Booklist articles from August 2005

Booklist archives from August 2005

Harry on paper.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... * Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. July 2005. 672p. illus. Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine, $29.99 (0-439-78454-9); lib. ed., $34.99 (0-439-78677-0). With the Harry Potter Express chugging closer to its final destination,...

Harry on tape.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Audiobook Review)
August 1, 2005... * Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. By J. K. Rowling. Read by Jim Dale. 2005. 18.5hr. Listening Library, CS, $60 (0-307-28366-6); CD, $90 (0-307-28367-4). Jim Dale's outstanding performance on Harry Potter and the Order of the...

Aftab, Kaleem. Spike Lee: That's My Story and I'm Sticking to It.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Aftab, Kaleem. Spike Lee: That's My Story and I'm Sticking to It. Sept. 2005. 320p. illus. index. Norton, $25.95 (0-393-06153-1). 791.43. Over the course of his career, film director Spike Lee has alienated many groups: Italian Americans,...

Johnson, Haynes. The Age of Anxiety: McCarthyism to Terrorism.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Johnson, Haynes. The Age of Anxiety: McCarthyism to Terrorism. Oct. 2005.624p. illus. index. Harcourt, $26 (0-15-101062-5). 973.921. Free, democratic societies constantly strive for a balance between individual freedom and the necessity for...

Kozol, Jonathan. The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Kozol, Jonathan. The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America. Sept. 2005. 416p. index. Crown, $25 (1-4000-5244-0). 379.2. Respected author Kozol delivers a scathing indictment of public education and the...

Lawford, Christopher Kennedy. Symptoms of Withdrawal: A Memoir of Snapshots of Redemption.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Lawford, Christopher Kennedy. Symptoms of Withdrawal: A Memoir of Snapshots of Redemption. Oct. 2005. 416p. illus. Morrow, $25.95 (0-06-073248-2). 791.43. Kennedys don't cry. And they don't write tell-all books. So this memoir breaks new...

Lewis, Jerry and Kaplan, James. Dean & Me: A Love Story.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Lewis, Jerry and Kaplan, James. Dean & Me: A Love Story. Oct. 2005. 352p. illus. Doubleday, $26 (0-7679-2086-4). 791.43. Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis soared to popularity in post-World War II America, as their unlikely chemistry proved...

Maher, Bill. New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Maher, Bill. New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer. Sept. 2005. 290p. Rodale, $24.95 (1-59486-295-8). 791.45. Fans of Maher's HBO show, Real Time, are familiar with the hysterically funny segment New Rules, in which the host...

Sobel, Dava. The Planets.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Sobel, gava. The Planets. Oct. 2005. 262p. index. Viking, $24.95 (0-670-03446-0). 523.2. Hoping to turn her readers on to the solar system, Sobel tours the sun and its revolving consorts. Intentionally evoking wonder over data, she tries...

Didion, Joan. The Year of Magical Thinking.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... * Didion, Jean. The Year of Magical Thinking. Oct. 2005. 192p. Knopf, $23.95 (1-4000-4314-X). 813. Didion--a master essayist, great American novelist, and astute political observer--uses autobiography as a vehicle for tonic inquiries into...

Winchester, Simon. A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Winchester, Simon. A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906. Oct. 2005. 448p. illus. index. HarperCollins, $26.95 (0-06-057199-3). 979.405. What Winchester did for the 1883 cataclysmic eruption...

Woodward, Bob. The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Woodward, Bob. The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat. 2005. 249p. index. Simon & Schuster, $23 (0-7432-8715-0). 973.924092. Most of Woodward's books follow a predictable formula: the fly-on-the-wall perspective, the...

Darnton, John. The Darwin Conspiracy.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Darnton, John. The Darwin Conspiracy. Sept. 2005. 320p. Knopf, $25 (1-4000-4137-6). The mysteries behind Charles Darwin's stunning theory of evolution and natural selection form the crux of Darnton's novel, which blends history and...

