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A Savannah Story
by John Berendt
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by Richard Grant
Published Aug 2021
Read ReviewsBestselling travel writer Richard Grant offers an entertaining and profound look at a city like no other.
Nine Lives: Mystery, Magic, Death, and Life in New Orleans
by Dan Baum
Published Feb 2010
Read ReviewsNines Lives is a multivoiced biography of a dazzling, surreal, and imperiled city, told through the lives of nine unforgettable characters and bracketed by two epic storms.
by Howard Blum
Published Oct 2009
Read ReviewsSimultaneously offering the absorbing reading experience of a cant-put-it-down thriller and the perception-altering resonance of a story whose reverberations continue even today, American Lightning is a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction.
by John Grisham
Published Nov 2007
Read ReviewsJohn Grishams first work of nonfiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, is his most extraordinary legal thriller yet.
by Liza Ward
Published Aug 2005
Read ReviewsEvery so often a novel comes along that is capable of redeeming the losses it so devastatingly conveys. Disturbing, bittersweet, and lyrical, this is a story of people torn apart by tragedy and yet, finally, transformed by love.
by Erik Larson
Published Feb 2004
Read ReviewsErik Larson's gifts as a storyteller are magnificently displayed in this rich narrative of the master builder, the killer, and the great fair that obsessed them both.
Justice - Crimes, Trials, and Punishments
by Dominick Dunne
Published May 2002
Read ReviewsJustice brings together Dunne's mesmerizing essays of justice denied and justice affirmed in one volume. His search for the truth is relentless. His courage and his storytelling skills shine from every page.
by Lawrence Schiller
Published Nov 1999
Read ReviewsA 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.
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