In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences by Truman Capote

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On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces.  There...

The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls 

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Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns,...

In 1956, a 76-year-old preacher with failing health writes a letter to his young son; this account of his life is a meditation on fathers and children, particularly sons, on faith, and on the imperfectability of man. 2005 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction.

Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser

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Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled American cultural imperialism abroad.  That’s a lengthy list of charges, but Eric Schlosser makes them...

This historical novel captures New York City in 1930 as the Jazz Age makes way for the Great Depression and the Empire State Building begins to rise above the city. The story focuses on an Irish immigrant working on the construction who meets an artist who is the paramous of a major gangster.