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Upton Sinclair’s *The Jungle* exposes the harsh realities of Chicago's stockyards, highlighting the exploitation of immigrants and workers in the early 20th century and sparking reforms such as the Pure Food and Meat Inspection Act.

Jon Krakauer investigates the shocking murder of two sisters by Mormon fundamentalist brothers, revealing the violent undercurrents of a fringe sect and the broader tensions within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter‑Saints.

Richard Preston’s nonfiction account investigates the biology, history, and global impact of African hemorrhagic fevers such as Ebola and Marburg, weaving scientific analysis with the stories of outbreaks and laboratory research.

Tom Wolfe's seminal work on the counterculture, featuring the tale of Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters and the acid-fueled bus tour that shaped the '60s.

Reinvestigation of Dr. Sam Sheppard’s 1954 murder of his wife, with new evidence pointing to an unknown killer and prompting a renewed county investigation.

In Plutopia, Brown draws on official records and dozens of interviews to tell the stories of Richland, Washington and Ozersk, Russia-the first two cities in the world to produce plutonium. To contain secrets, American and Soviet leaders created plutopias--communities of nuclear families living in highly-subsidized, limited-access atomic cities. Brown shows that the plants' segregation of permanent and temporary workers and of nuclear and non-nuclear zones created a bubble of immunity, where dumps and accidents were glossed over and plant managers freely embezzled and polluted. In four decades, the Hanford plant near Richland and the Maiak plant near Ozersk each issued at least 200 million curies of radioactive isotopes into the surrounding environment--equaling four Chernobyls--laying waste to hundreds of square miles and contaminating rivers, fields, forests, and food supplies. Because of the decades of secrecy, downwind and downriver neighbors of the plutonium plants had difficulty proving what they suspected, that the rash of illnesses, cancers, and birth defects in their communities were caused by the plants' radioactive emissions. Plutopia was successful because in its zoned-off isolation it appeared to deliver the promises of the American dream and Soviet communism; in reality, it concealed disasters that remain highly unstable and threatening today. --from publisher description

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A gripping true-crime account of the 1986 Howard Beach hate-murder in Queens, detailing the investigation, trial, and the relentless pursuit of justice by Special Prosecutor Charles J. Hynes.

A Philadelphia schoolteacher and her two children were brutally murdered, allegedly as part of an insurance fraud plot.

Explores the shocking case of six‑year‑old Lisa Steinberg’s murder, examining the psychological, sexual, and social dynamics that led to the crime.

A gripping nonfiction account of LAPD officer Bill Leasure, whose crimes expose police corruption in Los Angeles, revealed through exclusive jail‑cell interviews conducted by Pulitzer‑winning journalist Edward Humes.

The Wrong Man traces the 1954 murder of Marilyn Sheppard, uncovering how Dr. Sam Sheppard was wrongfully charged and revealing new evidence that identifies the true killer.

In The Interior, Chinese detective Liu Hulan spies on a U.S. toy plant to uncover a family mystery that spirals into a web of violence and conspiracy, while her American lover, attorney David Stark, grapples with legal and ethical quandaries.

A gripping legal thriller about a prosecutor's quest for justice after a brutal murder in Washington, D.C.

In 1982, a sensational murder trial in Phoenix, Arizona, reverberated throughout the legal community. Restaurateur Steven Steinberg, who killed his wife by stabbing her 26 times, was acquitted; his legal defense portrayed the victim as an overpowering Jewish American Princess whose excesses may have provoked her violent end. Examining the structure of the defense's case, Frondorf, an attorney who was previously a psychiatric social worker, follows the theme that made Elana Steinberg the villain, instead of the victim, of the piece. The defense's forensic presentation, bolstered by testimony from psychiatrists, maintained that Steinberg committed the crime while sleepwalking, an abnormality allegedly brought on by the intemperate spending of his wife. Frondorf recreates the trial whose outcome scarred the tightly knit Jewish community of Phoenix.