Personal Effects: What Recovering the Dead Teaches Me About Caring for the Living
By: Robert A. Jensen
3.83
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The owner of the world's leading disaster management company chronicles the unseen world behind the…
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1. Then No One Can Have Her
By: Caitlin Rother
3.80
Format: 320 pages, Mass Market Paperback
“I couldn't stop reading Caitlin Rother's Then No One Can Have Her. It's riveting, revealing, and i… read more
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2. The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters
By: Rose George
4.01
Format: 238 pages, Hardcover
An utterly original exploration of the world of human waste that will surprise, outrage—and enterta… read more
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"The right way to do any social work is to work until you're not needed anymore."-Rose George, The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters
3. A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
By: Neil Bradbury
4.12
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant blend of science and crime, 'A TASTE FOR POISON' reveals how eleven notorious poisons a… read more
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- audiobook
"Sometimes what makes things toxic is exactly what allows them to be used for good."-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
"Rather than throw the white arsenic away, it was realised that money could be made by selling the substance as a poison to get rid of all kinds of vermin, including cockroaches, rats, stray animals -…"-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
4. All Bleeding Stops: Life and Death in the Trauma Unit
By: Stephen M. Cohn
4.09
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A gripping portrait of trauma surgeons and their place in the controlled chaos of a trauma center, … read more
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5. Trigger Points: Inside the Mission to Stop Mass Shootings in America
By: Mark Follman
4.03
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
“An urgent read that illuminates real possibility for change.” —John Carreyrou, New York Times be… read more
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6. A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery
By: Lawrence Ingrassia
4.41
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Weaving his own moving family story with a sweeping history of cancer research, Lawrence Ingrassia … read more
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7. All the Living and the Dead
By: Hayley Campbell
4.25
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A compelling and compassionate exploration of the death industry and the people—embalmers, detecti… read more
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"Death shows us what is buried in the living. By shielding ourselves from what happens past the moment of death we deny ourselves a deeper understanding of who we truly are."-Hayley Campbell, All the Living and the Dead
8. 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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9. We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys
By: Erin Kimmerle
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Forensic anthropologist Erin Kimmerle investigates of the notorious Dozier Boys School--the true st… read more
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10. In Two Minds: Stories of murder, justice and recovery from a forensic psychiatrist
By: Sohom Das
3.90
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Shocking, eye-opening and grimly fascinating, these are the true stories, patients and cases that h… read more
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11. Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless
By: Laurah Norton
3.87
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating deep dive into the dark world of forensic science as experts team up to solve the ide… read more
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12. Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases
By: Lydia Kang
4.14
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A very timely history of disease outbreaks, from the authors of Quackery: stories of outbreaks (and… read more
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13. 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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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- 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
14. Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11
By: Mitchell Zuckoff
4.67
Format: 625 pages, Kindle Edition
Years in the making, this spellbinding, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting narrative is an unf… read more
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15. Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist
By: Lisa G. Bailey
3.75
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Told with unflinching honesty and a touch of gallows humor, Clay and Bones is the personal memoir o… read more
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16. 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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17. Personal Effects: What Recovering the Dead Teaches Me About Caring for the Living
By: Robert A. Jensen
3.83
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The owner of the world's leading disaster management company chronicles the unseen world behind the… read more
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- nonfiction
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18. Skies of Thunder: The Deadly World War II Mission Over the Roof of the World
By: Caroline Alexander
4.00
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
From the NYT bestelling author, a breathtaking account of combat and survival in one of the most br… read more
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19. Catastrophes and Heroes: True Stories of Man-Made Disasters
By: Jerry Borrowman
3.84
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Sometimes we are the authors of our own disasters Catastrophes and Heroes takes a close look at … read more
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20. Obitchuary: The Big Hot Book of Death
By: Spencer Henry
3.74
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Based on the popular podcast, The Big Hot Book of Death is a smart, funny look at the American cul… read more
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21. Nature Underfoot: Celebrating Crabgrass, Silverfish, Fruit Flies, and Dandelions
By: John Hainze
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Fruit flies, silverfish, dandelions, and crabgrass are the bane of many people and the target of nu… read more
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