Booklist articles from March 2006

Booklist archives from March 2006

Notable books, 2006.
March 1, 2006... This list has been compiled for use by the general reader and by librarians who work with adults. The Notable Books Council, ALA Reference and User Services Association, has selected the titles for their significant contribution to the...

Best books for young adults, 2006.(ALA's 2006 Best Lists)
March 1, 2006... The annual list of books compiled by a committee of the Young Adult Library Services Association comprises nonfiction and fiction recommended for ages 12 to 18. Titles published in late 2004 are noted; all others were published in 2005. The...

2006 Alex Awards.
March 1, 2006... The Alex Awards, funded by YALSA and cosponsored by Booklist, honor the top 10 adult books, published during the previous year, with appeal to readers between the ages of 12 and 18. For more information, visit YALSA's Alex Awards home page:...

Notable Children's Books, 2006.
March 1, 2006... This 2006 list was compiled by the Notable Children's Books Committee of the Association for Library Service to Children. Librarians throughout the U.S. helped select the titles from the several thousand children's books published during 2005....

Quick picks for reluctant young adult readers, 2006.
March 1, 2006... This list comprises books that will attract teens who, for whatever reason, have been reluctant to read. The 91 selections, all published from late 2004 through 2005, were chosen by the 11-member committee with invaluable input from young...

Notable children's media, 2006.
March 1, 2006... Notable Children's Videos Boxes for Katie. 18min. Spoken Arts, $49.95. 800-326-4090. In post-World War II Europe, a young Dutch girl receives care packages from an American child, and an international friendship ensues. This limited...

Selected DVDs and videos for young adults, 2006.(Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story)(A Day So Beautiful)(The Zit)(You Don't Want to Live in My House)(Ryan)(Invasion of the Space Lobsters)(Every Mother's Son)(Young adult review)(Video recording review)
March 1, 2006... Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story. 24min. Bullfrog, VHS and DVD, $195 each. 800-543-3764. When Dodger Stadium went up, an entire community was moved out. Race and urban development during the McCarthy era are explored in this combination...

Selected audiobooks for young adults, 2006.
March 1, 2006... Acceleration. 5.5hr. Listening Library, CS $35; CD, $45. 800-541-5525. Working for the summer in the Toronto Transit Authority Lost and Found plunges one teenage boy into a terrifying search for a possible serial killer. Narrator Scott...

Notable videos for adults, 2006.(Born into Brothels)(Busting Out)(Control Room)(The Corporation)(Girlhood)(Lost Boys of Sudan)(No Direction Home: Bob Dylan)(Ryan)(Shipbreakers)(This Black Soil)(Waging a Living)(Video recording review)
March 1, 2006... Born into Brothels. 85min. ThinkFilm, VHS and DVD, $29.99 each. This tribute to the transformative power of art shows a Western photographer befriending a group of children growing up in a brothel in Sonagachi, India. Busting Out....

Amman, Joseph Minton and Breuer, Tom. Sweet Jesus, I Hate Bill O'Reilly.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Amman, Joseph Minton and Breuer, Tom. Sweet Jesus, I Hate Bill O'Reilly. May 2006.256p. Thunder's Mouth/Nation, paper, $14 (1-56025-881-0). 973.931. The title says it all. There's definitely no love lost between O'Reilly, host of the FOX...

Bowden, Mark. Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Bowden, Mark. Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam. May 2006.676p. illus. Grove/Atlantic, $24 (0-87113-925-1). 955.05. The 1979 seizure by Iranian "students" of the U.S. embassy and the kidnapping...

Child, Julia and Prud'homme, Alex. My Life in France.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Child, Julia and Prud'homme, Alex. My Life in France. Apr. 2006. 288p. illus. index. Knopf, $25.95 (1-4000-4346-8). 641.5. Knowing little about the country and less about its cooking, Child sailed to France with her new husband in 1948. Her...

Maraniss, David. Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Maraniss, David. Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero. Apr. 2006.416p. illus, index. Simon & Schuster, $26 (0-7432-1781-0). 796.357. When Roberto Clemente died on New Year's Eve 1972 while delivering relief aid to the...

