Booklist articles from March 2008

Booklist archives from March 2008

Notable books, 2008.(ALA's 2008 Best Lists)(fiction, nonfiction and poetry)
March 1, 2008... 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, 2008.(ALA's 2008 Best Lists)(Recommended readings)
March 1, 2008... 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 2006 are noted; all others were published in 2007. The...

The Reading List, 2008: Best Adult Genre Fiction.(ALA's 2008 Best Lists)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Established in 2007 by the CODES section of RUSA, the Reading List Council, consisting of librarians who are experts in readers' advisory and collection development, selects an annual list of outstanding genre fiction. This inaugural list is...

Alex Awards, 2008.(ALA's 2008 Best Lists)(Awards list)
March 1, 2008... The Alex Awards, administered by YALSA and sponsored by the Margaret A. Edwards trust and Booklist, honor the top 10 adult books published during the previous year with appeal to readers between the ages of 12 and 18. For the names of the 2008...

Top 10 Quick Picks, 2008.(ALA's 2008 Best Lists)(Brief article)(Recommended readings)
March 1, 2008... Below you will find the top 10 choices from the full list selected by the 2008 Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers Committee. For the complete list of the selections and the names of the committee members, visit...

Great Graphic Novels for T eens, 2008.(ALA's 2008 Best Lists)(Bibliography)
March 1, 2008... The list below comprises recommended graphic novels for readers ages 12 to 18. The roundup includes books published from late 2006 through 2007. The committee selected the top 10 from the list; these titles are identified with a star (*) in the...

Notable Children's Books, 2008.(ALA's 2008 Best Lists)(Bibliography)
March 1, 2008... This 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 2007....

Notable children's media, 2008.(ALA's 2008 Best Lists)(List)
March 1, 2008... Notable Children's Videos Becoming an Organized Student. 20min. Human Relations, DVD, $119.95. Meet four middle-school students who need help. Each demonstrates the disadvantages of being disorganized; gives tips on getting a handle...

Selected audiobooks for young adults, 2008.(ALA's 2008 Best Lists)(List)
March 1, 2008... An Abundance of Katherines. 7hr. Brilliance, CD, $82.25. Colin has been dumped by his nineteenth Katherine and is no longer a "child prodigy" and definitely not an adult genius. His wisecracking buddy decides that the cure for Colin's blues...

Selected DVDs and videos for young adults, 2008.(ALA's 2008 Best Lists)(List)
March 1, 2008... Fishbowl. 28 min. Center for Asian American Media, DVD, $75. In a slice-of-life story set in Hawaii, 12-year-old Lovey yearns to be anything but herself as she juggles class rivalries, experiences ridicule for speaking pidgin English, and...

Notable videos for adults, 2008.(ALA's 2008 Best Lists)(List)
March 1, 2008... Achieving the Unachievable. 52min. Cine Fete, VHS and DVD, $89. Unravels the mystery of M. C. Escher's Print Gallery by exploring the complex relationship between artistic inspiration and mathematics. After Innocence. 95min. New...

Boots on the Ground by Dusk: My Tribute to Pat Tillman.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Boots on the Ground by Dusk: The Life and Death of Pat Tillman. By Mary Tillman and Narda Zacchino. May 2008. 336p. illus. Rodale/Modern Times, $25.95 (9781594868801). 956.104 Reminiscent of the 1979 TV movie Friendly Fire (in...

Maps and Legends: Essays on Reading and Writing along the Borderlands.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Maps and Legends: Essays on Reading and Writing along the Borderlands. By Michael Chabon. Apr. 2008. 336p. McSweeney's, $24 (9781932416893). 800. Chabon declares, "I read for entertainment, and I write to entertain. Period." But...

Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West. By Benazir Bhutto. 2008. 328p. HarperCollins, $27.95 (9780061567582). 954.910. Just days prior to her assassination, the late former prime minister of troubled Pakistan completed the...

A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father. By Augusten Burroughs. May 2008. 256p. St. Martin's, $24.95 (9780312342029). 813. Burroughs' childhood was the stuff of nightmares long before he was adopted by his troubled mother's...