Flood, Charles Bracelen. Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... * Flood, Charles Bracelen. Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War. Oct. 2005. 480p. illus. index. Farrar, $26 (0-374-16600-5). 973.7. The story seems like a fairy tale: two men who were remarkable failures as civilians...

Doctorow, E. L. The March.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... * Doctorow, E. L. The March. Sept. 2005. 372p. Random, $25.95 (0-375-50671-3). American history is the wellspring of Doctorow's prevailing fiction, but never before has he so fully occupied the past, or so gorgeously evoked its generation...

Baiman, Neil. Anansi Boys.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... * Baiman, Neil. Anansi Boys. Sept. 2005. 368p. Morrow, $26.95 (0-06-051518-X). Gaiman exploits the conceit of his prizewinning American Gods (2001)--that the gods of America's immigrant peoples are living in retirement, sort of, among...

Gear, W. Michael and Gear, Kathleen O'Neal. People of the Moon.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Gear, W. Michael and Gear, Kathleen O'Neal. People of the Moon. Oct. 2005. 528p. Tor/Forge, $25.95 (0-765-30856-8). The authors Gear began their First North Americans series of prehistoric historical novels in 1990 with People of the Wolf....

Grimes, Martha. Belle Ruin.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Grimes, Martha. Belle Ruin. Sept. 2005. 346p. Viking, $25.95 (0-670-03461-4). Grimes, best known for her 18 police procedurals starring Richard Jury, launched a new series a few years ago in which a preteen girl in Spirit Lake, an American...

Morrell, David. Creepers.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Morrell, David. Creepers. Sept. 2005. 368p. CDS, $24.95 (1-59315-237-X). Frank Balenger is a New York Times reporter doing a Sunday magazine profile on urban explorers, better known as creepers. It's an illegal activity but a very popular...

Perry, Anne. Angels in the Gloom.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Perry, Anne. Angels in the Gloom. Aug. 2005. 352p. Ballantine, $25.95 (0-345-45656-4). The third entry in Perry's World War I series moves from the horror of the trenches to the English countryside, where chaplain Joseph Reavley, wounded...

Shreve, Anita. A Wedding in December.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Shreve, Anita. A Wedding in December. Oct. 2005. 336p. Little, Brown, $25.95 (0-316-73899-9). Recrimination and regret underlie an emotional reunion of seven former classmates from the Kidd Academy, an elite prep school, who gather at an...

Smith, Zadie. On Beauty.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Smith, Zadie. On Beauty. Sept. 2005. 390p. Penguin, $25.95 (1-59420-063-7). Smith's first novel, White Teeth (2000), won prizes and comparisons to Dickens and E. M. Forster. In her current novel, she even uses a couple of plot devices from...

Koontz, Dean and Gorman, Ed. City of Night.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... * Koontz, Dean and German, Ed. City of Night. Aug. 2005. 455p. Bantam. paper. $7.99 (0-553-58789-7). Relax. Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, volume one of which, Prodigal Son (2005), was a pulse-pounder all the way, is going to be a trilogy....

Garcia Marquez, Gabriel. Memories of My Melancholy Whores.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... * Garcia Marquez, Gabriel. Memories of My Melancholy Whores. Nov. 2005. 112p. Knopf, $20 (1-4000-4460-X). The Colombian master storyteller's latest novel is grounded in the steamy atmosphere and gamey politics of his native country; at the...

Upcoming in upfront fiction.(Bibliography)
August 1, 2005... The titles listed below are scheduled for publication in fall, winter, or spring 2005-2006. Part 1 of Upcoming in Upfront, which featured nonfiction titles, appeared in the July issue. Baldacci, David. The Camel Club. Warner, $26.95...

The new immigration story.(Core Collection)
August 1, 2005... Leaving home is not what it used to be. It's no longer a one-way trip across borders to a self-confident, optimistic America; rather, the immigrant journey today is a more ambiguous process involving constant travel back and forth, physical and...