Angell, Roger. Let Me Finish.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... * Angell, Roger. Let Me Finish. June 2006. 304p. Harcourt, $25 (0-15-101350-0). 070.4. New Yorker readers have been savoring Angell's autobiographical essays every few months for the last three years. Now they can be read consecutively,...

Phillips, Kevin. American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Phillips, Kevin. American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century. Mar. 2006. 428p. Viking, $26.95 (0-670-03486-X). 973.9. This former Republican strategist has written several...

Talese, Gay. A Writer's Life.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Talese, Gay. A Writer's Life. Apr. 2006.430p. Knopf, $26 (0-679-41096-1). 808.0092. The veteran reporter who was at the forefront of New Journalism and the author of such best-selling books as The Kingdom and the Power (1969), a look at...

Abrahams, Peter. End of Story.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Abrahams, Peter. End of Story. Apr. 2006.352p. Morrow, $24.95 (0-06-072665-2). Crime Fiction. Aspiring New York scribe Ivy Seidel has the right things on her resume--an MFA in creative writing and three summers at a writing workshop--but...

Clark, Mary Higgins. Two Little Girls in Blue.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Clark, Mary Higgins. Two Little Girls in Blue. Apr. 2006. 322p. Simon & Schuster, $25.95 (0-7432-6490-8). Crime Fiction. Clark's thirty-third book revisits the subject matter of her first (Where Are the Children? 1975), addressing every...

Coelho, Paulo. The Devil and Miss Prym.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Coelho, Paulo. The Devil and Miss Prym. Tr. by Amanda Hopkinson and Nick Caistor. July 2006. 224p. HarperCollins, $24.95 (0-06-052799-4). General Fiction. Internationally acclaimed author and contemporary fabulist Coelho concludes his...

McCall Smith, Alexander. Blue Shoes and Happiness.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... * McCall Smith, Alexander. Blue Shoes and Happiness. Apr. 2006. 240p. Pantheon, $21.95 (0.375-42272-2). Crime Fiction. In this seventh installment in McCall Smith's delightful No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, "traditionally built"...

Glass, Julia. The Whole World Over.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Glass, Julia. The Whole World Over. June 2006. 512p. Pantheon, $25.95 (0-375-42274-9). General Fiction. The many readers who embraced Glass' National Book Award-winning debut, Three Junes (2002), will be pleased to learn that one of the...

Jackson, Lisa. Shiver.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Jackson, Lisa. Shiver. Apr. 2006. 432p. Kensington, $19.95 (0-7582-1393-X). Crime Fiction. Jackson, with many best-selling mass-market paperbacks under her belt, nimbly makes the switch to hardcover. Abby Chastain is ready for a change....

Kellerman, Jonathan. Gone.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Kellerman, Jonathan. Gone. Mar. 2006. 384p. Ballantine, $26.95 (0-345-45261-5). Crime Fiction. In "a reality show episode that backfired," two twentysomethings fake a kidnapping to jump-start their acting careers. When criminal...

McMurtry, Larry. Telegraph Days.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... McMurtry, Larry. Telegraph Days. June 2006. 304p. Simon & Schuster, $25 (0-7432-5078-8). General Fiction. In his latest novel, McMurtry returns to his familiar theme of the mythology versus the reality of the West. Here the closing decades...

Michaels, Fern. Hey, Good Looking.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Michaels, Fern. Hey, Good Looking. Apr. 2006. 336p. Pocket, $25 (0-7434-7742-1). Romance. Once again, productive and imaginative Michaels creates a heartwarming saga. Set in Baton Rouge, this tale revolves around two families, the Lanes...

Parkhurst, Carolyn. Lost and Found.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... * Parkhurst, Carolyn. Lost and Found. June 2006. 304p. Little, Brown, $ 23.95 (0-316-15638-8). General Fiction. Parkhurst's lauded debut, The Dogs of Babel (2003), which centered on a man struggling to come to terms with the death of his...

Moore, Christopher. A Dirty Job.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Moore, Christopher. A Dirty Job. Apr. 2006. 400p. Morrow, $24.95 (0-06-059027-0). SF/Fantasy. Moore has been winningly adulterating horror with comedy for more than a decade, and his last novel, The Stupidest Angel (2004), drew more...

