5 Top nonfiction books like The True Story of Tom Dooley: From Western North Carolina Mystery to Folk Legend (True Crime) by John Edward Fletcher

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The True Story of Tom Dooley: From Western North Carolina Mystery to Folk Legend (True Crime)

By: John Edward Fletcher

3.37

Format: 179 pages, Kindle Edition

The crime that shocked post-Civil War America and inspired the folk song that became The Kingston T…

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1. Iron Lake (Cork O'Connor, #1)

By: William Kent Krueger

3.97

Format: 464 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Part Irish, part Anishinaabe Indian, Cork is having difficulty dealing with the marital meltdown th… read more

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"What life gives us, good or bad, we seldom deserve."

-William Kent Krueger, Iron Lake (Cork O'Connor, #1)

"Word is you heard the Windigo too." I did. The difference is I'm ready for the son of a bitch." --Cork O'Connor"

-William Kent Krueger, Iron Lake (Cork O'Connor, #1)

" "He looked at his hands. Big hands. How useless a man’s hands were, he thought, when it came to fixing the important things." "

-William Kent Krueger, Iron Lake (Cork O'Connor, #1)

" They fasted the rest of the day and breathed in the smoke of a cedar fire. At first light next morning, they blackened their faces with the cedar ash, a sign to the spirits of the deep woods that th…"

-William Kent Krueger, Iron Lake (Cork O'Connor, #1)

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2. The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought

By: Susan Jacoby

4.04

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

During the Gilded Age, which saw the dawn of America’s enduring culture wars, Robert Green Ingersol… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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3. Coal River

By: Ellen Marie Wiseman

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this vibrant new historical novel, the acclaimed author of The Plum Tree and What She Left Behin… 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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5. Two Boys Kissing

By: David Levithan

3.71

Format: None pages, Hardcover

New York Timesbestselling author David Levithan tells the based-on-true-events story of Harry and C… read more

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6. Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them

By: Bart D. Ehrman

3.95

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

Picking up where Bible expert Bart Ehrman's New York Timesbestseller Misquoting Jesusleft off, Jesu… read more

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7. Far from the Madding Crowd

By: Thomas Hardy , Rosemarie Morgan , Shannon Russell

3.73

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . Independent and spirited Bathsh… read more

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8. James Patterson by James Patterson: The Stories of My Life

By: James Patterson

4.19

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

How did a boy from small-town New York become one of the world's most successful writers? · On t… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Here’s the best I’ve come up with about recovering from the death of somebody we love. It goes like this. When we were little, maybe one or so, we learn how to walk. Somehow we figure out how to get …"

-James Patterson, James Patterson by James Patterson: The Stories of My Life

"When she was free, the whale didn’t rush out to sea. Instead, she swam around and around her rescuers in joyous circles. The whale came up to each and every diver one at a time. She nudged them, push…"

-James Patterson, James Patterson by James Patterson: The Stories of My Life

"Okay, now. In the spirit of open minds — try to walk in somebody else's shoes at least once a day. Maybe even twice a day. What's it like for your poor teachers to have to put up with you rowdy, ill-…"

-James Patterson, James Patterson by James Patterson: The Stories of My Life

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9. The Amish Wife

By: Gregg Olsen

3.49

Format: 387 pages, Kindle Edition

The #1 New York Times and Amazon Charts bestselling author Gregg Olsen solves a murder among the Am… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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10. One Last Kill (Tracy Crosswhite, #10)

By: Robert Dugoni

4.48

Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition

Detective Tracy Crosswhite draws a long-dormant serial killer out of hiding in a nerve-shattering n… read more

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11. When the Jessamine Grows

By: Donna Everhart

4.19

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

From one of the most powerful and authentic voices in Southern fiction comes a historical novel wit… read more

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12. 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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13. Alex Cross Must Die (Alex Cross #32)

By: James Patterson

4.28

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Detectives Cross and Sampson are tracking a serial killer who's fatally ambushing young men in the … read more

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14. Cross Down (Alex Cross #31)

By: James Patterson

4.41

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Alex Cross is gravely injured. Only his partner and friend John Sampson can keep him safe . . . and… read more

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15. The Witch of Tin Mountain

By: Paulette Kennedy

4.06

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

In Depression-era Arkansas, something wicked has come to a haunted mountain town in a novel of unca… read more

