Booklist articles from October 2004

Booklist archives from October 2004

Ronnie and Nancy: Their Path to the White House, 1911 to 1980.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Colacello, Bob. Ronnie & Nancy: Their Path to the White House, 1911 to 1980. Oct. 2004. 576p. index. Warner, $27.95 (0-446-53272-X). 973.927. Colacello is the former editor of Interview magazine and currently a special correspondent for...

Dean, Howard and Warner, Judith. You Have the Power: How to Take Back Our Country and Restore Democracy in America.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Dean, Howard and Warner, Judith. You Have the Power: How to Take Back Our Country and Restore Democracy in America. Oct. 2004 196p. Simon & Schuster, $19.95 (0-7432-7013-4). 973.930. Dean's passionate, infectious personality is apparent in...

Chabon, Michael. The Final Solution: a Story of Detection.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Chabon, Michael. The Final Solution: A Story of Detection. Nov 2004. 144p. illus. HarperCollins/Fourth Estate, $16.95 (0-06-076571-2). Following Summerland (2002), his foray into fantasy, Chabon continues to tinker with genre fiction, this...

Flagg, Fannie. A Redbird Christmas.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Flagg, Fannie. A Redbird Christmas. Nov. 2004. 176p. Random, $17.95 (1-4000-6304-3). Oswald Campbell doesn't have much to live for, except to cash his paltry pension check, drop in on the occasional AA meeting, and visit the VA hospital....

Gordon, Mary. Pearl.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... * Gordon, Mary. Pearl. Jan. 2005. 368p. Pantheon, $24.95 (0-375-42315-X). It's Christmas in New York in 1998, and Maria hopes to hear from her daughter, Pearl, who is studying in Ireland. But Pearl has been on a prolonged hunger strike and...

Kellerman, Jonathan. Twisted.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Kellerman, Jonathan. Twisted. Nov. 2004. 384p. Ballantine, $26.95 (0-345-46525-3). Following her debut as Milo Sturgi's fellow officer in the Delaware/ Sturgis mystery A Cold Heart (2003), L.A. Detective Petra Connor emerges on her own....

Krentz, Jayne Ann. Falling Awake.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Krentz, Jayne Ann. Falling Awake. Nov. 2004. 432p. Putnam, $24.95 (0-399-15222-9). Isabel Wright thought that the new director of the Belvedere Center for Sleep Research wanted to meet to discuss her promotion; instead, Isabel is informed...

McLaughlin, Emma and Kraus, Nicola. Citizen Girl.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... McLaughlin, Emma and Kraus, Nicola. Citizen Girl. Dec. 2004. 320p. Atria, $24.95 (0-7432-6685-4). When Girl, our heroine, is fired from her job making copies and collating files at a dismal nonprofit agency, she's faced with an...

Michaels, Fern. Family Blessings.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Michaels, Fern. Family Blessings. Oct. 2004. 240p. Atria, $18 (0-7434-7747-2). Michaels revisits the Cisco family--famous candy company owners and denizens of a small town in Pennsylvania. Loretta, the matriarch, and her beau, Ezra, are...

Proulx, Annie. Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Proulx, Annie. Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2. Nov. 2004. 240p. Scribner, $25 (0-7432-5799-5). Pulitzer Prize winner Proulx wrote her first collection of Wyoming stories, Close Range, in 1999. The 11 stories contained here are of a piece with...

Steel, Danielle. Echoes.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Steel, Danielle. Echoes. Oct. 2004. 336p. Delacorte, $27 (0-385-33634-9) Steel presents a compelling tale of love and loss, set during World Wars I and II. At novel's beginning, it is 1915, and Beata Wittgenstein, daughter of a German...

Barber, Nigel. Kindness in a Cruel World: The Evolution of Altruism.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Barber, Nigel. Kindness in a Cruel World: The Evolution of Altruism. Oct. 2004. 400p. Prometheus, $28 (1-59102-228-2). 155.2. Keizer, Garret. Help: The Original Human Dilemma. 2004. 288p. HarperSanFrancisco, $24.95 (0-06-056062-2). 170. ...

Mehta, Ved. The Red Letters: My Father's Enchanted Period.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... * Mehta, Ved. The Red Letters: My Father's Enchanted Period. Oct. 2004. 208p. illus. Thunder's Mouth/Nation, $22.95 (1-56025-628-1). 362.4. Mehta concludes his unique and indelible 11-volume series, Continents of Exile, by filling in a...

