Black Issues Book Review articles from May 2005

Black Issues Book Review archives from May 2005

Of logos and expos.(from the editor-in-chief)(Editorial)
May 1, 2005... In one of his last interviews, Ossie Davis told BIBR interviewer Sharon D. Johnson: "One of the most important things the black artist has to learn early on is how to belong to black people." I had the privilege of meeting Mr. Davis...

In praise of Ossie.(executive editor's view)(Editorial)
May 1, 2005... Superlatives--best, greatest, most--seem inadequate to describe who Ossie Davis was and what he meant to all of us. An imposing man who exuded gentleness. Outspoken but not strident. The booming voice. Precisely articulated lines. The ready...

The look of BIBR.(Letter to the Editor)
May 1, 2005... I just wanted to take the time to commend you on your new Web site. The layout is magnificent, the content is great, and the site is much more user friendly. As a reading group leader, I am always looking for resources of information for...

Tool for libraries.(Letter to the Editor)
May 1, 2005... I am a library branch manager in New Orleans and an avid reader of BIBR. It is informative, insightful and quite entertaining. I also use your magazine as a tool for collection development at the library. A huge segment of the fiction and...

Poets and celebrities.(Letter to the Editor)
May 1, 2005... I am enjoying the March April 2005 special poetry issue. I was particularly interested ill the story "Star Poets and Poet Stars." I am a poet, an author and a publisher for an extremely small press. It does seem an injustice when some...

The AIDS crisis.(letters to the editor)(Letter to the Editor)
May 1, 2005... Thank you for continuing to address the AIDS epidemic ("Facing Up to AIDS," November-December 2004). HIV/AIDS poses the greatest threat to descendants of Africa since slavery. I would like to mention a book that you might have overlooked:...

Deborah Willis, photographer, winner of the MacArthur "genius" Award and professor at New York University Tisch School of the Arts.(PEOPLE)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... Deborah Willis, photographer, winner of the MacArthur "genius" Award and professor at New York University Tisch School of the Arts, was the headliner for a provocative program discussing her latest book, Family, History, Memoir: Recording...

Changing of the guard.(PEOPLE)(Walter Zacharius retired as chief executive officer at Kensington Publishing Corp)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... Changing of the Guard: Walter Zacharius, founder of Kensington Publishing Corp., recently handed over the reins to his son, Steven Zacharius, now chairman of the board/chief executive officer. Walter, a 50-year publishing veteran, is now...

Walter Mosley.(wins 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... Walter Mosley accepted the 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award of the 21st Annual Celebration of Black Writing, sponsored by the Art Sanctuary of Philadelphia. (BIBR was a cosponsor.) Angela P. Dodson: E-mail your news to angela4bibr@aol.com

Tina McElroy Ansa.(have won the Stanley W. Lindberg Award for literary contributions)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... Tina McElroy Ansa, novelist and founder of the Sea Islands Writers' Retreats, won the 2005 the Stanley W. Lindberg Award for literary contributions to Georgia. Ansa will also be a featured speaker at the Sixth Biennial Southern Women Writers...

Edwidge Danticat's.(Story Prize winner amd nominated for National Book Critics Circle Award)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker won the first Story Prize for outstanding short fiction. Published by Alfred A. Knopf, March 2004, The Dew Breaker is also is a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, which was to be announced...

Andrea Levy.(wins the Whibred Award and the Orange Prize )(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... Andrea Levy is the first writer to win both Britain's prestigious Whibred Award and the Orange Prize for the same book: her fourth novel. Small Island. It was published in paperback in the United States in April by Picador. Angela P....

Diane McKinney-Whetstone (Leaving Cecil Street, William Morrow, March 2004) won the 2005 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Award for fiction.(AWARDS)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... Diane McKinney-Whetstone (Leaving Cecil Street, William Morrow, March 2004) won the 2005 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Award for fiction, and Howard French (A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa, Alfred...

