Booklist articles from March 2007

Booklist archives from March 2007

Notable books, 2007.(ALA's 2007 Best Lists)(Bibliography)
March 1, 2007... 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, 2007.(ALA's 2007 Best Lists)(Recommended readings)
March 1, 2007... The annual list of books compiled by a committee of the Young Adult Library Services Association comprises nonfiction and fiction appropriate for ages 12 to 18. Titles published in late 2005 are noted; all others were published in 2006. The...

Alex Awards, 2007.(ALA's 2007 Best Lists)(Bibliography)
March 1, 2007... The Alex Awards, administered by YALSA and cosponsored by Booklist and the Margaret A. Edwards trust,, 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,...

Top 10 quick picks, 2007.(ALA's 2007 Best Lists)(Recommended readings)
March 1, 2007... Below you will find the top choices selected by the 2007 Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers committee. For the complete list of the Quick Picks selections and the committee members who chose them, visit the YALSA Web site...

Great graphic novels for teens, 2007.(ALA's 2007 Best Lists)(Recommended readings)
March 1, 2007... The list below comprises recommended graphic novels for readers ages 12 to 18. Prepared by an 11-member YALSA committee, the roundup, the first of its kind, includes books published from late 2005 through 2006. The committee selected the top 10...

The Amelia Bloomer project, 2007.(ALA's 2007 Best Lists)(Bibliography)
March 1, 2007... The Amelia Bloomer Project, sponsored by the Feminist Task Force of the Social Responsibilities Round Table of ALA, announces its sixth annual list of recommended feminist books for young readers from preschool through age 18. Published between...

Notable children's books, 2007.(ALA's 2007 Best Lists)(Recommended readings)
March 1, 2007... This 2007 list was compiled by the Notable Children's Books Committee of the Association for Library Service to Children. Librarians throughout the U.S. helped to select the titles from the several thousand children's books published during...

Notable children's media, 2007.(ALA's 2007 Best Lists)(Bibliography)
March 1, 2007... Notable Children's Videos Because Your Daddy Loves You. 9min. Nutmeg, DVD, $49.95. A quiet and cozy iconographic celebration of a father's tireless love for his little girl. Includes a conversation with author and narrator Andrew...

Selected audiobooks for young adults, 2007.(ALA's 2007 Best Lists)(American Library Association)(Bibliography)
March 1, 2007... Accidents of Nature. 6hr. Listening Library, CS, $35; CD, $45. Seventeen-year-old Jean begins to question her role in the world while attending a summer camp for children with disabilities. Jenna Lamia skillfully portrays both the interior...

Selected DVDs and videos for young adults, 2007.(ALA's 2007 Best Lists)
March 1, 2007... Aruba. 11min. National Film Board of Canada, DVD, $129. A young boy tries to escape his difficult intercity surroundings through the power of his imagination. Breaking the Silence: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Foster...

Notable videos for adults, 2007.(ALA's 2007 Best Lists)(Bibliography)
March 1, 2007... Country Boys. 335min. PBS, VHS and DVD, $64.95 each. Producer David Sutherland explores the timeless issues of poverty and class through the lives of two teenage boys coming of age in Kentucky's Appalachian hills. The Devil and Daniel...

Bradley, Bill. The New American Story.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Bradley, Bill. The New American Story. Apr. 2007. 384p. index. Random, $25.95 (1-4000-6507-0). 973.931 Taking advantage of his long and varied experience-and the credibility he earns because he's not running for office--Bradley appeals to...

Kingsolver, Barbara and others. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Kingsolver, Barbara and others. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. May 2007. 384p. HarperCollins, $26.95 (0-06-085357-3). 381.3. Living the American consumerist's good life in Arizona's desert makes abundantly obvious how...

Rampersad, Arnold. Ralph Ellison.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Rampersad, Arnold. Ralph Ellison. Apr. 2007.688p. illus. index. Knopf, $35 (9780375408274). 818. Time has reduced Ralph Ellison's image to that of a one-book wonder, a famous and esteemed black author estranged from black people. Rampersad...

