Booklist articles from April 2004

Booklist archives from April 2004

Funny Cide Team and Jenkins, Sally. Funny Cide: How a Horse, a Trainer, a Jockey, and a Bunch of High School Buddies Took on the Sheiks and Bluebloods ... and Won.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Funny Cide Team and Jenkins, Sally. Funny Cide: How a Horse, a Trainer, a Jockey, and a Bunch of High School Buddies Took on the Sheiks and Bluebloods... and Won. May 2004 320p. Putnam, $24.95 (0-399-15179-6). 798.4. There is a natural...

Souad and Cuny, Marie-Therese. Burned Alive: A Victim of the Law of Men.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Souad and Cuny, Marie-Therese. Burned Alive. May 2004. 226p. Warner, $24 (0-446-53346-7). 362.82. When she was 18, her brother-in-law poured gasoline on her and set her aflame. She was meant to die because she was pregnant and unmarried,...

Allen, Charlotte Vale. Sudden Moves.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Allen, Charlotte Vale. Sudden Moves. Apr. 2004. 336p. MIRA, paper, $12.95 (0-7783-2036-7). Popular author Allen continues the story she launched in Fresh Air [BKL My 1 03] featuring Lucinda Hunter, a Connecticut woman in her forties who...

Buchanan, Edna. Cold Case Squad.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Buchanan, Edna. Cold Case Squad. June 2004, 304p. Simon & Schuster, $22.95 (0-7432-5053-2). Buchanan launches a new series with this novel, starring Sergeant Craig Burch of the Miami Police Department's Cold Case Squad. Fans of Buchanan's...

Clark, Mary Higgins. Nighttime Is My Time.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Clark, Mary Higgins. Nighttime Is My Time. Apr. 2004. 320p. Simon & Schuster, $25.95 (0-7432-0607-X). As graduates of the Stonecroft Academy class of '84 prepare for their twentieth high-school reunion, only a pimple-faced reporter for the...

Gaffney, Patricia. The Goodbye Summer.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Gaffney, Patricia. The Goodbye Summer. May 2004. 416p. HarperCollins, $24.95 (0-06-018529-5). Gaffney, author of The Saving Graces (1999), offers a tale about a woman facing changes in her quiet life. At 32, Caddie Winger is perfectly...

Goldsmith, Olivia. Dumping Billy.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Goldsmith, Olivia. Dumping Billy. May 2004. 324p Warner, $24 (0-446-53110-3). Katherine "Kate" Jameson is proud of how she made the break from her Brooklyn roots: she earned her Ph.D. and now works in an exclusive Manhattan school. She has...

Howatch, Susan. The Heartbreaker.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Howatch, Susan. The Heartbreaker. May 2004. 496p. Knopf, $25 (1-4000-4147-3). The latest entry in Howatch's series of novels investigating the juncture of the sacred and the profane in contemporary British life is set a little more than a...

Kellerman, Jonathan. Therapy.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Kellerman, Jonathan. Therapy. Apr. 2004. 400p. Ballantine, $26.95 (0-345-45259-3). "Sometimes anxiety and fear make me feel alive." That's psychologist Alex Delaware's take on life and, by extension, his rationale for assisting his LAPD...

Perez-Reverte, Arturo. The Queen of the South.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... * Perez-Reverte, Arturo. The Queen of the South. Tr. by Andrew Hurley. June 2004. 448p. Putnam, $25.95 (0-399-15185-0). Perez-Reverte has established a reputation for expertly mixing history and mystery; for taking seemingly arcane subjects...

Quick, Amanda. The Paid Companion.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Quick, Amanda. The Paid Companion. May 2004. 432p. Putnam, $24.95 (0-399-15174-5). Elenora Lodge is in quite a fix. Her stepfather lost her farm and all of her possessions in a mining venture, and her fiance dumps her faster than the...

Brown, Paul B. Publishing Confidential: The Insider's Guide to What It Really Takes to Land a Nonfiction Book Deal.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Brown, Paul B. Publishing Confidential: The Insider's Guide to What It Really Takes to Land a Non fiction Book Deal. 2004. 192p. index. AMACOM, paper, $14.95 (0-8144-7226-5). 070.5. Who among us hasn't harbored a hidden--and, perhaps,...

