The Flight 981 Disaster: Tragedy, Treachery, and the Pursuit of Truth
By: Samme Chittum
4.24
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
On June 12, 1972, a powerful explosion rocked American Airlines Flight 96 a mere five minutes after…
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1. Our Little Secret: The True Story of a Teenage Killer and the Silence of a Small New England Town
By: Kevin Flynn , Rebecca Lavoie
3.73
Format: 320 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The true story of a teenage killer and the silence of a small New England town. For twenty years D… read more
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2. Fatal Descent: Andreas Lubitz and the Crash of Germanwings Flight 9525 (Kindle Single)
By: Jeff Wise
3.79
Format: 61 pages, Kindle Edition
The definitive investigation into the crash of Germanwings Flight 9525 and the mind of the co-pilot… read more
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3. Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
By: Piers Paul Read
4.13
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
On October 12, 1972, a plane carrying a team of young rugby players crashed into the remote, snow-p… read more
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"There was one question, however, which Inciarte had asked him and he could not answer. Why was it that he had lived while others had died? What purpose had God in making this selection? What sense co…"-Piers Paul Read, Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
"The closeness of the relationship between Fito Strauch, Eduardo Strauch and Daniel Fernandez gave them an immediate advantage over all the other in withstanding not the physical but the mental suffer…"-Piers Paul Read, Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
4. C is for Corpse (Kinsey Millhone, #3)
By: Sue Grafton
3.74
Format: 410 pages,
How do you go about solving an attempted murder when the victim has lost a good part of his memory?… read more
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5. Flight 232: A Story of Disaster and Survival
By: Laurence Gonzales
4.18
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
"A richly detailed story that is equal parts heartbreaking, inspiring…and full of fascinating scien… read more
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"As he walked along the runway, he came upon a United Airlines pilot. “He tried to sit up,"-Laurence Gonzales, Flight 232: A Story of Disaster and Survival
"Joan Wernick said she took two lessons from the crash. “You’re going to die when you’re supposed to die."-Laurence Gonzales, Flight 232: A Story of Disaster and Survival
"What does brace mean, anyway? Brace. Such an odd word. It comes from the Latin brachium, meaning arm. It means, as its heart, to embrace. It was a hug. A hug good-bye."-Laurence Gonzales, Flight 232: A Story of Disaster and Survival
"He saw at least a dozen people still in their seats. Their clothes were torn or blown or burned from their bodies, “completely naked in front, missing limbs, missing faces, some breathing, some moani…"-Laurence Gonzales, Flight 232: A Story of Disaster and Survival
6. The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
By: Kate Moore
3.52
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The incredible true story of the women who fought America's Undark danger. The Curies' newly discov… read more
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7. Gone: Catastrophe in Paradise: One fine afternoon on a sun-drenched island, hundreds of lives are destroyed... a true story
By: O.J. Modjeska
3.60
Format: 232 pages,
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8. 35 Miles from Shore: The Ditching and Rescue of ALM Flight 980
By: Emilio Corsetti III
4.23
Format: 343 pages, Paperback
On May 2, 1970, a DC-9 jet with 57 passengers and a crew of six departed from New York's JFK Intern… read more
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9. TWA 800: The Crash, the Cover-Up, and the Conspiracy
By: Jack Cashill
3.59
Format: None pages, Hardcover
TWA Flight 800 crashed into the Atlantic shortly after takeoff from JFK airport on July 17, 1996, k… read more
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10. Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13
By: Jeffrey Kluger , Jim Lovell , Fred Sanders
4.22
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
April 1970. The glory days of the Apollo space program. NASA send Commander Jim Lovell and two othe… read more
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11. Into the Abyss: How a Deadly Plane Crash Changed the Lives of a Pilot, a Politician, a Criminal and a Cop
By: Carol Shaben
4.75
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Only four men survived the plane crash. The pilot. A politician. A cop... and the criminal he was s… read more
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12. Cook County ICU: 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases
By: Cory Franklin
3.57
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
An inside look at one of the nation's most famous public hospitals, Cook County, as seen through th… read more
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13. The Crash Detectives: Investigating the World's Most Mysterious Air Disasters
By: Christine Negroni
4.50
Format: 191 pages,
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14. Open Secrets - A True Story Of Love, Jealousy And Murder
By: Carlton Stowers
4.07