Alexie, Sherman. Flight.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Alexie, Sherman. Flight. Apr. 2007.208p. Grove/Black Cat, paper, $13 (0-8021-7037-4). SF/Fantasy It's tough enough to be an orphan and a ward of the state, let alone a so-called half-breed. Hock, being 15 years old is no freaking picnic,...

Berg, Elizabeth. Dream When You're Feeling Blue.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Berg, Elizabeth. Dream When You're Feeling Blue. May 2007.256p. Random, $24.95 (1-4000-6510-0). General Fiction. The best-selling, prolific Berg has reimagined the biblical story of Mary and Joseph in Nazareth in The Handmaid and the...

Hoag, Tami. The Alibi Man.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Hoag, Tami. The Alibi Man. Mar. 2007.384p. Bantam, $26 (9780553802016). Crime Fiction. Elena Estes, former policewoman, former member of the elite of Palm Beach, Florida, is thrust back into both aspects of her former life when she...

Ignatius, David. Body of Lies.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Ignatius, David. Body of Lies. Apr. 2007. 320p. Norton, $24.95 (9780393065039). Crime Fiction Car bombs begin to explode in European cities, and it's only a matter of time until they reach the U.S. CIA agent Roger Ferris learns of the...

Kellerman, Jonathan. Obsession.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Kellerman, Jonathan. Obsession. Mar. 2007.368p. Ballantine, $26.95 (0-345-45263-1). Crime Fiction. Mega-best-selling Kellerman delivers another psychological suspense tale starring shrink hero Alex Delaware. While the Delaware novels are...

Chabon, Michael. The Yiddish Policemen's Union.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... * Chabon, Michael. The Yiddish Policemen's Union. May 2007.432p. HarperCollins, $26.95 (9780007149827). Genera] Fiction. Like Haruki Murakami in Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World(1991), Chabon plays with the conventions of the...

Khadra, Yasmina. The Sirens of Baghdad.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Khadra, Yasmina. The Sirens of Baghdad. Tr. by John Cullen. May 2007. 291p. Doubleday/Nan A. Talese, $19.95 (9780385521741). General Fiction. This is Khadra's second novel about a phenomenon that mystifies so many Westerners--the educated,...

Murakami, Haruki. After Dark.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Murakami, Haruki. After Dark. May 2007.208p. Knopf, $22 (0-307-26583-8). General Fiction. Murakami's celebrated oeuvre falls into two easily distinguished categories: there are the broad-canvas epics (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1997, for...

Palahniuk, Chuck. Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Palahniuk, Chuck. Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey. May 2007. 288p. Doubleday, $24.95 (9780385517874). Generat Fiction. In his eighth novel, Palahniuk uses a new form--oral history--to revisit the themes that have always informed his...

White, Randy Wayne. Hunter's Moon.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... White, Randy Wayne. Hunter's Moon. Mar. 2007.352p. Putnam, $24.95 (9780399153709). Crime Fiction. White's last entry in his Dec Ford series (Dark Light, 2006) was a quasi-historical novel in which his hero, marine biologist and special-ops...

Hosseini, Khaled. A Thousand Splendid Suns.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... * Hosseini, Khaled. A Thousand Splendid Suns. May 2007. 336p. Riverhead, $25.95 (1-59448-950-5). General Fiction. Hosseini's follow-up to his best-selling debut, The Kite Runner (2003) views the plight of Afghanistan during the last...

Breaking News: How the Associated Press Has Covered War, Peace, and Everything Else.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Breaking News: How the Associated Press Has Covered War, Peace, and Everything Else. By reporters of the Associated Press. June 2007. 448p. illus. Princeton, $40 (1-56898-689-0). 070.4. In 1865, having learned from a 200-word story that...

Killed Cartoons: Casualties from the War on Free Expression.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Killed Cartoons: Casualties from the War on Free Expression. Ed. by David Wallis. Mar. 2007. 224p. illus. Norton, paper, $15.95 (9780393329247). 070.4. If editorial cartoonists are the court jesters of journalism, using humor to speak...

