Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=3295&N=3+6585&No=60 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667996 This is a recounting of the Meredith Kercher case, from her murder to the acquittal of Raffaele Sollecito and Amanda Knox. Shortly after 12:30 p.m. on November 2, 2007, Italian police were called to the Perugia home of twenty-one-year-old British student Meredith Kercher. They found her body on the floor under a beige quilt. Her throat had been cut. Based on four years of reporting and access to the complete case files, and hundreds of first hand interviews, this book takes readers on a journey behind the scenes of the investigation, as the author the drama of the trials and appeal hearings he lived through. Four days later, the prosecutor jailed Merediths roommate, American student Amanda Knox, and Raffaele Sollecito, her Italian boyfriend. He also jailed Rudy Guede, an Ivory Coast drifter. Four years later Knox and Sollecito were acquitted amid chaotic scenes in front of the worlds media. Including exclusive interviews with Merediths friends and other key sources, this book reveals how the Italian dream turned into a nightmare. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1624854 This biography of celebrity gangster Mickey Cohen digs past the sensational headlines to deliver a remarkable story of a man who captivated, corrupted, and terrorized Los Angeles for a generation. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1657334 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1711595 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1575582 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1615566 Historian and China expert Paul French uncovers the truth behind the notorious murder of Pamela Werner, and offers a rare glimpse of the last days of colonial Peking. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712074 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1622926 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1511108 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1598006 From a hunchbacked dwarf to a paranoid poet assassin, a history of Victorian England as seen through the numerous assassination attempts on Queen Victoria. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1677830 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668690 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712903 Lucie Blackman--tall, blond, twenty-one years old--stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000 and disappeared. The following winter, her remains were found buried in a seaside cave. The seven months in between had seen a massive search for the missing girl involving Japanese policemen, British private detectives, and Lucies desperate but bitterly divided parents. Richard Lloyd Parry, an award-winning foreign correspondent, followed the case from the beginning. Over the course of a decade, he traveled to four continents to interview those connected with the story, assiduously followed the court proceedings, and won unique access to the Japanese detectives who investigated the case. Ultimately he earned the respect of the victims family and delved deep into the mind and background of the man accused of the crime--Joji Obara, described by the judge as unprecedented and extremely evil. The result is a book at once thrilling and revelatory. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668561 Provides an in-depth account of the 2003 bank robbery plot that resulted in the death of innocent pizza delivery driver. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687368 A full decade before J. Edgar Hoovers FBI even acknowledged the existence of the Mafia, the Los Angeles Police Department launched the real-life Gangster Squad - eight men who met covertly and slept with Tommy guns while combating what city fathers saw as an invasion of undesirables. But for two cops, Sgt. Jack OMara and Sgt. Jerry Wooters, all that mattered was nailing one strutting little gangster named Mickey Cohen. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1681558 Go behind the scenes with forensic anthropologists and learn about techniques used by criminal investigators: how they locate a body, how they carefully uncover and record evidence, and how the unique characteristics of each body bear silent witnees to age, sex, and the time and manner of death. Includes true crime case studies. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668320 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668275 Early on the morning of February 17, 1970, in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, a Green Beret doctor named Jeffrey MacDonald called the police for help. When the officers arrived at his home they found the bloody and battered bodies of MacDonalds pregnant wife and two young daughters. Errol Morris reopens a famous closed case and reveals that, forty years after the murder of MacDonalds family, they still have no proof of his guilt. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668661 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1576506 In the summer of 1987, Johnny Boone set out to grow and harvest one of the greatest outdoor marijuana crops in modern times. By doing so, he set into motion a series of events that defined him and his associates as the largest homegrown marijuana syndicate in American history, also known as The Cornbread Mafia. The author, whose relationship with Johnny Boone, currently a federal fugitive, made him the first journalist subpoenaed under the Obama administration, takes readers back to the 1970s and 80s and the clash between federal and local law enforcement and a band of Kentucky farmers with moonshine and pride in their bloodlines. By 1989, the task force assigned to take down men like Johnny Boone arrested 69 men and one woman from busts on 29 farms in 10 states, and seizing 182 tons of pot. Of the 70 individuals arrested, zero talked. The who, what, when, where, why and how of it all, is a tale of Mafia-style storylines emanating from the Bluegrass state, and populated by Vietnam veteran and weed-loving characters caught up in violence and heart-breaking altruism. It is accompanied by a soundtrack of Southern rock-and-roll and rhythm-and-blues, and it is told in action-packed, colorful, and riveting detail. