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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective

Kate Summerscale

3,5

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It is a summer's night in 1860. In an elegant detached Georgian house in the village of Road, Wiltshire, all is quiet. Behind shuttered windows the Kent family l...

Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three

Mara Leveritt

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In 2011, one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in American legal history was set right when Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley were released after e...

Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't : Jazz and the Making of the Sixties

Скотт Сол

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In the long decade between the mid-1950s and the late '60s, jazz was changing more than its sound. The age of Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite, John Coltrane's A Love Supreme...

Film, Folklore and Urban Legends

Mikel J. Koven

4

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From Alien to When a Stranger Calls, many films are based on folklore or employ an urban legend element to propel the narrative. But once those traditional aspec...

The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad

Harrison E. Salisbury

4,7

(32)

"A magnificent book...a nonfiction masterpiece." -- New York Times Book Review . The Nazi siege of Leningrad from 1941 to 1944 was one of the most gruesome episodes of Wo...

Leningrad: State of Siege

Michael Jones

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All offers of surrender from Leningrad must be rejected, wrote Adolph Hitler on September 29, 1941. In this struggle for survival, we have no interest in keepin...

The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History

John M. Barry

4,1

(124)

At the height of WWI, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 milli...

Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery

Роберт Колкер

3,5

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Award-winning investigative reporter Robert Kolker delivers a haunting and humanizing account of the true-life search for a serial killer still at large on Long Island, in...

Girls of Room 28

Hannelore Brenner

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From 1942 to 1944, twelve thousand children passed through the Theresienstadt internment camp, near Prague, on their way to Auschwitz. Only a few hundred of them survived ...

Jazz For Dummies

Dirk Sutro

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Includes a list of more than 100 recordings for your jazz collection The fun and easy way to explore the world of jazz Jazz is America′s greatest music, but with over a...

Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground

Майкл Мойнихэн, Дидрик Седерлинд

3,8

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The book focuses on the scene surrounding the extreme heavy metal subgenre black metal in Norway in the early 1990s, with a focus on the string of church burnings and murd...

Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal

Ian Christe

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Welcome, all ye who dare enter Sound of the Beast, the first definitive and highly illustrated look at the madness and mayhem of heavy metal. From its cataclysmi...

The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London

Джудит Фландерс

4

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The nineteenth century was a time of unprecedented transformation, and nowhere was this more apparent than on the streets of London. In only a few decades, London grew fro...

Running with the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music

Robert Walser

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A Choice Outstanding Academic Book. A musicologist and cultural critic as well as a professional musician, Robert Walser offers a comprehensive musical, social, and cul...