Booklist articles from December 2005

Booklist archives from December 2005

Barry, Dave. Dave Barry's Money Secrets: Like, Why Is There a Giant Eyeball on the Dollar?(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Barry, Dave. Dave Barry's Money Secrets: Like, Why Is There a Giant Eyeball on the Dollar? Jan. 2006. 272p. illus. Crown, $24.95 (1-4000-4758-7). 814. After mining politics and the differences between the sexes, Barry turns his sharp wit...

Mayes, Frances. A Year in the World: Journeys of a Passionate Traveller.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Mayes, Frances. A Year in the World: Journeys of a Passionate Traveller. Mar. 2006. 420p. Broadway, $26 (0-7679-1005-2). 914.04. What Mayes accomplished in her popularization of Tuscany she now extends to a larger stage. Despite the title's...

Dornstein, Ken. The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... * Dornstein, Ken. The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky. Mar. 2006. 320p. illus. Random, $23.95 (0-375-50359-5). 973.91. When Ken Dornstein was a college sophomore, his adored older brother, David, was killed in the terrorist attack on Pan Am...

Collins, Jackie. Lovers & Players.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Collins, Jackie. Lovers & Players. Feb. 2006. 498p. St. Martin's, $24.95 (0-312-34177-6). General Fiction. In Collins' twenty-fourth novel, she turns yet again to detailing the tawdry lives of the rich and beautiful. Her latest yarn spans...

Cox, Ana Marie. Dog Days.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Cox, Ana Marie. Dog Days. Jan. 2006. 256p. Riverhead, $23.95 (1-59448-901-7). General Fiction. Most people will not know Cox by her own name, but those who haunt the blogosphere will know her as the Washington insider who writes...

Crais, Robert. The Two Minute Rule.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Crais, Robert. The Two Minute Rule. Mar. 2006. 336p. Simon & Schuster, $ 24.95 (0-7432-8161-6). Crime Fiction. Max Holman is a career criminal. At least he was until he violated the two-minute rule, bank robbery's inviolable maxim. When he...

Baker, Kevin. Strivers Row.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... * Baker, Kevin. Strivers Row. Feb. 2006. 560p. HarperCollins, $26.95 (0-06-019583-5). General Fiction. Following the intricate yet gripping novels Dreamland (1999) and Paradise Alley (2002), Baker offers the last and equally compelling...

Ferrigno, Robert. Prayers for the Assassin.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Ferrigno, Robert. Prayers for the Assassin. Feb 2006. 416p. Scribner, $24.95 (0-7432-7289-6). Crime Fiction. In a huge departure from his edgy thrillers set in the glittering wasteland of contemporary L.A. (Flinch, 2001; The Wake-Up, 2004),...

Gardner, Lisa. Gone.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Gardner, Lisa. Gone. Feb. 2006. 368p. Bantam, $25 (0-553-80431-6). Crime Fiction. At the center of this mix of police procedural and psychological thriller is Lorraine "Rainie" Conner, an ex-cop with a drinking problem whose car is found...

Liss, David. The Ethical Assassin.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Liss, David. The Ethical Assassin. Mar. 2006. 336p. Ballantine, $24.95 (1-4000-6421-X). Crime Fiction. Readers expecting another historical thriller from Liss in the manner of A Conspiracy of Paper (2000) and The Coffee Trader (2003) are...

Montanari, Richard. The Skin Gods.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Montanari, Richard. The Skin Gods. Mar. 2006. 416p. Ballantine, $24.95 (0-345-47097-4). Crime Fiction. In Philadelphia, a serial killer is replicating death scenes from famous movies, even going so far as to splice his grizzly re-creations...

Perez-Reverte, Arturo. Purity of Blood.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Perez-Reverte, Arturo. Purity of Blood. Jan. 2006. 288p. Putnam, $23.95 (0-399-15320-9). General Fiction. Spanish novelist Perez-Reverte is known the world over for his historical thrillers, and now his earlier five-novel historical-fiction...

Picoult, Jodi and Weaver, Dustin. The Tenth Circle.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Picoult, Jodi and Weaver, Dustin. The Tenth Circle. Mar. 2006. 400p. illus. Atria, $26 (0-7434-9670-1). General Fiction. There are no black and whites in Picoult's latest novel, except for the drawings that graphic artist Daniel Stone inks....

