Somebody Told Me: The Newspaper Stories of Rick Bragg
10 best books like Somebody Told Me: The Newspaper Stories of Rick Bragg (Rick Bragg): 67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence, Snowden, Shades of Simon Gray, Syncopated: An Anthology of Nonfiction Picto-Essays, Grass for His Pillow, Episode 1: Lord Fujiwara's Treasures, Sang Spell, The Best Poems Ever: A Collection of Poetry's Greatest Voices, The Second Bend in the River, The High King's Daughter, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence
| Author | Howard Means |
| ISBN | 0306823799 |
At midday on May 4, 1970, after three days of protests, several thousand students and the Ohio National Guard faced off at opposite ends of the grassy campus Commons at Kent State University. At noon, the Guard moved out. Twenty-four minutes later, Guardsmen launched a 13-second, 67-shot barrage that...
| Author | Ted Rall |
| ISBN | 1609806360 |
As many as 1.4 million citizens with security clearance saw some or all of the same documents revealed by Edward Snowden. Why did he, and no one else, decide to step forward and take on the risks associated with becoming a whistleblower and then a fugitive? Rall delves into Snowden's early life and work...
| Author | Joyce McDonald |
| ISBN | 0440228042 |
Simon Gray is the ideal teenager — smart, reliable, hardworking, trustworthy. Or is he? After Simon crashes his car into The Liberty Tree, another portrait starts to emerge. Soon an investigation has begun into computer hacking at Simon’s high school, for it seems tests are being printed out before...
| Author | Brendan Burford |
| ISBN | 0345505298 |
The stories in Syncopated challenge convention, provide perspective, and search out secret truths–all in the inviting, accessible form of comics.
Syncopated will give you a daringly different view of the past–from the history of vintage postcards to the glory days of old Coney Island....
| Author | Lian Hearn |
| ISBN | 0142404233 |
Lord Fujiwara's Treasures begins the second book in the Tales of the Otori, serving as the first act of Grass for His Pillow. If this is confusing, welcome to the club. Grass for His Pillow is the second book, but it's published in two parts, this one being the first. It's not even a complete story, since...
| Author | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
| ISBN | 0689820062 |
Josh is hitchhiking his way from Massachusetts to Dallas and a new life he didn't ask for and doesn't want, when he is beaten, robbed, and abandoned beside a remote mountain road. He awakes in a strange, primitive village called Canara, seemingly hidden from the modern world, with no cars or telephones...
| Author | Edric S. Mesmer |
| ISBN | 0439296749 |
Just in time for National Poetry Month, a fantastic collection of some of the best poems ever.
These are some of the most amazing poems ever written, touching the heart, challenging the mind, and conjuring worlds of experience and imagination.
Included are poems by:
Emily Dickinson
Edgar...
| Author | Ann Rinaldi |
| ISBN | 0590742590 |
Well that was a waste of two hours. This book is really boring and pointless. "Hey, let's spend a whole book forshadowing an awesome love story, and have it end in nothing. And then that'll just be it." It was pointless. There was no reason to even write it. Why didn't she just write on a napkin, "Hey, this...
| Author | Debra Doyle |
| ISBN | 0816769974 |
Wrapping up Randal's story. This and The Wizard's Castle, like the first two, are tied strongly to the earlier ones, and each other.
Randal, Walter, and Lys are escorted to Elfland by Madoc -- who can't come with them. They must go alone to bring back the High King's daughter and rightful heir....
London, 1899. As the British Empire lies in mortal jeopardy, a top-secret initiative unites several of the most illustrious (and sometimes infamous) personages of the age: Allan Quartermain, famed explorer and adventurer; Captain Nemo, master of the undersea submersible Nautilus; Dr. Henry Jekyll,...
| Author | Mark Steel |
| ISBN | 0743208048 |
The memoirs of 25 years of political activism, albeit minor and mostly unsuccessful! Deciding to dedicated his life to eradicating injustice Mark Steel has: tried to persuade his mates to change their sexist attitudes - only to be called a poof; innocently wandered into the heat of battle during the...
| Author | William Swanson |
| ISBN | 0873515609 |
At 9:00 on the morning of March 6, 1963, in the quiet neighborhood of Highland Park, Mrs. Fritz Pearson glanced out her window and saw something almost unimaginable: slumped on the front steps of the home across the street was a woman, partially clothed in a blue bathrobe and bloodied beyond recognition....
A Death in Texas: A Story of Race, Murder and a Small Town's Struggle for Redemption
| Author | Dina Temple-Raston |
| ISBN | 0805072772 |
On June 7, 1998, a trio of young white men chained a black man named James Byrd, Jr., to the bumper of a truck and dragged him three miles down a country road. From the initial investigation and through the trials and their aftermath, A Death in Texas follows the turns of events through the eyes of Sheriff...
Media Circus: A Look at Private Tragedy in the Public Eye
| Author | Kim Goldman |
| ISBN | 1941631606 |
Imagine losing a loved one in the public eye.
A media frenzy ensues and spreads your family name through the news. Reporters ambush you, and across the country, strangers gossip about your personal loss.
Welcome to the circus.
No one understands better than Kim Goldman the...
Lovers' Lane: the Hall-Mills Mystery
| Author | Rick Geary |
| ISBN | 1561636282 |
The perfect ingredients for a juicy scandal and fascinating investigation are presented in this masterful graphic novel retelling of an unsolved murder from the 1920s. On the evening of September 14, 1922, Reverend Edward Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills take a stroll in the New Brunswick town park. Shots...
Hard News: Twenty-one Brutal Months at The New York Times and How They Changed the American Media
| Author | Seth Mnookin |
| ISBN | 0812972511 |
On May 11, 2003, The New York Times devoted four pages of its Sunday paper to the deceptions of Jayson Blair, a mediocre former Times reporter who had made up stories, faked datelines, and plagiarized on a massive scale. The fallout from the Blair scandal rocked the Times to its core and revealed fault...
Forensic History: Crimes, Frauds, and Scandals
| Author | Elizabeth A. Murray |
| ISBN | 1598039083 |
Modern history is filled with terrible crimes, baffling hoaxes, and seedy scandals. The infamous Jack the Ripper slayings. The alleged survival of Anastasia Romanov, the youngest daughter of the murdered Tsar. Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong's public fall from grace. The Chicago...
The Best American Crime Reporting 2009
| Author | Jeffrey Toobin |
| ISBN | 0061490849 |
Edited by Jeffrey Toobin, CNN’s senior legal analyst and New York Times bestselling author of The Nine, The Best American Crime Reporting 2009 is a must-have for the true crime reader, complete with the most gripping, suspenseful, and brilliant stories of the year by the masters of crime reporting....
I reread this in the past couple weeks because the book won yet another award, and I am sharing my review again because I just don't think enough people have read it, and it deserves more attention.
I think I can name four great comics events in this year of 2017 so far, and this is one of them (the others...
Heist: The Oddball Crew Behind the $17 Million Loomis Fargo Theft
The bizarre true story of the criminals behind the second-largest bank heist in American history.
One night in a small North Carolina town, a down-on-his-luck guard at Loomis Fargo manages to steal $17 million-literally more than one ton of cash. Despite being caught on camera wheeling the money...