Grierson, Bruce. U-Turn: What if You Woke Up One Morning and Realized You Were Living the Wrong Life?(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Grierson, Bruce. U-Turns: What if You Woke Up One Morning and Realized You Were Living the Wrong Life? Apr. 2007. 352p. index. Bloomsbury, $24.95 (1-58234-584-8). 155.2. What Grierson dubs a wake-up call others may deem a religious...

Maddox, Brenda. Freud's Wizard: Ernest Jones and the Transformation of Psychoanalysis.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Maddox, Brenda. Freud's Wizard: Ernest Jones and the Transformation of Psychoanalysis. Mar. 2007. 384p. index. Da Capo, $26 (9780306815553). 150.1952092. Acolyte, voluminous correspondent, rescuer from Nazis, and biographer of Sigmund...

Nissenson, Marilyn. The Lady Upstairs: Dorothy Schiff and the New York Post.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... * Nissenson, Marilyn. The Lady Upstairs: Dorothy Schiff and the New York Post. Apr. 2007. 352p. St. Martin's, $27.95 (9780312313104). 070.5. Unlike the better-known Katharine Graham, Schiff did not inherit the control and operation of a...

The resurrection of Ebenezer Scrooge.(The Manley Arts)(A Christmas Carol)(Character overview)(Column)
March 1, 2007... The first thing that you must understand is Booklist's schedule. I am writing this, my March column, one week after the end of the holiday season. I debated holding this piece until December, when it would be more seasonal, but I wanted to...

Mathews, Dan. Committed: A Rabble-Rouser's Memoir.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Mathews, Dan. Committed: A Rabble Rouser's Memoir. Apr. 2007. 245p. Atria, $24 (0-7432-9187-5). 179. Animal rights activist Mathews is the exuberant mastermind behind many of the audacious, headline-grabbing protests that have made PETA...

Benedict XVI. The Essential Pope Benedict XVI: His Central Writings & Speeches.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Benedict XVI. The Essential Pope Benedict XVI: His Central Writings & Speeches. Ed. by John F Thornton and Susan B. Varenne. Mar. 2007. 512p. index. HarperSanFrancisco, $27.95 (9780061128837). 282.092. In The Regensburg Lecture (2007),...

Harline, Craig. Sunday: A History in Seven Parts.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Harline, Craig. Sunday: A History in Seven Parts. Mar. 2007. 464p. Doubleday, $26 (9780385510394). 263. Sunday means different things to different people and different cultures. Some look forward to it, others dread it. In this delicious...

Prothero, Stephen. Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know--and Doesn't.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... * Prothero, Stephen. Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know--and Doesn't. Mar. 2007. 304p. index. HarperSanFrancisco, $24.95 (9780060846701). 200.71. The author of American Jesus (2003) opens this important book with a...

Jackowski, Karol. Forever and Ever, Amen: Becoming a Nun in the Sixties.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Jackowski, Karol. Forever and Ever, Amen: Becoming a Nun in the Sixties. Mar. 2007. 288p. Riverhead, $23.95 (9781594489372). 291.657. Although the story is a familiar one--a young girl follows her vocation into the convent in the early...

Segal, Jerome M. Joseph's Bones: Understanding the Struggle between God and Mankind in the Bible.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Segal, Jerome M. Joseph's Bones: Understanding the Struggle between God and Mankind in the Bible. Mar. 2007. 320p. index. Riverhead, $24.95 (9781594489396). 222. The narratives concerning Joseph, the eldest son of Jacob and Rachel, are...

Buckley, Kristen. Tramps like Us: A New Jersey Tale.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Buckley, Kristen. Tramps like Us: A New Jersey Tale. Apr. 2007. 256p. illus. Cyan, $24.95 (9781905736232). 306. "There was no one like us anywhere," Buckley writes of her family in this episodic, intermittently amusing memoir of growing up...

