Booklist articles from June 2005

Booklist archives from June 2005

100 years.
June 1, 2005... Moreland, Nick Jenkins' composer friend in Anthony Powell's divine Dance to the Music of Time, has occasion about midway through the 12-novel sequence to exclaim, "I'm dying of nostalgia." Well, Moreland, so am I, as Booklist's 100th...

Cross, Charles R. Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Cross, Charles B. Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix. Aug. 2005.400p. illus. Hyperion, $24.95 (1-4013-0028.6). 787.87. Vet rock scribe Cross delivers one of the best biographies to date of the late guitar god Jimi Hendrix....

Roberts, Selena. A Necessary Spectacle: Billie Jean King, Bobby Riggs, and the Tennis Match That Leveled the Game.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Roberts, Selena. A Necessary Spectacle: Billie Jean King, Bobby Riggs, and the Tennis Match That Leveled the Game. Aug. 2005.304p. illus. index. Crown, $24.95 (1-4000-5146-0). 796.342. On September 20, 1973, Billie Jean King, the premier...

Anderson, Paul. Hunger's Brides.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Anderson, Paul. Hunger's Brides. Sept. 2005.1,376p. Carroll & Graf, $35 (0-7867-1541-3). Talk about irony: a sojourn in Mexico writing short stories prompted Canadian writer Anderson to render one of the longest books in recent memory....

Coyle, Daniel. Lance Armstrong's War: One Man's Battle against Fate, Fame, Love, Death, Scandal, and a Few Other Rivals on the Road to the Tour de France.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... * Coyle, Daniel. Lance Armstrong's War: One Man's Battle against Fate, Fame, Love, Death, Scandal, and a Few Other Rivals on the Road to the Tour de France. June 2005. 336p. illus. HarperCollins, $25.95 (0-06-073794-3). 796.6. "He seems so...

Block, Francisca Lia. Necklace of Kisses.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Block, Francisca Lia. Necklace of Kisses. Aug. 2005.240p. HarperCollins, $21.95 (0-06-077751-6). The gentle punk fairy-tale series about Weetzie Bat and her Los Angeles friends, lovers, and family broke new YA ground, and author Block has...

Boyle, T. C. Tooth and Claw and Other Stories.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Boyle, T. C. Tooth and Claw and Other Stories. Sept. 2005.284p. Viking, $25.95 (0-670-03435-5). Boyle's imagination is protean, and his prose transporting. The author of 10 potent novels and counting, Boyle is also a virtuoso short story...

Brooks, Terry. Straken: High Druid of Shannara.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Brooks, Terry. Straken: High Druid of Shannara. Sept. 2005. 384p. Del Rey, $26.95 (0-345-45112-0). Brooks concludes the High Druid of Shannara trilogy, which begins with Jarka Ruus (2003) and continues with Tanequil (2004), in an equally...

Bushnell, Candace. Lipstick Jungle.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Bushnell, Candace. Lipstick Jungle. Sept. 2005. 396p. Hyperion, $24.95 (0-7868-6819-8). Bushnell rose to fame with her witty expose of the New York social scene, Sex and the City (1996), but since then, she's been writing fiction. Her...

Erdrich, Louise. The Painted Drum.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... * Erdrich, Louise. The Painted Drum. Sept. 2005.288p. HarperCollins, $25.95 (0-06-051510-4). Erdrich's nine-volume cycle of novels revolving around an Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota has always carried within it a deep faith in the...

Diamant, Anita. The Last Days of Dogtown.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Diamant, Anita. The Last Days of Dogtown. Sept. 2005. 288p. Scribner, $25 (0-7432-2573-2). In a radical departure from the biblical setting of her best-selling The Red Tent (1997), Diamant turns her attention to the windswept shores of...

Ellis, Bret Easton. Lunar Park.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Ellis, Bret Easton. Lunar Park. Aug. 2005.320p. Knopf, $25 (0-3754-1291-3). There's a danger when a writer becomes a character in his own novel in order to explore the dissonance between fact and fiction: for readers who haven't followed...