Restak, Richard. Poe's Heart and the Mountain Climber: Exploring the Effect of Anxiety on Our Brains and Our Culture.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Restak, Richard. Poe's Heart and the Mountain Climber: Exploring the Effect of Anxiety on Our Brains and Our Culture. Nov 2004 224p. index. Harmony, $22 (1-4000-4850-8) 152.4. Restak has written extensively about the brain and mental...

Barlett, Donald L. and Steele, James B. Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business--and Bad Medicine.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Barlett, Donald L. and Steele, James B. Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business--and Bad Medicine. Oct. 2004. 288p. index. Doubleday, $24.95 (0-385-50454-3). 362.1. Forty-five million Americans who are uninsured...

Supersized.(The Manley Arts)(on politicians and Bill Clinton's autobiography My Life)(Column)
October 1, 2004... Every occupational group has its negative stereotype. Lawyers are dishonest, doctors are greedy, engineers are boring, teachers are bossy, plumbers are crude, models are shallow, journalists are sensationalists, and politicians are liars. Of...

Clarke, Thurston. Ask Not: The Inauguration of John F. Kennedy and the Speech That Changed America.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Clarke, Thurston. Ask Not: The Inauguration of John F. Kennedy and the Speech That Changed America. Oct. 2004. 256p. index. Holt, $25 (0-8050-7213-6). 352.23. John F. Kennedy's inaugural address, when he intoned that Americans "ask not...

Felber, Ron. Il Dottore: The Double Life of a Mafia Doctor.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Felber, Ron. Il Dottore: The Double Life of a Mafia Doctor. Oct. 2004. 268p. Barricade, $24.95 (1-56980-278-5). 364.106. In the guise of a biography of Mob-connected surgeon Elliott Litner, Felber presents a rambling history of the American...

Friedman, George. America's Secret War: Inside the Hidden Worldwide Struggle between America and Its Enemies.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Friedman, George. America's Secret War: Inside the Hidden Worldwide Struggle between America and Its Enemies. Oct 2004. 353p. index. Doubleday, $25.95 (0-385-51245-7). 327-73. Friedman is right when he says that his book may be "vigorously...

Goffman, Ken and Sirius, R. U. Counterculture through the Ages: From Abraham to Acid House.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Goffman, Ken and Sirius, R. U. Counterculture through the Ages: From Abraham to Acid House. Nov. 2004. 432p. index. Villard, $25.95 (0-375-50758-2). 306. Although typically defining themselves in opposition to dominant cultures--hence the...

Jones, Lynne. Then They Started Shooting: Growing Up in Wartime Bosnia.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Jones, Lynne. Then They Started Shooting: Growing Up in Wartime Bosnia. Jan. 2005. 320p. Harvard, $27.95 (0-674-01561-4). 305.23. Jones, a child psychiatrist and a senior research associate at Cambridge University, worked with adolescent...

Judson, Horace Freeland. The Great Betrayal: Fraud in Science.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Judson, Horace Freeland. The Great Betrayal: Fraud in Science. Oct. 2004. 480p. index. Harcourt, $28 (0-15-100877-9). 344. Freud faked case histories. Darwin doctored photographs. But neither worked under the glare of the modern media nor...

Leland, John. Hip: the History.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Leland, John. Hip: The History. Oct. 2004. 384p. illus. Ecco, $26.95 (0-06-052817-6). 306. Leland answers Tower of Power's musical question "What Is Hip?" with an arch, ironically detached attitude toward the point of and motivation for...

Mankiller, Wilma. Every Day Is a Good Day: Reflections by Contemporary Indigenous Women.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Mankiller, Wilma. Every Day Is a Good Day: Reflections by Contemporary Indigenous Women. Oct. 2004. 224p. Fulcrum, paper, $16.95 (1-55591-516-7). 305.48. Author and activist Mankiller has garnered the thoughts of 19 Native women on...

Reid, T. R. The United States of Europe: The New Superpower and the End of American Supremacy.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... * Reid, T. R. The United States of Europe: The New Superpower and the End of American Supremacy. Nov. 2004. 320p. index. Penguin, $25.95 (1-59420-033-5). 327.7304. On the heels of another similarly themed and provocatively titled...

McCullough, David Willis. The Unending Mystery: A Journey through Labyrinths and Mazes.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... McCullough, David Willis. The Unending Mystery: A Journey through Labyrinths and Mazes. Oct. 2004. 272p. illus. index. Pantheon, $24 (0-375-42306-0). 306.4. The enigmatic labyrinth, from which the mythical hero Theseus rescued Ariadne from...

The M Word: Writers on Same-Sex Marriage.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... The M Word: Writers on Same-Sex Marriage. Ed. by Kathy Pories. Oct. 2004. 200p. Algonquin, paper, $12.95 (1-56512-454-5). 306.76. Editor Pories offers a fascinating collection of wide-ranging essays by gay and straight hands on the...

