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3,096 days
Par Natascha Kampusch, Jill Kreuer. 2010
On 2 March 1998 ten-year-old Natascha Kampusch was snatched off the street by a stranger and bundled into a white…
van. Hours later she found herself in a dark cellar, wrapped in a blanket. When she emerged eight years later, her childhood had gone. In "3,096 Days" Natascha tells her story for the first time. Descriptions of violence. 2010.The Judas kiss: The Undercover Life Of Patrick Kelly
Par Michael Harris. 1995
One week after his wife plunged to her death from a 17th-floor balcony, Patrick Kelly was vacationing in Hawaii with…
his lover. The author tells of how Kelly changed from an RCMP undercover drug agent to smuggler and suspected fraud artist. Kelly was eventually convicted of the murder of his wife. 1995.The last victim: the extraordinary life of Florence Maybrick, the wife of Jack the Ripper
Par Anne E Graham. 1999
Did Florence Maybrick really poison her husband, or was she set up? Who knew about Maybrick's connection to the Ripper…
murders, and what lengths would they go to keep it quiet? Why was evidence suppressed from the trial? This text explores the life of Florence and her marriage to James Maybrick. 1999.Crossing the line: young women and the law (Youth project)
Par Carol Drinkwater. 2000
Young women talk about what led them to cross the line, and how they both coped with, and learned from,…
their experiences. The collection also includes young women who have had friends or family in jail, and what it has meant for them. 2000.The prison book club
Par Ann Walmsley. 2015
An attack in London left Ann Walmsley unable to walk alone down the street, and shook her belief in the…
fundamental goodness of people. A few years later, when a friend asked her to participate in a bold new venture in a men's medium security prison, Ann had to weigh her curiosity and desire to be of service against her anxiety and fear. But she signed on, and for eighteen months went to a remote building at Collins Bay, meeting a group of heavily tattooed book club members without the presence of guards or security cameras. There was no wine and cheese, no plush furnishings. But a book club on the inside of a prison proved to be a place to share ideas and regain a sense of humanity. 2015.La pendaison d'Angélique: [l'histoire de l'esclavage au Canada et de l'incendie de Montréal]
Par Afua Cooper, André Couture. 2007
"Dans la soirée du samedi 10 avril 1734, Montréal brûle. L'esclave Marie-Joseph-Angélique est traduite devant la justice et accusée d'avoir…
mis le feu. Soumise à la question extraordinaire, forme de torture atroce pendant laquelle on brise les os des jambes, elle craque et avoue avoir commis cet incendie criminel. Puis, elle est pendue. Angélique entre dans l'histoire canadienne en tant que criminelle. Cependant, son procès nous offre une occasion unique de raconter sa vie d'esclave, une vie dont on n'aurait pas entendu parler autrement. Afua Cooper fait revivre brillamment un chapitre méconnu de l'histoire du Canada, celui d'une Noire rebelle d'origine portugaise qui a cherché à briser ses chaînes. En nous présentant le vécu de cette jeune femme, elle met en lumière ce qui l'a sans doute poussée à commettre pareil crime. Par le fait même, elle détruit le mythe d'un Canada considéré comme un paradis pour les Noirs ayant échappé à l'esclavagisme des États-Unis. L'histoire d'Angélique est le plus ancien récit à propos de l'esclavage dans le Nouveau Monde. [...]" -- 4e de couv . Titre uniforme: The hanging of Angelique.3096 jours
Par Natascha Kampusch, Heike Gronemeier, Corinna Milborn. 2010
Natascha Kampusch a vécu le pire : le 2 mars 1998, à l'âge de dix ans, elle est enlevée sur…
le chemin de l'école. Pendant 3096 jours, huit ans et demi, son bourreau, Wolfgang Priklopil, la garde prisonnière dans une cave d'environ cinq mètres carrés, près de Vienne. En août 2006, elle parvient à s'enfuir par ses propres moyens. Priklopil se suicide le jour même. Dans ce récit bouleversant, Natascha Kampusch révèle les circonstances de son enlèvement, le quotidien de sa captivité, sa terrible relation avec son ravisseur et la façon dont elle a réussi à survivre à cet enfer. Le témoignage unique d'une traversée de l'inimaginable par une jeune femme qui ne s'est jamais laissé briser. -- 4e de couv.The number: one man's search for identity in the Cape underworld and prison gangs