Mason, Bobbie Ann. An Atomic Romance.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Mason, Bobbie Ann. An Atomic Romance. Aug. 2005. 288p. Random, $24.95 (0-375-50719-1). In her first novel in a decade, PEN/Hemingway Award winner Mason tells the tale of handsome Reed Futrell, a maintenance engineer at the same Kentucky...

Mosley, Walter. Cinnamon Kiss.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Mosley, Walter. Cinnamon Kiss. Sept. 2005.320p. Little, Brown, $24.95 (0-316-07302-4). Mosley's long march through the 1960s continues as Easy Rawlins, now in his forties, finds himself thrust into multiple family crises. His daughter,...

Paretsky, Sara. Fire Sale.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... * Paretsky, Sara. Fire Sale. July 2005. 416p. Putnam, $25.95 (0-399-15279-2). Long-running mystery series have a way of losing readers over time, but anyone who has drifted away from Paretsky's V. I. Warshawski should promptly return to...

Oates, Joyce Carol. Missing Mom.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Oates, Joyce Carol. Missing Mom. Oct. 2005.448p. Ecco, $25.95 (0-06-081621-X). Dates alternates between big, topical novels that reveal as much about society as about individuals, such as The Falls (2004), and more intensely focused...

O'Shaughnessy, Perri. Case of Lies.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... O'Shaughnessy, Perri. Case of Lies. June 2005.400p. Delacorte, $25 (0-385-33795-7). David Hanna witnessed the murder of his wife (and her unborn fetus) outside a hotel on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe. Now it's two years later, and Hanna...

Reich, Christopher. The Patriots Club.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Reich, Christopher. The Patriots Club. July 2005. 448p. Delacorte, $26 (0-385-33728-0). Who would have thought that Thomas Bolden would become a successful Wall Street businessman, living the high life and about to become engaged to the...

Patterson, James. Lifeguard.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... * Patterson, James. Lifeguard. July 2005. 400p. Little, Brown, $26.95 (0-316-05785-1). Don't be fooled by the title of Patterson's latest thrilling yarn--the action goes far beyond the beach. Ned Kelly grew up on the wrong side of the...

Rushdie, Salman. Shalimar the Clown.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Rushdie, Salman. Shalimar the Clown. Sept. 2005. 416p. Random, $25.95 (0-679-46335-6). Before the eyes of his grown daughter, a former (and famous) American ambassador to India is stabbed to death by his enigmatic chauffeur, the Shalimar...

Coming up in the next UPFRONT.
June 1, 2005... The July issue will feature part one of our annual Upfront Fall Preview, which will include not only expanded review coverage of important titles of the fall season but also "Upcoming in Upfront--Nonfiction," an annotated listing of titles to...

Pickering, Sam. Indian Summer: Musings on the Gift of Life.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Pickering, Sam. Indian Summer: Musings on the Gift of Life. June 2005. 240p. Univ. of Missouri, paper, $19.95 (0-8262-1596-3). 081. An inveterate observer of nature, both Mother and human, Pickering continues to cast his wickedly acerbic...

Blom, Philipp. Enlightening the World: Encyclopedie, the Book That Changed the Course of History.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... * Blom, Philipp. Enlightening the World: Encyclopedie, the Book That Changed the Course of History. June 2005. 416p. illus. index. Macmillan/Palgrave, $26.95 (1-4039-6895-0). 034. Late in this absorbing history of the most notorious...

Walsh, Pat. 78 Reasons Why Your Book May Never Be Published & 14 Reasons Why It Just Might.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Walsh, Pat. 78 Reasons Why Your Book May Never Be Published & 14 Reasons Why It Just Might. June 2005. 224p. Penguin, paper, $13 (0-14-303565-7). 070.5. What writer wants to read about all the reasons he or she might not be published? The...

Ziegler, Philip. Man of Letters: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Literary Impresario Rupert Hart-Davis.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Ziegler, Philip. Man of Letters: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Literary Impresario Rupert Hart-Davis. June 2005. 340p. illus. index. Carroll & Graf, $26 (0-7867-1526-X). 070.509 Briefly in the mid-twentieth century, Rupert Hart-Davis...

