Creature, by Andrew Zuckerman

The baby blue eyes of the panther* on the cover called me across the room. Before I knew what was happening I found myself with an impulse grab from the New Book shelf.
*Leopard, actually. The kitty is a black leopard, but I didn’t discover this till the very end, because there are no words in [...]

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Rescuing Da Vinci, by Robert M. Edsel

Rescuing Da Vinci is an engrossing collection of photographs that document a war-within-a-war: the efforts to safeguard Europe’s art treasures and cultural landmarks from the devastation of World War II. In particular, it describes the work of the Allied Forces “Monuments Men,” whose mission evolved into a post-war treasure hunt for artworks that had been [...]

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This Is Who I Am, by Rosanne Olson

Coming to you straight from the library, it’s live nude girls!
(Let’s see what kind of traffic that phrase brings to the site. We may be looking at a new blog following, here.)
Seriously: This lovely photo-essay features women in all their glorious forms. We have young women, old women, fat women, skinny women, healthy women, disabled [...]

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