An explosive and historic New York Times bestseller of true crime and an emotionally powerful and revelatory memoir of a man whose ten-year search for his biological father leads to a chilling discovery: His father is one of the most notorious-and still at large-serial killers in America—THE BASIS FOR A 4-PART FX DOCUMENTARY MINISERIES. “I promise that you’ve never read anything like The Most Dangerous Animal of All. Mesmerizing from the first page, the story includes a shattering surprise that will sear itself in your memory. Be prepared to read non-stop; this really is a book you won’t be able to put down.” —Jeff Guinn, author of Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson Soon after his birthmother contacted him for the first time at the age of thirty-nine, adoptee Gary L. Stewart decided to search for his biological father. It was a quest that would lead him to a horrifying truth and force him to reconsider everything he thought he knew about himself and his world. Written with award-winning author and journalist Susan D. Mustafa, The Most Dangerous Animal of All tells the story of Stewart’s decade-long hunt for his father following a complex trail of startling twists and connections. Combing through government records and news reports and through conversations with his father’s relatives and friends, Stewart turns up a host of clues, including forensic evidence, identifying his father as one of the most infamous and still-wanted serial killers in American history.
Clarifies the cultural, historical, and doctrinal issues surrounding the Bible's words, addressing questions that come up repeatedly and can confuse people about Christianity or frustrate them in their spiritual growth. Original.
Here is a wondrous comic tale of two peculiar people who find romance in a mysterious old barn near a nuclear test site. Downwinder Dance is a beautifully constructed and fast paced play about nurturing the flame of hope and life in the face of nightmarish government deceit and destruction"--Publisher.
Based on exclusive interviews, Breakout tells the often riveting personal stories of fourteen popular musicians—some well known, others not—from Zaire, Ghana, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. The first book on African pop music to look closely at the lives of the musicians themselves, Breakout deals with four African musical genres: soukous, highlife, afro-beat, and palm wine. Amid Africa's deepening economic and political crises of the last two decades, African musicians who developed these genres faced the need to cross cultural boundaries, or "break out," and achieve a hit in the international marketplace. Challenging conventional assumptions, Gary Stewart demonstrates for the first time the true dimensions of this struggle to create music that will qualify as both an authentic cultural expression and an export commodity. From accounts of the outrageous Fela, who snipes at African leaders and recounts his days with Isis in ancient Egypt, to S. E. Rogie, who lurches from the pinnacle of stardom in West Africa to delivering pizzas in California, to Olatunji, who finds new life with the Grateful Dead, these are the stories of Africans straddling traditional life and an encroaching modernity—and also the stories of third world musicians surmounting political and economic chaos at home and carrying their music to a world dominated by Western cultural and economic power.
Indian Garry Stewart with John Carroll.This beautiful collection of color photographs captures the Indians from the early leather belt drive single cylinder bikes to the massive V-twins of the 195s. The all-American Indians with their sweeping fenders and legendary racing record live on in this vivid color tribute. Sftbd., 8 1/4"x 9", 128 pgs., 122 color ill.
A gathering of scholarly essays in response and tribute to James D. G. Dunn's influential book, Jesus Remembered, followed by a response from Dunn himself.
Why is Ice so unhappy? Why won't it accept that it must change to Water soon? The EnteleTrons(r)help the three primary states of matter understand their role in the water cycle. Through character interaction, The EnteleTrons(r) help young readers accept the changes that occur in their lives.
Gabriel Utley is called back to Salt Lake City after twenty years by Linda Peterson, a woman he once loved who now asks his help in searching for her missing sixteen-year-old daughter
Surreal Eternity is superimposed upon the emotional backdrop of International Jewish-Muslim relations. Lives are explored from the West Bank, to Israel, to Paris to Long Island in this present-day fantasy historical-fiction novel.
Celebrates the remarkable range of tourism posters and other publicity that helped promote New Zealand - both locally and to the world - until the 1960s, before television and colour photography changed the publicity landscape forever. With close to 1000 images and of important essays, Selling the dream is the first dedicated and extensive celebration of this valuable material. The imagery is some of the finest graphic art ever produced in New Zealand"--Jacket flap.
If you find the workings of your car at best mysterious, and at worst a source of high blood pressure, then this is the tool for you. Covering everything from symptoms of trouble to specific mechanical problems and how to respond to them, it is compact enough to fit in the glove box, so it's there when you need it most.
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