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Documents the astonishing 2009 theft of an invaluable collection of ornithological displays from the British Museum of Natural History by a talented American musician, tracing the author's years-long investigation to track down the culprit and understand his motives, which were possibly linked to an obsession with the Victorian art of salmon fly-tying.
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Lincoln's last trial : the murder case that propelled him to the presidency
by Dan Abrams
This gripping true story recreates Abraham Lincoln’s last murder trial—a case during which he defended the son of a close friend and loyal supporter who was accused of killing Lincoln’s mentor, and was forced to form an unholy alliance with a longtime enemy to win. 200,000 first printing.
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Bad blood : secrets and lies in a Silicon Valley startup
by John Carreyrou
"The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos--the Enron of Silicon Valley--by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end in the face of pressure and threats from the CEO and her lawyers. In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup "unicorn" promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would make blood tests significantly faster and easier. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in an early fundraising round that valued the company at $9 billion, putting Holmes's worth at an estimated $4.7 billion. There was just one problem: the technology didn't work. For years, Holmes had been misleading investors, FDA officials, and her own employees. When Carreyrou, working at the Wall Street Journal, got a tip from a former Theranos employee and started asking questions, both Carreyrou and the Journal were threatened with lawsuits. Undaunted, the newspaper ran the first of dozens of Theranos articles in late 2015. By early 2017, the company's value was zero and Holmes faced potential legal action from the government and her investors. Here is the riveting story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron, a disturbing cautionary tale set amid the bold promises and gold-rush frenzy of Silicon Valley"
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Blood & ivy : the 1849 murder that scandalized Harvard
by Paul Collins
Traces the scandalous murder of a wealthy Harvard Medical School graduate and the ensuing trial that riveted mid-19th-century America, exploring how the case established important precedents in medical forensics and the definition of reasonable doubt.
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Goat Castle : a true story of murder, race, and the gothic South
by Karen L. Cox
Presents the story of the murder of a resident of Natchez, Mississippi by an African American man hired by an eccentric white couple living in the town and how an African American woman, Emily Burns, was wrongfully convicted of the crime and sent to prison
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Beneath a ruthless sun : a true story of violence, race, and justice lost and found
by Gilbert King
The author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Devil in the Grove documents the mid-20th-century case of a gentle, developmentally challenged youth who was falsely accused of raping a wealthy woman, in an account that traces the efforts of a crusading journalist to uncover the virulent racism and class corruption that led to his incarceration without a trial.
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Hell's princess : the mystery of Belle Gunness, butcher of men
by Harold Schechter
Provides a gripping account of one of the world’s few female serial killers who lured unsuspecting victims, including hired hands and well-to-do bachelors looking for a spouse, to her “murder farm” in Indiana between 1902 and 1908.
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