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The hot zone: A Terrifying True Story
By Richard Preston. 1994
Preston chronicles human encounters with the Marburg and Ebola viruses, among the most lethal viruses known. He discusses the effects…
of the viruses on people infected with them, and suggests that they have emerged as the world's jungles and rain forests have been destroyed. He also describes outbreaks of the viruses, particularly an outbreak of a strain of Ebola among monkeys imported to the United States, and how the outbreak was contained. Strong language and explicit descriptions of violence. 1994.The Amityville horror
By Jay Anson. 2006
In December 1975, the Lutz family moved into their new home on suburban Long Island. George and Kathleen Lutz knew…
that, one year earlier, Ronald DeFeo had murdered his family in the house, but the property and the price had been too good to pass up. Twenty-eight days later, the entire Lutz family flee the house in terror. 2006, c1978.Seven wonders of the industrial world
By Deborah Cadbury. 2004
Deborah Cadbury explores the history behind the epic monuments that spanned the industrial revolution from Brunel's extraordinary Great Eastern, the…
Titanic of its day that joined the two ends of the empire, to the Panama Canal, that linked the Atlantic and Pacific oceans half a century later. 2004.Missing, porté disparu
By Thomas Hauser. 1982
Un journaliste américain vivant au Chili est arrêté chez lui quelques jours après le coup d'état de 1973. Un mois…
plus tard son cadavre sera identifié à la morgue de Santiago. Sa femme et son père veulent faire toute la lumière sur cette affaire. Descriptions régulières de violence. 1982. Titre uniforme: Execution of Charles Horman.Moi, Christiane F., 13 ans, droguée, prostituée
By Léa Marcou, Kai Hermann, Horst Rieck. 1981
Ce livre raconte l'histoire de Christiane, une jeune fille sensible et intelligente, qui, moins de deux ans après avoir fumé…
son premier "joint", se prostitue à la sortie de l'école afin de trouver l'argent nécessaire à l'achat de sa dose quotidienne d'héroïne. Quelques descriptions de violence. 1981.Communion: une histoire vraie
By Whitley Strieber. 1988
"Communion" raconte la tentative de Whitley Streiber pour venir à bout d'une bouleversante attaque venue de l'inconnu. Selon toute apparence,…
lui et sa famille ont vécu une succession de rencontres personnelles complexes avec des êtres d'un autre monde, dans son petit chalet isolé, au nord de l'état de New York. 1988.Le voleur d'orchidées: [une histoire vraie] (Nouvelles Angleterres)
By Susan Orlean, Sarah Church, Sophie Brunet. 1999
En 1994, John Laroche et trois Indiens Séminoles sont accusés d'un vol d'orchidées rares dans les marais de Floride. Ce…
fait divers constitue le point de départ d'une passionnante enquête de la journaliste Susan Orlean dans une Floride inconnue des guides touristiques. 1999, c1998. Titre uniforme: The orchid thief.Dialogues sous le ciel étoilé
By Hubert Reeves, Jean-Pierre Luminet, Iolande Cadrin-Rossignol. 2016
Par une nuit d'été, deux astrophysiciens observent le ciel, nous racontent leurs quêtes et leurs émerveillements, les dernières découvertes qui…
bouleversent notre compréhension de l'Univers. Savez-vous que le Soleil chante ? Qu'un bon nombre d'étoiles vivent en couple ? Qu'un trou noir domine le centre de notre Voie lactée ? Que 2 000 planètes ont déjà été découvertes autour d'étoiles lointaines ? Que la moitié de l'eau présente sur Terre vient de l'espace interstellaire ? Comment pouvons-nous affirmer cela ? Parce que des chercheurs du monde entier se sont acharnés à le découvrir et à le prouver. Qui sont donc ces visionnaires qui contribuent à l'essor fulgurant de l'astronomie, de l'astrophysique, de la cosmologie, de l'astrobiologie ? Jean-Pierre Luminet et Hubert Reeves nous invitent à faire en leur compagnie un fascinant périple d'exploration, à lever le voile sur les découvertes les plus récentes et les plus étonnantes, nous permettant de mieux comprendre l'origine et le destin de l'Univers. 2016. Titre uniforme: Du big bang au vivant (Film)Can you ever forgive me?: memoirs of a literary forger
By Lee Israel. 2018
Before turning to her life of crime, running a one-woman forgery business out of a phone booth in a Greenwich…
