[Read by ]An explosive and historic book of true crime and an emotionally powerful and revelatory memoir of a man whose tenyear 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. Soon after his birth mother contacted him for the first time at the age of thirtynine, 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 awardwinning author and journalist Susan D. Mustafa, ''The Most Dangerous Animal of All'' tells the story of Stewart's decadelong 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 stillwanted serial killers in American history.

Product Description: [Read by ]An explosive and historic book of true crime and an emotionally powerful and revelatory memoir of a man whose tenyear 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...read more

Product Description: Award-winning journalist and host of Black "Enterprise" Business Report Caroline Clarke's moving memoir of her surprise discovery of her birthmother—Cookie Cole, the daughter of Nat King Cole—and the relationship that blossomed between them through the heartfelt messages they exchanged on hundreds of postcards...read more

Product Description: Found is Jennifer Lauck's sequel to her New York Times bestseller Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found. More than one woman’s search for her biological parents, Found is a story of loss, adjustment, and survival. Lauck’s investigation into her own troubled past leads her to research that shows the profound trauma undergone by infants when they’re separated from their birth mothers—a finding that provides a framework for her writing as well as her life...read more

Product Description: Susan was forty-three years old before she ordered a DNA test and learned the truth that she had long suspected: that she was adopted. By this time, the woman she had always called her mother, who had kept the adoption a secret, was dying, so Susan never got to talk with her directly on this important matter of identity...read more

Product Description: A mother and her child, lost and then found again after four decades: this extraordinary story of love, loss, and reunion is told in alternating voices by the two women, each relating her own powerful experience.For the mother, it's the tale of an unhappy marriage followed by betrayal, a pregnancy of uncertain paternity, and the heartrending decision to give up her newborn...read more

Product Description: Julia Meyers is an adoptee from a German closed adoption who makes the decision to shine light on the truth. In her new book, Coffee and Cake: An Adoptee In Search of Her Past, Meyers takes the reader on a journey across continents and time, as she uncovers the mystery of her past...read more

Product Description: I swore I would never let my birthmother into my life, but then Mom died of ovarian cancer and my birthmother, Val, found me through the obituary. Hard to argue with fate. Harder still to let go of childhood promises. This memoir explores what it is to be a mom and what it is to lose one...read more

Product Description:     A search for roots and identity has rarely been captured with such irony, unusual insight, and surprising humor as in this memoir of heartbreak and hope. Today a distinguished American poet, Colette Inez first came to the United States when she was eight years old, as an apparent Belgian orphan escorted by two complete strangers...read more

Product Description: Bestselling author Craig Hickman had had enough of the secrets and cover-ups and lies and was determined to solve the mystery of his roots. A brilliant and inspirational vision of love and spirituality, "Fumbling Toward Divinity: The Adoption Scriptures" chronicles his quest for his birth heritage and the aftermath in a one-of-a-kind, ambitious, and stunning new memoir...read more

Product Description: Book by Koh, Frances M.

Product Description: Book by Minniti, Jennifer

The author shares her story of being found by her birth parents and the process of working through her very conflicted emotions to come to terms with the complexities of family relationships

The author shares his early years orphaned at age four and adopted at age five, and expresses his initial desire to belong, fears of being sent back to the orphanage, and memories growing up in Oklahoma during the Depression years. (view table of contents)

The author describes his life-altering journey to discover information about his birth mother, who was removed from her Yup'ik Eskimo community during the tuberculosis and influenza epidemic in the beginning of the 20th century. (view table of contents)

In a heartfelt account of the relationship between a son and his mother, the author describes his discovery at the age of forty that he had been adopted, his out-of-wedlock birth, his adoption by a woman who turned out to be his own birth mother, the revelation of his real father--actor Van Heflin--and their impact on his life. 15,000 first printing.

The author retells the story of his father's life as an adopted child on a Midwestern farm during the Depression, including his difficult relationship with abusive adoptive parents and his successful search for his birthmother (view table of contents)