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Indiana

Scandal, Torture, Trial

The definitive account of history's most infamous trial, following the doomed Order of the Knights Templar from scandal to suppression.

The trial of the Knights Templar is one of the most infamous in history. Accused of heresy by the king of France, the Templars were arrested and imprisoned, had their goods seized and their monasteries ransacked. Under brutal interrogation and torture, many made shocking confessions: denial of Christ, desecration of the Cross, sex acts, and more.

This narrative follows the everyday reality of the trial, from the early days of scandal and scheming in 1305, via torture, imprisonment and the dissolution of the order, to 1314, when leaders Jacques de Molay and Geoffroy de Charnay were burned at the stake. Through first-hand testimony and written records of the interrogations of 231 French Templars, this book illuminates the stories of hundreds of ordinary members, some of whom testified at the trial, as well as the many others who denied the charges or retracted their confessions.

This is a deeply researched and immersive account that gives a striking vision of the relentless persecution, and the oft-underestimated resistance, of the once-mighty Knights Templar.

The Persecution of the Knights Templar

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New York

A doctor’s eyewitness account- Dr. Miklos Nyiszli

Auschwitz 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Texas

The Battle for the  Chinese Bible

Tortured For Christ 

#hardcover #war#kurds  #SaddamHussein #Iraq #torture #MikeTucker

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Alabama

Voices of the Kurds after Saddam, an Oral History

Long oppressed and cruelly treated, the Kurds are the world's largest ethnic group without their own nation. Kurds, who today live in a mountainous area that extends over Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and Syria, are a fiercely proud and culturally rich people whose history is indelibly marred by political machinations and betrayal. Saddam Hussein and his Ba'athist Party have brutally oppressed the Kurds of northern Iraq; his systematic attempts to annihilate them included mass murders, the gassing of entire Kurdish villages, torture, imprisonment, rape, and bombings. Justification for the 2003 invasion of Iraq will likely be subject to worldwide debate for years to come, but one fact remains clear: The war had a moral component, to liberate millions from Saddam's totalitarian rule. For the Kurds of northern Iraq, there is no ambivalence about American involvement. The war brought them one step closer to freedom. Here is the first inside perspective on what it was like to endure the horrors of Saddam Hussein.

Hell Is Over

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California

Faith in the Face of Evil

It Was Supposed to be a Four-Day Visit

It turned into a 445-day imprisonment. And if God had not intervened, he would have been there for the rest of his life.

In December 2015, Petr Jasek traveled to Khartoum, Sudan, to evaluate how The Voice of the Martyrs--a ministry he had served with since 2002--could help and encourage persecuted Sudanese Christians.

Pleased with his meetings with local pastors and other Christians, Petr checked in for his flight home to the Czech Republic. But before he could board the plane, he was summoned for questioning by Sudanese security agents. They wanted to know more about his activities in the country--activities that, if disclosed, could endanger the Christians with whom he had met.

Petr soon realized he was facing much more than a routine security screening. The guards took his computer, phone, and camera before quickly discovering his second passport. Later, his interrogators showed him photos of each meeting he had arranged during his four days in Sudan; he had been under surveillance from the moment he arrived.

Taken into custody, Petr knew he would not be returning to his family anytime soon. Charged with espionage, waging war against the state, and undermining the constitution, he was locked up with ISIS fighters, convicted after a lengthy trial, and sentenced to life in prison. Now Petr shares the harrowing but inspiring story of how God sustained his strength and courage while giving him a new purpose during his ordeal--and then opened the prison doors and set him free.

Imprisoned with ISIS

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James Rollins

Maryland

In Copenhagen . . . a suspicious bookstore fire propels Commander Gray Pierce on a relentless hunt across four continents—and into a terrifying mystery surrounding horrific experiments once performed in a now-abandoned laboratory buried in a hollowed-out mountain in Poland. In the mountains of Nepal . . . in a remote monastery, Buddhist monks inexplicably turn to cannibalism and torture—while Painter Crowe, director of Sigma Force, begins to show signs of the same baffling, mind-destroying malady . . . and Lisa Cummings, a dedicated American doctor, becomes the target of a brutal clandestine assassin. Now only Gray Pierce and Sigma Force can save a world suddenly in terrible jeopardy. Because a new order is on the rise—an annihilating nightmare growing at the heart of the greatest mystery of all: the origin of life.

Black Order

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Lord Jim

#paperback #WWII #revenge #postwar #intelligenceofficer #torture 

New Jersey

An explosive, non-stop thriller following one man's trail of violence across post-war Europe from the bestselling author of The Godfather.

Michael Rogan was an intelligence officer behind enemy lines in World War II. But he made the mistake of falling in love, which gave him something to lose--or to be taken from him. Captured by the Nazis, Michael was treated as an experiment. A piece of meat. A subject upon which his captors committed atrocity upon atrocity. But not before they did the same to his wife--and unborn son. He's lived with the horror of that experience for ten years. Now, Michael Rogan has returned to Europe to find the men who tortured him. And he's going to make sure that they never have to live with the horror as he did...They will die with it.

