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1) Arctic Elegies

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This is a mighty book of Norths: northern geographies, histories, lights; a place of definition, frost and cold. There is an unfaltering Recusant spirit about these poems, a survival through defeat and a sense of underlying permanences. Each poem has an occasion: some of the occasions are personal meetings, conversations, which unlock shared scenes and themes; some are historical in origin, their past often one of early Christian faith or religious...

2) Distance and Memory

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Davidson, Peter

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Following in the successful nature-writing style of Robert MacFarlane and Gillian Clarke, Distance and Memory is a book about remoteness: a memoir of places observed in solitude, of the texture of life through the quiet course of the seasons in the far north of Scotland. It is a book grounded in the singularity of one place, a house in northern Aberdeenshire, and threaded through with an unshowy commitment to the lost and the forgotten. In these painterly...

3) Homicide Miami - MYS

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Davidson, Peter

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4) Bones on the beach: Mafia, murder and the true story of an undercover cop who went under the covers with a wiseguy

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Davidson, Peter

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A Berkley Book
Berkley true crime
Berkley true crime

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2010

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The true story of an undercover cop who went under the covers with a wiseguy. She was a married organized crime detective. He was the Mafia wiseguy she was trailing. Their affair would shake the very foundation of Miami's criminal underworld-and end in murder.

5) Homicide Miami: the millionaire killers

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Davidson, Peter

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Berkley true crime

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2009

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Traces the murder case involving Miami entrepreneur Frank Griga and his exotic dancer girlfriend, whose deaths led investigators to the ringleader of a gang who targeted wealthy Floridians while posing as bodybuilding gymnasts.