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"Nina and Simon are the perfect couple. Young, fun and deeply in love. Until they leave for a weekend at his family's cabin in Vermont, and only Simon comes home. What happened to Nina? Nobody knows. Simon's explanation about what happened in their last hours together doesn't add up. Nina's parents push the police for answers, and Simon's parents rush to protect him. They hire expensive lawyers and a PR firm that quickly ramps up a vicious, nothing-is-off-limits...
2) Rabbit hole
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English
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"Ten years ago, Theodora 'Teddy' Angstrom's older sister, Angie, disappeared. Her case remains unsolved. Now--on the anniversary of Angie's disappearance--Teddy's father, Mark, has killed himself. Unbeknownst to Mark's family, he had been actively investigating conspiracy theories sourced from a Reddit community of true crime fans fixated on Angie, and Teddy soon finds herself falling down that same rabbit hole. After all, if hope dies last, Angie...
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Pub. Date
2010
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English
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A New York Times Best Seller!
New York Times bestselling author Jesse Ventura is back with more conspiracies that our government wishes you didn't know about!
In this explosive account of wrongful acts and ensuing cover-ups, Jesse Ventura offers a different side to the stories we've all heard and read about in the history books. He takes a look at the wide gap between what the government knows and what is revealed...
New York Times bestselling author Jesse Ventura is back with more conspiracies that our government wishes you didn't know about!
In this explosive account of wrongful acts and ensuing cover-ups, Jesse Ventura offers a different side to the stories we've all heard and read about in the history books. He takes a look at the wide gap between what the government knows and what is revealed...
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English
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"When Hazel Nash was six years old, her father taught her: mysteries need to be solved. He should know. Hazel's father is Jack Nash, the host of America's favorite conspiracy TV show, The House of Secrets. Even as a child, she loved hearing her dad's tall tales, especially the one about a leather book belonging to Benedict Arnold that was hidden in a corpse. Now, years later, Hazel wakes up in the hospital and remembers nothing, not even her own name....
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"Deep in the Florida Everglades, the body of a woman is discovered in pieces, presumably ravaged by an alligator. Upon closer inspection, it's determined no animal could make such perfectly precise cuts. Only a blade could do that. Wielded by a human. Soon, dozens of oil drums emerge amid the river of grass. Each one packed to the brim with body parts. FDLE special agent Amy Larson and her partner, FBI special agent Hunter Forrest, share a bad feeling...
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Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Lexile measure
GN 500L
Physical Desc
88 pages : color illustrations; 25 cm
Language
English
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"In this hilarious, yet fact-filled book, Elise Gravel uses her kid-friendly wit and quirky illustration style to break down what fake news is, why people spread it, and how to tell what is real and what isn't. And that's the truth!"--
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Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Margaret K. McElderry Books hardcover edition.
Lexile measure
700L
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"When otherworldly forces descend on their town of Whispering Pines, conspiracy theorist Rae, who's searching for her lost father, and Caden, who's haunted by the ghost of his brother, must band together to save their home"--
Raes father vanished without a traceand Rae knows what happened to him. But no one believes her when she says that her father didnt run off, that he was actually taken. Now, a year of therapy later, Raes mother decides they...
9) Frame 232
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Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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When she inherits all her parents' possessions upon their deaths, Sheila Baker discovers their intimate link to the President Kennedy assassination, and is soon on the run from people who would stop at nothing to keep those secrets buried.
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English
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"London, June 1860: When an assassination attempt is made on Queen Victoria, and a petty thief is gruesomely murdered moments later--and only a block away--Chief Detective Inspector Charles Field quickly surmises that these crimes are connected to an even more sinister plot. Was Victoria really the assassin's target? Are those closest to the Crown hiding something? And who is the shadowy figure witnesses describe as having lifeless, coal-black eyes?...