The Garden of Last Days.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... The Garden of Last Days. By Andre Dubus III. June 2008. 544p. Norton, $24.95 (9780393041651). General Fiction. In the best-selling House of Sand and Fog (1999), Dubus engineered an electrifying conflict between an American woman...

The Host.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... The Host. By Stephenie Meyer. May 2008. 640p. Little, Brown, $25.99 (9780316068048). SF/Fantasy. You might assume that Meyer's best-selling Twilight series (published for YAs), about the intense love between a human teen and a...

People of the Weeping Eye.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... People of the Weeping Eye. By W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear. Apr. 2008. 432p. Forge, $25.95 (9780765314383). General Fiction. Once again, the Gears, husband-and-wife archaeologists-turned-best-selling authors, score big...

The Girl of His Dreams.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... The Girl of His Dreams. By Donna Leon. May 2008. 288p. Atlantic, $24 (9780871139801). Crime Fiction. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Leon's latest Guido Brunetti novel begins and ends with funerals--the first for Brunetti's mother and...

Hold Tight.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... * Hold Tight. By Harlan Coben. Apr. 2008. 400p. Dutton, $26.95 (9780525950608). Crime Fiction. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The average person visiting an electronics store may be excited, confused, or bored. It takes a suspense...

The Miracle at Speedy Motors.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... * The Miracle at Speedy Motors. By Alexander McCall Smith. Apr. 2008. 256p. Pantheon, $21.95 (9780375424489). Crime Fiction. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The ninth installment in McCall Smith's beloved No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency...

The Reavers.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... * The Reavers. By George MacDonald Fraser. Apr. 2008. 288p. Knopf, $24 (9780307268105). General Fiction. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In the late Fraser's rollicking Elizabethan-era swan song, hero Archie Noble (a Tudor James...

Silent Thunder.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Silent Thunder. By Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen. July 2008.416p. St. Martin's, $24.95 (9780312367992). Crime Fiction. The cold war heats up again in Johansen's latest thriller, when marine architect Hannah Bryson's brother,...

Snuff.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Snuff. By Chuck Palahniuk. May 2008. 208p. Doubleday, $24.95 (9780385517881). General Fiction. Palahniuk has made a career out of exploring alienation and depicting sex addicts, suicides, serial killers, and suffering artists. So...

The Place to Be: Washington, CBS, and the Glory Days of Television News.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... The Place to Be: Washington, CBS, and the Glory Days of Television News. By Roger Mudd. Apr. 2008. 368p. Public Affairs, $27.95 (9781586485764). 070.92. In 1981, after two decades with CBS News, often substituting for trusted...

In the World but Not of It: One Family's Militant Faith and the History of Fundamentalism in America.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... In the World but Not of It: One Family's Militant Faith and the History of Fundamentalism in America. By Brett Grainger. Mar. 2008. 176p. Walker, $21.95 (9780802715593). 270.8. Grainger grew up in the small, "militant" (his word),...

Against the Tide: How a Compliant Congress Empowered a Reckless President.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Against the Tide: How a Compliant Congress Empowered a Reckless President. By Lincoln Chafee. Apr. 2008. 272p. St. Martin's, $24.95 (9780312383046). 328.3. Despite President Bush's promise to be a "uniter, not a divider," one of...

Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era. By Houston A. Baker. Apr. 2008. 336p. Columbia Univ., $24.95 (9780231139649). 323.092. Baker, an esteemed scholar of African American literature...

The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... * The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. By Pico Iyer. Apr. 2008. 288p. Knopf, $24 (0-307-26760-1). 294.3. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A mindful world wanderer and renowned travel writer, Iyer has a 30-year...

The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability. By James Gustave Speth. Mar. 2008. 336p. illus. Yale, $28 (9780300136111). 333.7. Acclaimed environmentalist Speth...

