Booklist articles from July 2005

Booklist archives from July 2005

Berendt, John. The City of Falling Angels.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Berendt, John. The City of Falling Angels. Sept. 2005. 410p. Penguin, $25.95 (1-59420-058-0). 914.45. The author's phenomenally best-selling Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1994), which, for a record-breaking four years, remained...

Bryant, Howard. Juicing the Game: Drugs, Power, and the Fight for the Soul of Major League Baseball.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Bryant, Howard. Juicing the Game: Drugs, Power, and the Fight for the Soul of Major League Baseball. July 2005. 424p. Viking, $24.95 (0-67003445-2). 796.357. Boston Herald sports columnist Bryant gives the full history behind the steroids...

Good Poems for Hard Times.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Good Poems for Hard Times. Ed. by Garrison Keillor. Sept. 2005. 352p. index. Viking, $25.95 (0-670-03436-3). 811.008 Having revived the radio variety program with A Prairie Home Companion, Garrison Keillor turned to broadcasting poetry in...

Hawking, Stephen and Mlodinow, Leonard. A Briefer History of Time.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Hawking, Stephen and Mlodinow, Leonard. A Briefer History of Time. Sept. 2005. 176p. illus. index. Bantam, $25 (0-553-80436-7). 523.1 Theoretical physicist Hawking became an international celebrity thanks to his cosmological primer A Brief...

Helms, Jesse. Here's Where I Stand: A Memoir.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Helms, Jesse. Here's Where I Stand. Sept. 2005.336p. illus, index. Random, $25.95 (0-375-50884-8). 328.73. For most of 30 years, 1973-2003, Helms was the most reviled and despised U.S. senator, though about 53 percent of North Carolina's...

Mansfield, Stephen. Pope Benedict XVI: His Life and Mission.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Mansfield, Stephen. Pope Benedict XVI: His Life and Mission. Aug. 2005. 208p. Tarcher, $19.95 (1-58542-450-1). 282. Before his election, the new pope was much more famous than was Karol Wojtyla before his. Joseph Ratzinger had long served...

Baden, Michael and Kenney, Linda. Remains Silent.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Baden, Michael and Kenney, Linda. Remains Silent. Aug. 2005. 336p. Knopf, $22.95 (1-4000-4419-7). Baden, a former medical examiner and host of the HBO series Autopsy, and Kenney, a legal analyst for several cable news programs, add some...

Brown, Rita Mae. The Hunt Ball.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Brown, Rita Mae. The Hunt Ball. Aug. 2005.336p. Ballantine, $24.95 (0-345-46549-0). That this latest offering from Brown is an extended homage to foxhunting with a thin mystery plot tossed in doesn't really matter. Not even the huge cast...

Cannell, Stephen J. Cold Hit.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Cannell, Stephen J. Cold Hit. Aug. 2005. 384p. St. Martin's, $24.95 (0-312-34730-7). In his new outing, L.A. homicide detective Shane Scully has too many things to deal with. There's the latest in a string of serial murders, although Shane...

Coelho, Paulo. The Zahir: A Novel of Obession.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Coelho, Paulo. The Zahir. Tr. by Margaret Jull Costa. Sept. 2005.304p. HarperCollins, $24.95 (0-06-082521-9). Subtitled A Novel of Obsession, this tale is the philosophical and spiritual chronicle of one man's quest for self-discovery....

Coetzee, J. M. Slow Man.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Coetzee, J. M. Slow Man. Sept. 2005. 263p. Viking, $24.95 (0-670-03459-2). South African Nobel laureate Coetzee sets his new novel in Australia, his current residence. It could have been a good book. The power of his prose--at once nimble...

McBain, Ed. Fiddlers.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... * McBain, Ed. Fiddlers. Sept. 2005. 272p. Harcourt/Otto Penzler, $25 (0-15-101216-4). A blind violinist is shot in the alley behind the restaurant where he works. A sales rep is gunned down in her apartment while cooking dinner. They are...

Evans, Nicholas. The Divide.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Evans, Nicholas. The Divide. Sept. 2005. 400p. Putnam, $26.95 (0-399-15206-7). Evans demonstrates the same intricacy of plot and depth of characterization that defined his international best-seller The Horse Whisperer (1995). When the...

