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Product Description: It’s been fourteen years, but not a day goes by that I don’t feel the guilt, the anguish, and the embarrassment of my past. I continually look over my shoulder to see if my past has left me --– but it hasn’t, nor will it, ever! God can forgive, but society does not; as a result, I cannot forgive myself because I am not allowed to forget...read more

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9781530362561 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 22, 2016, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: It’s been fourteen years, but not a day goes by that I don’t feel the guilt, the anguish, and the embarrassment of my past.
9781589827851 | Amer Book Pub, January 31, 2011, cover price $22.00

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Product Description: How did a former mob enforcer become a compassionate advocate for animals in need of loving homes? How did his hardened heart open up to the plight of abused and abandoned pets?James "Head" Guiliani was an unlikely candidate to become a passionate animal rescuer...read more

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9780738218076 | Da Capo Lifelong, June 2, 2015, cover price $24.99 | About this edition: How did a former mob enforcer become a compassionate advocate for animals in need of loving homes?

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Product Description: Few characters soar to such dizzying heights and then plunge to the depths of despair like McLain did. But it is his ability to finally reflect on his mistakes and self centeredness that makes a compelling story. From the World Series to prison, join one of the most interesting athletes of the 20th Century...read more

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9781572439573 | Triumph Books, March 1, 2007, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: From being the only 30-game winner in more than 70 years to having the Gambino crime family order a hit for your murder, Denny McLain has surely seen it all: RICO charges from the U.

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9780914303053 | 2 edition (Createspace Independent Pub, February 19, 2013), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Few characters soar to such dizzying heights and then plunge to the depths of despair like McLain did.

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Product Description: Product Description"How do we reconcile this soft-spoken, gentle man with the `toughest heavyweight who never won the title?" In a life as tough and brutal as his bouts, Ron Lyle had already served hard time for second degree murder before he started his amateur boxing career...read more

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9780956252623 | Gardners Books, May 5, 2010, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Product Description"How do we reconcile this soft-spoken, gentle man with the `toughest heavyweight who never won the title?

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Product Description: In an honest and gripping tale, Kenneth Brown tells how he achieved the American Dream, then threw it away. Despite growing up in the projects, he lived in suburbia, had a wife and children who loved him, and became a successful business man and Pro-Am league basketball official...read more

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9780981893914 | Africana Homestead Legacy Pub, September 30, 2008, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: In an honest and gripping tale, Kenneth Brown tells how he achieved the American Dream, then threw it away.

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Product Description: Bursting with life, "When Rivers Run Red" captures life in the 60´s, from racism, religion,cultural transformation and family struggles. This book Taps into the social conditions of a people during periods of socio-economic struggle, this book hinges on defeat and victory! Filled with common issues of religion and love, "When Rivers Run Red" educates us on the little known subject of a multi-racial life in America...read more

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9781436327718 | Xlibris Corp, July 30, 2008, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Bursting with life, "When Rivers Run Red" captures life in the 60´s, from racism, religion,cultural transformation and family struggles.

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9781436327701 | Xlibris Corp, July 1, 2008, cover price $19.99

One of America's leading poets describes his youth in New Mexico, his troubled adolescence, his years as a drug dealer in Arizona and San Diego, and the personal redemption that occurred after he was arrested and sent to prison.

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9780802116024 | Grove Pr, June 1, 2001, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: One of America's leading poets describes his youth in New Mexico, his troubled adolescence, his years as a drug dealer in Arizona and San Diego, and the personal redemption that occurred after he was arrested and sent to prison.

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9780802139085 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, June 10, 2002), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: One of America's leading poets describes his youth in New Mexico, his troubled adolescence, his years as a drug dealer in Arizona and San Diego, and the personal redemption that occurred after he was arrested and sent to prison.

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9781435296947 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 5, 2008), cover price $24.00

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Traces the redemption story of a Los Angeles native who spent nine years in jail for dealing drugs and who discovered his aptitude for cooking while working in a federal prison kitchen, a talent that led to his eventual position as an executive chef at an upscale Las Vegas restaurant.