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1697985 When prison inmate Robert Reldans aunt died and left him an $8.9 million trust fund, Arthur and Barbara Reeve, parents of murder victim Susan Reeve, acted to deprive Reldan of the funds that could gain him freedom on parole. The Reeves ultimately got an unheard of $10 million judgment against their daughters killer, effectively stripping the man known as Americas richest inmate. Soon after Susans murder, the Reeves set up a scholarship fund in her name and the killers money is currently used in that fund which helps to educate young men and women. The Charmer embraces the hunt to bring Susans killer to justice and then the chase of a lifetime by one family determined to give their slain daughter a voice, decades after she was silenced. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668100 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1681670 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668951 Presents the story of Gary Michael Hilton, a former Green Beret paratrooper and expert outdoorsman with a penchant for violence and depravity, who was convicted of murdering two young women and suspected of killing many others. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1675217 Examines changes in Mexicos political policies under Felipe Caldern, and explores the issue of drug trafficking in Mexico. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667680 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668172 Describes the origins and history of the Cosa Nostra, beginning in 1863 Sicily and moving to Prohibition Era America, discussing the formation of the mafia families and the most famous legendary criminals. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1559756 An examination of the abuse that led to the murder of three-year-old Karly Sheehan reveals the tendency of people to disregard or keep silent about predatory behavior, and brings to light many instances in which the abuse could have been stopped. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1623963 A harrowing narrative of murder and secrets, revenge and heroism in the City of Angels. Lieberman chronicles the true story of the secretive police unit that waged an anything-goes war to drive Mickey Cohen and other hoodlums from Los Angeles after WWII. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1674924 A gripping memoir from Amanda Knoxs Italian ex-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, chronicling his relationship with Amanda and the four years they spent in an Italian prison for a crime they did not commit. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667676 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694444 Robert Zorns meticulous and authoritative account of the Lindbergh kidnapping reveals, for the first time, the true story behind the crime. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667980 The Mob was the biggest, richest business in America--too dangerous and too deadly to fail. Until it was destroyed from within by drugs, greed, and the decline of its traditional Crime Family values. And by guys like Sal Polisi. Born in Brooklyn, Polisi was raised on a family legacy as a member of the Colombos, one of the New York Mobs feared Five Families, and came of age when the Mafia was at the height of its vast wealth and power. He ran an after-hours gambling den, The Sinatra Club, a hangout for up-and-coming mobsters like the three wiseguys immortalized in Martin Scorseses GoodFellas. For Polisi, the thrills of robbing banks, hijacking trucks, pulling daring heists--and getting away with it all, thanks to corrupt cops--were fleeting. When he was busted for drug trafficking, and already sickened by the bloodbath that engulfed the Mob as it teetered toward extinction, he flipped and became one of a breed he had loathed all his life--a rat. Here, Polisi paints a never-before-seen picture of the inner workings of a once extensive and secret underworld that, thanks to guys like him, no longer exists.-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667846 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1654229 Explores the origins and personal life of the notorious Colombian druglord and describes how Colombian society and the cocaine trade turned a man who loved his family into a criminal who profited from death. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1423038 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1685759 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1674920 Lucie Blackman--tall, blond, twenty-one years old--stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000 and disappeared. The following winter, her remains were found buried in a seaside cave. The seven months in between had seen a massive search for the missing girl involving Japanese policemen, British private detectives, and Lucies desperate but bitterly divided parents. Richard Lloyd Parry, an award-winning foreign correspondent, followed the case from the beginning. Over the course of a decade, he traveled to four continents to interview those connected with the story, assiduously followed the court proceedings, and won unique access to the Japanese detectives who investigated the case. Ultimately he earned the respect of the victims family and delved deep into the mind and background of the man accused of the crime--Joji Obara, described by the judge as unprecedented and extremely evil. The result is a book at once thrilling and revelatory. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667658 The true story of the secretive police unit that waged an anything-goes war to drive Mickey Cohen and other hoodlums from Los Angeles after WWII. