The Adventures of a Victorian Con Woman: The Life and Crimes of Mrs Gordon Baillie, Hardcover - Mick Davis

The story of Mrs. Gordon Baillie is stranger than anything to be met with in the field of fiction.Mrs. Gordon Baillie, known throughout her life as...

Reducere. Louis Ferrante began hijacking delivery trucks at age seventeen, and New York's infamous Gambino crime family took notice. By twenty-one, Ferrante'...

'Catch Me If You Can' meets 'The Big Short' - the charming sociopath financier who ran away with millions.

An entertaining memoir from Mackness, an Essex bad girl who did time in jail but turned her life around to become a successful farmer. After leavin...

The chilling official true story of Fred West's horrific lives and crimes - with exclusive access to his own autobiography, diaries, videotapes and...

An enthralling account of infamous Irish criminal Gerry Hutch.Illustrations: 1x16pp colour plates

An enthralling account of infamous Irish criminal Gerry Hutch.Illustrations: 1x16pp colour plates

On the 100th anniversary of The Volstead Act taking effect comes the epic, definitive story of the man who cracked the Prohibition system and helpe...

Reducere. Behind a facade of Midwestern normalcy, Dennis Rader hid a life of bloodlust, sadism, and murder beyond imagining. The upstanding family man, Scout...

In 1855, New York City was scandalized by one of the most infamous murders in its history, that of gang leader Bill "the Butcher" Poole, the feared...

Description"The fantastic story of George Remus makes the rest of the 'Roaring Twenties' look like the 'Boring Twenties' in comparison. It's all he...

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. *Includes pictures *Includes Bundy's own quotes about his life and crimes *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includ...

Reducere. Donald Sutherland Swanson was born in the remote far north of Scotland, leaving for London in 1867 at the age of 19 and initially working as a City...

Reducere. Donald Sutherland Swanson was born in the remote far north of Scotland, leaving for London in 1867 at the age of 19 and initially working as a City...

Reducere. Wave Woman is the untold story of an adventurer whose zest for life and learning kept her alive for ninety-eight years. Betty Pembroke Heldreich Wi...

Reducere. Philosophy defines the dynamic and hard-fought life of Betty Pembroke Heldreich who believed that anything exciting was worth trying at least once....

Reducere. The Adventures of Opie the Opossum: Search for a Home is the third book in the series for authors Robert D. Gordon and Heather M. Perry. This third...

The social and economic changes of Queen Victoria's era along with the experiences of such eminent Victorians as Florence Nightingale and Isambard ...

Reducere. Bob the Bat is very loosely based on true tales of bats trying to visit the author's house. It is the story of one bat who decided to leave his cou...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book narrates the story of Gracie. A real dog we adopted when she was 8 years old. Her online profile said she was not good with ot...

Reducere. Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands (1857) is one of the earliest autobiographies of a mixed-race woman. In her autobiography, Seaco...

Contributor(s): Author: Therese Anne FowlerThe riveting novel of iron-willed Alva Vanderbilt and her illustrious family as they rule Gilded-Age New...

A riveting look behind the gates of the house of Astor as a famous family falls apart in public The fate of Brooke Astor, the endearing philanthrop...

Reducere. "Behind the Scenes" is both a slave narrative and a portrait of the First Family, especially Mary Todd Lincoln, and is considered controversial for...

Reducere. A perfect gift for the true crime buff in your life, this book contains more than 300 absorbing stories about true crime. You'll find stories both ...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Victorian Era, then keep reading...When Queen Victoria stepped onto the throne of Great Brit...

This is the second book in the Princess of the Sea series, about the adventures of Miranda, the mermaid, and her friends. Captain James Sylvester P...

For those who don't know her, she's just a white sandstone statue. Dressed in traditional regional clothing, she clutches a handkerchief in her rig...

Reducere. ``If Garfield ever lost weight, I'd lose my job security.``-Jim Davis When the world's most famous feline hits the three-decade milestone it's time...

Born to a mother who doesn't want her, Caroline lives in a world that doesn't understand her and she's fuelled by anger and hatred. She dreams of a...

Daniel Cone's descendants can be grateful that this Scottish prisoner of the English Civil War became a servant in the most prominent family of ear...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: MR Benjamin James BaillieIn 865 AD a huge Viking army appeared out of the mists of the North Sea from Scandinavia and lande...

Reducere. The Adventures of a Swordsman: First Volume relates the story full of mystery and adventure of a bandit who fights for justice, who faces the diffi...

DescriptionIn his eulogy of saxophonist Johnny Hodges (1907-70), Duke Ellington ended with the words, "Never the world's most highly animated showm...

Reducere. Nancy Prince is an African American woman who writes about her personal and professional life, including her marriage and travels abroad to Russia ...

Reducere. First published in 1937, this woodworking classic reveals a fascinating look into the social structure of a 19th-century English town and a carpent...

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 ...

As one of the earliest literary forms of colonial America, the Indian captivity narrative is important not only in the history of American letters ...

A lifelong smasher of glass-ceilings, who took as her motto 'women are equal to everything', her landmark rulings in areas including domestic viole...

Publisher: Vintage PublishingAuthor(s): Lady HaleNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 195 x 25Cover type: Paperback / softba...

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 ...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Gordon S. DicksonIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 142Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 127 x 201 ...

Reducere. In Bloody Crimes, James L. Swanson--the Edgar(R) Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Manhunt--brings to life two epic events of the...

Reducere. Meet Bubbles the Travelling Cat, as he journeys around the world looking for adventure and excitement.One fateful day, Bubbles introduces Suzi, his...

She longed for adventure. So she left her home and ventured out into the wide world. The pleasures and perils she met proved plentiful: marauding p...

Reducere. From the Forward: Octavia Walton LeVert came from good stock. Her grandfather signed the Declaration of Independence. This multi-talented lady was ...

Reducere. Nineteenth-century Britain was then the world's most prosperous nation, yet Victorians would bury meat in earth and wring sheets out in boiling wat...

Reducere. Becoming Eichmann, the first account of Eichmann's life to appear in over forty years, reveals a surprising portrait of the man once seen as epitom...