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All This, and Heaven Too by Rachel Field, Mary Balogh
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis number-one bestselling novel is based on the true story of one of the most notorious murder cases in French history... -
![Crippen by John Boyne]()
Crippen by John Boyne
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsJuly 1910: A gruesome discovery has been made at 39 Hilldrop Crescent, Camden.Chief Inspector Walter Dew of Scotland Yard did not expect the house to be empty. Nor did he expect to find a body in the cellar. Buried under the flagstones are the remains of Cora Crippen, former music-hall singer and wife of Dr. Hawley Crippen. No one would have thought the quiet, unassuming Dr... -
![The Art of Living by John Gardner]()
The Art of Living by John Gardner
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe first collection in seven years from one of America's most celebrated and admired writers--ten wonderful short (and long) stories that allow us to explore and enjoy once again the many facets of John Gardner's unique fictional world... -
![Carolina Skeletons by David Stout]()
Carolina Skeletons by David Stout
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn 1944, Linus Bragg, a 14-year-old black student, is accused of killing two white girls and condemned to the electric chair. Forty-four years later, Bragg's nephew travels to South Carolina to discover the truth--and finds himself on the Wanted List and fighting for his own freedom! HC: Mysterious Press... -
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![Rabbit Foot Bill: A Novel by Helen Humphreys]()
Rabbit Foot Bill: A Novel by Helen Humphreys
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA lonely boy in a prairie town befriends a tramp in 1947 and then witnesses a shocking murder. Based on a true story.Canwood, Saskatchewan, 1947. Leonard Flint, a lonely boy in a small farming town befriends the local tramp, a man known as Rabbit Foot Bill. Bill doesn’t talk much, but he allows Leonard to accompany him as he sets rabbit snares and to visit his small, secluded dwelling...Categorized as:
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![Ručně vyřezávané rakvičky by Truman Capote]()
Ručně vyřezávané rakvičky by Truman Capote
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsfrom Selected Writings (1963) and Music for Chameleons... -
![Sutton by J.R. Moehringer]()
Sutton by J.R. Moehringer
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsWillie Sutton was born in the squalid Irish slums of Brooklyn, in the first year of the twentieth century, and came of age at a time when banks were out of control. If they weren't failing outright, causing countless Americans to lose their jobs and homes, they were being propped up with emergency bailouts... -
![The Lindbergh Nanny by Mariah Fredericks]()
The Lindbergh Nanny by Mariah Fredericks
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsMariah Fredericks's The Lindbergh Nanny is powerful, propulsive novel about America’s most notorious kidnapping through the eyes of the woman who found herself at the heart of this deadly crime."A masterful blending of fact and fiction that is as compelling as it is entertaining."―Nelson DeMilleWhen the most famous toddler in America, Charles Lindbergh, Jr... -
![Bury Me Deep by Megan Abbott]()
Bury Me Deep by Megan Abbott
Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBy the author of Dare Me and The End of EverythingIn October 1931, a station agent found two large trunks abandoned in Los Angeles' Southern Pacific Station. What he found inside ignited one of the most scandalous tabloid sensations of the decade... -
![La Bête et la belle by Thierry Jonquet]()
La Bête et la belle by Thierry Jonquet
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings156pages. 17,6x10,6x1cm. Poche... -
![Ned Kelly by Robert Drewe]()
Ned Kelly by Robert Drewe
Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn action-packed historical novel about the legendary Australian gunfighter Ned Kelly follows the notorious outlaw and his gang of "bushrangers" on their violent rampage through the wilderness of Australia. Original...Categorized as:
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![The Swordfish by Hugo Claus, Ruth Levitt]()
The Swordfish by Hugo Claus, Ruth Levitt
Rated: 3.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDuring the course of an idyllic summer's day in the country, a senseless crime is committed. In its wake, fantasies and passions, desire and grief unite the destinies of the villagers. Most affected is young Martin: his fertile imagination leads him to identify turn in turn with a swordfish, Clint Eastwood and above all, Jesus Christ... -
![Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson]()
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe first definitive account of the infamous 1971 Attica prison uprising, the state’s violent response, and the victims' decades-long quest for justice including information never released to the public published to coincide with the forty-fifth anniversary of this historic event... -
![At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power by Danielle L. McGuire]()
At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power by Danielle L. McGuire
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsGroundbreaking, controversial, and courageous, here is the story of Rosa Parks and Recy Taylor—a story that reinterprets the history of America's civil rights movement in terms of the sexual violence committed against black women by white men... -
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![The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi by Wright Thompson]()
The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi by Wright Thompson
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA shocking and revelatory account of the murder of Emmett Till that lays bare how forces from around the world converged on the Mississippi Delta in the long lead-up to the crime, and how the truth was erased for so long... -
![Hellhound on His Trail by Hampton Sides]()
Hellhound on His Trail by Hampton Sides
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNATIONAL BESTSELLEREdgar Award NomineeOne of the Best Books of the Year: O, The Oprah Magazine, Time, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, San Francisco Chronicle With a New Afterword On April 4, 1968, James Earl Ray shot Martin Luther King at the Lorraine Motel. The nation was shocked, enraged, and saddened... -
![Our Crime Was Being Jewish: Hundreds of Holocaust Survivors Tell Their Stories by Anthony S. Pitch, Michael Berenbaum]()
Our Crime Was Being Jewish: Hundreds of Holocaust Survivors Tell Their Stories by Anthony S. Pitch, Michael Berenbaum