Sands, Katharine. Making the Perfect Pitch: How to Catch a Literary Agent's Eye.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Sands, Katharine. Making the Perfect Pitch: How to Catch a Literary Agent's Eye. Apr. 2004. 288p. Kalmbach/The Writer, paper, $18.95 (0-87116-206-7). 070.5. Here's a very useful book for first-time writers. Most how-to books for writers...

Charpak, Georges and Broch, Henri. Debunked! ESP, Telekinesis, and Other Pseudoscience.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Charpak, Georges and Broch, Henri. Debunked! ESP, Telekinesis, and Other Pseudoscience. Tr. by Bart K. Holland. Apr. 2004. 172p. Johns Hopkins, $25 (0-8018-7867-5). 130. Written in a jaunty tone, this excursion upon the seas of...

Jaeger, Barrie. Making Work Work for the Highly Sensitive Person.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Jaeger, Barrie. Making Work Work for the Highly Sensitive Person. Apr. 2004. 256p. index. McGraw-Hill, $19.95 (0-07-140810-X). 158.1. This book enlarges upon The Highly Sensitive Person (1996), by Elaine Aron, who describes the HSP as...

Burghardt, Linda. The Bar and Bat Mitzvah Book: Joyful Ceremonies and Celebrations for Today's Families.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Burghardt, Linda. The Bar and Bat Mitzvah Book: Joyful Ceremonies and Celebrations for Today's Families. May 2004. 272p. Kensington/Citadel, paper, $14.95 (0-8065-2575-4). 296.4. Preparation for her daughters' bat mitzvahs inspired...

The Manley Arts: my trips to Middlemarch.
April 1, 2004... Each January in this magazine you will find a "best hooks of the year" list. I'm always intrigued to check whether my choices agree with the choices of the Booklist staff. In most cases, we're on the same page. From time to time, however, we do...

Jacoby, Susan. Freethinkers: a History of American Secularism.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... * Jacoby, Susan. Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism. Apr. 2004. 352p. illus. index. Holt/Metropolitan, $27.50 (0-8050-7442-2). 211. Jacoby reclaims a key facet of American culture, secularism, or freethinking, the belief that...

Griffith-Jones, Robin. The Gospel according to Paul: The Creative Genius Who Brought Jesus to the World.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Griffith-Jones, Robin. The Gospel according to Paul: The Creative Genius Who Brought Jesus to the World. Apr. 2004. 496p. index. HarperSanFrancisco, $24.95 (0-06-072860-4). 270.1. Griffith-Jones manages to bring new vision to old territory...

Sarna, Jonathan D. American Judaism: A History (Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Sarna, Jonathan D. American Judaism. Apr. 2004. 512p. illus. index. Yale, $35 (0-300-10197-X). 296. Sarna's detailed history of Jewish life in the U.S. spans 350 years, from its colonial beginnings in 1654 to the present. Sarna points out...

Bell, Derrick. Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Bell, Derrick. Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform. Apr. 2004. 256p. index. Oxford, $25 (0-19-517272-8). 344.73. Bell, the first tenured black professor at Harvard and a veteran civil...

Califano, Joseph A. Inside: A Public and Private Life.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Califano, Joseph A. Inside: A Public and Private Life. Apr. 2004. 512p. index. PublicAffairs, $30 (1-58648-230-0). 362.973. Since he has already written about working for LBJ (The Triumph and Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson, 1991), Califano...

Chace, James. 1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft & Debs--the Election That Changed the Country.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Chace, James. 1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft & Debs--the Election That Changed the Country. May 2004. 336p. index. Simon & Schuster, $26.95 (0-7432-0394-1). 324.973. The extraordinary presidential election of 1912 featured four serious...

Cunningham, David. There's Something Happening Here: The New Left, the Klan, and FBI Counterintelligence.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Cunningham, David. There's Something Happening Here: The New Left, the Klan, and FBI Counterintelligence. Apr. 2004. 384p. illus. index. Univ. of California, $27.50 (0-520-23997-0). 362.25. Cunningham analyzes the counterintelligence...