Pearl, Matthew. The Poe Shadow.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Pearl, Matthew. The Poe Shadow. May 2006. 384p. Random, $24.95 (1-4000-6103-2). General Fiction. The strange circumstances surrounding the death of Edgar Allan Poe, intriguing to fans and scholars alike, provide the basis for this literary...

Roth, Philip. Everyman.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Roth, Philip. Everyman. May 2006. 192p. Houghton, $24 (0-618-73516-X). General Fiction. Does Roth's new novel top or even match the stunning accomplishment of his previous one, the best-selling and award-winning The Plot against America...

Berkow, Ira. Full Swing: Hits, Runs and Errors in a Writer's Life.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Berkow, Ira. Full Swing: Hits, Runs and Errors in a Writer's Life. Apr. 2006. 278p. Ivan R. Dee, $26 (1-56663-689-2). 070.4. Veteran New Fork Times sports columnist Berkow delivers an extra-base hit with this understated but thoroughly...

Freedman, Samuel G. Letters to a Young Journalist.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Freedman, Samuel G. Letters to a Young Journalist. Apr. 2006. 224p. Basic, $22.95 (0-465-02455-6). 070.4. Former New York Times reporter and Columbia University journalism professor Freedman offers a frank, heartfelt look at the practice of...

Johnson, Marilyn. The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Johnson, Marilyn. The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries. Mar. 2006. 256p. illus. HarperCollins, $24.95 (0-06-075875-9). 070.4. Johnson is among the millions of readers who turn to the obituaries...

Gillman, Neil. Traces of God: Seeing God in Torah, History and Everyday Life.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Gillman, Neil. Traces of God: Seeing God in Torah, History and Everday Life. Mar. 2006. 224p. index. Jewish Lights, $21.99 (1-58023-249-3). 293.3. Rabbi Gillman, a theologian, has written a column in the Jewish Week, New York's...

Boudin, Chesa and others. The Venezuelan Revolution: 100 Questions-100 Answers.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Boudin, Chesa and others. The Venezuelan Revolution: 100 Questions--100 Answers. Mar. 2006. 192p. illus. Thunder's Mouth, paper, $14.95 (1-56025-773-3). 986.063. Coauthor Boudin--the Rhodes Scholar son of two 1970s activists incarcerated...

Borg, Marcus J. and Crossan, John Dominic. The Last Week: The Day by Day Account of Jesus's Final Week in Jerusalem.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Borg, Marcus J. and Crossan, John Dominic. The Last Week: The Day by Day Account of Jesus's Final Week in Jerusalem. Mar. 2006. 240p. HarperSanFrancisco, $21.95 (0-06-084539-2). 263. Taking Mark, the earliest Gospel, as their guide, Borg...

Touchdown Jesus.(Touchdown Jesus: Faith and Fandom at Notre Dame)
March 1, 2006... In the early 1930s, Ernest Hemingway wrote a thought-provoking short story entitled "The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio." The story takes place in an isolated Catholic hospital in a small town in Montana and concerns three main characters:...

Pearce, Fred. When the River Runs Dry: Water - The Defining Crisis of the Twenty - First Century.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... * Pearce, Fred. When the River Runs Dry: Water--the Defining Crisis of the Twenty-First Century. Mar. 2006. 336p. index. Beacon, $26.95 (0-8070-8572-3). 333.91. From the Amazon to the Nile, the Congo to the Colorado, the rivers of the...

Burleigh, Michael. Earthly Powers: The Clash of Religion and Politics in Europe from the French Revolution to the Great War.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Burleigh, Michael. Earthly Powers: The Clash of Religion and Politics in Europe from the French Revolution to the Great War. Mar. 2006. 544p. illus, index. HarperCollins, $29.95 (0-06-058093-3). 322. Burleigh's purpose is to explore the...

Garrison, Philip. Because I Don't Have Wings: Stories of Mexican Immigrant Life.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Garrison, Philip. Because I Don't Have Wings: Stories of Mexican Immigrant Life. Apr. 2006. 150p. Univ. of Arizona, paper, $17.95 (0-8165-2525-0). 305.868. Garrison has taught in Mexico's central highlands and Washington's central valleys,...

