The Baby Farmers

Author	John Bryson
ISBN	0671631632

Dry but fairly interesting story behind the film A Cry in the Dark, starring Meryl Streep. What lifts this book a bit above the regular true-crime nonfiction field is it's apparently written in true Australian English, which, apart from the interesting slang, gives you a little more insight into the...

Author	Sharon Pomerantz
ISBN	0446563188

Robert Vishniak is the favored son of Oxford Circle, a working-class Jewish neighborhood in 1970s Philadelphia. Handsome and clever, Robert glides into the cloistered universities of New England, where scions of unimaginable wealth and influence stand shoulder to shoulder with scholarship paupers...

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Ian Frazier

Welcome to Ian Frazier's New York, where every block is an event, and where the denizens are larger than life. Meet landlord extraordinaire Zvi Hugo Segal, and the man who scaled the World Trade Center. Learn the location of Manhattan's antipodes, and meander the length of Route 3 to New Jersey. Like...

Author	Heinrich Wölfflin
ISBN	0486202763

What are the fundamental differences between classic and baroque art? Is there a pattern underlying the seemingly helter-skelter development of art in different cultures and at different times? What causes our entirely different reactions to precisely the same painting or to the same painter?
In...

Author	Haruto Ryo
ISBN	1975353315

2.5 stars

I’m still not sure whether to give this a 2 or 3 star rating but horror manga definitely isn’t my thing. The artwork was VERY graphic and gory at times (triggers for self-harm, child abuse, hints of incest, etc.) and there were too many up skirt shots which I really didn’t...