D'Antonio, Michael. The State Boys Rebellion.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... D'Antonio, Michael. The State Boys Rebellion. May 2004. 320p. Simon & Schuster, $25 (0-7432-4512-1). 362.196. An entire era in the history of American mental institutions is excoriated in D'Antonio's intent account of several men, now in...

The Fire This Time: Young Activists and the New Feminism.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The Fire This Time: Young Activists and the New Feminism. Ed. by Vivien Labaton and Dawn Lundy Martin. May 2004. 304p. Anchor, paper, $14.95 (0-385-72102-1). 305.42. Editors Labaton and Martin were involved in the creation of the Third...

Garner, Abigail. Families like Mine: Children of Gay Parents Tell It like It Is.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Garner, Abigail. Families like Mine: Children of Gay Parents Tell It like It Is. Apr. 2004. 272p. HarperCollins, $24.95 (0-06-052757-9). 306.874. Researchers commonly cite the estimation that one to three million American children are...

Gies, Martha. Up All Night.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Gies, Martha. Up All Night. Apr. 2004. 192p. Oregon State Univ., paper, $17.95 (0-87071-028-1). 305.9. Ever wonder what goes on in a city when most of its citizens are tucked away in bed? Well, to start with, keep in mind that 15 percent of...

Black, George. The Trout Pool Paradox: The American Lives of Three Rivers.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... * Black, George. The Trout Pool Paradox: The American Lives of Three Rivers. Apr. 2004. 368p. illus. Houghton, $24 (0-618-31080-0). 363.7. An ardent fly-fisherman, Black became deeply curious about the complex history of Connecticut's...

Gillon, Steven M. Boomer Nation: The Largest and Richest Generation Ever, and How It Changed America.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Gillon, Steven M. Boomer Nation: The Largest and Richest Generation Ever, and How It Changed America. May 2004. 384p. index. Free Press, $27.50 (0-7432-2947-9). 305.24. "The Baby Boom would prove to be the single greatest demographic event...

Gurin, Patricia and others. Defending Diversity: Affirmative Action at the University of Michigan.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Gurin, Patricia and others. Defending Diversity: Affirmative Action at the University of Michigan. Apr. 2004 168p. index. Univ. of Michigan, $24.95 (0-472-11307-0). 379.2. The Supreme Court's 2003 decision upholding the affirmative action...

Hill, Peter. Stargazing: Memoirs of a Young Lighthouse Keeper.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Hill, Peter. Stargazing: Memoirs of a Young Lighthouse Keeper. May 2004. 288p. illus. Canongate; dist. by Grove/Atlantic, $24 (1-84195-546-9). 387.1. In 1973, when the author was 19 years old, he took an unusual summer job: relief...

Hillsman, Bill. Run the Other Way: Fixing the Broken Two-Party System, One Race at a Time.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Hillsman, Bill. Run the Other Way: Fixing the Broken Two-Party System, One Race at a Time. Apr 2004. 288p. index. Free Press, $25 (0-7432-2446-9). 324.7. Growing dissatisfaction with politics as usual and the way the presidential election...

Martinez, Ruben and Rodriguez, Joseph. The New Americans.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Martinez, Ruben and Rodriguez, Joseph. The New Americans. Apr. 2004. 264p. illus. New Press, $29.95 (1-56584-792-X). 305.9. Emmy Award-winning Martinez has penned five powerful and perceptive immigrant portraits to accompany an upcoming PBS...

Miner, Brad. The Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Miner, Brad. The Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry. Apr. 2004. 260p. index. Spence, $27.95 (1-890626-52-X). 394. Miner wants gentlemanliness, or chivalry, revived, and since few now know what it is, he reviews its...

Ogletree, Charles J. All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown v. Board of Education.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Ogletree, Charles J. All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown v. Board of Education. Apr. 2004. 416p. illus. index. Norton, $25.95 (0-393-05897-2). 342.7308. Harvard Law professor Ogletree presents an objective...

Starr, Paul. The Creation of the Media: Political Origins of Modern Communications.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Starr, Paul. The Creation of the Media: The Political Origins of Modern Communications. Apr 2004. 496p. index. Basic, $27.50 (0-465-08193-2). 302.23. Despite all the talk about the information revolution. Starr, Princeton professor and...