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9780061153907 | William Morrow & Co, March 1, 2007, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Traces the story of a Los Angeles native who spent time in jail for dealing drugs and discovered his aptitude for cooking while working in a federal prison kitchen, a talent that led to an executive chef position at an upscale restaurant.

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Traces the story of a Los Angeles native who spent time in jail for dealing drugs and discovered his aptitude for cooking while working in a federal prison kitchen, a talent that led to an executive chef position at an upscale restaurant.

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9780061153914 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, March 1, 2008), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Traces the story of a Los Angeles native who spent time in jail for dealing drugs and discovered his aptitude for cooking while working in a federal prison kitchen, a talent that led to an executive chef position at an upscale restaurant.

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Product Description: In this moving memoir, James Peter Taylor invites us to share in the painful and realistic struggles of prison survival, where he lived from age 25 in the 1950s until his release in the mid-1990s. Now an old man, he reflects on how he made it for so many years when many other lifers die in prison...read more

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9780976520153 | 1 edition (Pgw, September 28, 2007), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In this moving memoir, James Peter Taylor invites us to share in the painful and realistic struggles of prison survival, where he lived from age 25 in the 1950s until his release in the mid-1990s.

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Product Description: A hard-luck story with a lesson to learn, this guide offers readers solid advice on making choices and making changes in their lives. Fifteen years ago, the author was a drop out, drug addict, and deadbeat dad who had turned to bank robbery and landed in prison; now, he shares what has made it possible for him to become a college graduate, responsible father, and acclaimed public speaker...read more

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9781933771090 | Benbella Books, April 1, 2007, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A hard-luck story with a lesson to learn, this guide offers readers solid advice on making choices and making changes in their lives.

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A former con artist with ties to the mafia discusses the yearning for excitement that prompted his entry into the underworld, his run-ins with the Lucchese crime family, and his transient work as a professional poker cheat, a bordello chauffeur, and Jerry Lewis's bodyguard.

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9781569803172 | Barricade Books Inc, November 1, 2006, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: A former con artist with ties to the mafia discusses the yearning for excitement that prompted his entry into the underworld, his run-ins with the Lucchese crime family, and his transient work as a professional poker cheat, a bordello chauffeur, and Jerry Lewis's bodyguard.

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Product Description: What would happen if the United States abolished the death penalty and emptied its Death Rows? If  killers were released from prison? What would they do with their second chance to live? Would they kill again? Back From The Dead is the story of  589 former death row inmates who, through a lottery of fate, were given a second chance at life in 1972 when the death penalty was abolished; it returned to the United States four years later...read more

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9780470017500 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, July 28, 2006, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: What would happen if the United States abolished the death penalty and emptied its Death Rows?

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A personal account about the author's relationship with Leonard, the father figure from A Million Little Pieces, recounts how Leonard helped him recover from drug and alcohol addictions and then encouraged him to pursue a writing career before mysteriously disappearing. Reprint. 1,000,000 first printing.

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9781573223157 | Riverhead Books, June 16, 2005, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Looks at the author's relationship with Leonard, and recounts how he helped him recover from drug and alcohol addictions and then encouraged him to pursue a writing career before disappearing.

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9781594481956 | Reprint edition (Riverhead Books, May 30, 2006), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Looks at the author's relationship with Leonard, and recounts how he helped him recover from drug and alcohol addictions and then encouraged him to pursue a writing career before disappearing.

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Product Description: He was Nixon’s hatchet man. A jailed felon. And now, one of the most significant Christian leaders of our time. Here is his life story.Charles Colson has become one of the most revered leaders of our time. His ministry outreach, Prison Fellowship, has swelled to 40,000 volunteers working in 100 countries...read more

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9780385508117 | Doubleday, July 19, 2005, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Drawing on private papers as well as interviews with colleagues, a biography of former Nixon confidant Charles W.
9781578565108 | Waterbrook Pr, July 19, 2005, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: He was Nixon’s hatchet man.
9780826478313 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, January 1, 2004, cover price $41.55 | About this edition: Charles Colson hit the headlines at the time of Watergate.