Cohn, Jonathan. Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis--and the People Who Pay the Price.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Cohn, Jonathan. Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis--and the People Who Pay the Price. Apr. 2007. 26p. HarperCollins, $25.95 (9780060580452). 362.10973. Overcrowded emergency rooms force ambulances to drive patients to...

Flynn, Kevin. Relentless Pursuit: A Story of Family, Murder, and the Prosecutor Who Wouldn't Quit.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Flynn, Kevin. Relentless Pursuit: A Story of Family, Murder, and the Prosecutor Who Wouldn't Quit. Mar. 2007. 384p. Putnam, $25.95 (9780399154065). 364.152. Flynn, a prosecutor in the D.C.U.S. Attorney's Office, lays out the anatomy of...

Galland, China. Love Cemetery: Unburying the Secret History of Slaves.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Galland, China. Love Cemetery: Unburying the Secret History of Slaves. June 2007. 256p. HarperSanFrancisco, $24.95 (0-06077931-4). 306.3. Visiting her hometown in East Texas, Galland learns of an unmarked cemetery for slaves. She joins a...

Lyons, Len. The Ethiopian Jews of Israel.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Lyons, Len. The Ethiopian Jews of Israel. Apr. 2007. 240p. illus. Jewish Lights, $34.99 (9781580233231).304.8. Beta Israel (house of Israel) is the term by which Ethiopian Jews refer to themselves. Between 1977 and 1993, more than 100,000...

McGrath, Melanie. The Long Exile: A Tale of Inuit Betrayal and Survival in the High Arctic.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... * McGrath, Melanie. The Long Exile: A Tale of Inuit Betrayal and Survival in the High Arctic. Apr. 2007. 336p. index. Knopf, $25 (9781400040476). 305.897. McGrath has accomplished significant and riveting work in her investigation into the...

Rybczynski, Witold. Last Harvest: How a Cornfield Became New Daleville.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Rybczynski, Witold. Last Harvest: How a Cornfield Became New Daleville. Apr. 2007. 320p. Scribner, $26 (9780743235969). 307.76. Residential real estate development seems like an unlikely topic for a gripping read, and certainly Rybczynski...

Sapon-Shevin, Mara. Widening the Circle.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Sapon-Shevin, Mara. Widening the Circle. Mar. 2007. 272p. Beacon, paper, $14 (0-8070-3280-8). 371.9. Sapon-Shevin, a professor of education, argues that education models based on inclusiveness benefit children while they are in school and...

Schumer, Chuck and Squadron, Daniel. Positively American: Winning Back the Middle-Class Majority One Family at a Time.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Schumer, Chuck and Squadron, Daniel. Positively American: Winning Back the Middle-Class Majority One Family at a Time. 2007. 274p. index. Rodale, $24.95 (9781594865725). 305.55. Schumer, Democratic U.S. senator from New York, offers a...

Mead, Rebecca. One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... * Mead, Rebecca. One Perfect Day: The Selling of SOCIAL SCIENCES the American Wedding. May 2007. 236p. Penguin, $24.95 (9781594200885). 392. Reminiscent of Jessica Mitford's The American Way of Death (1963), although written in a...

Mundy, Liza. Everything Conceivable: How Assisted Reproduction Is Changing Men, Women, and the World.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... * Mundy, Liza. Everything Conceivable: How Assisted Reproduction Is Changing Men, Women, and the World. Apr. 2007. 416p. index. Knopf, $24.95 (9781400044283). 362.196. Mundy applies prodigious journalistic and research skills to a topic as...

Stone, Judith. When She Was White: The True Story of a Family Divided by Race.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Stone, Judith. When She Was White: The True Story of a Family Divided by Race. Apr. 2007. 304p. Hyperion, $23.95 (9780786868988). 305.48. In 1966 in South Africa, Sandra Laing, 10, was reclassified as "Coloured" and expelled from her white...