McInerney, Jay. The Good Life.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... McInerney, Jay. The Good Life. Feb. 2006. 336p. Knopf, $25 (0-375-41140-2). General Fiction. The reader might, upon beginning this novel, wonder why we care about 9/11's effects on four privileged Manhattanites: a retired corporate raider,...

Vine, Barbara. The Minotaur.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Vine, Barbara. The Minotaur. Mar. 2006. 352p. Crown/Shaye Areheart, $25 (0-307-23760-5). Crime Fiction. Barbara Vine is the pen name of Ruth Rendell. It's odd to think that such an acclaimed and public figure as Rendell (who has won almost...

Taylor, Gordon. Fever & Thirst: A Missionary Doctor amid the Christian Tribes of Kurdistan.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Taylor, Gordon. Fever & Thirst: A Missionary Doctor amid the Christian Tribes of Kurdistan. Dec. 2005. 324p. index. illus. Academy Chicago, $30 (0-89733-537-6). 266.009. The missionary doctor in question was Asahel Grant, who left Oneida...

Hunt, Tristram. Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... * Hunt, Tristram. Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City. Jan. 2006. 448p. index. Holt/Metropolitan, $32 (0-8050-8026-0). 307.76. London, Manchester, Glasgow, Liverpool, crucibles for the Industrial Revolution,...

Adams, Jonathan S. The Future of the Wild: Radical Conservation for a Crowded World.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Adams, Jonathan S. The Future of the Wild: Radical Conservation for a Crowded World. Jan. 2006. 288p. index. Beacon, $27.95 (0-8070-8510-3). 333.95. As program director for the Nature Conservancy, Adams is in the perfect position to write...

Brown, Ethan. Queens Reigns Supreme.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Brown, Ethan. Queens Reigns Supreme. Dec. 2005. 288p. illus. Anchor, paper, $13 (1-4000-9523-9). 364.106. New York journalist Brown, who covers pop music, drug issues, and crime, resifts the evidence in the city's rapper/gang wars,...

Garbarino, James. See Jane Hit: Why Girls Are Growing More Violent and What Can Be Done about It.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Garbarino, James. See Jane Hit: Why Girls Are Growing More Violent and What Can Be Done about It. Feb. 2006. 290p. index. Penguin Press, $25.95 (1-59420-075-0). 303.6. Garbarino, author of Lost Boys (2002), now investigates girlhood...

Nixon and Elvis in my son's closet.(The Manley Arts)(Column)
December 1, 2005... The weekend was a rite of passage. I spent Saturday and Sunday boxing up my son Stephen's possessions. This was the third and last time that I would go through this little ritual. Stephen had bought a large, rambling house in the Bay Area the...

McManus, James. Physical: An American Checkup.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... * McManus, James. Physical: An American Checkup. Dec. 2005. 272p. Farrar, $24 (0-374-23202-4). 362.1. When New York Times poker columnist McManus (Positively Fifth Street, 2003) visited the Mayo Clinic for an extensive--and...

Hayes, Edward and Lehman, Susan. Mouthpiece: A Life In--and Sometimes Just Outside--the Law.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Hayes, Edward and Lehman, Susan. Mouthpiece: A Life In--and Sometimes Just Outside--the Law. Feb. 2006. 288p. Broadway, $24.95 (0-385-51111-6). 340. Lawyer-to-the-stars Hayes, the model for defense attorney Tommy Killian in Tom Wolfe's...

Jacobs, Joanne. Our School: The Inspiring Story of Two Teachers, One Big Idea, and the School That Beat the Odds.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Jacobs, Joanne. Our School: The Inspiring Story of Two Teachers, One Big Idea, and the School That Beat the Odds. Dec. 2005. 256p. Palgrave Macmillan, $24.95 (1-4039-7023-8). 371.01. This is the remarkable story of two idealistic and...

Lappe, Frances Moore. Democracy's Edge: Choosing to Save Our Country by Bringing Democracy to Life.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Lappe, Frances Moore. Democracy's Edge: Choosing to Save Our Country by Bringing Democracy to Life. Dec. 2005. 450p. Jossey-Bass, $24.95 (0-7879-4311-8). 320.973. Lappe's germinal Diet for a Small Planet (1971) introduced social activism...

