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    <author><![CDATA[Vance Lauderdale]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[A pair of outstanding true-crime books: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, and The Devil in the White City. And (sorry to be so morbid) but the real (and actually more amazing) story that served as the basis for Jaws, called Close to Shore.
        
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      <![CDATA[Just recently read all of Carl Hiaasen's books. Good for an escape.
        
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      <![CDATA["Born to Run" Christopher Mcdougall. True story that also takes place in the Mexican Sierra Madre, the Copper Canyon specifically.
        
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      <![CDATA[Also recommend "Under the Banner of Heaven." If you have the endurance for it, the three volumes of an eventual 4 volume set, "The years of Lyndon Johnson," by Robert Caro.
        
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      <![CDATA[thanks, Powergamz. Hadn't heard of that one, but the reviews are intriguing.
        
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    <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:44:18 -0500</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[Howie Carr's 'The Brothers Bulger'.<br>
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  It is about crime and it is true, but it isn't just another true crime book.
        
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      <![CDATA[Susan, we all know how the bible ends.
        
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      <![CDATA[Rise to Globalism by Stephen Ambrose. A brief history of American foreign policy from the 30's-90's.
        
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    <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:37:12 -0500</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[Can't believe no one's suggested the Bible.
        
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      <![CDATA[Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Linsday
        
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      <![CDATA[I thought this was Detroit, not Seattle.
        
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      <![CDATA[I second RBP's suggestion of "Under the Banner of Heaven." Fascinating book (and a little terrifying.)
        
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    <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:33:06 -0500</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[RBP: I second the rec on "Under the Banner." Amazing book.
        
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    <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:28:12 -0500</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[Girl Trouble--Holly Goddard Jones<br>
The Best American Crime Reporting 2009--ed. Jeffrey Toobin
        
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    <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:08:37 -0500</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[Under The Banner Of Heaven by Jon Krakauer. True story of fundamentalist Mormons who kill.
        
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    <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:08:23 -0500</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[Bruce, I'll have to send you a copy because it hasn't been published yet. Still looking for an agent.
        
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    <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:42:14 -0500</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[I like Ellroy, will check it out. thx.
        
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      <![CDATA[Another in-house rec for American Tabloid
        
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      <![CDATA[Thanks for the suggestions. Jeff, that one sounds wild.
        
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    <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:10:42 -0500</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA["Liars Poker". It is slightly older, but really sheds some light on Wall Street, banking, etc. etc.
        
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    <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:27:33 -0500</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[How about: "American Tabloid" by James Ellroy, 1995. The first part of a trilogy looking (fictionally) at the bad juju committed by cops and criminals during all the big bad events of the late 50s and 60s.
        
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      <![CDATA[Want to read one of my books?<br>
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Shades of Black - Jackie Lyons is an ex-vice cop of the Memphis Police Department, but now she sells photos of accident and crime scenes to support her heroin habit. Her life has been slowly disintegrating for years – failed marriage, unemployment, drug addiction, and most recently she's just set fire to her apartment.
        
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    <pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:04:42 -0500</pubDate>
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