Thomson, Jennifer A. Seeds for the Future: The Impact of Genetically Modified Crops on the Environment.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Thomson, Jennifer A. Seeds for the Future: The Impact of Genetically Modified Crops on the Environment. Mar. 2007. 208p. illus. index. Cornell, $24.95 (9780801473685). 363.19. The future of agricultural viability, not only in emerging...

White, Paul D. and Arias, Rion. White's Rules: Saving Our Youth One Kid at a Time.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... White, Paul D. and Arias, Rion. White's Rules: Saving Our Youth One Kid at a Time. March 2007. 240p. Morgan Road, $19.95 (9780767924191). 371.5. After a student was killed in a gang-related drive-by shooting, White, a teacher at a...

Brandt, Allan M. The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Brandt, Allan M. The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America. Mar. 2007. 704p. illus, index. Basic, $36 (9780465070473). 338.4. In the mid-1800s, cigarettes were considered a curiosity...

Burt, William. Marshes: The Disappearing Edens.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Butt, William. Marshes: The Disappearing Edens. Apr. 2007. 192p. illus, index. Yale, $35 (9780300122299). 578.76. Naturalist Burt uses his considerable literary and photographic skills to describe the mysterious beauty of rapidly...

Fothergill, Alastair. Planet Earth: As You've Never Seen It Before.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Fothergill, Alastair. Planet Earth: As You've Never Seen It Before. Mar. 2007. 312p. illus, index. Univ. of California, $39.95 (9780520250543). 508. This is the companion volume to the BBC/ Discovery Channel series Planet Earth, narrated...

Mazur, Joseph. The Motion Paradox: The 2,500-Year-Old Puzzle behind All the Mysteries of Time and Space.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Mazur, Joseph. The Motion Paradox: The 2,500-Year-Old Puzzle behind All the Mysteries of Time and Space. Apr. 2007. 240p. illus, index. Dutton, $24.95 (9780525949923). 530.11 Zeno's four paradoxes have bamboozled the greatest mathematical...

Skinner, Stephen. Sacred Geometry: Deciphering the Code.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Skinner, Stephen. Sacred Geometry: Deciphering the Code. Mar. 2007. 160p. illus. Sterling, $32.95 (1-4027-4129-4). 516.001. Skinner, credited with introducing feng shui to the West, continues his search for the underlying order of the world...

Tait, Malcolm. Going, Going, Gone? Animals and Plants on the Brink of Extinction and How You Can Help.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Tait, Malcolm. Going, Going, Gone? Animals and Plants on the Brink of Extinction and How You Can Help. Mar. 2007. 224p. illus. Sterling/Think, $17.95 (1-84525-027-3). 578.68. Endangered species is a phrase we often hear, so often that we...

Wilson, David Sloan. Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think about Our Lives.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Wilson, David Sloan. Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think about Our Lives. Apr. 2007. 400p. index. Delacorte, $24 (9780385340212). 576.801. Wilson, the author of Darwin's Cathedral (2002), tends to...

Jones, Chris. Too Far from Home: A Story of Life and Death in Space.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Jones, Chris. Too Far from Home: A Story of Life and Death in Space. Mar. 2007. 320p. Doubleday, $24.95 (9780385514651). 629.45. In an up-close and personal style, with occasional Tom Wolfe-like flourishes, Jones depicts the life of the...

Jonnes, Jill. Conquering Gotham: A Gilded Age Epic; The Construction of Penn Station and Its Tunnels.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Jonnes, Jill. Conquering Gotham: A Gilded Age Epic; The Construction of Penn Station and Its Tunnels. Apr. 2007. 370p. index. Viking, $27.95 (9780670031580). 609. Commemorated in many a rueful history book after "barbarians" demolished it...

Stewart, Ian. Why Beauty Is Truth: A History of Symmetry.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Stewart, Ian. Why Beauty Is Truth: A History of Symmetry. Apr. 2007. 304p. Basic, $26.95 (9780465082360). 516.1. Werner Heisenberg recognized the numerical harmonies at the heart of the universe: "l am strongly attracted by the simplicity...