Ma Dear's Old Green House written by Denise Lewis Patrick and illustrated by Sonia Lynn Sadler, published by Just Us Books, Inc., was awarded the Children's Book of the Year honor by the African American Academy of Arts and Letters.(AWARDS)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... Ma Dear's Old Green House written by Denise Lewis Patrick and illustrated by Sonia Lynn Sadler, published by Just Us Books, Inc., was awarded the Children's Book of the Year honor by the African American Academy of Arts and Letters. Other...

"Audie" finalists include: The Man in My Basement by Walter Mosley, read by Ernie Hudson; The Soul of a Butterfly by Muhammad and Hana Ali, read by Ossie Davis and Hana Ali; and When Marian Sang by Pam Munoz Ryan (book on Marian Anderson).(AWARDS)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... "Audie" finalists include: The Man in My Basement by Walter Mosley, read by Ernie Hudson; The Soul of a Butterfly by Muhammad and Hana Ali, read by Ossie Davis and Hana Ali; and When Marian Sang by Pam Munoz Ryan (book on Marian Anderson). The...

Deal.(between the lines: the inside scoop on what's happening in the publishing industry)(new biography )(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... Globe-trotting Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who has been mesmerizing world diplomats in her new role, will be the subject of a new biography acquired by Rodale Inc., the company announced. It will be written by Marcus Mabry, senior...

Is anybody out there? A closer look at the dire picture unearthed in the NEA's Reading at Risk study turns up some hopeful signs.(between the lines: the inside scoop on what's happening in the publishing industry)(National Endowment for the Arts)
May 1, 2005... It ain't necessarily so" that memorable line from the opera Porgy and Bess should sum up what educators, booksellers and consumers are saying about the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)'s 2004 study warning that Americans are reading less...

Signings & sightings.
May 1, 2005... CHICAGO, IL Kalisha Buckhanon, author or Upstate, will be reading from and discussing her book at ETA Creative Arts Foundation Thursday, May 19, 2005, from 6-8 P.M., 7558 S. South Chicago Avenue. Buckhanon will also be a panelist on...

BookExpo 2005: the grandest book "party" comes back to the publishing capital of the world.
May 1, 2005... What: BookExpo America 2005 Where: Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. New York, NY Who: More than 2,000 exhibitors and 500 authors When: June 2-5, 2005 Educational Programs: June 2-June 5 African American Pavilion: Booths...

Starting over: the retiring co-owner of Hue-Man Bookstore in Harlem reflects on a life in bookselling.
May 1, 2005... All day, I watched the crowd grow bigger (and livelier) and the line longer until it snaked around the side of the building. I felt anxious and excited, but I knew we were prepared to handle such a celebrity author. After all, we had hosted his...

Word for word, bit by bit: no matter the promise, opinions are split on Google's plans to scan library books.(book bytes)
May 1, 2005... Don't look now, but things have been disappearing from library buildings at a rapid pace. But don't call security: It's all perfectly legal. Remember card catalogs, rubber stamps and pneumatic tubes? They've all vanished in favor of...

Check it out: libraries remain important players in the book-selling market.(market buzz)
May 1, 2005... Trinette Blackwell is a card-carrying patron of the Prince George's County, Maryland, library system. Blackwell, her husband, Kenneth, and their three children are all avid readers. However, there isn't always space in the family's home or its...

The word workers: Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee shared many things, among them a reverence for seeing language breathed into life.(Obituary)(Cover Story)
May 1, 2005... Just eight days before Ossie Davis passed away on February 4, 2005, Davis and Ruby Dee revealed the secret to their enduring careers as "workers of tire word" in art and activism in an exclusive interview with Black Issues Book Review. We share...

Catch the keynote, Ossie Davis: a mighty laborer in the field of the arts, a majestic voice for integrity has gone on ahead.(tribute)(Obituary)
May 1, 2005... As a young boy growing up in the 1950s, I remember and was influenced and even confused by the overwhelming number of negative images that permeated the music, magic and smiles of many black folks' entertainment. The national media often...

