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Books in Conversation...

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True Crime>

Welcome to Hell: One Man's Fight for Life Inside the Bangkok Hilton by Colin Martin

Mafia Wife: My Story of Love, Murder and Madness
by Lynda Milito

Lynda's personal story about her own life: her disturbing and painful childhood, her attraction to danger and power, spousal abuse, mental illness, and her continuing search for peace and reconciliation.

Without a Trace: Inside the Robert Durst Case
by Marion Collins

How could Robert Durst degenerate from a powerful New York City businessman to a cross-dressing fugitive wanted in a murder investigation?

The Society Murders by Hilary Bonney

Murders of husband and wife millionaire socialites in Melbourne by their son in 2002.

Ultimate Punishment by Scott Turow
The USA and the death penalty.

Still reading>

Harvesting the Heart by Jodi Picoult

Poetry>

Gioconda Belli
Nicaraguan Poet:
"My poems then were a mixture--often chaotic--of the erotic and the patriotic, two things that reflected the experiences of my everyday life."

Conference of the Birds by Farid Ud-Din Attar
Persian Sufi Poetry

Murder Mystery>

Promise Me by Harlan Coben

Others>

The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia by Peter Hopkirk
Historical - Political book on Central Asia

Rules of the Wild by Francesca Marciano
Novel of Italian woman in Kenya and the ex-pat set there.

The Stories of Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
Allende at her best

Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A wonderful tale in magic-realism mode.

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