Booklist articles from June 2003

Booklist archives from June 2003

Blumenthal, Sidney. The Clinton Wars.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... 2003.822p. illus. index. Farrar, $30 (0-374-12502-3). 973.929. In this exhaustive (and at times exhausting) look at the Clinton White House under siege, several themes emerge: the Clintons could have lived the lives of saints and the Right...

Bouton, Jim. Foul Ball: My Life and Hard Times Trying to Save an Old Ballpark.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... June 2003. 354p. Bulldog, P.O. Box 188, North Egremont, MA 01252, $24.95 (0-9709117-1-8). 796.357. Bouton has been raising hell with the baseball establishment since 1970, when his landmark Ball Four revealed the frat-party side of the...

Late arrivals.(The Fabulist; I am the Central Park Jogger)(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Glass, Stephen. The Fabulist. 2003. 342p. Simon & Schuster, $24 (0-7432-2712-3). In 1998, it was revealed that Glass had fabricated all or part of several articles published in The New Republic. His first novel is "inspired" by his own...

Dukakis, Olympia and Heckman, Emily. Ask Me Again Tomorrow: a Life in Progress.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... July 2003. 254p. HarperCollins, $25.95 (0-06-018821-9). 791.43. Her "overnight success," which was 30 years in the making, came in 1988, when Dukakis won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her portrayal of Rose Castorini in Moonstruck....

Kanfer, Stefan. Ball of Fire: the Tumultuous Life and Comic Art of Lucille Ball.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 368p. illus. index. Knopf, $25.95 (0-375-41315-4). 792.7. The author of the widely applauded Groucho (2000) offers another substantial, riveting Hollywood biography. As we see here, Lucille Ball never really emerged from the...

Kushner, Harold S. My Lord Is My Shepherd: the Healing Wisdom of the Twenty-third Psalm.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 192p. Knopf, $19.95 (1-4000-4056-6). 223. Rabbi Kushner hasn't become any less literate since When Bad Things Happen to Good People (1981) became so popular and beloved that its title was inducted into the American language, like...

Naipaul, V. S. Literary Occasions.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Ed. by Pankaj Mishra. Sept. 2003. 224p. index. Knopf, $24 (0-375-41517-3). 809. "I have trusted to intuition," Naipaul confides in "Two Worlds," his elegant and poignant 2001 Nobel Prize lecture, one jewel among many in this engrossing...

Brooks, Terry. Jarka Ruus: High Druid of Shannara.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 416p. Ballantine/Del Rey, $27.95 (0-345-43573-7). Set 20 years after the events of Morgawr [BKL Jl 02], the conclusion of the Voyage of the Jerle Shannara trilogy, Jarka Ruus opens the High Druid of Shannara series. At the dying...

Cannell, Stephen J. Runaway Heart.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... July 2003. 400p. St. Martin's, $24.95 (0-312-30426-9). Herman J. Strockmire is a lawyer with the heart of Don Quixote. His caseload might be better characterized as a lost-cause load. Here he's battling for the survival of the monarch...

Carroll, James. Secret Father.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 320p. Houghton, $25 (0-618-15284-9). Carroll, author of the best-selling memoir An American Requiem (1996), returns to fiction with a cold war coming-of-age tale that captures both the particular tensions of the era and the...

Clark, Mary Jane. Nowhere to Run.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 352p. St. Martin's, $24.95 (0-312-28877-8). When we last visited the KEY News desk in Nobody Knows (2002), there was a serial rapist on the loose and an overzealous reporter dying to break the story. This time the focus changes...

Cook, Robin. Seizure.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... July 2003. 480p. Putnam, $24.95 (0-399-14876-0). Cook's latest medical thriller centers around two men--Daniel Lowell, a brilliant researcher, and Ashley Butler, a powerful southern senator. Daniel and his girlfriend, Stephanie D'Agostino,...