Hunter, Susan. AIDS in America.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Hunter, Susan. AIDS in America. Mar. 2006. 260p. Palgrave, $21.95 (1-4039-7199-4). 362.196. Hunter brings the continuing AIDS epidemic into the living room by featuring a young woman from Billings, Montana. Paige Swanberg doesn't fit the...

Leebaert, Derek. To Dare and to Conquer: Special Operations and the Destiny of Nations, from Achilles to Al Qaeda.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Leebaert, Derek. To Dare and to Conquer: Special Operations and the Destiny of Nations, from Achilles to Al Qaeda. Mar. 2006. 688p. illus, index. Little, Brown, $29.95 (0-316-14384-7). 356. Sieving through Western military history, Leebaert...

Nee, Patrick. A Criminal and an Irishman: The Inside Story of the Southie Gang Wars and the Boston Mob - IRA Connection.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Nee, Patrick. A Criminal & an Irishman: The Inside Story of the Southie Gang Wars and the Boston Mob-IRA Connection. Mar. 2006. 232p. Steerforth, $24.95 (1-58642-103-4). 364.3. Nee served two masters during his ascent through Boston's Mob...

Nye, David E. Technology Matters: Questions to Live With.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Nye, David E. Technology Matters: Questions to Live With. Apr. 2006. 280p. index. MIT, $27.95 (0-262-14093-4). 303.48. Technology can seem like an implacable force that gathers power as it advances and abruptly transforms society. But Nye,...

Goodman, Jordan E. Master Your Money Type: Using Your Financial Personality to Create a Life of Wealth and Freedom.(Smart and Simple Financial Strategies for Busy People)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Goodman, Jordan E. Master Your Money Type: Use Your Financial Personality to Create a Life of Wealth and Freedom. 2006. 368p. index. Warner, $24.95 (0-446-57801-0). 332.024. Quinn, Jane Bryant. Smart and Simple Financial Strategies for Busy...

Sowell, Thomas. On Classical Economics.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Sowell, Thomas. On Classical Economics. Mar. 2006. 304p. index. Yale, $35 (0-300-11316-1). 330.15. Sowell sets forth a series of essays on one of the stages through which economics developed before emerging into today's discipline. He...

Hirsch, E. D. The Knowledge Deficit: Closing the Shocking Education Gap for American Children.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Hirsch, E. D. The Knowledge Deficit: Closing the Shocking Education Gap for American Children. Apr. 2006. 192p. index. Houghton, $22 (0-618-65731-2). 428.4. Hirsch, the author of Cultural Literacy (1987), attacks the broad achievement gap...

Press, Eyal. Absolute Convictions: My Father, A City and the Conflict That Divided America.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... * Press, Eyal. Absolute Convictions: My Father, a City, and the Conflict That Divided America. Mar 2006. 304p. illus, index. Holt, $26 (0-8050-7731-6). 363.4609747. Press, a journalist and the son of an OB-GYN who performed abortions, grew...

Biel, Alice Wondrak. Do (Not) Feed the Bears: The Fitful History of Wildlife and Tourists in Yellowstone.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Biel, Alice Wondrak. Do (Not) Feed the Bears: The Fitful History of Wildlife and Tourists in Yellowstone. Mar. 2006. 200p. index. Univ. Press of Kansas, $35 (0-7006-1432-X); paper, $15.95 (0-7006-1458-3). 599.7. The story of Yellowstone...

Haupt, Lyanda Lynn. Pilgrim on the Great Bird Continent: The Importance of Everything and Other Lessons from Darwin's Lost Notebooks.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Haupt, Lyanda Lynn. Pilgrim on the Great Bird Continent: The Importance of Everything and Other Lessons from Darwin's Lost Notebooks. Mar. 2006. 288p. illus. Little, Brown, $24.95 (0-316-83664-8). 508. Those acquainted with Charles...