First published under a pseudonym in 1967, Six Graves to Munich was Mario Puzo's literary predecessor to his legendary novel, The Godfather. In this unsung classic, Puzo's trademark unflinchingly stark writing style, vivid descriptive skill, and relentless pace are exemplified in the genre of the spy novel. In his hands, the classic tale of revenge becomes a haunting study of humanity at its most visceral, offering a glimpse into a damaged soul whose only remaining purpose for living is to kill.

Six Graves to Munich

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Florida

Details the brutal 1965 torture slaying of Sylvia Likens and the abuse to which the victim had been subjected by Gertrude Baniszewski, the woman with whom she had been staying, as well as some of Gertrude's children and neighbors.

House of Evil

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Geoffrey Abbott

Colorado

A History of Torture and Its Instruments

Rack, Rope and Red-Hot Pincers

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Juan Gómez-Jurado

James Graham

Wear and tear on cover, small ink mark inner cover, second page glue separation from binding (see pic)

Virginia

An instant bestseller in Spain, with rights sold in 28 countries and counting, God's Spy is a spectacular contemporary thriller set in the Vatican, where, in the aftermath of Pope John Paul IIUs death, the hunt for a serial killer reveals a chilling conspiracy.

God's Spy

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Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition. No page folds or spine creasing. 

North Carolina

A Novel

A spectacularly original thriller about a professional torturer who has a strict code, a mysterious past, and a dangerous conviction that he can save the life of an innocent child

Geiger has a gift: he knows a lie the instant he hears it. And in his business--called "information retrieval" by its practitioners--that gift is invaluable, because truth is the hottest thing on the market.

Geiger's clients count on him to extract the truth from even the most reluctant subjects. Unlike most of his competitors, Geiger rarely sheds blood, but he does use a variety of techniques--some physical, many psychological--to push his subjects to a point where pain takes a backseat to fear. Because only then will they finally stop lying.

One of Geiger's rules is that he never works with children. So when his partner, former journalist Harry Boddicker, unwittingly brings in a client who demands that Geiger interrogate a twelve-year-old boy, Geiger responds instinctively. He rescues the boy from his captor, removes him to the safety of his New York City loft, and promises to protect him from further harm. But if Geiger and Harry cannot quickly discover why the client is so desperate to learn the boy's secret, they themselves will become the victims of an utterly ruthless adversary.

Mesmerizing and heart-in-your-throat compelling,The Inquisitor is a completely unique thriller that introduces both an unforgettable protagonist and a major new talent in Mark Allen Smith.

The Inquisitor

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Thomas E. Kennedy

Iowa

Imprisoned and tortured for months by Pinochet's henchmen for teaching political poetry to his students, Bernardo Greene is visited by two angels who promise him that he will survive to experience beauty and love once again. Months later, in Copenhagen, the Chilean exile befriends Michela Ibsen, herself a survivor of domestic abuse. In the long nights of summer, the two of them struggle to heal, to forgive those who have left them damaged, and to trust themselves to love. Dense with wisdom and humanity, In the Company of Angels is a powerful testament to the resilience and complexity of the human heart. Praise for In the Company of Angels: "Wide-ranging and assured."-New Yorker "If its stellar quality is any indication, the entire [Copenhagen Quartet] promises to be an exceptional reading experience ... Kennedy [has a] fertile imagination and all-embracing empathy."-Booklist (starred review) "As elegant as it is beautiful, as important as it is profound. A marvel of aread." -Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao "In the Company of Angels is a novel about grown-ups, people battered and dinged by life, painfully aware of their own responsibility, whose understanding of their past never stops evolving. It's the dignity of their adulthood-the elusive prize at stake in any midlife crisis-that makes them so admirable and, above all, so moving."-Laura Miller, Salon

In the Company of Angels

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Idaho

A World War II Story of Survival

Lightning Down

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One million Jews and others perished at Auschwitz. Thousands at a time were murdered in the camp's gas chambers, their bodies turned to ash in the four huge crematoriums that operated day and night. Among the few who survived was Dr. Miklos Nyiszli. In this still-shocking book-written just after the war's end-Nyiszli reveals the crimes of the Nazis as he witnessed them: the terrors of transport and "selection," the carefully engineered process of mass killing, the factory-like operation that stripped victims of anything useful to the Reich's war effort, and the torturous experiments on prisoners conducted by Nazi doctor Josef Mengele. Nyiszli's chilling account also discloses the excruciating conflict he constantly endured as a Jewish physician conscripted to serve as Mengele's assistant.