Inspiration for drama: playwrights ponder the literary influences that inform their work.
May 1, 2005... Langston Hughes often mentioned how he would prowl the neighborhood bars of Harlem looking for inspiration--and never left a Harlem bar less than satisfied. Zorn Neale Hurston walked country roads and listened closely to dialects and stories....

Listening to the muses: Phylicia Rashad and LisaGay Hamilton reflect on how the voices of many writers spark their acting.
May 1, 2005... Gem of the Ocean by August Wilson was on Broadway in New York City for approximately 10 weeks from late November through January. Among the cast members were two amazing women: Phylicia Rashad and LisaGay Hamilton. Rashad is widely known for...

The power of the drum, and making music to a different beat.(The Beat of My Drum: An Autobiography )(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... The Beat of My Drum: An Autobiography by Babatunde Olatunji with Robert T. Atkinson Temple University Press, March 2005 $68.50, ISBN 1-592-13353-3 The passing of Babatunde Olatunji in April 2003 went largely unnoticed by the general...

You Ain't Got No Easter Clothes: A Memoir.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... You Ain't Got No Easter Clothes: A Memoir by Laura Love Hyperion, September 2004 $23.95, ISBN 1-401-30011-1 Although Love is not a widely known name, she has myriad of fans in the United States and Europe, and was singing at Carnegie Hall...

Celebrating Black music month, June 2005.(Bibliography)
May 1, 2005... A Bad Woman Feeling Good: Blues and the Women Who Sang Them by Buzzy Jackson W.W. Norton & Company, February 2005 $25.95, ISBN 0-393-05936-7 From Gertrude "Ma" Rainey to Billie Holiday to Etta James and Janis Joplin, these women are just a...

West Coast kinfolk: in Los Angeles, Chris Abani and Kamau Daaood stand out as strong limbs on the family tree of literature.(poetic license)
May 1, 2005... Some in the creative family would have you think Los Angeles writers are not serious because we craft in the shadow of a neon sign that backlights caricatures for the world to see. Others dismiss us for our casual evening wear: our sandals at...

The Moments, the Minutes, the Hours: The Poetry of Jill Scott.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... The Moments, the Minutes, the Hours: The Poetry of Jill Scott by Jill Scott St. Martin's Press, May 2005, $18.95, ISBN 0-312-32961-X If you were in Philadelphia the summer of 2000 when Who Is Jill Scott? hit the record stores, chances are...

2 daring artists: past and present.(Basquiat)(Seeing the Unspeakable: The Art of Kara Walker)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Basquiat Edited by Marc Mayer With essays by Fred Hoffman, Kellie Jones, Marc Mayer and Franklin Sirmans Merrell Publishers/ Brooklyn Museum March 2005, $45, ISBN 1-858-94287-X When painter Jean-Michel Basquiat was included with a group of...

To whom it may concern: memoirs of civil rights leaders, some never written, put flesh on the story of the Movement.(bibliomane: Choice books from university pressesl and small publishers.)
May 1, 2005... "In including some of the things that follow, I have had to agonize, balancing my need to tell a complete and honest story with what I know to be my responsibility to respect the privacy and dignity of the living and the dead. I can only say...

Branches of the ancestral tree: a sampler of resources for planning a gathering of relatives, researching African American roots or just basking in the rich histories of our people.(Generations: A GUIDE FOR REUNITING FAMILIES)(Bibliography)
May 1, 2005... As late spring and summer holidays loom, many African Americans will be planning and heading to family reunions. About 74 percent of the trips taken by African Americans are for leisure, most often to visit friends or relatives, 44 percent,...

Digging deeper.(Generations: A GUIDE FOR REUNITING FAMILIES)(excerpt)(Excerpt)
May 1, 2005... If you are planning a family reunion and don't know much about your family history, you will probably need to launch a search first. Even if you do know much family history, relatives will always enjoy learning more, and reunions are optimum...