Kurtzman, Joel and others. MBA in a Box: The Practical Guide to the Big Ideas of Business.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Kurtzman, Joel and others. MBA in a Box: The Practical Guide to the Big Ideas of Business. May 2004. 448p. index. Crown Business, $34.95 (0-609-61088-0). 658. Former New York Times reporter Kurtzman, who has written seven previous books on...

Robinson, Alan G. and Schroeder, Dean M. Ideas Are Free: How the Idea Revolution is Liberating People and Transforming Organizations.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Robinson, Alan G. and Schroeder, Dean M. Ideas Are Free: How the Idea Revolution Is Liberating People and Transforming Organizations. Apr. 2004. 248p. index. Berrett-Koehler, $24.95 (1-57675-282-8). 658.3. Ever since Frederick Taylor...

Shell, G. Richard. Make the Rules or Your Rivals Will.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Shell, G. Richard. Make the Rules or Your Rivals Will. Apr. 2004. 288p. index, Crown Business, $27,50 (1-4000-5009-X). 346.7307. In the competitive high-stakes game of big business, it is no secret that companies work the legislative and...

Tracy, Brian. Time Power: A Proven System for Getting More Done in Less Time Than You Ever Thought Possible.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Tracy, Brian. Time Power: A Proven System for Getting More Done in Less Time Than You Ever Thought Possible. Apr. 2004. 304p. AMACOM, $24.95 (0-8144-7247-8). 650.1. Tracy, a consultant on personal and professional development, presents a...

Updegrave, Walter. We're Not in Kansas Anymore: Strategies for Retiring Rich in a Totally Changed World.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Updegrave, Walter. We're Not in Kansas Anymore: Strategies for Retiring Rich in a Totally Changed World. 2004. 256p. index. Crown Business, $24 (1-4000-4789-7). 332.024. The trend of applying metaphors to the business world has just about...

Wallraff, Barbara. Your Own Words.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Wallraff, Barbara. Your Own Words. Apr. 2004. 256p. index. Counterpoint, $24.95 (1-58243-282-1). 428. Wallraff, the author of Word Court (2000) and a columnist for the Atlantic Monthly, tells readers how they can answer language questions...

Crase, Douglas. Both: A Portrait in Two Parts.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Crase, Douglas. Both: A Portrait in Two Parts. Apr. 2004. 320p. illus. Pantheon, $25 (0-375-42266-8). 580. This is the story of Harry Dwight Dillon Ripley and Rupert C. Barneby, whose "partnered lives... blended productively into the...

Gilder, Joshua and Gilder, Anne-Lee. Heavenly Intrigue: Johannes Kepler, Tycho Brahe, and the Murder behind One of History's Greatest Scientific Discoveries.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Gilder, Joshua and Gilder, Anne-Lee. Heavenly Intrigue: Johannes Kepler, Tycho Brahe, and the Murder behind One of History's Greatest Scientific Discoveries. May 2004. 288p. index. Doubleday, $24.95 (0-385-50844-1). 520. Kepler has always...

Hart-Davis, Duff. Audubon's Elephant: America's Greatest Naturalist and the Making of "The Birds of America.".(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Hart-Davis, Duff. Audubon's Elephant: America's Greatest Naturalist and the Making of "The Birds of America." Apr. 2004. 288p. illus. index. Holt, $27.50 (0-8050-7568-2). 598. The Audubon shelf is full to bursting, but so unusual was the...

Mathez, Edmond A. and Webster, James D. The Earth Machine: The Science of a Dynamic Planet.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Mathez, Edmond A. and Webster, James D. The Earth Machine: The Science of a Dynamic Planet. May 2004. 378p. illus. index. Columbia, $39.95 (0-231-12578-X). 550. The authors are curators for the geology exhibit at the American Museum of...

Sullivan, Robert. Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Sullivan, Robert. Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants. Apr. 2004. 256p. Bloomsbury, $23.95 (1-58234-385-3). 599.35. In the highly readable bibliographic essay that Sullivan calls the notes...

