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The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in BiographyIn this critically acclaimed true crime tale of "welfare queen" Linda Taylor, a Slat...
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El Sicario: The Autobiography of a Mexican Assassin
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /In this unprecedented and chilling monologue, a repentant Mexican hitman tells the unvarnished truth about the war on drugs on the American. El S...
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Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00Original price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /“A work of extraordinary reportage and compassion...[it] will shock you, move you, and leave you changed.”—Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prize-winnin...
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Out of Orange: A Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /The real-life Alex Vause from the critically acclaimed, top-rated Netflix show Orange Is the New Black tells her story in her own words for the fir...
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Sidney Fox's Crime: The true story of Sidney Harry Fox and the Margate murder
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /The true story of a young gay man who was hanged for the murder of his mother.Sidney Harry Fox was the illegitimate son of a railway signalman. He ...
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Gotti's Rules: The Story of John Alite, Junior Gotti, and the Demise of the American Mafia
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /From the New York Times bestselling author of Blood and Honor and The Last Gangster--"one of the most respected crime reporters in the country" (60...
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A Brotherhood Betrayed: The Man Behind the Rise and Fall of Murder, Inc.
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The riveting true story of the rise and fall of Murder, Inc. and the executioner-turned-informant whose mysterious death became a turning point i...
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Anansi's Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"A non-fiction masterpiece."--Philadelphia Inquirer The astounding, never-before-told story of how an audacious Ghanaian con artist pulled off one ...
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The Confessions of Nat Turner
PaperbackOriginal price $11.99 - Original price $11.99Original price $11.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The Confessions of Nat Turner: The Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Virginia, is a first-hand account of Turner's confessions publis...
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Under the Mango Tree
PaperbackOriginal price $12.49 - Original price $12.49Original price $12.49$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /This is the story of Bambay Sawaneh who at the age of 15 experienced the terror of rebels attacking his little village in Sierra Leone, West Africa...
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Noumena: True Story of Reza: True Story of Reza
PaperbackOriginal price $13.95 - Original price $13.95Original price $13.95$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Reza, a reserved Iranian citizen, while living in Iran, won the Green Card Lottery and migrated to the Unites States. As soon as he stepped on Amer...
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The Former Lives Of Saints
PaperbackOriginal price $11.00 - Original price $11.00Original price $11.00$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Damian and Ezhno live across the country from each other and both work dead end night jobs. Every morning, they stare at the same rising sun and co...
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The Harlem Plug: The Richard 'Fritz' Simmons Story
HardcoverOriginal price $49.99Original price $49.99 - Original price $49.99Original price $49.99Current price $43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /"To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace." MALCOLM X In Harlem's tumultuous history, there are many trage...
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The Harlem Plug: The Richard 'Fritz' Simmons Story
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /"To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace." MALCOLM X In Harlem's tumultuous history, there are many trage...
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Memoir: Delaware County Prison
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /After committing credit card fraud at a local department store, 18-year-old Reginald Hall lands an eight-month sentence at the Delaware County Pris...
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A Darker Shade of Moonlite: A Creative Biography
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /How do you best tell the story of Australia's most enigmatic bushranger - Captain Moonlite? The stories he told of his life conflict with the stori...
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Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In September of 2022, twenty-five years after Leonard Peltier received a life sentence for the murder of two FBI agents, the DNC unanimously passed...
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Thai Stick: Surfers, Scammers, and the Untold Story of the Marijuana Trade
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Located on the left bank of the Chao Phya River, Thailand's capital, Krungthep, known as Bangkok to Westerners and "the City of Angels" to Thais, h...
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Thai Stick: Surfers, Scammers, and the Untold Story of the Marijuana Trade
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Located on the left bank of the Chao Phya River, Thailand's capital, Krungthep, known as Bangkok to Westerners and "the City of Angels" to Thais, h...
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El Chapo: The Untold Story of the World's Most Infamous Drug Lord
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A stunning investigation of the life and legend of Mexican kingpin Joaquín Archivaldo “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera, building on Noah Hurowitz’s revela...
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Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /“A master of narrative journalism, [Bowden] employs the same techniques of reconstructing scenes and dialogue that made his bestselling Black Haw...
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Game Over: The Rise and Transformation of a Harlem Hustler
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /A cautionary tale about the life of former kingpin Azie Faison, who has become the fabric of street legend Faison was a ninth grade dropout who ea...
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Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"The power of George Jackson's personal story remains painfully relevant to our nation today, with its persistent racism, its hellish prisons, it...
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Pimp: The Story of My Life
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /“[In Pimp], Iceberg Slim breaks down some of the coldest, capitalist concepts I’ve ever heard in my life.” —Dave Chappelle, from his Netflix spec...
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