True stories books

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and...  Read More >>

This title is based on unpublished material, from single letters by barely literate soliders to the voluminous correspondence...  Read More >>

The story of a journey that spans two decades and involves the most infamous names and crimes in British history....  Read More >>

Herbert Asbury chronicles the immense underbelly of 'The Big Easy'. From Mary Jane 'Bricktop' Jackson and Bridget...  Read More >>

From the violent anger the author suffered at the hands of his mother and father, to the continuous torments at...  Read More >>

This casebook draws on interviews with police personnel and forensic scientists - including animal examiners, botanists,...  Read More >>

This is a collection of real-life stories to make you think, wonder and smile, from the pages of ""The New York...  Read More >>

In April 1997, Matt Jackson quit his job, strode to the edge of the Trans-Canada Highway near Lake Louise, Alberta,...  Read More >>

""Du solst starben zwischem goyem!"" A fellow Jew within the Warsaw Ghetto, offended by Zosia Goldberg's Polish...  Read More >>

The 5th book in Bellamy's popular series delivers 26 more tales of Cleveland crimes and disasters. Includes one...  Read More >>

- Pride of the Sea has been serialized in The Baltimore Sun and Chesapeake Life Magazine, and has been featured...  Read More >>

A psychological study of a brutal killer, whose crimes of rape and murder were gruesome secrets he kept even from...  Read More >>

This fascinating memoir presents moving vignettes of life on a ranch in north-western New Mexico, beginning early...  Read More >>

This is a fictional narrative based on a real life black American soldier who in the Spanish American war in 1899...  Read More >>

The author of ""Double Cross"" - along with the godson of a former Chicago mob boss - tells the gritty, often gruesome,...  Read More >>

The startling true story of William K. Sapp, a seemingly normal family man who shattered the peace of an idyllic...  Read More >>

This powerful collection of true stories written by police officers--from murder investigations to bungled burglaries...  Read More >>

Features experienced canoeists, who confess their mistakes in true tales of hypothermia, near drowning, close encounters...  Read More >>

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In this second volume of Vincent Roth's Guyana memoirs, Vincent is now a mature adult, very sure of himself and...  Read More >>

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Mark Gillen's wife announces she's leaving him, taking their five-year-old-daughter with her. The other man is a...  Read More >>

German autobiographical novel concerning ""The Horrors of warfare in one of those artificial outposts on the Western...  Read More >>

Hungarian Jewish Women Survivors Remember the Holocaust presents seventeen full life histories recorded from female...  Read More >>

Australian schoolteacher Kate Byrne is having an affair with the father of her most gifted pupil, nine-year-old...  Read More >>