Gerritsen, Tess. Vanish.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Gerritsen, Tess. Vanish. Aug. 2005. 352p. Ballantine, $24.95 (0-34547697-2). Dr. Maura Isles has barely had time to recover from the startling revelations about her family in Body Double (2004) when she discovers one of the corpses in her...

Harrison, Jim. The Summer He Didn't Die.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Harrison, Jim. The Summer He Didn't Die. Aug. 2005.288p. Grove/ Atlantic, $24 (0-87113-892-1). In the first novella in this collection of three, "The Summer He Didn't Die," Harrison resurrects northern Michigan denizen Brown Dog, last...

Maxwell, Robin. To the Tower Born.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Maxwell, Robin. To the Tower Born. Sept. 2005. 320p. Morrow, $24.95 (0-06-058051-8). Maxwell is one of the most popular-and one of the best-historical novelists currently mining the rich vein of Tudor history. She is the author of the...

McCall Smith, Alexander. Friends, Lovers, Chocolate.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... * McCall Smith, Alexander. Friends, Lovers, Chocolate. Sept. 2005. 288p. Pantheon, $21.95 (0-375-42299-4). Moral dilemmas and mysteries of the heart suffuse this second installment from the Sunday Philosophy Club, Scotsman McCall Smith's...

Preston, Douglas. Tyrannosaur Canyon.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Preston, Douglas. Tyrannosaur Canyon. Sept. 2005.366p. Forge, $24.95 (0-765-31104-6). Tom Broadbent and Sally Colorado, introduced in The Codex (2004), Preston's first book without writing partner Lincoln Childs, reprise some of their...

Rendell, Ruth. Thirteen Steps Down.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Rendell, Ruth. Thirteen Steps Down. Oct. 2005. 352p. Crown, $25 (1-4000-9842-4). Rendell, like P. D. James (to whom she dedicates this book), has mastered the peculiarly British form of chiller, in which a matter-of-fact narrator guides...

Saul, John. Perfect Nightmare.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Saul, John. Perfect Nightmare. Aug. 2005. 352p. Ballantine, $25.95 (0-345-46731-0). Saul's take on the sexual-psychopath thriller, whose grand master is surely Thomas Harris in Red Dragon (1981) and The Silence of the Lambs (1988), and...

Siddons, Anne Rivers. Sweetwater Creek.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Siddons, Anne Rivers. Sweetwater Creek. Aug. 2005. 368p. HarperCollins, $24.95 (0-06-621335-5). Since her mother left and her dear brother died, Emily Parmenter, 12, walks around Sweetwater Farm on eggshells, unnoticed by what's left of...

Moody, Rick. The Diviners.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... * Moody, Rick. The Diviners. Sept. 2005. 512p. Little, Brown, $25.95 (0-316-08539-1). In a dizzying, exhilarating comic narrative, Moody follows the doings of Move On Productions and their feverish attempts to launch the miniseries The...

Phillips, Caryl. Dancing in the Dark.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... * Phillips, Caryl. Dancing in the Dark. Sept. 2005. 224p. Knopf, $23.95 (1-4000-4396-4). With each penetrating and resonant book, Phillips opens another window onto the paradoxes and suffering endured by people of color in white-biased...

Slaughter, Karin. Faithless.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Slaughter, Karin. Faithless. Aug. 2005. 393p. Delacorte, $25 (0-385-33945-3). Slaughter's dark, forensic-driven Grant County series of crime novels has always drawn a thin line between the members of the law-enforcement team and the...

Tanenbaum, Robert K. Fury.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Tanenbaum, Robert K. Fury. Sept. 2005.496p. Atria, $25.95 (0-7434-5290-9). Courtroom maneuvering (as well as the detective work behind it) and family relationships have always been hallmarks of Tanenbaum's Butch Karp-Marlene Ciampi series....

Weisberger, Lauren. Everyone Worth Knowing.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Weisberger, Lauren. Everyone Worth Knowing. Oct. 2005. 367p. Simon & Schuster, $23.95 (0-7432-6229-8). Weisberger, the infamous former Vogue employee and best-selling author of The Devil Wears Prada (2003), returns to the chick-lit arena...

