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This stark novel is set in an unspecified place in Appalachia, sometime around the turn of the century. A woman bears her brother's child, a boy; he leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he died of natural causes. Discovering her brother's lie, she sets forth alone to find her son. Both brother and sister wander separately through a countryside being scourged by three terrifying and elusive strangers, headlong toward an eerie, apocalyptic resolution....

The author compiles an astonishing amount of never-before-seen visual, circumstantial, and forensic evidence to prove that his father--Dr. George Hill Hodel--was among the most prolific serial killers in history, beginning as a young man and continuing to kill throughout his long life of ninety-one years. Among his crimes are dozens of unsolved murder cases stretching back sixty years.

Waiting on death row after confessing to several homicides, a master assassin writes his life story to protect his younger brother, a process during which he remembers their murderously violent father.

"In this unique blend of memoir and how-to, learn strategies for transforming the scarred life of a victim into the healed and joyous life of a survivor. Find inspiration, courage, and hope as you follow Roberta Dolan's journey toward healing after a childhood of sexual abuse."--from cover, page [4].

A boy whose manic-depressive mother has always told him that his father won a Nobel Prize, spends his time taking care of her and searching for clues to the identity of the Nobel Prize-winning sperm donor, eventually finding a truth he must learn to accept.

Book One of the Dollanganger family saga. At the top of the stairs there are four secrets hidden. Blond, beautiful, innocent, and struggling to stay alive . . .They were a perfect family, golden and carefreeuntil a heartbreaking tragedy shattered their happiness. Now, for the sake of an inheritance that will ensure their future, the children must be hidden away out of sight, as if they never existed. Kept on the top floor of their grandmothers vast...

Describes the abuse inflicted upon the novelist from her Victorian family where sexual violence was common.