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• The Stranger in the Woods

  the Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

  Finkel, Michael

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  Alone...in the woods...for 27 years. Stripped down to essential survival, The Stranger in the Woods takes a look at what being alone really means and what it looks like to rejoin society after many years of solitude.

• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

  Skloot, Rebecca, 1972-

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  The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is the story of how one woman's genes have unknowingly changed the landscape of scientific discovery, including the development of the polio vaccine and the secrets revealed about cancer cells. Explores themes of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

  a Savannah Story

  Berendt, John, 1939-

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  A salacious true crime story that reads like fiction, centred on murder. Also available in eBook.

• The Feather Thief

  Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century

  Johnson, Kirk W.

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  A daring heist involving bird feathers (who would have thought?) and one man's obsession that leads him on a worldwide trip to learn the truth about who the thief is, where the birds have gone, and most importantly, why? Also available in large…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bad Blood

  Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

  Carreyrou, John,

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  A medical technological advancement too good to be true. Bad Blood follows the rise and fall of one of the most fraudulent Silicon Valley startups to date.

• Chaos

  Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

  O'Neill, Tom (Journalist),

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  The Manson murders, a cover-up, police misconduct, and covert surveillance. Need we say more?

• Endurance

  Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

  Lansing, Alfred

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  Endurance is the harrowing tale of a 1914 expedition to Antarctica gone wrong and the year of survival that followed the crew members of the Endurance.

• A Woman of No Importance

  the Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win WWII

  Purnell, Sonia

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  The first woman to be deployed to France during WWII, Virginia Hall was an espionage and war hero who helped to dismantle Hitler's reign of terror while being public enemy #1.

• The Disappearing Spoon

  and Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World From the Periodic Table of the Elements

  Kean, Sam

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  A collection of weird but true stories directly linked to the elements in the periodic table.

• Ghosts of Iron Mountain

  the Hoax of the Century, Its Enduring Impact, and What It Reveals About America Today

  Tinline, Phil

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  Ghosts of Iron Mountain is the story of how one fabricated hoax about the government and war spiralled out of control, becoming the crux of many government conspiracy theories to come.