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"It was surreal, how everything continued, how everything kept “on"

-Paulette Kennedy, The Witch of Tin Mountain

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16. All the Forgivenesses

By: Elizabeth Hardinger

4.27

Format: 371 pages, Kindle Edition

Set in Appalachia and the Midwest at the turn of the twentieth century, this exquisite debut novel … read more

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17. The Candid Life of Meena Dave

By: Namrata Patel

4.12

Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman embarks on an unexpected journey into her past in an engrossing novel about identity, famil… read more

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18. The Book Woman's Daughter (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #2)

By: Kim Michele Richardson

4.22

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

An Instant New York Times and USA Today Bestseller Bestselling historical fiction author Kim Mi… read more

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"Though Mama and I were the last of the Blues, the very last of our kind, and different from others, the books united every one of us."

-Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman's Daughter (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #2)

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19. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #1)

By: Kim Michele Richardson

4.22

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover edition for ISBN 978-1492671527 can be found here. In 1936, tucked deep into … read more

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"What I wanted most was to be okay as a Blue. I never understood why other people thought my color, any color, needed fixing."

-Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #1)

"Well, them cloths are a lot like folks. Ain't much difference at all. Some of us is more spiffed up than others, some stiffer, and still, some softer. There's the colorful and dull, ugly and pretty, …"

-Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #1)

"There's nothing wrong with your color, being you," he said firmly. "Nothing wrong with what the good Lord gives us in His world, Cussy Mary." He didn't know, couldn't know, the load I'd carried as a …"

-Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #1)

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20. Light to the Hills

By: Bonnie Blaylock

4.32

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

A richly rewarding novel about family bonds, the power of words, and the resilience of mothers and … read more

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21. What She Found (Tracy Crosswhite, #9)

By: Robert Dugoni

4.39

Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition

Solving a decades-old disappearance sets Tracy Crosswhite on a dangerous collision course with the … read more

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22. A Castle in Brooklyn

By: Shirley Russak Wachtel

3.79

Format: 263 pages, Kindle Edition

Spanning decades, an unforgettable novel about reckoning with the past, the true nature of friendsh… read more

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23. A Grave Every Mile (Ghosts Along the Oregon Trail Book 1)

By: David Fitz-Gerald

4.30

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

Embark on a harrowing trek across the rugged American frontier in 1850. Your wagon awaits, and the … read more

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24. The Mystery of Mrs. Christie

By: Marie Benedict

3.74

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Marie Benedict, the beloved New York Times bestselling author of The Only Woman in the Room, uncove… read more

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"Over the years, my memories of that trip - our hikes along paths lined with pine trees and vivid sprigs of wildflowers and the sound of my parents' laughter echoing through the forest as they strolle…"

-Marie Benedict, The Mystery of Mrs. Christie

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25. The Curious Secrets of Yesterday

By: Namrata Patel

4.02

Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman’s ambitions clash with familial expectations in a captivating novel about generational secr… read more

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26. Mother of All Secrets

By: Kathleen M. Willett

3.90

Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition

Her freedom, her sanity, her life. How much will a young mother sacrifice to protect her secrets? … read more

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27. The Girl Behind the Gates

By: Brenda Davies

4.52

Format: 346 pages, Kindle Edition

1939. Seventeen-year-old Nora Jennings has spent her life secure in the certainty of a bright, happ… read more

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28. Proving Her Claim (On the Dakota Frontier, #1)

By: CK Van Dam

4.33

Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition

The Civil War created countless spinsters and widows. Anna Olson was one of them. With no prospe… read more

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29. Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed

By: Maureen Callahan

4.25

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestseller Maureen Callahan, a fierce, character-driven exposé of the real Kenn… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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30. The True Story of Tom Dooley: From Western North Carolina Mystery to Folk Legend (True Crime)

By: John Edward Fletcher

3.37

Format: 179 pages, Kindle Edition

The crime that shocked post-Civil War America and inspired the folk song that became The Kingston T… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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31. West on the Oregon Trail: A Western Adventure - 4 Book Box Set

By: William Tresler

4.45

Format: 543 pages, Kindle Edition

Available at this low price for a Limited Time Only! The Oregon Trail, 1850… grueling, unforgiving… read more

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Jonas Jonasson , Rachel Willson-Broyles

2.00

Transform Your Habits

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Merlin Franco

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