Salerno, Steve. SHAM: How the Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Salerno, Steve. SHAM: How the Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless. June 2005. 272p. index. Crown, $24.95 (1-4000-5409-5). 155.2. The all-caps title is an acronym that expresses Salerno's assessment of what it signifies, the Self-Help...

From Hamlet to Miss Hickory.(The Manley Arts)(book lists)(Column)
June 1, 2005... Consider the e-mail that I received last week. "Patience may be a virtue but it's also a pain in the ass. I'm getting extremely frustrated waiting for your compilation of the 'five books' we must all read before we die. I'm not getting any...

Asma, Stephen T. The Gods Drink Whiskey: Stumbling toward Enlightenment in the Land of the Tattered Buddha.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Asma, Stephen T. The Gods Drink Whiskey: Stumbling toward Enlightenment in the Land of the Tattered Buddha. June 2005. 256p. HarperSanFrancisco, $24.95 (0-06072395-5). 294.3. Asma, a professor of Buddhism at Columbia College in Chicago and...

Keay, Julia. Alexander the Corrector: The Tormented Genius Whose Cruden's Concordance Unwrote the Bible.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Keay, Julia. Alexander the Corrector: The Tormented Genius Whose Cruden's Concordance Unwrote the Bible. June 2005. 288p. illus. index. Overlook, $27.95 (1-58567-690-X). 220. Alexander Cruden considered it his mission in life to please God....

Anosike, Benji O. How to Plan Your 'Total' Estate with a Will & Living Will, without the Lawyer's Fees. Rev. ed.(Anosike, Benji O. The National Home Sale or Purchase Kit: How to Buy or Sell Your Own Home without a Broker or Lawyer.)(Rapp, Roy T. So You Really Want to Sue Your Doctor? Here's When and How You Can Do It--if You Have To! Medical Malpractice 101.)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Anosike, Benji O. How to Plan Your 'Total' Estate with a Will & Living Will, without the Lawyer's Fees. Rev. ed. July 2005. 127p. index. Do-It-Yourself Legal, $26.95 (0-932704-75-1). 346.73. Anosike, Benji O. The National Home Sale or...

Frey, James. My Friend Leonard.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... * Frey, James. My Friend Leonard. June 2005. 352p. Riverhead, $24.95 (1-57322-315-8). 362.29. Frey's first memoir, A Million little Pieces (2003), chronicled his stint in rehab at age 23 after years of drug and alcohol addiction. That...

Caputo, Philip. 13 Seconds: A Look Back at the Kent State Shootings.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Caputo, Philip. 13 Seconds: A Look Back at the Kent State Shootings. June 2005. 208p. Penguin/Chamberlain, $19.95 (1-59609080-4). 378.771. Thirty-five years after American troops shot and killed four students at Kent State University,...

Cea, Robert. No Lights, No Sirens: The Corruption and Redemption of an Inner City Cop.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Cea, Robert. No Lights, No Sirens: The Corruption and Redemption of an Inner City Cop. June 2005. 272p. Morrow, $23.95 (0-06-058712-1). 363.2. When he retired from the NYPD, the author was the fifth-most-decorated officer in the...

Cott, Jonathan. On the Sea of Memory: A Journey from Forgetting to Remembering.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Cott, Jonathan. On the Sea of Memory: A Journey from Forgetting to Remembering. Oct. 2005. 240p. Random, $24.95 (1-40006058-3). 362.196. Between 1998 and 1999, Cott underwent a course of 36 electroshock treatments that eventually caused him...

Craveri, Benedetta. The Age of Conversation. Tr. by Teresa Waugh.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Craveri, Benedetta. The Age of Conversation. Tr. by Teresa Waugh. June 2005. 500p. illus, index. New York Review of Books, $30 (1-59017-141-1). 304.48. Noble society in seventeenth-century France held in highest esteem the talent of its...

Feig, Paul. Superstud; or, How I Became a 24-Year-Old Virgin.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Feig, Paul. Superstud; or, How I Became a 24-Year-Old Virgin. July 2005. 320p. Three Rivers, paper, $13.95 (1-4000-5175-4). 306.7. Feig, creator of the cult classic TV show Freaks and Geeks, offers a second book about the trials and...

