Chinese Playground: A Memoir

This stark and unsentimental recollection of early life and coming of age within the again alleys and bustling streets of San Francisco's Chinatown finds the sinister and pervasive impacts of equipped crime. “Chinese Playground: A Memoir” lines writer invoice Lee’s maturation from blameless baby in a afflicted kin to a road punk, gang member, and faculty graduate suffering to wreck freed from his involvement in escalating violence.

American Spy: My Secret History in the CIA, Watergate and Beyond

Imagine you recognize every thing there's to grasp concerning the OSS, the chilly struggle, the CIA, and Watergate? re-examine. In American undercover agent, one of many key figures in postwar overseas and political espionage tells all. Former OSS and CIA operative and White apartment staffer E. Howard Hunt takes you into the covert designs of Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon:• His involvement within the CIA coup in Guatemala in 1954, the Bay of Pigs invasion, and extra• His paintings with CIA officers resembling Allen Dulles and Richard Helms• His friendship with William F.

Wicked Winston-Salem

The famed Piedmont Triad urban of Winston-Salem has a heritage full of wicked humans committing untoward acts. From Libby Holman, the singer with a sultry, smoky voice accused of murdering her millionaire husband to the guy stuck with 1000s of gallons of beer, liquor, and a "tin lizard" whiskey nonetheless, citizens of Winston-Salem have been no strangers to depravity.

Boy With A Knife: A Story of Murder, Remorse, and a Prisoner's Fight for Justice

Approximately 1 / 4 of 1000000 formative years are attempted, sentenced, or imprisoned as adults each year around the usa. On any given day, 10000 formative years are detained or incarcerated in grownup jails and prisons. placing a human face to those sobering facts, Boy With A Knife tells the tale of Karter Kane Reed, who, on the age of 16, was once sentenced to lifestyles in an grownup felony for a homicide he devoted in 1993 in a highschool lecture room.