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And It Was Good

And It Was Good: Reflections on Beginnings

ByMadeleine L'Engle

1 Reader

A Good and Happy Child

ByJustin Evans

2007 • 11 Readers • 336 pages • 3.5

Couples Who Kill

ByCarol Anne Davis

1 Reader

One of Your Own: The Life and Death of Myra Hindley

ByCarol Ann Lee

4 Readers • 4

When I Was Young in the Mountains

ByCynthia Rylant

1982 • 4 Readers • 32 pages • 4

Face to Face with Evil

Face to Face with Evil: Conversations with Ian Brady

ByChris Cowley

1 Reader

Tiger, Tiger

ByMargaux Fragoso

2011 • 15 Readers • 464 pages • 3.7

Search for the Strangler

Search for the Strangler: My Hunt for Boston's Most Notorious Killer

ByCasey Sherman, Dick Lehr

1 Reader

The Boys on the Tracks: Death, Denial, and a Mother's Crusade to Bring Her Son's Killers to Justice

ByMara Leveritt

3 Readers

I Remember Laura: Laura Ingalls Wilder

ByStephen W. Hines

1994 • 2 Readers • 274 pages

Royal Pains: A Rogues' Gallery of Brats, Brutes, and Bad Seeds

ByLeslie Carroll

2 Readers

The Snake Pit

ByMary Jane Ward

2021 • 10 Readers • 368 pages

Migraine

ByOliver Sacks

1970 • 10 Readers • 304 pages • 4

The Weight of Silence

ByHeather Gudenkauf

2008 • 25 Readers • 409 pages • 3.9

Loss, Trauma, and Resilience: Therapeutic Work With Ambiguous Loss

ByPauline G. Boss

2006 • 4 Readers • 280 pages

#1 of 6 in The Pack

The Pack

ByL.M. Preston

2010 • 8 Readers • 316 pages • 3

Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why

ByBart D. Ehrman

2005 • 87 Readers • 272 pages • 3.7

A Mended and Broken Heart

A Mended and Broken Heart: The Life and Love of Francis of Assisi

ByWendy Murray

1 Reader

History of a Suicide

ByJill Bialosky

2 Readers • 3

Historical Lovecraft

ByPaula R. Stiles, Silvia Moreno-Garcia

1 Reader

Reunion

ByJeff Bennington

2011 • 4 Readers • 336 pages

The Death of Torberta Turchin

ByShannon Mawhiney

1 Reader

#2 of 2 in Eleanor of Aquitaine

To Be Queen

ByChristy English

2011 • 9 Readers • 380 pages • 2

Passionate minds

ByDavid Bodanis

2006 • 5 Readers • 394 pages • 5

The Raven's Bride

ByLenore Hart

3 Readers

Queen Hereafter: A Novel of Margaret of Scotland

BySusan Fraser King

2010 • 6 Readers • 354 pages • 3

Wrongs of Passage

Wrongs of Passage: Fraternities, Sororities, Hazing, and Binge Drinking

ByHank Nuwer

1 Reader

Lady Macbeth

BySusan Fraser King

2009 • 1 Reader • 370 pages

A Treasury of Royal Scandals: The Shocking True Stories of History's Wickedest, Weirdest, Most Wanton Kings, Queens, Tsars, Popes, and Emperors

ByMichael Farquhar

2001 • 5 Readers • 324 pages

Lucrezia Borgia : Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy

BySarah Bradford

2004 • 11 Readers • 366 pages • 3.3

A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans

A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans: Pirates, Skinflints, Patriots, and Other Colorful Characters Stuck in the Footnotes of History

ByMichael Farquhar

1 Reader

The Borgias and Their Enemies: 1431-1519

ByChristopher Hibbert

2008 • 7 Readers • 328 pages • 3.5

The Forgotten Monarchy of Scotland

The Forgotten Monarchy of Scotland: The True Story of the Royal House of Stewart and the Hidden Lineage of the Kings and Queens of Scots

ByMichael James Alexander Stewart

1 Reader

A Treasury of Great American Scandals

A Treasury of Great American Scandals: Tantalizing True Tales of Historic Misbehavior by the Founding Fathers and Others Who Let Freedom Swing

ByMichael Farquhar

1 Reader

Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy

ByAlison Weir

1989 • 9 Readers • 400 pages • 4

Tethered

ByAmy MacKinnon

2008 • 4 Readers • 272 pages • 3

Welcome to Last Chance

ByHope Ramsay

3 Readers • 4

Odd Girl in

ByJo Whittemore

1 Reader

One Thousand and One Ghosts

ByAlexandre Dumas, Andrew Brown

1 Reader

The Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack

ByMark Hodder

1 Reader

Web of Lies - My Life with a Narcissist

BySarah Tate

1 Reader

The Coffin Quilt: The Feud Between the Hatfields and the McCoys

ByAnn Rinaldi

1999 • 4 Readers • 240 pages • 4

Velvet Elvis

ByRob Bell

2005 • 19 Readers • 194 pages • 3.7

Cryer's Cross

ByLisa McMann

2011 • 19 Readers • 233 pages • 3.5

Sweet things

ByLaura Kasischke

2011 • 4 Readers • 4

It Gets Better : Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living

ByDan Savage

2011 • 5 Readers • 338 pages • 4

Living Dead Girl

ByElizabeth Scott

2008 • 80 Readers • 170 pages • 3.6

Nine Days a Queen: The Short Life and Reign of Lady Jane Grey

ByAnn Rinaldi

2005 • 3 Readers • 228 pages

Hate List

ByJennifer Brown

2009 • 76 Readers • 416 pages • 4.1

The Wisdom of Big Bird (and the Dark Genius of Oscar the Grouch)

The Wisdom of Big Bird (and the Dark Genius of Oscar the Grouch): Lessons from a Life in Feathers

