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Dark Heart: A True Story of Sex, Manipulation, and Murder

Kevin Flynn · Berkley Books
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

From the authors of the "true crime classic"* Notes on a Killing comes the harrowing story of the games that couples play - and what happens when role-playing becomes a deadly reality. Was murder part of the game? Seventeen-year-old Kat McDonough grew up with theater in her blood...
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ALWAYS LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE OF LIFE

ERIC IDLE · CROWN
Format: Print book

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In the Sanctuary of Outcasts: A Memoir (P.S.)

Neil White · William Morrow Paperbacks; 1 Reprint edition
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

"A remarkable story of a young man's loss of everything he deemed important, and his ultimate discovery that redemption can be taught by society's most dreaded outcasts." —John Grisham "Hilarious, astonishing, and deeply moving." —John Berendt, author...
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The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World

Sarah Weinman · Ecco
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

"The Real Lolita is a tour de force of literary detective work. Not only does it shed new light on the terrifying true saga that influenced Nabokov's masterpiece, it restores the forgotten victim to our consciousness." - David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower MoonVladimir...
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Small Fry

LISA BRENNAN-JOBS · Grove Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A frank, smart and captivating memoir by the daughter of Apple founder Steve Jobs.Born on a farm and named in a field by her parents -- artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs -- Lisa Brennan-Jobs's childhood unfolded in a rapidly changing Silicon Valley. When she was young, Lisa's father...
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A Louisiana Soldier: Willis A. Fontenot: 86th Chemical Mortar Battalion, WWII

Dianne Dempsey-Legnon · Lulu Publishing Services
Pages: 171
Format: Paperback

Willis Fontenot grew up fishing the bayou waters, hunting for game, and racing bareback on horses with little knowledge of the world beyond Belaire Cove, Louisiana. But as the Allied powers sought to invade Europe in 1943, duty uprooted Willis, thrust him into one of the most difficult...
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A Long Way from Home

CATHY GLASS · Harper Element
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

The true story of 2 year-old Anna, abandoned by her natural parents, left alone in a neglected orphanage.Elaine and Ian had travelled half way round the world to adopt little Anna. She couldn't have been more wanted, loved and cherished. So why was she now in foster care and living...
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Boy Erased: A Memoir

Garrard Conley · Riverhead Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

"The power of Conley's story resides not only in the vividly depicted grotesqueries of the therapy system, but in his lyrical writing about sexuality and love." - Los Angeles Times"This brave and bracing memoir is an urgent reminder that America remains a place where queer...
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The Black Widower: A Beautiful Doctor, Her Seemingly Perfect Husband and a Chilling Death

Michael Fleeman · St. Martin's True Crime
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

She was his second wife -- to die. . . Coming off a failed marriage, a beautiful woman named Toni joined an online dating site, hoping to find true and lasting love. Harold Henthorn seemed like her dream come true -- a handsome man who said he had "a heart for others." Only...
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Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste

Bianca Bosker · Thorndike Press Large Print
Pages: 571
Format: Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Thrilling . . . [told] with gonzo elan . . . When the sommelier and blogger Madeline Puckette writes that this book is the Kitchen Confidential of the wine world, she's not wrong, though Bill Buford's Heat is probably a shade closer."...
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The 37th Parallel: The Secret Truth Behind America's UFO Highway

Ben Mezrich · Atria Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

This real-life The X-Files and Close Encounters of the Third Kind tells the true story of a computer programmer who tracks paranormal events along a 3,000-mile stretch through the heart of America and is drawn deeper and deeper into a vast conspiracy.Like "Agent Mulder" of The X-Files,...
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Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders

Vincent Bugliosi · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 502
Format: Hardcover

A national bestseller -- over 7 million copies sold. "[A] social document of rare importance." -- The New Republic. Prosecuting attorney in the Manson trial, Vincent Bugliosi held a unique insider's position in one of the most baffling and horrifying cases of the twentieth century:...
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All That Heaven Allows: A Biography of Rock Hudson

Mark Griffin · Harper
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

The definitive biography of the deeply complex and widely misunderstood matinee idol of Hollywood's Golden Age.Devastatingly handsome, broad-shouldered and clean-cut, Rock Hudson was the ultimate movie star. The embodiment of romantic masculinity in American film throughout the '50s and '60s,...
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Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime

RON STALLWORTH · St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pages: 224
Format: Mass Market Paperback

The extraordinary true story of the black detective who goes undercover to investigate the KKK, the basis for the major motion picture written and directed by Spike Lee, and produced by Jordan Peele.When detective Ron Stallworth, the first black detective in the history of the Colorado...
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If You Only Knew

M William Phelps · Pinnacle
Pages: 496
Format: Mass Market Paperback

"Phelps is the Harlan Coben of real-life thrillers." --Allison Brennan"Anything by Phelps is an eye-opening experience." --Suspense MagazineWhen Vonlee "Nicole" Titlow and her aunt, Billie Jean Rogers, came home from a night of gambling in a casino near Detroit,...
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