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  1. My Friend Leonard

    by James Frey

    The New York Times bestselling follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestseller A Million Little Pieces -the heartrending story of a friendship between a newly-sober James and the charismatic, high-living mobster he met in rehab, Leonard. A Million Little Pieces was the first Oprah... (learn more about this book)

  2. Bringing Down the House

    by Ben Mezrich

    #1 National Bestseller! The amazing inside story about a gambling ring of M.I.T. students who beat the system in Vegas -- and lived to tell how. Robin Hood meets the Rat Pack when the best and the brightest of M.I.T.'s math students and engineers take up blackjack under the guidance of an... (learn more about this book)

  3. Manhunt

    by James L. Swanson

    The murder of Abraham Lincoln set off the greatest manhunt in American history — the pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth. From April 14 to April 26, 1865, the assassin led Union cavalry and detectives on a wild twelve-day chase through the streets of Washington, D.C., across the swamps of... (learn more about this book)

  4. Catch Me If You Can

    by Frank W. Abagnale, Stan Redding

    Frank W. Abagnale, alias Frank Williams, Robert Conrad, Frank Adams, and Robert Monjo, was one of the most daring con men, forgers, imposters, and escape artists in history. In his brief but notorious criminal career, Abagnale donned a pilot's uniform and copiloted a Pan Am jet, masqueraded... (learn more about this book)

  5. The Man Who Loved Books Too Much

    by Allison Hoover Bartlett

    In the tradition of The Orchid Thief , a compelling narrative set within the strange and genteel world of rare-book collecting: the true story of an infamous book thief, his victims, and the man determined to catch him. Rare-book theft is even more widespread than fine-art theft. Most... (learn more about this book)

  6. Killing Pablo

    by Mark Bowden

    A tour de force of investigative journalism-this is the story of the violent rise and fall of Pablo Escobar, the head of the Colombian Medellin cocaine cartel. Escobar's criminal empire held a nation of thirty million hostage in a reign of terror that would only end with his death. In an... (learn more about this book)

  7. Always Running

    by Luis J. Rodriguez

    By age twelve, Luis Rodriguez was a veteran of East L.A. gang warfare. Lured by a seemingly invincible gang culture, he witnessed countless shootings, beatings, and arrests, then watched with increasing fear as drugs, murder, suicide, and senseless acts of street crime claimed friends and... (learn more about this book)

  8. My Bloody Life: The Making of a Latin King (Illinois)

    by Reymundo Sanchez

    Looking for an escape from childhood abuse, Reymundo Sanchez turned away from school and baseball to drugs, alcohol, and then sex, and was left to fend for himself before age 14. The Latin Kings, one of the largest and most notorious street gangs in America, became his refuge and his world,... (learn more about this book)

  9. Monster

    by Sanyika Shakur

    After pumping eight blasts from a sawed-off shotgun at a group of rival gang members, eleven-year-old Kody Scott was initiated into the L.A. gang the Crips. He quickly matured into one of the most formidable Crip combat soldiers, earning the name Monster for committing acts of brutality and... (learn more about this book)

  10. Assata

    by Assata Shakur

    This presents the life story of African American revolutionary Shakur, previously known as JoAnne Chesimard. It also includes a foreward written by acclaimed author, Angela Davis.

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