Upcoming in Upfront nonfiction.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... The titles listed below are scheduled for fall, winter, or spring 2005-2006 publication. Look for part 2 of our Upcoming in Upfront, which will feature fiction titles, in the August issue. Alda, Alan. Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other...

Chalker, Bill. Hair of the Alien: DNA and Other Forensic Evidence for Alien Abductions.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Chalker, Bill. Hair of the Alien: DNA and Other Forensic Evidence for Alien Abductions. July 2005. 192p. Pocket/ Paraview, paper, $14 (0-7434-9286-2). 001.942. One of the barriers to accepting stories of alien abduction is the complete...

Gardner, Sarah. Read It and Eat: A Month-by-Month Guide to Scintillating Book Club Selections and Mouthwatering Menus.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Gardner, Sarah. Read It and Eat: A Month-by-Month Guide to Scintillating Book Club Selections and Mouthwatering Menus. July 2005. 320p. index. Penguin/Hudson Street, $17.95 (1-594-63004-6). 028. Some book clubs feed the body as well as the...

Barrow, John D. The Infinite Book: A Short Guide to the Boundless, Timeless and Endless.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Barrow, John D. The Infinite Book: A Short Guide to the Boundless, Timeless and Endless. Aug. 2005. 352p. illus. index. Pantheon, $26 (0-375-42227-7). 111. As prolific science writer and physicist Barrow regularly remarks, infinity is not...

Nettle, Daniel. Happiness: The Science behind Your Smile.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Nettle, Daniel. Happiness: The Science behind Your Smile. July 2005. 208p. illus. Oxford, $21 (0-19-280558-4). 1524. The Declaration of Independence guarantees the right to pursue it. The government of the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan...

Gillespie, Hollis. Confessions of a Recovering Slut & Other Love Stories.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... * Gillespie, Hollis. Confessions of a Recovering Slut & Other Love Stories. July 2005.272p. Regan, $24.95 (0-06-056207-2). 070.92. Gillespie's knack for keeping questionable company is rivaled only by her ability to write about it in...

Alexander, Bevin. How America Got It Right: The U.S. March to Military and Political Supremacy.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Alexander, Bevin. How America Got It Right: The U.S. March to Military and Political Supremacy. July 2005. 320p. index. Crown, $25.95 (1-4000-5288-2). 327.73. This is a feel-good book for those who are convinced the U.S. role in world...

DeJean, Joan. The Essence of Style: How the French Invented High Fashion, Fine Food, Chic Cafes, Style, Sophistication, and Glamour.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... DeJean, Joan. The Essence of Style: How the French Invented High Fashion, Fine Food, Chic Cafes, Style, Sophistication, and Glamour. July 2005. 320p. illus, index. Free Press, $25 (0-7432-6413-4). 391. The first hairdresser, the first...

Dorr, Robert F. Chopper: A History of American Military Helicopter Operations from WWII to the War on Terror.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Dorr, Robert F. Chopper: A History of American Military Helicopter Operations from WWII to the War on Terror. July 2005. 384p. illus. Berkley/Caliber, $24.95 (0-42520273-9). 358.4 This history of American helicopters in combat manages to be...

Fletcher, Nichola. Charlemagne's Tablecloth: A Piquant History of Feasting.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Fletcher, Nichola. Charlemagne's Tablecloth: A Piquant History of Feasting. Aug. 2005. 256p. illus, index. St. Martin's, $24.95 (0-31234068-0). 394.1. For this savory history, Fletcher adopts the broadest possible definition of feasting,...

Garin, Kristoffer A. Devils on the Deep Blue Sea: The Dreams, Schemes and Showdowns That Built America's Cruise-Ship Empires.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Garin, Kristoffer A. Devils on the Deep Blue Sea: The Dreams, Schemes and Showdowns That Built America's Cruise-Ship Empires. July 2005. 354p. index. Viking, $24.95 (0-670-03418-5). 387.5. Fitting its raucous subject, Garin's history of...

Berry, Mary Frances. My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... * Berry, Mary Frances. My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations. Sept. 2005. 320p. illus. Knopf, $26.95 (1-4000-4003-5). 323. Callie House, a seamstress and laundress born into slavery in 1861,...