Kaplan, Michael and Kaplan, Ellen. Chances Are: Adventures in Probability.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Kaplan, Michael and Kaplan, Ellen. Chances Are: Adventures in Probability. Mar. 2006. 336p. illus. Viking, $26.95 (0-670-03487-8). 519.2. From dice, cards, and coin flips to insurance, weather, and warfare, Kaplan and Kaplan tour the human...

Morin, Paula. Honest Horses: Wild Horses in the Great Basin.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Morin, Paula. Honest Horses: Wild Horses in the Great Basin. Mar. 2006. 392p. illus. Univ. of Nevada, $49.95 (0-87417-631-X); paper, $24.95 (0-87417-673-5). 599.665. Photographer and oral historian Morin became fascinated with the wild...

Lyons, Dan. Cars of the Fantastic '50s.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Lyons, Dan. Cars of the Fantastic '50s. Mar. 2006. 192p. F&W/KP, $29.99 (0-87349-926-3). 629.222. Many car enthusiasts would argue that at least in terms of styling, the 1930s and the 1950s were the supreme moments in the U.S. automobile...

Rosenberg, Barry and Macaulay, Catherine. Mavericks of the Sky: The First Daring Pilots of the U.S. Air Mail.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Rosenberg, Barry and Macaulay, Catherine. Mavericks of the Sky: The First Daring Pilots of the U.S. Air Mail. Mar. 2006. 336p. illus, index. Morrow, $25.95 (0-06-052949-0). 629.13092. The heroes of early aviation--the Wright brothers,...

Gillick, Muriel R. The Denial of Aging: Perpetual Youth, Eternal Life and Other Dangerous Fantasies.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Gillick, Muriel R. The Denial of Aging: Perpetual Youth, Eternal Life, and Other Dangerous Fantasies. Mar. 2006. 352p. index. Harvard, $25.95 (0-674-02148-7). 646.7. Harvard physician Gillick lines up all the baby boomer antiaging...

Cheney, Annie. Body Brokers: Inside America's Underground Trade in Human Remains.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... * Cheney, Annie. Body Brokers: Inside America's Underground Trade in Human Remains. Mar. 2006. 224p. Broadway, $23.95 (0-7679-1733-2). 617.9. Here's one with the potential to keep folks up nights, wondering whether the urn on the mantel...

Armitage, Allan M. Armitage's Native Plants for North American Gardens.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Armitage, Allan M. Armitage's Native Plants for North American Gardens. Mar. 2006. 448p. illus, index. Timber, $49.95 (0-88192-760-0). 625.9. Horticulturist Armitage provides gardeners with a useful sourcebook listing hundreds of native...

Steinberg, Ted. American Green: The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Lawn.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Steinberg, Ted. American Green: The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Lawn. Mar. 2006. 224p. illus, index. Norton, $24.95 (0-393-06084-5). 6.35.9. Infinitely more interesting than watching grass grow, Steinberg's study of grass becomes a...

DeBorde, Rob. Fish on a First-Name Basis: How Fish Is Caught, Bought, Cleaned, Cooked and Eaten.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... DeBorde, Rob. Fish on a First-Name Basis: How Fish Is Caught, Bought, Cleaned, Cooked, and Eaten. Apr. 2006. 224p. illus. index. St. Martin's/Thomas Dunne, $24.95 (0-312-34220-9). 641.6. Anyone who wants to become a knowledgeable seafood...

Meyers, Jeffrey. Modigliani.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Meyers, Jeffrey. Modigliani. Mar. 2006. 288p. illus, index. Harcourt, $27 (0-15101178-8). 759.5. Astute and prolific Meyers, the Joyce Carol Oates of biographers, has concentrated on literary lives, and now turns to artists. He dubs Amedeo...

Oliver, Richard and Leffel, Tim. Hip-Hop, Inc.: Success Strategies of the Rap Moguls.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Oliver, Richard and Leffel, Tim. Hip-Hop, Inc.: Success Strategies of the Rap Moguls. Apr. 2006. 240p. Thunder's Mouth, paper, $14.95 (1-56025-732-6). 782.421649. This homage to street entrepreneurship focuses on accumulating bling, stock...

