Hanging Ruth Blay: An Eighteenth-Century New Hampshire Tragedy
By: Carolyn Marvin
3.72
Format: 131 pages, Kindle Edition
The true story of a woman hanged in colonial Portsmouth for burying her stillborn out-of-wedlock ba…
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1. A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
By: Sue Klebold
4.14
Format: 336 pages, ebook
On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine High School in Littleton, Co… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
- true crime
"A faraway look—I have heard suicidologist Thomas Joiner refer to it as “the thousand-yard stare"-Sue Klebold, A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
"Asking 'why' only makes us feel hopeless. Asking 'how' points the way forward, and shows us what we must do"-Sue Klebold, A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
"Indeed, I would not achieve the integration I sought until I found two nutrients essential to so many survivors. First, I found community and then I found a way to contribute."-Sue Klebold, A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
"People refer to the fog of war, and I am sure something similar applies to my situation. If I hadn't kept a running record of the days, weeks, and years, the fog would have swallowed too much of the …"-Sue Klebold, A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
2. The CBS Murders: A True Account of Greed and Violence in New York's Diamond District
By: Richard Hammer
4.23
Format: None pages,
When three CBS employees were gunned down in a Manhattan parking lot, the ensuing investigation rev… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- true crime
3. Paradise Valley (The Highway Quartet, #4)
By: C.J. Box
3.50
Format: 824 pages, Hardcover
A riveting new novel from the New York Times bestselling and Edgar-Award winning author. She almost… read more
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4. Bad Girls from History: Wicked or Misunderstood?
By: Dee Gordon
3.50
Format: 92 pages, Paperback
You won't be familiar with every one of the huge array of women featured in these pages, but all, f… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- true crime
5. The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
By: Judith Flanders
3.65
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
"Superb... Flanders's convincing and smart synthesis of the evolution of an official police force, … read more
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6. Murder in an Irish Village (An Irish Village Mystery Book 1)
By: Carlene O'Connor
4.57
Format: 270 pages,
A little slice of Heaven on the Emerald Isle... In the small village of Kilbane, County Cork, Irela… read more
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7. Connecticut Witch Trials: The First Panic in the New World
By: Cynthia Wolfe Boynton , None
3.53
Format: None pages, Paperback
Connecticut's witch hunt was the first and most ferocious in New England, occurring almost fifty ye… read more
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8. The Fir Tree
By: Hans Christian Andersen , Nancy Ekholm Burkert , None
4.03
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The tale is about a fir tree so anxious to grow up, so anxious for greater things, that he cannot a… read more
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9. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
By: Katherine Boo
3.96
Format: None pages,
From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dr… read more
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10. If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home
By: Lucy Worsley
4.50
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Lucy Worsley takes us through the bedroom, bathroom, living room and kitchen, covering the architec… read more
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11. The Midnight Club
By: Christopher Pike
3.66
Format: None pages, Paperback
Rotterdam Home, a hospice where teenagers with terminal illnesses went to die, was home to the Midn… read more
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12. The Portrait of a Lady
By: Henry James , Patricia Crick
3.79
Format: 797 pages, Paperback
When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touche… read more
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"She has only one fault; too many ideas."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"If one is strong, one loves the more strongly."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
13. The Other Side of the Night: The Carpathia, the Californian and the Night the Titanic Was Lost
By: Daniel Allen Butler
4.00
Format: None pages,
After every disaster, someone has something to hide. . . Butler spent years of research to document… read more
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14. Murder in Pleasanton: Tina Faelz and the Search for Justice
By: Josh Suchon , None
3.84
Format: 32 pages,
In April 1984, Foothill High freshman Tina Faelz took a shortcut on her walk home. About an hour la… read more
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15. Friday the Rabbi Slept Late (The Rabbi Small Mysteries #1)
By: Harry Kemelman
4.01
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
Rabbi David Small, the new leader of Barnard's Crossing's Jewish community, can't even enjoy his Sa… read more
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16. The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
By: Hallie Rubenhold
4.11
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never m… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- true crime
"As social commentators marvelled, charity was 'frequently derived from the lowest orders"-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
"The victims of Jack the Ripper were never 'just prostitutes'; they were daughters, wives, mothers, sisters, and lovers. They were women. They were human beings, and surely that in itself is enough."-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
"At its very core, the story of Jack the Ripper is a narrative of a killer's deep, abiding hatred of women, and our culture's obsession with the mythology serves only to normalize its particular brand…"-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
"My intention in writing this book is not to hunt and name the killer. I wish instead to retrace the footsteps of five women, to consider their experiences within the context of their era, and to foll…"-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
17. Treasure State (Cassie Dewell, #5; Highway Quartet, #6)
By: C.J. Box
4.20
Format: 275 pages, Hardcover
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER #1 New York Times bestselling author C. J. Box's Treasure Stat… read more
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18. Murder on an Irish Farm (Irish Village Mystery, #8)
By: Carlene O'Connor
4.21
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In this enchanting new read in the fan-favorite series from a USA Today bestselling author, garda o… read more
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19. Parting the Veil
By: Paulette Kennedy
3.98
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
Some houses hold secrets that are meant to be kept forever… When Eliza Sullivan inherits an esta… read more
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20. The Night & Its Moon (The Night & Its Moon, #1)
By: Piper C.J.
