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The Mob and Me

Wiseguys and the Witness Protection Program

By: John Partington,Arlene Violet

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The Mob and Me

Wiseguys and the Witness Protection Program

By: John Partington,Arlene Violet

This revealing first-person narrative, by one of the founders of the Witness Protection Program and a personal protector to more than five hundred informants, offers an eye-opening, dead-on authentic perspective on the safeguard institution. How did law enforcement’s frustration with the criminal underworld and a serpentine series of hit-or-miss rules and mistakes give rise to one of the most significant and endlessly fascinating government-run programs of the 20th century? In 1967, U.S. Marshal John Partington was given the task of overseeing the protection of the wife and young daughter of renowned mobster Joe “The Animal” Barboza, now an informant with a bounty on his head. It wasn’t Partington’s first time guarding underworld witnesses. But this time was different. It was at the behest of Senator Bobby Kennedy that Partington became the architect of a new high- threat program to get the bad guys to testify against the worse guys. Lifelong protection in exchange for the conviction of the upper echelon of organized crime would require a permanent identity change for every member of the witness’s family, a battery of psychological tests for re-assimilation, and a total, devastating obliteration of all ties with the past. With no blueprint for success, it created a logistical nightmare for Partington. He would have to make up the rules as he went along, and he did so without the luxury of knowing whom he could really trust at any given time. And so, the Witness Protection Program was born. The account John Partington tells of the next thirty years of his life is a never-before-seen portrait of members of the underworld and law enforcement—from Joe Valachi, the first mobster to violate the “omerta,” the sacrosanct code of silence, to high-profile informant and NYPD narcotics detective Bob Leuci, immortalized in Prince of the City. He reveals the details of the protection provided such significant figures as Watergate players to Howard Hunt and John and Maureen Dean. Ultimately, Partington delivers the unvarnished truth of the Program, from the heavily-shielded delivery of witnesses to trial, to countless death threats, to managing an ever- rotating crew of U.S. Marshals, to the step-by-step procedure of reinventing his sometimes dangerous, sometimes terrified charges and their families as uncomplicated suburbanites. These would be the guarded new neighbors just across the street bearing secret histories—uncomfortable actors in a play that would run for the rest of their lives. Lifting a cloak of confidentiality and controversy, The Mob and Me immerses readers in the rarified, misunderstood world of Witness Protection—at once human, dangerous, intimate, surprising, and stone-cold violent.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439167761

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9781439167762

Storm Force

By: Meredith Fletcher,Violet Winspear

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Storm Force

By: Meredith Fletcher,Violet Winspear

Wilderness guide Kate Garrett is having the bad day of the century. The worst storm in Florida's history is about to hit land, and she's been taken hostage by a gang of escaped convicts. Worse, her children are stranded on low ground and her ex-husband can't be reached. Now Kate must race against time to guide the prisoners through the swamp and save her children from the tidal wave. She can't afford to be distracted by Shane Warren, the powerful convict who claims to be helping her, even as he keeps her from escaping. But Kate does have one advantage: there's no deadlier force in nature than a mother fighting for her young....

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285

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Silhouette

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0373514344

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9780373514342

Tribulation

By: Violet Burlison

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Tribulation

By: Violet Burlison

Have you heard about the coming rapture and tribulation period? Do you believe it will happen? Muriel and David had heard about it but didnt take it seriously. Now theyre having to live through it. What do you think it will be like? Follow their adventures, and youll get an idea of what they are going through. This story is fiction, for now.

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Author House

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1491808799

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9781491808795

Build Your House Around My Body

A Novel

By: Violet Kupersmith

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Build Your House Around My Body

A Novel

By: Violet Kupersmith

Part puzzle, part revenge tale, part ghost story, this ingenious novel spins half a century of Vietnamese history and folklore into “a thrilling read, acrobatic and filled with verve” (The New York Times Editors’ Choice). FINALIST FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION’S FIRST NOVEL PRIZE • LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, Good Housekeeping, Kirkus Reviews “Fiction as daring and accomplished as Violet Kupersmith’s first novel reignites my love of the form and its kaleidoscopic possibilities.”—David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas Two young women go missing decades apart. Both are fearless, both are lost. And both will have their revenge. 1986: The teenage daughter of a wealthy Vietnamese family loses her way in an abandoned rubber plantation while fleeing her angry father and is forever changed. 2011: A young, unhappy Vietnamese American woman disappears from her new home in Saigon without a trace. The fates of these two women are inescapably linked, bound together by past generations, by ghosts and ancestors, by the history of possessed bodies and possessed lands. Alongside them, we meet a young boy who is sent to a boarding school for the métis children of French expatriates, just before Vietnam declares its independence from colonial rule; two Frenchmen who are trying to start a business with the Vietnam War on the horizon; and the employees of the Saigon Spirit Eradication Co., who find themselves investigating strange occurrences in a farmhouse on the edge of a forest. Each new character and timeline brings us one step closer to understanding what binds them all. Build Your House Around My Body takes us from colonial mansions to ramshackle zoos, from sweaty nightclubs to the jostling seats of motorbikes, from ex-pat flats to sizzling back-alley street carts. Spanning more than fifty years of Vietnamese history and barreling toward an unforgettable conclusion, this is a time-traveling, heart-pounding, border-crossing fever dream of a novel that will haunt you long after the last page.