Some kind of kin: complex bonds and confused racial identities emerge in histories of African American families.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Another Way Home: The Tangled Roots of Race in One Chicago Family by Ronne Hartfield University of Chicago Press October 2004 $22.50, ISBN 0-226-31821-4 Everyone has a story. The author's mother, Thelma "Day" Shepherd Drayton, chose to...

Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Dear Senator: A Memoir of the Daughter of Strom Thurmond by Essie Mae Washington-Williams and William Stadiem ReganBooks/HarperCollins, January 2005, $24.95, ISBN 0-060-76095-8. "In 1957, my father set a record, which still stands, for the...

Cotton Field of Dreams: A Memoir.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Cotton Field of Dreams: A Memoir by Janis F. Kearney Writing Our World Press, December 2004 $22.95, ISBN 0-976-2058-0-7 Examine any portrait of an African American family and you're likely to notice all hues, styles and signs of life...

Noteworthy title.(Finding Martha's Vineyard: African Americans at Home on an Island )(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Finding Martha's Vineyard: African Americans at Home on an Island by Jill Nelson Doubleday, May 2005 $27.50, ISBN 0-385-50566-3 For nearly 50 years, writer Jill Nelson has spent time, in the summer and oftentimes year round, on Martha's...

All God's children: a study on African American Mormons and guides for women of the spirit challenge the heart.(Black and Mormon )(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Black and Mormon Edited by Newell G. Bringhurst and Darron T. Smith University of Illinois Press, October 2004 $34.95, ISBN 0-252-02947-X Through essays, Black and Mormon chronicles the evolution of the relationship between the Mormon...

Remembering mama: images of mothers, good, bad, real or fictive abound in our literary tradition.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Mama, mommy, m'dear and mother. No matter her name, the role of mother is often a pivotal one in literature. In fictive and autobiographical works, African American authors have given readers vibrant portraits of what a mother is and what the...

Mirrors of masculinity: defining the state of the black male has never been easy, but a few selections can offer clues as to what's on the minds of many who make an effort to do so.(Bibliography)
May 1, 2005... Whether from divergent cultures or disparate tribes, African men and women shared an unalterable commonality before their arrival as captives in America. They had history and culture from which they drew ideals of gender and selfhood. As bell...

Aim high: guides for navigating inner lives and corporate turf.(The Nia Guide for Black Women: Achieving Career Success on Your Terms)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... The Nia Guide for Black Women: Achieving Career Success on Your Terms Edited by Sheryl Huggins and Cheryl Mayberry McKissack Agate Publishing, October 2004 $12.95, ISBN 1-932-84101-6 Who was it that said, "If you aim at nothing, you'll hit...

The Real Lives of Strong Black Women: Transcending Myths Reclaiming Joy.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... The Real Lives of Strong Black Women: Transcending Myths Reclaiming Joy by Toby Thompkins Agate Books, October 2004 $22.95, ISBN 1-932-84100-8 Whether celebrated or vilified for it, African American women have always been characterized by...

Space Between the Stars: My Journey to an Open Heart.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Space Between the Stars: My Journey to an Open Heart by Deborah Santana One World/Ballantine Books, March 2005 $24.95, ISBN 0-345-47125-3 By the time she was in her mid-twenties, Deborah Santana traveled the world, survived a tumultuous...

Brainstorming for success: with the help of good coaches, an author propels a business book to mainstream best-seller status.(self-publishing)
May 1, 2005... Before my latest book Zero Debt: The Ultimate Guide to Financial Freedom (Advantage World Press, October 2004) landed on a single bookshelf, I sent an email to my two biggest supporters: my media coach, Deborah Darrell (who also happens to be...

Self-published reviews.(Brief Article)(Bibliography)
May 1, 2005... There is something to be said about the author who finds his or her own means to get their works published; the idea of "By any means necessary" takes on a whole new meaning with this growing trend. Here is a listing of a few newly released...

