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In Cold Blood

Truman Capote

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Publisher: Vintage
Hardcover: 343 pages
Language: English
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With the publication of this book, Capote permanently ripped through the barrier separating crime reportage from serious literature... More

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Dr. Mary's Monkey: How the Unsolved Murder of a Doctor, a Secret Laboratory in New Orleans and Cancer-Causing Monkey Viruses are Linked to Lee Harvey Oswald, ... Assassination and Emerging Global Epidemics

Edward T. Haslam

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Publisher: Trine Day
Hardcover: 275 pages
Language: English
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The 1964 murder of a nationally known cancer researcher sets the stage for this gripping exposé of medical professionals enmeshed in covert government operations over the course of three decades... More

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No Angel: My Harrowing Undercover Journey to the Inner Circle of the Hells Angels

Nils Johnson-Shelton, Jay Dobyns

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Publisher: Crown
Hardcover: 352 pages
Language: English
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Here, from Jay Dobyns, the first federal agent to infiltrate the inner circle of the outlaw Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, is the inside story of the twenty-one-month operation that almost cost him his family, his sanity, and his life... More

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Gringo Nightmare: A Young American Framed for Murder in Nicaragua

Eric Volz

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Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Hardcover: 304 pages
Language: English
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In the spirit of Midnight Express and Not Without My Daughter comes the harrowing true story of an American held in a Nicaraguan prison for a murder he didn’t commit... More

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The Innocent Man

John Grisham

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Publisher: Dell
Hardcover: 448 pages
Language: English
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In the town of Ada, Oklahoma, Ron Williamson was going to be the next Mickey Mantle... More

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Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison

Michel Foucault

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Publisher: Vintage
Hardcover: 352 pages
Language: English
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In this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul... More

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Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town

Nick Reding

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Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Hardcover: 288 pages
Language: English
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The bestselling book that launched meth back into the nation's consciousness... More

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Boston's Gun Bible

Boston T. Party, Kenneth W. Royce

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Publisher: Javelin Press
Hardcover: 848 pages
Language: English
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Foreword by Timothy J... More

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The Wagon and Other Stories from the City

Martin Preib

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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Hardcover: 176 pages
Language: English
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Martin Preib is an officer in the Chicago Police Department—a beat cop whose first assignment as a rookie policeman was working on the wagon that picks up the dead... More

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In the Place of Justice: A Story of Punishment and Deliverance

Wilbert Rideau

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Publisher: Knopf
Hardcover: 384 pages
Language: English
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From Wilbert Rideau, the award-winning journalist who spent forty-four years in Louisiana prisons working against unimaginable odds to redeem himself, the story of a remarkable life: a crime, its punishment, and ultimate triumph... More

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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda

Philip Gourevitch

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Publisher: Picador
Hardcover: 356 pages
Language: English
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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction... More

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How the Obama Administration has Politicized Justice (Encounter Broadsides)

Andrew C McCarthy

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Publisher: Encounter Books
Hardcover: 48 pages
Language: English
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With the Obama Justice Department under Attorney General Eric Holder’s direction, Americans are learning what really happens when law-enforcement power is co-opted by politics... More

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Assassination Vacation

Sarah Vowell

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Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Hardcover: 272 pages
Language: English
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Sarah Vowell exposes the glorious conundrums of American history and culture with wit, probity, and an irreverent sense of humor... More

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Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets

Sudhir Venkatesh

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Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Hardcover: 320 pages
Language: English
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In this "riveting"(The New York Times) work of nonfiction, a sociologist infiltrates the world of Chicago's crack-dealing gangs First presented in Freakonomics, the story of a young sociologist who embedded himself in Chicago's most notorious gang and captured the world's attention... More

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Among the Thugs

Bill Buford

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Publisher: Vintage
Hardcover: 320 pages
Language: English
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With an Orwellian social imagination, Granta editor Buford offers a terrifying record of his passage through an alternate society--that of England's soccer thugs--in this malevolently funny, supremely chilling document of the allure of crowd violence... More

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Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit

John Douglas, Mark Olshaker

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Publisher: Pocket Books
Hardcover: 397 pages
Language: English
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During his twenty-five year career with the Investigative Support Unit, Special Agent John Douglas became a legendary figure in law enforcement, pursuing some of the most notorious and sadistic serial killers of our time: the man who hunted prostitutes for sport in the woods of Alaska, the Atlanta child murderer, and Seattle's Green River killer, the case that nearly cost Douglas his life... More

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