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  • Durham Tales

    The Morris Street Maple, the Plastic Cow, the Durham Day that Was & More

    by Jim Wise ...
    Series series American Chronicles
    Run into the history of the Bull City! There is much history in the Bull City, and some of it can be found within these pages. How Bull Durham smoking tobacco put Durham, North Carolina, on the map. How a plastic cow and an oversized flag cut the city council down to size. How it felt to travel back in time at the Duke Homestead. How sportsman Al Mann and "Mom" Ruby Planck left indelible marks on ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Murder in the Courthouse

    Reconstruction & Redemption in the North Carolina Piedmont

    by Jim Wise ...
    An in-depth look at the historic murder of an infamous politician during America's Reconstruction following the Civil War.No suspect was ever indicted or tried for the murder of scalawag politician John W. "Chicken" Stephens in a North Carolina courthouse; and the Ku Klux Klan not only rid itself of a troublesome adversary, but also set up a showdown between the state's old guard and the radical ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On Sherman's Trail

    The Civil War's North Carolina Complex

    by Jim Wise ...
    Join journalist and historian Jim Wise as he follows Sherman's last march through the Tar Heel State from Wilson's Store to the surrender at Bennett Place. Retrace the steps of the soldiers at Averasboro and Bentonville. Learn about what the civilians faced as the Northern army approached and view the modern landscape through their eyes. Whether you are on the road or in a comfortable armchair, ... Read more

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  • The North Country Murder of Irene Izak

    Stained by Her Blood

    by Dave Shampine ...
    A road trip becomes a dead end for a schoolteacher in this haunting cold case of murder that became a fifty-year fight for justice.In June of 1968, Irene Izak, a young French teacher from Scranton, Pennsylvania, was pulling an all-nighter on the road toward the promise of a new life in Quebec. The last time she was seen alive was at 2:09 a.m. by a toll collector at Thousand Island Bridge who ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Agatha Christie's True Crime Inspirations

    Stranger Than Fiction

    by Mike Holgate ...
    Fact proves far stranger than fiction in this collection of real-life crimes, scandals, tragedies and murders which either influenced the works of the world's most popular mystery writer or affected the lives of many famous personalities involved in her long and brilliant career. Discover the truth behind many of her books, such as how the exploits of Jack the Ripper inspired the serial killings ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dying for Love

    The True Story of a Millionaire Dentist, His Unfaithful Wife, and the Affair That Ended in Murder

    by Carlton Smith ...
    Series series St. Martin's True Crime Library
    The true story of a deadly love triangle in a small Pennsylvania town—from the New York Times –bestselling author and prize-winning crime reporter.Dr. John Yelenic was a successful dentist in Blairsville, Pennsylvania. When he met Michele Kamler, he thought he'd finally found the woman of his dreams. She was beautiful, intelligent, and seemed to want all the same things out of life as he did ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Open Secrets

    A True Story of Love, Jealousy, and Murder

    A true crime account of a brutal 1983 Texas murder and the ten-year hunt for the killer and the woman who placed a price on the victim's head."One of the most remarkable true crime books I've ever read." —Ann RuleOn a fall afternoon in 1983, in an upscale Dallas suburb, Rozanne Gailiunas was found stripped, bound to her bed, and shot through the skull. Her four-year-old son has been napping ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Pure Evil - How Tracie Andrews murdered my son, decieved the nation and sentenced me to a life of pain and misery

    Maureen Harvey lives in Kings Norton, Birmingham with her husband Ray. They have a daughter, Michelle, and three grandchildren Danielle, Paige, and Jordan. Since their son Lee was murdered by Tracie Andrews in December 1996, they have campaigned tirelessly to ensure that those convicted of murder serve their full prison tariff. Maureen's book is based on the diary she began writing after Lee's ... Read more

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  • Abandoned Prayers

    An Incredible True Story of Murder, Obsession, and Amish Secrets

    by Gregg Olsen ...
    On Christmas Eve in 1985, a hunter found a young boy's body along an icy corn field in Nebraska. The residents of Chester, Nebraska buried him as "Little Boy Blue," unclaimed and unidentified-- until a phone call from Ohio two years later led authorities to Eli Stutzman, the boy's father.Eli Stutzman, the son of an Amish bishop, was by all appearances a dedicated farmer and family man in the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Slavery by Another Name (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • This groundbreaking historical expose unearths the lost stories of enslaved persons and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude shortly thereafter in “The Age of Neoslavery.”By turns moving, sobering, and shocking, this unprecedented Pulitzer Prize-winning account reveals the ... Read more

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  • Shiloh, 1862

    by Winston Groom ...
    A main selection in History Book-of-the-Month Club and alternate selection in Military Book-of-the-Month Club. In the spring of 1862, many Americans still believed that the Civil War, "would be over by Christmas." The previous summer in Virginia, Bull Run, with nearly 5,000 casualties, had been shocking, but suddenly came word from a far away place in the wildernesses of Southwest Tennessee of an ... Read more

    $9.99 USD