Tougias, Michael J. Ten Hours until Dawn: The True Story of Heroism and Tragedy aboard the Can Do.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... * Tougias, Michael J. Ten Hours until Dawn: The True Story of Heroism and Tragedy aboard the Can Do. Aug. 2005. 320p. illus. St. Martin's, $24.95 (0-312-33435-4). 363.12. Arguably the best story of peril at sea since Sebastian Junger's...

Gibson, Truman K. and Huntley, Steve. Knocking Down Barriers: Fighting for Black America.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Gibson, Truman K. and Huntley, Steve. Knocking Down Barriers: Fighting for Black America. Aug. 2005. 352p. illus. index. Northwestern Univ., $21.95 (0-8101-2292-8). 305.895. At a time when African Americans were barely allowed in the armed...

Peters, Charles. Five Days in Philadelphia: Wendell Willkie, FDR & the 1940 Convention That Saved the Western World.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Peters, Charles. Five Days in Philadelphia: Wendell Willkie, FDR & the 1940 Convention That Saved the Western World. July 2005. 256p. illus, index. PublicAffairs, $26 (1-58648-112-6). 324.27. Those who view the current political...

Rathbone, Cristina. A World Apart: Women, Prison, and Life behind Bars.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Rathbone, Cristina. A World Apart: Women, Prison, and Life behind Bars. July 2005. 288p. Random, $24.95 (1-4000-6166-0). 365. Journalist Rathbone offers a broad yet intimate portrait of life behind bars for women prisoners in MCI...

Richardson, John H. My Father the Spy: A Family History of the CIA, the Cold War, and the Sixties.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Richardson, John H. My Father the Spy: A Family History of the CIA, the Cold War, and the Sixties. Aug. 2005. 336p. illus. HarperCollins, $24.95 (0-06-051035-8). 327.12. When Esquire writer-at-large Richardson tried to learn more about his...

Seaman, Barrett. Res Life: How College Students Are Really Living Today.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Seaman, Barrett. Res Life: How College Students Are Really Living Today. July 2005. 320p. index. Wiley, $25.95 (0-471-49119-5). 378.1. After living in student housing, interviewing students and administrators, and driving around with campus...

Simpson, John Warfield. Dam! Water, Power, Politics, and Preservation in Hetch Hetchy and Yosemite National Park.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Simpson, John Warfield. Dam! Water, Power, Politics, and Preservation in Hetch Hetchy and Yosemite National Park. July 2005. 400p. index. Pantheon, $28.50 (0-375-42231-5). 363.6. Yosemite Valley, California, is known worldwide as a place of...

Wagner, Pamela Spiro and Spiro, Carolyn S. Divided Minds: Twin Sisters and Their Journey through Schizophrenia.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Wagner, Pamela Spiro and Spiro, Carolyn S. Divided Minds: Twin Sisters and Their Journey through Schizophrenia. Aug. 2005. 336p. illus. St. Martin's, $24.95 (0-312-32064-7). 362.196. For many, the idea of being one of identical twins--and...

Walters, Ronald W. Freedom Is Not Enough: Black Voters, Black Candidates, and American Presidential Politics.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Walters, Ronald W. Freedom Is Not Enough: Black Voters, Black Candidates, and American Presidential Politics. July 2005. 256p. index. Rowman & Littlefield, $27.95 (0-7425-3837-0). 324.6. Even as the nation prepares to celebrate the fortieth...

Wilson, Phillip. Driver: Six Weeks in an Eighteen-Wheeler.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Wilson, Phillip. Driver: Six Weeks in an Eighteen-Wheeler. July 2005. 384p. Lyons, $22.95 (1-59228-679-8). 388.3. This is one of those books you can judge by its cover; heck, the title alone tells you what to expect. This is the story of a...

Cauley, Leslie. End of the Line: The Rise and Fall of AT&T.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Cauley, Leslie. End of the Line: The Rise and Fall of AT&T. Aug. 2005. 303p. index. Free Press, $26 (0-7432-5025-7). 384. In July 2004, when AT&T announced that it would stop marketing long-distance phone service to consumers, it sent a...