Cussler, Clive and Kemprecos, Paul. White Death.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... July 2003. 432p. Putnam, $26.95 (0-399-15041-2). Cussler's fourth book written with Kemprecos chronicles the exploits of Kurt Austin, leader and hero of NUMA's Special Assignments Team. The plot involves Austin and his partner, Joe Zavala,...

Fesperman, Dan. The Small Boat of Great Sorrows.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 320p Knopf, $24 (0-375-41472-X). This highly intelligent thriller opens with the discovery of a Nazi bunker, accidentally uncovered while foundations are being laid for the new, united Berlin. It's an excellent device for...

Fielding, Joy. Lost.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... June 2003. 384p. Atria, $25 (0-7434-4629-1). The Lifetime channel would do well to invest in best-selling author Fielding's (Whispers and Lies [BKL Jl 02]) entire backlist, for it would provide enough women-in-peril material for an entire...

Gerritsen, Tess. The Sinner.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 352p. Ballantine, $24.95 (0-345-45891-5). When two Boston nuns are found brutally beaten--one fatally and one with a scintilla of life left in her--it's up to homicide detective Jane Rizzoli to find the perpetrator. Medical...

Lahiri, Jhumpa. The Namesake.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 304p. Houghton, $24 (0-395-92721-8). Lahiri's short story collection, Interpreter of Maladies, won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize, and her deeply knowing, avidly descriptive, and luxuriously paced first novel is equally triumphant....

* Evanovich, Janet. To the Nines.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... July 2003. 320p. St. Martin's, $25.95 (0-312-26586-7). Stephanie Plum is a Jersey Girl, a bounty hunter, and a resident of a part of Trenton where you can still go to Mom's for dinner and your cop boyfriend Morelli's grandmother has visions...

Lethem, Jonathan. The Fortress of Solitude.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 640p. Doubleday, $26 (0-385-50069-6). Dylan Ebdus is a white kid on a black-and-brown street. As he struggles through public school in 1970s Brooklyn, he is "yoked"--put in a headlock--and frisked for change on a daily basis....

Lindsey, Johanna. A Man to Call My Own.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... July 2003. 344p. Atria, $25 (0-7434-5633-5). Twists and turns galore and a Wild West setting make for a delightful romp by veteran romance writer Lindsey. Identical twin heiresses Marian and Amanda are as different as night and day. Amanda...

Perry, Anne. No Graves as Yet.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Sept. 2003. 352p. Ballantine, $25.95 (0-345-45652-1). Perry has probably found as much intrigue--and certainly more fun--in the Victorian era than did Queen Victoria herself. Her almost three-dozen historical mysteries--one series starring...

* Morrissey, Donna. Downhill Chance.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... July 2003. 448p. Houghton/Mariner, paper, $14 (0-618-18927-0). In this superb successor to her acclaimed first novel, Kit's Law (2001), Morrissey returns to the insular world of Newfoundland's remote fishing villages. The story begins...

Robinson, Patrick. Barracuda 945.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 448p. HarperCollins, $25.95 (0-06-008662-9). Robinson's latest high-testosterone military thriller should leave his fans delighted and most other readers rather perplexed. While it must be admitted that the author puts together...

Thoene, Bodie and Thoene, Brock. First Light.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 393p. Tyndale, $24.99 (0-8423-7506-6). Viking canceled the Thoenes' Zion Legacy series after its sixth entry, Jerusalem's Hope [BKL S 1 02]. Undaunted, evangelical fiction's second-best-known duo (after Jenkins and LaHaye) have...

Broks, Paul. Into the Silent Land.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... June 2003. 208p. Grove/Atlantic, $24 (0-87113901-4). 152. English commentators liken Broks to Oliver Sacks, which is high praise but off the mark. Sacks relates whole cases, such as "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat," laying out the...