Brothers, Thomas. Louis Armstrong's New Orleans.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... * Brothers, Thomas. Louis Armstrong's New Orleans. Mar. 2006. 336p. illus. Norton, $26.95 (0-393-06109-4). 781.65092. As its title indicates, Brothers' book is more about Armstrong's context than his life, more a focused microhistory than...

Richmond, Peter. Fever: The Life and Music of Miss Peggy Lee.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Richmond, Peter. Fever: The Life and Music of Miss Peggy Lee. Apr. 2006. 464p. illus, index. Holt, $27.50 (0-8050-7383-3). 782.42164092. The author's admiration for legendary singer Peggy Lee is unabashed, which is a good thing, because a...

Server, Lee. Ava Gardner.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Server, Lee. Ava Gardner: "Love Is Nothing." Mar. 2006. 608p. illus. St. Martin's, $29.95 (0-312-31209-1). 791.43. Server follows his superb biography of Robert Mitchum (Baby I Don't Care, 2001) with the life of another midcentury movie...

Codina, Carles. The New Jewelry: Contemporary Materials and Techniques.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Codina, Caries. The New Jewelry: Contemporary Materials & Techniques. 2006. 160p. illus, index. Sterling/Lark, $29.95 (1-57990-734-2). 745.59. Found objects, from seashells to rubber bands, have been incorporated into almost every artistic...

Morse, Linda. Luxury Knitting: The Ultimate Guide to Exquisite Yarns--Cashmere, Merino, Silk.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Morse, Linda. Luxury Knitting: The Ultimate Guide to Exquisite Yarns--Cashmere, Merino, Silk. 2006. 128p. illus. Sixth & Spring; dist. by Sterling, $24.95 (1-931543-86-0). 746.43. Into the mix of the usual knitting books enters a refreshing...

Moore, Kenny. Bowerman and the Men of Oregon: The Story of Oregon's Legendary Coach and Nike's Co-founder.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Moore, Kenny. Bowerman and the Men of Oregon: The Story of Oregon's Legendary Coach and Nike's Co-founder. Apr. 2006. 480p. illus, index. Rodale, $28.95 (1-59486-190-0). 796.42. Bill Bowerman stands as one of the most pivotal and least...

D'Orso, Michael. Eagle Blue: A Team, a Tribe, and a High School Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... * D'Orso, Michael. Eagle Blue: A Team, a Tribe, and a High School Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska. Mar. 2006. 336p. Bloomsbury, $23.95 (1-58234-623-2). 796.323. Everything in Alaska's bush is tough, from earning a living to surviving...

Prensky, Marc. 'Don't Bother Me, Mom--I'm Learning!': How Computer and Video Games Are Preparing Your Kids for 21st Century Success--and How You Can Help!(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Prensky, Marc. "Don't Bother Me, Mom--I'm Learning!" How Computer and Video Games Are Preparing Your Kids for 21st Century Success--and How You Can Help! Mar. 2006. 240p. Paragon, paper, $19.95 (1-55778-858-8). 794.8. Prensky debunks the...

Lingeman, Richard. Double Lives: American Writers' Friendships.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Lingeman, Richard. Double Lives: American Writers' Friendships. Apr. 2006. 256p. index. Random, $24.95 (1-4000-6045-1). 810.9. Lingeman, the author of Sinclair Lewis (2002), explores the complex bonds between some of America's greatest...

Vogel, Dan. Mark Twain's Jews.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Vogel, Dan. Mark Twain's Jews. Apr. 2006. 146p. index. KTAV, $22.95 (0-88125-916-0). 818. Vogel writes in his introduction that Mark Twain mentioned Jews many times in notebook entries and autobiographical recollections, in newspaper...

Carruth, Hayden. Toward the Distant Islands.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Carruth, Hayden. Toward the Distant islands. Ed. by Sam Hamill Apr. 2006. 181p. Copper Canyon, paper, $17 (1-55659-236-1). 811. Deciding to present only complete poems and thus leave the contents of Carruth's Collected Longer Poems (1994)...

Hirsch, Edward. Poet's Choice.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... * Hirsch, Edward. Poet's Choice. Apr. 2006.432p. index. Harcourt, $25 (0-15-101356-X). 808.81 Hirsch celebrates poetry as a "human fundamental" in his incantatory introduction to this brimming collection of 130 masterfully distilled essays...