Michelman, Kate. With Liberty and Justice for All: A Life Spent Protecting the Right to Choose.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Michelman, Kate. With Liberty and Justice for All: A Life Spent Protecting the Right to Choose. Dec. 2005. 288p. illus. Hudson Street, $24.95 (1-59463-006-2). 363.46. In 1969--three years prior to Roe v. Wade--Michelman, as a married,...

O'Neal, Linda and others. Missing: The Oregon City Girls, a Shocking True Story of Abduction and Murder.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... O'Neal, Linda and others. Missing: The Oregon City Girls: A Shocking True Story of Abduction and Murder. Jan. 2006. 340p. illus. New Horizon, $23.95 (0-88282-268-3). 364.1. When 12-year-old Ashley Pond disappeared on the way to school in...

Tannen, Deborah. You're Wearing That? Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Tannen, Deborah. You're Wearing That? Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation. Jan. 2006. 288p. index. Random, $25.95 (1-4000-6258-6). 306.874. Talk is essential to women's relationships, best-selling (You Just Don't...

Williams, Christine L. Inside Toyland: Working, Shopping, and Social Inequality.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Williams, Christine L. Inside Toyland: Working, Shopping, and Social Inequality. Jan. 2006. 252p. index. Univ. of California, $45 (0-520-24716-7); paper, $16.95 (0-520-24717-5). 381. Williams, a sociology professor at the University of...

Altman, Nancy J. The Battle for Social Security: From FDR's Vision to Bush's Gamble.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Altman, Nancy J. The Battle for Social Security: From FDR's Vision to Bush's Gamble. Dec. 2005. 352p. index. Wiley, $24.95 (0-471-77172-4). 368.4. Altman, a pension-rights advocate, traces the history of Social Security from its...

D'Antonio, Michael. Hershey: Milton S. Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... D'Antonio, Michael. Hershey: Milton S. Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams. Jan. 2006. 320p. index. Simon & Schuster, $25 (0-7432-6409-6). 338.7. For most of us, Hershey conjures up an image of those delicious...

Fenn, Donna. Alpha Dogs: How Your Small Business Can Become a Leader of the Pack.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Fenn, Donna. Alpha Dogs: How Your Small Business Can Become a Leader of the Pack. Dec. 2005. 240p. illus, index. Collins, $24.95 (0-06-075867-8). 658.02. Fenn, a widely acclaimed reporter, takes us inside the reality of small businesses by...

Ungar, William. Only in America: From Holocaust to National Industry Leadership.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Ungar, William. Only in America: From Holocaust to National Industry Leadership. Jan. 2006. 175p. KTAV, $24.95 (0-88125-886-5). 338.7. Ungar, a Polish Jew, was one of only two survivors of Belzec, the Nazi death camp in German-occupied...

Carroll, Linda. Her Mother's Daughter: A Memoir of the Mother I Never Knew and of My Daughter, Courtney Love.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Carroll, Linda. Her Mother's Daughter: A Memoir of the Mother I Never Knew and of My Daughter, Courtney Love. Jan. 2006. 320p. Doubleday, $24.95 (0-385-51247-3). 616.89. Despite the suggestive subtitle, Carroll's memoir is far less...

Parker, Robert M. The World's Greatest Wine Estates: A Modern Perspective.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Parker, Robert M. The World's Greatest Wine Estates: A Modern Perspective. 2005. 704p. Simon & Schuster, $75 (0-7432-3771-4). 641.2. America's most powerful wine critic presents his comprehensive assessment of what he deems the world's...

Fine, Marshall. Accidental Genius: How John Cassavetes Invented the American Independent Film.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Fine, Marshall. Accidental Genius: How John Cassavetes Invented the American Independent Film. Dec. 2005. 496p. illus. Hyperion/Miramax, $26.95 (1-4013-5249-9). 791.43. Fine stints on critical analysis yet convincingly argues that...

Madden, Matt. 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Madden, Matt. 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style. 2005. 208p. illus. Chamberlain Bros., paper, $16.95 (1-59609-078-2). 741.5 In 1947 erstwhile literary surrealist Raymond Queneau published what has been called his best, most...

Sidney Lumet: Interviews. Ed. by Joanna E. Rapf.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Sidney Lumet: Interviews. Ed. by Joanna E. Rapf. Dec. 2005. 240p. index. Univ. Press of Mississippi, $50 (1-57806-723-5); paper, $20 (1-57806-724-3). 791.4302. Like his then-colleagues Martin Ritt, Franklin Schaffner, Arthur Penn, and John...

