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Under the Banner of Heaven : Story of Violent Faith (03 Edition)
by Jon Krakauer  
Powells.com Staff Pick "Under the Banner of Heaven is not a typical Krakauer book that takes you on an adventure into the wilderness. Instead, it delves into a world that is misunderstood by most of America, the world of Mormonism and Fundamental Mormonism...
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The Orchid Thief
by Susan Orlean
Publisher Comments The orchid thief in Susan Orlean's mesmerizing true story of beauty and obsession is John Laroche, a renegade plant dealer and sharply handsome guy, in spite of the fact that he is missing his front teeth and has the posture of al dente spaghetti. In...
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The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
by John Grisham
Powells.com Staff Pick An equally absorbing and troubling inquiry into a case of criminal injustice, Grisham's nonfiction debut equals the storytelling of his unparalleled fiction. Recommended by Chandler, Powells.com...
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Fist Stick Knife Gun
by Geoffrey Canada Publisher Comments A classic coming-of-age memoir that examines urban youth violence and its causes Long before U.S. News and World Report named him one of America's Best Leaders and Oprah Winfrey called him "an angel from God," Geoffrey Canada was a vulnerable, scared...
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Other Side of the River : a Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America's Dilemma (98 Edition)
by Alex Kotlowitz Publisher Comments Alex Kotlowitz's There Are No Children Here was more than a bestseller; it was a national event. His beautifully narrated, heartbreaking nonfiction account of two black boys struggling to grow up in a Chicago public housing complex spent eight weeks on...
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Encyclopedia of Serial Killers (00 Edition)
by Michael Newton Synopsis This guide examines the realities of serial murder versus popular myths depicted in film and television. From Jack the Ripper to Ted Bundy, the encyclopedia gives readers an overview of what is undoubtedly the most macabre and fascinating branch of crime...
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The Informant: A True Story
by Kurt Eichenwald
Publisher Comments From an award-winning New York Times investigative reporter comes an outrageous story of greed, corruption, and conspiracy – which left the FBI and Justice Department counting on the cooperation of one man... It was one of the FBI's biggest...
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Green River, Running Red: The Real Story of the Green River Killer--America's Deadliest Serial Murderer
by Ann Rule Publisher Comments America's master of true crime presents her biggest book yet: the long-awaited story of the terrifying Green River killings, with more than 48 young women victims, and a murderer who hid his horrific addiction for two decades. of photos....
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Catch Me If You Can: The Amazing True Story of the Most Extraordinary Liar in the History of Fun and Profit
by Frank Abagnale and Stan Redding Publisher Comments Frank W. Abagnale, alias Frank Williams, Robert Conrad, Frank Adams, and Robert Monjo, was one of the most daring con men, forgers, imposters, and escape artists in history. In his brief but notorious criminal career, Abagnale donned a pilot's uniform...
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News of a Kidnapping
by Gabr Garcia Marquez Publisher Comments This astonishing book by the Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez chronicles the 1990 kidnappings of ten Colombian men and women--all but one a journalist--by the Medellín drug boss Pablo Escobar. The carefully orchestrated...
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Den of Thieves
by James B Stewart Publisher Comments A number-one bestseller from coast to coast, Den of Thieves tells, in masterfully reported detail, the full story of the insider-trading scandal that nearly destroyed Wall Street, the men who pulled it off, and the chase that finally brought them to...
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Devil's Knot : the True Story of the West Memphis Three (02 Edition)
by Mara Leveritt Publisher Comments "Free the West Memphis Three." Maybe you've heard the phrase. But do you know why their story is so alarming? Do you know the facts? The guilty verdicts handed out to three Arkansas teens in a horrific capital murder case were popular in their home state...
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The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy, the Shocking Inside Story
by Ann Rule Synopsis Twenty five years after it was first published, Rule's chilling account of serial killer Ted Bundy is revived with a new postscript. Rule tells how she came to learn that the man who worked beside her at a crisis clinic and became her close friend was...
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Crimes of the Century : From Leopold and Loeb To O. J. Simpson (98 Edition)
by Gilbert Geis Publisher Comments The story of five dramatic trials that dazzled the media and captivated the American public....
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Do Or Die (92 Edition)
by Leon Bing Publisher Comments One Camp Kilpatrick As you travel the northbound 101 out of Los Angeles heading toward Malibu, you leave a vista of faded bungalows and crumbling apartment houses. Youdrive past Koreatown, Sunset Boulevard, and the Hollywood Bowl, past Studio City...
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Best Intentions: The Education and Killing of Edmund Perry
by Robert Sam Anson
Publisher Comments "Disquieting...often poignant" (Time), an "engrossing" (Newsweek) exploration of racial attitudes in America, as illumined by the case of Edmund Perry: a seventeen-year-old black honors student from Harlem who, soon after being graduated from Phillips...
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Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story
by Timothy B. Tyson
Powells.com Staff Pick "We cannot address the place we find ourselves because we will not acknowledge the road that brought us here." No law can ever change the hearts of men. Timothy B. Tyson chronicles the painful legacies of racism in Oxford, North Carolina, in 1970. The...
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Black Mass : the True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the Fbi and the Irish Mob (00 Edition)
by Dick Lehr
Publisher Comments Rivetingly told by the "Boston Globe" reporters who broke the original story, this is the dramatic account of John Connolly and James "Whitey" Bulger, two childhood friends who conspired to bring down Boston's Italian mob and triggered the worst...
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Gangs : Stories of Life and Death From the Streets (02 Edition)
by Sean Donahue Publisher Comments Gang life is both the starting point and the dark side of the American dream. Ethnic groups and immigrants have long turned to gangs for protection and support when it was offered nowhere else. From the Five Points to South Central L.A., Bowery Boys to...
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Murder in Amsterdam : Liberal Europe, Islam, and the Limits of Tolerence (07 Edition)
by Ian Buruma Publisher Comments In 2004, the celebrated and controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was shot and killed by an Islamic extremist for making a movie that insulted the prophet Mohammed. Buruma returned to his native land to investigate the shocking event and its larger...
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