6 best-selling nonfiction books like Chasing Alice: How the Life, Murder, and Legacy of an English Teacher Changed a Delmarva Community by Stephanie L. Fowler

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Chasing Alice: How the Life, Murder, and Legacy of an English Teacher Changed a Delmarva Community

By: Stephanie L. Fowler

4.18

Format: 235 pages, Hardcover

Part memoir, true crime, biography, and cautionary tale, Chasing Alice examines the life of Alice D…

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1. A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

By: Flannery O'Connor

4.17

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

This now classic book revealed Flannery O'Connor as one of the most original and provocative writer… read more

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"The trouble with the world was that nobody stopped or took any care."

-Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

"He had a look of composed dissatisfaction, as if he understood life thoroughly."

-Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

"The thing you do with a boy it is to show him all the to show. Don't hold nothing back."

-Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

"We're all damned," she said, “but some of us have taken off our blindfolds and see that there’s nothing to see. It’s a kind of salvation."

-Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

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2. 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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"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

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3. Summer Rental

By: Mary Kay Andrews

4.35

Format: None pages,

Sometimes, when you need a change in your life, the tide just happens to pull you in the right dire… read more

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4. The Woman Next Door

By: Barbara Delinsky

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

The lives of three couples are thrown into turmoil when their beautiful and much younger neighbor, … read more

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5. Zodiac

By: Robert Graysmith

4.43

Format: 303 pages, Paperback

Who was Zodiac? A serial killer who claimed 37 dead. A sexual sadist who taunted police with anonym… read more

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6. American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land

By: Monica Hesse

4.00

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

The arsons started on a cold November midnight and didn't stop for months. Night after night, the p… read more

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7. No One Can Know

By: Kate Alice Marshall

3.68

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

The author of What Lies in the Woods returns with a novel about three sisters, two murders, and too… read more

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"A pregnancy wasn’t a promise."

-Kate Alice Marshall, No One Can Know

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8. Killing the Mob: The Fight Against Organized Crime in America

By: Bill O'Reilly

4.25

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

O’Reilly and co-author Martin Dugard trace the brutal history of 20th Century organized crime in th… read more

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9. 12 Months to Live (Jane Smith #1)

By: James Patterson

4.10

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Criminal attorney Jane F. Smith, tough as nails, has received a terminal diagnosis and doesn't have… read more

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10. Murder at the Royal Ruby

By: Nita Prose

3.17

Format: 27 pages, Kindle Edition

The curtain rises, and the chandelier falls—taking the star of the show down with it. An ambitious … read more

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11. Slot Machine Fever Dreams

By: Chris Bohjalian

3.14

Format: 40 pages, Kindle Edition

It’s called Sin City for a reason. Dark secrets emerge when a young bartender meets a stranger on a… read more

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12. The Mosquito

By: B.A. Paris

3.63

Format: 32 pages, Kindle Edition

After his marriage fails, he hopes a vacation in France will relax and restore him. But fate has so… read more

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13. Pay Dirt (V.I. Warshawski, #22)

By: Sara Paretsky

4.08

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Legendary detective V.I. Warshawski uncovers a mystery with roots dating back to the Civil War in t… read more

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14. Sunflower Sisters (Lilac Girls, #3)

By: Martha Hall Kelly

4.26

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

Lilac Girls introduced readers to Caroline Ferriday, an American philanthropist who helped young gi… read more

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15. 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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16. Becoming Madam Secretary

By: Stephanie Dray

4.45

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

She took on titans, battled generals, and changed the world as we know it… New York Times bestse… read more

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17. When a Killer Calls (Cases of the FBI's Original Mindhunter, #2)

By: John E. Douglas

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A Haunting Story of Murder, Criminal Profiling, and Justice in a Small Town From John Douglas—th… read more

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  • nonfiction
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18. A Little Hope

By: Ethan Joella

3.69

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A Read with Jenna Bonus Selection An “immersive…illuminating” (Booklist) and life-affirming nove… read more

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"You never know what can break you. What you can fix, what you can stand up to. You never know what time will do, what will defeat or surprise you. You never know."