Christopher, Doris. The Pampered Chef: The Story of One of America's Most Beloved Companies.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Christopher, Doris. The Pampered Chef: The Story of One of America's Most Beloved Companies. July 2005. 288p. Doubleday/ Currency, $24.95 (0-385-51535-9). 381. Starting from her basement, underchallenged housewife Doris Christopher built a...

Fleischer, Charles H. HR for Small Business: From Hiring and Firing and Everything In-Between.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Fleischer, Charles H. HR for Small Business: From Hiring and Firing and Everything In-Between. July 2005. 336p. index. Sphinx, paper, $14.95 (1-57248-504-3). 658.3. This incredibly dry text is intended to keep companies and the managers...

Gottry, Steve and Blanchard, Ken. Common Sense Business: Starting, Operating, and Growing Your Small Business--in Any Economy!(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Gottry, Steve and Blanchard, Ken. Common Sense Business: Starting, Operating, and Growing Your Small Business--in Any Economy! 2005. 368p. index. HarperBusiness, $19.95 (0-06077838-5). 658.02. In 1993 Blanchard's award-winning advertising...

Jaffe, Joseph. Life After the 30-Second Spot: Energize Your Brand with Bold Alternatives to Traditional Advertising.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Jaffe, Joseph. Life after the 30-Second Spot: Energize Your Brand with Bold Alternatives to Traditional Advertising. July 2005. 276p. illus. index. Wiley, $29.95 (0-471-71837-8). 659.1. Jaffe, marketing consultant and former advertising...

Lynn, Barry C. End of the Line: The Rise and Coming Fall of the Global Corporation.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Lynn, Barry C. End of the Line: The Rise and Coming Fall of the Global Corporation. Aug. 2005. 320p. index. Doubleday, $26 (0-385-51024-1). 338.8. About globalization Lynn observes, "Our corporations have built the most efficient system of...

McCoy, Elin. The Emperor of Wine: The Rise of Robert M. Parker, Jr., and the Reign of American Taste.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... McCoy, Elin. The Emperor of Wine: The Rise of Robert M. Parker, Jr., and the Reign of American Taste. July 2005. 304p. illus. index. Ecco, $25.95 (0-06-009368-4). 338.4. Wine critic Robert Parker, explains McCoy in this engaging new...

Retire Worry-Free- Money-Smart Ways to Build the Nest Egg You'll Need.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Retire Worry-Free- Money-Smart Ways to Build the Nest Egg You'll Need. 5th ed. 2005. 280p. index. Dearborn, paper, $17.95 (1-4195-0515-7). 332.024. There is something inherently comforting about a retirement guide in its fifth...

Charles, Daniel. Master Mind: The Rise and Fall of Fritz Haber, the Nobel Laureate Who Launched the Age of Chemical Warfare.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Charles, Daniel. Master Mind: The Rise and Fall of Fritz Haber, the Nobel Laureate Who Launched the Age of Chemical Warfare. Aug. 2005. 336p. Ecco, $24.95 (0-06-056272-2). 540. Charles delivers an eminently readable account of German...

Helfer, Ralph. Zamba: The True Story of the Greatest Lion That Ever Lived.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Helfer, Ralph. Zamba: The True Story of the Greatest Lion That Ever Lived. July 2005. 272p. illus. HarperCollins, $24.95 (0-06076132-6). 599.757. Growing up on Chicago's South Side, Helfer always dreamed of animals. When his family moved...

Jans, Nick. The Grizzly Maze: Timothy Treadwell's Fatal Obsession with Alaskan Bears.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Jans, Nick. The Grizzly Maze: Timothy Treadwell's Fatal Obsession with Alaskan Bears. July 2005. 272p. index. Dutton, $24.95 (0-525-94886-4). 599.784. Timothy Treadwell was a truly self-made man; born in New York as Timothy Dexter, he...

Pearce, Fred. Deep Jungle.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Pearce, Fred. Deep Jungle. July 2005. 290p. illus, index. Eden Project; dist. by Trafalgar, $30 (1-903-91955-)0. 577.34. The jungle is one of the most complex places on our planet and a habitat for which humans have always had a love-hate...

Squyres, Steve. Roving Mars: Spirit, Opportunity, and the Exploration of the Red Planet.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Squyres, Steve. Roving Mars: Spirit, Opportunity, and the Exploration of the Red Planet. Aug. 2005. 432p. Hyperion, $25.95 (1-4013-0149-5). 523.43. NASA's two rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, which are currently driving around Mars, have...

