Sensing a theme...

Some of the books cataloged so far today, in order (I've omitted a couple of books on divorce and about two dozen Spanish-language kids' books):

Almost Paradise : the East Hampton murder of Ted Ammon
Sharing the dream : white males in multicultural America
Lucasville : the untold story of a prison uprising
Africa in history : themes and outlines
Tracker : hunting down serial killers
Nation of rebels : why counterculture became consumer culture
Serial killers : the method and madness of monsters
Into the buzzsaw : leading journalists expose the myth of a free press
Why boys don't talk--and why it matters
Lo que los ricos saben y nunca explican a nadie
Dino dung : the scoop on fossil feces
The new face of grandparenting : why parents need their own parents
African voices of the Atlantic slave trade : beyond the silence and the shame
Blood diamonds : tracing the deadly path of the world's most precious stones
Those who dare : real people, real courage ...and what we learn from them
Hank the Cowdog : the case of the falling sky
Somalia on five dollars a day : a soldier’s story
Killer clown : the John Wayne Gacy murders

I'm now moving on to graphic novels and more Spanish stuff for the kiddies. Anything to cheer up.