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"After ten years' absence and a spell in prison, Carl Burns has returned to his hometown of Rose City to offer support to his estranged daughter Kate, currently one of four witnesses testifying against former Mayor Joseph Sanderson III, who stands accused of multiple counts of underage rape. Carl is determined to get justice for Kate, whatever it takes. But with his former sister-in-law Frances his only ally, he finds himself incurring the wrath of...
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La historia económica de España y muchos de los problemas actuales no se entienden sin la influencia de los grupos de presión y los pactos de sangre de las élites con el poder político.
Puertas giratorias, caciquismo, clientelismo, tráfico de influencias o amiguismo son algunos de los males que han transitado de generación en generación por las alcantarillas del poder. Y detrás de ellos hay acuerdos, conspiraciones y maniobras que reflejan...
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You won't be familiar with every one of the huge array of women featured in these pages, but all, familiar or not, leave unanswered questions behind them. The range is extensive, as was the research, with its insight into the lives and minds of women in different centuries, different countries, with diverse cultures and backgrounds, from the poverty stricken to royalty. Mistresses, murderers, smugglers, pirates, prostitutes and fanatics with hearts...
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The former Republican congressman and now host of MSNBC's "Scarborough Country" wittily presents The Real Deal-that Democrats and Republicans are indistinguishable: equally adept at pillaging and pork-barrelling your tax dollars-and he offers some solutions to the problem
They get themselves elected as "Washington outsiders"- Barbarians at the Gate. Once inside, however, these Vandals and Visigoths swiftly shed their pelts, don their togas, and heartily...
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Elizabeth Holtzman has been a principled leader and a persistent voice for equality and accountability since she became the youngest woman ever elected to Congress in 1973, which she remained for forty-two years. But she saw American democratic ideals, and the rule of law in the United States, eroding under President Trump. And as a member of the House Judiciary Committee that voted to impeach Nixon, and one of the members of the Homeland Security...
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At Odds with the Facts: The Kangaroo Justice Follow-up Questions asks some difficult questions of a number of the players in the investigation and coronial inquest into the death of British ultra-endurance cyclist Mike Hall near Canberra, Australia on 31 March 2017.
Following on from Kangaroo Justice and the Death of Mike Hall: An Australian Miscarriage of Justice, these follow-up questions attempt to hold members of two police forces, a leading...
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A gripping account of the disastrous Russian submarine explosion that killed the entire crew, devastated the Russian people, and defined Vladimir Putin's post–Cold War regime.
What were Russian officials thinking when they waited 48 hours to acknowledge their most prized submarine was in trouble? Why did they track the desperate tappings of an unknown number of trapped sailors without sending an international SOS? Why did they repeatedly decline...
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HOUSE OF BROOKLYN PROJECT PRESENTA:«EL FIN DE LA REVOLUCIÓN BOLIVARIANA»EDICIÓN MMXIX-DESCRIPCIÓN DEL PRODUCTO:+PROFECIA+ Este libro comienza con una profecía que muestra a personas de distintos credos y razas unidas en oración ante la situación actual de mundo: secando las lágrimas de sus hermanos y abrazándose ante la mirada atenta del Altísimo, mientras los inmigrantes vuelven a casa y los que murieron por tanta injusticia descansan...
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In How the Left Swiftboated America, FOX commentator and bestselling author John Gibson offers the first comprehensive defense of the Bush presidency against its numerous detractors. In this provocative political work, Gibson explores who was right and who was wrong in taking us into the Iraq War and a host of other issues, arguing that it was the Left that actually lied while claiming to expose the truth.
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"We are at an inflection point."
Director James Cameron said his film Titanic was "like a great novel that really happened." Ditto Trumpism the Sequel, as Trump is now plausibly hopeful of being the next GOP president as well as plausibly fearful of conviction and incarceration.
The Inflection Election: Democracy or Neo-Fascism? aims to warn busy and credulous Americans that 2024 will be an inflection election between a Party of Progress and...
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Lance draws on three decades of once secret FBI files to tell the definitive story of Greg Scarpa Sr., a.k.a. the "Grim Reaper, " a Mafia capo who "stopped counting" after 50 murders, while secretly betraying a crime family as an informant for the FBI.--From publisher's description.
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