The Booklist interview: Gigi Anders.(Interview)
August 1, 2005... "Oy veh and ay caramba" is how we began our Booklist review of Gigi Anders' Jubana! The Awkwardly True and Dazzling Adventures of A Jewish Cubana Goddess [BKL Je 1 & 15 05]. Anders, a freelance writer and special correspondent for the...

Canetti, Elias. Party in the Blitz: The English Years.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Canetti, Elias. Party in the Blitz: The English Years. Sept. 2005. 266p. index. New Directions, $22.95 (0-8112-1636-5). 838.91. In 1939 Bulgarian writer Elias Canetti fled north of London to Hampstead and there with his wife, Veza,...

Marshall, Jack. From Baghdad to Brooklyn: Growing Up in a Jewish-Arabic Family in Midcentury America.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Marshall, Jack. From Baghdad to Brooklyn: Growing Up in a Jewish-Arabic Family in Midcentury America. Oct. 2005. 260p. illus. Coffee House, paper, $16 (1-56689-174-4). 811. Here is a Jewish immigration story seldom told. Born in Brooklyn in...

Martinez, Demetria. Confessions of a Berlitz-Tape Chicana.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Martinez, Demetria. Confessions of a Berlitz-Tape Chicana. Nov. 2005. 160p. Univ. of Oklahoma, $24.95 (0-8061-3706-1); paper, $14.95 (0-8061-3722-3). 818 "The things that migrants carry" is the title of one of the passionate essays in this...

Nye, Naomi Shihab. You and Yours.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Nye, Naomi Shihab. You and Yours. Sept. 2005. 104p. BOA, $22.95 (1-929918-68-2); paper, $15.50 (1-929918-69-0). 811. If one of the four elements were assigned to Nye's poetry, it would be water because her poems are clear, flowing,...

Rand, Erica. The Ellis Island Snow Globe.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Rand, Erica. The Ellis Island Snow Globe. Sept. 2005. 336p. illus. index. Duke, $79.95 (0-8223-3578-6); paper, $22.95 (0-8223-3591-3). 304.8. Cultural critic Rand takes an unusual and provocative approach to assessing the mythology that...

Castillo, Ana. Watercolor Women/Opaque Men.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... * Castillo, Ana. Watercolor Women/Opaque Men. Sept. 2005. 269p. Curbstone, paper, $15 (1-931896-20-8). 811. There is a renaissance in the novel in verse, thanks to poets as diverse as Anne Carson and Kevin Young. Now Castillo, revered for...

Rodriguez, Luis J. My Nature Is Hunger: New & Selected Poems, 1989-2004.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Rodriguez, Luis J. My Nature Is Hunger: New & Selected Poems, 1989-2004. Sept. 2005. 150p. Curbstone, paper, $14.95 (1-931896-24-0). 811 Whether he's writing fiction, essays, children's books, or poetry, Rodriguez, an activist as well as...

Novakovich, Josip. Infidelities: Stories of War and Lust.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... * Novakovich, Josip. Infidelities: Stories of War and Lust. Sept. 2005. 256p. HarperCollins/ Perennial, paper, $12.95 (0-06-058399-1). Although Novakovich left Croatia some years ago, he continues to write about his homeland with flinty...

Fiction from the Wild East.(Read-alikes: Josip Novakovich's Infidelities)(Bibliography)
August 1, 2005... Josip Novakovich's Infidelities The term "Wild East," as used by Boris Fishman in his anthology, Wild East: Stories from the Last Frontier (2003), refers to Eastern Europe in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union, but it can also...

Lalami, Laila. Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Lalami, Laila. Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits. Oct. 2005. 208p. Algonquin, $21.95 (1-56512-493-6). In the overture to this compelling collection of linked short stories, Moroccans desperate for better lives take the risk of trusting a...