Wagener, Leon. One Giant Leap: Neil Armstrong's Stellar American Journey.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Wagener, Leon. One Giant Leap: Neil Armstrong's Stellar American Journey. Apr. 2004. 320p. illus. Tor/Forge, $25.95 (0-312-87343-3). 629.45. Wagener's biography of the first human on the Moon is no giant leap in the art of biography, but...

Whouley, Kate. Cottage for Sale, Must Be Moved: A Woman Moves a House to Make a Home.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Whouley, Kate. Cottage for Sale, Must Be Moved: A Woman Moves a House to Make a Home. May 2004. 320p. Commonwealth Editions, 21 Lothrop St., Beverly, MA 01915, $22.95 (1-889833-74-6). 690. A few years ago, the author, a habitual reader of...

Newman, Judith. You Make Me Feel Like an Unnatural Woman: Diary of a New (Older) Mother.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Newman, Judith. You Make Me Feel Like an Unnatural Woman: Diary of a New (Older) Mother. Apr. 2004. 320p, Hyperion/ Miramax, $23,95 (1-401 3-5189-1). 306.874. Newman spent seven years and $70,000 trying to get pregnant before conceiving...

Winterrowd, Wayne. Annuals & Tender Plants for North American Gardens.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Winterrowd, Wayne. Annuals & Tender Plants for North American Gardens. May 2004 688p illus, index. Random, $65 (0-679-45736-4). 635.9. Winterrowd is well known in the gardening realm in his roles as writer and designer, and for beautiful...

Bookchin, Debbie and Schumacher, Jim. The Virus and the Vaccine: The True Story of a Cancer-Causing Monkey Virus, Contaminated Polio Vaccine, and the Millions of Americans Exposed.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Bookchin, Debbie and Schumacher, Jim. The Virus and the Vaccine: The True Story of a Cancer-Causing Monkey Virus, Contaminated Polio Vaccine, and the Millions of Americans Exposed. Apr. 2004. 400p. index. St. Martin's, $25.95 (0-312-27872-1)....

Wells, Patricia. The Provence Cookbook.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Wells, Patricia. The Provence Cookbook. May 2004.352p. illus, index. HarperCollins, $32.50 (0-06-050782-9). 641.5944. Francophiles will rejoice in the appearance of this cookbook As usual Wells has assembled an enormous amount of...

1001 Movies You Must See before You Die.(Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Critics)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... 1001 Movies You Must See before You Die. Ed. by Steven Jay Schneider. Apr. 2004 960p. illus index Barron's, $35 (0-7641-5701-9). 791-43. Rosenbaum, Ionathan. Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Critics. Apr. 2004. 456p. index. Johns...

Britton, Wesley. Spy Television.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... * Britton, Wesley. Spy Television Apr 2004. 272p. illus, index. Greenwood/Praeger, $3995 (0-275-98163-0). 791.45. Here, for all television addicts, is a much-needed, long-overdue, in-depth exploration of one of the medium's more enduring...

Smith, Marion Duckworth. The Romantic Garden.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Smith, Marlon Duckworth. The Romantic Garden. June 2004. 144p. illus, index. Sterling/Chapelle, $2495 (1-4027-0536-0). 712. Beauty and romance just seem to go together naturally, and nowhere is this delightful combination more rewarding or...

Turner, Frederick. In the Lands of Temple Caves: Notes on Art and the Human Spirit.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Turner, Frederick. In the Lands of Temple Caves: Notes on Art and the Human Spirit. Apr 2004 224p. Counterpoint, $25 (1-58243-266-X). 700. Turner has always believed in art as "humanity's fullest expression of itself as well as ifs most...

O'Sullivan, Joanne and Taylor, Terry. The New Napkin Folding: Fresh Ideas for a Well-Dressed Table.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... O'Sullivan, Joanne and Taylor, Terry. The New Napkin Folding: Fresh Ideas for a Well-Dressed Table. May 2004. 58p illus. index Sterling/Hearst, $17.95 (1-58816-375-X) 745.92. What is it about a well-folded napkin that recalls an age of...

