Booklist articles from April 2009

Booklist archives from April 2009

Driving Like Crazy.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... Driving Like Crazy. By P. J. O'Rourke. June 2009. 288p. Atlantic Monthly, $24 (9780802118837). 796.72. Political satirist O'Rourke grew up in Ohio in a family that owned a car dealership. That's where and when he first learned to...

Imperial.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... * Imperial. By William T. Vollmann. Aug. 2009. 1,344p. illus. Viking, $55 (9780670020614). 304.8. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A man of many words and few delusions, Vollmann is a National Book Award-winning novelist, a daring oral...

Paul Newman.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... Paul Newman. By Shawn Levy. May 2009. 496p. illus. Harmony. $29.99 (9780307353757). 791.43 As many diverse roles as Paul Newman played on the silver screen, he occupied nearly as many roles in his real life. Levy, in this...

Brimstone.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... Brimstone. By Robert B. Parker. May 2009. 304p. Putnam, $25.95 (9780399155710). Westerns. Everett Hitch and Virgil Cole have landed in the dusty border town of Placido, Texas. They're finally located Allie French, the woman who...

A Fair Maiden.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... A Fair Maiden. By Joyce Carol Oates. Aug. 2009. 160p. Houghton/Otto Penzler, $22 (9780151015160). Crime Fiction. Sixteen-year-old Katya is spending the summer working as a nanny in a wealthy Jersey Shore community when she meets...

The Strain.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... The Strain. By Guillermo Del Torn and Chuck Hogan. June 2009. 416p. Morrow, $26.99 (9780061558238). Horror. This one's sure to get a lot of interest. Del Toro, the acclaimed film director (Pan's Labyrinth), teams up with Hogan, the...

The Way Home.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... The Way Home. By George Pelecanos. May 2009. 336p. Little, Brown, $24.99 (9780316156493). Crime Fiction. Pelecanos' last novel, The Turnaround(2008), reflected a sea change for the celebrated author, one that has been gathering...

The Four Corners of the Sky.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... * The Four Corners of the Sky. By Michael Malone. May 2009. 560p. Sourcebooks/Landmark, $24.99 (9781570717444). Historical Fiction. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Devoted Michael Malone fans have been waiting more than 20 years for...

The Story Sisters.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... * The Story Sisters. By Alice Hoffman. June 2009. 336p. Crown/Shaye Areheart, $25 (9780307393869). General Fiction. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A writer as virtuosic as Hoffman doesn't bestow the name Story on a family lightly....

Broken: A Love Story; Horse, Humans and Redemption on the Wind River Indian Reservation.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... Broken: A Love Story; Horse, Humans and Redemption on the Wind River Indian Reservation. By Lisa Jones. May 2009. 272p. Scribner, $25 (9781416579069). 070.92. On an assignment for Smithsonian magazine, Jones travels to the Wind...

God and the Editor: My Search for Meaning at the New York Times.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... God and the Editor: My Search for Meaning at the New York Times. By Robert H. Phelps. Apr. 2009. 272p. illus. Syracuse Univ., $29.95 (9780815609148). 070.92. Phelps, for nearly 20 years an editor at the New Fork Times, was behind...

The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self. By Thomas Metzinger. Apr. 2009. 272p. Basic, $27.50 (9780465045679). 126. Author of the revolutionary Man a Machine (1747), Julien La Mettrie would marvel that one...

The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement. By Jean M. Twenge and Keith Campbell. Apr. 2009. 304p. Free Press, $26 (9781416575986). 155.2. Twenge and Campbell, psychologists and authors of previous books on...

Why Socrates Died: Dispelling the Myths.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... Why Socrates Died: Dispelling the Myths. By Robin Waterfield. May 2009. 320p. illus. Norton, $27.95 (9780393065275). 183. In The Death of Socrates (2007), Emily Wilson illuminated the mythmaking process that converted the execution...

Why I'm happy.(The Manley Arts)
April 1, 2009... Now that I've been retired for awhile, people tell me that I seem happier. That's because I am happier. At first I attributed this sense of contentment to a new blood-pressure medication prescribed by my doctor, but he assures me that my...

Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... * Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate. By Terry Eagleton. Apr. 2009. 192p. Yale, $25 (9780300151794). 261.2. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Takes one to know one, they say, and Eagleton knows one of the new...

Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life. By Winifred Gallagher. Apr. 2009. 288p. Penguin, $25.95 (9781594202100). 153. Although attention-deficit problems are much discussed, attention itself is not well understood. A writer who pays...

Africa's Turn?(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... Africa's Turn? By Edward Miguel. Apr. 2009. 144p. illus. MIT, $14.95 (9780262012898). 330.967. After decades of disappointment, the economies of sub-Saharan Africa are looking up, according to the discussion in this...

A Conservationist Manifesto.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... A Conservationist Manifesto. By Scott Russell Sanders. Apr. 2009. 248p. Indiana Univ., $50 (9780253353139); paper, $19.95 (9780253220806). 333.72. How should we act in response to alarming environmental havoc? As with every great...

The Cracker Queen: A Memoir of a Jagged, Joyful Life.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... The Cracker Queen: A Memoir of a Jagged, Joyful Life. By Lauretta Hannon. Apr. 2009. 240p. Gotham, $24 (9781592404506). 305.48. Hannon's is no ordinary hard life turned golden via bootstraps and hard work. Born into southern...

I Didn't Work This Hard Just to Get Married: Successful Single Black Women Speak Out.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... I Didn't Work This Hard Just to Get Married: Successful Single Black Women Speak Out. By Nika C. Beamon. May 2009. 224p. Chicago Review, paper, $14.95 (9781556528194). 306.81. Despite the continued cultural emphasis on marriage,...

Columbine.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... * Columbine. By Dave Cullen. Apr. 2009. 432p.Twelve, $26.99 (9780446546935). 373.788. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Although much has been written about the 1999 shooting at Columbine High School, little of it has helped to explain...

Invisible China: A Journey through Ethnic Borderlands.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... Invisible China: A Journey through Ethnic Borderlands. By Colin Legerton and Jacob Rawson. May 2009. 256p. Chicago Review, $24.95 (9781556528149). 305.800951. Students of Chinese and other Asian languages, Legerton and Rawson took...

Lords of the Sea: The Epic Story of the Athenian Navy and the Birth of Democracy.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... Lords of the Sea: The Epic Story of the Athenian Navy and the Birth of Democracy. By John R. Hale. May 2009. 432p.Viking, $34.95 (9780670020805). 359.00938. Hale has enjoyed a career as an archaeologist, including underwater...

Mafia Son: The Scarpa Mob Family, the FBI, and a Story of Betrayal.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... Mafia Son: The Scarpa Mob Family, the FBI, and a Story of Betrayal. By Sandra Harmon. May 2009. 320p. St. Martin's, $25.95 (9780312370244). 364.1092. As the son of a mobster, Scarpa was practically destined to go into the family...

The Unbreakable Child: A Story about Forgiving the Unforgivable.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... * The Unbreakable Child: A Story about Forgiving the Unforgivable. By Kim Michele Richardson. Apr. 2009. 240p. Kunati, $24.95 (9781601641632). 364.15. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] While the abuses of Catholic priests have been making...

Management Rewired: How Brain Science Is Revolutionizing Business.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... Management Rewired: How Brain Science Is Revolutionizing Business. By Charles S. Jacobs. May 2009. 240p. Penguin/Portfolio, $25.95 (9781591842620). 658.001. Jacobs suggests that the latest developments in brain science transform...

Rules of Thumb: 52 Truths for Winning at Business without Losing Yourself.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... Rules of Thumb: 52 Truths for Winning at Business without Losing Yourself. By Alan Mo Webber. May 2009. 288p. Collins, $24.99 (9780061721830). 650.1. Webber, entrepreneur and columnist, offers advice and inspiration with 52...

100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... 100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know. By John D. Barrow. May 2009. 320p. Norton, $25.95 (9780393070071). 510. How can calculus prolong a life? In answering this surprising question, Barrow shares just one of the...