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667990 Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker and former private detective Errol Morris examines the nature of evidence and proof in the infamous Jeffrey MacDonald murder case. In 1979 MacDonald was convicted of the brutal 1970 murder of his wife and two children, and remains in prison today. Since then a number of bestselling books, including Joe McGinnisss Fatal Vision, and a blockbuster television miniseries have attempted to solve and explain the MacDonald case. Here, Morris, who has been investigating the case for nearly two decades, reveals that almost everything we know about it is ultimately flawed, and an innocent man may be behind bars. In a reinvention of the true-crime thriller, Morris looks behind the haze of myth. Drawing on court transcripts, lab reports, and original interviews, he brings a complete forty-year history back to life and allows the reader to explore the case as a detective might by confronting the evidence as if for the first time.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1613359 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1398310 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668896 Traces the story of The Peppermint Lounge, the influential 1960s Manhattan nightspot and mobster hangout, detailing how the clubs introduction of rock-and-roll music attracted rebel youths and celebrity patrons. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667983 Timothy Masters was a lonely, troubled teenager with a penchant for gory artwork when he first saw Peggy Lee Hettrick, her dead, mutilated body nearly frozen in the early morning of Fort Collins, Colorado. Not believing it could really be a dead body, thinking he was the victim of yet another prank by his abusive classmates, the fifteen-year-old didnt go to the police, but they came to him. So began a decade-long investigation led by a relentless detective who was sure that Masters was the killer, even without a shred of physical evidence. Against all reason, a conspiracy of silence and circumstantial evidence eventually put Masters behind bars. Only the determination of a lone investigator who believed the young man was innocent would reveal the shocking truth, and free Masters after ten years in prison. This is the compelling true story of one life ended in blood and murder, one life ruined by coincidence and prejudice, and justice long denied but finally found.--Publishers description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1681475 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1674791 Examines the political life of former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, including how he was elected, the corruption within his office, and the evidence presented during his federal trial that resulted in a fourteen year prison term. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1422994 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1478656 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1629003 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1739419 In 1954, in a remote mountain village in South America, a four-year-old girl was abducted, and then abandoned deep in the jungle. That she survived is a miracle. Two days later, half-drugged, terrified, and starving, she came upon a troop of capuchin monkeys. Acting entirely on instinct, she tried to do what they did: she ate what they ate and copied their actions, and little by little, learned to fend for herself. So begins the story of her five years among the monkeys, during which time she gradually became feral; she lost the ability to speak, lost all inhibition, lost any real sense of being human, replacing the structure of human society with the social mores of her new simian family. But society was eventually to reclaim her. At age ten she was discovered by a pair of hunters who took her to the lawless Colombian city of Ccuta where, in exchange for a parrot, they sold her to a brothel. When she learned that she was to be groomed for prostitution, she made her plans to escape. But her adventure wasnt over yet...--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1392499 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1630240 In January 1982, an elderly white widow was found brutally murdered in Greenwood, South Carolina. Police arrested Edward Lee Elmore, a mentally retarded black man who had cleaned her gutters and windows. Barely ninety days later he was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. Elmore had been on death row for eleven years when young attorney Diana Holt learned of his case, which reeked of injustice, and began a lengthy battle to save his life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668239 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1234693 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1393713 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1306333 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1263179 This text addresses the often-overlooked practice of Allied looting. This book follows the journey of the Hungarian Crown Treasure from muddy oil drum in Austria to Fort Knox and back to Austria. Numerous lost treasures are discussed, including Raphaels Portrait of a Young Man, and lost manuscripts, including the earliest known printing by the Gutenberg press--Provided by publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1307126 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1376442 In May 2005, Natalee Holloway disappeared from a high school trip to Aruba. Five years to the day later, 21 year old Stephany Flores Ramirez was reported missing in Lima, Peru. Implicated in both crimes was one young man, Joran van der Sloot. A 22 year old Dutchman, van der Sloot has become the subject of intense scrutiny by the media and the public in the years since 2005. He was arrested and detained by Aruban authorities in connection with the Holloway murder, only to be released after questioning. In 2008, during a Dutch sting operation, he admitted to being present for Holloways death, but later recanted his statement. In 2010, on the five year anniversary of her disappearance, a young business student in Peru named Stephany Flores Ramirez disappeared, only to be found dead three days later in a hotel room, registered to Joran van der Sloot. He was arrested for the murder, and he confessed, but later claimed it was coerced. This book offers a probing look at the man tied to two of the most sensational cases of the decade. With unprecedented access to investigative files from law enforcement in the U.S., Aruba, Chile and Peru, it is a glimpse into the workings of an international manhunt and a chilling portrait of the alleged killer within. