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Christina Obel's favorite non-fiction reads.
American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

Maureen Callahan - Viking
Format: Book

Most of us have never heard of Israel Keyes. But he is one of the most ambitious, meticulous serial killers of modern time. The FBI considered his behavior unprecedented. Described by a prosecutor as "a force of pure evil," he was a predator who struck all over the United States....
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The woman who smashed codes : a true story of love, spies, and the unlikely heroine who outwitted America's enemies

Jason Fagone - Harper Audio
Format: Audiobook

The story of the husband and wife team who defined the modern discipline of codebreaking, breaking WWII codes for the US government, becoming the Adam and Eve of the NSA.
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Jared Diamond - Norton
Format: Paperback

Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed religion --as well as nasty germs and potent weapons of war --and adventured...
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Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years

Sarah Louise Delany - Dell
Format: Paperback

Warm, feisty, and intelligent, the Delany sisters speak their mind in a book that is at once a vital historical record and a moving portrait of two remarkable women who continued to love, laugh, and embrace life after over a hundred years of living side by side. Their sharp memories show...
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X (As Told to Alex Haley)

Malcolm X - Ballantine Books; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

If there was any one man who articulated the anger, the struggle, and the beliefs of African Americans in the 1960s, that man was Malcolm X. His AUTOBIOGRAPHY is the result of a unique collaboration between Alex Haley and Malcolm X, whose voice and philosophy resonate from every page, just...
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You Don't Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir

Sherman Alexie - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Book

Family relationships are never simple. But Sherman Alexie's bond with his mother Lillian was more complex than most. She plunged her family into chaos with a drinking habit, but shed her addiction when it was on the brink of costing her everything. She survived a violent past, but created...
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

David Grann - Doubleday
Format: Book

In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.
Then, one by one, the Osage...
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True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray

James Renner - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Print book

When an eleven year old James Renner fell in love with Amy Mihaljevic, the missing girl seen on posters all over his neighborhood, it was the beginning of a lifelong obsession with true crime. That obsession leads James to a successful career as an investigative journalist. It also gave...
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The Stranger in the Woods The Extraordinary Story of the North Pond Hermit

Michael Finkel
Format: Audiobook

In 1986, twenty-year-old Christopher Knight left his home in Massachusetts, drove to Maine, and disappeared into the woods. He would not have a conversation with another human being until nearly three decades later when he was arrested for stealing food. Living in a tent even in winter,...
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Life Is So Good

George Dawson - Random House Trade Paperbacks; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

One man’s extraordinary journey through the twentieth century and how he learned to read at age 98   “Things will be all right. People need to hear that. Life is good, just as it is. There isn’t anything I would change about my life.”—George Dawson  ...
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

MICHELLE MCNAMARA - Harper
Format: Book

For more than ten years, a mysterious and violent predator committed fifty sexual assaults in Northern California before moving south, where he perpetrated ten sadistic murders. Then he disappeared, eluding capture by multiple police forces and some of the best detectives in the area. Three...
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Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

Sebastian Junger - Twelve
Format: Book

We have a strong instinct to belong to small groups defined by clear purpose and understanding--"tribes." This tribal connection has been largely lost in modern society, but regaining it may be the key to our psychological survival.

Decades before the American Revolution,...
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Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression and the Unexpected Solutions

Johann Hari - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Book

What really causes depression and anxiety--and how can we really solve them? Award-winning journalist Johann Hari suffered from depression since he was a child and started taking antidepressants when he was a teenager. He was told that his problems were caused by a chemical imbalance in his brain....
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Poirot and Me

David Suchet - Headline
Format: Print book

David Suchet shares his many memories of creating this iconic television series and reflects on what the detective has meant to him over the years In the summer of 2013 David Suchet filmed his final scenes as Hercule Poirot. After 24 years in the role, he played the character in every story...
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