Rhode, Deborah. Access to Justice.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Rhode, Deborah. Access to Justice. Oct. 2004. 272p. index. Oxford, $29.95 (0-19-514347-7). 344.7303. Few Americans would complain that the U.S. lacks for lawyers. But a distinguished Stanford law professor sharply criticizes a legal system...

Tallmadge, John. The Cincinnati Arch: Learning from Nature in the City.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... * Tallmadge, John. The Cincinnati Arch: Learning from Nature in the City. Oct. 2004. 226p. Univ. of Georgia, $49.95 (0-8203-2676-3); paper, $16.95 (0-8203-2690-9) 307.76. Before he moved to Cincinnati to work as a college administrator,...

Viswanathan, Neeraja. The Street Law Handbook: A Survival Guide to Sex, Drugs, and Petty Crime.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Viswanathan, Neeraja. The Street Law Handbook: A Survival Guide to Sex, Drugs, and Petty Crime. Oct. 2004. 240p. Bloomsbury, $15.95 (1-58234-491-4). 345.73. Lawyers are always being asked for casual advice on the law. Attorney Viswanathan...

Weiner, Mark S. Black Trials: Citizenship from the Beginnings of Slavery to the End of Caste.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Weiner, Mark S. Black Trials: Citizenship from the Beginnings of Slavery to the End of Caste. Oct 2004. 448p. index. Knopf, $26.95 (0-375-40981-5). 342.7308. Weiner examines questions of race and citizenship within the context of the U.S....

Wilcox, Robert K. First Blue: The Story of WWII Ace Butch Voris and the Creation of the Blue Angels.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Wilcox, Robert K. First Blue: The Story of WWII Ace Butch Voris and the Creation of the Blue Angels. Oct. 2004. 352p. illus. St. Martin's/Thomas Dunne, $25.95 (0-312-32249-6). 359.9. Ray Marlin "Butch" Voris joined the U. S. Navy during...

Crystal, David. The Stories of English.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... * Crystal, David. The Stories of English. Oct. 2004. 608p. illus. index. Overlook, $35 (1-58567-601-2). 427. For at least 200 years, the story of English has been the story of Standard English triumphant. But now, in a work of unprecedented...

Quinion, Michael. Ballyhoo, Buckaroo and Spuds: Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Quinion, Michael. Ballyhoo, Buckaroo and Spuds: Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins. Oct 2004. 288p. index. Smithsonian, $19.95 (1-58834-219-0). 422. Words lovers, get ready to have some myths shattered. Hot dog didn't originate...

The Best American Science and Nature Writing, 2004.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... The Best American Science and Nature Writing, 2004. Ed. by Steven Pinker and Tim Folger. Oct. 2004. 240p. Houghton, $27.50 (0-618-24697-5); paper, $14 (0-618-24698-3) 500. On the publishing heels of its rival anthology, The Best American...

Dawkins, Richard. The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... * Dawkins, Richard. The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution. Oct. 2004. 516p. index. Houghton, $28 (0-618-00583-8) 576.8. Plato plays the intellectual villain in this latest work of popular science by one of our most...

Gribbin, John and Gribbin, Mary. FitzRoy: The Remarkable Story of Darwin's Captain and the Invention of the Weather Forecast.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Gribbin, John and Gribbin, Mary. FitzRoy: The Remarkable Story of Darwin's Captain and the Invention of the Weather Forecast. Oct. 2004. 352p. index. Yale, $35 (0-300-10361-1). 551.5. Robert FitzRoy was the captain of the Beagle, the ship...

Moran, Robbin C. A Natural History of Ferns.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Moran, Robbin C. A Natural History of Ferns. Oct. 2004. 292p. illus. index. Timber, $29.95 (0-88192-667-1). 587. From the curator of ferns at the New York Botanical Garden comes a meticulously researched, soundly organized, and...

Seidensticker, John and Lumpkin, Susan. Cats: Smithsonian Answer Book.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Seidensticker, John and Lumpkin, Susan. Cats: Smithsonian Answer Book. Oct. 2004. 304p. illus. index. Smithsonian, $55 (1-58834-125-9); paper, $24.95 (1-58834-126-7). 599.75. Done in question-and-answer format, this book includes every...

Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Anderson, Virginia DeJohn. Creatures of Empire: People and Animals in Early America. Oct. 2004. 320p. illus. Oxford, $30 (0-19-515860-1). 636. As Anderson notes in the prologue to this unique book, based on thorough mining of historical...