Feinberg, Kenneth R. and others. What Is Life Worth? The Unprecedented Effort to Compensate the Victims of 9/11.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Feinberg, Kenneth R. and others. What Is Life Worth? The Unprecedented Effort to Compensate the Victims of 9/11. June 2005. 240p. index. Public Affairs, $24 (1-58648-323-4). 363.3. Feinberg's experience as an attorney and a mediator, having...

The Future of Media: Resistance and Reform in the 21st Century.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... The Future of Media: Resistance and Reform in the 21st Century. Ed. by Robert W. McChesney and others. June 2005. 400p. illus, index. Seven Stories, paper, $19.95 (1-58322-679-0). 302.23. The continued consolidation of media outlets,...

In the line of helpfulness.(editor reflects on history of periodical)(Editorial)
June 1, 2005... On the first page of the first issue of Booklist, published in January 1905, the ALA Publishing Board introduced their new magazine with an endearing mix of humility and optimism: "The first number has been compiled under difficulties, the...

The Booklist Century: 100 books, 100 years.(Editorial)
June 1, 2005... Throughout our 100th anniversary celebration, we have tried to focus attention as much on the books and media we've reviewed over the last century as on the people who reviewed them and the sometimes-bizarre methods we've employed to publish...

Hamilton, Marci A. God vs. the Gavel: Religion and the Rule of Law.(Sullivan, Winnifred Fallers. The Impossibility of Religious Freedom.)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Hamilton, Marci A. God vs. the Gavel: Religion and the Rule of Law. June 2005. 304p. index. Cambridge, $28 (0-521-85304-4). 342.7308. Sullivan, Winnifred Fallers. The Impossibility of Religious Freedom. June 2005. 280p. illus, index....

Howard, Rachel. The Lost Night: A Daughter's Search for the Truth of Her Father's Murder.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Howard, Rachel. The Lost Night: A Daughter's Search for the Truth of Her Father's Murder. Aug. 2005. 256p. index. Dutton, $24.95 (0-525-94862-7). 364.152 The death of a parent is a pivotal event in any child's life, no matter how old he or...

Katznelson, Ira. When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Katznelson, Ira. When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America. Aug. 2005. 256p. index. Norton, $25.95 (0-393-05213-3). 323.1197. Katznelson places into contemporary context the cause...

Kitwana, Bakari. Why White Kids Love Hip-Hop: Wankstas, Wiggas, Wannabes, and the New Reality of Race in America.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Kitwana, Bakari. Why White Kids Love Hip-Hop: Wankstas, Wiggas, Wannabes, and the New Reality of Race in America. June 2005. 240p. index. Basic/Civitas, $23 (0-465-03746-1). 306.4. Kitwana explores the appeal of hip-hop culture to young...

The Booklist scrapbook.
June 1, 2005... The Booklist editors, 1975: (from left to right) Dorothy Parr Snowden, Betsy Hearne, Paul Brawley, Irene Wood, Barbara J. Duree, Helen Freiser. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Paul Brawley (1974) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The editorial...

Royte, Elizabeth. Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... * Royte, Elizabeth. Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash. July 2005.304p. index. Little, Brown, $24.95 (0-316-73826-3). 363.72. A visit to the filthy Gowanus Canal near her Brooklyn home got Royte thinking about garbage. What exactly...

Larabee, Ann. The Dynamite Fiend: The Chilling Tale of a Confederate Spy, Con Artist, and Mass Murderer.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Larabee, Ann. The Dynamite Fiend: The Chilling Tale of a Confederate Spy, Con Artist, and Mass Murderer. June 2005. 272p. illus. index. Palgrave Macmillan, $24.95 (1-4039-6794-6). 303.6. But for the premature explosion of his time bomb--a...

Prothrow-Stith, Deborah and Spivak, Howard R. Sugar and Spice and No Longer Nice: How We Can Stop Girls' Violence.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Prothrow-Stith, Deborah and Spivak, Howard R. Sugar and Spice and No Longer Nice: How We Can Stop Girls' Violence. June 2005. 176p. index. Jossey-Bass, $24.95 (0-7879-7571-0). 303.6. "American girls are showing their mean streaks directly...

