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Both a primer for teens eager to be allies as well as a reassuring testimony for young queer men of color, All Boys Aren't Blue covers topics such as gender identity, toxic masculinity, brotherhood, family, structural marginalization, consent, and Black joy. Johnson's emotionally frank style of writing will appeal directly to young adults.]]> 304 George M. Johnson 0374312710 Leon johnson 0 to-read 4.19 2020
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]]> 22131745 32 Ellen Garcia 3656641188 Leon johnson 0 to-read 0.0 2014
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]]> 8031238 158 Nick Ross 0340405414 Leon johnson 0 to-read 4.80 1987
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]]> 1037967 458 David Swine Fraser 1846242053 Leon johnson 0 to-read 3.60 2006
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Many of my readers know I have split my last several years between London and Arizona. As these past few months of 2019 and 2020 have been my final months in London, I thought it would be fitting to write a book about some of the most notorious killers in UK history.

This book is not officially part of the True Crime Case Histories series, but it’s written in a very similar style.

A sampling of the stories include:

The Camden Ripper - A homeless man reached into a dumpster and felt what he thought were salmon fillets in a plastic bag. What he found were two human legs severed at the knees. London police started a manhunt for a demented murderer intent on fulfilling his obsession of Jack the Ripper.  

The London Cannibal - At 23 years old bludgeoned to death a young girl he had a crush on in broad daylight. Found to have “diminished responsibility�, he was committed to a psychiatric ward. Within 11 years the killer found to be “no major risk� to society and was free to go. Within hours of his release, he had dismembered a friend and was frying parts of his body in a pan. Sent back to the mental hospital, his killing didn’t stop.  

The Acid Bath Killer - One of the most notorious killers in UK history, wrongfully believed if he could make a body disappear, he couldn’t be charged with murder. Led by greed, he dissolved his victims in vats of acid before acquiring their assets.

The Black Widow - Dena Thompson was a bigamist that hated men. Her first husband she drove into hiding from an imaginary mafia. Another thought he would be getting kinky sex, but instead got beaten within an inch of his life. Her second husband wasn’t so lucky.

The Bus Stop Killer - A sadistic predator terrorized southwest London for years following young blonde girls from bus stops. He would beat them on the head with a hammer simply for the sake of extinguishing life.

The Suffolk Strangler - The quiet area of Ipswitch in Suffolk normally sees very few killings in a year. In 2006 in a span of only six weeks police found in the bodies of five young women strangled. Some posed to resemble a crucifix.

Plus One Bonus Chapter.

The six true crime stories included in this collection are dark and chilling and will leave you with a new understanding of just how fragile the human mind can be.

True Crime Case Histories Volume 4 is coming May 2020 featuring 12 more short stories of; True Crime, Murder & Mayhem, Serial Killer Biographies, and True Murder Case Files.]]> 126 Jason Neal Leon johnson 0 to-read 4.12 2020
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Whether it is treasonable murder by red hot poker, as in the title story, the elaborate fraud and poisoning by Frederick Seddon, the Dunblane massacre by gunpoint by Thomas Hamilton, Ruth Ellis' murder of her boyfriend through love and jealousy, Fred & Rose West's serial sex killings, or the psychotic frenzied murders of Jack the Ripper or the haunting disappearance of estate agent Suzy Lamplugh, all the stories are given in full and accurate details, but succinct enough to make for easy reading on the commute to work.

This volume includes the stories

Jack the Ripper
The Acid Bath Murders of J G Haigh
Baby Farmer Amelia Dyer
The Moors Murders of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley
The serial killlings of gay men in London by Denis Nilsen and Colin Ireland
The racist murder of Stephen Lawrence
The Profumo Scandal
Richard III and the murder of the Princes in the Tower
Frederick Seddon and the poisoning of Miss Barrow
The homophobic murder of Jody Dobrowski
The Soham killings of Ian Huntley
Queen Isabella, She-Wolf of France, and the murder by red hot poker
Richard Dadd's murder of his own father and descent into madness at Bedlam
The murders at 10, Rillington Place
Victorian society beauty Madeleine Smith's poisoning of her discarded working class lover
Oscar Slater and the brutal murder of a wealthy spinster for her brooch
Adulterous Florence Maybrick's disposal of her husband, who's diary led to the identity of Jack the Ripper
The shocking Clydach murders of three generations of one family because of sexual rejection
Kate Webster and the Richmond Atrocity
The crimes of Wiliam Palmer, the Rugeley poisoner
Murder at Gill's Hill Cottage in Radlett
The Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe
Suzy Lamplugh's disappearance and the Suffolk Strangler Steve Wright

And many more.]]> 384 Robert Brall Leon johnson 0 to-read 2.00 2015
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]]> 18862534 289 John McShane 1306101875 Leon johnson 0 to-read 0.0 2011
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]]> 12835887 266 John McShane 1847249795 Leon johnson 0 to-read 3.57 2010
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]]> 12145143 282 Nigel Cawthorne 1849160252 Leon johnson 0 to-read 2.60 2010
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]]> 55769758 The authors of these stories have donated their work free of charge. You may find a favourite author here, or discover new favourites. Their stories cover crime in all its aspects. You'll find stories to terrify you, mystify you, or maybe even raise a smile. We hope you enjoy them.
Contributions from:
Andrew Barrett, Ben Bruce, T. G. Campbell, Brian W. Caves,
Lexie Conyngham, M. W. Craven, Robert Crouch, Jan Edwards,
Tony J. Forder, Susan Handley, Michael Kerr, Jon Mayhew,
Kath Middleton, Wilf Morgan, Barbara Norrey, Cecilia Peartree,
John Penfold, Jack Probyn, Will Templeton, Sam Thomas,
Bill Todd and Paula Williams]]> 433 Will Templeton Leon johnson 0 to-read 4.43
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The stories are grouped by theme - Avarice, Love & Sex, Treason & Psychosis - and may be read in the sequence suggested by the author, or dipped into like an encyclopedia. Each story begins with a brief resume of the facts to whet the appetite for the details which unfold.

