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By: Pratta, Lisa
False Claims: One Insider’s Impossible Battle Against Big Pharma Corruption
$30.00HardcoverRead more- Author: Pratta, Lisa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 0063371103
- Language: English
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The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking
$21.00PaperbackAdd to cartThe true stroy of the longest-distance hijacking in American history.
In an America torn apart by the Vietnam War and the demise of ’60s idealism, airplane hijackings were astonishingly routine. Over- Author: Koerner, Brendan I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 17 2014
- ISBN10: 0307886115
- Language: English
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By: Donelly, Beau
The Woman Who Fooled the World: The True Story of Fake Wellness Guru Belle Gibson
$19.95PaperbackAdd to cartA jaw-dropping story of extraordinary deceit that left many victims in its wake and travelled around the world.
Entrepreneur. Inspiration. Guru. Belle Gibson shot to fame after she convinced the world
- Author: Donelly, Beau
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1947534068
- Language: English
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By: Cutler, Max
Cults: Inside the World’s Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them
$29.99HardcoverAdd to cartMystery. Manipulation. Murder. Cults are associated with all of these. But what really goes on inside them? More specifically, what goes on inside the minds of cult leaders and the people who join the… [more below]
- Author: Cutler, Max
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1982133546
- Language: English
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By: Kray, Fred M.
Broken: The Suspicious Death of Alydar and the End of Horse Racing’s Golden Age
$17.95PaperbackAdd to cartOne fateful winter night, a famous racehorse mysteriously broke his leg while alone in his stall. An investigation ensued, but the real story has never been told…until now.
It was a cool, quiet even
- Author: Kray, Fred M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 374
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987213810
- Language: English
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McMillions: The Absolutely True Story of How an Unlikely Pair of FBI Agents Brought Down the Most Supersized Fraud in Fast Food Hi
$30.00HardcoverAdd to cartIn this stranger than fiction story of the massive crime network that rigged the McDonald’s monopoly game for decades, unlock new, exclusive interviews and stories that couldn’t make it into the HBO d… [more below]
- Author: Hernandez, James Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1538720116
- Language: English
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By: Emerson, Rick
Unmask Alice: Lsd, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World’s Most Notorious Diaries
$19.95PaperbackAdd to cart“Unmask Alice by Rick Emerson goes a long way to showing what investigative journalism could be in the right hands . . . this book is undeniably buzzworthy.” —Portland Book Review
“An absorbing and- Author: Emerson, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1637745184
- Language: English
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By: Reed, Annie
The Impostor Heiress: Cassie Chadwick, the Greatest Grifter of the Gilded Age
$18.99PaperbackAdd to cartParoled felon. Rich doctor’s wife. Famous clairvoyant. Cassie Chadwick, one of history’s most successful con artists, was a master of reinvention. In the dusk of the Gilded Age, she swept from town to… [more below]
- Author: Reed, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1635769825
- Language: English
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By: Rail, Evan
The Absinthe Forger: A True Story of Deception, Betrayal, and the World’s Most Dangerous Spirit
$32.00HardcoverAdd to cartAn astonishing true crime story about an eccentric grifter who blew up the lucrative black market for vintage bottles of the legendary drink of artistic renegades, absinthe . . .
Thought to be halluci- Author: Rail, Evan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1685891543
- Language: English
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By: Bartlett, Jamie
The Missing Cryptoqueen: The Billion Dollar Cryptocurrency Con and the Woman Who Got Away with It
$29.00HardcoverRead more175 countries, four billion dollars, one scam: the thrilling rise and fall of the biggest cryptocurrency con in history and the woman behind it all
In 2016, on stage at Wembley Arena in front of thous- Author: Bartlett, Jamie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 0306829169
- Language: English
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Psychiana Man: A Mail-Order Prophet, His Followers, and the Power of Belief in Hard Times
$24.95PaperbackRead moreSix weeks after the 1929 stock market crash, Frank Bruce Robinson created a self-help religion he called Psychiana. An ingenious mass-marketing pioneer, he sold a correspondence course promising healt
- Author: Schrand, Brandon R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 414
- Publish Date: March 30 2021
- ISBN10: 0874224047
- Language: English
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By: Telfer, Tori
Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion
$16.99PaperbackRead moreA thoroughly entertaining and darkly humorous roundup of history’s notorious but often forgotten female con artists and their bold, outrageous scams–by the acclaimed author of Lady Killers.