Stross, Randall. The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Stross, Randall. The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World. Mar. 2007. 352p. Crown, $24.95 (9781400047628). 621.3092. Biographies abound of inventor Thomas Edison, so Stross distinctively positions his book...

Gawande, Atul. Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Gawande, Atul. Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance. Apr. 2007. 288p. Holt/ Metropolitan, $24 (9780805082111). 616. Quick. What mundane practice, regularly propagated by generations of morns, could save the lives of thousands of...

Meyers, Morton A. Happy Accidents: Serendipity in Modern Medical Breakthroughs.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Meyers, Morton A. Happy Accidents: Serendipity in Modern Medical Breakthroughs. Apr. 2007. 408p. illus, index. Arcade, $27.95 (9781559708197). 610.9. To radiologist and internist Meyers, the phrase creative scientific research has become...

Junker, Karan. Gardening with Woodland Plants.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Junker, Karan. Gardening with Woodland Plants. Mar. 2007. 400p. illus, index. Timber, $39.95 (9780881928211). 635.9. For those who live in the woods, landscaping can be a matter of not being able to see the forest for the trees. With proper...

Scott, Aurelia C. Otherwise Normal People: Inside the Obsessive and Thorny World of Competitive Rose Gardening.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Scott, Aurelia C. Otherwise Normal People: Inside the Obsessive and Thorny World of Competitive Rose Gardening. May 2007. 256p. Algonquin, $22.95 (9781565124646). 635.9. A rose is a rose is a rose, but don't try telling that to the...

McNamee, Gregory. Moveable Feasts: The History, Science, and Lore of Food.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... McNamee, Gregory. Moveable Feasts: The History, Science, and Lore of Food. 2007. 216p. illus, index. Praeger, $39.95 (0-27598931-3). 641.3. In delightfully readable prose, McNamee considers some 30 assorted foods that make up a substantial...

Stone, Curtis. Cooking with Curtis: Easy, Everyday and Adventurous Recipes for the Home Cook.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Stone, Curtis. Cooking with Curtis: Easy, Everyday and Adventurous Recipes for the Home Cook. 2007. 156p. illus, index. Firefly, paper, $24.95 (1-55285-817-0). 641.5. Stone, a former head chef in a major London restaurant, is the host-chef...

Chicago, Judy. The Dinner Party: From Creation to Preservation.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Chicago, Judy. The Dinner Party: From Creation to Preservation. Illus. by Donald Woodman. Mar. 2007. 308p. index. Merrell, $49.95 (1-85894-370-1). 709.2. The world's most famous and controversial work of feminist art, Judy Chicago's Dinner...

Fisher, TJ and Guste, Roy F., Jr. Orleans Embrace: With the Secret Gardens of the Vieux Carre.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Fisher, TJ and Guste, Roy F., Jr. Orleans Embrace: With the Secret Gardens of the Vieux Carre. Apr. 2007. 388p. illus. Morgana, $50 (9780977351473). 712. Lavishly designed and sumptuously illustrated, Orleans Embrace celebrates what makes...

Georgia O'Keeffe/John Loengard: Paintings and Photographs.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Georgia O'Keeffe/John Loengard: Paintings and Photographs. 2007.80p. illus. Prestel, $29.95 (0-8296-0103-4). 759.13. Georgia O'Keeffe may be the most photographed artist in history, given the artistic ardor of her photographer husband,...

Kruth, John. To Live's to Fly: The Ballad of the Late, Great Townes Van Zandt.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Kruth, John. To Live's to Fly: The Ballad of the Late, Great Townes Van Zandt. Mar. 2007. 320p. illus. Da Capo, $26 (9780306815539). 782.421642092. Not unlike fellow alt-country inspiration Gram Parsons, Townes Van Zandt was born rich yet...

Sillevis, John. The Baroque World of Fernando Botero.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... * Sillevis, John. The Baroque World of Fernando Botero. 2007. 283p. illus, index. Yale, $65 (9780300123593). 759.98. Botero's oversized figures are instantly recognizable, his opulent paintings and sculptures loved the world over, yet there...

