Without a Prayer: The Death of Lucas Leonard and How One Church Became a Cult
By: Susan Ashline
3.77
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The horrifying true story of a killing inside the secluded Word of Life Christian Church, a parish-…
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1. Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History
By: Bill Schutt , None
4.32
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
For centuries scientists have written off cannibalism as a bizarre phenomenon with little biologica… read more
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2. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
By: Jonathan Kennedy
3.94
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth o… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"Pathogens thrive on inequality and injustice."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"Across the whole of the Americas, the introduction of infectious diseases from Europe resulted in a 90 percent fall in the population, from about 60.5 million in 1500 to 6 million a century later."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"There is one universally incorrect choice: do nothing. This didn't work when humans thought that plagues were a punishment sent by angry gods. Nor does a laissez-faire approach help stop disease when…"-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
3. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
By: Antonia Hylton
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- psychology
- audiobook
4. We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys
By: Erin Kimmerle
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Forensic anthropologist Erin Kimmerle investigates of the notorious Dozier Boys School--the true st… read more
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- history
- true crime
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
5. Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless
By: Laurah Norton
3.87
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating deep dive into the dark world of forensic science as experts team up to solve the ide… read more
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- history
- true crime
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
6. Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries
By: Greg Melville
4.00
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A lively tour through the history of US cemeteries that explores how, where, and why we bury our de… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"Every life holds an epic tale, even if no one alive remembers it."-Greg Melville, Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries
7. Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries
By: Rick Emerson
3.96
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
Two teens. Two diaries. Two social panics. One incredible fraud. In 1971, Go Ask Alice reinvente… read more
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- history
- true crime
- psychology
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
8. The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
By: Maria Smilios
4.33
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage. So begins the remar… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"Missouria took in Mr. Morris’s information and this system of demarcating lives. Maps and lines had defined her entire life. They were drawn throughout history, straightened, elongated, bent up and d…"-Maria Smilios, The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
9. Cursed Objects: Strange but True Stories of the World's Most Infamous Items
By: J.W. Ocker
3.70
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An illustrated compendium that reveals the true stories behind the most infamous, creepy, and bizar… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
10. Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
By: Megan Rosenbloom
4.01
Format: 275 pages, Hardcover
On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest othe… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- true crime
- audiobook
"Human skin books—mostly made by nineteenth-century doctor bibliophiles—are the only books that are controversial not for the ideas they contain but for the physical makeup of the object itself."-Megan Rosenbloom, Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
"Anthropodermic books tell a complicated and uncomfortable take about the development of clinical medicine and the doctoring class, and the worst of what can come from the collision of acquisitiveness…"-Megan Rosenbloom, Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
"Many confirmed human skin books didn’t begin their print life in this controversial binding but were rebound by collectors, usually doctors who took the oldest or rarest texts in their private collec…"-Megan Rosenbloom, Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
"No wonder the public persists in connecting the idea of human skin books with Nazis. It's easier to believe that objects of human skin are made by monsters like Nazis and serial killers, and not the …"-Megan Rosenbloom, Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
11. Goodbye Hello: Processing Grief and Understanding Death through the Paranormal
By: Adam Berry
4.41
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From paranormal investigator and host of Kindred Spirits Adam Berry comes Goodbye Hello , which ble… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
12. The Day I Die: The Untold Story of Assisted Dying in America
By: Anita Hannig
4.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An intimate investigation of assisted dying in America and what it means to determine the end of ou… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
13. The Angel Makers: Arsenic, a Midwife, and Modern History's Most Astonishing Murder Ring
By: Patti McCracken
3.45
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The Angel Makers is a true-crime story like no other--a 1920s midwife who may have been the century… read more
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- history
- true crime
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
14. Searching for Savanna: The Murder of One Native American Woman and the Violence Against the Many
By: Mona Gable
3.58
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A gripping and illuminating investigation into the disappearance of Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind whe… read more
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- history
- true crime
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
15. Hell in the Heartland: Murder, Meth, and the Case of Two Missing Girls
By: Jax Miller
3.70
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
The stranger-than-fiction cold case from rural Oklahoma that has stumped authorities for two decade… read more
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- history
- true crime
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
"I come to Oklahoma, thinking that it’ll be hard to write about the dead, but it has proven harder to write about the living, about those who’ll have to read themselves through my eyes."-Jax Miller, Hell in the Heartland: Murder, Meth, and the Case of Two Missing Girls
16. A Light in the Dark: Surviving More than Ted Bundy
By: Kathy Kleiner Rubin
4.21
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
In January 1978, I slept in my bed at the Chi Omega sorority house at Florida State University as T… read more
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- history
- true crime
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
17. Boys Enter the House: The Victims of John Wayne Gacy and the Lives They Left Behind
By: David B. Nelson
3.83
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
"Here is a work that emphasizes the full view of the lives of those young people that Gacy took. . … read more
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- history
- true crime
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
18. Data Baby: My Life in a Psychological Experiment
By: Susannah Breslin
2.77
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
What if your parents turned you into a human lab rat on the day you were born? Would that change th… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- psychology
- audiobook
19. Waco Rising: David Koresh, the FBI, and the Birth of America's Modern Militias
By: Kevin Cook
3.88
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A news-making account of the war between David Koresh’s Branch Davidians and the FBI, and how their… read more
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- true crime
- cults
- religion
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
20. Without a Prayer: The Death of Lucas Leonard and How One Church Became a Cult
By: Susan Ashline
3.77
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The horrifying true story of a killing inside the secluded Word of Life Christian Church, a parish-… read more
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- true crime
- cults
- psychology
- crime
- religion
- nonfiction
- cult classics
- journalism
- audiobook
21. Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable
By: Sarah Gerard
3.44
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed author Sarah Gerard turns her keen observational eye and cutting yet compassionate prose … read more
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- history
- true crime
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
