“Ken McElroy terrorized Skidmore, Missouri, for years—robbing, raping, shooting and maiming the citizens into submission until they had finally had enough. While 45 townspeople looked on, McElroy was shot and killed… but the police could find no witnesses.”
Publisher: Doubleday
Paperback: 390 pages
“In 1977, 20-year-old Colleen Stan left home to hitchhike from Oregon to California. Seven years later she emerged from hell, the victim of a bizarre and extraordinary crime. This is Colleen’s incredible true story, told by a determined young district attorney who prosecuted the man who had forced her to endure years of sexual perversion… and held her captive in a coffin box under his and his wife’s bed.”
Publisher: Doubleday
Paperback: 370 pages
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Meet a Harvard professor, a practicing polygamist, and a Desert Storm convert—Muslims all. See what a former top official in the U.S. Government , an HIV-positive woman, and a Native American share in their faith. Understand what attracts a young feminist, a college grad, and an ex-hippie to the world of Islam. SC
Publisher: Doubleday
Paperback: 370 pages
Illustrated
“In the decade of 1982 to 1992, approximately 400 priests were reported to Church or civil authorities for molesting youths. By 1992, the Church’s financial losses—in victim’s settlements, legal expenses and medical treatment of clergy—had reached an estimated $400 million. Reports of these cases—and how bishops handled them—raise stark questions about the psychological dynamics of clerical governing. For seven years it has been my strange lot to travel long distances, interviewing countless sources, gathering legal documents and church reports, reading theology, psychology and studies of human sexuality. In my travels I sought an objective account of changes tearing at the central nervous system of the Church. In time this line of inquiry ran up against an older memory of faith, and the tension caused me quite a struggle. It has left the Catholic in me with a sense of urgency.”
Publisher: Doubleday
Paperback: 407 pages