-Ethan Joella, A Little Hope

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19. The Kingdoms of Savannah

By: George Dawes Green

3.71

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Savannah may appear to be “some town out of a fable,” with its vine flowers, turreted mansions, and… read more

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20. Murder Road

By: Simone St. James

3.72

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A young couple find themselves haunted by a string of gruesome murders committed along an old deser… read more

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21. The Only Survivors

By: Megan Miranda

3.55

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

A decade ago, two vans filled with high school seniors on a school service trip crashed into a Tenn… read more

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22. Three Holidays and a Wedding

By: Uzma Jalaluddin

3.59

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Three times the holiday magic. Three times the chaos.     As strangers and seatmates Maryam Azi… read more

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23. Shelterwood

By: Lisa Wingate

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping novel inspired by the untold history of women pioneers who fought to protect children ca… read more

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"What lucky people we readers are that we live not just one life, but many, and diving into yet another is as easy as opening a book."

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"That was a perilous area. . .Graves could be anywhere and undoubtedly are. We walk over history, unaware, every day in all places. We sleep atop it. When we rest our heads at night, we've no way of k…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"The light between them outshines the November day. My heartstrings tug, and I want to call my mother and my grandmother, the women who built me - who implanted the idea that whatever path I chose for…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"I take a deep breath, lose myself in the healing power of feeling the world breathe, water over stones, wind against trees, last year's dry leaves tumbling along expanses of rock, in the play of clou…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

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24. The Heart of a Mother

By: Julie Clark

3.67

Format: 41 pages, Kindle Edition

A fateful decision from the past haunts a wealthy Californian. Desperate to make things right, she … read more

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25. People Like Them

By: Minka Kent

4.09

Format: 56 pages, Kindle Edition

Nobody’s perfect—although one beautiful couple certainly comes close. Discover the cracks beneath t… read more

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26. We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence

By: Becky Cooper

3.73

Format: 501 pages, Hardcover

Dive into a true crime narrative of an unsolved 1969 murder at Harvard, of obsession and love for … read more

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"Back then, I was blind to the idea that an institution could still be destructive even if its members were good people."

-Becky Cooper, We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence

"For we live in several worlds, each truer than the one it encloses, and itself false in relation to the one which encompasses it. [...] Truth lies in a progressive dilating of the meaning [...] up to…"

-Becky Cooper, We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence

"My freshmen seminar professor had warned our class that Harvard was an institution on a scale we could not imagine: "Harvard will change you by the end of your four years, but don't expect to change …"

-Becky Cooper, We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence

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27. The Last Agent (Charles Jenkins, #2)

By: Robert Dugoni

4.43

Format: 405 pages, Kindle Edition

10 hours, 31 minutes An Amazon Charts, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal bestselling seri… read more

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28. A Happier Life

By: Kristy Woodson Harvey

4.32

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Present Day: Keaton Smith is desperate for a fresh start. So when her mother needs someone to put h… read more

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"Trends come and go; the simplicity of timeless meals with the ones you love is forever."

-Kristy Woodson Harvey, A Happier Life

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29. Enter the Body

By: Joy McCullough

4.00

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“At once tender, poetic and ferocious, Enter The Body breathes new life into the Bard’s most tragic… read more

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"Broken people can be loved."

-Joy McCullough, Enter the Body

"The telling of stories holds back the weight of time."

-Joy McCullough, Enter the Body

"Each considers how these acts of violence against their bodies were acceptable to the world, while their desires were not."

-Joy McCullough, Enter the Body

"Not all stories can be told. Some are so dark and twisted, their telling would undo the world. But just because she doesn't speak doesn't mean Lavinia can't share who she is, what she's been through,…"

-Joy McCullough, Enter the Body

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30. Chasing Alice: How the Life, Murder, and Legacy of an English Teacher Changed a Delmarva Community

By: Stephanie L. Fowler

4.18

Format: 235 pages, Hardcover

Part memoir, true crime, biography, and cautionary tale, Chasing Alice examines the life of Alice D… read more

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31. Death Is My Life

By: Susan Ayres Wimbrow

3.60

Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition

Elizabeth Barclay was just five years old when her mother was brutally murdered and raped. That eve… read more

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