McCalman, Iain. The Last Alchemist: the Seven Extraordinary Lives of Count Cagliostro, Eighteenth-Century Enchanter.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... June 2003. 288p. illus. HarperCollins, $25.95 (0-06-000690-0). 133. McCalman recounts the astounding adventures of Count Alessandro di Cagliostro, the self-proclaimed alchemist and healer who was both revered and reviled by a host of...

Buehrens, John A. Understanding the Bible: an Introduction for Skeptics, Seekers, and Religious Liberals.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... June 2003. 224p. Beacon, $24 (0-8070-1052-9). 220.6. In his introduction, Buehrens offers several compelling reasons for studying the Bible. You aren't fully literate without it; if you can't or won't understand it, others will interpret it...

Fountain, John W. True Vine: a Young Black Man's Journey of Faith, Hope, and Clarity.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... June 2003. 400p. Public Affairs, $26 (1-58648-084-7). 277.3. Fountain, a national correspondent for the New York Times, explores and exposes his rough upbringing on the west side of Chicago. His southern forebears had come to Chicago...

Indelible Ink: 22 Prominent Christian Leaders Discuss the Books That Shape Their Faith.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Ed. by Scott Larsen. June 2003. 336p. WaterBrook, $19.99 (1-57856-554-5). 230. Editor Larsen asked some of the best evangelical Christian writers and scholars, from theologians J. I. Packer and John R. W. Stott to poet Luci Shaw and...

Kaplan, Dana Evan. American Reform Judaism: an Introduction.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... June 2003. 288p. index. Rutgers, $60 (0-8135-3218-3); paper, $22 (0-8135-3219-1). 296.8341. Kaplan's three stated goals are to provide a general introduction to the American Reform movement, describe the social and religious forces that...

Price, Reynolds. A Serious Way of Wondering: the Ethics of Jesus Imagined.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... June 2003. 160p. Scribner, $22 (0-7432-3008-6). 241. Novelist and self-described "outlaw Christian" Price takes on the highly controversial topic of Jesus' ethics in a small but mighty volume. Taking a cue from the "What would Jesus do?"...

Solomon, Dorothy Allred. Predators, Prey, and Other Kinfolk: Growing Up in Polygamy.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... July 2003. 352p. Norton, $24.95 (0-393-04946-9). 289.3. Solomon, the only daughter of a polygamous, fundamentalist Mormon, could well have called her story Secrets and Lies to indicate the tenor of the early life that she looks back on with...

Wilkinson, Richard H. The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... 2003. 256p. illus. index. Thames and Hudson, $39.95 (0-500-05120-8). 291.2110932. Wilkinson's gorgeously illustrated book adds new dimension to popular literature on ancient Egypt, for it is a handy dictionary of divinities and a...

The Manley arts: excess.(the life and death of Jack London)(Biography)
June 1, 2003... From a literary standpoint, one of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century was the life and death of Jack London. I'm not sure about how many people read London now, but in his day (1876-1916), he was the most widely read author in the...

* Stark, Rodney. For the Glory of God: How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of Slavery.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... June 2003. 496p. illus. index. Princeton, $35 (0-691-11436-6). 291.1. Say good-bye to the old chestnut about how Columbus defied centuries of religious superstition by asserting the roundness of the earth. In this second volume of his...

Aizley, Harlyn. Buying Dad: One Woman's Search for the Perfect Sperm Donor.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... July 2003. 256p. Alyson, paper, $14.95 (1-55583-755-7). 306.87. Two nice Jewish lesbians decided to have a baby, launching a scenario of ever-multiplying decisions. Should the requisite sperm donor be known by them or not? Black or...

Berent, Polly. Getting Ready for College: Everything You Need to Know before You Go: From Bike Locks to Laundry Baskets, Financial Aid to Health Care.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Berent, Polly. Getting Ready for College: Everything You Need to Know before You Go: From Bike Locks to Laundry Baskets, Financial Aid to Health Care. June 2003. 128p. index. Random, paper, $12.95 (0-8129-6896-4). 379.19. Cohen, Katherine....

