Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy
By: Alex Mar
3.98
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A masterful, revelatory work of literary non-fiction about a teenage girl's shocking crime--and its…
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1. The Darkest Night: The Murder of Innocence in a Small Town
By: Ron Franscell
3.96
Format: 282 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Casper, Wyoming:1973. Eleven-year-old Amy Burridge rides with her eighteen-year-old sister, Becky, … read more
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- biography
- history
- true crime
- adult
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
"Survival is an instinct, not a choice."-Ron Franscell, The Darkest Night: The Murder of Innocence in a Small Town
2. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
By: Timothy Egan
4.38
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the rivetin… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- true crime
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
"When hate was on the ballot, especially in the guise of virtue, a majority of voters knew exactly what to do."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"Stephenson had succeeded with an unusual formula for a mass movement: men were the muscle, women spread the poison, and ministers sanctified it all."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"The governor of Georgia, Clifford Walker, told a Klan rally in 1924 that the United States should 'build a wall of steel, a wall as high as heaven' against immigrants."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"There are millions who have never joined, but who think and feel and, when called on, will fight with us," Evans wrote. "This is our real strength, and no one who ignores it can hope to understand Am…"-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
3. 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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- biography
- history
- true crime
- adult
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
4. A Living Remedy: A Memoir
By: Nicole Chung
4.01
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A searing memoir of family, class and grief—a daughter’s search to understand the lives her adoptiv… read more
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- race
- biography
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
"How do you learn to cherish yourself, your life, when grief has made it unrecognizable? I am starting to feel that we do so not by trying to fill a void that can never be filled but by living as best…"-Nicole Chung, A Living Remedy: A Memoir
5. The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia
By: Samantha Leach
3.22
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Three suburban girls meet at a boarding school for troubled teens. Eight years later, they were de… read more
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- biography
- true crime
- nonfiction
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6. The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
By: Jonathan Rosen
4.07
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
“Brave and nuanced…an act of tremendous compassion and a literary triumph.” — The New York Times … read more
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"It's true I didn't love the job, but I did want the money. If I was too incompetent for ordinary work, I would have to do something extraordinary or face destruction."-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
"Money had replaced community mental healthcare the way medication had replaced state hospitals. Medication did not go looking for those who resisted taking it, and money could not administer itself. …"-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
7. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
By: Antonia Hylton
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more
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- nonfiction
- race
- history
- audiobook
8. The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine
By: Ricardo Nuila
4.38
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
Where does one go without health insurance, when turned away by hospitals, clinics, and doctors? In… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
9. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
10. Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling
By: Jason De León
4.37
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An intense, intimate and first-of-its-kind look at the world of human smuggling in Latin America, b… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- true crime
- audiobook
11. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
By: Roxanna Asgarian
4.32
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children—and … read more
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- race
- history
- true crime
- adult
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
12. Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir
By: Rachel Louise Snyder
3.94
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
For decades, Rachel Louise Snyder has been a fierce advocate reporting on the darkest social issues… read more
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- nonfiction
- adult
- biography
- audiobook
"I didn't intentionally gravitate towards stories of women. I was interested in human rights, which often boiled down to this question: who was winning and who was losing? And over and over again, cou…"-Rachel Louise Snyder, Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir
13. Ghosts of the Orphanage: A Story of Mysterious Deaths, a Conspiracy of Silence, and a Search for Justice
By: Christine Kenneally
4.05
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The shocking secret history of twentieth-century orphanages—which for decades hid violence, abuse, … read more
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- american history
- history
- true crime
- adult
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
14. The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder
By: Edward Humes
4.27
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
After 30 years, Detective Jim Scharf arrested a teenage couple's murderer—and exposed a looming bat… read more
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- history
- true crime
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
15. Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders
By: John Glatt
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In Tangled Vines , bestselling true crime author John Glatt reconstructs the rise of the prestigiou… read more
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- history
- true crime
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
16. Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America
By: Audrey Clare Farley
3.53
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Hidden Valley Road and Patient H.M., an "intimate and compassionate portrait" (Grace… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- history
- audiobook
17. Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism
By: Jeffrey Toobin
4.16
Format: 426 pages, Kindle Edition
The definitive account of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the enduring legacy of Timothy McVeigh… read more
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- biography
- history
- true crime
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
18. Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery
By: Earl Swift
3.98
Format: 419 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Chesapeake Requiem comes a gripping new wor… read more
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- race
- history
- true crime
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
19. When the World Didn't End: A Memoir
By: Guinevere Turner
3.74
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In this immersive, spell-binding memoir, an acclaimed screenwriter tells the story of her childhood… read more
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- biography
- history
- audiobook
20. Evidence of Things Seen
By: Sarah Weinman
3.65
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
From Sarah Weinman, the award-winning editor of Unspeakable Acts, a groundbreaking new anthology sh… read more
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- true crime
- adult
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
21. In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child
By: Kim Cross
4.30
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Paced like a thriller and full of insider information on the history and science of Crime Scene Inv… read more
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- true crime
- adult
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
22. What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator
By: Barbara Butcher
4.15
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Barbara Butcher was early in her recovery from alcoholism when she found an unexpected a job at th… read more
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- true crime
- adult
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
"People can handle the truth, but not uncertainty. The things they imagine are almost always more painful than the facts."-Barbara Butcher, What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator
23. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
By: Donovan X. Ramsey
4.36
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more
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- race
- history
- true crime
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
24. My Fifty-Two Years of Domestic Abuse: A Survivor’s Story
By: Dana Wilson
4.25
Format: 136 pages, Kindle Edition
For fifty-two years, Dana Wilson endured emotional and physical abuse from her husband. The abuse e… read more
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25. The Angel Makers: Arsenic, a Midwife, and Modern History's Most Astonishing Murder Ring
By: Patti McCracken
3.45
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The Angel Makers is a true-crime story like no other--a 1920s midwife who may have been the century… read more
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- history
- true crime
- adult
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
26. A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder
By: Mark O'Connell
3.74
Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition
From the award-winning author comes a gripping account of one of the most scandalous chapters in mo… read more
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- history
- true crime
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
27. Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy
By: Alex Mar
3.98
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A masterful, revelatory work of literary non-fiction about a teenage girl's shocking crime--and its… read more
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- race
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- history
- true crime
- adult
- nonfiction
- contemporary
- crime
- audiobook
28. Life Sentence: The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore’s Deadliest Gang Leader
By: Mark Bowden
3.97
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
In this unprecedented deep dive into inner-city gang life, Mark Bowden takes readers inside a Balti… read more
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- biography
- true crime
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
29. Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night
By: Lisa Belkin
3.77
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The multigenerational tale of three families whose paths collide one summer night in 1960 with the … read more
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- history
- true crime
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
30. A Hunger to Kill: A Serial Killer, a Determined Detective, and the Quest for a Confession That Changed a Small Town Forever
By: Kim Mager
3.85
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In this fascinating & profoundly chilling account, Detective Kim Mager , a real-life version of Cla… read more
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- history
- true crime
- adult
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
31. Fire on the Levee: The Murder of Henry Glover and the Search for Justice after Hurricane Katrina
By: Jared Fishman
4.03
Format: 533 pages, Kindle Edition
“A riveting tale told with care and expertise.” —David Simon, creator of The WireThe former federa… read more
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- true crime
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