Birdsong by the Seasons: A Year of Listening to Birds.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... Birdsong by the Seasons: A Year of Listening to Birds. By Donald Kroodsma. May 2009. 384p. illus. Houghton, $28 (9780618753369). 598.159. Everyone knows that birds sing. Ornithologist Kroodsma's life work is studying birdsong and...

Do Polar Bears Get Lonely? And Answers to 100 Other Weird and Wacky Questions about How the World Works.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... Do Polar Bears Get Lonely? And Answers to 100 Other Weird and Wacky Questions about How the World Works. By Mick O'Hare. May 2009. 256p. Holt, paper, $14 (9780805089882). 500. In this follow-up to Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze?...

The Frogs and Toads of North America: A Comprehensive Guide to Their Identification, Behavior, and Calls.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... The Frogs and Toads of North America: A Comprehensive Guide to Their Identification, Behavior, and Calls. By Lang Elliott and others. 2009. 344p. illus. Houghton, paper, $19.95 (9780618663996). 597.8097. The title says it all for...

Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City. By Eric W. Sanderson. May 2009. 352p. illus. Abrams, $40 (9780810996335). 508.747. On September 12, 1609, Henry Hudson and his crew sailed up an estuarine river next to a large,...

Oceans: Exploring the Hidden Depths of the Underwater World.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... Oceans: Exploring the Hidden Depths of the Underwater World. By Paul Rose and Anne Laking. Apr. 2009. 240p. illus. Univ. of California, $34.95 (9780520260283). 551.46. A series of eight expeditions is documented in this print...

Plastic Fantastic: How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... Plastic Fantastic: How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World. By Eugenie Samuel Reich. May 2009. 272p. Palgrave, $26.95 (9780230224674). 530.092. Reich recounts the read-it-to-believe-it saga of physicist Hendrik...

The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... The Vanishing Face of Gala: A Final Warning. By James Lovelock. May 2009. 280p. Basic, $25 (9780465015498). 577. Independent scientist and originator of the Gala theory, Lovelock makes his broadest assertions yet that because the...

Whole Heart, Whole Horse: Building Trust between Horse and Rider.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... Whole Heart, Whole Horse: Building Trust between Horse and Rider. By Mark Rashid. May 2009. 224p. illus. Skyhorse, $24.95 (9781602396708). 636.1. Trust is a big word in horse trainer Rashid's vocabulary--the trust a horse has in his owner,...

What to Read When: The Books and Stories to Read with Your Child--and All the Best Times to Read Them.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... What to Read When: The Books and Stories to Read with Your Child--and All the Best Times to Read Them. By Pam Allyn. Apr. 2009.336p. Avery, paper, $16.95 (9781583333341). 649. Targeted principally at parents, Allyn's earnestly...

Corvus: A Life with Birds.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... * Corvus: A Life with Birds. By Esther Woolfson. Apr. 2009. 336p. Counterpoint, $25 (9781582434773). 598.86. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Woolfson chronicles her family's years of raising multiple wild and captive-bred birds in this...

Diagnosis: Dispatches from the Frontline of Medical Mysteries.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... Diagnosis: Dispatches from the Frontline of Medical Mysteries. By Lisa Sanders. Apr. 2009. 272p. Broadway, $24.95 (9780767922463). 616.07. New York Times columnist Sanders says that misdiagnoses account for perhaps as much as 17...

Hungry Monkey: A Food-Loving Father's Quest to Raise an Adventurous Eater.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... Hungry Monkey: A Food-Loving Father's Quest to Raise an Adventurous Eater. By Matthew Amster-Burton. May 2009. 256p. Houghton, $23 (9780151013241). 618.92. Seattle dad and food critic Amster-Burton wants his daughter to grow up...

The Soul of Medicine: Tales from the Bedside.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... The Soul of Medicine: Tales fom the Bedside. By Sherwin B. Nuland. Apr. 2009. 224p. Kaplan, $26.95 (9781607140559). 610. Nuland takes the Canterbury Tales one quirky step further with these stories he collected from medical...