Cavafy, C. P. The Collected Poems of C. P. Cavafy.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Cavafy, C. P. The Collected Poems of C. P. Cavafy. Tr. by Aliki Barnstone. Mar. 2006. 308p. index. Norton, $25.95 (0-393-06142-6). 889. Excellent as the versions of Theoharis Constantine Theoharis (Before Time Could Change Them, 2001),...

Gluck, Louise. Averno.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Gluck, Louise. Averno. Mar. 2006.96p. Farrar, $22.95 (0-374-10742-4). 811. Gluck, a much-honored poet and former U.S. poet laureate, depicts a stark and frigid world in her somber, fastidiously concentrated eleventh collection. It's as...

Harrison, Jim. Saving Daylight.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Harrison, Jim. Saving Daylight. Apr. 2006. 124p. Copper Canyon, $22 (1-55659-235-3). 811. Harrison's poetry is earthy in the fullest sense of the word: it is of the earth, stoked by the senses, in sync with the beat of life, and salty in...

Jones, Rodney. Salvation Blues: One Hundred Poems, 1985-2005.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Jones, Rodney. Salvation Blues: One Hundred Poems, 1985-2005. Mar. 2006. 288p. Houghton, $25 (0-618-62430-9). 811. Jones' more-than-20-year compilation of six volumes is a six-pack of rich southern smoothness. If poetic voices were heard on...

The Sea! The Sea!(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... The Sea! The Sea! Ed. by Peter Jay. Mar. 2006. 176p. Anvil; dist. by Consortium, paper, $13.95 (0-85646-379-5). 808.81. Published to mark the bicentennial of the Battle of Trafalgar, which put paid to Napoleon's navy, this splendidly...

Steele, Timothy. Toward the Winter Solstice.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Steele, Timothy. Toward the Winter Solstice. Mar. 2006.64p. Swallow, $24.95 (0-8040-1090-0); paper, $14.95 (0-8040-1091-9). 811. Steele, who was in the vanguard of the 1980s swing back to regular meter and rhyme in American poetry, is a...

Taylor, Henry. Crooked Run.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Taylor, Henry. Crooked Run. Apr. 2006. 72p. Louisiana State, $45 (0-8071-3124-5); paper, $16.95 (0-8071-3125-3). 811. The poems in Taylor's vivid new collection are about a place and some people who have lived there for generations:...

Worlds to Explore: Classic Tales of Travel and Adventure from National Geographic.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Worlds to Explore: Classic Tales of Travel & Adventure from National Geographic. Ed. by Mark Jenkins. Apr. 2006. 480p. index. National Geographic, $23 (0-7922-5487-2). 910.9163. Evoking adventure made possible by the railroad, steamship,...

Baxter, John. We'll Always Have Paris.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Baxter, John. We'll Always Have Paris. Mar. 2006. 352p. illus. HarperCollins/Perennial, paper, $13.95 (0-06-083288-6). 944. Australian-born Baxter moves from Los Angeles to Paris to start a new marriage to a French television newscaster....

Benz, Wolfgang. A Concise History of the Third Reich.(Killing Hitler: The Plots, the Assassins, and the Dictator Who Cheated Death)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Benz, Wolfgang. A Concise History of the Third Reich. Tr. by Thomas Dunlap. Apr. 2006. 308p. illus, index. Univ. of California, $35 (0-520-23489-8). 943.08. Moorhouse, Roger. Killing Hitler: The Plots, the Assassins, and the Dictator Who...

Calloway, Colin G. The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Calloway, Colin G. The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America. Apr. 2006. 256p. illus, index. Oxford, $28 (0-19-530071-8). 973.2. In North America in 1763, people were on the move, some under compulsion, some under...

Finkel, Caroline. Osman's Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1923.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... * Finkel, Caroline. Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire. Mar. 2006. 688p. illus, index. Basic, $35 (0-465-02396-7). 956.101. To be blunt, historians have neglected the Ottoman Empire. Stifled by language barriers, problematic...