Clark, Andy. Natural Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... June 2003. 224p. illus. index. Oxford, $26 (0-19-514866-5). 303.48. Cognitive scientist Clark believes we are liberating our minds, thanks to our penchant for inventing tools that extend our abilities to think and communicate, starting with...

Davis, Carol Anne. Children Who Kill: Profiles of Pre-Teen and Teenage Killers.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... June 2003. 288p. index. Allison & Busby; dist. by IPM, $25.95 (0-7490-0610-2). 364.1523083. It is a rarely acknowledged fact that children are capable of crimes as heinous as those committed by adults. In this deeply disquieting book, the...

DeBroff, Stacy M. Sign Me Up! The Parents' Complete Guide to Sports, Activities, Music Lessons, Dance Classes, and Other Extracurriculars.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 672p. Free Press, paper, $19.95 (0-7432-3541-X). 371.8. DeBroff talked to more than 500 parents, coaches, and instructors to produce this comprehensive guide to the dizzying array of activities, classes, and extracurricular...

* Flook, Maria. Invisible Eden: a Story of Love and Murder on Cape Cod.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... July 2003. 256p. Broadway, $24.95 (0-7679-1374-4). 364.15. When Christa Worthington, an accomplished fashion writer and single mother, was found murdered in a remote Cape Cod town, national media became fascinated with the life and tragic...

Douglas, John and Singular, Stephen. Anyone You Want Me to Be: a True Story of Sex and Death on the Internet.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... June 2003. 320p. Scribner/Lisa Drew, $25 (0-7432-2635-6). 364.15. Douglas, a well-regarded FBI profiler, and Singular, a journalist, explore the chilling personality behind the Internet's first serial killer. John Robinson was a bright,...

Groneberg, Tom. The Secret Life of Cowboys.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... July 2003. 272p. Scribner, $24 (0-7432-3610-6). 636.2. Twenty-two, fresh out of school, and ready for a life-defining change, Groneberg, from suburban Chicago, becomes a trail guide at a Colorado dude ranch. He falls in love with horses and...

Hirsh, Michael. At War with Ourselves: Why America Is Squandering Its Chance to Build a Better World.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... June 2003. 288p. index. Oxford, $26 (0-19-515269-7). How is it that the same country that gave the world Woodrow Wilson's crusade for a League of Nations to guarantee peace has now also given us George Bush's dismissal of the United Nations...

Jones, Aphrodite. Red Zone: the Behind-the-Scenes Story of the San Francisco Dog Mauling.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... July 2003. 336p. illus. Morrow, $24.95 (0-06-053779-5). 364.15. In January 2001, a 33-year-old woman was mauled and killed by dogs that were in the safekeeping of her neighbors. The case vaulted onto the front pages of newspapers, and the...

Mehta, Ved. Dark Harbor: Building House and Home on an Enchanted Island.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... June 2003. 250p. illus. Thunder's Mouth/Nation, $24.95 (1-56025-528-5). 362.4. Mehta, a longtime New Yorker contributor and exceptional memoirist, adds yet another captivating volume to his unparalleled Continents of Exile series, which...

Nadeau, Jean-Benoit and Barlow, Julie. Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong: Why We Love France but Not the French.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... June 2003. 352p. Sourcebooks, paper, $16.95 (1-4022-0045-5). 305.8. In 1999, Canadian journalists Nadeau and Barlow moved to Paris for a two-year fellowship to study France's culture and economy in an effort to understand why the French...

Padgett, Ron. Oklahoma Tough: My Father, King of the Tulsa Bootleggers.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... June 2003. 288p. illus. Univ. of Oklahoma, $29.95 (0-8061-3509-3). 364.1. Contemporary New York poet Padgett has written a remembrance of his own father, an infamous bootlegger who operated within the criminal framework of the so-called...