Watson, Fred. Stargazer: The Life and Times of the Telescope.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Watson, Fred. Stargazer: The Life and Times of the Telescope. Aug. 2005. 352p. illus, index. Da Capo, $24.95 (0-306-81432-2). 522.2. This saga of astronomers afflicted with "aperture fever," Watson's diagnosis of the drive to construct...

Barger, Sonny. Freedom: Credos from the Road.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Barger, Sonny. Freedom: Credos from the Road. July 2005. 224p. Morrow, $14.95 (0-06-053256-4). 646.7. After a couple of memoirs, a novel, and an anecdote collection, Barger presents words to live by, aimed at chopper pilots but actually...

Kindstedt, Paul and others. American Farmstead Cheese: A Practical Guide to Making and Selling Artisan Cheeses.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Kindstedt, Paul and others. American Farmstead Cheese: A Practical Guide to Making and Selling Artisan Cheeses. July 2005. 320p. Chelsea Green, $40 (1-93149877-6). 637. Not so very long ago the term "American cheese" meant a bland product...

Weiss, Mike. A Very Good Year: The Journey of a California Wine from Vine to Table.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Weiss, Mike. A Very Good Year: The Journey of a California Wine from Vine to Table. July 2005. 336p. index. Gotham, $26 (1-592-40129-5). 663. Weiss tracks the production of a single bottle of California wine from the vine to its appearance...

Walker, Stephen. Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... * Walker, Stephen. Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima. Aug. 2005. 384p. HarperCollins, $26.95 (0-06-074284-4). 623.4. Every account of the destruction of Hiroshima is dramatic, but historian and filmmaker Walker has created an exceptionally...

Waldman, Murray and Lamb, Marjorie. Dying for a Hamburger: Modern Meat Processing and the Epidemic of Alzheimer's Disease.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Waldman, Murray and Lamb, Marjorie. Dying for a Hamburger: Modern Meat Processing and the Epidemic of Alzheimer's Disease. July 2005. 320p. index. St. Martin's/ Thomas Dunne, $24.95 (0-312-34015-X). 614.5. Waldman and Lamb open with the...

Zugibe, Fredick and Carroll, David L. Dissecting Death: Secrets of a Medical Examiner.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Zugibe, Fredick and Carroll, David L. Dissecting Death: Secrets of a Medical Examiner. Aug. 2005. 256p. Broadway, $24.95 (0-7679-1879-7). 616.07. Former Rockland County, New York, chief medical examiner Zugibe reveals how he helped solve...

Bennett, Jennifer. Dryland Gardening: Plants That Survive and Thrive in Tough Conditions.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Bennett, Jennifer. Dryland Gardening: Plants That Survive and Thrive in Tough Conditions. July 2005. 192p. illus, index. Firefly, paper, $24.95 (1-55407-031-7). 635.9. One need not live in the Southwest to welcome information on gardening...

Tornabene, Wanda and others. 100 Ways to Be Pasta: Perfect Pasta Recipes from Gangivecchio.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Tornabene, Wanda and others. 100 Ways to Be Pasta: Perfect Pasta Recipes from Gangivecchio. Sept. 2005. 208p. illus, index. Knopf, $24.95 (1-4000-4104-X). 641.8. Now that the low-carb diet craze is winding down, pastas perennial popularity...

Vinton, Sherri Brooks and Espuelas, Ann Clark. The Real Food Revival: Aisle by Aisle, Morsel by Morsel.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Vinton, Sherri Brooks and Espuelas, Ann Clark. The Real Food Revival: Aisle by Aisle, Morsel by Morsel. July 2005. 304p. Tarcher, paper, $15.95 (1-58542-421-8). 641.3. Americans have become so used to shopping for food at supermarkets and...

Wild, Anthony. Coffee: A Dark History.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Wild, Anthony. Coffee: A Dark History. July 2005. 344p. illus, index. Norton, $25.95 (0-393-06071-3). 641.3. Wild reveals that in the U.S. alone, some 1.5 million people are involved in the coffee industry either directly through coffee...

