True stories books

In den warmen Straßen von Key West in den 1930er Jahren nahm eine Geschichte ihren Anfang, die Amerika erschütterte...  Read More >>

On a bright Miami morning, a gunshot shattered the illusion of glamour forever. Seen through the eyes of those...  Read More >>

You grow up poor with no prospect of college. Your only way out is the US Army. Family life was loving, and growing...  Read More >>

""Liar!"" she screamed, as her open palm struck his face. But six-year-old Christian wasn't lying. He was only drawing...  Read More >>

In August 1892, two people were brutally murdered inside a locked house in Fall River, Massachusetts. The case that...  Read More >>

Garri Cake: A Nigerian boarding school memoir.... A Story of Hunger, Friendship, and Survival; What happens...  Read More >>

The Kidnapping of Young Julius CaesarA True Story of Pirates, Ransoms, and a Promise of Vengeance International...  Read More >>

This memoir is not a story of escape. It is a story of recognition. Beginning in adolescence and spanning more...  Read More >>

Cancer changes your life - but it does not have to end it. In A Breast Cancer Survivor: Turning My Mess into...  Read More >>

The Salem Witch Trials... but this time, it's a children's book (but for adults... totally not for children. FOR...  Read More >>

At 36 years old, my life altered on one fateful night, when my husband of almost 15 years passed away suddenly and...  Read More >>

The Nedlands Monster: Eric Edgar Cooke and the Murder of Perth's Innocence Between 1959 and 1963, Eric Edgar Cooke...  Read More >>

Human curiosity has always carried a shadow. Behind the veneer of science and progress, countless lives have been...  Read More >>

Cant I Just Be a Child is a deeply personal memoir about growing up too soon. Born to a teenage mother in Ghana...  Read More >>

The Toolbox Killers: Sadism in the California Hills In the late 1970s, two men prowled the dark back roads of Southern...  Read More >>

This is in hopes that you will learn and research before you cross a line that you cannot return from. I have done...  Read More >>

This book is not about a single night, a single raid, or a single courtroom. It is the story of how Nicolás Maduro...  Read More >>

《浮世百态：加州故事》是一部立足现实、直面人性的纪实故事集。作者以多年在加州生活、工作的亲历与观察为基础，选取数十个真实事件，勾勒出""阳光之州""光影交错的社会图景：枪支暴力、路怒悲剧、司法轻判、疫情欺诈、家庭崩塌与人性失序；也有无名善举、医者仁心、普通人彼此托举的温暖瞬间。书中人物来自不同族裔与阶层，他们的命运在制度、欲望与偶然中急转直下或被善意照亮，呈现出当代美国社会的复杂肌理。作者以冷静克制的叙述，穿透新闻表层，追问制度漏洞与人性底色，既不猎奇，也......  Read More >>

The Vesterbro Baby Burner: Murder, Reform, and the Making of the Welfare State Between 1913 and 1920, Dagmar Overbye...  Read More >>

""Lata milczenia. Od ciszy do wolności"" to poruszająca, szczera i bezkompromisowa opowieśc o życiu w ukryciu, o...  Read More >>

Written as an intimate diary, this book accompanies the author through imprisonment, prolonged confinement, a work-release...  Read More >>

Survivor State of Mindby Rex Fournier Survivor State of Mind is not a recovery manual. It's a survival memoir....  Read More >>

She went out for the night. She never made it home. Libby Squire was twenty-one years old when she disappeared...  Read More >>

A Spy on Trial examines the life and prosecution of Mathilde Carré, a French intelligence operative whose wartime...  Read More >>

She offered youth for a price, and discretion as part of the deal. In the fashionable heart of Victorian London,...  Read More >>