Showing results for "The Getaway" in Biographies & Memoirs

Stephen Jackley was a young British geography student with Asperger's syndrome. When the global financial crisis hit in 2007, he became obsessed with the idea of Robin Hood. With no prior experience, he resolved to become a bank robber. He would steal from the rich and give to the poor. Against all likelihood, his plan actually worked. Jackley used disguise, elaborate escape routes and replica pistols to successfully hold up a string of banks, making away with thousands of pounds.

Be prepared to embark on a spiritual journey like no other. God's Romantic Getaway is Jemma's portrayal of her journey to arrive at a new place in life. You are invited to share in the personal and intimate insights of a woman desperately compelled to deepen her relationship with her heavenly Father. Jemma keeps it authentically real. Her experiences, prayers, and revelations are brought to life in the book and empower you, as you witness her journey with God through the pages.

A forensic history of the missing and murdered Indigenous women and Two-Spirit people crisis that unmasks the Americas’ oldest and most relentless crime: Native genocide “A phenomenal contribution to our understanding of the ongoing violence throughout the Americas against [MMIW2S].” —...

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This program is read by the author. In his forceful follow-up to Moneyland, Oliver Bullough unravels the dark secret of how Britain placed itself at the center of the global offshore economy and at the service of the worst people in the world. The Suez Crisis of 1956 was the nadir of Britain's...

Minnie was just 16 when she stood trial for the wrongful death of her first husband, a successful businessman and politician almost 40 years her senior. Despite overwhelming witness testimony that the Creole beauty from New Orleans had purchased the arsenic that killed him, Minnie's own testimony brought the entire courtroom to tears. She was acquitted. Minnie returned to New Orleans with James Walkup's fortune, but she still didn't have enough cash for her liking, so she successfully targeted, seduced, and murdered two more wealthy older men while evading justice in the courtroom.

40 years of marriage has taught us that there's no such thing as a successful relationship, some of us just get away with it! We arrived at our anniversary feeling like emotional wrecks after 39 years of messy, painful, beautiful, fun, devastating and loving marriage. We kind of feel like we haven't really achieved a good marriage so much as we have got away with it. This podcast is some of the story of how we think that might have happened.