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  • Being Bertha

    How a Wayward Woman Became a Local Legend

    by Fran Genereux ...
    The Ekelund family moved to Canada in 1903 and settled in what is now Southern Alberta when Bertha, their sixth child was only five years old. Growing up in a family that was torn apart by the tragedy of their mother’s death, Bertha developed an independent and unpredictable approach to life. “This is the truth, is it not?” she writes to her sister at one point, confirming her belief that the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • Murder at McDonald's

    The Killers Next Door

    by Phonse Jessome ...
    The true story of the Sydney River McDonald's massacre, a botched robbery that would become the most sensational murder case in Canadian history.It started with a broken conveyor belt. When the mechanical malfunction brought eighteen-year-old McDonald's employee Derek Wood into the restaurant's back room, he saw the safe and got a dangerous idea. It would be so easy to prop the back door open, ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Ontario Murders

    Mysteries, Scandals, and Dangerous Criminals

    by Susan McNicoll ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    "From an early age, lying came easily to her. Everything she did was a performance, a role she played to create an illusion." - From the story of Evelyn Dick. Six chilling stories of notorious Ontario murders are recounted in this spine-tingling collection. From the pretty but dangerous Evelyn Dick to the mysterious murder of one of the Fathers of Confederation, Thomas D'Darcy McGee, these stories ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Hard Road

    Bernie Guindon and the Reign of the Satan's Choice Motorcycle Club

    by Peter Edwards ...
    The spiritual godfather of Canadian bikers tells the story of his fascinating life.You could call Bernie Guindon the Sonny Barger of Canadian bikers (but not to his face). The founder of Satan's Choice, Guindon led what was in the 1960s the second-largest biker club in the world (after the Hells Angels, which Bernie would join briefly in the early 2000s) to national prominence and international ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Dead of Night

    by Gary C. King, Sheila Johnson ...
    Beautiful, beloved college sophomore Brianna Denison was home for the holidays in Reno, Nevada. After a long night out, she crashed on a friend's couch. It would be the last time the child psychology major was seen alive. Her strangled body was found in a field nearly a month later.But Brianna was not the first victim of a murderer with a disturbing fetish, and the patience to search for his ... Read more

    $6.89 USD

  • This Is for the Mara Salvatrucha

    Inside the MS-13, America's Most Violent Gang

    by Samuel Logan ...
    An insider account of life inside MS-thirteen, a notorious transnational criminal gang, from a gang-member turned informant.Like any American teenager, Brenda Paz spent much of her time with her friends. They would go to parties, listen to music, and show off their cars late into the night. But Brenda and her friends belonged to the Mara Salvatrucha—the MS-thirteen—the most violent gang in America ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Cross-Country Evil

    The Shocking True Story of an Eighteen-Year Manhunt for a Killer on the Run

    by Tom Basinski ...
    From the author of No Good Deed comes a true-crime shocker.On June 11, 1988, 27-year-old Janet Moore was stabbed to death in her San Diego apartment. After clues and leads went nowhere, her sad and tragic murder became a cold case. But detectives never gave up on her.Eighteen years later, thousands of miles away, a Daytona Beach police officer stopped Mark Elder for driving with an expired license ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Running With Dillinger

    The Story of Red Hamilton and Other Forgotten Canadian Outlaws

    by Edward Butts ...
    This book picks up where The Desperate Ones: Canada's Forgotten Outlaws left off. Here are more remarkable true stories about Canadian crimes and criminals -- most of them tales that have been buried for years. The stories begin in colonial Newfoundland, with robbery and murder committed by the notorious Power Gang. As readers travel across the country and through time, they will meet the last two ... Read more

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  • Osama Bin Laden

    by Michael Scheuer ...
    9/11 almost instantaneously remade American politics and foreign policy. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Patriot Act, water boarding and Guantanamo are examples of its profound and far-reaching effects. But despite its monumental impact--and a deluge of books about al-Qaeda and Islamist terrorism--no one has written a serious assessment of the man who planned it, Osama bin Laden. Available ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • A Man of Substances

    The Misdeeds and Growing Pains of a Pot Pioneer

    by David Partridge, Gerald McCarthy ...
    When Gerry McCarthy hit the headlines in 1996, he was the man at the center of a five million dollar dope bust, the largest grow-op takedown in Canadian history. But when he hit the big city as a small-town teenager many years before, he was as green as grass. The story in between is a unique and winding journey through the vibrant, revolutionary years of the twentieth century.A Man of Substances ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Killings

    by Calvin Trillin ...
    True stories of sudden death in the classic collection by a master of American journalism“Reporters love murders,” Calvin Trillin writes in the introduction to Killings. “In a pinch, what the lawyers call ‘wrongful death’ will do, particularly if it’s sudden.” Killings, first published in 1984 and expanded for this edition, shows Trillin to be such a reporter, drawn time after time to tales of ... Read more

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  • Every Last Tie

    The Story of the Unabomber and His Family

    by David Kaczynski, James Knoll IV ...
    In August 1995 David Kaczynski's wife Linda asked him a difficult question: "Do you think your brother Ted is the Unabomber?" He couldn't be, David thought. But as the couple pored over the Unabomber's seventy-eight-page manifesto, David couldn't rule out the possibility. It slowly became clear to them that Ted was likely responsible for mailing the seventeen bombs that killed three people and ... Read more

    $25.19 USD