Rehder, William J. and Dillow, Gordon Where the Money Is: True Tales from the Bank Robbery Capital of the World.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... July 2003. 288p Norton, $24.95 (0-393-05156-0). 364.15. Retired L.A. FBI agent Rehder chronicles the techniques of modern-day bank robbers, getting much sarcastic mileage from mocking the mistakes made in such heists, which lends his...

* Hanson, Victor Davis. Mexifornia: a State of Becoming.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... June 2003. 150p. index. Encounter, $24.95 (1-893554-73-2). 305.868. Classics professor Hanson is also, like generations of his family before him, a fruit farmer in California's central valley. He has employed immigrants, seen them flood his...

Rushby, Kevin. Children of Kali: Through India in Search of Bandits, the Thug Cult and the British Raj.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... June 2003. 304p. illus. index. Walker, $27 (0-8027-1418-8). 364.15. Previously in pursuit of a famous diamond (Chasing the Light, 2000), travel writer Rushby alighted upon a modern-day bandit as his follow-up subject. Suaad Raghuram...

Savage, Marjorie. You're on Your Own (but I'm Here if You Need Me): Mentoring Your Child during the College Years.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... July 2003. 272p index. Simon & Schuster/Fireside, paper, $14 (0-7432-2912-6). 306.874. Based on 10 years of experience working as a liaison between parents and the University of Minnesota, Savage offers sound advice on how parents can...

Smith, Larry. Beyond Glory: Medal of Honor Heroes in Their Own Words.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... July 2003. 320p illus. Norton, $25.95 (0-393-05134-X). 355. This collection of interviews with recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor, the military's highest recognition for valor, will benefit from cross-promotion on the cover of...

Wolcott, Barbara. David, Goliath and the Beach Cleaning Machine: the True Story of How a Small California Town Fought an Oil Giant and Won!(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... June 2003. 272p. index. Capital, $25 (1-931868-31-X). 344.73. Nestled between the Sierra Madre Mountains and the Pacific Ocean, the self-described funky little community of Avila Beach had an ominous neighbor lurking over, and under, the...

* Brinkley, Douglas. Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress, 1903-2003.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... June 2003. 512p. index. Viking, $34.95 (0-670-03181-X). 338.7. Coinciding with the Ford Motor Company centennial, historian Brinkley has produced an intimate portrayal of its founder, Henry Ford, and the four generations of Fords who have...

Beard, Patricia. After the Ball: Gilded Age Secrets, Boardroom Betrayals, and the Party that Ignited the Great Wall Street Scandal of 1905.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... July 2003. 416p. illus. index. HarperCollins, $25.95 (0-06019939-3). 368.32. The year, 1905. The setting, New York City. Flamboyant heir to the controlling interest in Equitable Life Assurance Society, James Hazen Hyde becomes the central...

Rogers, Jim. Adventure Capitalist: the Ultimate Investor's Road Trip.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... June 2003. 384p. illus. index. Random, $27.50 (0-375-50912-7). 332.6. Rogers, a Wall Street success story who has been called "The Indiana Jones of Finance," once circled the planet on a motorcycle, which landed him in The Guinness Book of...

Atkins, Peter. Galileo's Finger: the Ten Great Ideas of Science.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... June 2003. 368p. illus. index. Oxford, $30 (0-19-860664-8). 500. Condensing scientific knowledge into 10 concepts, such as the conservation of energy, Atkins offers a primer on the essential ideas of Western science. This is a work...

Pendergrast, Mark. Mirror Mirror: a History of the Human Love Affair with Reflection.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... July 2003. 352p. index. Basic, $27.50 (0-465-05470-6). 535. Mirrors, from ancient obsidian shards to modern space telescopes, have been conceived to control and refine light for purposes as varied as flattering one's appearance or probing...

* Galison, Peter. Einstein's Clocks and Poincare's Maps: Empire of Time.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 256p. illus. Norton, $23.95 (0-393-02001-0). 530.11. Many have taken it as proof of Einstein's transcendent genius that he published his epoch-making Theory of Relativity while employed as a clerk in the Bern patent office, a...