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401

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Random House

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0679645152

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9780679645153

THE SUN TOWER

Mills & Boon Comics

By: Violet Winspear,Jun Makimura

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THE SUN TOWER

Mills & Boon Comics

By: Violet Winspear,Jun Makimura

Left orphaned after her father is lost at sea, young Dina is taken under the wing of Bella Rhinehart, a rich widow. She grows up to become a beautiful, refined young woman and gets engaged to Bay Bigelow, a man chosen for her by Bella. Bay is a man of good breeding and an ideal husband for the young, high-class woman, but Dina feels no passion for him. It’s then that she meets Raf, an Italian with eyes as captivating as a sorcerer’s. He’s a few years older than her, he’s arrogant and he’s not shy about making advances. As Dina feels a passion that she’s never felt before, she finds herself torn between the two men...

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128

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Harlequin / SB Creative

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4596240264

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9784596240262

Years into Lives

Pages from Our Family Stories

By: Violet “Cookie” Lynch

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Years into Lives

Pages from Our Family Stories

By: Violet “Cookie” Lynch

When my parents began writing life stories in their writing group, I figured a few good stories would make it onto paper. Well, they did followed by many, many more than I ever imagined. The family history that emerged makes for exciting and revelatory reading. From the family roots in Scotland and England, to the shores of Connecticut, then westward to Indiana, the family grew and flourished. The adventures and travels of the Lynch and Cook families span World Wars, cross thousands of miles, and yielded hundreds of photographs. This book will captivate you with its fascinating twists and turns, and with its tales of love and devotion. It is, indeed, a feast of a book.

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531

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Author House

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1477294082

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9781477294086

The Interloper

in large print

By: Violet Jacob

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The Interloper

in large print

By: Violet Jacob

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3387098707

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9783387098709

Carbon Dreams

By: Violet Reason

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Carbon Dreams

By: Violet Reason

Human truth and pride, pressure-cooked in modern civilization, are treated with understanding and irony in the collected works of the author, who examines the structures of civilization, from ruined buildings to bakery thrift stores, as well as social problems, including the loss of amenity and the decline of civility. She addresses homelessness, nuclear proliferation, pornography, suicide, arson, imprisonment, and exploration. The author uses her own experience as a doctor to treat the experiences of disease and death. She draws on her experiences as a social worker in drug abuse clinics. She transforms her own experiences of being poor and homeless into strange commentaries. She writes with the voices of childless cowgirls, native American dogs, and frustrated academics (in "Saturday Night/Academics in Love"). But she also writes to the experiences of mathematicians (Godel) and alchemists. She pretends to be a clairvoyant meter reader and a telephone operator handling transtemporal phone calls. She pretends to be a monster, a victim of torture, a killer, farmer, and prophet. She solves the mysteries of El Greco's lost journals and of the end of the universe.

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3 Muses Books, SynGeo ArchiGraph

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0911385207

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9780911385205

Bunkie

By: Violet Brooke

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Bunkie

By: Violet Brooke

I wrote the book about my childhood; so that others may learn that it is not what you have but what you do with what is given in life to you and that God will bless you only if you ask.

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1504904303

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Love's Masquerade

By: Violet Hamilton

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Love's Masquerade

By: Violet Hamilton

When Leslie Danforth tries to repel the attentions of an unwanted suitor, she is rescued by Marcus Kingsly, who offers her pseudonymous authorship of a column in The Times London. And when Marcus and Leslie later learn of a plot to murder the Prince Regent, glorious intrigue, romance, and adventure ensue.

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308

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Zebra Books

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0821754092

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9780821754092

Xeyata

Up on the Mountain

By: Violet H. Catches

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Xeyata

Up on the Mountain

By: Violet H. Catches

Kikto was born to perform the Turn of the Century Ceremony of the Lakxota people. His family carried the story, the songs and the wintercount and other items that will be needed for this ceremony. But first he has to grow up and experience life. His life is eventful in the days while he is growing up, he meets people, hears stories and learns the way of life that people live in his time.

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Trafford Publishing

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1426961111

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Haunted

the Death Mother Archetype

By: Violet Sherwood

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Haunted

the Death Mother Archetype

By: Violet Sherwood

The disturbing experience of psychological infanticide reflects the darkest aspect of the wounding of the Sacred Feminine - the Death Mother archetype that annihilates rather than nurtures life. Through myth, story, classic literature, biography, poems, art and dreams, Dr. Violet Sherwood weaves together symbolic aspects of psychological infanticide with psychoanalytic theory of traumatic attachment and the literal truth of a centuries-old history of infanticide. She illuminates the Death Mother archetype in the dynamic between the unwilling (or unsupported) mother and the unwelcome child. Her personal and archetypal journey into, through, and beyond the underworld, offers hope and guidance for the restoration of the relationship between the Sacred Feminine and the Divine Child. She draws on her professional experience as a psychotherapist and her lived experience of psychological infanticide as a result of closed stranger adoption to explore the intimate connection between life and death, revealing the life task of the infanticided psyche is to embrace death and discover the life that lies beyond the realm of the underworld.

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Chiron Publications

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1630519901

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9781630519902

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