Trynin, Jen. Everything I'm Cracked Up to Be: A Rock & Roll Fairy Tale.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Trynin, Jen. Everything I'm Cracked Up to Be: A Rock & Roll Fairy Tale. Feb. 2006. 368p. Harcourt, $23 (0-15-101148-6). 782.42166. What happens when you get what you want? The question haunts this funny, ultimately poignant memoir of a...

Clark, Dave. The Knucklebook: Everything You Need to Know about Baseball's Strangest Pitch--the Knuckleball.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Clark, Dave. The Knucklebook: Everything You Need to Know about Baseball's Strangest Pitch--the Knuckleball. Mar. 2006. 136p. illus. index. Ivan R. Dee, $19.95 (1-56663-661-2). 796.357. The subtitle gets it right: the knuckleball is a very...

Gay, Timothy M. Tris Speaker: The Rough-and-Tumble Life of a Baseball Legend.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Gay, Timothy M. Tris Speaker: The Rough-and-Tumble Life of a Baseball Legend. Jan. 2006. 368p. illus. index. Univ. of Nebraska, $27.95 (0-8032-2206-9). 796.357. Hall of Fame outfielder Speaker was a contemporary of Ty Cobb and Shoeless Joe...

Greenberg, Mike. Why My Wife Thinks I'm an Idiot: The Life and Times of a Sportscaster Dad.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Greenberg, Mike. Why My Wife Thinks I'm an Idiot: The Life and Times of a Sportscaster Dad. Mar. 2006. 240p. Villard, $22.95 (1-4000-6438-4). 791. Greenberg is half of the Mike and Mike in the Morning sports-chat radio show on ESPN radio...

Godwin, Gail. The Making of a Writer: Journals, 1961-1963.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... * Godwin, Gail. The Making of a Writer: Journals, 1961-1963. Ed. by Rob Neufeld. Jan. 2006. 352p. index. Random, $25.95 (1-4000-6432-5). 813. When Godwin decided to publish her journals, she enlisted the help of librarian and critic Rob...

Lombardo, John. A Fire to Win: The Life and Times of Woody Hayes.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Lombardo, John. A Fire to Win: The Life and Times of Woody Hayes. 2005. 506p. illus. index. St. Martin's, $24.95 (0-312-32518-5). 796.323. Legendary Ohio State football coach Woody Hayes died in 1987, but his legacy lives on. Lombardo...

The Perfect Team: The Best Players, Coach, and GM--Let the Debate Begin!(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... The Perfect Team: The Best Players, Coach, and GM--Let the Debate Begin! Jan. 2006. 336p. illus. Doubleday, $23.95 (0-385-50146-3). 796.323. Initiate a debate over the "best ever" in any sport, and settle in for a spirited exchange of...

Bittlestone, Robert. Odysseus Unbound: The Search for Homer's Ithaca.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Bittlestone, Robert. Odysseus Unbound: The Search for Homer's Ithaca. 2005. 516p. illus. Cambridge, $40 (0-521-85357-5). 883. The discovery of historical Troy in the 1870s instigated the hunt for historical Ithaca, but the island today...

Rodgers, Marion Elizabeth. Mencken: The American Iconoclast: The Life and Times of the Bad Boy of Baltimore.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... * Rodgers, Marion Elizabeth. Mencken: The American Iconoclast: The Life and Times of the Bad Boy of Baltimore. 2005. 600p. illus. index. Oxford, $35 (0-19-507238-3). 818. Just before graduating from Goucher College, Rodgers came upon a box...

Worthen, John. D. H. Lawrence: The Life of an Outsider.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Worthen, John. D. H. Lawrence: The Life of an Outsider. Dec. 2005.544p. illus, index. Counterpoint, $29.95 (1-58243-341-0). 823. Worthen's D. H. Lawrence: The Early Years (1991), the first volume in Cambridge's three-volume life, remains...

"Words for the Hour": A New Anthology of American Civil War Poetry.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... * "Words for the Hour": A New Anthology of American Civil War Poetry. Ed. by Faith Barrett and Cristanne Miller. Dec. 2005.432p. illus. index. Univ. of Massachusetts, $80 (1-55849-510-X); paper, $24.95 (1-55849509-6). 811.008. The Columbia...

