LINCOLN COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE PRESENTS THE BAD SEED
BOOK LIST COMPILED BY GERE STAFF
(ALL SUMMARIES ARE PUBLISHER’S SUMMARIES)
ON SHOW – OCTOBER 25 – NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Flim-Flam Man: A True Family History
By: Jennifer Vogel
364.109 Vol
In 1995, following John's arrest in what turned out to be the fourth-largest seizure of counterfeit bills in U.S. history, he managed to slip away, leaving his now grown daughter to wonder what had become of him. Framed around the six months Jennifer's father ran from the law, Flim-Flam Man vividly chronicles the police chase -- stakeouts, lie detector tests, even a segment on Unsolved Mysteries. In describing her tumultuous life with John Vogel, Jennifer deftly examines the messy, painful, and almost inescapable inheritance one generation bequeaths to the next.

Are You There Alone? The Unspeakable Crime of Andrea Yates
By: Suzanne O’Malley
364.152 Oma
Andrea Yates's horrific murders of her five small children-drowning them one by one in their bathtub-remains one of the most shocking crimes of recent years. In this overly detailed retelling, investigative journalist O'Malley has transformed herself in the popular current style from observer into participant, albeit with ample justification.

Run, Brother, Run: A Memoir of a Murder in my Family
By: David Berg
364.152 Ber
As William Faulkner said, “The past is not dead, it’s not even past.” This observation seems especially true in matters of family, when the fury between generations is often never resolved and instead secretly carried, a wound that cannot heal. For David Berg, this is truer than for most, and once you read the story of his family, you will understand why he held it privately for so long and why the betrayals between parent and child can be the most wrenching of all.

January First: A Child’s Descent into Madness and Her Father’s Struggle to Save Her
By: Michael Schofield
Bio Schofield, January
An account of a father's fight to save his child from an extremely severe case of mental illness in the face of overwhelming adversity.

Death Sentence: The True Story of Velma Barfield’s Life, Crimes and Execution
By: Jerry Bledsoe
364.15 Ble
From the New York Times bestselling author of Bitter Blood and Before He Wakes comes another masterpiece of crime and punishment. A haunting true story that resonates with today’s headlines, Death Sentence takes us inside the life of a multiple killer – and the only woman to be executed in the United States from 1962 until 1998.

Hurry Down Sunshine
By: Michael Greenberg
Bio Greenberg, Sally
Hurry Down Sunshine tells the story of the extraordinary summer when, at the age of fifteen, Michael Greenberg's daughter was struck mad. It begins with Sally's visionary crack-up on the streets of Greenwich Village, and continues, among other places, in the out-of-time world of a Manhattan psychiatric ward during the city's most sweltering months.

House of Reckoning
By: John Saul
Saul
Outcast by an injury sustained from her father, foster child Sara Crane befriends a former mental patient and her art teacher and soon creates paintings of long-ago violent crimes committed by the inmates of a local asylum.

Crime of Privilege
By: Walter Walker
Walker
Pitted against a powerful family when he reopens the scandalous case of a young woman's unsolved murder, George Becket is forced to confront a haunting mistake from his own past while outmaneuvering wealth-driven corruption.

The Last Girl: A Crime Novel
By: Jane Casey
Casey (M)
Investigating two brutal murders, Detective Constable Maeve Kerrigan finds the case complicated by deep-rooted family secrets, numerous false leads, and the questionable decisions of a once-trustworthy superintendent.

Harbor
By: John Ajvide Lindqvist
Ajvide Lindqvist
Two years after his six-year-old daughter disappears during a family visit to a snowy island lighthouse, Anders struggles with alcoholism while searching for answers and discovers that the island's residents are hiding a deadly secret about a dark power from the sea.

The Boys in the Trees: A Novel
By: Mary Swan
Swan
Newly arrived to the countryside, William Heath, his wife, and two daughters appear the picture of a devoted family. But when accusations of embezzlement spur William to commit an unthinkable crime, those who witnessed this affectionate, attentive father go about his routine of work and family must reconcile action with character.

We Need to Talk about Kevin
By: Lionel Shriver
Shriver
Now a major motion picture by Lynne Ramsay, starring Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly,Lionel Shriver’s resonant story of a mother’s unsettling quest to understand her teenage son’s deadly violence, her own ambivalence toward motherhood, and the explosive link between them reverberates with the haunting power of high hopes shattered by dark realities.

The DVD is also available at Lincoln City Libraries (call number: DVD We need to talk about Kevin)