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"For nine years, South Carolina officials struggled to identify "the boy in the woods," a young man whose body had been discovered just south of Myrtle Beach in a fishing village called Murrells Inlet. Meanwhile, 1,200 miles away in Kansas City, Missouri, Frank McGonigle's family searched for him at Grateful Dead concerts and in the face of every long-haired hitchhiker they passed. Consumed by guilt for how they'd treated him, Frank's eight siblings slowly came to understand that--like Jerry Garcia sang--he's gone and nothin's gonna bring him back. Frank McGonigle was finally found--and identified as "the boy in the woods." Four years later, the case still unsolved, Jim Cosgrove, a McGonigle family friend and investigative journalist, picked up the trail of Frank's cold case and began uncovering connections to a ruthless local crime boss and blunders by the threadbare sheriff's department. When his research began to stall, a chance meeting with the soft-hearted, straight-talking "energy reader" Carol Williams provided a metaphysical spark that reignited Jim's resolve. Although his work as a journalist trained him to be skeptical, Cosgrove found himself starting to become a believer when Carol provided details about Frank's murder that turned out to be freakishly accurate. In 2019, Cosgrove returned to Murrells Inlet with one of Frank's brothers to dredge up some old leads and settle Frank's case once and for all"--Provided by publisher.

The author shares his story of witnessing his brothers drowning and how his family blocked the memory of it, until forty years later when the author investigates the whole story.

Stanford White was one of New York's most famous architects. As he became more popular and in-demand, he also became quite self-indulgent. When he met young Evelyn Nesbit, a Broadway show girl, he knew he had to get to know her better. He began to take care of her widowed mother and her family and as he did so, his attachment to Evelyn grew. Although White was years older than Evelyn, she continued the friendship. But realizing that White would never leave his wife, Evelyn eventually married a young Pittsburgh heir with a dark side who developed a deep hatred for White and what he may or may not have done to Evelyn, setting up the most scandalous murder case of the time.

Addresses the obesity epidemic in the African-American community, and uses personal stories and medical research to offer African-American helpful advice on the best ways to lose weight.

While visiting his dying father, the author meets Paul Tibbets, the man who flew the "Enola Gay" and dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, and learns about his father's generation's sense of honor and duty.

A graphic novel account of the American raid on the compound of terrorist leader Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on May 1, 2011, which resulted in his death. Based on insider information, newspaper articles, and other sources.