Waltner-Toews, David. One Foot in Heaven.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Waltner-Toews, David. One Foot in Heaven. 2005. 288p. Coteau, paper, $16.95 (1-55050-312-X). "To be a Mennonite-Ukrainian was not to fall into the class of Canadian desirables.... Too much history. Too much blood." Without reverence, this...

Yiyun Li. A Thousand Years of Good Prayers.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Yiyun Li. A Thousand Years of Good Prayers. Sept. 2005. 224p. Random, $21.95 (1-4000-6312-4). In her superb debut, Chinese American Yiyun Li pairs short stories about life in an increasingly capitalist yet still viciously repressive China...

Allport, Alan. Immigration Policy.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Allport, Alan. Immigration Policy. 2005. 126p. illus. index. Chelsea House, lib. ed., $26.95 (0-7910-7923-6). 325.73. Gr. 9-12. Does immigration damage or enrich American society? Are immigrants a national security risk? Are illegal...

Dalton, Dave. Refugees and Asylum Seekers.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Dalton, Dave. Refugees and Asylum Seekers. 2005. 56p. illus. index. Heinemann, lib. ed., $21.95 (1-4034-6961-X). 305.9. Gr. 7-10. Part of the People on the Move series, this title focuses on civilians displaced by war and by ethnic...

Hughes, Susan. Coming to Canada: Building a Life in a New Land.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Hughes, Susan. Coming to Canada: Building a Life in a New Land. Sept. 2005. 112p. illus. index. Maple Tree, $18.95 (1-897066-46-5). 971.004. Gr. 6-9. "Canada is made up of people who've come from every country in the world." Starting with...

Immigration.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Immigration. Ed. by Louise I. Gerdes. 2005. 224p. index. Greenhaven, lib. ed., $27.96 (0-7377-2779-9); paper, $18.96 (0-7377-2780-2). 325.73. Gr. 10-12. Books in the Current Controversies series reprint essays that express different points...

Reich, Susanna. Jose! Born to Dance: The Story of Jose Limon.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... * Reich, Susanna. Jose! Born to Dance: The Story of Jose Limon. Illus. by Raul Colon. Aug. 2005. 32p. Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman, $16.95 (0-689-86576-7). 792.8. Gr. 2-4. This picture-book biography tells the story of Jose Limon, who...

Martin, Jennifer C. The Korean Americans.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Martin, Jennifer C. The Korean Americans. 2005. 112p. illus. index. Gale/Lucent, lib. ed., $22.96 (1-59018-079-8). 973. Gr. 10-12. From the Immigrants in America series, this informative volume discusses the history of Korea, the main waves...

Testa, Maria. Something about America.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Testa, Maria. Something about America. Sept. 2005. 96p. Candlewick, $14.99 (0-7636-2528-0). 811. Gr. 6-9. The author of Becoming Joe DiMaggio (2001) and Almost Forever (2003) once again uses spare verse to tell a poignant story about a...

Cheng, Andrea. Shanghai Messenger.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Cheng, Andrea. Shanghai Messenger. Illus. by Ed Young. Sept. 2005. 40p. Lee & Low, $17.95 (1-58430-238-0). Gr. 4-6. In many of today's immigration stories, the break with the Old Country is not as final as it used to be, and young people...

Nislick, June Levitt. Zayda Was a Cowboy.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... * Nislick, June Levitt. Zayda Was a Cowboy. 2005. 128p. Jewish Publication Society, paper, $9.95 (0-8276-0817-9). Gr. 4-7. "Now boys, I want you to understand, a coward I am not." In a chatty, immediate idiom, Zayda (Yiddish for...

Immigration series roundup.(Bibliography)
August 1, 2005... For straightforwardly presented information about specific cultural groups or general immigration issues, series nonfiction publishers offer quite a few solid choices. Recommended offerings in previously reviewed series are listed below,...