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1393688 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1199730 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1279595 Describes how Marjorie Orbin, a stripper turned suburban housewife with a sordid past that included a drug habit and alleged ties to the New York mafia, murdered and dismembered her seventh husband, Jay, a successful art dealer. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1427564 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1518271 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1375735 Ripped from the headlines, the horrific and astonishing true story of the double life of Russell Williams, who was at once a respected figure in the Canadian military and a ruthless sado-sexual serial criminal and murderer. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1209590 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1275119 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1208354 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1208129 Describes the decades-long descent into criminal madness of former Alaska state trooper John Patrick Addis, and how he was responsible for the deaths of many innocent victims, including single mother Joann Albanese. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1243841 Describes how sixteen-year-old Alec Kreider murdered his best friend, Kevin Haines, and Kevins parents, Tom and Lisa, for no apparent reason, and showed no remorse for the brutal crime. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1260331 Profiles men deemed to be the toughest and most ruthless on the planet, including bodyguards, bouncers, and prisoners. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1299134 Describes how Jan Roseboro was savagely beaten and strangled before her body was tossed in her backyard pool and how her husband Michael was eventually convicted of the crime after his pregnant mistress came forward. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1305432 In the 1990s, Colombia is a wreck of a country. A weak government and a powerful guerilla movement allows the notorious Pablo Escobar and his rivals in the Cali cartel to create the worlds richest drug operation. Jorge Salcedo, a man who personally opposes Escobar, becomes head of security for Miguel Rodrguez Orejuela, the de facto boss of the Cali cartel. But when he receives an order he cannot consciously carry out, Salcedo decides to help the American DEA take the entire cartel down. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1392427 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1364469 Chronicles the 2002 murder of Christa Worthington and the ensuing trial and conviction of African-American trash collector Christopher McCowen, revealing the conflicting testimony, crime-scene contamination and police misconduct that have caused many to believe that McCowen is innocent. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1306403 First, he bound and beat his girlfriend, a 43-year-old librarian. Then he went after her teenaged daughter--warning her, Scream and I will kill you both--before knocking her unconscious. When the teenager awoke, he proceeded to rape her. And in a final horrifying act of depravity, he forced the girl to watch as he slit her mothers throat. But the killing didnt stop there... Stephen Stanko was described as a perfect gentleman who seemed so pleasant...and so normal. But behind Stankos mild-mannered appearance, round spectacles, and quiet intelligence was a coldblooded ex-convict who kept a grisly scrapbook on serial killers--and convinced everyone he was a nice guy--until he killed and killed again. A well-orchestrated manhunt caught up with Stanko, who tried to get away with his crimes by pleading insanity. But the jury saw through his ruse and the ruthless killer was sentenced to death.--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1486861 The sexually violent murder of twenty-one-year-old British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy, in November 2007, became an international sensation when one of her housemates, twenty-year-old Seattle native Amanda Knox, was charged with the murder. This is a mesmerizing literary investigation of the crime, the trial, the machinations of Italian justice, and the clash of cultures in one of central Italys most beloved cities. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1307128 On Long Island, a farmer finds a duck pond turned red with blood. On the Lower East Side, two boys playing at a pier discover a floating human torso wrapped tightly in oilcloth. Blueberry pickers near Harlem stumble upon neatly severed limbs in an overgrown ditch. Clues to a horrifying crime are turning up all over New York, but the police are baffled: There are no witnesses, no motives, no suspects. The grisly finds that began on the afternoon of June 26, 1897, plunged detectives headlong into the eras most baffling murder mystery. Seized upon by battling media moguls Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, the case became a publicity circus. Reenactments of the murder were staged in Times Square, armed reporters lurked in the streets of Hells Kitchen in pursuit of suspects, and an unlikely trio, a hard luck cop, a cub reporter, and an eccentric professor, all raced to solve the crime. What emerged was a sensational love triangle and an even more sensational trial: an unprecedented capital case hinging on circumstantial evidence around a victim whom the police couldnt identify with certainty, and who the defense claimed wasnt even dead. This book is a tale of America during the Gilded Age and a colorful re creation of the tabloid wars that have dominated media to this day. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1277562 Describes how stay-at-home father Stephen Grant murdered his wife, Tara, dismembered her, and buried her in the woods, then reported her missing and participated in a frantic, emotional search for her before the truth came out. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1391528 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1336306 The memoir of Jaycee Dugard who was kidnapped on June 10, 1991, when she was 11 years old, and was missing for over 18 years before her reappearance in 2009. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1298735 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1392658 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1306381 Documents the painstaking efforts of some of the nations most prolific cold case detectives, highlighting their most interesting--and baffling--cases. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1257721 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1375573 Discusses how the crime syndicate in America moved to Havana to escape government crackdowns, and details how the Jewish American mobster, Meyer Lansky, helped to transport American mob leaders to Cuba, with aid from Cubas dictator Fulgencio Batista, but was forced to battle with the leaders of the Cuban Revolution, Che Guevara, and others. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1364960 In 2002, NASA fellow Thad Roberts hatched the most daring heist ever conceived: steal NASAs precious moon rocks. With the help of his girlfriend and another female cohort, both NASA interns, Roberts successfully stole the rocks. However, selling the invaluable stones proved to be Roberts downfall. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1305453 While in prison with his father, Frank Calabrese Sr., on racketeering charges, Frank Jr, a former member of the Chicago crime syndicate known as the Outfit, offered to help the FBI keep his father in prison for life by testifying against him. Now in the federal witness protection program and living in an undisclosed location, Frank Jr. gives an insiders view of the Outfit and how he helped expose its crimes. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1298604 Describes how Jeannie and Kevin McDonough become heroes after saving their daughter from Adam Leroy Lane, a long-haul trucker and serial killer, and how they vowed to make sure that Lanes other victims were never forgotten. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1241901 Joseph P. Farrell ... takes on the Kennedy assassination and carefully details the involvement of Lydon Baines Johnson.... and finds a coalescence of interests between the CIA, the military-industrial complex, and the powerful, corrupt political machine Johnson ran in Texas that culminated in the assassination.--Back cover http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1299135 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1307205 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1392477 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1519392 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1392428 Salvatore Vincent Bill Bonanno was the son of Cosa Nostra boss Joseph Bonanno. Although his father never intended for him to be the underboss of the Bonanno crime family, his appointment to high positions in the syndicate precipitated a mob war which led to the Bonanno familys exile to Arizona. Later in life, he became a writer and produced films for television about his family. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1133392 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1424162 Amexica is a street-level portrait of the extraordinary terror unfolding along the U.S.-Mexico border-- a country in its own right, which belongs to both the United States and Mexico, yet neither-- as the narco-war escalates to a fever pitch. In 2009, after reporting from the border for many years, journalist Ed Vulliamy traveled the frontier from the Pacific coast to the Gulf of Mexico, from Tijuana to Matamoros, a kaleidoscopic landscape of corruption and all-out civil war, but also of beauty and joy and resilience. He describes in detail how the narco gangs work; the smuggling of people, weapons, and drugs back and forth across the border; middle-class flight from Mexico and an American celebrity culture that is feeding the violence; the interrelated economies of drugs and the maquiladora factories; and the ruthless, systematic murder of young women in Ciudad Juarez. Heroes, villains, and victims all come to life in this singular book.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696074 Brazil...Electric. Exciting. Hot. Brazil is famous for its world class beaches, beautiful women, Samba and soccer, but even its gently swaying palms and sultry nouveau beat cant cover up the sound of screaming. -- Back cover http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1215232 Recounts how three of Americas most successful counterfeiters, Owen Sullivan (worked 1720-1756), David Lewis (worked 1788-1820), and Samuel Upham (worked 1819-1885), each cunningly manipulated the political and economic realities of his day. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1310352 A devoted wife and mother and a Harvard-educated scientist working as a biology professor at the University of Alabama-Huntsville, Amy Bishop seemed to have it all. But when she was denied tenure, her whole world came crashing down...and she reacted in a way no one ever could have imagined.