Saginor, Jennifer. Playground.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Saginor, Jennifer. Playground. June 2005. 288p. HarperEntertainment, $24.95 (0-06-076156-3). 306.89. Saginor grew up in Los Angeles during the 1970s and 1980s in the most unusual of places: the Playboy Mansion. Saginor's father was Hugh...

Symonds, Craig L. Decision at Sea: Five Naval Battles That Shaped American History.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Symonds, Craig L. Decision at Sea: Five Naval Battles That Shaped American History. June 2005. 400p. illus. index. Oxford, $30 (0-19-517145-4). 359.4. A distinguished specialist in naval history and the Civil War studies five decisive...

Wintle, Edwin John. Breakfast with Tiffany: An Uncle's Memoir.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Wintle, Edwin John. Breakfast with Tiffany: An Uncle's Memoir. June 2005. 320p. Hyperion/Miramax, $24.95 (1-4013-5224-3). 362.7. Failed-actor-turned-New-York-literary-agent Wintle undertakes the biggest challenge of his life when he agrees...

Renehan, Edward J. Dark Genius of Wall Street: The Misunderstood Life of Jay Gould, King of the Robber Barons.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Renehan, Edward J. Dark Genius of Wall Street: The Misunderstood Life of Jay Gould, King of the Robber Barons. June 2005. 400p. illus. index. Basic, $30 (0-465-06885-5). 650.1. Renehan claims to offer the first unbiased biography of Jay...

Shapiro, Ronald M. and others. Bullies, Tyrants, and Impossible People: How to Beat Them without Joining Them.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Shapiro, Ronald M. and others. Bullies, Tyrants, and Impossible People: How to Beat Them without Joining Them. June 2005. 288p. index. Crown Business, $25 (1-4000-5011-1). 303.6. The authors offer their blueprint to "outnegotiate, outsmart,...

Watts, Steven. The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Watts, Steven. The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century. Aug. 2005. 608p. index. Knopf, $30 (0-375-40735-9). 338.7. Henry Ford distinguished himself from other great industrialists by being a populist who manufactured on a...

Wajnryb, Ruth. Expletive Deleted: A Good Look at Bad Language.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Wajnryb, Ruth. Expletive Deleted: A Good Look at Bad Language. July 2005. 304p. index. Free Press, $18 (0-7432-7434-2). 422. Fans of the extravagantly profane HBO drama Deadwood now have a boon companion in Wajnryb, who will edify them on...

Arianrhod, Robyn. Einstein's Heroes: Imagining the World through the Language of Mathematics.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Arianrhod, Robyn. Einstein's Heroes: Imagining the World through the Language of Mathematics. June 2005. 338p. illus. index. Oxford, $28 (0-19-518370-3). 530.9. Einstein respected Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday, and James Clerk Maxwell more...

What we were reading then.(100 YEARS: A Century of Books)(Column)
June 1, 2005... At the same time Booklist is celebrating its centenary, am celebrating 30 years on the Booklist staff, which joined as a full-time book reviewer in the Adult Books department in 1975. I was paid a full-time salary to sit at a desk all day, read...

Ostler, Nicholas. Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... * Ostler, Nicholas. Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World. July 2005.640p. illus. index. HarpereCollins, $29.95 (0-06-621086-0). 409. Caesar led his legions into battle for the glory of Rome--and the immortality of Greek. In...

Bell, Madison Smartt. Lavoisier in the Year One: The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Bell, Madison Smartt. Lavoisier in the Year One: The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution. June 2005. 256p. illus. index. Norton/Atlas, $22.95 (0-393-05155-2). 540.92. The dramatic story of the French chemist Antoine Lavoisier...

Casey, Susan. The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival among America's Great White Sharks.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Casey, Susan. The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival among America's Great White Sharks. June 2005. 304p. illus. Holt, $25 (0-8050-7581-X). 597.3. Each September a group of great white sharks gathers off Farallon...

