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We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories From Rwanda
by Philip Gourevitch
Hardcover: Sep 1998
Paperback: 10 Mar 2000
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In 1994 the Rwandan government implemented a policy that called on everyone in the Hutu majority to murder everyone in the Tutsi minority: 800,000 people were massacred. Read their story.
Perfect Murder, Perfect Town Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: The Uncensored Story of the JonBenet Murder and the Grand Jury's Search for the Final Truth
by Lawrence Schiller
Hardcover: Feb 1999
Paperback: 1 Nov 1999
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A brilliant portrait of an inscrutable family thrust under the spotlight of public suspicion and an affluent, tranquil city torn apart by a crime it was not prepared to deal with.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story
by John Berendt
Hardcover: Jan 1994
Paperback: 1 Jul 1999
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A sublime and seductive reading experience. Brilliantly conceived and masterfully written, this enormously engaging portrait of a most beguiling Southern city has become a modern classic.
They Are My Children, Too They Are My Children, Too: A Mother's Struggle for Her Sons
by Catherine Meyer
Hardcover: 1 Apr 1999
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A powerful account of a mother's ultimate nightmare: suddenly, without warning, to lose her children - and to find that neither the police, nor governments, nor the courts, can help her get them back.
Another City, Not My Own Another City, Not My Own: A novel in the form of a memoir
by Dominick Dunne
Hardcover: Oct 1997
Paperback: 1 Jan 1999
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This book illuminates the meaning of guilt and innocence in America today. A vivid, revealing achievement.
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And the Mountains Echoed
Khaled Hosseini

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Khaled Hosseini has written a new novel about how we love, how we take care of one another, and how the choices we make resonate through generations
Helga's Diary
Helga Weiss

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The remarkable diary of a young girl who survived the Holocaust—appearing in English for the first time.
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Mary Beth Keane

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A bold, mesmerizing novel about the woman known as "Typhoid Mary," the first known healthy carrier of typhoid fever in the burgeoning metropolis of early twentieth century New York.
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