Collins, Jim. The Last Best League: One Summer, One Season, One Dream.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Collins, Jim. The Last Best League: One Summer, One Season, One Dream. Apr. 2004. 288p. illus. Da Capo, $24 (0-7382-0901-5). 796.357. The Cape Cod Baseball League is not well known except to New Englanders and professional baseball scouts...

Eskenazi, Gerald. A Sportswriter's Life: From the Desk of a New York Times Reporter.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Eskenazi, Gerald. A Sportswriter's Life: From the Desk of a New York Times Reporter. Apr. 2004. 232p illus. Univ. of Missouri, $29.95 (0-8262-1510-6) 790 Eskenazi spent more than 40 years at the Times, covering everyone of note in the...

Hairston, Rachel, The Essentials of Horsekeeping.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Hairston, Rachel, The Essentials of Horsekeeping. 2004. 240p. illus, index, Sterling, $24.95 (0-8069-8817-7). 798.2. When horse lovers first start riding, all they usually think about is being on the back of a horse, learning the...

Nusser, Susan. In Service to the Horse.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Nusser, Susan. In Service to the Horse. Apr. 2004 288p. Little, Brown, $25.95 (0-316-80631-5). 798.2. In horse competitions on TV, the prancing steeds appear with their shining coats and their impeccably groomed manes and tails. The riders...

Stanton, Tom. Hank Aaron and the Home Run That Changed America.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Stanton, Tom. Hank Aaron and the Home Run That Changed America. Apr. 2004. 256p. illus. Morrow, $23.95 (0-06-057976-5). 796.357. Stanton covers the time from the funeral of Jackie Robinson in 1972 to the spring of 1974, when Hank Aaron hit...

Conversations with Gloria Naylor.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Conversations with Gloria Naylor. Ed by Maxine Montgomery. May 2004. 224p. index. Univ. Press of Mississippi, $48 (1-57806-632-8); paper, $20 (1-57806633-6). 813. Naylor's debut, the critically acclaimed The Women of Brewster Place (1982),...

Price, John. Not Just Any Land: a Personal and Literary Journey into the American Grasslands.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Price, John. Not Just Any Land: A Personal and Literary Journey into the American Grasslands. Apr. 2004. 240p. Univ. of Nebraska, $20 (0-8032-3707-3). Native Iowan Price goes on a journey to capture a sense of the American prairie, but...

Chappell, Fred. Backsass: Poems.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Chappell, Fred. Backsass: Poems. Apr. 2004.54p. Louisiana State, $24.95 (0-80712943-7); paper, $16.95 (0-8071-2944-5). 811. Opening and closing with his fabulously witty "answering machine poems/' Chappell sets the sarcastic tone for...

Dario, Ruben. Songs of Life and Hope/Cantos de Vida y Esperanza.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Dario, Ruben. Songs of Life and Hope/ Cantos de Vida y Esperanza. Ed. and Tr. by Will Derusha and Alberto Acerda. Apr. 2004. 232p Duke, paper, $21.95 (0-8223-3271-X). 861. Born in Nicaragua, considered a key player in the Spanish modernist...

Tufariello, Catherine. Keeping My Name.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... * Tufariello, Catherine. Keeping My Name. Apr 2004. 104p, Texas Tech Univ., $19.95 (0-89672-529-4). 811. Children play furiously in the "asphalt pen" of the schoolyard, and after the bell calls them in, a handyman ascends to the gym roof,...

Dennis, Carl. New and Selected Poems, 1974-2004.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Dennis, Carl. New and Selected Poems, 1974-2004. Apr. 2004.272p. Penguin, paper, $18 (0-14-200083-3). 811. Having published eight volumes of poetry and won not only the Ruth Lilly Prize but also a 2002 Pulitzer, Dennis has more than proven...

Fried, Michael. The Next Bend in the Road.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Fried, Michael. The Next Bend in the Road. Apr. 2004.96p. Univ. of Chicago, paper, $14 (0-226-26325-8). 811. Art historian as well as poet, Fried writes clearly and with great acuity about the looks of things The six free-verse couplets of...

Gaspar, Frank X. Night of a Thousand Blossoms.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Gaspar, Frank X. Night of a Thousand Blossoms. Apr. 2004.80p. Alice James, paper, $13.95 (1-882295-44-7). 811. Gaspar's fourth poetry book follows three award-winning collections, and a novel, Leaving Pico (1999), and he is one...

