Jennifer Toth, Author . Free Press $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-684-85558-5
In January 1996, just outside Toledo, 14-year-old Johnnie Jordan killed Jeanette Johnson, his elderly foster mother. The crime horrified the community and confounded those who knew the victim and perpetrator, in part because there was no clear...
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Jennifer Toth, Author Chicago Review Press $19.95 (267p) ISBN 978-1-55652-190-4
Viewed as pejorative by the very folk it denotes, the term ``mole people'' describes those who live in the tunnels under Manhattan's Grand Central Station, Penn Station, Port Authority and Riverside Park. This book grows out of an article that Toth,
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Jennifer Toth, Author Simon & Schuster $23 (320p) ISBN 978-0-684-80097-4
The substitute, or foster, child-care system does more harm than good, the author was told by a number of caseworkers and social workers she interviewed for this report. And according to Toth (The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York...
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Jennifer Toth, Author, Chris Pape, Illustrator, Margaret Morton, Photographer Chicago Review Press $16.95 (267p) ISBN 978-1-55652-241-3
Toth's firsthand account of the sad, bizarre subculture of people who live in New York's abandoned subway tunnels and sewage lines. (Sept.)
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