ByCaroll Spinney, J. Milligan

1 Reader

Mad In America

ByRobert Whitaker

15 Readers • 3.5

The Mystery of Lewis Carroll

The Mystery of Lewis Carroll: Discovering the Whimsical, Thoughtful, and Sometimes Lonely Man Who Created Alice in Wonderland

ByJenny Woolf

2010 • 3 Readers • 326 pages • 4

Twilight Sleep

ByEdith Wharton

1927 • 5 Readers • 320 pages

The Girls of Murder City: Fame, Lust, and the Beautiful Killers Who Inspired Chicago

ByDouglas Perry

2010 • 29 Readers • 3.5

The Lake of Dead Languages

ByCarol Goodman

40 Readers • 3.2

Newjack

ByTed Conover

1999 • 5 Readers • 352 pages • 3.5

Prep

ByCurtis Sittenfeld

2005 • 85 Readers • 406 pages • 3.4

Will's Choice

Will's Choice: A Suicidal Teen, a Desperate Mother, and a Chronicle of Recovery

ByGail Griffith

1 Reader

The Death of the Detective

ByMark Smith

2 Readers

Lisa and the Lacemaker

Lisa and the Lacemaker: An Asperger Adventure

ByKathy Hoopmann

1 Reader

The Murderer's Daughters

ByRandy Susan Meyers

2010 • 6 Readers • 318 pages • 4

Defending the Devil

Defending the Devil: My Story as Ted Bundy's Last Lawyer

ByPolly Nelson

1 Reader

In the Shadow of the Dream Child

In the Shadow of the Dream Child: A New Understanding of Lewis Carroll

ByKaroline Leach

1 Reader

The Mirror Effect

The Mirror Effect: How Celebrity Narcissism Is Seducing America

ByS. Mark Young, Drew Pinsky

1 Reader

The Three Faces of Eve

ByCorbett H. Thigpen

1957 • 3 Readers • 3

Living with Multiple Personalities

Living with Multiple Personalities: The Christine Ducommun Story

ByChristine Ducommun

1 Reader

Cracked

ByDrew Pinsky

2003 • 1 Reader • 288 pages

Jesus of Nazareth

ByPope Benedict XVI

12 Readers • 375 pages • 4.5

The Boy in the Box: The Unsolved Case Of America's Unknown Child

ByDavid Stout

2008 • 6 Readers • 275 pages • 4

Larson's Book of World Religions and Alternative Spirituality

ByBob Larson

1 Reader

The Jesus People Movement

The Jesus People Movement: An Annotated Bibliography And General Resource

ByDavid Di Sabatino

2 Readers

Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple

ByDeborah Layton

1997 • 21 Readers • 368 pages • 4.5

Heaven's Harlots: My Fifteen Years as a Sacred Prostitute in the Children of God Cult

ByMiriam Williams

1998 • 6 Readers • 320 pages • 3

Churches That Abuse

ByRonald M. Enroth

1 Reader

Children of Darkness

ByRuth Gordon

1 Reader

Malignant Pied Pipers of Our Time

Malignant Pied Pipers of Our Time: A Psychological Study of Destructive Cult Leaders from Rev. Jim Jones to Osama Bin Laden

ByPeter A. Olsson

1 Reader

Elizabeth's London

ByLiza Picard

2003 • 2 Readers • 368 pages

House of Dead Maids

ByClare B. Dunkle

2010 • 6 Readers

The Winter Ghosts

ByKate Mosse

2009 • 27 Readers • 265 pages • 3.5

The Fifth Child

ByDoris Lessing

1988 • 33 Readers • 133 pages • 2.9

When I Was Five I Killed Myself

ByHoward Buten

1981 • 8 Readers • 192 pages • 3.5

Caesars' Wives: Sex, Power, and Politics in the Roman Empire

ByAnnelise Freisenbruch

2010 • 5 Readers • 337 pages

Death of Innocence: The True Story of an Unspeakable Teenage Crime

ByPeter Meyer

1985 • 1 Reader

Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil

ByRon Rosenbaum

1998 • 4 Readers • 3

Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl

ByStacy Pershall

2010 • 7 Readers • 240 pages • 2

#1 of 6 in Giordano Bruno

Heresy

ByS.J. Parris

2010 • 35 Readers • 1,126 pages • 3.8

The Redemption

ByWilliam Peter Blatty

1 Reader

Elsewhere

ByWilliam Peter Blatty

1 Reader

A Piece of Blue Sky: Scientology, Dianetics and L. Ron Hubbard Exposed

ByJon Atack

1990 • 4 Readers • 448 pages

Journey Through Grief

ByElizabeth B. Farnsworth

1 Reader

Private Lives and Public Accounts

ByThomas J. Cottle

1 Reader

Close to Shore:

ByMichael Capuzzo

2002 • 5 Readers • 338 pages • 5

The Complex

The Complex: An Insider Exposes the Covert World of the Church of Scientology

ByNicola Tallant, John Duignan

1 Reader

In a Dark Wood

ByAmanda Craig

2012 • 1 Reader • 368 pages

Earth (The Book)

ByJon Stewart(Editor/Contributor),Rory Albanese(Editor/Contributor)

2010 • 44 Readers • 246 pages • 3.8

Babe

ByDick King-Smith

1983 • 22 Readers • 118 pages • 4.1

Classic Crimes

ByWilliam Roughead

1977 • 3 Readers

Walking Time Bombs

ByJoel Norris

1 Reader

Curtains

Curtains: Adventures of an Undertaker-In-Training

ByTom Jokinen

2 Readers

The Haunting of America

The Haunting of America: From the Salem Witch Trials to Harry Houdini

ByWilliam J. Birnes, Joel Martin, George Noory

1 Reader

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