The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch
By: Miles Harvey
3.69
Format: 401 pages, Hardcover
In the summer of 1843, James Strang, a charismatic young lawyer and avowed atheist, vanished from a…
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1. Drawing Blood
By: Molly Crabapple
3.96
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Art was my dearest friend.To draw was trouble and safety, adventure and freedom.In that four-corner… read more
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"Globalism has less leeway for a poor country's brilliant sons."-Molly Crabapple, Drawing Blood
"Art is hope against cynicism, creation against entropy. To make art is an act of both love and defiance."-Molly Crabapple, Drawing Blood
"Radicals often suspect beauty of corruption. Uptight fuckers though they sometimes are, they're right in one thing: art alone cannot change the world. Pens can't take on swords, let alone Predator dr…"-Molly Crabapple, Drawing Blood
2. Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way
By: Jon Krakauer
3.72
Format: 77 pages, ebook
Greg Mortenson has built a global reputation as a selfless humanitarian and children’s crusader, an… read more
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3. Running with the Devil: The True Story Of The Atf's Infiltration Of The Hells Angels
By: Kerrie Droban
3.80
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
The infamous Sonny Barger once declared that the Hells Angels would never be infiltrated. Running w… read more
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- crime
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4. Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules
By: Joyce Carol Oates , David Sedaris , Katherine Mansfield , Alice Munro , Flannery O'Connor , Sarah Vowell , Patricia Highsmith , Charles Baxter , Richard Yates , Jhumpa Lahiri , Dorothy Parker , Jincy Willett , Tobias Wolff , Lorrie Moore , Amy Hempel , Jean Thompson , None , Frank Gannon , Tim Johnston
3.65
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
A must-have for the fans of the #1 bestselling author of Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris, a c… read more
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5. Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
By: Daniel Okrent
3.89
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America’s most puzzling era, the years 1920 … read more
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- crime
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6. Trials of the Century: A Decade-by-Decade Look at Ten of America's Most Sensational Crimes
By: None , None
3.93
Format: 214 pages, Hardcover
In every decade of the twentieth century, there was one sensational murder trial that riveted publi… read more
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7. Who Killed These Girls?: The Twenty-Five-Year History of Austin's Yogurt Shop Murders
By: Beverly Lowry
3.88
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
The facts are brutally straightforward. On December 6, 1991, the naked, bound-and-gagged bodies of … read more
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8. Jack the Ripper: The Forgotten Victims
By: Paul Begg
3.94
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Experts agree that Jack the Ripper murdered five London women, but how many others did he slaughter… read more
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9. And the Sea Will Tell
By: Vincent Bugliosi , Bruce Henderson
3.64
Format: None pages, Paperback
Alone with her new husband on a tiny Pacific atoll, a young woman, combing the beach, finds an odd … read more
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10. American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper
By: Daniel Stashower
3.50
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author and Edgar Award-winner Daniel Stashower returns with American Dem… read more
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11. Broken Faith: Inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, One of America's Most Dangerous Cults
By: Mitch Weiss
4.15
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
In 1979, Jane Whaley, a fiery preacher with a thick Southern drawl, attracted a small group of foll… read more
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12. Daughter of the White River:: Depression-Era Treachery and Vengeance in the Arkansas Delta (True Crime)
By: Denise White Parkinson
4.05
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Join author Denise Parkinson for an intimate look at a Depression-era tragedy. The once-thriving ho… read more
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- history
- crime
- nonfiction
- true crime
13. An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President's Murder
By: Susan Wels
3.33
Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition
This true crime odyssey explores a forgotten, astonishing chapter of American history, leading the … read more
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14. The Edge of Innocence: The Trial of Casper Bennett (The Edge Of: Crime, Innocence, and Justice)
By: David Miraldi
4.28
Format: 406 pages, Kindle Edition
From the Rubery Prize-winning author David Miraldi, A Chilling Crime That Shocked Lorain, Ohio, and… read more
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- crime
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15. Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass
By: Ramin Setoodeh
3.66
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the editor in chief of Variety and author of the New York Times bestseller Ladies Who Punch, t… read more
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- history
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16. This Isn't Going to End Well: The True Story of a Man I Thought I Knew
By: Daniel Wallace
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“A memoir wrapped in an elegy… [that] maps a strangely stunning life… [Wallace] imbues this chronic… read more
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17. Shakespeare's Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance
By: Ramie Targoff
3.91
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
This remarkable work about women writers in the English Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shak… read more
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18. Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier
By: Benjamin E. Park
4.17
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Compared to the Puritans, Mormons have rarely gotten their due, often treated as fringe cultists or… read more
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19. The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch
By: Miles Harvey
3.69
Format: 401 pages, Hardcover
In the summer of 1843, James Strang, a charismatic young lawyer and avowed atheist, vanished from a… read more
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20. Zenith Man: Death, Love, and Redemption in a Georgia Courtroom
By: McCracken Poston Jr.
4.45
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Like a nonfiction John Grisham thriller with echoes of Rainman, Just Mercy, and a captivating small… read more
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21. Rajneeshpuram: Inside the Cult of Bhagwan and Its Failed American Utopia
By: Russell King
4.00
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
“Russell King has written the most definitive account of this grand American saga. Rajneeshpuram is… read more
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22. En bra dag att dö : vad 276 avrättningar lärt en fängelsepastor om livet
By: Carina Bergfeldt
3.59
Format: 268 pages, Hardcover
276 gånger har pastorn Jim Brazzil suttit i dödens väntrum. Han har lyssnat på bekännelser i elfte … read more
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- religion
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23. The Dockporter: A Mackinac Island Novel (Mackinac Island Series #1)
By: Dave McVeigh
4.03
Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition
It's the summer of 1989. Jack McGuinn is a dockporter, transporting tourists' luggage, piled high i… read more
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24. The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels
By: Pamela Prickett
4.08
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, deeply moving investigation of an underreported phenomenon—the rising number of unclai… read more
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25. Alma 30–63: A Brief Theological Introduction (The Book of Mormon: Brief Theological Introductions, #7)
By: Mark A. Wrathall
4.45
Format: 164 pages, Paperback
"Now is the time and the day of your salvation . . ." Alma the Younger is forever changed by an … read more
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26. Second-Class Saints: Black Mormons and the Struggle for Racial Equality
By: Matthew L. Harris
4.91
Format: 488 pages, Hardcover
An in-depth account--grounded in new archival discoveries--of the most consequential development in… read more
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27. The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
By: Michael Wolraich
3.77
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The riveting story of how the murder of femme fatale Vivian Gordon in 1931 brought about the downfa… read more
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28. Fire Season
By: Leyna Krow
3.42
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The propulsive story of three scheming opportunists--a banker, a conman, and a woman with an extrao… read more
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29. A Gentleman and a Thief: The Daring Jewel Heists of a Jazz Age Rogue
By: Dean Jobb
4.02
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
“A master of narrative nonfiction … in this mesmerizing tale about a Jazz Age gentlemanly thief, Jo… read more
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30. Rogues' Gallery: The Birth of Modern Policing and Organized Crime in Gilded Age New York
By: John Oller
3.86
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
From the beginnings of big-city police work to the rise of the Mafia, Rogues' Gallery is a colorful… read more
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31. All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way
By: Fred C. Trump
4.07
Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition
With revealing, never-before-told stories, Fred C. Trump III, nephew of President Donald Trump, bre… read more
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