A Deal with the Devil: The Dark and Twisted True Story of One of the Biggest Cons in History
By: Blake Ellis
3.34
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this spellbinding true story, a pair of award-winning CNN investigative journalists track down t…
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1. Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
By: Lydia Kang , Nate Pedersen
4.00
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
Discover 67 shocking-but-true medical misfires that run the gamut from bizarre to deadly. Like when… read more
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- nonfiction
- adult
- history
- audiobook
"Unfortunately, the theory that 'more is better' is a really, really crappy theory when it comes to arsenic."-Lydia Kang, Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
"It is perhaps oddly appropriate that the symbol for the god Mercury was the caduceus—two snakes entwined on a winged rod. The symbol is commonly and incorrectly associated with the medical establishm…"-Lydia Kang, Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
2. Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed - A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings
By: Michelle Knight , Michelle Burford
4.17
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times Bestseller and inspirational memoir by Michelle Knight, whose survival story … read more
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- crime
- nonfiction
- true crime
- audiobook
"Every time i see a butterfly, it reminds me of how precious life can truly be. To be able to turn from a caterpillar into a beautiful butterfly and fly away so freely and gracefully wherever she may …"-Michelle Knight, Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed - A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings
Similar categories in Shelby Foote's The Civil War: A Narrative book and Blake Ellis's A Deal with the Devil: The Dark and Twisted True Story of One of the Biggest Cons in History
- nonfiction
- history
4. Member of the Family: My Story of Charles Manson, Life Inside His Cult, and the Darkness That Ended the Sixties
By: None , None
3.67
Format: 499 pages, Hardcover
In this poignant and disturbing memoir of lost innocence, coercion, survival, and healing, Dianne L… read more
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5. The Blood of Emmett Till
By: Timothy B. Tyson
4.07
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction This extraordinary New York Timesbestseller r… read more
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6. The Lost Girls: The True Story of the Cleveland Abductions and the Incredible Rescue of Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus
By: John Glatt
2.83
Format: 288 pages, ebook
New York Times bestselling crime writer John Glatt tells the true story behind the kidnappings and … read more
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7. Mister Magic
By: Kiersten White
3.59
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
Who is Mister Magic? Former child stars reunite to uncover the tragedy that ended their show—and di… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"Magic never forgets the taste of your friendship."-Kiersten White, Mister Magic
"This version of him isn't perfect. None of them are. New isn't the same as perfect. Growing up isn't inherently loss, it's just change."-Kiersten White, Mister Magic
"I think you've told me thank you more in the last day than anyone else has in years. It's like--when there's a stack of dishes, if my husband actually does them , I tell him thank you. But when I do …"-Kiersten White, Mister Magic
8. Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
By: Patrick Radden Keefe
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, twelv… read more
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- history
- true crime
- adult
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
9. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
By: Roxanna Asgarian
4.32
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children—and … read more
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- history
- true crime
- adult
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
10. Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls
By: Kathleen Hale
3.94
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
The first full account of the Slenderman stabbing, a true crime narrative of mental illness, the Am… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
11. The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America
By: Karen Abbott
3.69
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The true crime story of bootlegger George Remus and the murder that shocked the nation. In the e… read more
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- history
- true crime
- adult
- nonfiction
- mystery
- crime
- audiobook
12. The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend
By: Rob Copeland
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The unauthorized, unvarnished story of famed Wall Street hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio. Ray Dalio… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
13. Cursed Bread
By: Sophie Mackintosh
3.28
Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition
From the Man Booker-nominated author of The Water Cure comes an elegant and hypnotic new novel of o… read more
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- mystery
- adult
- audiobook
"Pain becomes an animal, walking at your side. Pain becomes a home you can carry with you."-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
"The world is only ever one breach away from being unpeeled entirely, one tragedy, one glimpse behind the curtain."-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
"I've been looked at in pity and in fear and I've learned that the only way to really be seen is through desire. To be looked at and found whole. Found alive."-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
"I don't want a book, I don't want the trouble of it, he said. I don't want to get involved, I just want to watch what's going on. I know what's going to happen and then it happens, and I can go outsi…"-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
14. Bone Deep: Untangling the Betsy Faria Murder Case
By: Charles Bosworth Jr.
