True stories: general

Gold Medal for the 2023 Military Writers Society Award John Spencer was a new second lieutenant in 2003 when he parachuted into Iraq leading a platoon of infantry soldiers into battle.

Gold Medal for the 2023 Military Writers Society Award John Spencer was a new second lieutenant in 2003 when he parachuted into Iraq leading a platoon of infantry soldiers into battle.

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Before Chappaquiddick captures Mary Jo Kopechne’s intelligence, idealism, and beauty.

Before Chappaquiddick captures Mary Jo Kopechne’s intelligence, idealism, and beauty.

This "e;groundbreaking"e; biography of Lee Harvey Oswald's formative years "e;provides new insight into the character of the man who murdered a president"e; (Michael Takiff, author of A Complicated Man and Brave Men, Gentle Heroes).

A Letter from Sheri is a story inspired by the 1986 California serial killer murders executed by Charles Ng and Leonard Lake.

In 1893 Western Sicily, Gaetano DiGiovanni, twenty-five years old, foresees a day when he abandons his turbulent, hard-scrabble life in the Palermo Province hinterlands for the promise of America.

The real-life adventures of a United States Secret Service undercover agent.

Abandoned by her mother, Angel was sent to a village in a developing country in West Africa with very unfavorable conditions to live.

Ambiguity contains the roller-coaster ride of Anthony Bulela, a newly minted homicide detective, and his team in pursuing the killer dubbed as the Skinner by the press.

A serial killer haunts the streets of Dayton, Ohio, leaving a trail of women's bodies in their wake.

Throughout the 1960s, Tony Lambrianou was a trusted member of the Kray Gang.

Ein Bauunternehmer ist ermordet worden.

On a bitterly cold night in January of 1979, the heiress to the Sheraton Hotel fortune vanished without a trace.

Jade Handan has murdered her father.

This book is about a horrific murder.

David Owen Brooks, one of the mass murderers of twenty-eight or more young boys, died of COVID-19 on May 28, 2020, in a Texas prison.

My Pain Became My Strength was written as the start of the healing process for me.

Now in an expanded paperback edition, Innocence Project attorney M.

Transcripts from the popular true-crime podcast tell the story of one of Ohio's infamous cold cases: the fatal stabbing of a Miami University graduate.

The gripping story of a young woman's murder, unsolved for over two decades, brilliantly investigated and reconstructed by her stepsister.

Kassem Eid survived arrest in al-Assad's regime, a chemical weapons attack that shocked the world, and the siege of a city where he fought with the Syrian rebel army.

A TIMES, NEW STATESMAN and WASHINGTON POST Book of the Year'Absolutely gripping' GUARDIAN'A marvel' SUNDAY TIMES'Magisterial' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'Extraordinary and generous' WASHINGTON POST'A gripping testimony of terror and loss' OBSERVERA moving, hard-hitting account of the Paris attacks trial by France s leading non-fiction writerOn 13 November 2015, nine attackers wearing suicide bombs killed 130 people and left hundreds wounded at sites in and around Paris in the deadliest attack on French soil since the Second World War.

A New York Times bestseller!

Guidance and procedures for safe and efficient methods from the FBIs Laboratory Division and Operational Technology Division.

Olaudah Equiano was one of the most prominent people of African heritage involved in the British debate for the abolition of the slave trade.

Antoine-Henri Jomini was the most celebrated writer on the Napoleonic art of war.

'On War' is the West's premier work on the philosophy of war.

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An outstanding true account of a trip made by Zane Grey and famous sportsman, Buffalo Jones.

Riding and tramping trails would lose half their charm if the motive were only to hunt and to fish.

With 18 Full Color Photos!

The English spirit is unique.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson was an American Unitarian minister, author, abolitionist, and soldier.

Lord Dunsany was one of the most influential fantasy authors of the twentieth century.

Collected here are nineteen essays by Henry David Thoreau.

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Walden is one of the best-known non-fiction books ever written by an American.

Pearl Zane Grey was best known for his popular adventure novels and stories that were a basis for the Western genre in literature and the arts, but he also wrote two hunting books, six children's books, three baseball books, and eight fishing books.

A Girl and Five Brave Horses is the story of Sonora Carver and was the basis for the movie Wild Hearts Can't be Broken.

Here is the harrowing true story of Solomon Northup, a free black man living in New York.

Here is one of the few slave narratives written by a women.

In My Larger Education, Booker T.

Ellen Craft and William Craft were slaves from Macon, Georgia who escaped to the North in December 1848 by traveling openly by train and steamboat, arriving in Philadelphia on Christmas Day.

The Rough Riders was the name bestowed on the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry.

A Girl and Five Brave Horses is the story of Sonora Carver and was the basis for the movie Wild Hearts Can't be Broken.

One of the most urgent issues facing the world today is how countries shape historical memory in the aftermath of calamity, making decisions that cast long shadows into the future.

When Geraldine Gerry Largay (AT trail name, Inchworm) first went missing on the Appalachian Trail in remote western Maine in 2013, the people of Maine were wrought with concern.