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Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A history of the Flat Earth movement and a look at the recent boom in conspiratorial thinking in America"--
Since 2015 there has been a spectacular boom in a centuries-old delusion: that the earth is flat. Weill draws a direct line from today's conspiratorial moment, brimming not just with Flat Earthers but also anti-vaxxers and QAnon followers, back to the early days of Flat Earth theory in the 1830s. When faced with a complicated world out of...
12) The newsmakers
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Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"What if it turns out that the newsmakers are actually making the news happen? Television reporter Erica Sparks has just landed her dream job at Global News Network. Beautiful, talented, and ambitious, Erica grew up dirt poor, worked her way through Yale, and is carrying a terrible secret. She moves to Manhattan to join GNN, leaving Jenny, her adored 7-year-old daughter, in the custody of her ex-husband. Erica's producer at the network, Greg Underwood,...
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English
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"Based on hundreds of hours of research, interviews, and access to exclusive sources and materials, Sandy Hook is Elizabeth Williamson's landmark investigation of the aftermath of a school shooting, the work of Sandy Hook parents who fought to defend themselves, and the truth of their children's fate against the frenzied distortions of online deniers and conspiracy theorists. On December 14, 2012, a gunman killed twenty first-graders and six educators...
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Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xviii, 301 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A journalist who specializes in conspiracy theories draws on interviews with QAnon converts and victims, as well as psychologists, sociologists, and academics to explain the origin and growth of the movement, its embrace by right-wing media and politicians, and why it is important to understand it rather than mock it.
15) Frendo lives
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Series
Clown in a cornfield volume 2
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A year after the Kettle Springs massacre, Quinn and her friends Rust and Cole become the focus of online conspiracy theories that recast them as villains rather than victims.
After barely making it out of the Kettle Springs cornfields alive, Quinns first year away at college should be safe and easy. All she wants is to be normal again. But instead, Quinn finds that her past wont leave her alone when she becomes the focus of online conspiracy theories...
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English
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Presents a comprehensive history of conspiracy theories in American culture and politics, from the colonial era to the War on Terror. It is a history of America's demons that stretches from the seventeenth century to today, and lays out five conspiracy narratives that recur in American politics and popular culture. 1693: Cotton Mather suggests that the spirits attacking Salem are allied with the colony's human enemies. At their "Cheef Witch-meetings,"...
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Saga Press
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English
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Mary Jekyll and her friends return home from Europe to discover that their friend and kitchen maid Alice has vanished--and so has their friend and employer Sherlock Holmes! They discover that the two kidnappings are only one small part of a plot that threatens Queen Victoria, and the very future of the British Empire. Can Mary, Diana, Beatrice, Catherine, and Justine save their friends--and save the Empire?
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Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 224 pages : illustrations, charts ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Hosts of the podcast Stuff They Don't Want You to Know, Ben Bowlin, Matthew Frederick, & Noel Brown discern conspiracy fact from fiction regarding 'stuff' the government doesn't want you to know. Conspiracies didn't always seem so clear and present. It used to be that people with tin-foil hats who were convinced of secret messages coming through the radio were easily disregarded as kooks and looney tunes. But these days, conspiracies feel alive and...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Sigma
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
304 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
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"In Suspicious Minds, Rob Brotherton explores the history and consequences of conspiracism, and delves into the research that offers insights into why so many of us are drawn to implausible, unproven and unproveable conspiracy theories. They resonate with some of our brain's built-in quirks and foibles, and tap into some of our deepest desires, fears, and assumptions about the world,"--Amazon.com.
20) Concussion
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
269 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
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English
Description
In 2002, forensic pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu picked up a scalpel in a Pittsburgh morgue and made a discovery that would rattle America. The body on the slab in front of him belonged to a fifty-year-old named Mike Webster, aka "Iron Mike," a Hall of Fame center for the Pittsburgh Steelers. After retiring in 1990, Webster had suffered a dizzyingly steep decline. The search for answers put Omalu in the crosshairs of one of the most powerful corporations...