified that she's been investigated for sexual misconduct at the university...
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Do you believe in ghosts? Enter the realm of the paranormal with Kelly Milner Halls. Explore what ghosts are, where they're found, and meet some famous ghost busters. Check out the high-tech equipment modern ghost hunters use, and see their most convincing evidence that ghosts are real. Finally,take a look at a few famous hoaxes.
Examines ghost culture and myths, discussing what a ghost may appear as, the places they are reported to appear, people...
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Due to today's nonstop news cycle and the omnipresence of the internet, the search for facts can be more difficult than ever. A rumor or untruth can be shared at the touch of a button. This volume analyzes the various types of hoaxes that appear online and in the news, providing readers with a comprehensive set of tools to discover whether or not a story, image, or quotation is true. Hoaxes covered range from the historical Piltdown Man to the recent...
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The McNeil family has always been professional hoaxers -- tricking bystanders into believing they're seeing legendary creatures like Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster. Unlike the rest of his family, twelve-year-old Grayson hates hoaxing and wants nothing to do with the business -- even when the McNeils land a huge job and must pull off four sea monster hoaxes in a week. But when things go disastrously wrong and Dad and Gramps go missing, Grayson and...
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Officer McCrea is starting his eighth year of service as a South Dakota Game Warden. His status as a naïve, rookie officer is in the distant past. He has matured professionally and has taken on additional, high-liability endeavors such as certified firearms instructor, head range master, and use of force expert. After just eight years he is bestowed with a tremendous professional honor: 1991 Wildlife Officer of the Year. He received this highest...
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Get the Summary of Gregg Olsen's American Mother in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "American Mother" by Gregg Olsen recounts the tragic death of Sue Snow, found unresponsive by her daughter Hayley on June 11, 1986, and later declared brain-dead. Sue's life, marked by her rise to bank vice president, marriage to Connie Snow, and their daughters Exa and Hayley, is detailed alongside her separation, infidelities,...
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Warden McCrea spent 23 years faithfully serving the citizens of South Dakota as a state game warden. His career, which spanned from 1983-2006, started in the Moody County Warden District in the small town of Flandreau. What made the Moody County Warden District so challenging is that prior to Warden McCrea's arrival, the district had been without a game warden for 25 years. His first serious challenge was overcoming the many vicious rumors started...
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This book is in two parts. Part I is a researched account of cultural, historical, and ecological elements of south Louisiana, focusing on selected institutional and geologic elements that shape lives and governments. The Mississippi river and offshore oil and gas development feature largely in this narration, in lives and businesses and economics. This includes a narration of notable events in coastal Louisiana derived from public media, personal...
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The 2016 elections. Trump becomes possibly the most influential person in all of America. What he does with that power, though, twists the ideals of American freedom and democracy. Behind closed doors, President Trump plots to sway the lives of the American people, or possibly even further. The F.B.I., however, has other plans to reclaim America and return it to its constitutional heritage.
Who will become victorious in the chase for an entire nation,...
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The New York Times says the Knockout Game is a lie. USA Today says it is a myth, a product of white fear. This book settles that once and for all. This is the most complete collection of Knockout Game links and videos and stories ever assembled. "Knockout Game a Lie?" uses hundreds of links to videos and stories that provide the compelling answer: "Aww, hell no!" It also contains a link to a video with hundreds of examples. Created by the author of...
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Would you buy a box that printed money, or accept an unseen acre of land because it was being given away? Would you turn down a quick buck for something just a smidge outside the law––or refuse that super-sized TV because it fell off the back of a truck? Since civilization first spilled a trickle of coins through man's fingers and placed a value on objects, rapacious rogues have been eager to pick a pocket through swindles, tricks and cons––and...
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A new look at some gruesome and riveting murders. In this grisly and gripping collection of essays-some revised and updated, some never before published, but all new to American audiences-prize-winning English crime historian Jonathan Goodman turns his attention to a variety of British and American crimes from the 1820s to the 1980s, some high profile and others not. With the author as detective, each of Goodman's essays examines a particularly notorious...
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Leslie "Ike" Atkinson is one of U. S. history's most original gangsters. According to law enforcement sources, he and his gang smuggled, by conservative estimates, 1,000 pounds of heroin annually from Bangkok, Thailand, to U. S. military bases during their period of operation from 1968 to 1975. The Bangkok Connection: Trafficking Heroin from Asia to the USA chronicles the story of Atkinson, a charismatic former U. S. army master sergeant, career smuggler,...
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Get the Summary of Becca Day's All Her Little Lies in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. In "All Her Little Lies" by Becca Day, Alex Forrester and Cynthia Carmichael's friendship is tested by a role reversal when Cynthia inherits her mother's farm, making Alex her employee. Tensions rise over concerns for Cynthia's children, Hannah and Bradley, and Hannah's relationship with Alex's son, Daniel. After a heated conversation,...
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This is the story of how a family can be destroyed by a chain of events that begin when one member puts her trust in a conman. At the beginning of the 21st century, the de Védrines were an ancient aristocratic Bordeaux family, educated and socially established. From the outside they had everything they could have wished for – wealth, love, friends, education and family. But the very closeness and trust they had with each other ended up splitting...
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Orville Nix: The Missing JFK Assassination Film is not the typical JFK Assassination book. This book does not attempt to answer "who" killed JFK but why we should question the actions of the time and why the truth was withheld from the people. Written in a narrative style, the book shares the story of Orville Nix and how he was intimidated yet remained adamant to what he witnessed that horrific day. His camera original film that shows the grassy knoll...
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A book of mystery and intrigue. The central character in this story, Mitch Conner, is starting a new life after moving from the fast pace and complex city of Atlanta to the serenity and relaxed atmosphere of a small town. Conner's adopted new home is nestled in the Blue Ridge mountains of Western Carolina. While out walking in the forests surrounding his rustic cabin one day, he stumbles on human remains. And the unplanned circumstances surrounding...
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In diesem Buch berichtet der Autor, wie die Geschichte der Auto-da-fés begann und welches Ausmaß die Ketzerverfolgungen in England, Spanien und weltweit angenommen hatte. Beigefügt ist ein Auszug aus dem Gesetzbuch der neuen Heiligen Inquisition, beschrieben werden die Abläufe der Inquisitionstribunale und das Prozessverfahren. Einige Anmerkungen zu den großen Inquisitoren wie Torquemada, Diego Deza und Alonso Manriquez dürfen nicht fehlen und...
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The definitive account of audacious con woman Cassie Chadwick, the Carnegie Imposter
Queen of the Con tells the true story of Cassie Chadwick, a successful swindler and "one of the top 10 imposters of all time," according to Timemagazine. Born Betsy Bigley in 1857 in Canada, she first operated as Madame Devere, a European clairvoyant, and in 1890 was arrested for defrauding a Toledo bank of $20,000. In the mid-1890s, while working as a madam in Cleveland,...
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