Confessions of a Yakuza: A Life in Japan's Underworld

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Reducere. As M.E. Thomas says of her fellow sociopaths, we are your neighbors, co-workers, and quite possibly the people closest to you: lovers, family, frie...

A compelling, extraordinary memoir into life as a diagnosed sociopath.

Reducere. From Pulitzer Prize winner Teresa Carpenter comes the captivating true-crime story of a Mafia moll--"the female counterpart of the pseudonymous Hen...

Warm, funny and perceptive, brimming with wisdom and insight, My Life in Agony is a meditation on the subjects that tend to concern and confuse us ...

Reducere. For twenty years Josie Washburn lived and worked in houses of prostitution. She spent the last twelve as the madam of a moderately fancy brothel in...

Reducere. Donald Hall's remarkable life in poetry -- a career capped by his appointment as U.S. poet laureate in 2006 -- comes alive in this richly detailed,...

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The real-life confession of an actual drug lord - tells the full, uncensored story of what it takes to survive a life of crime.Publisher: Welbeck P...

Reducere. In 1916, at age fifteen, Norma Wallace arrived in New Orleans. Sexy and shrewd, she quickly went from streetwalker to madam and by 1920 had opened ...

Reducere. After declaring on 60 Minutes her desire to never have children, Marcia Drut-Davis was fired from her teaching job and began receiving death threat...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Matthew Randazzo V.Author: Frenchy BrouilletteWiseguys called him "the Keith Richards of the American Mafia" and JFK hero J...

An account of a life lived between our world and a shadowy underworld of criminals, a life lived under the radar of the law, a life lived in death....

What can century-old advice columns tell us about the Internet today? This book reveals the little-known history of advice columns in American news...

PRAISE FOR A LIFE IN BALANCE As you read his moving story-and the stories of many other inspiring individuals presented in these pages-you will gro...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Felix SaltenIllustration(s): 11 b/w illus.Translator: Jack ZipesNumber of pages: 192Publication dat...

'A remarkable and deeply moving book' Henry Marsh, bestselling author of Do No Harm 'A breathtaking, extraordinary work of non-fiction' Times Liter...

DescriptionFrom the highly creative teams of Sideshow Collectibles and Insight Comics comes the next graphic novel installment of the Court of the ...

Tandy Angel is a whip-smart prodigy and a magnificently wealthy heiress. She's got secrets- some even she doesn't understand.She's damaged, the pro...

In July 1962 Brian Smith joined British European Airways (BEA) as a steward. In 1991 he retired as a Senior Training Captain with British Airways. ...

Reducere. The story of a famous abstract painter at the end of her life--her family, her art, and the long-buried secrets that won't stay hidden for much lon...

A Little Book of Impressions describes life behind the mirror, probe and drill. Gerald Feaver has written a memoir of his life as a dentist stretch...

Reducere. A renowned journalist for London's The Times and the author of People Who Eat Darkness, Richard Lloyd Parry delivers the definitive account of the ...

World-renowned Christian philosopher. Beloved professor. Author of the classic Lament for a Son. Nicholas Wolterstorff is all of these and more. Hi...

DescriptionIn this remarkable sequel to his critically acclaimed memoir Watching the Door, Irish journalist Kevin Myers reflects on his roller-coas...

Reducere. WINNER - PEOPLE'S BOOK PRIZE 2017This updated edition contains additional material on the Hillsborough disaster.Detective Inspector Richard Venable...

Reducere. Some flowers bloom only in the dark...In the land of the dead, Queen Hades' word is law. Hades gets what she wants-always-and what she wants is a c...

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DescriptionCondemned to burn in the eighth circle of Dante's Hell, Odysseus, legendary thief and liar of Homer's Odyssey and Iliad, decides he is g...

Reducere. DescriptionThe eighties were my formative years, and while other teenagers were gyrating to rock'n'roll, we were praying for revival. We were takin...

The incredible story of Britain's female gangsters from the seventeenth century to the present day.Publisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s): Caitl...

Arthur Barrow shares stories of his life as a performer, composer, studio musician, and producer. He vividly describes his work with a wide range o...

Reducere. "Celebrate Winter" is a collection of entertaining stories by Olympic biathlete and U. S Ski Team member, John Morton, sharing insights and reflect...

Sir Nigel Thompson walked to school around the bomb craters of the London Blitz-it made him want to build things, rather than knock them down. Thom...

Reducere. More True Stories from EMS and the ERMore Confessions shares the raw and honest feelings of emergency service professionals through true 'story beh...

Reducere. This true story of an ex-Marine who fought crime as an undercover cop, a narcotics agent, and finally a federal prosecutor spans a decade of crime ...

Reducere. "Long, thin, and cool as hell" was how parasitologist Thomas Platt described the new genus and species of trematode (Baracktrema obamai) he named i...

Reducere. This hilarious book confronts every aspect of a flight attendant's absurd world--from the endless array of passenger demands, to the secret languag...

On the night Malcolm and Maud Angel are murdered, their daughter, Tandy, knows just three things: 1. As she uncovers haunting secrets and slowly be...

Description"A fascinating look at some fascinating people who show how democracy advances hand in hand with crime in Japan."--Mario Puzo In this un...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

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Ride in the back of the ambulance with Sherry Lynn Jones Share the innermost feelings of emergency services workers as they encounter trauma, trage...

An insightful, inspirational, amusing and honest guide to relationships for the modern single Christian woman.