Par Jonny Steinberg. 2004
Author Jonny Steinberg met Wentzel in prison in 2002, and by the time of his release, he and Steinberg had…
spent more than 50 hours discussing his life experiences. He had lived a bewilderingly schizophrenic life, wandering to and fro between three worlds: the arcane universe of prison gangs, steeped in a mythology of banditry and retribution, where he was known as JR; the margins of South Africa's criminal economy, where he lived by a string of stolen names and learnt the arts of commercial fraud; and his scattered family, which eked out a living in the coloured ghettos of the Cape Flats. A tale of modern South Africa's historic events seen through the eyes of the country's most marginal citizens. 2004.Norman Parker is a double-murderer serving time in Knightsford Prison. This is his true-life account from inside the prison, where…
he is surrounded by dangerous criminals, serious offenders and lifers. 1999.The bigamist: the true story of a husband's ultimate betrayal
Par Mary Turner Thomson. 2007
In April 2006, Mary Turner Thomson received a call that blew her life apart: the woman on the other end…
of the line told her that Will Jordan, Mary's husband and the father of her two younger children, had been married to her for fourteen years and they had five children together. It's a story we all think could never happen to us, but this shameless con man has been doing the same thing to various other women for at least 27 years, spinning a tangled web of lies and deceit to cover his tracks. 2007.Finding me: a decade of darkness, a life reclaimed
Par Michelle Knight, Michelle Burford. 2014
Michelle was a young single mother when she was kidnapped by a local school bus driver named Ariel Castro. For…
more than a decade afterward, she endured unimaginable torture at the hand of her abductor. In 2003 Amanda Berry joined her in captivity, followed by Gina DeJesus in 2004. Their escape on May 6, 2013, made headlines around the world. Barely out of her own tumultuous childhood, Michelle was estranged from her family and fighting for custody of her young son when she disappeared. Local police believed she had run away, so they removed her from the missing persons lists fifteen months after she vanished. Castro tormented her with these facts, reminding her that no one was looking for her, that the outside world had forgotten her. But Michelle would not be broken. Bestseller. 2014.Ten true tales of outrageous trickery. Includes how a group of Germans perpetrated one of the biggest, most sophisticated banknote…
counterfeiting schemes ever seen; how the world was fooled for nearly a decade when a "lost tribe" was discovered in the Philippines; and how Donald Crowhurst almost won the first round-the-world yacht race without ever leaving the Atlantic Ocean. For junior and senior high school readers. Winner of the 2005 Red Maple Award. 2004.My story
Par Chris Stewart, Elizabeth Smart. 2013
On June 5, 2002, fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Smart, the daughter of a close-knit Mormon family, was taken from her home in…
the middle of the night by religious fanatic Brian David Mitchell and his wife. She was kept chained, dressed in disguise, sexually abused, and told she and her family would be killed if she tried to escape. After her rescue on March 12, 2003, she rejoined her family and worked to pick up the pieces of her life. She tells of the constant fear she endured every hour, her courageous determination to maintain hope, and how she devised a plan to manipulate her captors and convince them to return to Utah, where she was rescued minutes after arriving. Bestseller. 2013.Cries unheard: why children kill : the story of Mary Bell
Par Gitta Sereny. 1998
In 1968, at the age of eleven, Mary Bell was tried and convicted of manslaughter following the death of two…
small boys, in Newcastle upon Tyne. Twenty-seven years after her conviction and her sentence of detention for life, and after her mother's death, Mary Bell agreed to talk about her harrowing childhood, her two terrible acts, nine weeks apart, her public trial and her twelve years of detention. 1998.The Marriott cell: an epic journey from Cairo's Scorpion Prison to freedom
