Burrough, an award-winning financial journalist and Vanity Fair special correspondent, best known for Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco, switches gears to produce the definitive account of the 1930s crime wave that brought notorious criminals like John Dillinger and Bonnie and Clyde to America's front pages. Burrough's fascination with his subject matter stems from a family connection—his paternal grandfather manned a roadblock in Arkansas during the hunt for Bonnie and Clyde—and he successfully translates years of dogged research, which included thorough review of recently disclosed FBI files, into a graceful narrative. This true crime history appropriately balances violent shootouts and schemes for daring prison breaks with a detailed account of how the slew of robberies and headlines helped an ambitious federal bureaucrat named J. Edgar Hoover transform a small agency into the FBI we know today. While some of the details (e.g., that Dillinger got a traffic ticket) are trivial, this book compellingly brings back to life people and times distorted in the popular imagination by hagiographic bureau memoirs and Hollywood. Burrough's recent New York Times op-ed piece drawing parallels between the bureau's "reinvention" in the 1930s and today's reform efforts to combat the war on terror will help attract readers looking for lessons from history.
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An archaeologist finds the tomb of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Ramses and is killed after he ignores the curse on the tomb's door. The treasure from the late archaeologist's find is sent to his daughter in England. When in the daughter's care, the mummy of the ancient ruler comes to life and the young lady falls in love with him. As she teaches him about the modern world, Ramses is enraged by the way his culture is depicted and how its ancient wonders have been prostituted for tourism. The young lady brings Ramses to a museum, where he recognizes an unidentified mummy as his old love, Cleopatra. The ancient ruler revives his queen with an immortality elixir, but she does not return to her former beauty -- instead she awakens as a rotting corpse.
Twelve issue miniseries
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The Vampire Chronicles is a series of novels by Anne Rice that revolves around the fictional character Lestat de Lioncourt, a French nobleman made into a vampire in the 18th century. Most of the books are in first-person perspective with only a few being in third-person. Also included New Tales of the Vampires which is a departure from The Vampire Chronicles.
Books Titles:
Interview with the Vampire
The Vampire Lestat
The Queen of the Damned
The Tale of the Body Thief
Memnoch the Devil
The Vampire Armand
Merrick
Blood and Gold
Blackwood Farm
Blood Canticle
Bonus Books:
Pandora
Vittorio the Vampire
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Aleister Crowley was a self-proclaimed drug and sex "fiend," a mostly self-published author of books on the occult and magick. A poet and mountaineer, and a leader of a group called Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO). Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law is his motto for OTO. In practice, for Crowley this meant rejecting traditional morality in favor of the life of a drug addict and womanizer. Crowley claimed to identify himself with the Great Beast 666 (from the Book of Revelation) and enjoyed the appellation of "wickedest man in the world." Crowley inherited a fortune and worked hard at being strange. He was especially alluring to dysfunctional women.
Book Titles:
Equinox
Moonchild
Ad Meiomrum Cthulhi Gloriam
Book Of Lies
Diary of a Drug Fiend
Magick In Theory And Practice
Magick Without Tears
Olla
The Book Of Thoth
The Sword of Song
White Stains
The Complete Astrological Writings
Aleister Crowley's Illustrated Goetia Sexual Evocation
Ambergris A Selection From The Poems Of Aleister Crowley
Enochian World of Aleister Crowley
KONX OM PAX - Essays in Light
The Confessions of Aleister Crowley
The Mystical and Magical System of the A .'. A .'.
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1 Working Man
2 Fly by Night
3 2112 Overture/The Temples of Syrinx
4 Closer to the Heart
5 The Trees
6 The Spirit of Radio
7 Freewill
8 Limelight
9 Tom Sawyer
10 Red Barchetta
11 New World Man
12 Subdivisions
13 Distant Early Warning
14 The Big Money
15 Force Ten
16 Time Stand Still
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1 2112 Medley
2 A Passage to Bangkok
3 The Twilight Zone
4 Lessons
5 Tears
6 Something for Nothing
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1 Anthem
2 Best I Can
3 Beneath, Between & Behind
4 By-Tor and the Snow Dog
5 Fly by Night
6 Making Memories
7 Rivendell
8 In the End
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1 Finding My Way
2 Need Some Love
3 Take a Friend
4 Here Again
5 What You're Doing
6 In the Mood
7 Before and After
8 Working Man
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Jonah Hex: bounty hunter, Civil War veteran, all around tough guy. Sit back for a rompin', stompin' Wild West tale of comedy, action and suspense! Shadows West puts Jonah in Buffalo Will's Wild West Show with Long Tom, a dwarf sharpshooter, where he runs into his old Native American pal Spotted Balls. Jonah learns some things about this traveling show and decides to stick around, for now.
Three issue mini-series
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Eastman and Laird's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was the original comic book that spawned the later television shows, movies, and video games. They were first published in 1984 by Mirage Studios. The concept originated from an evening of casual brainstorming. Kevin Eastman drew a picture of a turtle with nunchuks strapped to his arms. Peter Laird thought a slow turtle as ninja was very funny. Eventually, they created a team of four turtles, each specializing in a different weapon. The comic book was in an oversized magazine format with black-and-white art. It was printed on cheap newsprint and only 3,000 copies were produced. It was extremely popular and soon it sold for 50 times it's original price.
Eleven issues from volume one
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