Erased: Missing Women, Murdered Wives.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Erased: Missing Women, Murdered Wives. By Marilee Strong. Mar. 2008. 352p. Jossey-Bass, $27.95 (0-78799639-4). 364.152. The notorious Scott Peterson (also limned in E Lee Bailey's When the Husband Is the Suspect, reviewed in this...

Free Ride: The Media and John McCain.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Free Ride: The Media and John McCain. By David Brock and others. Apr. 2008. 256p. Anchor, paper, $14.95 (9780307279408). 328.73. McCain has received more favorable press than other politicians and has been portrayed as a moderate,...

An Officer and a Junkie: From West Point to the Point of No Return.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... An Officer and a Junkie: From West Point to the Point of No Return. By Michael Winder. Mar. 2008. 256p. Health Communications, paper, $15.95 (9780757306396). 362.29092. Despite massive insecurities and a twisted spine, Winder...

Wrestling with the Angel of Democracy: On Being an American Citizen.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... * Wrestling with the Angel of Democracy: On Being an American Citizen. By Susan Griffin. Apr. 2008. 304p. Shambhala/Trumpeter, $24.95 (9781590302972). 323.60973. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Democracy is a work in progress as both...

Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration. Ed. by Tara J. Herivel and Paul Wright. 2008. 344p. New Press, $26.95 (9781595581679). 365. Prison is big business, from contracts for construction and food and health...

Rebel without Borders: Frontline Missions in Africa and the Gulf.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Rebel without Borders: Frontline Missions in Africa and the Gulf. By Marc Vachon and Francois Bugingo. Tr. by Charles Phillips. Apr. 2008. 288p. illus. ECW, $24.95 (9781550227864). 341.5. Vachon grew up in Montreal, an orphan...

A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World from Prehistory to Today.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World from Prehistory to Today. By William J. Bernstein. Apr. 2008. 384p. illus. Atlantic, $30 (0-87113-979-0). 380. 1. A prominent twentieth-century European historian once asserted that...

Booklist online: chat room.
March 1, 2008... WHAT'S NEW If you've visited Booklist Online recently, you may have noticed that we've added a new blog, Book Group Buzz. We want this to be a one-stop book-group resource, and we'll be talking to you about books that worked well (or books...

The Thief at the End of the World: Rubber, Power, and the Seeds of Empire.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... The Thief at the End of the World: Rubber, Power, and the Seeds of Empire. By Joe Jackson. Mar. 2008. 432p. illus. Penguin, $27.95 (9780670018536). 338.4. Featuring a strange adventurer and a revolution in the production of...

When the Husband Is the Suspect.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... When the Husband Is the Suspect. By F. Lee Bailey and Jean Rabe. Mar. 2008. 272p. Forge, $24.95 (0-7653-1613-7). 364. 1. Bailey, one of the most recognized and flamboyant defense counsels of our time, here discusses 20 cases of...

Five Future Strategies You Need Right Now.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Five Future Strategies You Need Right Now. By George Stalk and John Butman. Mar. 2008. 128p. Harvard Business, $20 (9781422121269). 658.4. This book is from the new Memo to the CEO series from Harvard Business School, a series of...

Leadership Gold: Lessons Learned from a Lifetime of Leading.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Leadership Gold: Lessons Learned from a Lifetime of Leading. By John C. Maxwell. Apr. 2008. 256p. Thomas Nelson, $25.99 (9780785214113). 658.4. Depending on individual calendars, there's a leadership lesson to be learned every...

Water Cooler Diaries: Women across America Share Their Day at Work.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Water Cooler Diaries: Women across America Share Their Day at Work. By Joni B. Cole and B. K. Rakhra. Mar. 2008. 320p. Da Capo, paper, $15.95 (9781600940095). 331.2. Take one day--in this case, March 27, 2007--and ask 515 women to...

The Private Life of Spiders.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... The Private Life of Spiders. By Paul Hillyard. Mar. 2008. 160p. illus. Princeton, $29.95 (9780691135526). 595.44. Arachnophobes will want to stay far away from this lavishly illustrated introduction. Hillyard, a spider expert at...