From Eliza
- Author: Telfer, Tori
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 23 2021
- ISBN10: 0062956035
- Language: English
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By: Warner, Joel
The Curse of the Marquis de Sade: A Notorious Scoundrel, a Mythical Manuscript, and the Biggest Scandal in Literary History
$28.99HardcoverRead moreNEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE – The captivating, deeply reported true story of how one of the most notorious novels ever written–Marquis de Sade’s 120 Days of Sodom–landed at the heart of one of th… [more below]
- Author: Warner, Joel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0593135687
- Language: English
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By: Emerson, Rick
Unmask Alice: Lsd, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World’s Most Notorious Diaries
$19.95PaperbackRead more“Unmask Alice by Rick Emerson goes a long way to showing what investigative journalism could be in the right hands . . . this book is undeniably buzzworthy.” —Portland Book Review
“An absorbing and- Author: Emerson, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1637745184
- Language: English
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McMillions: The Absolutely True Story of How an Unlikely Pair of FBI Agents Brought Down the Most Supersized Fraud in Fast Food Hi
$30.00HardcoverAdd to cartIn this stranger than fiction story of the massive crime network that rigged the McDonald’s monopoly game for decades, unlock new, exclusive interviews and stories that couldn’t make it into the HBO d… [more below]
- Author: Hernandez, James Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1538720116
- Language: English
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By: Reed, Annie
The Impostor Heiress: Cassie Chadwick, the Greatest Grifter of the Gilded Age
$18.99PaperbackAdd to cartParoled felon. Rich doctor’s wife. Famous clairvoyant. Cassie Chadwick, one of history’s most successful con artists, was a master of reinvention. In the dusk of the Gilded Age, she swept from town to… [more below]
- Author: Reed, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1635769825
- Language: English
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By: Rail, Evan
The Absinthe Forger: A True Story of Deception, Betrayal, and the World’s Most Dangerous Spirit
$32.00HardcoverAdd to cartAn astonishing true crime story about an eccentric grifter who blew up the lucrative black market for vintage bottles of the legendary drink of artistic renegades, absinthe . . .
Thought to be halluci- Author: Rail, Evan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1685891543
- Language: English
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By: Sarah Weinman
The Real Lolita: A Lost Girl, an Unthinkable Crime, and a Scandalous Masterpiece
$18.99PaperbackAdd to cart“The Real Lolita is a tour de force of literary detective work. Not only does it shed new light on the terrifying true saga that influenced Nabokov’s masterpiece, it restores the forgotten victim to o
- Author: Weinman, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 0062661930
- Language: English
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By: Willis, Jim
American Cults: Cabals, Corruption, and Charismatic Leaders
$64.95HardcoverAdd to cartAmerica has spawned hundreds of cults. Charismatic leaders periodically burst into the news for the most awful of reasons. We are awash with stories of brainwashed members’ struggles to leave. Meet th… [more below]
- Series: Dark Minds True Crimes
- Author: Willis, Jim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1578598257
- Language: English
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By: Estep, Richard
Grifters, Frauds, and Crooks: True Stories of American Corruption
$22.95PaperbackAdd to cartPower, Money, Sex: The Corrupt Trifecta! This captivating book uncovers the insidious web of deceit that infiltrates every facet of our nation’s past and present. Immerse yourself in the stories of 50… [more below]
- Series: Dark Minds True Crimes
- Author: Estep, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 157859796X
- Language: English