Marchese, John. The Violin Maker: Finding a Centuries-Old Tradition in a Brooklyn Workshop.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Marchese, John. The Violin Maker: Finding a Centuries-Old Tradition in a Brooklyn Workshop. Apr. 2007. 240p. HarperCollins, $24.95 (9780060012670). 787.2. In exploring the relationships to one another of Antonio Stradivari of Cremona, Sam...

Marmorstein, Gary. The Label: The Story of Columbia Records.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Marmorstein, Gary. The Label: The Story of Columbia Records. Mar. 2007. 624p. illus, index. Thunder's Mouth, $29.95 (9781560257073). 781.49. Marmorstein's exhaustive study of one of the world's most venerable recording labels must cover...

Rachlin, Harvey. Scandals, Vandals, and da Vincis.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Rachlin, Harvey. Scandals, Vandals, and da Vincis. Apr. 2007. 345p. illus, index. Penguin, paper, $14 (9780143038351). 759. Great paintings often have great backstories, and in this lively, gossipy book, prolific Rachlin takes full...

Ros i Frigola, Maria Dolors. The Art & Craft of Ceramics: Techniques, Projects, Inspiration.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Ros i Frigola, Maria Dolors. The Art & Craft of Ceramics: Techniques, Projects, Inspiration. Mar. 2007. 160p. illus, index. Sterling/Lark, $29.95 (9781579909123). 738. A nice introduction to the artistic philosophies and goals of ceramics...

Trynka, Paul. Iggy Pop: Open Up and Bleed.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Trynka, Paul. Iggy Pop: Open Up and Bleed. Apr. 2007. 352p. illus, index. Broadway, $23.95 (9780767923194). 782.42166092. In the last throes of the 1960s, Jim Osterberg, a charming, hyperintelligent, ambitious boy from a trailer park near...

Bayard, Marie-Noelle and Abad, Charlie. Sewing: Techniques and Patterns.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Bayard, Marie-Noelle and Abad, Charlie. Sewing: Techniques and Patterns. 2007. 256p. illus, index. Sterling, $24.95 (9781402737718). 646.2. Sewing is experiencing a new revival among the hip and crafty, and Bayard provides a nice...

Knight, Erika. Glamour Knits.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Knight, Erika. Glamour Knits. 2007. 104p. illus. Crown/Potter Craft, $19.95 (9780307347206). 746.43. Knight, Erika. Classic Knits: 15 Timeless Designs to Knit and Keep Forever. 2007. 96p. illus. Crown/Potter Craft, $19.95 (9780307347190)....

Eig, Jonathan. Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Eig, Jonathan. Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season. Apr. 2007. 352p. illus. Simon & Schuster, $26 (0-74329460-2). 796.357. The author of the acclaimed Luckiest Man (2005), a biography of Lou Gehrig, turns here to...

Harlin, John. The Eiger Obsession: Facing the Mountain That Killed My Father.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Harlin, John. The Eiger Obsession: Facing the Mountain That Killed My Father. Mar. 2007. 270p. Simon & Schuster, $26 (0-7432-9690-7). 796.52. When the author was nine years old, his father, an experienced climber, tackled one of the...

Lee, Bill "Spaceman" and Prime, Jim. Baseball Eccentrics: The Most Entertaining, Outrageous, and Unforgettable Characters in the Game.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Lee, Bill "Spaceman" and Prime, Jim. Baseball Eccentrics: The Most Entertaining, Outrageous, and Unforgettable Characters in the Game. Mar. 2007. 240p. illus. Triumph, $22.95 (9781572439535). 796.357. Bill Lee was a good major-league...

Scoring from Second: Writers on Baseball. Ed. by Philip F. Deaver.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Scoring from Second: Writers on Baseball. Ed. by Philip F. Deaver. Apr. 2007. 327p. Univ. of Nebraska/Bison, paper, $21.95 (0-8032-5991-3). 796.357. Baseball fans who yearn for the days of Ring Lardner will find in this collection ample...