From Betamax to Blockbuster: Video Stores and the Invention of Movies on Video.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... * From Betamax to Blockbuster: Video Stores and the Invention of Movies on Video. By Joshua M. Greenberg. Apr. 2008. 216p. illus. MIT, $24.95 (9780262072908). 338.7. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When the BetamaxVCR first came on the...

Symmetry: A Journey into the Patterns of Nature.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Symmetry: A Journey into the Patterns of Nature. By Marcus du Sautoy. Mar. 2008. 358p. illus. HarperCollins, $25.95 (9780060789404). 515. Du Sautoy specializes in symmetry, and that concept is instantly visualized in the tiling of...

Blood on the Table: The Greatest Cases of New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Blood on the Table: The Greatest Cases of New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. By Colin Evans. Mar. 2008. 336p. Berkley, paper, $15 (9780425219379). 614. Tapping into the popular interest in murder cases solved by...

Chasing the High: A Firsthand Account of One Young Person's Experience with Substance Abuse.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Chasing the High: A Firsthand Account of One Young Person's Experience with Substance Abuse. By Kyle Keegan and others. 2008. 192p. Oxford, paper, $9.95 (9780195314724). 616.86092. "The real truth about the worst seems like the...

Do No Harm: How a Magic Bullet for Prostate Cancer Became a Medical Quandary.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Do No Harm: How a Magic Bullet for Prostate Cancer Became a Medical Quandary. By Stewart Justman. Apr. 2008. 256p. Ivan R. Dee, $26 (9781566636278). 616.99. A few years ago, the New England Journal of Medicine reported on the...

Pretty Is What Changes: Impossible Choices, the Breast Cancer Gene, and How I Defied My Destiny.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Pretty Is What Changes: Impossible Choices, the Breast Cancer Gene, and How I Defied My Destiny. By Jessica Queller. Apr. 2008. 256p. Spiegel & Grau, $24.95 (0-38552040-9). 610.736. Natalie Wood look-alike TV-scripter Queller was...

Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... * Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs. By Melody Petersen. Mar. 2008. 320p. Farrar/Sarah Crichton, $25...

Bon Appetit, Y'all: Recipes and Stories from Three Generations of Southern Cooking.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Bon Appetit, Y'all: Recipes and Stories from Three Generations of Southern Cooking. By Virginia Willis. May 2008. 320p. illus. Ten Speed, $35 (9781580088534). 641.59. Although Willis has trained in France's finest kitchens, her...

My Love for Naples: The Food, the History, the Life.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... My Love for Naples: The Food, the History, the Life. By Anna Teresa Callen. 2007. 320p. illus. Hippocrene, $29.95 (9780781812054). 641.59. The reputation of Neapolitan cooking has suffered unduly in America both from ignorance and...

Black Postcards: A Rock and Roll Romance.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Black Postcards: Unreleased B Sides and Notes from the Road. By Dean Wareham. Mar. 2008. 345p. illus. Penguin, $25.95 (9781594201554). 782.421. Wareham and Britta Phillips, his wife and musical collaborator, were generally thought...

The World and Its Double: The Life and Work of Otto Preminger.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... The World and Its Double: The Life and Work of Otto Preminger. By Chris Fujiwara. Mar. 2008.464p. illus. Faber and Faber, $30 (0-571-21117-8). 791.4302. Hard on the heels of Foster Hirsch's Otto Preminger: The Man Who Would Be...

Arnie & Jack: Palmer, Nicklaus, and Golf's Greatest Rivalry.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Arnie & Jack: Palmer, Nicklaus, and Golf's Greatest Rivalry. By Ian O'Connor. Apr. 2008. 368p. illus. Houghton, $26 (9780618754465). 796.352092. Today's golf fans long for a challenger to contest the supremacy of Tiger Woods, but...

More Big Girl Knits: 25 Designs Full of Color and Texture for Curvy Women.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... * More Big Girl Knits: 25 Designs Full of Color and Texture for Curvy Women. By Jillian Moreno and Amy R. Singer. Illus. by Lise Varrette. Apr. 2008. 160p. Crown/Potter Craft, $30 (9780307353740). 746.43. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...

