Smalltime. A Story of My Family and the Mob, Paperback - Russell Shorto

Family secrets emerge as a best-selling author dives into the history of the mob in small-town AmericaPublisher: WW Norton & CoAuthor(s): Russell S...

Best-selling author Russell Shorto, praised for his incisive works of narrative history, never thought to write about his own past. He grew up know...

DescriptionAt a time when America's founding principles are being debated as never before, Russell Shorto looks back to the era in which those prin...

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Reducere. In this world you come in on your feet but you leave out in a coffin.The Milano Family is known to be notorious, and Semaj has witnessed it firstha...

As seen on the incredible Channel 4 documentary, My Family and the Galapagos.

Accompanying the hit TV series, My Family and the Galapagos.

Michael Rosen embarks on a journey into the truth behind the fate of his relatives who disappeared during the Second World War, interspersing this ...

From the 1970s through the mid-1980s, the Chicago Outfit dominated organized crime in Las Vegas. Unreported revenue, known as the -skim, - from Out...

Two women, two daughters, two families whose lives will be changed forever...

Publisher: Walker Books LtdAuthor(s): Michael RosenNumber of pages: 144Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 14Cover type: Paperback / soft...

"It is no accident that the places in the world where we see the most instability are those in which the rights of women and girls are denied. Isha...

I grew up in the Old Colony housing project in South Boston and became partners with James "Whitey" Bulger, who I always called Jimmy.Jimmy and I, ...

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Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Alix SharkeyNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 28Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera...

Reducere. A Hero Lives in My Family: A Story for Kids of First Responders - First Responders are Heroes Helping Heroes include: police officers, emergency me...

Publisher: Maria Dismondy IncorporatedAuthor(s): Cindy L. RodriguezIllustration(s): 32 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 32Publication dat...

The inspiring, dramatic, and heartwarming true account of an escaped convict and his wife of thirty-five plus years who never knew his secret, whic...

Ten years ago, Helen Naylor discovered that her mother, Elinor, had been faking debilitating illnesses for thirty years. Everything Helen knew abou...

Household Names is all about the iconic Russell Hobbs automatic kettles of the 1950s and 60s and the people who invented, designed and made them, s...

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Reducere. Herein is the unexpurgated first-person narrative of nineteen-year-old Skyler Rampike, the only surviving child of an infamous American family dest...

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Reducere. In this remarkable memoir, a harrowing true story of family, violence, guilt and atonement, a journalist reflects on his own journey to come to ter...

10 year old twins Ivy and Ash persuade their dad, an 'experimental' chef, to move to Grave Grange, a crumbling-down higgledy-piggeldy hotel, but de...

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A memoir of a fundamentalist Muslim childhood and of redefining faith, belonging and family in adulthoodPublisher: Oneworld PublicationsAuthor(s): ...

Life for Judith Summers and her son Joshua seemed relentlessly bleak. Then George bounced into their lives. A loving Cavalier King Charles Spaniel ...

'Each time my mother laid a finger on me... it was another step into the jaws of hell. Her abuse, more so than any other, destroyed me. It was the ...