DeFazio, Albert J. Dear Papa, Dear Hotch: The Correspondence of Ernest Hemingway and A. E. Hotchner.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... DeFazio, Albert J. Dear Papa, Dear Hotch: The Correspondence of Ernest Hemingway and A. E. Hotchner. Dec. 2005. 368p. illus. index. Univ. of Missouri, $34.95 (0-82621605-6). 813. Hotchner first met Hemingway in Cuba in 1948 when he tried to...

DeLillo, Don. Love-Lies-Bleeding.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... DeLillo, Don. Love-Lies-Bleeding. Jan. 2006. 112p. Scribner, $20 (0-7432-7305-2); paper, $12 (0-7432-7306-0). 812. Master novelist DeLillo revels in the concentration of theater. His third play, a pared-down drama,-centers on Alex, a vital...

Smith, Mary-Ann Tirone. Girls of Tender Age.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Smith, Mary-Ann Throne. Girls of Tender Age. Jan. 2006. 288p. illus. Free Press, $24 (0-7432-7977-8). 813. Sometimes the most shocking thing about evil is its seemingly easy, secret existence in banal environs. Novelist Smith's engrossing...

Barnes, Djuna, Collected Poems.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Barnes, Djuna, Collected Poems. Ed. by Phillip Herring and Osias Stutman. Jan. 2006. 284p. illus. Univ. of Wisconsin, $65 (0-299-21230-0); paper, $24.95 (0-29921234-3). 818. Djuna Barnes may seem like a one-hit wonder to readers familiar...

Bukowski, Charles. Come on In! New Poems.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Bukowski, Charles. Come on In! New Poems. Ed. by John Martin. Jan. 2006. 288p. Ecco, $27.50 (0-06-057705-3). 811. What other contemporary poet has posthumously published as much as Bukowski? This is his eighth postmortem collection. Three...

Villon, Francois. Ask the Wolf: Ballads and Bequests from Le Testament.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Villon, Francois. Ask the Wolf: Ballads and Bequests from Le Testament. Tr. by Taylor Stoehr. Jan. 2006.68p. illus. Unicorn, $25.95 (0-87775-271-0); paper, $12.95 (0-87775-259-1). 841. Translator Stoehr prefaces his potent selection from...

Benanav, Michael. Men of Salt: Across the Sahara with the Caravan of White Gold.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Benanav, Michael. Men of Salt: Across the Sahara with the Caravan of White Gold. Jan. 2006. 256p. Lyons, $23.95 (1-59228-772-7). 916.604. Benanav reveals that for the last 1,000 years, the so-called caravan of white gold has plied the...

Kryza, Frank T. The Race for Timbuktu: In Search of Africa's City of Gold.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Kryza, Frank T. The Race for Timbuktu: In Search of Africa's City of Gold. Jan. 2006. 352p. illus, index. Ecco, $24.95 (0-06056064-9). 966.23. Timbuktu is in the center of Mall on the southern edge of the Sahara. In the first two decades...

Whitfield, Peter. Cities of the World: A History in Maps.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Whitfield, Peter. Cities of the World: A History in Maps. 2005. 208p. illus, index. Univ. of California, $39.95 (0-52024725-6). 911.1. In this collection of historical maps of about 60 cities, Whitfield, an eminent historian of cartography,...

De Porti, Andrea. Explorers: The Most Exciting Voyages of Discovery--from the African Expeditions to the Lunar Landing.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... De Porti, Andrea. Explorers: The Most Exciting : Voyages of Discovery--from the African Expeditions to the Lunar Landing. 2005. 174p. illus, index. Firefly, $49.95 (1-55407-101-1). 910.92. De Porti points out in a preface that when Yuri...

Chaffin, Tom. Sea of Gray: The Around-the-World Odyssey of the Confederate Raider Shenandoah.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Chaffin, Tom. Sea of Gray: The Around-the-World Odyssey of the Confederate Raider Shenandoah. Feb. 2006. 400p. illus, index. Hill & Wang, $25 (0-8090-9511-4). 973.7. Chaffin chronicles the remarkable story of the Shenandoah's 58,000-mile...

