NonFiction
Heartland Serial Killers: Belle Gunness, Johann Hoch, and murder for profit in the Gaslight Era Chicago by Richard C. Lindbergh. "Johann Hock was a debonair bigamist and wife killer who boasted of having perfected a 'scientific technique' to romance and seduction. Belle Gunness was a nesting 'Black Widow' whose sprawling farm in Northwest Indiana was a fatal lure for lonely bachelors seeking the comforts of middle-age security by answering matrimonial advertisements placed by Gunness."
Whiskey Breakfast: my Swedish family, my American life by Richard C. Lindberg. Growing up as first generation American kid in a stoic Swedish household.
Baader-Meinhof: the inside story of the R.A.F. by Stefan Aust. The definitive history of the Red Army Faction from it's 1960's origins to the bombings, bank robberies, kidnappings, hijackings, prison escapes, and mass suicide. I watched the movie version of this and it was quite good.
Classic American Combat Rifles edited by Terry Wieland. I would not have purchased this if I knew it is just a collection of Gun Digest articles dating back as far as 1957.
[sic]: a memoir by Joshua Cody. Composer from Wisconsin lives in New York and gets cancer.Bone marrow transplant and full radiation but, I'm told, the book is not a total downer of hospital beds, pain medication, and worried relatives.
Top 10 Chicago by Elaine Glusac, et al. "You guide to the best of everything." Page 46 says, "Better yet, why not stop into both!"
The Rough Guide to Europe on a Budget edited by Honathan Bousfield, et al. Visit all the places the Baader-Meinhof gang bombed.
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