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The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective by Steven Johnson

The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective

Steven Johnson

428 pages • missing pub info (editions) user-added

5.0whizbangdebris's review
nonfiction history politics
The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O'Meara

The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick

Mallory O'Meara

9 hours, 19 minutes • first pub 2019 (editions)

4.0whizbangdebris's review
nonfiction art biography feminism history informative inspiring medium-paced
Duel with the Devil: The True Story of How Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Teamed Up to Take on America's First Sensational Murder Mystery by Paul Collins

Duel with the Devil: The True Story of How Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Teamed Up to Take on America's First Sensational Murder Mystery

Paul Collins

474 pages • first pub 2013 (editions) user-added

4.0whizbangdebris's review
nonfiction crime history true crime informative mysterious tense slow-paced
Master Thieves: The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off the World's Greatest Art Heist by Stephen Kurkjian

Master Thieves: The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off the World's Greatest Art Heist

Stephen Kurkjian

7 hours • first pub 2015 (editions)

1.75whizbangdebris's review
nonfiction art history true crime dark slow-paced
Unraveling: What I Learned about Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater by Peggy Orenstein

Unraveling: What I Learned about Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater

Peggy Orenstein

5 hours, 52 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

4.5whizbangdebris's review
nonfiction art memoir nature emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Confessions of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell

Confessions of a Bookseller

The Diary of a Bookseller #2

Shaun Bythell

432 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0whizbangdebris's review
nonfiction memoir funny slow-paced
The First-Time Manager by Gary S. Topchik, Loren B. Belker

The First-Time Manager

Gary S. Topchik, Loren B. Belker

6 hours, 44 minutes • missing pub info (editions) user-added

4.0whizbangdebris's review
nonfiction business informative inspiring slow-paced
The Relic by Douglas Preston

The Relic

Pendergast #1

Douglas Preston

309 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

3.75whizbangdebris's review
fiction horror mystery thriller adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
The Ghost Club by Kate Winkler Dawson

The Ghost Club

Kate Winkler Dawson

4 hours, 2 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

2.0whizbangdebris's review
nonfiction history true crime informative mysterious medium-paced
At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien

At Swim-Two-Birds

Flann O'Brien

10 hours, 20 minutes • first pub 1939 (editions) user-added

4.0whizbangdebris's review
fiction classics literary reflective slow-paced