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Released: May 30, 2013
"People are willing to do anything about Latin America other than read about it, or so it's been said. This is one book about Latin America that merits attention."
Mexico-born U.S. journalist Corchado frames a portrait of a torn nation within an account of escaping his own murder.
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Released: June 11, 2013
"Engrossing family history and an appealingly salacious tale, related in a bemused tone that does not hide the social ugliness and personal heartbreak underneath."
Gritty memoir with unusual connections to the criminal underworld, the legal world and Hollywood.
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Released: June 18, 2013
"A riveting, highly readable tale of terror in the skies."
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Released: July 2, 2013
"A well-researched, clearly written biography of a strange character."
Longtime magazine journalist Kobel (
Silent Movies: The Birth of Film and the Triumph of Movie Culture, 2007) documents the controversial life and death of Professor John Buettner-Janusch (1924-1992), the world's expert on lemurs and a man so out of control that he served two prison terms for two separate crimes.
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Released: July 2, 2013
"It's often difficult--if not downright overwhelming--to keep track of the many players in this story, but aficionados of Mafia history and those concerned with FBI corruption will find this thorough investigation satisfying."
ABC news correspondent Lance (
Triple Cross: How bin Laden's Master Spy Penetrated the CIA, the Green Berets, and the FBI, 2009) delivers an exhaustive examination into the life and crimes of Mafia capo Gregory Scarpa Sr. and his questionable decadeslong relationship with the FBI.
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Released: July 9, 2013
"An important examination of the socioeconomic and cultural forces that can shape a woman's entry into prostitution."
In his debut,
New York magazine contributor Kolker delves into the disappearances and murders of five women, all working as escorts in the New York metropolitan area.
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Released: Aug. 6, 2013
"Will satisfy true-crime readers interested in the grimy realities behind Mafia glamour and undercover work."
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Released: Aug. 13, 2013
"A gossipy, character-driven saga suggesting that the spoiled rich are their own worst enemies."
A prolific biographer of the rich and infamous, Oppenheimer (
Madoff with the Money, 2009, etc.) digs into five generations of the Johnson family, "the most dysfunctional family in the Fortune 500."
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Released: Sept. 3, 2013
"Fiction or not, a decent book, easily read and worth it for the ending. "
James Willoughby Carnac admits in his autobiography that he is Jack the Ripper; but it is the curator of the Montacute TV, Radio, and Toy Museum in Somerset, Alan Hicken, who has brought the book to light.
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