Maloof, Joan. Teaching the Trees: Lessons front the Forest.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Maloof, Joan. Teaching the Trees: Lessons front the Forest. July 2005. 176p. illus. Univ. of Georgia, $24.95 (0-8203-2743-3). 578.73. "Not so long ago," Maloof notes, "the largest trees lived in the forests, and the trees in parks and yards...

Ruth, Maria Mudd. Rare Bird: Pursuing the Mystery of the Marbled Murrelet.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Ruth, Maria Mudd. Rare Bird: Pursuing the Mystery of the Marbled Murrelet. June 2005. 304p. Rodale, $23.95 (1-59486-090-4). 598.3. What is a marbled murrelet? This tiny, mysterious seabird flies like a little brown bullet, living most of...

Villard, Ray and Cook, Lynette. Infinite Worlds: An Illustrated Voyage to Planets beyond Our Sun.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Villard, Ray and Cook, Lynette. Infinite Worlds: An Illustrated Voyage to Planets beyond Our Sun. June 2005. 252p. illus. Univ. of California, $39.95 (0-520-23710-2). 523.21. Resting on evocative paintings by Cook, this album is a...

Gallagher, Tim. The Grail Bird: Hot on the Trail of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Gallagher, Tim. The Grail Bird: Hot on the Trail of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker. June 2005. 272p. illus. index. Houghton, $25 (0-618-45693-7). 598.7. In April 2005, a startling announcement burst into the national and international news--a...

Wharton, Peter and others. The Jade Garden: New & Notable Plants from Asia.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Wharton, Peter and others. The Jade Garden: New & Notable Plants from Asia. June 2005. 300p. illus. index. Timber, $34.95 (0-88192-705-8). 581.6. Wharton and company share an affiliation with the University of British Columbia Botanical...

Nakaya, Shannon Fujimoto. Kindred Spirit, Kindred Care: Making Health Decisions on Behalf of Our Animal Companions.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Nakaya, Shannon Fujimoto. Kindred Spirit, Kindred Care: Making Health Decisions on Behalf of Our Animal Companions. June 2005. 176p. index. New World Library, paper, $14.95 (1-57731-507-3). 636.088. Anyone who has ever cared for a sick...

Wohl, Robert. The Spectacle of Flight: Aviation and the Western Imagination, 1920-1950.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Wohl, Robert. The Spectacle of Flight: Aviation and the Western Imagination, 1920-1950. 2005. 416p. illus. index. Yale, $39.95 (0-300-10692-0). 629.13. Wohl deals with the aesthetic dimension of flight and aviation as a source of cultural...

Chorost, Michael. Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Chorost, Michael. Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human. June 2005. 256p. index. Houghton, $24 (0-618-37829-4). 617.8. In Chorost's memoir about his hearing loss, he prefaces the operating-room experience and activation of...

Miller, G. Wayne. The Xeno Chronicles: Two Years on the Frontier of Medicine inside Harvard's Transplant Research Lab.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Miller, G. Wayne. The Xeno Chronicles: Two Years on the Frontier of Medicine inside Harvard's Transplant Research Lab. June 2005. 256p. index. PublicAffairs, $26 (1-58648-242-4). 617.9. It takes a certain chutzpah to tackle a topic as...

Finkel, Madelon L. Understanding the Mammography Controversy: Science, Politics, and Breast Cancer Screening.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... * Finkel, Madelon L. Understanding the Mammography Controversy: Science, Politics, and Breast Cancer Screening. June 2005. 180p. illus. index. Praeger, $39.95 (0-275-98188-6). 616.99. Perhaps the most important counsel public health expert...

Moynihan, Ray and Cassels, Alan. Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All into Patients.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Moynihan, Ray and Cassels, Alan. Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All into Patients. July 2005. 272p. Thunder's Mouth/Nation, $26 (1-56025-697-4). 615. Science and medicine writers Moynihan...

Walker, Dale L. Mary Edwards Walker: Above and Beyond.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Walker, Dale L. Mary Edwards Walker: Above and Beyond. June 2005. 208p. index. Tor/Forge, $19.95 (0-765-31065-1). 610. The latest entry in the American Heroes series chronicles the only female recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor....