Kooser, Ted. Delights & Shadows.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Kooser, Ted. Delights & Shadows. Apr 2004.96p. Copper Canyon, paper, $15 (1-55659-201-9). 811. Like Kentucky's Wendell Berry, Kooser is a poet of place. But just as Kooser's eastern Nebraska is more modestly impressive than Berry's lush,...

Reddy, Srikanth. Facts for Visitors.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Reddy, Srikanth. Facts for Visitors. Apr. 2004, 80p. Univ. of California, paper, $16.95 (0-520-24044-8). 811. Reddy's debut collection is one of iridescent beauty and wistful mystery, at once earthy and cerebral, sensuous and...

Schultz, Philip. Living in the Past: Poems.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Schultz, Philip. Living in the Past: Poems. Apr. 2004. 112p. Harcourt, $23 (0-15100872-8). 811. In 81 long-lined, free-verse paragraphs, a Jew recalls his boyhood in the 1950s in a section of Rochester, New York, in which new immigrants...

Working the Dirt: An Anthology of Southern Poets.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Working the Dirt: An Anthology of Southern Poets, Ed. by Jennifer Horne. Apr. 2004. 288p. index. NewSouth, paper, $20 (1-58838-131-5). 811. From the seat of a tractor to the seat of a car driven in search of a peach stand, the poems...

DeBrosse, Jim and Burke, Colin. The Secret in Building 26: The Untold Story of America's Ultra War against the U-Boat Enigma Codes.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... DeBrosse, Jim and Burke, Colin. The Secret in Building 26: The Untold Story of America's Ultra War against the U-Boat Enigma Codes. Apr. 2004. 320p. illus. index. Random, $26.95 (0-375-50807-4). 940.54. The Ultra secret (Allied decryption...

Montefiore, Simon Sebag. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... * Montefiore, Simon Sebag. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar. Apr, 2004. 768p. index Knopf, $30 (1-4000-4230-5). 947.084. Because of its extraordinary detail, this portrait of Joseph Stalin is as realistic as is currently historically...

Jacobs, Jane. Dark Age Ahead.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Jacobs, Jane. Dark Age Ahead. May 2004. 240p. index. Random, $23.95 (1-40006232-2). 901. The end of the world as we know it has inspired a lot of writing lately. With this selection, eminent architectural and city-planning scholar Jacobs...

Jones, Landon Y. William Clark and the Shaping of the West.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Jones, Landon Y. William Clark and the Shaping of the West. May 2004. 400p. illus. index Hill & Wang, $25 (0-8090-3041-1). 973.5. Perhaps because he seemed to lack the enigmatic quality and tragic flaws of Meriwether Lewis, William Clark...

Lamb, Brian. Booknotes on American Character: People, Politics, and Conflict in American History.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Lamb, Brian. Booknotes on American Character: People, Politics, and Conflict in American History. 2004. 608p. PublicAffairs, $29.95 (1-58648-232-7). 973. During the last 15 years, Lamb has been the host of C-SPAN's Booknotes and has...

Lesser, W. Hunter. Rebels at the Gate.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Lesser, W. Hunter. Rebels at the Gate. May 2004. 368p. index. Sourcebooks, $24.95 (1-5707-1747-8). 973.7. In 1861 Union and Confederate troops waged the first campaign of the Civil War in the rugged mountains of Virginia. General George...

Lopate, Phillip. Seaport: New York's Vanished Waterfront.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Lopate, Phillip. Seaport: New York's Vanished Waterfront. Apr. 2004. 190p. illus. Smithsonian/Mariner's Museum, $34.95 (1-58834-163-1). 974.7. In a companion volume to his recent tour de force, Waterfront: A Journey around Manhattan (BKL F...

Marten, James A. Children for the Union: the War Spirit on the Northern Home Front.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Marten, James A. Children for the Union: The War Spirit on the Northern Home Front. May 2004. 200p. illus, index. Ivan R. Dee, $26 (1-56663-563-2). 974. This volume in Dee's American Childhoods series usefully surveys what it was like to...