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I Live Inside

Memoirs of a Babe in Toyland

By: Michelle Leon

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I Live Inside

Memoirs of a Babe in Toyland

By: Michelle Leon

Babes in Toyland burst onto the Minneapolis music scene in the late 1980s and quickly established itself at the forefront of punk/alternative rock. The all-female trio featured a shy, seventeen-year-old Jewish teen from the suburbs on bass guitar—an instrument she had never played before joining the band. Over the next few years, Michelle Leon lived the rock-and-roll lifestyle—playing live concerts, recording in studios, touring across the United States and Europe, and spending endless hours in stuffy vans, staying in two-star motels, and sleeping on strangers’ couches in town after town. The grind and drama of life in the band gradually wore on Leon, however, and a heartbreaking tragedy led her to rethink her commitment to the band and the music scene. Leon’s sensitive, sensory prose puts readers right on stage with Babes in Toyland while also conveying the uncertainty, vulnerability, and courage needed by a girl who never felt like she fit in to somehow find her place in the world. “A crucial and compelling account of what it was to be a woman making music in the nineties. . . . Fantastic and ferocious.”—Jessica Hopper, music and culture critic and author of The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic “Profound, poetic, badass, tender, and inspiring.”—Will Hermes, author of Love Goes to Buildings on Fire “I Live Inside feels as real and personal as reading your own memories. . . . Parts read like a fairy tale while others are so haunting they will never leave you.”—Kelli Mayo, musician (Skating Polly) “Leon draws you right into the Babes in Toyland van, shows you the after party tensions and what is in the mind of this particular girl in a band.”—Darcey Steinke, author of Sister Golden Hair: A Novel and others “[Leon’s] prose is stunning, her eye is wry, and her heart enormous; the result is a compelling memoir filled with pop culture, travel, intrigue, and a young artist’s quest to find her voice.”—Laurie Lindeen, musician (Zuzu’s Petals) and author of Petal Pusher: A Rock and Roll Cinderella Story “By the end of this lyrical, tough, and moving memoir, you’ll not only feel like you know Michelle Leon, you’ll also want to talk and dance and listen to music with her.”—Scott Heim, author of Mysterious Skin and We Disappear “A vivid, poetic memoir.”—Mark Yarm, author of Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge “This is Planet Leon.”—David Markey, filmmaker, author, and musician

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Minnesota Historical Society

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087351999X

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9780873519991

The Return to Alcastar

By: Michelle Mueller

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The Return to Alcastar

By: Michelle Mueller

By all appearances, the kingdom of Alcastar is thriving and enjoying a time of peace, but things are not what they seem to be on the tropical island. When young Prince Leon discovers the wicked plan executed to subjugate his people, he sets sail to Shalimar to enlist the aid of King Lazar. Together, they are thrusted into a fierce battle on land and sea in an effort to free his people.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1984552589

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9781984552587

The Nude

A Novel

By: C. Michelle Lindley

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The Nude

A Novel

By: C. Michelle Lindley

A Boston Globe Book We’re Most Excited About This Summer • An Electric Lit Queer Books You Need to Read this Summer • A Town & Country’s Best Book to Read This July • A Debutiful Noteworthy Debut of July • LitHub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2024 A gripping, provocative, and sensual debut novel about an art historian who journeys to a Greek island in pursuit of a found sculpture and quickly finds herself immersed in a cultural tug-of-war and a complicated love affair. 1999: An island off the southern coast of Greece. Art historian Elizabeth Clarke arrives with the intent to acquire a rare female sculpture. But what begins as a quest for a highly valued cultural artifact evolves into a trip that will force Elizabeth to contend with her career, her ambition, and her troubling history. Disoriented by jet lag, debilitating migraines, and a dependence on prescription pills, Elizabeth turns to her charming and guileless translator to guide her around the labyrinthine island. Soon, the island’s lushness—its heat and light, its textures and tastes—take hold of Elizabeth. And when she’s introduced to her translator’s inscrutable wife—a subversive artist whose work seeks to deconstruct the female form—she becomes unexpectedly enthralled by her. But once the nude’s acquisition proves to be riskier than Elizabeth could have ever imagined, Elizabeth’s and the statue’s fate are called into question. To find a way out, Elizabeth must grapple with her past, the role she’s played in the global art trade, and the ethical fallouts her decisions could leave behind. The Nude is an evocative and intense exploration of art, cultural theft, and what it means to be a woman helming morally complicated negotiations in a male-directed world.

