9 Top historical books like Minnesota's Oldest Murder Mystery: The Case of Edward Phalen: St. Paul's Unsaintly Pioneer by Gary Brueggemann

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Minnesota's Oldest Murder Mystery: The Case of Edward Phalen: St. Paul's Unsaintly Pioneer

By: Gary Brueggemann

2.68

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

On September 27, 1839, the battered body of a middle-aged Irishman was found by some Dakota Indian …

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1. Will to Murder : The True Story Behind the Crimes & Trials Surrounding the Glensheen Killings

By: Gail Feichtinger , Gary Waller , John DeSanto

3.83

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

For the first time the story of the Glensheen killings and the crimes and trials surrounding Marjor… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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2. The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery

By: Bill James , Rachel McCarthy James

3.46

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Using unprecedented, dramatically compelling sleuthing techniques, legendary statistician and baseb… read more

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  • historical
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
"He was who he was; it was how he thought about himself. He was the man with the secret that nobody could ever get to. You guys look at me and you see nothing- this is how he thought; you see a small …"

-Bill James, The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery

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3. They Came to Baghdad

By: Agatha Christie

4.00

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

Baghdad is holding a secret superpower summit, but the word is out, and an underground organization… read more

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4. The Age of Innocence

By: Edith Wharton , Maureen Howard

2.64

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocenceis Edith Wharton's masterful portrait of des… read more

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  • historical
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5. Columbine

By: Dave Cullen

4.29

Format: 417 pages, Hardcover

"The tragedies keep coming. As we reel from the latest horror . . . " So begins a new epilogue, ill… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
"The final portrait is often furthest from the truth."

-Dave Cullen, Columbine

"What good were special talents when there was no one to share them with?"

-Dave Cullen, Columbine

"The goal with hostages is to gradually lower expectations; in nonhostage crises, it's to lower emotions."

-Dave Cullen, Columbine

"You can't really teach a kid anything: you can only show him the way and motivate him to learn it himself."

-Dave Cullen, Columbine

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6. Paris

By: Edward Rutherfurd

3.63

Format: 143 pages, Hardcover

From the grand master of the historical novel comes a dazzling epic portrait of Paris that leaps th… read more

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  • historical

7. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

4.04

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer as been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of sci… read more

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8. The Labours of Hercules (Hercule Poirot, #26)

By: Agatha Christie , Hugh Fraser

3.80

Format: 275 pages, Audio CD

First published in book form in 1947, The Labours of Hercules comprises an even dozen mysteries sta… read more

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9. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)

By: Arthur C. Clarke

4.17

Format: 297 pages, Paperback

On the Moon, an enigma is uncovered. So great are the implications of this discovery that for th… read more

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"My God -- it's full of stars! -Dave Bowman."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)

"Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)

". . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)

"Now I'm a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)

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10. Dear Jacob: A Mother's Journey of Hope

By: Patty Wetterling

4.60

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

With stunning detail, Patty Wetterling shares the untold story of the 27-year search for her son Ja… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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11. The River We Remember

By: William Kent Krueger

4.29

Format: 421 pages, Hardcover

In 1958, a small Minnesota town is rocked by the murder of its most powerful citizen, pouring fresh… read more

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  • historical
"Finally, she wrote: The most frightening thing we do in our lives is to love."

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"People who make other people happy are generally pretty unhappy themselves," she said."

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"Bluestone said, " Hihanni waste ." "He honnay washtay?" Sam gave him a bewildered half smile. "I'm afraid I don't understand." "Exactly my point," Bluestone said. "I've lived in a white man's world a…"

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"[Scott] heard the clock on the living room mantel strike midnight, and he could no longer lie there suffering. He slipped from his bed, dressed, and so quietly that he might not even have existed--an…"

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

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12. 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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  • historical
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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13. A Line to Kill (Hawthorne & Horowitz #3)

By: Anthony Horowitz

3.93

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of the brilliantly inventive The Word Is Murder and The Sente… read more

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14. The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World

By: Shelley Puhak

4.09

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The remarkable, little-known story of two trailblazing women in the Early Middle Ages who wielded i… read more

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  • historical
  • history
  • nonfiction
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15. When Minnehaha Flowed with Whiskey: A Spirited History of the Falls

By: Karen E. Cooper

3.63

Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition

Minnehaha Falls in Minneapolis has been a much-loved place for a very long time. Native people visi… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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16. Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer

By: Harold Schechter

3.76

Format: 227 pages, Kindle Edition

Harold Schechter, Amazon Charts bestselling author of Hell’s Princess, unearths a nearly forgotten … read more

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  • historical
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Lightning Strike (Cork O’Connor, #0) by William Kent Krueger

17. Lightning Strike (Cork O’Connor, #0)

By: William Kent Krueger

4.27

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

The author of the instant New York Times best seller This Tender Land returns with a powerful preq… read more

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18. The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation

By: Rosemary Sullivan

3.83

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Less a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept... Using new technology, recently discovered doc… read more

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  • historical
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
"The fact that Otto survived the horror of the concentration camps demonstrated his profound will to live."

-Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation

"Fascism counts on people's credulity, on their craving to believe, on their fear that there is nothing to believe."

-Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation

"While someone with the first person knowledge is still alive, while records are still available, while relatives of witnesses can come forward, the stories must be told."

-Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation

"The Netherlands in 1940 was like a petri dish in which one can examine how people brought up in freedom react to catastrophe when it is brought to their door: It is a questions still worth asking tod…"

-Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation

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19. A Lovely Girl: The Tragedy of Olga Duncan and the Trial of One of California's Most Notorious Killers

By: Deborah Holt Larkin

4.07

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

The incredible story of a 1958 murder that ended with the last woman to ever be executed in Califor… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Gunflint Falling: Blowdown in the Boundary Waters by Cary J. Griffith

20. Gunflint Falling: Blowdown in the Boundary Waters

By: Cary J. Griffith

3.88

Format: 293 pages, Kindle Edition

Stories from survivors of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness’s epochal weather disaster   O… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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21. Minnesota's Oldest Murder Mystery: The Case of Edward Phalen: St. Paul's Unsaintly Pioneer

By: Gary Brueggemann

2.68

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

On September 27, 1839, the battered body of a middle-aged Irishman was found by some Dakota Indian … read more

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  • historical
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Murder in Minnesota: A Collection of True Cases by Walter Trenerry

22. Murder in Minnesota: A Collection of True Cases

By: Walter Trenerry

3.38

Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition

This treasury of vintage crime offers a vivid picture of Minnesota from the time it achieved stateh… read more

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12 Top history books like Minnesota's Oldest Murder Mystery: The Case of Edward Phalen: St. Paul's Unsaintly Pioneer by Gary Brueggemann

Transform Your Habits

Will to Murder : The True Story Behind the Crimes & Trials Surrounding the Glensheen Killings

Gail Feichtinger , Gary Waller , John DeSanto

3.83

Transform Your Habits

The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery

Bill James , Rachel McCarthy James

3.46

Transform Your Habits

Columbine

Dave Cullen

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Dear Jacob: A Mother's Journey of Hope

Patty Wetterling

4.60

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11 Best fiction books like They Came to Baghdad by Agatha Christie

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The Rose and the Yew Tree

Agatha Christie , Mary Westmacott

3.64

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Unfinished Portrait

Agatha Christie , Mary Westmacott

3.76

Transform Your Habits

The Unexpected Guest

Agatha Christie , Charles Osborne

3.95

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They Came to Baghdad

Agatha Christie

4.00

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