Glaser, Linda. Bridge to America.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Glaser, Linda. Bridge to America. Oct. 2005. 208p. Houghton, $16 (0-618-56301-6). Gr. 3-5. Young Fivel, left behind in his Polish shtetl while his father in America earns passage for the rest of the family, endures extreme hunger and the...

Herrera, Juan Felipe. Cinnamon Girl: Letters Found Inside a Cereal Box.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Herrera, Juan Felipe. Cinnamon Girl: Letters Found Inside a Cereal Box. Aug. 2005. 176p. HarperCollins/Joanna Cotler, $15.99 (0-06-057984-6); lib. ed., $16.89 (0-06-057985-4). Gr. 6-9. Heartbroken that her beloved uncle DJ lies in intensive...

Ly, Many. Home Is East.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Ly, Many. Home Is East. Aug. 2005. 224p. Delacorte, $15.95 (0-385-83222-8); lib. ed., $17.99 (0-385-73223-6). Gr. 4-7. Fifth-grader Amy and her father, a refugee from the Khmer Rouge, decide to make a fresh start after Amy's mother abandons...

Napoli, Donna Jo. The King of Mulberry Street.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Napoli, Donna Jo. The King of Mulberry Street. Oct. 2005. 224p. Random/Wendy Lamb, $15.95 (0-385-74653-9); lib. ed., $17.99 (0-385-90890-3). Gr. 6-9. Drawing on her grandfather's experience, Napoli dramatizes a seldom-told bit of American...

Tal, Eve. Double Crossing: A Jewish Immigration Story.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... * Tal, Eve. Double Crossing: A Jewish Immigration Story. Oct. 2005. 216p. Cinco Puntos, $16.95 (0-938317-94-6). Gr. 7-10. Based on the experience of the author's grandfather at the turn of the twentieth century, this novel starts off as the...

In the Name of Love: Modern Day Mail Order Brides.(Video Recording Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... In the Name of Love: Modern Day Mail Order Brides. 2005. 58min. New Day, DVD, $225. 888-367-9154. Russia's dismal economy has given rise to widespread alcoholism, depression, and divorce. Many young women (including single mothers) turn to...

Linciati: Lynchings of Italians in America.(Video Recording Review)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Linciati: Lynchings of Italians in America. 2004. 51min. National Film Network, DVD, $19.95 (0-8026-0095-6). The term lynching brings to mind the horrible crimes against African Americans by Ku Klux Klan members. Very few people realize...

Rosevelt's America: A Refugee's Inspiring Story.(Video Recording Review)(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)
August 1, 2005... Rosevelt's America: A Refugee's Inspiring Story. 2005. 30min. Filmakers Library, VHS, $295. 800-555-9815. In spite of his American sounding name, Rosevelt Henderson is a refugee from war-torn Liberia. Now settled in Chicago with his...

Encyclopedia of Ellis Island.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Encyclopedia of Ellis Island. By Barry Moreno. 2005. 321p. illus, index. Greenwood, $75 (0-313-32682-7). 304. As the primary entry port for European immigrants coming to the U.S., Ellis Island was a symbol of hope for many and a...

Encyclopedia of North American Immigration.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... * Encyclopedia of North American Immigration. By John Powell. 2005. 464p. illus, index. Facts On File, $75 (0-8160-4658-1). 304.8. Powell, a history professor, presents an introduction to immigration to English- and French-speaking regions...

Keeping track of immigration.(Read-alikes: Encyclopedia of North American Immigration)(Bibliography)
August 1, 2005... The Encyclopedia of North American immigration, reviewed opposite, is a good one-volume introduction to the topic, but there are a number of other recent reference sources on immigration, each offering a different slant. Unless otherwise noted,...

Mitchell, Andrea. Talking Back: To Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Mitchell, Andrea. Talking Back: To Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels. Sept. 2005. 402p. index. Viking, $25.95 (0-670-03403-7). 070. Mitchell, who began her long career as a television reporter at a time when women were...