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Simon and Schuster

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166803297X

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9781668032978

You Can't Save Them All

By: Jeanette Michelle

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You Can't Save Them All

By: Jeanette Michelle

This is Jeanette Michelle’s 3rd published novel (2nd fiction novel). The story is centered on an Attorney out of Chicago where a paralegal, Lisa decides to go searching for the perfect case for her colleague Ethel to take in order to obtain fame and recognition. Lisa stumbles across what she calls the perfect case, which is in a town her colleague, Ethel despises. Trusting Lisa’s judgment, Ethel accepts although she is unaware of the specific details of the case. This suspense novel not only depicts the life of an attorney in the court room, but her personal life and calamities that evolves her.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1462838278

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9781462838271

Chicanas in Charge

Texas Women in the Public Arena

By: José Angel Gutiérrez,Michelle Meléndez,Sonia A. Noyola

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Chicanas in Charge

Texas Women in the Public Arena

By: José Angel Gutiérrez,Michelle Meléndez,Sonia A. Noyola

No state has a greater density of Chicano community leaders and politicians than does Texas. This study examines the lives and politics of a distinguished group of Chicana women who have risen to positions of power. The authors profile women who serve in various public capacities—federal judges, candidates for Lieutenant Governor, a statewide chair of a political party, and members of school boards and city and county governments. The diverse careers of these women offer rare glimpses of the kinds of struggles they face, both as women and as members of the Chicano community. Chicans in Charge will be of great value to those interested in gender studies, political science, local government, public policy, oral history, biography, and Chicano studies.

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Rowman Altamira

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0759113947

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Belonging

A Daughter's Search for Identity Through Loss and Love

By: Michelle Miller

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Belonging

A Daughter's Search for Identity Through Loss and Love

By: Michelle Miller

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "[An] outstanding debut."—Publishers Weekly (starred review) The award-winning journalist and co-host of CBS Saturday Morning tells the candid, and deeply personal story of her mother’s abandonment and how the search for answers forced her to reckon with her own identity and the secrets that shaped her family for five decades. Though Michelle Miller was an award-winning broadcast journalist for CBS News, few people in her life knew the painful secret she carried: her mother had abandoned her at birth. Los Angeles in 1967 was deeply segregated, and her mother—a Chicana hospital administrator who presented as white, had kept her affair with Michelle’s father, Dr. Ross Miller, a married trauma surgeon and Compton’s first Black city councilman—hidden, along with the unplanned pregnancy. Raised largely by her father and her paternal grandmother, Michelle had no knowledge of the woman whose genes she shared. Then, fate intervened when Michelle was twenty-two. As her father lay stricken with cancer, he told her, “Go and find your mother.” Belonging is the chronicle of Michelle’s decades-long quest to connect with the woman who gave her life, to confront her past, and ultimately, to find her voice as a journalist, a wife, and a mother. Michelle traces the years spent trying to make sense of her mixed-race heritage and her place in white-dominated world. From the wealthy white schools where she was bussed to integrate, to the newsrooms filled with white, largely male faces, she revisits the emotional turmoil of her formative years and how the enigma of her mother and her rejection shaped Michelle’s understanding of herself and her own Blackness. As she charts her personal journey, Michelle looks back on her decades on the ground reporting painful events, from the beating of Rodney King to the death of George Floyd, revealing how her struggle to understand her racial identity coincides with the nation’s own ongoing and imperfect racial reckoning. What emerges is an intimate family story about secrets—secrets we keep, secrets we share, and the secrets that make us who we are.