Library as a legacy: start by investing in some good books about collecting African American books.(essentials: Selections for the well-stocked personal library.)
May 1, 2005... It's probable that when Arturo Schomburg bought his first book, he had no real designs on assembling a treasure trove that would last generations after him. Yet the works collected by the renowned Harlem Renaissance--era scholar evolved into...

Noteworthy titles.(essentials: Selections for the well-stocked personal library.)
May 1, 2005... Africana Arts and Letters: An A-to-Z Reference of Writers, Musicians and Artists of the African American Experience edited by Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates Jr. Running Press, February 2005 $16.95, ISBN 0-762-41958-X The...

Fight my battles: gay pride month special, June 2005: books to tackle life's legal complications in the black LGBT community.(out)(lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered community)
May 1, 2005... Debates about the legal issues facing the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) community have a couple of things in common. Most frequently, the discussions center on the rights that accompany the recognition of same-sex unions, and...

Beyond the Down Low: Sex, Lies, and Denial in Black America.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Beyond the Down Low: Sex, Lies, and Denial in Black America by Keith Boykin, Foreword by E. Lynn Harris, Carroll & Graf, February 2005 $25, ISBN 0-786-71434-4 Boykin, who worked as a top aide to President Bill Clinton, is a...

Some people who love J. California Cooper: Doubleday essay contest awards copies of the beloved author's books.
May 1, 2005... To celebrate the publication of J. California Cooper's Some People, Some Other Place (October 2004), the publisher, Doubleday, sponsored an essay contest with Black Issues Book Review. The contest was announced in the November-December 2004...

Of race and justice: a book on a 1920s racial battle beat out stiff competition for national honor and may have helped spawn a competing award.(nonfiction)
May 1, 2005... Before the National Book Awards were awarded in November 2004, the media was filled with speculation that the nonfiction award would go to the The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the...

Dreams, promises and disappointments: Hollywood's racial past, Virginia's forgotten free enclave, Jamaica Kincaid's search for flowers and other offerings.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black Hollywood by Donald Bogle Ballantine Books, February 2005 $26.95, ISBN 0-345-45418-9 This is a brilliant, detailed exploration of African Americans in cinema spanning 60 years. Bogle is...

Nelson Mandela: In His Own Words.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... * Nelson Mandela: In His Own Words With a Foreword by Bill Clinton and U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan Little, Brown and Company, December 2004 $28.95, ISBN 0-316-11019-1 Few figures alive today can be called the embodiment of moral...

Israel on the Appomattox: a Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s through the Civil War.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... * Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom From the 1700s Through the Civil War by Melvin Patrick Ely Alfred A. Knopf, November 2004 $35, ISBN 0-679-44738-5 These Israelites were a hundred or so freed men and women...

Postcolonial Melancholia.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Postcolonial Melancholia by Paul Gilroy Columbia University Press, February 2005 $24.50, ISBN 0-231-13454-1 Paul Gilroy, a sociology professor at Yale University, is a bright man and prolific writer who doesn't write for the casual reader....

Interesting Times: Essays and Nonfiction.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Interesting Times: Essays and Nonfiction by Michael Ross AuthorHouse September 2004 $19.95, ISBN 1-418-47973-X Since Michael E. Ross, a journalist for MSNBC.com in Seattle, Washington, spent most of his professional life working for...

Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya by Jamaica Kincaid National Geographic Books, January 2005 $20, ISBN 0-792-26530-0 Award-winning author Jamaica Kincaid adds to her nonfiction repertoire with her adventurous travel memoir, Among...

The Promise: How One Woman Made Good on Her Extraordinary Pact to Send a Classroom of First Graders to College.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... The Promise: How One Woman Made Good on Her Extraordinary Pact to Send a Classroom of First Graders to College by Oral Lee Brown with Caille Millner Doubleday. May 2005 $22.95, ISBN 0-385-51147-7 Oral Lee Brown proves that there are angels...

Doctors' orders: read early: a novel literacy program enlists medical professionals and volunteer readers to start young children reading.(children's bookshelf)
May 1, 2005... Many parents living in poverty may lack the money to supply their children with books; and others may not have been read to as children, making it unlikely that they will share reading with their own kids, experts say. Reach Out and Read is a...

