True stories books

Tired of their careers in the oil industry, Corinna Weyreter and Gjalt van der Zee sailed away from the rat race...  Read More >>

Despite intensified governmental and public efforts at corruption control, official transgression continues to surface...  Read More >>

An epic story of a disastrous expedition, treacherous crew members and extraordinary bravery  Read More >>

Satish Sekar shows how a miscarriage of justice destroyed families, divided communities and undermined confidence...  Read More >>

An extraordinary true life-story! As a five year old, he was abandoned. As a teenager he was homeless, jobless,...  Read More >>

Juan Patrón lived through one of the bloodiest chapters of the American West: the 1878 feud known as the Lincoln...  Read More >>

On November 13, 1974 the quiet village of Amityville was rocked by the murders of six members of the DeFeo family...  Read More >>

On June 16, 2007, in a desert ditch east of Barstow, CA, a stranded motorist and a couple of good Samaritans made...  Read More >>

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Yeomen of England were called to bring their own horses to form England’s first Home Guard when a dictator assembled...  Read More >>

At the other end of the county, in Manningtree, the ruthless Matthew Hopkins scoured the area in search of `witches’...  Read More >>

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This book looks at gang culture, asks what the gangs are trying to achieve, and shows how they treat their members...  Read More >>

The true but incredibly strange story of Tania Head and how she fooled America.  Read More >>

On the face of it, author Tim Daly was an unlikely candidate for undercover agent. Not only had he lived in America...  Read More >>

In the Fall of 1857, some 120 California-bound emigrants were killed in lonely Mountain Meadows in southern Utah;...  Read More >>

Beginning in early 2010, Bradley Manning, an intelligence analyst, allegedly leaked an astounding amount of classified...  Read More >>

On the inside in Louisiana's corrupt justice system. Three weeks before his high school graduation, college-bound...  Read More >>

This book looks at gang culture, asks what the gangs are trying to achieve, and shows how they treat their members...  Read More >>

In 2002, NASA fellow Thad Roberts hatched the most daring heist ever conceived: steal NASA's precious moon rocks....  Read More >>

On the face of it, author Tim Daly was an unlikely candidate for undercover agent. Not only had he lived in America...  Read More >>

During his years as a private pilot in Africa he flew the dictator Idi Amin several times. He went on to fly an...  Read More >>

In 1983, the Marine Electric, a reconditioned World War II vessel, was on a routine voyage 30 miles off the East...  Read More >>

Examines drug trafficking through Central America and the efforts of law enforcement to counter it. Details the...  Read More >>

Captain Robert Falcon Scott CVO (6 June 1868 – 29 March 1912) was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two...  Read More >>