3.56
Format: 540 pages, Paperback
Farleigh is just an orphanage. At least, that’s what the church would have the people believe, but … read more
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"Tous les enfants méritaient de bénéficier de l’amour inconditionnel d’une famille, pour ce qu’ils étaient et pas pour répondre aux attentes de leurs parents."-Piper C.J., The Night & Its Moon (The Night & Its Moon, #1)
"Quelle meilleure manière de duper les hommes que de leur faire croire qu'ils menaient la danse ? Qu'ils avaient le pouvoir ? Leur tête était si creuse, leur cœur, si noir, qu'ils imaginaient qu'ils d…"-Piper C.J., The Night & Its Moon (The Night & Its Moon, #1)
"Il ne s’était pas soucié de retenir le nom de l’enfant. Son identité ne signifiait rien. Elle n’était qu’un pion dans le jeu auquel s’adonnaient les puissants pour démontrer qu’ils avaient le droit d…"-Piper C.J., The Night & Its Moon (The Night & Its Moon, #1)
21. Murder on Cape Cod (Cozy Capers Book Group Mystery, #1)
By: Maddie Day
3.76
Format: 310 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Cape Cod bicycle shop owner Mackenzie "Mac" Almeida and her book club must find a crafty killer in … read more
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22. The Joy and Light Bus Company (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #22)
By: Alexander McCall Smith
4.20
Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition
In this latest installment in the beloved No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, Mma Ramotswe is te… read more
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"Never try to reach a conclusion before you reach the conclusion."-Alexander McCall Smith, The Joy and Light Bus Company (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #22)
"There were times, she thought, when 'ah' said everything that needed to be said"-Alexander McCall Smith, The Joy and Light Bus Company (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #22)
"We have always asked too much of women in this country. They hold up the sky on their shoulders."-Alexander McCall Smith, The Joy and Light Bus Company (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #22)
"People had to be left to make their own mistakes, even if the rest of us could see quite clearly the dangers that lay ahead."-Alexander McCall Smith, The Joy and Light Bus Company (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #22)
23. Before and After
By: Judy Christie
3.98
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
7 hours, 57 minutes The incredible, poignant true stories of victims of a notorious adoption sca… read more
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- biography
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24. The Very Secret Sex Lives of Medieval Women: An Inside Look at Women & Sex in Medieval Times (Human Sexuality, True Stories, Women in History)
By: Rosalie Gilbert
3.53
Format: 327 pages, Paperback
What Was Sex Like for a Medieval Woman?An inside look at sexual practices in the medieval world. We… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
25. A Trace of Poison (Phyllida Bright Mystery, #2)
By: Colleen Cambridge
3.99
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Phyllida Bright, housekeeper for Agatha Christie, must uncover a killer among a throng of crime wri… read more
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26. The Ceely Rose Murders at Malabar Farm
By: Mark Sebastian Jordan
3.74
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
This chilling true crime history reveals the story of a young woman in nineteenth century rural Ohi… read more
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- nonfiction
- true crime
27. The Girls Are Gone: The True Story of Two Sisters Who Vanished, the Father Who Kept Searching, and the Adults Who Conspired to Keep the Truth Hidden
By: Michael Brodkorb
3.70
Format: 504 pages, Kindle Edition
On the evening of April 19, 2013, Samantha and Gianna Rucki disappeared. Two of five children born … read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
- true crime
28. The Taking of Jemima Boone: Colonial Settlers, Tribal Nations, and the Kidnap That Shaped America
By: Matthew Pearl
3.64
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
On a quiet midsummer day in 1776, weeks after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, thirt… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- true crime
29. A Visitor's Guide to Jane Austen's England
By: Sue Wilkes
3.88
Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition
Immerse yourself in the vanished world inhabited by Austen’s contemporaries. Packed with detail, an… read more
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- nonfiction
30. Witchcraft in Colonial Virginia
By: Carson O. Hudson Jr.
3.54
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
While the Salem witch trials get the most notoriety, Virginia's witchcraft history dates back many … read more
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- nonfiction
31. Hanging Ruth Blay: An Eighteenth-Century New Hampshire Tragedy
By: Carolyn Marvin
3.72
Format: 131 pages, Kindle Edition
The true story of a woman hanged in colonial Portsmouth for burying her stillborn out-of-wedlock ba… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- true crime
