Books like Seductive poison by Deborah Layton

A true‑story biography of Shin Dong-hyuk, the only person known to have escaped a North Korean political prison camp, revealing the hidden realities of the regime and its penal system.

The autobiography of a young South African boy's experiences during the apartheid era, focusing on racial discrimination and societal challenges of the time.

A powerful and poetic account of breast cancer survivor Audre Lorde's experience and transformation.

During the 1918‑1919 Spanish influenza in New York, socialite Allene Wilder suspects that the deaths in her circle are murder, not disease. With a medical examiner and a friend, she hunts a poisoned culprit before more are lost, racing against time and shifting alliances.

Limited first edition, lovingly crafted in exquisite detail, this memorial album is the most complete collection of portraits of almost all of the 918 who died. A tribute to the "mostly unknown members of Peoples Temple," this book is dedicated to those who died, and to those still alive who knew and loved them.

The definitive account of the 1978 Jonestown mass suicide, revealing Reverend Jim Jones’s descent into madness through 800 hours of recovered tapes.

Emily, an orphaned girl working at a Mexico City orphanage, is stunned when her mysterious cousin Santi arrives, unearthing family secrets that thrust desire and temptation into her disciplined life amid Mexican superstition, mythology, and faith.

Francisca de Luarca, the daughter of a silk grower, is a dreamer of fabulous dreams - dreams in which the work of her father's silkworms is woven into robes for kings, cloaks for queens and carpets for their palaces. In far-off France, Marie Louise de Bourbon, niece of Louis XIV, dances in slippers of Spanish silk and imagines her own enchanted future. The lives of these two women - born on the same day, unfold in tandem, almost touching, as their destinies are spun out in seventeenth-century Spain. Francisca is consumed with passion for her lover, a Catholic priest; her obsession with him shapes her fate. Marie Louise, yoked by political expediency to the strange, impotent Carlos II of Spain, is blamed for the royal couple's childlessness, and forced to bear the consequences. In an atmosphere of superstition, the Inquisition conducts its reign of terror, ruthlessly destroying innocent lives. In countless tunnels beneath the city of Madrid, the Grand Inquisitor and his hooded torturers exact confessions from victims, even as two young women develop secret lives dedicated to resistance, transcendence and love.

Letters reflecting a Japanese teacher’s personal experience during the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

A former teen activist who joined the Peoples Temple, Laura Johnston Kohl survived the 1978 Jonestown massacre and later became a teacher, dedicating her life to explaining and healing the tragedy.

A comprehensive examination of contemporary North Korean society, revealing how the country’s social, economic, and political structures have evolved since the 1990s famine, through firsthand accounts from officials, defectors, diplomats, and traders.