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HarperCollins

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0063220458

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9780063220454

Michigan's Company K

Anishinaabe Soldiers, Citizenship, and the Civil War

By: Michelle K Cassidy

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Michigan's Company K

Anishinaabe Soldiers, Citizenship, and the Civil War

By: Michelle K Cassidy

As much as the Civil War was a battle over the survival of the United States, for the men of Company K of the First Michigan Sharpshooters, it was also one battle in a longer struggle for the survival of Anishinaabewaki, the homelands of the Anishinaabeg—Ojibwe, Odawa, and Boodewaadamii peoples . The men who served in what was often called ‘the Indian Company’ chose to enlist in the Union army to contribute to their peoples’ ongoing struggle with the state and federal governments over status, rights, resources, and land in the Great Lakes. This meticulously researched history begins in 1763 with Pontiac’s War, a key moment in Anishinaabe history. It then explores the multiple strategies the Anishinaabeg deployed to remain in Michigan despite federal pressure to leave. Anishinaabe men claimed the rights and responsibilities associated with male citizenship—voting, owning land, and serving in the army—while actively preserving their status as ‘Indians’ and Anishinaabe peoples. Indigenous expectations of the federal government, as well as religious and social networks, shaped individuals’ decisions to join the U.S. military. The stories of Company K men also broaden our understanding of the complex experiences of Civil War soldiers. In their fight against removal, dispossession, political marginalization, and loss of resources in the Great Lakes, the Anishinaabeg participated in state and national debates over citizenship, allegiance, military service, and the government’s responsibilities to veterans and their families.

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MSU Press

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1609177401

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9781609177409

Interpreting Food at Museums and Historic Sites

By: Michelle Moon

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Interpreting Food at Museums and Historic Sites

By: Michelle Moon

Food is such a friendly topic that it’s often thought of as a “hook” for engaging visitors – a familiar way into other topics, or a sensory element to round out a living history interpretation. But it’s more than just a hook – it’s a topic all its own, with its own history and its own uncertain future, deserving of a central place in historic interpretation. With audiences more interested in food than ever before, and new research in food studies bringing interdisciplinary approaches to this complicated but compelling subject, museums and historic sites have an opportunity to draw new audiences and infuse new meaning into their food presentations. You’ll find: A comprehensive, thematic framework of key concepts that will help you contextualize food history interpretations; A concise, evaluative review of the historiography of food interpretation; Case studies featuring the expression of these themes in the real world of museum interpretation; and Best practices for interpreting food. Interpreting Food offers a framework for understanding the big ideas in food history, suggesting best practices for linking objects, exhibits and demonstrations with the larger story of change in food production and consumption over the past two centuries – a story in which your visitors can see themselves, and explore their own relationships to food. This book can help you develop food interpretation with depth and significance, making relevant connections to contemporary issues and visitor interests.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442257229

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9781442257221

Last Chance

By: Michelle Birbeck

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Last Chance

By: Michelle Birbeck

With her race saved from extinction, Serenity's life could not be better. Married, finally, to history professor, Ray, and back in London for the first time in a century, retirement isn't coming easy. Being a housewife was never in her make up. But when Lizzy calls to say the Keepers' records have been taken, retirement is preferable over the danger they now face. All their family trees. Historical and current details of every Keeper across the entire globe... gone... stolen. Targets once more, Serenity's isn't inclined to sit back and let her brothers and sisters face the losses she witnessed. No matter who is behind the threat, they will not face the endless mercy the Keepers have always displayed. No matter who is responsible for the killings, no threats will be issued. No matter if the killers are human, witches, Weres, vampires or even Keepers... This time, there will be no survivors.