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the shouted words of a woman bound for Auschwitz to a man about to escape from a cattle car, “If you get out, maybe you can tell the story! Who else will tell it?”Our Crime Was Being Jewish contains 576 vivid memories of 358 Holocaust survivors. These are the true, insider stories of victims, told in their own words... -
![The Cross and the Switchblade: The Greatest Inspirational True Story of All Time by David Wilkerson]()
The Cross and the Switchblade: The Greatest Inspirational True Story of All Time by David Wilkerson
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsThe tortured face of a young killer, one of seven boys on trial for a brutal murder, started country preacher David Wilkerson on his lonely crusade to the most dangerous streets in the world.Violent gangs ruled by warlords, drug pushers and pimps held the streets of New York’s ghettoes in an iron grip... -
![Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era by Jerry Mitchell]()
Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era by Jerry Mitchell
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOn June 21, 1964, more than twenty Klansmen murdered three civil rights workers. The killings would become known as the “Mississippi Burning” case and even though the killers’ identities, including the sheriff’s deputy, were an open secret, no one was charged with murder in the months and years that followed... -
![There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History by Rory Carroll]()
There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History by Rory Carroll
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsKilling Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margaret Thatcher and to wiping out the British Cabinet – an extraordinary assassination attempt linked to the Northern Ireland Troubles and the most daring conspiracy against the Crown since the Gunpowder Plot... -
![Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burrough, John Helyar]()
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burrough, John Helyar
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 28 ratings“One of the finest, most compelling accounts of what happened to corporate America and Wall Street in the 1980’s.” —New York Times Book ReviewA #1 New York Times bestseller and arguably the best business narrative ever written, Barbarians at the Gate is the classic account of the fall of RJR Nabisco... -
![G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage]()
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"A nuanced portrait in a league with the best of Ron Chernow and David McCullough"--The Wall Street Journal "Masterful...This book is an enduring, formidable accomplishment, a monument to the power of biography [that] now becomes the definitive work"--The Washington Post"Revelatory.. -
![Shake Hands with the Devil by Roméo Dallaire]()
Shake Hands with the Devil by Roméo Dallaire
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsTHE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARD'Indisputably the best account of the whole terrible Rwandan genocide.' R. W. Johnson, Sunday Times'Angry, accusatory and extremely moving... -
![Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth by Gitta Sereny]()
Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth by Gitta Sereny
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAlbert Speer was not only Hitler's architect and armaments minister, but the Fuhrer's closest friend--his "unhappy love." Speer was one of the few defendants at the Nuremberg Trials to take responsibility for Nazi war crimes, even as he denied knowledge of the Holocaust. Now this enigma of a man is unveiled in a monumental biography by a writer who came to know Speer intimately in his final years... -
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![Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson by George L. Jackson, Jonathan Jackson Jr.]()
Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson by George L. Jackson, Jonathan Jackson Jr.
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA collection of Jackson's letters from prison, Soledad Brother is an outspoken condemnation of the racism of white America and a powerful appraisal of the prison system that failed to break his spirit but eventually took his life. Jackson's letters make palpable the intense feelings of anger and rebellion that filled black men in America's prisons in the 1960s... -
![Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital by David M. Oshinsky]()
Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital by David M. Oshinsky
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsDavid Oshinsky chronicles the history of America's oldest hospital and in so doing also charts the rise of New York to the nation's preeminent city, the path of American medicine from butchery and quackery to a professional and scientific endeavor, and the growth of a civic institution... -
![Operation Massacre by Rodolfo Walsh, Ricardo Piglia]()
Operation Massacre by Rodolfo Walsh, Ricardo Piglia
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratings1956. Argentina has just lost its charismatic president Juán Perón in a military coup, and terror reigns across the land. June 1956: eighteen people are reported dead in a failed Peronist uprising... -
![The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. Tyson]()
The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. Tyson
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis extraordinary New York Times bestseller reexamines a pivotal event of the civil rights movement—the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till—“and demands that we do the one vital thing we aren’t often enough asked to do with history: learn from it” (The Atlantic).In 1955, white men in the Mississippi Delta lynched a fourteen-year-old from Chicago named Emmett Till... -
![The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson by Jeffrey Toobin]()
The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson by Jeffrey Toobin
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsA behind-the-scenes look at the crime of the century and the legal proceedings that followed sheds new light in the arrest and trial of O.J. Simpson, the evidence in the case, and the role of the prosecution and defense... -
![Run Baby Run by Nicky Cruz, Jamie Buckingham]()
Run Baby Run by Nicky Cruz, Jamie Buckingham
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThis is the thrilling story of Nicky Cruz's desperate battle against drugs, alcoholism, and a violent environment, as he searched for a better way of life on the streets of New York City...
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