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Kathleen P. Munley and Paul R. Mazzoni give an insiders look the Commonwealth v. William J. Wright trial, looking at how a murderer was able to slip through the cracks of the criminal justice system. This book captivatingly and successfully weaves together the events of an unforgettable crime and a trial that changed a region forever.

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Charles Nicholl is on a quest for 'The Great Cocaine Story'. The Fruit Palace is a little whitewashed caf that legally dispenses tropical fruit juices, has another purpose as the meeting place for a variety of black market activities and the place where Nicholl unwittingly begins his quest.

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Over half-a-century ago fanciful and exotic stories began to appear in the world's press about settlers on the remote Galapagos island of Floreana. She ruled her three young male lovers with a riding crop, a pearl-handled revolver and insatiable sexual demands - terrorising other settlers.

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Herbert Asbury chronicles the immense underbelly of 'The Big Easy'. From Mary Jane 'Bricktop' Jackson and Bridget Fury, two prostitutes who became famous after murdering their associates, to the faux-revolutionary 'filibusters' who undertook military missions to take over the bordering Spanish regions in Texas, the French Quarter had it all.

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The Ghost at the Wedding is like no other account of war, chronicling events from both sides - the horror of the battlefields and the women who were left at home. Shirley Walker's depictions of those battles - Gallipoli, the Western Front, the Kokoda Track - are grittily accurate, their reverberations haunting.

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The incredible stories of an unusual fellowship - formed by airmen and women who have been forced to bail out of the aircraft in combat.

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The true story of an Australian farmer's attempt to save his cattle during devastating drought. Having moved his starving cattle to north west Queensland he finds his troubles have only begun as he finds himself struggling to survive amid misfits, cattle rustlers and gun slingers.

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Imagine a killer disease as infectious as the common cold and as powerful as the Black Death. Such a killer exists: it is a virus and its name is Ebola and it has the power to decimate the world's population.

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On New Years Day 1998, the body of Jaidyn Leskie was discovered in a dam near the town of Moe in Victoria. The body was found six months after Jaidyn went missing. Now, with the reopening of the inquest, the author examines the developments in this shocking case, giving an authoritative insight into evidence.

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Murdered by Shining Path guerilla terrorists in the Peruvian Andes, Sister Irene McCormack's death overtook Manning Clark's in the newspaper headlines of May 1991. Why the amazing outpouring of grief This book goes behind the veil to put together a portrait of Sister Irene McCormack.

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Meet Pete Razanskas, 22-year veteran homicide cop and Marcella Winn, a rookie detective who grew up in the 'hood. We meet the cops, the victims and the murders (Crips and Bloods, drug dealers, psychopaths and even killer kids), witness their incredible daily lives and hear their stories in intimate detail.

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In the summer of 2003, a perilous helicopter descent delivered Ross Donaldson, an American medical student in his twenties, into Sierra Leone. Based on his personal journal, this memoir details the time Ross spent on the Lassa Ward, and his own battle with a potentially fatal illness.

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This eye-opening book uses the case of Ted Bundy to show how a case against a serial killer is investigated, how problems common to such cases are overcome, and how the prosecution team marshals and presents the evidence at trial.

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An exploration of the minds of some of the most depraved men in the American prison system, such as Jeffrey Dahmer and John Wayne Gacy. The author poses as a suitable victim, writing letters to the killers and is eventually invited to meet Gacy in prison, which he recalls in nightmarish detail.

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The first-hand account of a Private in Wellington's Army - vividly portrayed through his own letters.
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A carefully researched account of how 76 British and American officers escaped from Stalag Luft III. Known as the Great Escape, this is one of the best-known escape stories of World War II. Only three escapees reached freedom and over 50 were executed on Hitler's orders.

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Professor Tudor Parfitt, a real-life British Indiana Jones, has made the biggest discovery of the last 3,000 years what became of the fabled Ark of the Covenant. This is the amazing story of his quest.

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In 1993 8-year-old Clinton Liebelt went missing from a roadhouse between Darwin and Alice Springs - one of the most desolate places in the world. Australian journalist Robert Wainwright's uplifting and triumphant tribute tells the story of how one child's disappearance united an entire community and the wider Northern Territory of Australia.