Wohl, Kit. Arnaud's Restaurant Cookbook: New Orleans Legendary Creole Cuisine.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Wohl, Kit. Arnaud's Restaurant Cookbook: New Orleans Legendary Creole Cuisine. Aug. 2005. 224p. illus, index. Pelican, $29.95 (1-58980-309-4). 641.5. One of the Crescent City's most famous establishments, Arnaud's Restaurant, continues to...

Ernst, Max. Max Ernst: A Retrospective. Ed. by Werner Spies and Sabine Rewald.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Ernst, Max. Max Ernst: A Retrospective. Ed. by Werner Spies and Sabine Rewald. 2005. 301p. illus, index. Yale/Metropolitan Museum of Art, $65 (0-300-10718-8). 709. Innovative painter and collagist Max Ernst (1891-1976) was a driving force...

Frayling, Christopher. Once upon a Time in Italy: The Westerns of Sergio Leone.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Frayling, Christopher. Once upon a Time in Italy: The Westerns of Sergio Leone. July 2005. 240p. illus, index. Abrams, $40 (0-8109-5884-8). 791.4302. Sergio Leone had directed some dozen movies before his death in 1989, yet, almost...

Hatfield, Charles. Alternative Comics: An Emerging Literature.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Hatfield, Charles. Alternative Comics: An Emerging Literature. July 2005.25@. illus. index. Univ. Press of Mississippi, $50 (1-57806-718-9); paper, $20 (1-57806-719-7). 741.5. An outgrowth from the underground comics of the 1960s,...

Hill, May Brawley. On Foreign Soil: American Gardeners Abroad.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Hill, May Brawley. On Foreign Soil: American Gardeners Abroad. 2005. 160p. illus, index. Abrams, $40 (0-8109-5898-8). 712. Hill's engaging chronicle illuminates the creation of gardens in England, France, and Italy by spirited Americans who...

Spurling, Hilary. Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse, the Conquest of Color, 1909-1954.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... * Spurling, Hilary. Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse, the Conquest of Color, 1909-1954. Sept. 2005.544p. illus, index. Knopf, $40 (0-679-43429- I). 759.4. Spurling's 10 years of work first on The Unknown Matisse (1998), which...

Jean Renoir. Interviews.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Jean Renoir. Interviews. Ed. by Bert Cardullo. July 2005. 224p. index. Univ. Press of Mississippi, $50 (1-57806-730-8); paper, $20 (1-57806-731-6). 791.4302. Best known for the antiwar classic Grand Illusion (1937) and Rules of the Game...

Joyner, Tom and Boyce, Mary Flowers. I'm Just a DJ but ... It Makes Sense to Me.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Joyner, Tom and Boyce, Mary Flowers. I'm Just a DJ but... It Makes Sense to Me. Sept. 2005. 204p. Warner, $22.95 (0-446-57676-X). 791.4402. Popular radio personality Joyner offers his perspective on life, from growing up in a nurturing...

Wagner, John D. and DeKorne, Clayton. Barns, Sheds, and Outbuildings: Plan, Design, Build.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Wagner, John D. and DeKorne, Clayton. Barns, Sheds, and Outbuildings: Plan, Design, Build. 2005. 240p. illus. Creative Homeowner, paper, $19.95 (1-58011-236-6). 728.92. This is a serious how-to book for the weekend do-it-yourself home...

Yoe, Craig. Modern Arf.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Yoe, Craig. Modern Arf. 2005. 120p. illus. Fantagraphics, paper, $19.95 (1-56097629-2). 741.5. Modern Arf is a new anthology series "exploring the unholy marriage of art and comics" but pretty definitely emphasizing comics. That's just...

Ballor, Kim. Fashion Beading.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Ballor, Kim. Fashion Beading. 2005. 128p. illus, index. Sterling, $24.95 (1-40271526-9). 745.58. Don't dismiss Ballor's treatise on beading as "same old same old." She goes way beyond the usual necklace, earrings, and bracelet offerings...

Best, Laura. Scrapbooking Your Family History.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Best, Laura. Scrapbooking Your Family History. 2005. 128p. index. Sterling/ Chapelle, $24.95 (1-4027-1658-3). 745.593. Best combines two popular pastimes into one superlative volume sure to appeal to both ardent scrapbookers and amateur...