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The murder of Tutankhamen

a true story
1998
Examines artifacts, documents, tombs, and x-rays of ancient mummies to support the author's claim that young Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen was murdered.

The Lost city of Z

a tale of deadly obsession in the Amazon
2010
Details English explorer Percy Fawcett's exploration for a lost city in the jungles of South America and relates efforts made by the author and other individuals to find out what happened to him.

Abraham Lincoln comes home

2008
A young boy experiences grief as president Abraham Lincoln's body is transported from Washington, D.C., to Springfield, Illinois, for burial.

The year of magical thinking

2005
The author recalls the weeks and months following the death of her husband of forty years and the severe illness of their only daughter, and discusses the changes that occurred in her life as a result.

The lost city of Z

a tale of deadly obsession in the Amazon
2009
Details English explorer Percy Fawcett's exploration for a lost city in the jungles of South America and relates efforts made by the author and other individuals to find out what happened to him.

SEAL target Geronimo

the inside story of the mission to kill Osama Bin Laden
2011
On May 2, 2011, at 1:03 a.m. in Pakistan, a satellite uplink was sent from the town of Abbottabad crackling into the situation room of the White House in Washington, D.C.: "Geronimo, Echo, KIA." These words, spoken by a Navy SEAL, put paid to Osama bin Laden's three-decade-long career of terror. SEAL Target Geronimo is the story of Bin Laden's relentless hunters and how they took down the terrorist mastermind, told by Chuck Pfarrer, a former assault element commander of SEAL Team Six and author of the bestselling Warrior Soul: The Memoir of a Navy SEAL. After talking to members of the SEAL team involved in the raid, Pfarrer shares never-before-revealed details of the historic raid and the men who planned and conducted it in an exclusive boots-on-the-ground account of what happened during each minute of the mission--both inside the building and outside.

The Poe shadow

a novel
2007
Baltimore lawyer Quentin Clark investigates the puzzling circumstances of Edgar Allan Poe's death, finding inspiration and hidden clues in the stories Poe left behind.

The murder of Emmett Till

2004
Examines the death of Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old African-American boy from Chicago murdered by two white men in August 1955 after he reportedly whistled at a white woman in a Mississippi grocery store, and discusses the killing's impact as a catalyst for the civil rights movement.

Dance with the devil

a memoir of murder and loss
2007
A memoir by the father of murder victim Andrew Bagby, who was murdered by colleague and ex-girlfriend Shirley Turner who later drowned their thirteen-month-old child before killing herself.

Behind the music

the day the music died
2000
Recounts the events surrounding the plane crash which occurred on February 3, 1959, killing rock and roll legends Ritchie Valens, the Big Bopper, and Buddy Holly.

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