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9781400072194 | Waterbrook Pr, July 12, 2005, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: He was Nixon’s hatchet man.
9781601426819 | Waterbrook Pr, July 12, 2005, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: He was Nixon’s hatchet man.

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The author relates how, as a young adult, he became a drug user and smuggler, was arrested, did time in prison, and eventually got out and went to college, all the while hoping to become a writer.

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9780312641573 | Reprint edition (Square Fish, April 24, 2012), cover price $9.99
9780786273379 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, March 14, 2005), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: The author relates how, as a young adult, he became a drug user and smuggler, was arrested, did time in prison, and eventually got out and went to college, all the while hoping to become a writer.
9780099475873 | New edition (Gardners Books, January 6, 2005), cover price $8.00 | About this edition: Jack Gantos had a peripatetic childhood around the US and the Caribbean.
9780374430894 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 8, 2004), cover price $8.99 | About this edition: The author relates how, as a young adult, he became a drug user and smuggler, was arrested, did time in prison, and eventually got out and went to college, all the while hoping to become a writer.

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9780807216446 | Unabridged edition (Listening Library, July 1, 2003), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The author relates how, as a young adult, he became a drug user and smuggler, was arrested, did time in prison, and eventually got out and went to college, all the while hoping to become a writer.
9780807216453 | Abridged edition (Listening Library, July 1, 2003), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Becoming a writer the hard wayIn the summer of 1971, Jack Gantos was an aspiring writer looking for adventure, cash for college tuition, and a way out of a dead-end job.

School and Library:

9780374399887 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 26, 2002, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: The author relates how, as a young adult, he became a drug user and smuggler, was arrested, did time in prison, and eventually got out and went to college, all the while hoping to become a writer.

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9780606308595 | Demco Media, July 30, 2004, cover price $16.80 | About this edition: The author relates how, as a young adult, he became a drug user and smuggler, was arrested, did time in prison, and eventually got out and went to college, all the while hoping to become a writer.

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9781435233607 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 11, 2008), cover price $17.00
9781417639083 | Turtleback Books, September 8, 2004, cover price $18.45 | About this edition: The author relates how, as a young adult, he became a drug user and smuggler, was arrested, did time in prison, and eventually got out and went to college, all the while hoping to become a writer.

Product Description: The amazing true story of how one man survived 21 years on death row for a crime he didn't commit.

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9780007267743 | Harpercollins Pub Ltd, January 1, 2004, cover price $11.75 | About this edition: The amazing true story of how one man survived 21 years on death row for a crime he didn't commit.

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Product Description: The fascinating story of one of the most influential Christians of our time.From a top-ranking government career to public disgrace...from prison cell to Buckingham Palace-few individuals have experienced the dramatic highs and lows that have characterized Charles Colson's life...read more

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9781556616297 | Bethany House Pub, June 1, 1995, cover price $4.99 | About this edition: The fascinating story of one of the most influential Christians of our time.

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9780842373968 | Reprint edition (Tyndale House Pub, November 1, 1993), cover price $4.99 | About this edition: For Ingest Only - Data needs to be cleaned up for all products being loaded
9780929608013 | W Pub Group, September 1, 1989, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: The author recounts how he was sentenced to prison, paroled, and finally, pardoned, explains how he discovered Christ, and describes his work helping young people avoid the mistakes he made

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Product Description: A gripping true-life story. Sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole, Don Dennis was a man without hope. Chuck Colson described the inmate Don Dennis this way: "He was a tough, hard con who gave his heart to the Lord and has been just as tough every since—but now as a warrior for Christ...read more

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9780805451146 | Baptist Sunday School Board, April 1, 1993, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: A gripping true-life story.

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