4.30
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
The explosive, first-ever insider’s account of the case that’s captivated millions--the murder of B… read more
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- history
- true crime
- adult
- nonfiction
- mystery
- crime
- audiobook
15. American Mother: The True Story of a Troubled Family, Motherhood and the Cyanide Poisonings That Shook the World
By: Gregg Olsen
3.55
Format: 497 pages, Kindle Edition
From the #1 bestselling author comes the shocking true-crime story of a mother and wife, her distur… read more
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- history
- true crime
- adult
- nonfiction
- mystery
- crime
- audiobook
16. Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism
By: Jeffrey Toobin
4.16
Format: 426 pages, Kindle Edition
The definitive account of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the enduring legacy of Timothy McVeigh… read more
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- history
- true crime
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
17. Blood & Ink: An Heiress, a Tabloid War, and the Unsolved Double Murder That Hooked America on True Crime
By: Joe Pompeo
3.58
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
Vanity Fair's Joe Pompeo investigates the notorious 1922 double murder of a high-society minister a… read more
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- history
- true crime
- nonfiction
- mystery
- crime
- audiobook
18. 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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- history
- true crime
- adult
- nonfiction
- mystery
- crime
- audiobook
19. The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness
By: Susannah Cahalan
3.64
Format: 382 pages, Hardcover
For centuries, doctors have struggled to define mental illness-how do you diagnose it, how do you t… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
20. Murder, Interrupted
By: James Patterson
3.79
Format: None pages, Audio CD
Two true-crime thrillers as seen on Discovery's Murder is Forever TV series - premiering January 20… read more
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- true crime
- adult
- nonfiction
- mystery
- crime
- audiobook
21. 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
- adult
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
22. The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson
By: Jeff Pearlman
4.20
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
By the New York Times bestselling author of Showtime—the source for HBO’s Winning Time—the definiti… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
23. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
By: Donovan X. Ramsey
4.36
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more
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- history
- true crime
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
24. The Wax Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball’s Afterlife
By: Brad Balukjian
4.00
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
Is there life after baseball? Starting from this simple question, The Wax Pack ends up with somethi… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
25. Voices in the Snow (Black Winter, #1)
By: Darcy Coates
3.88
Format: 342 pages, Paperback
Clare remembers the cold. She remembers abandoned cars and children’s toys littered across the road… read more
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- mystery
26. The Kingdoms
By: Natasha Pulley
4.03
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A time twisting alternative history that asks whether it's worth changing the past to save the futu… read more
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- adult
"You won't sit down, you will wander around being nice to people, and then you will collapse and die. Look at the state of you."-Natasha Pulley, The Kingdoms
"He'd been stitching a fragile cloak of half-imagined hopes, barely with the substance of thule but there all the same. It dissolved and left him with a nasty residue of shame."-Natasha Pulley, The Kingdoms
"His entire soul cramped. His heart locked and he couldn't breathe, never mind move, and everything in him was shrieking as if he'd thrust his hand into a fire. The second he stopped trying to leave, …"-Natasha Pulley, The Kingdoms
27. The Doomsday Mother: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and the End of an American Family
By: John Glatt
3.82
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In The Doomsday Mother , bestselling true crime author John Glatt tells the twisted tale of Lori Va… read more
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- true crime
- adult
- nonfiction
- mystery
- crime
- audiobook
28. The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth and Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine
By: Thomas Morris
3.79
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A mysterious epidemic of dental explosions, A teenage boy who got his wick stuck in a candlestick … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
29. Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult
By: Faith Jones
3.87
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Named a Best Book of 2021 by Newsweek and a Most Anticipated by People , TIME , USA Today , Real Si… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
- true crime
- audiobook
30. Couple Found Slain: After a Family Murder
By: Mikita Brottman
3.54
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times Book ReviewCritically acclaimed author and psychoanalyst Mikita Brottman offers … read more
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- true crime
- adult
- nonfiction
- mystery
- crime
- audiobook
31. A Deal with the Devil: The Dark and Twisted True Story of One of the Biggest Cons in History
By: Blake Ellis
3.34
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this spellbinding true story, a pair of award-winning CNN investigative journalists track down t… read more
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- adult
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