Par Carol Shaben, Mohamed Fadel Fahmy. 2016
On the night of December 29, 2013, the Egyptian government's anti-terror forces led a dramatic raid on the Marriott Hotel,…
seizing Fahmy, Canadian-Egyptian bureau chief for the independent English Al Jazeera, and two fellow journalists in what quickly became an international cause célèbre condemned as a travesty of justice. Inside the maximum-security Scorpion Prison, Fahmy found himself with some of the most hardened Al Qaeda and ISIS extremists and Muslim Brotherhood leaders: he never stopped being a journalist, taking advantage of his unexpected proximity to "interview" them and gain insight into their goals, into the feuds between Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE on the one hand, and Qatar and its allies, including Turkey, on the other, and surfacing shocking details of torture inside military camps. Thrown into the toxic mix was the complex geo-political power brokering of Western governments, which left three men, wrongly convicted of conspiring with the Muslim Brotherhood and "fabricating news," struggling in a terrifying web. 2016.Wolves among sheep: the true story of murder in a Jehovah's Witness community
Par James Kostelniuk. 2000
The author retells the story of the shotgun murder of his first wife, Kim, and his two children at the…
hands of her estranged second husband. Jeff Anderson is a member of the Jehovah's Witnesses, and Kostelniuk discusses his belief that this organization hastened the acts of violence that killed Kim Anderson and her children. Some descriptions of violence. 2000.Without mercy: a woman's struggle against modern slavery
Par Miriam Ali, Jana Wain. 1995
For Miriam, the turning point in her life came with the confirmation that her daughters, Zana and Nadia, aged only…
fifteen and fourteen respectively, had been taken from their home in Birmingham to be sold by their father to 'husbands' in Yemen. She finally took her remaining children and left, beginning the fight to bring Zana and Nadia back home. 1995.Where the bodies were buried: Whitey Bulger and the world that made him
Par T. J English. 2015
For decades one of the most dangerous men in America, Bulger, the brother of influential Massachusetts senator Billy Bulger, was…
often romanticized as a Robin Hood-like thief and protector. While he was functioning as the de facto mob boss of New England, Bulger was also serving as a top-echelon informant for the FBI, covertly feeding local prosecutors information about other mob figures, while using their cover to cleverly eliminate his rivals, reinforce his own power, and protect himself from prosecution. In 2011 he was arrested in Southern California and returned to Boston, where he was tried and convicted of racketeering and murder. Offers a startlingly revisionist account of Bulger's story, and of the decades-long culture of collusion between the feds and the Irish and Italian mob factions that have ruled New England since the 1970s. 2015.We are all shipwrecks: a memoir
Par Kelley Grey Carlisle. 2017
Kelly always knew her family was different. She knew that most children didn't live with their grandparents on a boat…
in the LA harbour, that most family businesses weren't adult video stores, and that drug addicts and johns weren't normal next-door neighbours. She also knew that most of her classmates knew more about their moms than their cause of death. What Kelly didn't know was if she would become part of the dysfunction that surrounded her. Would she end up selling porn and sinking into the depths of harbour life, or would she escape to live her own story somewhere else? As an adult, Kelly decides to discover how the place where she came from defined the person she ultimately became. To do this, she goes back to the beginning--to a mother she never knew, a thirty-year-old cold case, and two of Los Angeles's most notorious murderers. 2017.Very much a lady: the untold story of Jean Harris and Dr. Herman Tarnower
Par Shana Alexander. 1983
Through a series of conversations with Harris before, during, and after the sensational trial in which Harris is convicted of…
Tarnower's death, Alexander compassionately reconstructs her life, career, and emotional obsession with Tarnower. Some strong language. 1983.