Clark, Victoria. Holy Fire: The Battle for Christ's Tomb.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Clark, Victoria. Holy Fire: The Battle for Christ's Tomb. Dec. 2005. 430p. index. Mac Adam/Cage, $28.50 (1-59692-156-6). 956.944. As if it weren't enough that Jerusalem is a battleground for clashes between Jews, Muslims, and Christians, it...

DiSilvestro, Roger. In the Shadow of Wounded Knee: The Untold Final Story of the Indian Wars.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... DiSilvestro, Roger. In the Shadow of Wounded Knee: The Untold Final Story of the Indian Wars. Jan. 2006. 272p. illus. index. Walker, $24 (0-8027-1461-9). 973.8. Contrary to popular belief, the slaughter of the Ghost Dancers at Wounded Knee...

Dunlop, Nic. The Lost Executioner: A Journey to the Heart of the Killing Fields.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... * Dunlop, Nic. The Lost Executioner: A Journey to the Heart of the Killing Fields. Feb. 2006. 352p. illus. Walker, $24 (0-8027-1472-2). 959.6402. Irish photographer Dunlop steps out from behind the camera to render this visceral account of...

Grayling, A. C. Among the Dead Cities: Was the WWII Bombing of Civilians in Germany and Japan a Necessity or a Crime?(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... * Grayling, A. C. Among the Dead Cities: Was the WWII Bombing of Civilians in Germany and Japan a Necessity or a Crime? Mar. 2006. 384p. illus, index. Walker, $25 (0-8027-1471-4). 940-544 Was it wrong for the Allies to bomb German and...

Haufler, Hervie. The Spies Who Never Were: The True Story of the Nazi Spies Who Were Actually Allied Double Agents.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Haufler, Hervie. The Spies Who Never Were: The True Story of the Nazi Spies Who Were Actually Allied Double Agents. Jan. 2006. 240p. NAL/Caliber, paper, $14 (0-451-21751-9). 940.54. In mid-1940, German chancellor Adolf Hitler ordered the...

Jardine, Lisa. The Awful End of Prince William the Silent: "The First Assassination of a Head of State with a Handgun.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Jardine, Lisa. The Awful End of Prince William the Silent: "The First Assassination of a Head of State with a Handgun. Feb. 2006. 176p. illus, index. HarperCollins, $19.95 (0-06-083835-3). 948.203. Disregard the limited reader appeal...

Knight, Roger. The Pursuit of Victory: The Life and Achievement of Horatio Nelson.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Knight, Roger. "The Pursuit of Victory: The Life and Achievement of Horatio Nelson. Dec. 2005. 912p. illus, index. Basic, $35 (0-465-03764-X). 941.073. While naval-history readers anticipate the completion of John Sugden's biography...

Krauss, Erich. Wave of Destruction: The Stories of Four Families and History's Deadliest Tsunami.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Krauss, Erich. Wave of Destruction: The Stories of Four Families and History's Deadliest Tsunami. Dec. 2005. 256p. Rodale, $24.95 (1-59486-378-4). 959.304. Krauss, a specialist in natural disasters and author of Wall of Flame, an account...

Liebman, Marcel. Born Jewish: A Childhood in Occupied Europe.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Liebman, Marcel. Born Jewish: A Childhood in Occupied Europe. Tr. by Jaqueline Rose. Dec. 2005. 182p. illus. index. Verso, $25 (1-84467-039-2). 940.53. This is a personal account of Liebman's life as a child in Nazi-occupied Belgium. His...

Kimmel, Haven. She Got Up off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Kimmel, Haven. She Got Up off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana. Jan. 2006.288p. Free Press, $24 (0-7432-8499-2). 977.2. Zippy Jarvis is, in many ways, a typical kid growing up in 1960s rural Indiana: riding bikes...

Morrow, Lance. Second Drafts of History and Other Essays.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... * Morrow, Lance. Second Drafts of History and Other Essays. Jan. 2006. 288p. Basic, $26.95 (0-465-04750-5). 900. In 40 years as a journalist and essayist, Morrow has earned a reputation for both perspicacity and pith. His meditations...

Ridgeway, James. The 5 Unanswered Questions about 9/11: What the 9/11 Commission Report Failed to Tell Us.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Ridgeway, James. The 5 Unanswered Questions about 9/11: What the 9/11 Commission Report Failed to Tell Us. 2005. 192p. Seven Stories, paper, $16.95 (1-58322-712-1). 973.931. Ridgeway, Washington correspondent for the Village Voice, finds no...

