Reddit mentions: The best midwest us biographies

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My suggestions:

• Dewey: The small-town library cat who touched the world.
  
• Jack London's Call of the Wild.
  
• Warm Bodies: A novel.
  
• 13: Thirteen Stories That Capture the Agony and Ecstasy of Being Thirteen.
  
• Romiette and Julio.
  
• Who Am I Without Him?
  
  Others have already mentioned my other choices (e.g. Of Mice and Men). And for a little non-fiction that might help them visualise some of life's big questions, try Stephen Law's "The Philosophy Files". I've gifted it to a number of teens in the past of all different abilities and have yet to hear criticism of it. "Philosophy Rocks" is another one of his that is also pretty good.

Wow, interesting! I may just have to check that out. Is this the book?

This looks like a great place to tell people about Dewey.

I'm glad it could help. Check out this book too. It helped me. It could probably shine some light on your situation too.

I'd recommend anything by Paul Gruchow

• The Necessity of Empty Places
  
• Travels in Canoe Country
  
• Boundary Waters: The Grace of the Wild
  
• Journal of a Prairie Year
  
• Grass Roots: The Universe of Home
  

Here are some possibilities:

The Silents

Growing up in the Great Depression

Christmas After All

Rose's Journal

"Daddy's Gone to War"

I'm a bit of a "how places got their names" type of guy, so From Needmore to Prosperity: Hoosier Place Names in Folklore and History is one of my favorites. It's more of an encyclopedia of towns and communities and how they came about their names.

A Fathers Story by Lionel Dahmer

https://www.amazon.com/dp/068812156X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_TZ7XBbAE5X64W

By Jeffrey’s dad about what he thinks led to him being a murderer, and how he’s tried to come to terms with it. Not the worlds best written book but fascinating.

Dahmer's father, Lionel Dahmer, wrote a book in 1994. I've never read it but it had good reviews on an episode of 'Oh No Ross and Carrie' I listened to earlier today.

Add this to your list.

Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World

Link: http://www.amazon.com/Dewey-Small-Town-Library-Touched-World/dp/B005GNJ8ZY

windhorst and dave mcmenamin wrote a book chronicling the comeback, here.

Summer of '95 serious

A Father's Story https://www.amazon.com/dp/068812156X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_bGWcBbE623EJC or check your local library

https://www.amazon.com/Love-Being-Enemy-Reggie-Miller/dp/0684870398

And make sure your emergency response policies are in line.

http://www.amazon.com/Heat-Wave-Autopsy-Disaster-Illinois/dp/0226443221

Sure!

Excerpts of dahmer's confession: here

Book by his dad on his childhood: here

Interview with his parents: here

Dahmer's complete written confession: here (warning, shit handwriting)

One of dahmer's interviews: here

And a pretty decent documentary: here

If you want to learn more about him, there's loads more stuff. These are just a few. I'd also recommend Last Podcast On The Left. They did some episodes on both serial killers. It's also where I got the term big hitters from.

For Bundy.

The interview mentioned in OPs post: here

Analysis of that interview: here


Documentary on Bundy: here

Stranger beside me by Ann rule: here

You didn't specify what you wanted sourced so I gave you a smattering. Was there something specific you wanted?

he is also the cowriter of "Chosen to Live" a book about the survivors of flight 232 airplane crash
http://www.amazon.com/Chosen-Live-Jerry-Schemmel/dp/0965208656/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1395938050&sr=1-2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_232

Didn't Pat Riley say he was unaware they had planned that, and he thought it was a bad idea?

edit: I think it was in either The Soul of Basketball by Ian Thomsen or Return of the King by Brian Windhorst. I don't own either book, anyone interested in checking?

Being from the Milwaukee area, I was fascinated by this whole case, and in high school I read the memoir his dad wrote. Their kid was a sociopath (manipulative, lacking empathy, getting what he wanted however he could, quiet, polite, forgettable), and they worried about him in the way all parents worry about all kids... they had no idea what the hell he was capable of, and had a hard time believing it. I felt really sorry for that family.

I once read this book called Heat Wave by Eric Klinenberg. In it, he mentioned how the most vulnerable population during the catastrophic heat wave of Chicago in 1995 was elderly men. This was because women tend be in charge of social affairs in heterosexual marriages, and when older men widow they are less likely to make new friends or reach out to family members for help.

I'm in a very happy relationship with someone who is even more introverted than me (and also shy). I worry about being alone without him, because I would just be sad and miss him, but I worry more about him being alone without me, because I could totally see him falling into that vulnerable group.

I'm reading Concession of a Serial Killer: The Untold Story of BTK. It's pretty interesting, lots of correspondence from him regarding the murders and some context from the author.

Confession of a Serial Killer: The Untold Story of Dennis Rader, the BTK Killer https://www.amazon.com/dp/1611688418/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apap_en9rA4TDX8mix

Book written called +St Joseph's Children+, https://www.amazon.com/St-Josephs-Children-Terror-Justice/dp/0818405090

I knew the guy they framed for Hatchers murders. His name was Melvin Reynolds. Melvin was a flamboyant gayish dork, but he was also harmless. He was goofy hilarious. The police basically wrote a confession and had Melvin sign it. The police also had a suspect die while they were interrogating him. The deceased man was proven not to have any involvement after his death. Melvin was interrogated in much the same manner and signed the confession.
The book shows the police and prosecutor just wanted a conviction and anyone would do.

Because Melvin was falsely convicted, Hatcher continued killing children. Hatcher killed Michelle Steele, a 11 year old ginger girl, in St Joseph, where I also live. Hatcher was caught after that murder, hiding near the spot he killed a different child name Eric Christianson.

Hatcher feigned mental illness, by mumbling and shaking for years. He had previously escaped punishment by feigning mental illness.
He finally dropped the charade and spoke quite intelligently to plead guilty and avoid the death penalty.
Hatcther's demise came when he was hanged in his prison cell. His hands were tied by a coat hanger wire behind his back when he hanged. The Missouri prison system ruled the death a suicide.

I am fairly certain this the same man who attempted to get me to enter into his car when I was 7 tears old. This would have been about the time he started murdering children.
I instinctive knew this odd man was evil and started to scream and he drove away.