True stories books

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 >>

A Journey of Exile and Hope: Building a New Life in Switzerland is a compelling memoir of survival, resilience,...  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 >>

Are you ready for the moment when, from one second to the next, everything goes dark? A massive power grid failure...  Read More >>

Die 32 im Sahara entführten TouristenAlgerien und Mali, 2003 Reihe: Internationale Wahre Verbrechen Im Jahr 2003...  Read More >>

Seven Victorian cases. Seven women. One court that turned private life into public evidence. Women of the Old Bailey...  Read More >>

The 32 Tourists Kidnapped in the Sahara Algeria and Mali, 2003 Series International True Crime In 2003, thirty-two...  Read More >>

Rome whispers about a poison that looks like holy water. They call it Aqua Tofana-a saint-faced bottle passed hand...  Read More >>

""Something is wrong. I know it the moment I see Mum at school pickup."" For sixteen-year-old Isabel, life was...  Read More >>

""Something is wrong. I know it the moment I see Mum at school pickup."" For sixteen-year-old Isabel, life was...  Read More >>

SURVIVING THE SILENCE A Mother's Journey from Control to Freedom In this raw and courageous memoir, Carmen Baker...  Read More >>

Kidnapping is one of the most psychologically and operationally complex crimes. The stakes are high: one wrong move...  Read More >>

a true story of how it feels to be stalked. Eleven Months is not a story told safely from hindsight. Written from...  Read More >>

Surviving the ICU is not the end of the story. In I Hear U, Michael Paul Patrick continues his unflinching memoir...  Read More >>