A season for stories of the past and present: choices for the young range from a civil rights lesson to a fish tale.(Bibliography)
May 1, 2005... Don't Know Much About Rosa Parks by Kenneth C. Davis Illustrated by Sergio Martinez HarperCollins Publishers, January 2005 $4.99, ISBN 0-064-42126-0 Ages 8-12 In a helpful question-and-answer format, the author describes the life and...

Oscar's Half Birthday.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Oscar's Half Birthday by Bob Graham Candlewick Press, May 2005 $16.99, ISBN 0-763-62699-6 Ages 4-8 What starts out to be small family picnic to commemorate Oscar's six-months in the world, turns into a hillside celebration as strangers...

The Patchwork Path: A Quilt Map to Freedom.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... The Patchwork Path: A Quilt Map to Freedom by Bettye Stroud Illustrated by Erin Susanne Bennett Candlewick Press, January 2005 $15.99, ISBN 0-763-62423-3 Ages 4-8 The use of quilts as secret maps for runaway slaves has become a popular...

Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam by Walter Dean Myers Collages by Ann Grifalconi HarperCollins Publishers, January 2005 $6.99, ISBN 0-060-73159-1 Ages 8-12 An intense story-poem from the prolific and talented Myers captures the mood...

Wit and wisdom: short stories by a master and novels by a variety of writers take us on odd journeys.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... * Damned If I Do by Percival Everett Graywolf Press, November 2004 $15, ISBN 1-555-97411-2 If Percival Everett were a rap star, the industry mags would say he has produced a string of hits, maybe not in sales but creatively and...

Johnny Mad Dog.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... * Johnny Mad Dog by Emmanuel Dongala (translated from French by Maria Louise Ascher) Farrar, Straus & Giroux, May 2005 $24, ISBN 0-374-17995-6 In this novel, Dongala, a chemist, university professor and award-winning novelist who left his...

The Executioner's Game.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... The Executioner's Game by Gary Hardwick William Morrow, January 2005 $24.95, ISBN 0-060-57584-0 The surprise murder attack of Donald Howard, United States Secretary of Commerce, in the AIDS--ravaged, war-wrecked heart of the African jungle...

Expired.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Expired by Erie Rhodes Dafina Books, February 2005 $14, ISBN-0-758-20870-7 Evie Rhodes, an award-winning gospel songwriter, has produced a thriller that brings speculative fiction out from the concrete jungle. In her debut novel, we...

Gimme an O!(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Gimme an O! by Kayla Perrin Avon Trade, January 2005 $12.95, ISBN 0-060-58709-1 Kayla Perrin's fourth novel is an exciting and genuine look at surrendering oneself to love. Perrin creates characters who are fresh and authentic. Her female...

The Strong, Silent Type.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... The Strong, Silent Type by C. Kelly Robinson New American Library, January 2005 $13.95, ISBN 0-451-21037-9 Deacon is a former football star and son of a prominent civil rights activist. He has just been fired because of a stuttering problem...

The Best-Kept Secret.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... The Best-Kept Secret by Kimberla Lawson Roby William Morrow, February 2005 $23.95, ISBN 0-060-73443-4 Roby storms back onto the literary scene with her seventh book, a follow-up to Too Much of a Good Thing (William Morrow, January 2004)...

Afterburn: A Novel.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Afterburn: A Novel by Zane Atria Books, January 2005 $24.95, ISBN 0-743-47097-4 "We laid there for what seemed like an eternity... there were no words spoken between us; we spoke only with our eyes. Tears started streaking down Yardley's...

Flying off the shelves.(Bibliography)
May 1, 2005... Hardcover Fiction 1. Some People, Some Other Place J. California Cooper (3) ($24.95, Doubleday, ISBN 0-385-49682-6) Cooper returns with a sweeping novel about a multigenerational family, set in a town called "Place," where neighbors...