Andrews, Jean. The Peppers Cookbook: 200 Recipes from the Pepper Lady's Kitchen.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Andrews, Jean. The Peppers Cookbook: 200 Recipes from the Pepper Lady's Kitchen. June 2005. 240p. index. Univ. of North Texas; dist. by Texas A & M Univ, paper, $21.95 (1-57441-193-4). 641.6. Baked, smoked, broiled, stuffed, pureed, or...

Kaminsky, Peter. Pig Perfect: Encounters with Remarkable Swine and the Best Ways to Cook Them.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Kaminsky, Peter. Pig Perfect: Encounters with Remarkable Swine and the Best Ways to Cook Them. 2005. 304p. Hyperion, $23.95 (1-4013-0036-7). 641.6. Lauded by some and vilified by others, the pig never fails to elicit extreme opinion....

Pinney, Thomas. A History of Wine in America: From Prohibition to the Present.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Pinney, Thomas. A History of Wine in America: From Prohibition to the Present. July 2005. 532p. illus. index. Univ. of California, $45 (0-520-24176-2). 641.2. More than a decade after his history of the beginnings of American winemaking...

Comic Book Artist Collection: v.3.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Comic Book Artist Collection: v.3. Ed. by Jon B. Cooke. 2005. 224p. illus. TwoMorrows, paper, $24.95 (1-893905-42-X). 741.5. Since 1998 Comic Book Artist magazine, a genuine labor of love by editor Cooke, has documented and celebrated...

45 Dangerous Minds: The Most Intense Interviews from Seconds Magazine.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... 45 Dangerous Minds: The Most Intense Interviews from Seconds Magazine. Ed. by Steven Blush and George Petros. June 2005. 384p. illus. Creation Books, paper, $19.95 (1-84068-124-1). 781.66. Editors Blush and Petros ran Seconds, a...

Guterman, Jimmy. Runaway American Dream: Listening to Bruce Springsteen.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Guterman, Jimmy. Runaway American Dream: Listening to Bruce Springsteen. July 2005. 288p. Da Capo, paper, $15.95 (0-306-81397-1). 782.42166. As the subtitle makes clear, this is about Bruce Springsteen's music; its perspective is that of a...

McDonough, Jimmy. Big Bosoms and Square Jaws: The Biography of Russ Meyer, King of the Sex Film.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... McDonough, Jimmy. Big Bosoms and Square Jaws: The Biography of Russ Meyer, King of the Sex Film. June 2005. 496p. illus. index. Crown, $26.95 (1-4000-5044-8). 791.43. McDonough persuasively argues that Russ Meyer, creator of such epic...

Potter, Sally. YES: Screenplay and Notes.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Potter, Sally. YES: Screenplay and Notes. June 2005. 144p. illus. Newmarket, paper, $16.95 (1-55704-666-2). 791.43. Published screenplays are usually worth reading only if one has seen the films, and often resemble souvenir brochures more...

Little Boy: The Arts of Japan's Exploding Subculture.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... * Little Boy: The Arts of Japan's Exploding Subculture. Ed. by Takashi Murakami. 2005.298p. illus. Yale, $60 (0-300-10285-2). 700.952. Internationally renowned Japanese artist Murakami interprets the complexity of postwar Japanese art in a...

Tim Burton: Interviews.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Tim Burton: Interviews. Ed. by Kristian Fraga. June 2005. 234p. index. Univ. Press of Mississippi, $50 (1-57806-758-8); paper, $20 (1-57806-759-6). 791.4302. Tim Burton is one of the rare directors who make intensely personal films within...

Woodring, Jim. Seeing Things.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Woodring, Jim. Seeing Things. 2005. 104p. illus. Fantagraphics, $22.95 (1-56097-648-9). 741.5. Woodring's wordless Frank comics are utterly distinctive, not least in each successive publication of them. Woodring has often taken the same...

Le Van, Marthe. Fabulous Jewelry from Found Objects: Creative Projects, Simple Techniques.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Le Van, Marthe. Fabulous Jewelry from Found Objects: Creative Projects, Simple Techniques. June 2005. 160p. illus, index. Sterling/Lark, $24.95 (1-57990-562-5). 745.594. Just because the raw materials for these projects are castoffs small...