Becoming Holyfield: A Fighter's Journey.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Becoming Holyfield: A Fighter's Journey. By Evander Holyfield and Lee Gruenfeld. Mar. 2008. 288p. illus. Atria, $25 (1-4165-3486-5). 796.83. Holyfield is the only four-time heavyweight boxing champion (he also had a pretty good run...

An Incomplete & Inaccurate History of Sport.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... An Incomplete & Inaccurate History of Sport. By Kenny Mayne. Apr. 2008. 288p. illus. Crown, $24.95 (0-307-39615-0).818. Mayne is familiar to ESPN viewers as a SportsCenter anchor, feature reporter, and event host. His shtick is a...

My Guy Barbaro: A Jockey's Journey through Love, Triumph, and Heartbreak with America's Favorite Horse.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... My Guy Barbaro: A Jockey's Journey through Love, Triumph, and Heartbreak with America's Favorite Horse. By Edgar Prado and John Eisenberg. Apr. 2008. 208p. illus. Harper, $25.95 (9780061464188). 798.4. As one of America's most successful...

The Physics of NASCAR: How to Make Steel + Gas + Rubber = Speed.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... The Physics of NASCAR: How to Make Steel + Gas + Rubber = Speed. By Diandra Leslie-Pelecky. Mar. 2008. 276p. Dutton, $25.95 (9780525950530). 796.7201. NASCAR may be the number-one spectator sport in the world, but that doesn't mean...

Play Hard, Die Young: Football Dementia, Depression, and Death.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Play Hard, Die Young: Football Dementia, Depression, and Death. By Bennet Omalu. Mar. 2008. 176p. Neo-Forenxis, paper, $15.95 (0-9800395-0-9). 617.102. Even though the connection between professional boxing and head-injury-related...

Wheelchair Warrior: Gangs, Disability, and Basketball.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Wheelchair Warrior: Gangs, Disability, and Basketball. By Melvin Juette and Ronald J. Berger. Mar. 2008. 184p. illus. Temple Univ., $25 (9781592134748). 796.323. Some readers who pick up this memoir may be put off by the...

I Was Told There'd Be Cake.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... I Was Told There'd Be Cake. By Sloane Crosley. Apr. 2008. 240p. Riverhead, paper, $14 (9781594483066). 814. For those for whom the publication of new work by David Rakoff or Sarah Vowell would be a literary event equivalent with...

The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life through the Pages of a Lost Journal.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life through the Pages of a Lost Journal. By Lily Koppel. Apr. 2008. 336p. illus. HarperCollins, $23.95 (9780061256776). 813. In 2003, Koppel, a novice writer for the New York Times, stumbled...

100 Essential Modern Poems by Women.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... 100 Essential Modern Poems by Women. Ed. by Joseph Parisi and Kathleen Welton. Apr. 2008. 304p. Ivan R. Dee, $24.95 (9781566637411). 821. Parisi, former editor of Poetry magazine, covers a gratifying stretch of literary and social...

Fidelity.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Fidelity. By Grace Paley. Mar. 2008. 96p. Farrar, $22 (9780374299064). 811. A park-bench writer who heard the music of the heart in everyday conversations, and perceived the epic struggle between good and evil in the humblest of...

The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad. By John Stape. Mar. 2008.400p. Pantheon, $30 (9781400044498). 823. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] One of the world's most captivating writers, Conrad led a demanding life long obscured by myth....

New Collected Poems.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... * New Collected Poems By Eavan Boland. Mar. 2008. 320p. Norton, $27.95 (9780393065794). 821. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] If Yeats and Sylvia Plath had a love child, she would be Eavan Boland. Often hailed as a foremost contemporary...

Red Bird.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Red Bird. By Mary Oliver. Apr. 2008. 96p. Beacon, $23 (9780807068922). 811. Birds are totem animals for poets, and Oliver writes of her winged kindred spirits often, here addressing "red bird" with gratitude for "firing up the...