Format: 189 pages,
In 1983, Rozanne Gailiunas was brutally murdered in her suburban home while her four-year-old son n… read more
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15. 2010: Odyssey Two
By: Arthur C. Clarke
3.95
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
When 2001: A Space Odyssey first shocked, amazed, and delighted millions in the late 1960s, the nov… read more
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"Humor was the enemy of desire."-Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two
"It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything."-Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two
"Men knew better than they realized, when they placed the abode of the gods beyond the reach of gravity."-Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two
"They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed."-Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two
16. Pretty Little Killers: The Truth Behind the Savage Murder of Skylar Neese
By: Daleen Berry , Geoffrey C. Fuller
4.32
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
In Pretty Little Killers, journalist Daleen Berry and investigator Geoffrey Fuller expand upon thei… read more
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17. Bracing for Impact: True Tales of Air Disasters and the People Who Survived Them
By: None , None
4.07
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
"Surviving is a true blessing that few get to experience." Being strapped in the seat of a plane as… read more
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18. 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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19. Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York
By: Elon Green
3.84
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
The gripping true story, told here for the first time, of the Last Call Killer and the gay communit… read more
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20. 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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21. While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students
By: J. Reuben Appelman
3.62
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The author of the acclaimed true-crime memoir, The Kill Jar, tells the inside story of the “Univers… read more
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22. 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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23. The Demon Next Door
By: Bryan Burrough
3.33
Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio
Best-selling author Bryan Burrough (Barbarians at the Gate, Public Enemies, Big Rich) recently made… read more
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24. The Doomsday Mother: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and the End of an American Family
By: John Glatt
3.82
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In The Doomsday Mother , bestselling true crime author John Glatt tells the twisted tale of Lori Va… read more
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25. Ordinary Heroes: A Memoir of 9/11
By: Joseph Pfeifer
4.55
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the first FDNY chief to respond to the 9/11 attacks, an intimate memoir and a tribute to those… read more
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26. Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing
By: Peter Robison
4.19
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A fast-paced look at the corporate dysfunction--the ruthless cost-cutting, toxic workplaces, and cu… read more
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27. No Man's Land: the untold story of automation and QF72
By: Kevin Sullivan
4.40
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
A gripping account of how a major air disaster was averted, by the captain and former Top Gun pilot… read more
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28. The Flight 981 Disaster: Tragedy, Treachery, and the Pursuit of Truth
By: Samme Chittum
4.24
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
On June 12, 1972, a powerful explosion rocked American Airlines Flight 96 a mere five minutes after… read more
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- adult
29. The Man Who Caught the Storm: The Life of Legendary Tornado Chaser Tim Samaras
By: Brantley Hargrove
4.28
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The life and death saga of one of history’s greatest storm chasers: a tour-de-force tale of obsessi… read more
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- adult
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"Never be too sure you've seen the worst the storm can deliver. The sky can always show you something you haven't seen yet."-Brantley Hargrove, The Man Who Caught the Storm: The Life of Legendary Tornado Chaser Tim Samaras
30. The Death Shift: The True Story of Nurse Genene and the Texas Baby Murders
By: Peter Elkind
3.89
Format: 400 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Though doctors struggle to save them, babies are dying in the pediatric ward of a Texas hospital. A… read more
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31. The Hunt for MH370
By: Ean Higgins
3.92
Format: None pages, ebook
"A staggering, meticulous and frequently spine-chilling work of longform journalism." Trent Dalton … read more
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