Oh my gosh, we have been drowning in boxes.  Poor UPS people.  With all of the merchants stocking up for the holidays,  all we can see are boxes on wheels.  They’re stacked too high to see the actual people pushing the carts.

*Crows: Encounters With the Wise Guys of the Avian World by Candace Savage (Greystone, $16.95, paper). A love letter to the murder.                                     

*Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences by Lawrence Weschler (McSweeney’s, $24.95, paper). A collection of essays on art, nature, politics…                                                  

*Mütter Museum Historic Medical Photographs by Laure Lindgren (Blast, $50.00, cloth).  Creepy.  Fans of Joel Peter Witkin will love this.

*Stacked Decks: The Art and History of Erotic Playing Cards from the Rotenberg Collection (Quirk, $24.95, paper).  Pin-ups and gambling.  How fun.

*J Rock Groupies: 200 Photographs of Unique Japanese Girls (Cocoro, $19.95, paper).  Similar to Fruits and Fresh Fruits but limited to music fans who play dress-up.