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24) Losing it
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Grammy award-winning gospel singer and Christian actress Sharmaine Cleveland is having a bad year. She has been arrested and charged with the attempted murder of her husband, Leon. This follows on the heels of another scandal involving sex tapes allegedly starring Sharmaine that have been distributed to news stations across the country. Her latest CD release is a flop, while her newest movie release has been placed on hold indefinitely. Believing...
26) The runner
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In the after math of the 2010 BP oil spill, an idealistic but flawed politician is forced to confront his dysfunctional life after his career is destroyed in a sex scandal.
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Scandal existed long before celebrity gossip columns, often hidden behind the closed doors of the Georgian aristocracy. But secrets were impossible to keep in a household of servants who listened at walls and spied through keyholes. The early mass media pounced on these juicy tales of adultery, eager to cash in on the public appetite for sensation and expose the shocking moral corruption of the establishment. Drawing on a rich collection of original...
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The child was born on September 14, 1874, at the only hospital in Buffalo, New York, that offered maternity services for unwed mothers. It was a boy, and though he entered the world in a state of illegitimacy, a distinguished name was given to this newborn: Oscar Folsom Cleveland. The son of the future president of the United States-Grover Cleveland. The story of how the man who held the nation's highest office eventually came to take responsibility...
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"Honorable Mention for the 2008 PROSE Award in Media and Cultural Studies, Association of American Publishers" Susan Wise Bauer is the author of The History of the Ancient World (Norton), the first part of a four-volume history of the world. Her other books include The Well-Trained Mind and The Well-Educated Mind (both Norton). She holds a PhD in American studies from the College of William & Mary.
Whether you are a politician caught carrying on...
30) Scandal
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Dramatizes the Profumo Affair, a famous sex scandal in Great Britain in 1963, when it was learned that a government minister and a Russian spy were both having an affair with playgirl Christine Keeler, the houseguest of society doctor Stephen Ward.
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"One Nation Under Blackmail is a damning indictment of the consequences resulting from the nearly century old relationship between both US and Israeli intelligence and the organized criminal network known as the National Crime Syndicate. This book specifically explores how that nexus between intelligence and organized crime directly developed the sexual blackmail tactics and networks that would later enable the sexual blackmail operation and other...
33) Jaja
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This story demonstrates the heroism of a single parent/outcast whose struggles include being shunned by church members, sexual abuse and being slandered for her assumed promiscuity by the town.
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One Nation Under Blackmail is a damning indictment of the consequences resulting from the nearly century old relationship between both US and Israeli intelligence and the organized criminal network known as the National Crime Syndicate. This book specifically explores how that nexus between intelligence and organized crime directly developed the sexual blackmail tactics and networks that would later enable the sexual blackmail operation and other...
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A woman is murdered and the only witness to the crime is missing. Danny Cavanaugh, a white cop raised in Detroit's inner city gets the seemingly routine case. He soon uncovers a conspiracy that reaches from the ravaged streets to the pinnacle of power. Detroit's mayor, a young, brash and arrogant politician assigns Chief of Police Tony Hill to back Danny off the investigation but not before provocative text messages between the mayor and the dead...
38) Ivory tower
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"Ivory Tower is a campus thriller about Margolis Santos, a charismatic film professor in her prime, who risks her career and life to uncover sexual corruption inside her university's football program where rich boosters pay sorority girls to have sex with star recruits. When we find Margolis, she's embroiled in a sex scandal of her own that sends her life into a tailspin. She unthinkingly sleeps with a student from another school, and when the parents...
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""Zarzut uprawiania miłości lesbijskiej nie jest hańbiący" - miała powiedzieć w czasie procesu Zofia Sadowska, bohaterka jednego z najgłośniejszych skandali obyczajowych międzywojennej Warszawy. O "ekscesach" w gabinecie lekarskim na Mazowieckiej 7 powstały setki artykułów, dowcipów, karykatur i piosenek kabaretowych. Brukowce oskarżały Sadowską o organizowanie lesbijskich orgii, uwodzenie pacjentek i przyczynienie się do rozpadu...