Dancing with the Octopus: The Telling of a True Crime
By: Debora Harding
3.93
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
One Omaha winter day in 1978, when Debora Harding was just fourteen, she was abducted at knife-poin…
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1. The Boys in the Bunkhouse: Servitude and Salvation in the Heartland
By: Dan Barry
3.13
Format: 111 pages, Hardcover
In this haunting modern Dickensian story that is a literary tour de force, Pulitzer Prize-winning N… read more
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2. Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die: Musings from the Road
By: Kinky Friedman , Willie Nelson
3.63
Format: 416 pages, ebook
You won't see no sad and teary eyes When I get my wings, and it's my time to fly Just call my frien… read more
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4. We Are All Shipwrecks: A Memoir
By: None
2.92
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A mother's murder. Her daughter's redemption. And the complicated past that belongs to them both. K… read more
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5. The Twelfth Victim: The Innocence of Caril Fugate in the Starkweather Murder Rampage
By: None , None
2.96
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 1958, nineteen-year-old Charles Starkweather gained notoriety as one of the nation's first spree… read more
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6. It Was Me All Along
By: Andie Mitchell
3.34
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A young food blogger shares her inspiring story of incredible weight loss--a journey from nearly 30… read more
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7. Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer
By: Jillian Lauren
3.38
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
He was sitting right across the table...and he would have killed her if he could. Jillian Lauren ha… read more
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- adult
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8. Between Two Trailers
By: J. Dana Trent
3.65
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An unforgettable memoir about a girl who escapes her childhood as a preschool drug dealer to earn a… read more
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9. Sociopath: A Memoir
By: Patric Gagne
3.84
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating, revelatory memoir revealing the author’s struggle to come to terms with her own soci… read more
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"In a universe where everything seemed to be associated with everything else, jazz was in a world all its own. The untethered notes didn't propel me backward in time or force me into imaginations of t…"-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir
"Regardless of whether they realized it, my parents, my friends, my teachers, my lovers—everyone, on some level—was uncomfortable with my limited emotion. Because it meant something sinister. Because,…"-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir
"I loved people. I truly did. But the way I loved was different than most. And, if I was being honest, not all that compatible. I didn’t need to get love in order to give love. I never had. I preferre…"-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir
"The more I paid attention, the more I noticed just how often 'apathy,' 'lack of feeling,' and the word 'sociopath' were associated with evil. Everywhere. From celebrated books like East of Eden and T…"-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir
10. Everything Is Fine
By: Vince Granata
4.20
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Grief, mental illness, and the bonds of family are movingly explored in this extraordinary memoir “… read more
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"Eventually, I had no choice but to look at loss and pain, at all the pieces of my family's story that I didn't think I could ever understand. It was this process, recognizing the pieces, struggling t…"-Vince Granata, Everything Is Fine
"In reality, memories are more feeling than fact. Though we want to think of our memories as one long record, the reel of our greatest hits, a memory is a constellation of infinitesimal changes, elect…"-Vince Granata, Everything Is Fine
11. Starkweather: The Untold Story of the Killing Spree that Changed America
By: Harry N. MacLean
3.71
Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition
The definitive story of Charles Starkweather, often considered to be the first mass killer in the m… read more
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12. The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity
By: Axton Betz-Hamilton
3.89
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An identity theft expert tells the story of the duplicity and betrayal that inspired her career and… read more
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13. Joyful Recollections of Trauma
By: Paul Scheer
4.23
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning actor and comedian Paul Scheer, a candid and humorous memoir-in-essays on coming… read more
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"I didn’t need a girlfriend when I had Blockbuster."-Paul Scheer, Joyful Recollections of Trauma
"But not acknowledging my trauma took away my triumph. I survived, and I wanted to make surviving the abuse part of my story. I want to wear my former shame with pride."-Paul Scheer, Joyful Recollections of Trauma
14. Dancing with the Octopus: The Telling of a True Crime
By: Debora Harding
3.93
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
One Omaha winter day in 1978, when Debora Harding was just fourteen, she was abducted at knife-poin… read more
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- adult
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15. Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival
By: Kelly Sundberg
3.83
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In this brave and beautiful memoir, written with the raw honesty and devastating openness of The Gl… read more
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"I was only ever leaving. I was leaving when he hit me. Leaving when he screamed “You are a fucking cunt!"-Kelly Sundberg, Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival
16. The War Begins in Paris
By: Theodore Wheeler
3.49
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Kings of Broken Things and In Our Other Lives comes a provocative and stylish li… read more
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17. American Daughter
By: Stephanie Thornton Plymale
4.20
Format: 288 pages, ebook
For 50 years, Stephanie Plymale kept her past a fiercely guarded secret. No one outside her immedia… read more
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18. Catch the Sparrow: A Search for a Sister and the Truth of Her Murder
By: Rachel Rear
3.68
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The gripping story of a young woman's murder, unsolved for over two decades, brilliantly investigat… read more
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19. Kin
By: Shawna Kay Rodenberg
3.59
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A heart stopping memoir of a wrenching Appalachian girlhood and a multilayered portrait of a misrep… read more
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20. Reaching for the Stars: The Inspiring Story of a Migrant Farmworker Turned Astronaut
By: José Moreno Hernández
4.14
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The book that inspired the new film A Million Miles Away. Born into a family of migrant workers, … read more
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21. Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida
By: Mikita Brottman
3.54
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the critically acclaimed author of the “enthralling” ( San Francisco Book Review ) An Unexplai… read more
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