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Organized crime and the mob figures who run it have long captured the imagination of the American public, appearing since the early twentieth century as characters in a host of popular books, movies, and television programs.

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Details the exploits of an unforgettable cast of villains, crooks and mobsters who have defined the criminal and gangland scene in Melbourne from the late 1800s to the present day.

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The fascinating history of Soho's criminal activity

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Details the exploits of an unforgettable cast of villains, crooks and mobsters who have defined the criminal and gangland scene in Sydney from the mid-1800s to the present day. In this compelling book, James Morton and Susanna Lobez track the rise and fall of Sydney's standover men, contract killers, robbers, brothel keepers, biker gangs and drug dealers.

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* A look at gangland killing - and contract killers in particular - worldwide by the author of the successful GANGLAND series.

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George Elliott Clark draws from this disturbing chapter in Canadian history in his first novel, brilliantly reimagining the lives - and deaths - of the two brothers.

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Getting Into Guinness is the hilarious true story of record breaking attempts, how record obsession has become a global phenomenon, the weird and wonderful characters that set records and the history of the Guinness Book of World Records.

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Stories of heroism, suffering and endurance - and also humour - from the main wars in which Australians have fought.

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A collection of remarkable stories from all around Australia that tell of the country's fiercest natural phenomenon: the bushfire. Some stories are funny, some tragic and some courageous, but all the storytellers exhibit tenacity and grit in their fight to save their homes, their animals, their towns, and, in some cases, their lives.

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This collection of amazing, hilarious, controversial stories pack a real punch. Listen as these drovers, ringers, stockmen, stockwomen and scoundrels speak about their way of life in an Australia that is fast disappearing.

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From ABC Books' Australiana range comes GREAT AUSTRALIAN FLOOD STORIES, stories of humour, survival and courage in the face of one of our country's most powerful natural forces, flood.

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In late 1999, Bill 'Swampy' Marsh began to collect shearing stories. This collection brings to life a world of outback stations, larrikins, roustabouts, sagacious dogs and babbling brooks whose blood is worth bottling. Part bush yarns, part social history, this book is a worthy successor to Marsh's 'Great Flying Doctor Stories'.

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"Grit to Live Again" follows a Korean War POW who was imprisoned for nearly three years. Discover how he overcame his trials in war, marriage, and his return home in this moving biography.

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Recently, the National Center for Victims of Crime reported annual figures showing 103,845 children were sexually abused, while in that same year there was a 20% increase in all rape incidents and a 33% increase in sexual assaults.

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Learn from others workplace war stories so that you can better avoid their unfortunate disasters.

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Henri de Monfried is inextricably linked to the Red Sea and the raffish ports between Suez and Aden in the early years of the twentieth century. This book is an account of how de Monfried becomes a collector and merchant of the fabled Gulf pearls, and is drawn into the shadowy world of arms trading, slavery, smuggling and drugs.

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This stranger-than-fiction cold case is about to crack wide open! Perfect for fans of Ill be Gone in the Dark and Zodiac