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Lulu.com

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1291967982

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9781291967982

Black Denim Lit #7: A Suitable Poison

[August, 2014]

By: Robert Stiles,Tiffany Michelle Brown,Rhoads Brazos,John Dromey,Kate Morrow,Scott Blankenship,Sean Monaghan,Linda Boroff

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Black Denim Lit #7: A Suitable Poison

[August, 2014]

By: Robert Stiles,Tiffany Michelle Brown,Rhoads Brazos,John Dromey,Kate Morrow,Scott Blankenship,Sean Monaghan,Linda Boroff

The August, 2014 issue edited by Christopher T Garry features 140 pages of never before seen stories from eight new authors, creating narratives that are variously dark, cynical, inspiring, violent and longing. Black Denim Lit is a monthly journal of fiction available on the web and eReaders. "Armed" by Robert Stiles (Sal Noman recieves an arm in the mail.); "Blood Melody" by Tiffany Michelle Brown (Layla is slowly starving in the ocean); "Fluttering in the Remains" by Rhoads Brazos (Manny and his son Theo take over a junkyard and find it inhabited); "The Imperfect Patsy" by John Dromey (Lewis Poindexter finds his work shifting from detecting to killing); "The Quickening" by Kate Morrow (Four friends are bloodbound in dystopia); "The Job" by Scott Blankenship (An assassin makes a change in his routine); "The Helmet" by Sean Monaghan (Salvage experts have a go outrunning ... the government?); "A Suitable Poison" by Linda Boroff (Berta sets off the culture of a magazine publishing firm with its grueling schedule and office politics with wry regard for youth, relationships and power.) The work draws from fantasy, crime, science fiction and drama. Such genre variety is brought together under the common thread of rich characterization. In all the stories this month, these are human beings at odds. Whether they face a gun, a monster, a co-worker or the vastness of space, each of these players respond from a very deep place of truth. And regardless of which genre can be applied, the authors have surprises in store.

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Black Denim Lit

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1310578990

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9781310578991

Roar of the Dragon

By: Michelle Mueller

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Roar of the Dragon

By: Michelle Mueller

When a band of powerful marauders plunder and ravage the villages of Toradi, an Irish Traveler risks his life to cross the mountains and warn King Lazar of Shalimar of an imminent attack. Once again, King Lazar leads the Knights of Shalimar in battle to fight the evil Dirks in a quest for justice. Along the way, they discover their battle is not against mere men but also against mystical beasts and come face to face with an old enemy.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1796069337

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9781796069334

Ball Tales

A Study of Baseball, Basketball and Football Fiction of the 1930s through 1960s

By: Michelle Nolan

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Ball Tales

A Study of Baseball, Basketball and Football Fiction of the 1930s through 1960s

By: Michelle Nolan

This history of American sports fiction traces depictions of baseball, basketball and football in works for all age levels from early dime novels through the 1960s. Chapters cover dime novel heroes Frank and Dick Merriwell; the explosion of sports novels before World War II and its influence on the authors who later wrote for baby boom readers; how sports novels persisted during the Great Depression; the rise and decline of sports pulps; why sports comics failed; postwar heroes Chip Hilton and Bronc Burnett; the lack of sports fiction for females; Duane Decker's Blue Sox books; and the classic John R. Tunis novels. Appendices list sports pulp titles and comic books featuring sports fiction.

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McFarland

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0786458305

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9780786458301

Culture of Corruption

Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies

By: Michelle Malkin

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Culture of Corruption

Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies

By: Michelle Malkin

A syndicated conservative columnist and cable-news commentator asserts her opinion on Barack Obama, his cabinet, and other members of his circle.

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Regnery Publishing

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1596986204

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9781596986206

Lupe Velez

The Life and Career of Hollywood's "Mexican Spitfire"

By: Michelle Vogel

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Lupe Velez

The Life and Career of Hollywood's "Mexican Spitfire"

By: Michelle Vogel

Here is the first extensive, full-length biography and career record on the life and work of Mexican whirlwind Lupe Velez (1908-1944). Over the years many crude myths have surfaced about Velez, the most notorious that she "died with her head in the toilet." This biography not only studies Lupe's personal life and career--including her tempestuous marriage to Johnny Weissmuller--but also examines her death in detail. It has been almost seven decades since her untimely end; at long last, the ugly rumors and myths are debunked--for good. Included are never-before-told family stories and photographs from Lupe's second cousin, and an analysis of the actress's lasting influence on popular culture. The foreword by Oscar-winning film historian Kevin Brownlow focuses on the fact and fancy behind Lupe Velez's colorful public image.

