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The Rescue Artist : A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece
by Edward Dolnick
Hardcover: Jun 2005
Paperback: 1 Jul 2006
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The little-known world of art theft is compellingly portrayed in Dolnick's account of the 1994 theft and recovery of Edvard Munch's iconic painting The Scream.

Outside Valentine
by Liza Ward
Hardcover: Sep 2004
Paperback: 1 Aug 2005
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Every 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.

Under the Banner of Heaven : A Story of Violent Faith
by Jon Krakauer
Hardcover: Jul 2003
Paperback: 8 Jun 2004
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A multilayered, bone-chilling narrative of messianic delusion, savage violence, polygamy, and unyielding faith. This is vintage Krakauer, an utterly compelling work of nonfiction that illuminates an otherwise confounding realm of human behavior.

The Devil in the White City : Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
by Erik Larson
Hardcover: Feb 2003
Paperback: 10 Feb 2004
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Erik 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.

True History of The Kelly Gang
by Peter Carey
Hardcover: Jan 2001
Paperback: 1 Nov 2001
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Out of nineteenth-century Australia rides a hero of his people and a man for all nations. Exhilarating, hilarious, panoramic, and immediately engrossing.

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.

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