Seife, Charles. Alpha & Omega: the Search for the Beginning and End of the Universe.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... July 2003. 272p. illus. index. Viking, $24.95 (0-670-03179-8). 523.1. Science journalist Seife's narrative about the fundamentals of cosmology will appeal both to readers basically oblivious to the subject and those who keep up with...

Davis, L. J. Fleet Fire: Thomas Edison and the Pioneers of the Electric Revolution.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... June 2003. 360p. illus. index. Arcade, $25.95 (1-55970-655-4). 621.3. From Benjamin Franklin to Reginald Fessenden (a forgotten radio pioneer), this jaunty narrative regales readers with tales of the thinkers, tinkers, and tycoons who...

Fogle, Bruce. Dog Owner's Manual.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... 2003. 288p. illus. index. DK, paper, $25 (0-7894-9321-7). 636.7. Good, basic references on dogs are always needed, as new dog owners are born every day, and Fogle, veterinarian and author of numerous books on dogs, has created one with his...

Hill, Brad, The Digital Songstream: Mastering the World of Digital Music.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... June 2003. 224p. illus. index. Routledge, paper, $19.95 (0-415-94203-9). 025.06. Even in the world of the post-Napster Internet, it has never been easier--thanks to the MP3 format and peer-to-peer file-sharing networks--for music fans to...

Jonnes, Jill. Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 432p. illus. index. Random, $29.95 (0-375-50739-6). 621.3. The study and awareness of electricity is not new, but the successful control and use of it is relatively recent. Jonnes begins by detailing the study of electrical...

Singer, Bayla. Like Sex with Gods: the Unorthodox History of Flying.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... June 2003. 224p. illus. index. Texas A & M Univ., $29.95 (1-58544-256-9). 629.13. Flying, Singer tells us, is the real f-word, as her provocative title indicates and as she explores in the book's first section, about how myth and art have...

Tenner, Edward. Our Own Devices: the Past and Future of Body Technology.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... June 2003. 352p. illus. index. Knopf, $26 (0-375-40722-7). 116. Tenner, author of Why Things Bite Back (1996), offers a fascinating look at how devices we have created have affected our development. He looks at everyday objects (reclining...

Wolf, Gary. Wired--a Romance.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... July 2003. 320p. index. Random, $25.95 (0-375-50290-4). 070.5. Wolf, a contributor to such magazines as Wired, tells the story of Louis Rossetto, who, with his companion, lane Metcalfe, sets out on an adventure to prove that computers would...

Carrell, Jennifer Lee. The Speckled Monster: a Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... June 2003. 420p. Dutton, $24.95 (0-525-94736-1). 614.5. In 1980 the World Health Organization certified that smallpox had been eradicated. This was undeniably a remarkable achievement of modern medicine. But was it? There remain persistent...

The Butterfly Gardener's Guide.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Ed. by Claire Hagen Dole. June 2003. 112p. illus. Brooklyn Botanic Garden; dist. by Sterling, paper, $9.95 (1-889538-58-2). 635.9. As harbingers of a garden's glory days, butterflies are perhaps the best indicators of a healthy environment....

Hayward, Gordon. Your House, Your Garden: a Foolproof Approach to Garden Design.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Photographs by Richard Felber and Janet Fredericks. 2003. 192p. index. Norton, $39.95 (0-393-05770-4). 635. Landscape design books abound, yet few tackle the subject as practically or proficiently as Hayward's. Beginning with a simple and...

Miller, Marcianne and Irwin, Dana. Salvage Style for the Garden: Simple Outdoor Projects Using Reclaimed Treasures.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... June 2003. 160p. index. Lark; dist. by Sterling, $27.95 (1-57990-370-3). 635.9. Garage-sale enthusiasts, thrift-store shoppers, and bargain hunters will welcome Miller and Irwin's salvage-art showcase. Discards such as old heating grates,...