Rakoff, David. Don't Get Too Comfortable.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Rakoff, David. Don't Get Too Comfortable. Sept. 2005. 224p. Doubleday, $23.95 (0-385-51036-5). 081. The belly laughs start on page 7 and occur regularly throughout Rakoff's frequently impertinent, occasionally irascible, yet always...

Akhtar, Salman. Objects of Our Desire: Exploring Our Intimate Connections with the Things around Us.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Akhtar, Salman. Objects of Our Desire: Exploring Our Intimate Connections with the Things around Us. Aug. 2005. 208p. Harmony, $19.95 (1-4000-5444-3). 1559. Let others collect stamps or matchbook covers. Akhtar will collect collectors....

Cohen-Sandler, Roni. Stressed-Out Girls: Helping Them Thrive in the Age of Pressure.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Cohen-Sandier, Roni. Stressed-Out Girls: Helping Them Thrive in the Age of Pressure. Sept. 2005. 268p. Viking, $24.95 (0-670-03438-X). 155.5. Cohen-Sandier, a clinical psychologist, has written timely, well-received titles about parenting...

Berns, Gregory. Satisfaction: The Science of Finding True Fulfillment.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Berns, Gregory. Satisfaction: The Science of Finding True Fulfillment. Sept. 2005. 288p. index. Holt, $24 (0-8050-7600-X). 155.9. A university research psychiatrist, Berns here combines neuroscience with a series of personal adventures to...

Moehringer, J. R. The Tender Bar.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... * Moehringer, J. R. The Tender Bar. Sept. 2005. 384p. Hyperion, $23.95 (1-4013-0064-2). 070.92. People don't buy memoirs to read about happy families. And yet, for those who read a lot of memoirs, it can still be startling to learn both...

Readers' advisory.(The Manley Arts)
August 1, 2005... There's this bar called Angelo's where I sometimes stop to have a cigarette and a cool glass of Chardonnay after work. I like this bar because it's clean, uncrowded, and plays Italian opera softly in the background. The bartender, Jeff, is also...

Feiler, Bruce. Where God Was Born: A Journey by Land to the Roots of Religion.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Feiler, Bruce. Where God Was Born: A Journey by Land to the Roots of Religion. Sept. 2005. 352p. Morrow, $26.95 (0-06-057487-9). 200. Feiler treads on very dangerous ground in this marvelous account of his journey to Israel, Iraq, and...

Sweeney, Douglas A. The American Evangelical Story: A History of the Movement.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Sweeney, Douglas A. The American Evangelical Story: A History of the Movement. Aug. 2005. 208p. illus. index. Baker Academic, paper, $17.99 (1-8010-2658-X). 277.3. Modern evangelicalism, the biggest thing in Protestantism since the...

Wills, Garry. The Rosary.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Wills, Garry. The Rosary. Sept. 2005. 208p. illus. Viking, $24.95 (0-670-03449-5). 242. From the best-selling author of Why I Am a Catholic (2002) comes a deceptively simple analysis of the most potent and recognizable symbol of...

Baker, Jean H. Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Baker, Jean H. Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists. Sept. 2005. 288p. illus. index. Hill & Wang, $25 (0-8090-9528-9). 324.6. This fascinating collective biography features in-depth sketches of five indispensable leaders of the...

Flacco, Anthony. Tiny Dancer: The Incredible True Story of a Young Burn Victim's Journey from Afghanistan.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Flacco, Anthony. Tiny Dancer: The Incredible True Story of a Young Burn Victim's Journey from Afghanistan. Sept. 2005. 256p. St. Martin's/Thomas Dunne, $24.95 (0-312-34333-7). 362.197. In July 2001, Zubaida, a nine-year-old Afghan girl, was...

Hite, Shere. The Shere Hite Reader: Sex, Globalization, and Private Life.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Hite, Shere. The Shere Hite Reader: Sex, Globalization, and Private Life. Sept. 2005. 520p. Seven Stories, paper, $19.95 (1-58322-568-4). 306.77. Cultural historian Hite offers a wide-ranging look at the complexities and the subtleties of...

