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Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully
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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorBringing Down The House
Ben Mezrich · 272 pages
Recounts the story of how a notorious gang of MIT blackjack savants devised and received backing for a system for winning at the world's most sophisticated casinos, an endeavor that earned them more than three million dollars.
Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade
Walter Kirn · 272 pages
In the summer of 1998, Walter Kirn - then a young novelist struggling with fatherhood and a dissolving marriage - set out on a peculiar, fateful errand: to personally deliver a crippled hunting dog from an animal shelter in Montana to the New York apartment of one Clark Rockefeller, a secretive young banker and art collector. Thus began a fifteen-year relationship that drew Kirn deep into the fun-
Under the Bridge: The True Story of the Murder of Reena Virk
Rebecca Godfrey · 346 pages
Columbine
Dave Cullen · 417 pages
On April 20, 1999, two boys left an indelible stamp on the American psyche. Their goal was simple: to blow up their school, Oklahoma-City style, and to leave "a lasting impression on the world." Their bombs failed, but the ensuing shooting defined a new era of school violence-irrevocably branding every subsequent shooting "another Columbine." When we think of Columbine, we think of the Trench Coat
The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Impostor
Mark Seal · 323 pages
A probing and cinematic exploration of an audacious impostor, Christian Gerhartsreiter, and his "talented Mr. Ripley" story as Clark Rockefeller. The unbelievable thirty-year run of a shape-shifting con man. Clark Rockefeller's story is a strange twist on the classic American success story of the self-made man--because Clark Rockefeller was totally made up. Born in a small village in Germany, Chr
The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century
Edward Dolnick · 384 pages
Selling Hitler
Robert Harris · 402 pages
"The extraordinary story of the con job of the century-- the faking of the Hitler "diaries"--Jacket.
The Floor of Heaven: A True Tale of the Last Frontier & the Yukon Gold Rush
Howard Blum · 420 pages
Using primary source materials from three individuals around whom the narrative revolves, best-selling author Blum tells a story of the 1897 Klondike Gold Rush.
Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
Melba Pattillo Beals · 269 pages
The landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling, *Brown v. Board of Education*, brought the promise of integration to Little Rock, Arkansas, but it was hard-won for the nine black teenagers chosen to integrate Central High School in 1957. They ran a gauntlet flanked by a rampaging mob and a heavily armed Arkansas National Guard--opposition so intense that soldiers from the elite 101st Airborne Division we
Octopus: Sam Israel, the Secret Market, and Wall Street's Wildest Con
Guy Lawson · 368 pages
The Hate Race
Maxine Beneba Clarke · 265 pages
Sweltering heat. Three bedroom blonde-brick. Family of five. Beat-up Ford Falcon. Vegemite on toast. Maxine Beneba Clarke's life is just like all the other Aussie kids on her street. Except for this one, glaring, inescapably obvious thing. From one of Australia's most exciting writers, and the author of the multi-award-winning FOREIGN SOIL, comes THE HATE RACE: a powerful, funny, and at times deva
Caveat Emptor: The Secret Life of an American Art Forger
Ken Perenyi · 368 pages
Ten years after the case was closed by the FBI, an artist with an uncanny ability to mimic the work of the old masters confesses and describes his thirty-year career as a professional art forger.
The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine
Benjamin Wallace · 336 pages
It was the most expensive bottle of wine ever sold. In 1985, a 1787 bottle of Cha^teau Lafite Bordeaux--one of a cache unearthed in a bricked-up Paris cellar and supposedly owned by Thomas Jefferson--sold at auction for $156,000. The discoverer of the bottle was pop-band manager turned wine collector Hardy Rodenstock, who had a knack for finding extremely old and exquisite wines. But rumors soon a
The Woman Who Wasn't There: The True Story of an Incredible Deception
Robin Gaby Fisher, Angelo J. Guglielmo Jr. · 304 pages
Boy: Tales of Childhood
Roald Dahl · 176 pages
Boy is an autobiographical book by British writer Roald Dahl. This book describes his life from birth until leaving school, focusing on living conditions in Britain in the 1920s and 1930s, the public school system at the time, and how his childhood experiences led him to writing as a career. It ends with his first job, working for Royal Dutch Shell. His autobiography continues in the book Going So
Real Friends
Shannon Hale · 224 pages
Newbery Honor author Shannon Hale and New York Times bestselling illustrator LeUyen Pham join forces in this graphic memoir about how hard it is to find your real friends―and why it's worth the journey. Shannon and Adrienne have been best friends ever since they were little. But one day, Adrienne starts hanging out with Jen, the most popular girl in class and the leader of a circle of friends c
Ugly: My Memoir
Robert Hoge · 224 pages
This book is based on the author that had a tumor on his face that made him ugly. It is a depressing story.
Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's
John Elder Robison · 304 pages
Ever since he was small, John Robison had longed to connect with other people, but by the time he was a teenager, his odd habits--an inclination to blurt out non sequiturs, avoid eye contact, dismantle radios, and dig five-foot holes (and stick his younger brother in them)--had earned him the label "social deviant." No guidance came from his mother, who conversed with light fixtures, or his father
Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir
Liz Prince · 255 pages
A memoir about friendship, gender, bullies, growth, punk rock, and the power of the perfect outfit . . . Growing up, Liz Prince wasn’t a girly girl, but she wasn’t exactly one of the guys either (as she learned when her little league baseball coach exiled her to the distant outfield). She was somewhere in between. But with the forces of middle school, high school, parents, friendship, and roman
Every Man in This Village is a Liar: An Education in War
Megan K. Stack · 257 pages
A shattering account of war and disillusionment from a young woman reporting from the front lines of the war on terror SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD.
Please Stop Laughing at Me... One Woman's Inspirational Story
Jodee Blanco · 276 pages
The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It . . . Every Time
Maria Konnikova · 340 pages
Explores the psyches, motives, and methods of con artists to reveal why they are consistently successful, identifying common hallmarks of cons to share additional insights into the relationship between artists and victims.