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True stories
Hardback. Lyman Bostock was a professional baseball player for the Minnesota Twins and the California Angels in the 1970s. Many believed he was good enough to win multiple batting titles, yet his murder meant it would never come to be. This book tells the story of Bostock's humble beginnings, his too-brief baseball career, and his tragic death. Num Pages: 350 pages, 19 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGS; BTC; WSJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 621.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442252059
- ISBN
- 9781442252059
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.55
€ 61.55
Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages, 1x8 b/w illustration section. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJPL; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Disinformation Company United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781932857856
- ISBN
- 9781932857856
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.75
€ 18.99
€ 17.75
Paperback. Conning Harvard tells the story of Adam Wheeler's lie-filled path into Harvard, his compulsive conning of grant and scholarship boards after enrolling, and the eventual discovery of his fraudulent past. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: BG; BTC; JFHX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 133 x 17. Weight in Grams: 16.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780762786763
- ISBN
- 9780762786763
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 13.77
€ 15.99
€ 13.77
Paperback. If you lived on the notorious Canterbury Estate in the '40s and '50s, then you knew there was one man you did not want to cross: Charlie Hudson. A solitary man, feared and respected by the gangsters of the time, Charlie was a boxer who never lost a fight, in or out of the ring - the most infamous of The Canterbury Warriors. Series: Tales of the Notorious Hudson Family. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKEYK; BT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 174.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KRA0009183
- ISBN
- 9780007542260
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. It's 1983 and best friends Vicky and Lucy swear that they will always be there for each other, that they'll never let anyone come between them. But fast forward 4 years and life on the Canterbury Estate has gotten very messy. Series: Tales of the Notorious Hudson Family. Num Pages: 336 pages, (1x8pp plates). BIC Classification: 1DBKEYK; 3JJPN; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KSG0020001
- ISBN
- 9780008142797
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. On Christmas Eve 1971, the packed LANSA flight 508 from Lima to Pucallpa was struck by lightning and went down in dense jungle hundreds of miles from civilization. Of its 93 passengers, only one survived: Juliane Koepcke - here is her fascinating story of survival against all the odds. Translator(s): Benjamin, Ross. Num Pages: 248 pages, B&W illustrations. BIC Classification: BTP; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Publisher
- Nicholas Brealey Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857885835
- ISBN
- 9781857885835
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.39
€ 17.99
€ 13.39
Paperback. The heart-warming true story of a little boy and the cat that changed his life. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: BT; WNGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 138 x 27. Weight in Grams: 278. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- SKU
- KRA0011507
- ISBN
- 9780007382743
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Publisher
- Chicago Review Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781613736500
- ISBN
- 9781613736500
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.34
€ 19.99
€ 19.34
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Eye Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785635014
- ISBN
- 9781785635014
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.66
€ 13.99
€ 11.66
Paperback. John Peel first brought Judy's moving childhood story to light on 'Home Truths'. Abducted by her psychotic spiritualist father and kept like a dog in the backyard, she went on to suffer at the brutal hands of nuns in a Manchester orphanage, before living wild on the streets. An incredible, heart-wrenching story of a child who refused to give up. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; BTP; JFFE1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 230. Good, clean copy. Showing minor shelfwear to covers and some stains on page edges
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- SKU
- KSG0007641
- ISBN
- 9780007222018
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Waterside Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781909976245
- ISBN
- 9781909976245
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.98
€ 30.99
€ 27.98
Paperback. An anthology of Scotland's worst and most infamous murders. It contains 22 stories from Scotland's bloodstained past that date back to the fifteenth century. Series: Waverley Scottish Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 125 x 15. Weight in Grams: 188.
- Publisher
- Waverley Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781902407838
- ISBN
- 9781902407838
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 6.99
€ 6.99
Paperback. Suitable for those who want to put "do unto others" in the centre of their lives and reap the unexpected benefits of happiness and health, this book inspires the reader with the day-to-day journey of meaning, gratification and joy that comes from contributing to the lives of others in so many creative ways. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 298. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- SKU
- KOC0022169
- ISBN
- 9780670921133
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Truran United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 277
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781850221265
- ISBN
- 9781850221265
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.50
€ 14.50
Paperback. Until now, we believed that everything had been said about the rise and fall of the most infamous drug lord of all time, Pablo Escobar. In this book, his son brings us the dramatic truth. It is about a man of contradictions - generosity and infinite love for his family; yet capable of the most extreme acts of cruelty and violence. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: BTC; JKVG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 23. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Publisher
- Ebury Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785035142
- ISBN
- 9781785035142
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.90
€ 19.99
€ 15.90
Paperback. Tracing its beginnings as an underground society which sprang up six hundred years ago in Sicily, to the Mob which went on to run organised crime throughout Italy and America, this work tells the story of one of the most mythical and misunderstood criminal organisation. Num Pages: 496 pages, 8 pages. BIC Classification: BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 30. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Publisher
- Virgin Books London
- Number of pages
- 496
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753518205
- ISBN
- 9780753518205
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.61
€ 23.99
€ 17.61
Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, Part-Opener Photos throughout. BIC Classification: BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 204 x 19. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780307717733
- ISBN
- 9780307717733
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.38
€ 16.99
€ 15.38
Hardback. In Bed with the Badge is this generation's Burning Bed. Ms. Joyce and her brother, Raymond, tell the bloodcurdling story of how their father, Ray Sheehan, a retired NYPD detective, turned wife-beating into an art form by utilizing the very tactics he was taught in the police force. Num Pages: 288 pages, colour plates. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Changing Lives Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780984304714
- ISBN
- 9780984304714
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.62
€ 26.99
€ 23.62
Paperback. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: BTC; HBLX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 164 x 11. Weight in Grams: 142.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Beaufort Books
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780825307270
- ISBN
- 9780825307270
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.05
€ 11.05
Hardback. Num Pages: 212 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEP; BTC; JFFE; JFSJ1; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 164 x 20. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Lehigh University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611460926
- ISBN
- 9781611460926
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.12
€ 127.12