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Patrick Radden Keefe
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"From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of SAY NOTHING and EMPIRE OF PAIN, twelve enthralling stories of skulduggery and intrigue by one of the most decorated journalists of our time "I read everything he writes. Every time he writes a book, I read it. Every time he writes an article, I read it ... he's a national treasure." - Rachel Maddow Patrick Radden Keefe has garnered prizes ranging from the National Magazine Award to the...
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""Meticulously reported, exquisitely written, and grippingly told, Say Nothing is a work of revelation." --David Grann, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon from award-winning New Yorker staff writer Patrick Radden Keefe, a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from...
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Best Books of 2021 (SCPL)
HPL Best Books of 2021
OBD 100 Notable Books of 2021 New York Times Book Review - Adult
President Obama's Summer Picks
HPL Best Books of 2021
OBD 100 Notable Books of 2021 New York Times Book Review - Adult
President Obama's Summer Picks
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"The Sackler name has adorned the walls of many storied institutions -- Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations to the arts and the sciences. The source of the family fortune was vague, however, until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing a blockbuster painkiller, OxyContin, that was the catalyst for the opioid...
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In this thrilling panorama of real-life events, the bestselling author of Empire of Pain investigates a secret world run by a surprising criminal: a charismatic middle-aged grandmother, who from a tiny noodle shop in New York’s Chinatown managed a multi-million dollar business smuggling people.
“Reads like a mashup of The Godfather and Chinatown, complete with gun battles, a ruthless kingpin and a mountain of...
“Reads like a mashup of The Godfather and Chinatown, complete with gun battles, a ruthless kingpin and a mountain of...
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Del galardonado redactor del New Yorker, Patrick Radden Keefe, una impactante y compleja narración sobre un famoso asesinato en Irlanda del Norte y sus devastadoras repercusiones. En diciembre de 1972, Jean McConville, de treinta y ocho años y madre de diez hijos, fue sacada a la fuerza de su casa en Belfast por intrusos enmascarados, con sus hijos aferrados a sus piernas. Nunca más la volvieron a ver. Su secuestro fue uno de los episodios más...
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"El apellido Sackler adorna los muros de las instituciones m̀s distinguidas: Harvard, el Metropolitan, Oxford, el Louvre... Es una de las familias m̀s ricas del mundo, benefactora de las artes y las ciencias. El origen de su patrimonio siempre fue dudoso, hasta que sali̤ a la luz que lo hab̕an multiplicado gracias a OxyContin, un potente analǧsico que cataliz̤ la crisis de los opioides en Estados Unidos. El imperio del dolor empieza en la Gran...
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"Con el fascinante estilo que le caracteriza, Patrick Radden Keefe ofrece en este libro una compleja panorámica del lado oscuro del ser humano. Aquí retrata, entre otros personajes, al traficante de armas Monzer al-Kassar, apodado "el príncipe de Marbella" y perseguido incansablemente por un agente de la D.E.A., a la controvertida "abogada del diablo" que lucha contra la pena de muerte representando a los peores criminales, al Chapo Guzmán y su...
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""Imperium bólu. Baronowie przemysłu farmaceutycznego" to reportaż o braciach, którzy w pogoni za bogactwem skazali na śmierć setki swoich klientów. Kiedy Arthur i Mortimer Sacklerowie zdecydowali się stworzyć lek przeciwbólowy, który miał pomóc milionom Amerykanów, nic nie wskazywało na to, że kilka lat później dojdzie do tragedii. Zaproponowana przez nich alternatywa dla morfiny miała być skuteczna, okazała się jednak silniejsza,...
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"Sarah Weinman brings together an exemplary collection of thirteen recent true crime tales by some of the most exciting journalists and chroniclers of crime working today. With an introduction by Patrick Radden Keefe, this collection showcases true crime writing across the broadest possible spectrum and reflects on why crime stories are so transfixing and irresistible to the modern reader" -- from publisher.
12) American mirror
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"American Mirror is award-winning photographer Philip Montgomery's dramatic chronicle of the United States at a time of profound change. Through his intimate and powerful reporting and a signature black-and-white style, Montgomery reveals the fault lines in American society, from police violence and the opioid addiction crisis to the COVID-19 pandemic and the demonstrations in support of Black lives"-- Provided by publisher.