The Morville Hours: The Story of a Garden.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... The Morville Hours: The Story of a Garden. By Katherine Swift. May 2009. 384p. illus. Walker, $27 (9780802717535). 635.9. Taking possession of Morville, a centuries-old Shropshire estate, Swift had to prove to England's National...

Bittersweet: Lessons from My Mother's Kitchen.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... Bittersweet: Lessons from My Mother's Kitchen. By Matt McAllester. Apr. 2009. 224p. illus. Dial, $25 (9780385342186). 641.5. He may have garnered a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of grim and gritty wars in the Middle East, but...

Life in Rewind: The Story of a Young Courageous Man Who Persevered over OCD and the Harvard Doctor Who Broke All the Rules to Help Him.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... * Life in Rewind: The Story of a Young Courageous Man Who Persevered over OCD and the Harvard Doctor Who Broke All the Rules to Help Him. By Terry Weible Murphy and others. Apr. 2009. 256p. Morrow, $24.99 (9780061561535). 616.85. ...

Not Becoming My Mother and Other Things She Taught Me along the Way.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... Not Becoming My Mother and Other Things She Taught Me along the Way. By Ruth Reichl. May 2009. 112p. Penguin, $19.95 (9781594202162). 641.509. Irreverently immortalized as the klutzy cook who renounced edibility in favor of...

My Judy Garland Life.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... My Judy Garland Life By Susie Boyt. May 2009. 320p. Bloomsbury, $25 (9781596916661). 782.42164092. By definition, the memoir is a self-indulgent genre, as the author spins memories as remembered, perhaps not accurately, and...

Revolution in the Air: The Songs of Bob Dylan, 1957-1973.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... Revolution in the Air: The Songs of Bob Dylan, 1957-1973. By Clinton Heylin. Apr. 2009. 496p. illus. Chicago Review, $29.95 (9781556528439). 782.42. Prolific Dylanologist Heylin makes his arguably greatest contribution with a...

Becoming Manny: Inside the Life of Baseball's Most Enigmatic Slugger.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... Becoming Manny: Inside the Life of Baseball's Most Enigmatic Slugger. By Jean Rhodes and Shawn Boburg. Apr. 2009. 320p. illus. Scribner, $25 (9781416577065). 796.357. Manny Ramirez has terrorized major-league pitchers since 1994,...

Longshot: The Adventures of a Deaf Fundamentalist Mormon Kid and His Journey to the NBA.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... Longshot: The Adventures of a Deaf Fundamentalist Mormon Kid and His Journey to the NBA. By Lance Allred. May 2009. 272p. HarperOne, $25.99 (9780061718588). 796.323. Yes, Mired made it to the NBA, for three games in the 2007-08...

The Complete Game: Reflections on Baseball, Pitching, and Life on the Mound.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... * The Complete Game: Reflections on Baseball, Pitching, and Life on the Mound. By Ron Darling and Daniel Paisner. Apr. 2009. 288p. Knopf, $23.95 (9780307269843). 796.357. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Darling was a major league...

Finding Grace: A True Story about Losing Your Way in Life ... and Finding It Again.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... * Finding Grace: A True Story about Losing Your Way in Life... and Finding It Again. By Donna VanLiere. Apr. 2009. 224p. St. Martin's, $21.95 (9780312380519). 813. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Although many books are called...

My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... * My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century. By Adina Hoffman. Apr. 2009. 464p. illus. Yale, $27.50 (9780300141504). 892.7. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] An American Jew living in Jerusalem...

The Amos Oz Reader.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... The Amos Oz Reader. By Amos Oz. Tr. by Nicholas de Lange. Apr. 2009. 400p. Houghton, paper, $15.95 (9780156035668). 892.4. The son of a doomed storytelling mother and a citizen of a nation conceived as a lifeboat in a sea of...

Do-Over! In Which a Forty-Eight-Year-Old Father of Three Returns to Kindergarten, Summer Camp, the Prom, and Other Embarrassments.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... Do-Over! In Which a Forty-Eight-Year-Old Father of Three Returns to Kindergarten, Summer Camp, the Prom, and Other Embarrassments. By Robin Hemley. May 2009. 336p. Little, Brown, $23.99 (9780316020602). 813. Regrets? Sure, he...

