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Murderers, mob bosses, and convicts . . . these guys are not your average neighbors. Unless you live on Alcatraz. It’s 1935 and twelve-year-old Moose Flanagan and his family have just moved to the infamous island that’s home to criminals like notorious escapee Roy Gardner, Machine Gun Kelly, and of course, Al Capone. Now Moose has to try to fit in at his new school, avoid getting caught up in one of the... (more)

Thieves: Book 1

Thieves Like Us

by Stephen Cole

Jonah Wish, a brilliant computer hacker, is the newest addition to an elite group of teen outlaws all hired by the same mysterious benefactor, Nathaniel Coldhardt. Each of them offers a unique talent: Patch is a one-eyed locksmith; Motti can dismantle any electrical system; Con’s charm is truly mesmerizing; and Tye can detect a lie with more precision than a polygraph. Under Coldhart’s watchful eye, this motley... (more)

The Switch

by Anthony Horowitz

The author of 'Granny' has produced a thrilling action-packed story, a kind of 'Trading Places' for kids, where Tad, the boy who has everything, wakes up as Bob Snarby in the shabbiest funfair imaginable.

The Secret River

by Kate Grenville

The Orange Prize-winning author Kate Grenville recalls her family's history in an astounding novel about the pioneers of New South Wales. Already a best seller in Australia, The Secret River is the story of Grenville's ancestors, who wrested a new life from the alien terrain of Australia and its native people. London, 1806. William Thornhill, a Thames bargeman, is deported to the New South Wales colony in what... (more)

La Biblia De Barro

by Julia Navarro

En Roma, un hombre se confiesa: Padre, me acuso de que voy a matar a un hombre... Al mismo tiempo, también en Roma, cuando Clara Tannenberg anuncia en el transcurso del Congreso de Arqueólogos y Antropólogos el descubrimiento de unas tablillas pertenecientes a la Biblia de Barro no es consciente de los mecanismos que está poniendo en marcha y que pueden suponer un enorme peligro incluso para su vida. La Biblia... (more)

Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia

Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia

by John Dickie

Cosa Nostra is the compelling story of the Sicilian mafia, the world's most famous, most secretive and most misunderstood criminal fraternity. The mafia has been given many names since it was founded one hundred and forty years ago: the Sect, the Brotherhood, the Honoured Society, and now Cosa Nostra. Yet as times have changed, the mafia's subtle and bloody methods have remained the same. Now, for the first time,... (more)

The DIARY OF JACK THE RIPPER: THE DIARY OF JACK THE RIPPER

The DIARY OF JACK THE RIPPER: THE DIARY OF JACK THE RIPPER

by James Maybrick, Shirley Harrison

After more than a year of authentication analysis, a Victorian journal found in England is determined to be the actual diary of the notorious serial killer known as Jack the Ripper. This detailed recounting of the authentication process contains a facsimile of the document itself.

The Most Evil Women in History

by Shelley Klein

The Hundred and One Dalmatians (Penguin Young Readers, Level 3)

The Hundred and One Dalmatians (Penguin Young Readers, Level 3)

by Dodie Smith, Glyn Robbins

That daring, hilarious pack of hounds from the classic tale of canine intrigue returns in a beautiful new edition.

Wildwood Boys : A Novel

by James Carlos Blake

An epic story set amid the Civil War's guerrilla conflict along the Kansas-Misssouri borderland From the raw clay of historical fact, James Carlos Blake has sculpted a powerful novel of both a man and an America at war with themselves. Here is the brutally honest story of free-spirit William Anderson, who is pulled into a savage conflict of state against state in the years leading up to the Civil War. When Bill... (more)

Mob

by Roy Glenn

Travis Burns, a.k.a. Mr. Blue, Jackie Washington, a.k.a. Mr. White, and Ronnie Grier a.k.a. Mr. Green live by rules. The first and foremost of these rules is M.O.B. The rules have serviced them well in what they do to earn a living. They are a robbing crew, who operate under the protection of Mike Black's organization (Is It A Crime). They rob banks, grocery stores, jewelry stores, and anything else that... (more)

The Newhall Incident: America's Worst Uniformed Cop Massacre

The Newhall Incident: America's Worst Uniformed Cop Massacre

by Chief John Anderson, Marsh Cassady

Midnight, April 5, 1970. Minutes after a red Pontiac with two men in it was stopped, four young California Highway Patrolmen lay dead of gunshot wounds. The incident still stands as the worst of its kind and has changed the way police forces operate the world over.

Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War (Vintage)

Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War (Vintage)

by T. J. Stiles

In this brilliant biography T. J. Stiles offers a new understanding of the legendary outlaw Jesse James. Although he has often been portrayed as a Robin Hood of the old west, in this ground-breaking work Stiles places James within the context of the bloody conflicts of the Civil War to reveal a much more complicated and significant figure. Raised in a fiercely pro-slavery household in bitterly divided... (more)

Hooligans

by William Diehl

Jake Kilmer is a cop for the Feds. His specialty is a branch of the Mafia known as the Cincinnati Triad. He's pursued them for years, and now they've set up shop in Dunetown, Georgia. This time, they will not escape the Hooligans, a tough squad of ex-cops that Jake has organized. This time, he'll settle the score once and for all....

Garden of Beasts : A Novel of Berlin 1936 (Deaver, Jeffrey)

Garden of Beasts : A Novel of Berlin 1936 (Deaver, Jeffrey)

by Jeffery Deaver

Paul Schumann is a contract hitman for the mob in 1936. But with Prohibition over and the gang wars associated with it coming to an end, Schumann is finding less and less work. He is contracted for a hit. But this time, he's caught - and finds that he's been set up. He's taken to meet an official in Army Intelligence and given a choice: he can spend the rest of his life in jail, or he can help his country. He is... (more)

The Brethren

by John Grisham

They call themselves the Brethren: three disgraced former judges doing time in a Florida federal prison. One was sent up for tax evasion. Another, for skimming bingo profits. And the third, for a career-ending drunken joyride. Meeting daily in the prison law library, taking exercise walks in their boxer shorts, these judges-turned-felons can reminisce about old court cases, dispense a little jailhouse justice,... (more)

The Stranger

by Albert Camus

Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd." First published in 1946; now in a new translation by Matthew Ward.

Echo Park (Harry Bosch (Hardcover))

by Michael Connelly

Detective Harry Bosch reopens one of his own unsolved cases and comes face to face with a psychotic killer he has been seeking for years. A thrilling new novel by the author of the #1 bestseller The Lincoln Lawyer. In 1995 Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket. Harry Bosch worked the case but couldn't crack it, and the 22-year-old woman was never found. Now Bosch is in the... (more)

The Witness

by Sandra Brown

Kendall Deaton pulls herself and her baby out of a wrecked car, and a mixture of courage and fear gets her to the top of a ravine, where she flags down help. But she doesn't dare reveal her true identity or that of her amnesiac passenger to the authorities. Instead, she plans her immediate escape. Her perilous flight begins. The best public defender in Prosper, South Carolina, Kendall had stumbled upon the... (more)

The World's Dumbest Criminals

by Daniel R. Butler

First came the New York Times bestseller America's Dumbest Criminals ™, then there were more amazing tales of stupid but true crimes in Wanted! Dumb or Alive . In this book, hilarious criminal cluelessness is uncovered on every continent in one hundred new stories.

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