Schecter, Barnet. The Devil's Own Work: The Civil War Draft Riots and the Fight to Reconstruct America.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Schecter, Barnet. The Devil's Own Work: The Civil War Draft Riots and the Fight to Reconstruct America. Jan. 2006. 322p. illus. index. Walker, $27 (0-8027-1439-0). 974.7. When fireman Peter Masterson led a mob's attack on a federal draft...

Stuart, Amanda Mackenzie. Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Smart, Amanda Mackenzie. Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age. Jan. 2006. 592p. illus, index. HarperCollins, $27.95 (0-06-621418-1). 973.80. In a later era, Alva Smith might have been a...

Thrane, Susan W. and Patterson, Tom. State Houses: America's 50 State Capitol Buildings.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Thrane, Susan W. and Patterson, Tom. State Houses: America's 50 State Capitol Buildings. 2005. 336p. illus, index. Boston Mills; dist. by Firefly, $49.95 (1-55046-457-4). 973. This lovely large-format book takes readers on a cross-country...

Wills, Chuck. Destination America: The People and Cultures That Created a Nation.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Wills, Chuck. Destination America: The People and Cultures That Created a Nation. 2005. 284p. illus, index. DK, $35 (0-75661344-2). 973. Accompanying a PBS series, this book explores the historical issues that pushed or pulled people from...

Cerveny, Randy. Freaks of the Storm: From Flying Cows to Stealing Thunder.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Cerveny, Randy. Freaks of the Storm: From Flying Cows to Stealing Thunder. Jan. 2006. 368p. illus. Thunder's Mouth, paper, $16.95 (1-56025-801-2). 551.5. In October 1947, in Marksville, Louisiana, hundreds of fish were falling from the...

Conversations with Carl Sagan.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Conversations with Carl Sagan. Ed. by Tom Head. Dec. 2005. 194p. index. Univ. Press of Mississippi, $50 (1-57806-735-9); paper, $20 (1-57806-736-7). 520 It's rare for a scientist to have enough cultural cachet to become the subject of...

Cook, Mariana. Faces of Science: Portraits.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Cook, Mariana. Faces of Science: Portraits. 2005. 176p. illus, index. Norton, $39.95 (0-393-06118-3). 509.2. Photography books about writers and artists abound, but rarely do we sec images of the other creative tribe, scientists. Cook,...

Danson, Edwin. Weighing the World: The Quest to Measure the Earth.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Danson, Edwin. Weighing the World: The Quest to Measure the Earth. Dec. 2005. 272p. illus. Oxford, $29.95 (0-19-518169-7). 526.1 Questions about the earth's true shape and dimension plagued everyone, especially scientists and soldiers,...

Emanuel, Kerry. Divine Wind: The History and Science of Hurricanes.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Emanuel, Kerry. Divine Wind: The History and Science of Hurricanes. 2005. 304p. illus. index. Oxford, $45 (0-19-514941-6). 551.55. Named for the evil Caribbean deity Huracan, hurricanes are presented in verse, art, history, and science in...

Sawyer, Kathy. The Rock from Mars: A True Detective Story on Two Planets.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... * Sawyer, Kathy. The Rock from Mars: A True Detective Story on Two Planets. Feb. 2006.416p. illus, index. Random, $25.95 (1-4000-6010-9). 576.8. Meteorites stand out against Antarctica's white crystal desert, which is where Roberta Score...

Kanipe, Jeff. Chasing Hubble's Shadows: The Search for Galaxies at the Edge of Time.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Kanipe, Jeff. Chasing Hubble's Shadows: The Search for Galaxies at the Edge of Time. Feb. 2006. 224p. illus, index. Hill & Wang, $23 (0-8090-3406-9) 523.1. Current research on the earliest galaxies engages the interest of astronomy...

Lemov, Rebecca. World as Laboratory: Experiments with Mice, Mazes, and Men.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Lemov, Rebecca. World as Laboratory: Experiments with Mice, Mazes, and Men. Dec. 2005. 288p. illus, index. Hill & Wang, $25 (0-8090-7464-8) 303.48 Lemov explores the behavioral sciences during the years 1900-60, after which much of the...