Soul of the Age: A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... Soul of the Age: A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare. By Jonathan Bate. Apr. 2009.496p. illus. Random, $35 (9781400062065). 822.23. Whereas the recent crop of Bard biographies makes quite clear how obscure are the...

The Subversive Copy Editor: Advice from Chicago; (or, How to Negotiate Good Relationships with Your Writers, Your Colleagues, and Yourself).(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... The Subversive Copy Editor: Advice from Chicago; (or, How to Negotiate Good Relationships with Your Writers, Your Colleagues, and Yourself). By Carol Fisher Sailer. Apr. 2009. 148p. Univ. of Chicago, $30 (9780226734248); paper, $13...

Darwin: A Life in Poems.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... Darwin: A Life in Poems. By Ruth Padel. Apr. 2009. 128p. Knopf, $26 (9780307272393). 821. That Padel is Charles Darwin's great-great-granddaughter adds the allure of curiosity to her contribution to observance of his natal...

Endpoint and Other Poems.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... Endpoint and Other Poems. By John Updike. Apr. 2009. 112p. Knopf, $25 (9780307272867). 811. Perhaps especially on the strength of this final collection, Updike may eventually be seen as one of the few major novelists--Scott, Hardy,...

Home Remedies.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... Home Remedies. By Sarah Kennedy. Apr. 2009. 80p. Louisiana State, paper, $17.95 (978080713406). 811. Linked sequences of poems have become popular lately, often for connecting somewhat disparate themes or images. In some...

Manatee/Humanity.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... Manatee/Humanity. By Anne Waldman. Apr. 2009. 144p. Penguin, paper, $18 (9780143115212). 811. Waldman brings her wild, oracular voice to the environmental questions that currently bedevil us, producing a single long poem in...

Poems from the Women's Movement.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... * Poems from the Women's Movement. Ed. by Honor Moore. Apr. 2009. 238p. Library of America, $20 (9781598530421). 811. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In 1965, Sylvia Plath's posthumous Ariel took the literary world by storm with its...

Triangles of Light: The Edward Hopper Poems.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... Triangles of Light: The Edward Hopper Poems. By James Hoggard. Apr. 2009. 112p. illus. Wings, paper, $16 (9780916727550). 811. Haggard assumes the persona of the great American realist artist Edward Hopper to talk about 51...

Abigail and John: Portrait of a Marriage.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... Abigail and John: Portrait of a Marriage. By Edith B. Gelles. Apr. 2009. 320p. Morrow, $26.99 (9780061353871). 973.4. John and Abigail Adams were married for 54 years. There are, of course, numerous biographies of each of...

Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs, and Parenting.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs, and Parenting. By Michael Perry. Apr. 2009. 368p. HarperCollins, $25.99 (9780061240430). 977.5. Perry appears to be writing his autobiography on the installment plan. In Population: 485 (2002),...

Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival. By Norman Ollestad. May 2009. 272p. illus. Ecco, $25.99 (9780061766725). 979.4. It's almost too horrible to imagine: an 11-year-old boy is flying in a small plane with his father and...

The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-Shek and the Struggle for Modern China.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-Shek and the Struggle for Modern China. By Jay Taylor. Apr. 2009. 736p. illus. Harvard/Belknap, $35 (9780674033382). 951.04. Meticulously researched, Taylor's portrait of Chiang Kai-shek exhibits...

In Mortal Hands: A Cautionary History of the Nuclear Age.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... In Mortal Hands: A Cautionary History of the Nuclear Age. By Stephanie Cooke. Apr. 2009. 496p. Bloomsbury, $27 (9781596916173). 909.82. Adopting a skeptical perspective on its subject, Cooke introduces her survey of the...

Iraq: A Political History from Independence to Occupation.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... Iraq: A Political History from Independence to Occupation. By Adeed Dawisha. Apr. 2009. 408p. Princeton, $29.95 (9780691139579). 956.704. In the spring of 2003, at the onset of the invasion of Iraq, Dawisha (Arab...

The Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... The Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution. By Alex Storozynski. Apr. 2009. 352p. St. Martin's/Thomas Dunne, $29.95 (9780312388027). 973.3092. Although he isn't as celebrated as Pulaski or Von Steuben as a...

Seeds of Terror: How Heroin is Bankrolling the Taliban and Al Qaeda.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... Seeds of Terror: How Heroin Is Bankrolling the Taliban and Al Qaeda. By Gretchen Peters. May 2009. 320p. St. Martin's/Thomas Dunne, $25.95 (9780312379278). 958.104. Sure to be hotly discussed, this new book explores the often...

To Live or to Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... To Live or to Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan. By Nicholas Schmidle. May 2009. 272p. Holt, $25 (9780805089387). 954.9105. In 2006, wanting to become a journalist but lacking any journalistic experience, Schmidle...

Weller's War: A Legendary Foreign Correspondent's Saga of World War II on Five Continents.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... Weller's War: A Legendary Foreign Correspondent's Saga of World War II on Five Continents. By George Weller. Ed. by Anthony Weller. Apr. 2009. 400p. illus. Crown, $27.50 (9780307406552). 940.53. Of American World War II...

In Hanuman's Hands.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... * In Hanuman's Hands. By Cheenl Rao. May 2009. 416p. HarperOne, $25.95 (9780060736620). 973.049. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Addiction and rehab memoirs abound, but few are as fiery, poetic, and cosmic as Rao's. Rooted in the great...

Follow Me.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... Follow Me. By Joanna Scott. Apr. 2009. 400p. Little, Brown, $24.95 (9780316051651). Scott, her literary gifts recognized with MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships, is profoundly attuned to humankind's endless quest to channel...

The Geometry of Sisters.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... The Geometry of Sisters. By Luanne Rice. Apr. 2009. 400p. Bantam, $25 (9780553805130). Maggie Shaw second-guesses herself all the way from Columbus, Ohio, to Newport, Rhode Island, after two tragedies threaten to tear her family...

Hedge Fund Wives.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... Hedge Fund Wives. By Tatiana Boncompagni. Apr. 2009. 304p.Avon, paper, $13.99 (9780061765261). When Marcy Emerson's husband, John, is recruited for a new job on Wall Street, they pack up their home in Chicago and move to New...

Italian Shoes.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... Italian Shoes. By Henning Mankell. Tr. by Laurie Thompson. Apr. 2009. 256p. New Press, $26.95 (9781595584366). Mankell continues to write literary fiction in addition to his popular crime series starring Swedish policeman Kurt...

The Late, Lamented Molly Marx.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... The Late, Lamented Molly Marx. By Sally Koslow. May 2009. 306p. Ballantine, $23 (9780345506207). Molly Marx, 35, dies under questionable circumstances in Manhattan. To all appearances, she had it made--married to a plastic surgeon,...

American Salvage.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... * American Salvage. By Bonnie Jo Campbell. Apr. 2009. 184p. Wayne State Univ., paper, $18.95 (9780814334126). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The houses are ramshackle, the trucks hard-used, the weather extreme. The men, clad in shabby...

Read-alikes.(At Leisure)
April 1, 2009... Not a week goes by without someone posting a query on the RA e-mail list Fiction_L asking for read-alikes, prompted usually by a patron asking for more authors "just like" a favorite. Of course, Fiction_L is a great venue for these questions,...

The Great Perhaps.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... * The Great Perhaps. By Joe Meno. May 2009.400p. Norton, $24.95 (9780393067965). Meno's distinctively imaginative and compassionate fiction is forged at the intersection of ordinariness and astonishment. In this tragicomic family...

Into the Beautiful North.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... * Into the Beautiful North. By Luis Alberto Urrea. May 2009. 352p. Little, Brown, $24.99 (9780316025270). If you are a judo-practicing, butt-kicking 19-year-old Mexican woman in a town with only one youngish man--and he's gay--you...

Love Stories in This Town.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... Love Stories in This Town. By Amanda Eyre Ward. Apr. 2009. 224p. Ballantine, paper, $14 (9780812980110). New mothers, young brides, jilted lovers, devoted wives. What roles do women choose, what paths do they take when falling in...