Hubner, John. Last Chance in Texas: The Redemption of Criminal Youth.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Hubner, John. Last Chance in Texas: The Redemption of Criminal Youth. Sept. 2005. 304p. Random, $25.95 (0-375-50809-0). 365. Texas may have the reputation for being aggressive when it comes to executions, but the state also operates one of...

Kadri, Sadakat. The Trial: A History from Socrates to O.J. Simpson.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Kadri, Sadakat. The Trial: A History, from Socrates to O. J. Simpson. Aug. 2005. 480p. illus. index. Random, $29.95 (0-375-50550-4). 345. Unexpectedly lively for a legal history, Kadri's study of the trajectory of the modern Western jury...

Kaye, Harvey J. Thomas Paine and the Promise of America.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Kaye, Harvey J. Thomas Paine and the Promise of America. Aug. 2005. 352p. illus. index. Hill & Wang, $25 (0-8090-8970-X). 320.51. Facing a saturated market for biographies of Thomas Paine, historian Kaye opts to chronicle the effect of his...

Kelly, Clinton and London, Stacy. Dress Your Best: The Complete Guide to Finding the Style That's Right for Your Body.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Kelly, Clinton and London, Stacy. Dress Your Best: The Complete Guide to Finding the Style That's Right for Your Body. Sept. 2005. 256p. illus. index. Three Rivers, paper, $18.95 (0-307-23671-4). 391. The sweet yet knowledgeable and even...

Kolakowski, Leszek. Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders, the Golden Age, the Breakdown.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Kolakowski, Leszek. Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders, the Golden Age, the Breakdown. Aug. 2005. 1504p. index. Norton, $49.95 (0-393-06054-3). 335.43. From scattered previous editions, this volume unites the author's opus on Marxism,...

Leith, William. The Hungry Years: Confessions of a Food Addict.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Leith, William. The Hungry Years: Confessions of a Food Addict. Sept. 2005. 304p. Gotham, $25 (1-592-40155-4). 362.196. The author, a journalist who writes about diet and health, has always had problems with his weight. As the book opens,...

Feldman, Noah. Divided by God: America's Church-State Problem and What We Should Do about It.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... * Feldman, Noah. Divided by God: America's Church-State Problem and What We Should Do about It. Aug. 2005. 320p. index. Farrar, $25 (0-374-28131-9). 322. Madison thought that the multitude of contending Protestant denominations of his time...

Levy, Ariel. Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... * Levy, Ariel. Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture. Sept. 2005. 224p. index. Free Press, $25 (0-7432-4989-5). 305.42 With the rise of such magazines as Maxim and FHM and the popular video series Girls Gone Wild,...

Morris, Desmond. The Naked Woman: A Study of the Female Body.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Morris, Desmond. The Naked Woman: A Study of the Female Body. Aug. 2005. 288p. illus. index. St. Martin's, $24.95 (0-312-33852-X). 306.4. Undeniably the quintessential observer of the human condition, best-selling Morris casts his...

Naked: Black Women Bare All about Their Skin, Hair, Hips, Lips, and Other Parts.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Naked: Black Women Bare All about Their Skin, Hair, Hips, Lips, and Other Parts. Ed. by Ayana Byrd and Akiba Solomon. Aug. 2005. 272p. illus. index. Perigee, paper, $15.95 (0-399-53163-7). 305.48. Byrd and Solomon contribute to this...

Nathan, Susan. The Other Side of Israel: My Journey across the Jewish/Arab Divide.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Nathan, Susan. The Other Side of Israel: My Journey across the Jewish/Arab Divide. Sept. 2005. 288p. illus. Doubleday/Nan A. Talese, $25 (0-385-51456-5). 305.8. Almost invisible in the international media, the Arab citizens of Israel have...