Cuisine du Jour.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... The menu Arbor, Robert and Whiteside, Katherine. Joie de Vivre: Simple French Style for Everyday Living. 2003. 192p. illus. Simon & Schuster, $30 (0-7432-2353-5). 394.1. YA Chase, Leah. And Still I Cook. 2003. 160p. illus. index....

Black, Alexandra and McBride, Simon. Tuscan Elements.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... 2003. 215p. illus. index. Watson-Guptill, $35 (0-8230-5480-2). 728.094. There is something enchanting about Tuscany that has seduced the famous and just-ordinary folks for centuries, from Pliny the Younger to D. H. Lawrence and other...

Carey, Mike and others. The Divine Comedy.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... 2003. 192p. illus. DC Comics/ Vertigo, paper, $17.95 (1-4012-0009-5). 741.5. Drawn from the comic book Lucifer, an annex of Neil Gaiman's Sandman universe, this action-packed graphic novel reverses Dante's itinerary in the classic whose...

* Thompson, Craig. Blankets.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... July 2003. 592p. illus. Top Shelf; dist. by Diamond, paper, $29.95 (1-891830-43-0). 741.5. Thompson's graphic novel debut, Goodbye Chunky Rice (1999), was a delicate parable of loss that garnered deserved acclaim. The eagerly awaited,...

Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Collected Best II.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Ed. by Clive Barker and others. June 2003. 232p. illus. Checker; dist. by Midpoint Trade, paper, $21.95 (0-9710249-7-9). 741.5. Among the many spin-offs from horror jack-of-all-trades Barker's first hit movie was a comic book that enjoyed a...

Coyne, Susan. In the Kingdom of the Fairies: a Memoir of a Magical Summer and a Remarkable Friendship.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Aug. 2003. 176p. St. Martin's, $17.95 (0-312-31706-9). 792. In 1963, five-year-old Susan Coyne and her family went to their summer cottage near Lake of the Woods in Qntario. It was next door to Mr. and Mrs. Moir, who were in their 70s. In...

Gilbey, Ryan. It Don't Worry Me: the Revolutionary American Films of the Seventies.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... June 2003. 256p. illus. index. Faber and Faber, $24 (0-571-21486-X). 791.43. The 1970s were arguably the most artistically fervid period of American filmmaking. Peter Biskind entertainingly told its history in Easy Riders, Raging Bulls...

Hart, Mickey and Kostyal, K. M. Songcatchers: in Search of the World's Music.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... June 2003. 192p. illus. index. National Geographic, $30 (0-7922-4107-X). 780. For some time now, Grateful Dead drummer Hart has been a songcatcher, a collector of the originally noncommercial music popularly called traditional music. Many...

London, Peter. Drawing Closer to Nature: Marking Art in Dialogue with the Natural World.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... June 2003. 336p. illus. Shambhala, paper, $17.95 (1-57062-854-8). 700. "A desire for change, if not the full readiness for it, is the prerequisite for change." So states painter, art therapist, and art educator London in this...

Plympton, Bill. Hair High.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... June 2003. 216p. illus. NBM, paper, $10.95 (1-56163-354-2). 741.5. Plympton's nonstop-metamorphosizing animation is one of the crowning delights of independent animated film, and his determination to make his cartoons pretty much by his...

Saddington, Roger. The Quick & Easy Guide to Photographing Your Artwork.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... June 2003. 112p. illus. index. F&W/North Light, paper, $19.99 (1-58180-283-8). 778.9 OK, so you're ready to start entering art competitions or preparing your first portfolio: how best to photograph your work and come up with the good...

Solomon, Daniel. Global City Blues.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... June 2003. 240p. illus. index. Island, $24 (1-55963-184-8). 720. Influential architect Solomon's lucid collection of essays defines "new urbanism" as fresh architectural thinking meant to restore human scale and a sense of meaning to the...