The King of Con: How a Smooth-Talking Jersey Boy Made and Lost Billions, Baffled the FBI, Eluded the Mob, and Lived to Tell the Crooked Tale
By: Thomas Giacomaro
3.67
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A Jersey boy with a knack for numbers, a gift for making people trust him, and an all-consuming hun…
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1. Your Money or Your Life
By: Vicki Robin , Joe Dominguez
4.53
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
In times like these, it's more important than ever to know the difference between making a living a… read more
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2. Too Pretty To Live: The Catfishing Murders of East Tennessee
By: Dennis Brooks
4.48
Format: 448 pages,
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3. The Cases That Haunt Us (Lisa Drew Books)
By: None , Mark Olshaker
4.00
Format: 256 pages,
America's foremost expert on criminal profiling provides his uniquely gripping analysis of seven of… read more
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4. Too Late to Say Goodbye: A True Story of Murder and Betrayal
By: Ann Rule
3.71
Format: 272 pages,
Jenn Corbin, a lovely, slim, brown-eyed blonde, appeared to have it all: two dear little boys, a po… read more
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5. Hollywood Hellraisers: The Wild Lives and Fast Times of Marlon Brando, Dennis Hopper, Warren Beatty, and Jack Nicholson
By: Robert Sellers
3.91
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
Robert Sellers traces the intertwining lives and careers of movie mavericks Brando, Hopper, Beatty … read more
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6. I Killed Pink Floyd's Pig: Inside Stories of Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll
By: Sammy Hagar
3.65
Format: 36 pages,
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7. Napoleon's Hemorrhoids: ... and Other Small Events That Changed History
By: Phil Mason
3.86
Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition
Hilarious, fascinating, and a roller coaster of dizzying, historical what-ifs, Napoleon's Hemorrhoi… read more
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8. The Grand Hotel
By: Scott Kenemore
3.95
Format: 145 pages, Paperback
Welcome to the hotel where nobody can check out. When a desk clerk welcomes a group of tourists int… read more
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9. Tears of the Silenced: A True Crime and an American Tragedy; Severe Child Abuse and Leaving the Amish
By: Misty Griffin
3.93
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
When I was six years old my family started to live and dress like the Amish, it was the beginning o… read more
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10. BLOW: How a Small-Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel And Lost It All
By: None
3.00
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
BLOWis the unlikely story of George Jung's roller coaster ride from middle-class high school footba… read more
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11. Mafia Summit: J. Edgar Hoover, the Kennedy Brothers, and the Meeting That Unmasked the Mob
By: Gil Reavill
4.29
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Mafia Summitis the true story of how a small-town lawman in upstate New York busted a Cosa Nostra c… read more
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12. My Friend Anna: The True Story of a Fake Heiress
By: Rachel DeLoache Williams
3.47
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Sex and the City meets Bad Blood and Catch Me If You Can in the astonishing true story of Anna Delv… read more
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13. The Other Side of Mrs. Wood
By: Lucy Barker
3.55
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A historical novel about the rivalry between two female mediums during Victorian London’s obsession… read more
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"I want your reputation... I want everything you have."-Lucy Barker, The Other Side of Mrs. Wood
14. Finding Margaret Fuller
By: Allison Pataki
4.11
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An epic reimagining of the life of Margaret Fuller—America’s forgotten leading lady and the central… read more
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15. We Thought We Knew You: A Terrifying True Story of Secrets, Betrayal, Deception, and Murder
By: M. William Phelps
4.10
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author, television personality, and host of the #1 podcast "Paper Ghosts… read more
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16. Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World
By: Tom Wright
4.07
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An epic true-tale of hubris and greed from two Pulitzer-finalist Wall Street Journal reporters, Bil… read more
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17. We Play Games
By: Sarah A. Denzil
3.51
Format: 9 pages, Audible Audio
When the rules turn deadly, winning is everything. Only available from Audible, a gripping psych… read more
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18. The Housemaid
By: Sarah A. Denzil
3.61
Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition
Housemaid wanted. Skills required: Discretion, and the willingness to go the extra mile. It see… read more
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19. The Rip
By: Holly Craig
3.31
Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition
Luxury villas on hot white sand, views for miles over turquoise water. Flawless hostess Penny gathe… read more
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20. Money Men: A Hot Startup, A Billion Dollar Fraud, A Fight for the Truth
By: Dan McCrum
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
'The financial investigation of the decade... Money Men instantly enters the canon of great financi… read more
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21. The Housewife's Secret (Detective Dan Riley #7)
By: Anna-Lou Weatherley
3.92
Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition
I cast my eyes over the impressive meal I’ve cooked and the half-empty crystal wine glasses. As our… read more
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22. One Wrong Word
By: Hank Phillippi Ryan
3.67
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
A heart-racing new psychological thriller from USA Today bestselling and multiple award-winning aut… read more
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23. Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy
By: Matthew Campbell
4.24
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“A triumph of investigative journalism.” —Tom Wright, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Billio… read more
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24. The Lie in Our Marriage (Detective Dan Riley #6)
By: Anna-Lou Weatherley
4.04
Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition
On a warm spring evening, guests gather in a perfectly manicured garden to celebrate Maggie and Len… read more
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25. Women of Means: The Fascinating Biographies of Royals, Heiresses, Eccentrics and Other Poor Little Rich Girls
By: Marlene Wagman-Geller
3.44
Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition
People are riveted by royals, captivated by celebrities, mesmerized by the monied and enthralled by… read more
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26. Top Girl
By: Danielle Marin
4.22
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Top Girl is the tell-all, true story of a grammar school girl turned drug dealer. Danielle has a s… read more
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27. The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women: A Social History
By: Elizabeth Norton
3.87
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
The Tudor period conjures up images of queens and noblewomen in elaborate court dress; of palace in… read more
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28. Summer, 1976
By: David Auburn
3.52
Format: 2 pages, Audiobook
Starring four-time Emmy Award winner and Academy Award nominee Laura Linney and Tony Award nominee … read more
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29. Devil Is Fine
By: John Vercher
4.05
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Still reeling from a sudden tragedy, our biracial narrator receives a letter from an attorney: he h… read more
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"No way I'd let myself feel again like I felt that morning. Of course, I wouldn't. I didn't have to tell her any of that. When it's that easy to lie to yourself, lying to someone else is light work. […"-John Vercher, Devil Is Fine
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30. The King of Con: How a Smooth-Talking Jersey Boy Made and Lost Billions, Baffled the FBI, Eluded the Mob, and Lived to Tell the Crooked Tale
By: Thomas Giacomaro
3.67
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A Jersey boy with a knack for numbers, a gift for making people trust him, and an all-consuming hun… read more
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31. Creation Lake
By: Rachel Kushner
3.67
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more
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"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
