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John Temple is a veteran investigative journalist whose books illuminate significant issues in American life.
His forthcoming book, Up in Arms, details Cliven and Ammon Bundy's multiple standoffs with the federal government. It will appear in June 2019.
Temple’s last book, American Pain: How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America’s Deadliest Drug Epidemic, was named a New York Post “Favorite Book of 2015” and was a 2016 Edgar Allan Poe Award nominee. American Pain chronicles how two young felons built the largest pill mill in the United States and also explains the roots of the opioid epidemic.
Temple also wrote The Last Lawyer: The Fight to Save Death Row Inmates (2009) and Deadhouse: Life in a Coroner’s Office (2005). The La ...more

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	American Pain: How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America's Deadliest Drug Epidemic 4.26 avg rating — 2,553 ratings — published 2015 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Deadhouse: Life in a Coroner s Office 3.63 avg rating — 185 ratings — published 2005 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Up In Arms: How The Bundy Family Hijacked Federal Lands, Outfoxed the Federal Government, and Ignited America's Patriot Militia Movement 4.02 avg rating — 147 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Lawyer: The Fight to Save Death Row Inmates 4.17 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 2004 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wings of Silence: Part I it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Space Force: Into the Unknown by John Temple (Goodreads Author), Jilly Prather (Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Irish Rebellion: Or A History Of The Beginnings And First Progress Of The General Rebellion Raised Within The Kingdom Of Ireland, In The Year 1641 (1751) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Needle marks scarred her hands, the only place on her body she could still find a vessel. She was dissolving and injecting ten to twenty pills a day. The highs weren’t really highs anymore, just a break from the bone-deep pain of withdrawal.”
― John Temple, American Pain: How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America's Deadliest Drug Epidemic

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“Endo, maker of Opana, Percocet, and Percodan, distributed a patient education publication that said withdrawal symptoms and increased tolerance to narcotics are not the same as addiction. “Addicts take opioids for other reasons, such as unbearable emotional problems.”* The”
― John Temple, American Pain: How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America's Deadliest Drug Epidemic

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“But deaths involving prescription narcotics continued to mount, until the trend was impossible to dismiss. Overdose deaths involving prescription opioids quadrupled between 1999 and 2007, from about three thousand to twelve thousand per year. By contrast, cocaine killed about six thousand users in 2007, heroin about two thousand. Prescription narcotics were now killing more Americans than all illegal drugs combined. In”
― John Temple, American Pain: How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America's Deadliest Drug Epidemic

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Polls

Time to vote on our Nov/Dec Nonfiction selection. Thank you to the girls who nominated and good luck to all.

The poll will stay open until Oct 20th.

Deadhouse: Life in a Coroner's Office

by John Temple

8 votes, 26.7%

Dead Man Walking

by Helen Prejean

6 votes, 20.0%

The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

by Jane Goodall

5 votes, 16.7%

The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

by Robert Macfarlane

4 votes, 13.3%

Born With Teeth

by Kate Mulgrew

3 votes, 10.0%

Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country

by Sierra Crane Murdoch

2 votes, 6.7%

Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

by Henry David Thoreau

2 votes, 6.7%

30 total votes

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