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McFarland

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0786489979

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9780786489978

Out of It

By: Michelle Kadarusman

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Out of It

By: Michelle Kadarusman

Suri and Lacey have been best friends since kindergarten. Suri, the photographer, has always been the safe, responsible one, afraid to take risks. Now that the pair is in high school, she''s afraid that her more outgoing and adventurous friend will outgrow her. Then Lacey''s wild, risk-taking personality leads her down a dangerous path -- and Suri is afraid of losing her for real. But if she chases Lacey down that same path of drinking, partying, hooking up with older guys, and drugs, will Suri be able to save her friend -- or herself?

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James Lorimer & Company

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1459407229

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9781459407220

The Price of a Bride

By: Michelle Reid

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The Price of a Bride

By: Michelle Reid

Forced to marry! When Mia Frazier agreed to her father's demand to marry Greek millionaire Alexander Doumas, she knew both men stood to gain from the deal—Alex would win back his family's island, and Mia's father would get the grandson and heir he so desperately longed for. But what about Mia? She had her own reason for agreeing to be Alex's wife—which was not financial gain, as Alex cynically believed. But how could the truth stay hidden, when she shared such intense passion with her new husband…and was now carrying his child?

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Harlequin

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1459251857

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9781459251854

The Big Book of 1980s Serial Killers

A Collection of The Most Infamous Killers of the 80s, Including Jeffrey Dahmer, the Golden State Killer, the BTK Killer, Richard Ramirez, and More

By: Michelle Kaminsky

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The Big Book of 1980s Serial Killers

A Collection of The Most Infamous Killers of the 80s, Including Jeffrey Dahmer, the Golden State Killer, the BTK Killer, Richard Ramirez, and More

By: Michelle Kaminsky

Take a deep dive into the rise and fall of some of the most notorious serial killers of the ‘80s, including Jeffrey Dahmer, Joseph James DeAngelo, Dennis Lynn Rader, and the Night Stalker. Neon leg warmers, big hair, rock band T-shirts, and mix tapes — 1980s’ nostalgia at its finest. But just below that saccharine facade lurked a seedy underbelly of inconceivable human monsters like no decade before had ever seen. The Golden Age of the Serial Killer brought a sharp increase in violent crime, panic, and terror, which in turn sparked a chaotic race between serial murderers and law enforcement officers tasked with both stopping the killings and delivering justice to victims and their loved ones. The Big Book of 1980s Serial Killers is for the true crime fanatic who wants to investigate these cases and discover the ins and outs of how crimes like these are solved. Drawing from meticulous research, contemporary journalistic accounts, and trial transcripts, this book traces the various ways in which law enforcement cracked some of the most challenging serial killer cases in history. Serial killers included: Doug Clark and Carol Bundy (Sunset Strip Killers) Jeffrey Dahmer Joseph James DeAngelo (The Golden State Killer) Larry Eyler (The Interstate Killer) Lonnie David Franklin, Jr. (The Grim Sleeper) Samuel Little Gary Leon Ridgway (The Green River Killer) Dennis Rader (The BTK Killer) Richard Ramirez (The Night Stalker) Tommy Lynn Sells Arthur Shawcross (The Genesee River Killer) Aileen Wournos Are you ready to hunt the worst serial killers of the 1980s?

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223

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Simon and Schuster

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1646046366

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9781646046362

Obsession 101

By: Michelle McGriff

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Obsession 101

By: Michelle McGriff

After tragedy strikes Professor Rashawn Ams, she attempts to reintroduce herself to life. The common threads of lust, greed and obsession bind three important men in her life. The only problem is, one of them is a killer...

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Q-Boro

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0977733548

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