Village bar and even dodging the FBI, Lee Israel had a legitimate career as an author of biographies. Her first book on Tallulah Bankhead was a New York Times bestseller, and her second, on the late journalist and reporter Dorothy Kilgallen, made a splash in the headlines. But by 1990, almost broke and desperate to hang onto her Upper West Side studio, Lee made a bold and irreversible career change: inspired by a letter she'd received once from Katharine Hepburn, and armed with her considerable skills as a researcher and celebrity biographer, she began to forge letters in the voices of literary greats. Between 1990 and 1991, she wrote more than three hundred letters in the voices of, among others, Dorothy Parker, Louise Brooks, Edna Ferber, Lillian Hellman, and Noel Coward, and sold the forgeries to memorabilia and autograph dealers. 2018.Six M.I.T. students figured out how to beat the casinos and managed to get away with more than three million…
dollars in less than two years' time by playing the blackjack tables. Includes an explanation of how card counting is done. 2002.Banco: the further adventures of Papillon
By Patrick O'Brian, Henri Charrière. 1973
Banco completes Papillon's struggle to climb up the drain into which the brutal French penal system had pushed him. It's…
the story of a man who, after 13 years in prison, discovers how to function in society and how to earn his living without resorting to murky schemes. 1973.True story: murder, memoir, mea culpa
By Michael Finkel. 2005
In 2002, Finkel, a rising star at the Times, was fired for fabricating a character in a story. Just as…
this was about to become public, he learned that a man named Christian Longo, arrested in Mexico for murder, had been living under an assumed identity: Michael Finkel of The New York Times. Sensing a story - and an opportunity for redemption - Finkel contacted Longo, initiating a relationship that would grow increasingly complex over the course of Longo's trial and conviction. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2005.To seek out new life: the biology of Star Trek
By Athena Andreadis. 1998
Uses the original Star Trek television series, spinoffs, and movies to explain concepts in bioscience. Investigates the probability of other…
life-forms in the universe. Discusses human immortality, the transporter, and the universal translator as well as cloning, robots, and virtual reality. 1998.The ice man: confessions of a Mafia contract killer
By Philip Carlo. 2008
Top Mafia hit man and doting father - for 30 years Richard 'the Ice Man' Kuklinski led a double life,…
becoming one of the most notorious professional assassins in American history while hosting neighbourhood barbecues. John Gotti hired him to kill his neighbour and he was also intimately involved in the killing of Jimmy Hoffa. By his own estimate, he killed over 200 men, taking enormous pride in his cunning and the ferocity of his technique. 2008.Flic Story: l'implacable duel entre un tueur impitoyable et un policier pas comme les autres
By Roger Borniche. 1973
The ring of truth: an inquiry into how we know what we know
By Philip Morrison, Phylis Morrison. 1987
A lively, anecdotal examination of how the scientific method has worked from Galileo to the present time. This book which…
is a companion to the PBS television series looks at six concepts: looking, change, mapping, clues, atoms, and doubt. 1987.The physics of Star Trek
By Lawrence Maxwell Krauss, S. W Hawking. 1995
Krauss uses the original Star Trek television series (and its spinoffs) to explore concepts in physics, quantum mechanics, interstellar flight,…
and time travel, as he questions the possibility of "warp drives," "transporters," "wormholes," "phasers," and "holodecks," as well as extraterrestrial life. With a foreward by Stephen Hawking. 1995.Mindhunter: inside the FBI's elite serial crime unit
By John E Douglas, Mark Olshaker. 1995
Douglas, who pioneered criminal profiling, gives an inside account of the FBI's elite Investigative Support Unit. He recounts some of…
his most famous cases and describes various tactics used to identify and prosecute serial criminals. Violence, descriptions of sex, and some strong language. 1995.Papillon
By Henri Charrière. 1970
The autobiography of a man sentenced to life imprisonment on a murder charge. He describes his prison experiences and his…
attempts to escape from Devil's Island which were eventually successful. 1970. Uniform title: Papillon.American Prometheus: the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
By Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin. 2005
Biography of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967)--"the father of the atomic bomb." Chronicles his New York City upbringing, marriage to…
Kitty Puening, work on the Manhattan Project, and life after the 1954 Atomic Energy Commission hearings which denied Oppenheimer his security clearance for questioning the ethics of nuclear weapons. Pulitzer Prize winner 2006. 2005