That Little Something.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... That Little Something. By Charles Simic. Apr. 2008. 96p. Harcourt, $23 (9780151013593). 811. Simic's concise, silvery, and sardonic poems sketch grim vignettes in a world of absences. Here we are in an empty museum wing, on a...

Narrow Dog to Carcassonne.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Narrow Dog to Carcassonne. By Terry Darlington. Mar. 2008. 336p. illus. Bantam, paper, $13 (9780385342087). 914.44. When they retired, Terry Darlington and his wife, Monica, decided to take a trip. The Welsh couple, along with...

1858: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant and the War They Failed to See.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... 1858: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant and the War They Failed to See. By Bruce Chadwick. Apr. 2008. 3680. Sourcebooks, $24.95 (1-4022-0941-X). 973.68. In Chadwick's view, 1858 was a critical year...

Arab/American: Landscape, Cultures, and Cuisine in Two Great Deserts.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Arab/American: Landscape, Cultures, and Cuisine in Two Great Deserts. By Gary Paul Nabhan. Mar. 2008. 160p. illus. Univ. of Arizona, $40 (9780816526581); paper, $17.95 (9780816526598). 979. The stark austerity of the desert...

Dissent in America: Voices That Shaped a Nation.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Dissent in America: Voices That Shaped a Nation. By Ralph F. Young. Apr. 2008. 512p. Pearson/Longman, paper, $17.95 (9780205605415). 973. "Dissent is central to American history," writes historian, professor, terrorism expert, and...

Friends of Liberty: Thomas Jefferson, Thaddeus Kosciuszko, and Agrippa Hull.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Friends of Liberty: Thomas Jefferson, Thaddeus Kosciuszko, and Agrippa Hull. By Gary Nash and Graham Russell Gao Hodges. Mar. 2008. 304p. illus. Perseus, $26 (9780465048144). 973.3. Jefferson was, of course, the third American...

Greeting from Bury Park: Race, Religion, and Rock and Roll.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Greeting from Bury Park: Race, Religion, and Rock and Roll. By Sarfraz Manzoor. Apr. 2008. 304p. Vintage, paper, $13.95 (9780307388025). 942.085. At age two, Manzoor emigrates from Pakistan with his mother and siblings to join his...

Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie. By Rachel Corrie. Mar. 2008. 256p. illus. Norton, $23.95 (9780393065718). 956.9405. A 23-year-old activist from Olympia, Washington, travels to the Gaza Strip to join a nonviolent...

A Mirror of the Arab World: Lebanon in Conflict.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... A Mirror of the Arab World: Lebanon in Conflict. By Sandra Mackey. Mar. 2008. 304p. Norton, $25.95 (9780393062182). 956.9204. Reporter Mackey focuses on Lebanon, "the most transparent of all Arab states," to offer insight into the...

The Man Who Pushed America to War: The Extraordinary Life, Adventures and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... The Man Who Pushed America to War: The Extraordinary Life, Adventures and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi. By Aram Roston. Mar. 2008. 304p. Nation, $26.95 (9781568583532). 956.7044092. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Intellect, charm, and...

Opa Nobody.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Opa Nobody. By Sonya Huber. Mar. 2008. 380p. Univ. of Nebraska, $24.95 (9780803210806). 929. Huber is an essayist, professor, and activist for causes ranging from saving old-growth forests to getting out of Iraq. Seeking guidance...

Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century. By Tony Judt. Apr. 2008. 464p. Penguin, $29.95 (9781594201363). 909.82. A collection of book reviews with a sprinkling of essays, this volume collects the praises and...

A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans: Pirates, Skinflints, Patriots, and Other Colorful Characters Stuck in the Footnotes of History.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans: Pirates, Skinflints, Patriots, and Other Colorful Characters Stuck in the Footnotes of History. By Michael Farquhar. Mar. 2008. 257p. illus. Penguin, paper, $15 (9780143113058). 973. ...

Trigger Men: Shadow Team, Spiderman, the Magnificent Bastards, and the American Combat Sniper.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
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