True stories books

'This all began quite unexpectedly one rainy autumn evening a couple of years ago in a fairground near to the centre...  Read More >>

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Discusses the myths and facts surrounding sexual assault and rape, the physical and psychological consequences,...  Read More >>

An untenured English professor who lost his position in a university downsizing relates how this event changed his...  Read More >>

In the tradition of ""A Civil Action"", this impossible-to-put-down, fast-paced nonfiction legal thriller offers...  Read More >>

Poses questions about the conflicting testimonies and many suspicious factors, and condemns the silence in France...  Read More >>

Based on interviews with the surviving climbers and his own first-hand experience, this is the story of how Dickinson...  Read More >>

A doctor and a journalist have joined forces to present this account of hundreds of cases of medical bungles.  Read More >>

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This is a descriptive, factual and empirically based account of two human lives crossing and changing through the...  Read More >>

This ethnographic work termed ethnographic fiction is an account of two human lives crossing and changing through...  Read More >>

The rumbustious true story of the Victorian master thief who was the model for Conan Doyle's Moriarty.  Read More >>

A personal account by an ex-IRA terrorist, which reveals how he became involved in the group and offers insight...  Read More >>

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The autobiography of Mike Curtis which provides an account of how he served with 2 Para in the Falklands before...  Read More >>

When Albom, a US sports columnist and author, discovers that his old college professor is dying, he learns some...  Read More >>

Whoa, pardner! Sit y'self down for some good ole storytellin' 'bout the wild, wild West. Western writer Phillip...  Read More >>

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In this true story, Enrico Deaglio recounts the courageous efforts of Giorgio Perlasca, who, by posing as a Spanish...  Read More >>

This is a story of a young woman who survived the Holocaust, and after years of silence in the U.S., decided to...  Read More >>

From the author of THE RUM DIARY and THE PROUD HIGHWAY, a humorous novel which tells of two men on a drug-enhanced...  Read More >>

Charles Nicholl is on a quest for 'The Great Cocaine Story'. The Fruit Palace is a little whitewashed café that...  Read More >>

A ghastly murder occurred in the nation's oldest city in January of 1974. The victim was a former New York City...  Read More >>

A fictional reconstruction of life in the community of Liberty County, Georgia. Originally published in 1898, this...  Read More >>

After having an accident that leaves him near death, Michael Thomas is visited by a wise angel who asks what it...  Read More >>