A doctors eyewitness account 

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From Early Civilization Through Medieval Times to the Present

A full-color history of the cruel and violent ways in which humans have meted out punishment--from early civilizations to the present. Throughout history, cultures around the world have found justice for the most extreme crimes by condemning the guilty to death. Retribution has been sought by many methods, from beheading, garroting, entombment, and burning to modern means such as electrocution and lethal injection. For the infliction of torturous pain, even more ingenious devices have been employed. While torture has usually been carried out behind closed doors, it is only recently that executions have ceased to be a popular public spectacle. The History of Torture and Execution examines these fascinating but grisly subjects by time, region, and method. Beginning with the often crude methods of meting out justice used by early and first-millennium civilizations, and evolving from the sadistic tools of the medieval age to the modern search for humane execution methods, controversial issues are authoritatively covered. More than 180 black-and-white and color images illustrate the many and varied engines of this final punishment, and the inclusion of stories told by the victims themselves gives chilling insight into the horrors faced by prisoners condemned to die for their crimes.

The History of Torture and Execution

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Dean Koontz

This mass market paperback has light cover wear, a tight binding, and clean pages. 

Michigan

Frank Pollard is afraid to fall asleep. Every morning he wakes up to something strange -- like blood on his hands. He knows this bizarre journey can only take him to a place so terrible that no one ever returns...

The Bad Place

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Richard Baxstrom

Todd Meyers

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Science, Cinema, and the Mastery of the Invisible

Realizing the Witch follows the unfolding of Benjamin Christensen's visual narrative in his 1922 film, H©xan (The Witch). Through a close reading of H©xan, Baxstrom and Meyers examine the study of witchcraft from historical and anthropological perspectives, as well as the intersection of popular culture, artistic expression and scientific ideas. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.

Realizing the Witch

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Kentucky

The History Of Torture 

#hardcover #torture #humanrights #brazil #uruguay #nonfiction

Settling Accounts with Torturers

For the first time, New Yorker staff reporter Lawrence Weschler tells the courageous story of how against tremendous odds, torture victims and human rights activistsstice.

A Miracle, a Universe

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#audiobook #Patterson #NYC  #crime #kidnapping #torture #cdbook
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Unabridged

Pennsylvania

When NYPD Red arrives at a crime scene, everyone takes notice. Known as the protectors of the rich, famous, and connected, NYPD Red is the elite task force called in only for New York City's most high-profile crimes. And Detective Zach Jordan is the best of the best, a brilliant and relentless pursuer of justice. He puts professionalism above all, ignoring his feelings for his partner, Detective Kylie MacDonald, the woman who broke his heart when they first met in the academy.

But even with their top-notch training, Zach and Kylie aren't prepared for what they see when they're called to a crime scene in the heart of Central Park. They arrive to find a carousel spinning round and round, its painted horses grinning eerily in the early morning dark. There is only one rider: a brutally slaughtered woman, her body tied up and dressed in a Hazmat suit, on display for the world to see.

The victim, a woman of vast wealth and even greater connections, is the fourth in a string of shocking murders that have hit the city. As the public pressure mounts, and political and personal secrets of the highest order hang in the balance, Zach and Kylie must find out what's really behind the murderer's rampage. But Kylie has been acting strange recently--and Zach knows whatever she's hiding could threaten the biggest case of their careers.

NYPD Red 2 is the next outstanding novel in James Patterson's newest series, a thriller that careens through New York City and deep into the psyche of a depraved killer you've never seen before.

NYPD Red 2

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The Clarke family’s peaceful evening is abruptly interrupted when four twenty-somethings break into their home to brutally torment and torture them, all in the name of creating a fake news report to live out their morbid fantasies. No one is safe as each ‘news segment’ gets more twisted, depraved, and savage than the last.

From the vicious mind of Stephen Cooper (The Rot, Near Death) comes his latest extreme horror offering, inspired by the video nasties of yesteryear. A home invasion story that’s less about what you can steal, and all about what you can take.

Hack is bloodthirsty, unrelenting, and unforgiving. That’s your one and only warning!



Oregon

Hack

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Louisiana

A Historical Revision

Since the sixteenth century, the Spanish Inquisition has been synonymous with terror, bigotry, and persecution. In this book, a renowned historian sweeps away old misconceptions and presents a new view of this notorious and fascinating period.

Henry Kamen reassesses the significance and consequences of the expulsion of the Jews and also argues that there is little evidence for the alleged Jewishness of the conversos who were the Inquisition's first victims. He presents a major revision of the impact of blood purity prejudices on Spanish society, revises the figures given for execution of heretics by the tribunal, and examines the amount of Spanish persecution in the context of executions in neighboring countries. He gives a completely new picture of the infamous censorship system, showing it to be much less effective than is often presented, and he investigates the role played by foreign propaganda in the creation of the diabolic image of the Inquisition. Kamen reconstructs the atmosphere offear and oppression that typified the period, relating it to the fear generated by community tensions. He also demonstrates for the first time that the famous auto-da-fe was not a product of traditional Spanish piety but a deliberate tool of the inquisitors, invented in the sixteenth century in order to boost their political standing.

Thirty-five years ago Kamen wrote a study of the Inquisition that received high praise. This present work, based on over thirty years of

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