This is for all those intrigued by true crimes stories through the ages - the Tudors, the Jacobeans, the Georgians, Victorians, Edwardians, World War II, the Roaring Twenties, World War II, 1950s, Swinging Sixties, 1970s and not resting until the present.

Great for dipping into on the commute to work, on holiday or at home.

This book includes the true crime stories of:-

Jack the Ripper
Ian Brady & Myra Hindley - the Moors murders
Peter Sutcliffe - "The Yorkshire Ripper"
Ian Huntley - the Soham murders
Oscar Wilde
Dr Crippen
Denis Nilsen - the killer of Muswell Hill
Burke & Hare
Ronald & Reggie Kray
Raoul Moat
Robert Napper - the murder of Rachel Nickell
Ruth Ellis - the last woman to be hanged in Britain
James Duke of Monmouth
Robert Thompson & John Venables
Colin Ireland
Jane Andrews - the Duchess of York's killer aide
Donald Neilson - the killing of Lesley Whittle
Michael Stone - the murders of Lin and Megan Russell
Fred & Rose West - the Cromwell Street murders
Sidney Fox
Dr Harold Shipman
Michael Ryan - the Hungerford Massacre
Thomas Hamilton - the Dunblane Massacre
Mary Queen of Scots

And others.

This edition has been updated by "Dark Hearts: Omnibus of 90 Infamous True Crime Cases" in 2016 which has expanded the range of dastardly deeds covered, from the murder of King Edward II to the present day.

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Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africa's anti-apartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial government and majority rule. He is revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality.

The foster son of a Thembu chief, Mandela was raised in the traditional, tribal culture of his ancestors, but at an early age learned the modern, inescapable reality of what came to be called apartheid, one of the most powerful and effective systems of oppression ever conceived. In classically elegant and engrossing prose, he tells of his early years as an impoverished student and law clerk in a Jewish firm in Johannesburg, of his slow political awakening, and of his pivotal role in the rebirth of a stagnant ANC and the formation of its Youth League in the 1950s.

He describes the struggle to reconcile his political activity with his devotion to his family, the anguished breakup of his first marriage, and the painful separations from his children. He brings vividly to life the escalating political warfare in the fifties between the ANC and the government, culminating in his dramatic escapades as an underground leader and the notorious Rivonia Trial of 1964, at which he was sentenced to life imprisonment. Herecounts the surprisingly eventful twenty-seven years in prison and the complex, delicate negotiations that led both to his freedom and to the beginning of the end of apartheid. Finally he provides the ultimate inside account.]]> 656 Nelson Mandela 0316548189 Leon johnson 0 to-read 4.34 1994
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]]> 4069 Man's Search for Meaning has become one of the most influential books in America; it continues to inspire us all to find significance in the very act of living.]]> 165 Viktor E. Frankl 080701429X Leon johnson 0 to-read 4.39 1946
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]]> 33294200 Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishing New York Times-bestselling novel-in-verse by an award-winning slam poet, about an Afro-Latina heroine who tells her story with blazing words and powerful truth.

Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking.

But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and she pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers—especially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, who her family can never know about.

With Mami’s determination to force her daughter to obey the laws of the church, Xiomara understands that her thoughts are best kept to herself. So when she is invited to join her school’s slam poetry club, she doesn’t know how she could ever attend without her mami finding out. But she still can’t stop thinking about performing her poems.

Because in the face of a world that may not want to hear her, Xiomara refuses to be silent.]]> 368 Elizabeth Acevedo Leon johnson 0 to-read 4.37 2018
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]]> 28257707 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780062457738

In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be "positive" all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people.

For decades, we’ve been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. "F**k positivity," Mark Manson says. "Let’s be honest, shit is f**ked and we have to live with it." In his wildly popular Internet blog, Manson doesn’t sugarcoat or equivocate. He tells it like it is—a dose of raw, refreshing, honest truth that is sorely lacking today. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is his antidote to the coddling, let’s-all-feel-good mindset that has infected American society and spoiled a generation, rewarding them with gold medals just for showing up.

Manson makes the argument, backed both by academic research and well-timed poop jokes, that improving our lives hinges not on our ability to turn lemons into lemonade, but on learning to stomach lemons better. Human beings are flawed and limited�"not everybody can be extraordinary, there are winners and losers in society, and some of it is not fair or your fault." Manson advises us to get to know our limitations and accept them. Once we embrace our fears, faults, and uncertainties, once we stop running and avoiding and start confronting painful truths, we can begin to find the courage, perseverance, honesty, responsibility, curiosity, and forgiveness we seek.

There are only so many things we can give a f**k about so we need to figure out which ones really matter, Manson makes clear. While money is nice, caring about what you do with your life is better, because true wealth is about experience. A much-needed grab-you-by-the-shoulders-and-look-you-in-the-eye moment of real-talk, filled with entertaining stories and profane, ruthless humor, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is a refreshing slap for a generation to help them lead contented, grounded lives.]]> 212 Mark Manson Leon johnson 0 to-read 3.88 2016
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