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Pilgrim's Wilderness: A True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier
Pilgrim's Wilderness: A True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier
by Tom Kizzia
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Into the Wild meets Helter Skelter in this riveting true story of a modern-day homesteading family in the deepest reaches of the Alaskan wilderness — and of the chilling secrets of its maniacal, spellbinding patriarch. When Papa... (read more)

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The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World's Most Perplexing Cold Cases
The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World's Most Perplexing Cold Cases
by Michael Capuzzo
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The Murder Room is an absolutely riveting story about the history of the Vidocq Society, a group of forensic scientists, cops, FBI agents, etc., that come together to solve unsolvable crimes. I'm not usually a fan of true crime, but The Murder Room is... (read more)

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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
by Erik Larson
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An amazing history that recounts the inconceivable events surrounding the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, Larson's tale captures a time and place that vividly come to life. The central characters in this tale are Daniel H. Burnham, the architect... (read more)

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In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences
In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences
by Truman Capote
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On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues.... (read more)

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Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson
Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson
by Jeff Guinn
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Based on new interviews with previously undiscovered relatives and filled with revelations and unpublished photographs, this is the most authoritative account of the life of Charles Manson. After more than forty years, Charles Manson continues to mystify... (read more)

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Fatal Friends, Deadly Neighbors: Ann Rule's Crime Files Volume 16
Fatal Friends, Deadly Neighbors: Ann Rule's Crime Files Volume 16
by Ann Rule
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TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT Its a chilling reality that homicide investigators know all too well: the last face most murder victims see is not that of a stranger, but of someone familiar. Whether only an acquaintance or a trusted intimate, such killers share a... (read more)

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Surviving Justice: America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated
Surviving Justice: America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated
by Voice Of Witness Pro
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Collecting the voices and stories of the exonerees for whom life is forever framed by extraordinary injustice, this first title in the Voice of Witness Project series of oral narratives is a joint project between "McSweeney's" and the University of... (read more)

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Son of a Gun
Son of a Gun
by Justin St Germain
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Advance praise for Son of a Gun “A great, momentous undertaking . . . This book is brave, honest, savage, and tender all at once. It broke my heart, and I’m so grateful I’ve read it.”—Jesmyn Ward, National Book Award&ndash... (read more)

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Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States
Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States
by Helen Prejean
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In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean became the spiritual advisor to Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers who was sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana's Angola State Prison. In the months before Sonnier's death, the Roman... (read more)

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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
by Erik Larson
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Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America's rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair's brilliant director of works and... (read more)

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Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
by David Simon
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"Remarkable . . . a true crime classic . . . a journalistic masterpiece. . . . (A) saga of a brutal, bloody, bewildering year in the Baltimore Police Department's homicide unit. . . . This is interior reporting at its finest".--"Associated Press". An... (read more)

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The FBI: A Comprehensive Reference Guide
The FBI: A Comprehensive Reference Guide
by Athan Theoharis
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Every aspect of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is covered in this invaluable resource, from its inception and role in society to its notable cases and depiction in popular culture. 75 photos.... (read more)

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Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba.and Then Lost It to the Revolution
Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba.and Then Lost It to the Revolution
by T J English
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To underworld kingpins Meyer Lansky and Charles "Lucky" Luciano, Cuba was the greatest hope for the future of American organized crime in the post-Prohibition years. In the 1950s, the Mob—with the corrupt, repressive government of brutal Cuban... (read more)

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Wealthy Men Only: The True Story of a Lonely Millionaire, a Gorgeous Younger Woman, and the Love Triangle That Ended in Murder
Wealthy Men Only: The True Story of a Lonely Millionaire, a Gorgeous Younger Woman, and the Love Triangle That Ended in Murder
by Stella Sands
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Wealthy Men Only Stella Sands   Nanette Johnstons personal ad made it clear: “I know how to take care of my man if he knows how to take care of me.” Newport Beach millionaire Bill MacLaughlin made the fatal mistake of responding.  ... (read more)

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The Devil and Sherlock Holmes
The Devil and Sherlock Holmes
by David Grann
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“Horrifying, hilarious, and outlandish. . . . These straightforward tales grip you as unrelentingly as the suckered appendages of the giant squid Grann attempts to track down in ‘The Squid Hunter.’” —Entertainment Weekly (... (read more)

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Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest
Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest
by Gregg Olsen
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In 1911 two wealthy British heiresses, Claire and Dora Williamson, came to a sanitorium in the forests of the Pacific Northwest to undergo the revolutionary "fasting treatment" of Dr. Linda Burfield Hazzard. It was supposed to be a holiday for the two... (read more)

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Mafia Prince: Inside America's Most Violent Mafia Family and the Bloody Fall of La Cosa Nostra
Mafia Prince: Inside America's Most Violent Mafia Family and the Bloody Fall of La Cosa Nostra
by Phil Leonetti
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Mafia Prince is the first-person account of one of the most violent eras in Mafia history —“Little” Nicky Scarfos reign as boss of the Philly family in the 1980s—written by Scarfos underboss and nephew, “Crazy” Phil... (read more)

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Last Dance, Last Chance: Ann Rule's Crime Files Volume 8
Last Dance, Last Chance: Ann Rule's Crime Files Volume 8
by Ann Rule
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"America's best true-crime writer" (Kirkus Reviews), Ann Rule presents an all-new collection of crime stories drawn from her private files -- and featuring the riveting case of a fraudulent doctor whose lifelong deceptions had deadly consequences. LAST... (read more)

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Class, Race, Gender, and Crime: The Social Realities of Justice in America
Class, Race, Gender, and Crime: The Social Realities of Justice in America
by Gregg Barak
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A decade after its first publication, Class, Race, Gender, and Crime remains the only non-edited book to systematically address the impact of class, race, and gender on criminological theory and all phases of the administration of criminal justice... (read more)

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Internal Combustion: The Story of a Marriage and a Murder in the Motor City
Internal Combustion: The Story of a Marriage and a Murder in the Motor City
by Joyce Maynard
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On Mother's Day night, 2004, award-winning fourth-grade teacher Nancy Seaman left the Tudor home she shared with her husband of thirty-two years in the gated community of Farmington Hills, near Detroit, and drove in a driving rain storm to Home Depot to... (read more)

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