True stories books

Cartel Chronicles: From Fields to Fortresses traces that transformation from its earliest roots to its most dangerous...  Read More >>

She was not famous by choice, and she never called herself lucky. Born to immigrant parents and shaped by hardship...  Read More >>

What happens when growth outpaces the trust that once surrounded you Becoming While Black is not a manifesto. It...  Read More >>

What does it mean to stay-when leaving would be easier? In What Still Grows, Forrest Rhodes tells a raw, unflinching...  Read More >>

September 22, 2006. A sixteen-year-old girl agrees to house-sit for her relatives in rural Idaho. It should have...  Read More >>

Stranded in the Dark Forest is the true account of Sayed Ali, a father who leaves home for what should have been...  Read More >>

Serial Killer Autopsy: H. H. Holmes A Forensic Examination of America's Most Mythologized Murderer H. H. Holmes...  Read More >>

Sometimes silence isn't an option. At eighteen, Mel steps into flame-lit spears on her front lawn-her first mission...  Read More >>

In Sweetness & Light, Melinda Worth Popham returns to 1950s Kansas City and to her Mission Hills neighborhood, where...  Read More >>

In Climbing Through, Melissa Strong, a sponsored rock climber and aspiring restaurateur, unveils her remarkable...  Read More >>

It is often thought that only men can be serial killers. But some women have been guilty of equally horrific crimes,...  Read More >>

There are some who chose to kill and kill again. These terrifying criminals often hide in plain sight, waiting for...  Read More >>

The Legend. The Lies. The Hunt for 'Red Hank's' Gold. In the rugged high desert of Twin Falls County, Idaho,...  Read More >>

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This lavish full-colour hardback tells the complete history of the Mafia, from 19th-century Sicily to 20th-century...  Read More >>

Nee's narrative transports the reader into the criminal underworld, inside the planning and preparation for an armored...  Read More >>

The Zodiac Killer is one of the most famous unsolved cases in modern history-but fame has distorted understanding....  Read More >>

Ipotykurú is a true account of life in the Paraguayan Chaco, told from the inside. Through firsthand experiences...  Read More >>

He beat cancer once. But surviving was only the beginning. Justin Johnson was diagnosed with cancer as a child....  Read More >>

Después del invierno, florecí es una historia real de dolor, obediencia y renacimiento. Un testimonio íntimo de...  Read More >>

He confessed to hundreds of murders. But what if the confessions were the crime? In the early 1980s, a drifter...  Read More >>

Cuando todo colapsa, ellos avanzan primero. No llevan medallas, no hablan, no piden reconocimiento. Pero entran...  Read More >>

From bathrooms at family gatherings to concrete cells in juvenile detention, these shoes have walked through hell...  Read More >>

In the early twentieth century, Linda Burfield Hazzard claimed she could cure disease through fasting. Patients...  Read More >>

How far can a child go who was born with nothing... except a dream? ""The Smile of a Boy"" is a raw, intimate,...  Read More >>