Evans, Harold. They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Evans, Harold. They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators. Oct. 2004. 496p. illus, index. Little, Brown. $40 (0-316-27766-5), 609.2. If you wear a bra, listen to a radio, have a bank account,...

Rain, Patricia. Vanilla: The Cultural History of the World's Favorite Flavor & Fragrance.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Rain, Patricia. Vanilla: The Cultural History of the World's Favorite Flavor & Fragrance. Nov. 2004. 384p. Putnam/Tarcher, $21.95 (1-58542-363-7). 633.8. As the author notes, it is very odd that the term vanilla has come to represent...

Harvest: A Year in the Life of an Organic Farm.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Smith, Nicola. Harvest: A Year in the Life of an Organic Farm. Nov. 2004. 288p. illus. Lyons, $26.95 (1-59228-234-2). 630. Writer Smith and her husband, photographer Geoff Hansen, offer this illuminating portrait of one year on another...

Sorokie, Alyce M. Gut Wisdom: Understanding and Improving Your Digestive Health.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Sorokie, Alyce M. Gut Wisdom: Understanding and Improving Your Digestive Health. Oct. 2004. 255p. index. Career/New Page, paper, $15.99 (1-56414-753-3). 613.2. A positive mental attitude is everything, and this inspirational as well as...

Creeser, Rosemary. Wildlife-Friendly Plants: Make Your Garden a Haven for Beneficial Insects, Amphibians and Birds.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Creeser, Rosemary. Wildlife-Friendly Plants: Make Your Garden a Haven for Beneficial Insects, Amphibians and Birds. Oct. 2004. 144p. illus, index. Firefly, $29.95 (1-55297-954-7); paper, $19.95 (1-55297-953-9). 639.9. No matter what size...

Peat, John P. and Petit, Ted L. The Daylily: A Guide for Gardeners.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Peat, John P. and Petit, Ted L. The Daylily: A Guide for Gardeners. Oct. 2004. 192p. illus. index. Timber, $29.95 (0-88192-666-3). 635.9. Blessed as it is with a relatively carefree nature, extensive climate range, and dazzling color...

de Blasi, Marlena. A Thousand Days in Tuscany: a Bittersweet Adventure.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... de Blasi, Marlena. A Thousand Days in Tuscany: A Bittersweet Adventure. Nov. 2004. 336p. Algonquin, $23.95 (1-56512-392-1)). 641.594. Readers who enjoyed de Blasi's earlier work, A Thousand Days in Venice (2002), may be startled that the...

Portale, Alfred and Friedman, Andrew. Alfred Portale Simple Pleasures.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Portale, Alfred and Friedman, Andrew. Alfred Portale Simple Pleasures. Nov. 2004. 320p. illus, index. Morrow, $34.95 (0-06-053502-4). 641.5973. Chef Portale, who has accomplished the nearly unheard-of feat of keeping his Gotham Bar and...

Blovits, Larry. Sketching and Drawing.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Blovits, Larry. Sketching and Drawing. Nov. 2004. 112p. illus, index, North Light, paper, $19.99 (1-58180-505-5). 741.2. In his contribution to the No Experience Required series, award-winning landscape and portrait artist Blovits schools...

The Life of Isamu Noguchi: Journey Without Borders.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... * Duus, Masayo. The Life of Isamu Noguchi: Journey without Borders. Oct. 2004. 432p. illus. index. Princeton, $29.95 (0-691-12096-X). 709. That Isamu Noguchi's stature in the art world remains unresolved says as much about that unforgiving...

Breslin, Herbert and Midgette, Anne. The King and I: the Uncensored Tale of Luciano Pavarotti's Rise to Fame by His Manager, Friend, and Sometime Adversary.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Breslin, Herbert and Midgette, Anne. The King and I: The Uncensored Tale of Luciano Pavarotti's Rise to Fame by His Manager, Friend, and Sometime Adversary. Oct. 2004. 320p. index. Doubleday, $25.95 (0-385-50972-3). 782.1. At his career...

First American Art: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection of American Indian Art.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... First American Art: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection of American Indian Art. Ed. by Bruce Bernstein and Gerald McMaster. Oct. 2004. 272p. illus. index. Univ. of Washington, $60 (0-295-98403-1). 704.03. The Dikers' extensive...

Fishman, Katharine Davis. Attitude! Eight Young Dancers Come of Age at the Ailey School.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Fishman, Katharine Davis. Attitude! Eight Young Dancers Come of Age at the Ailey School. Oct. 2004, 304p index. Putnam/ Tarcher, $23.95 (1-58542-355-6). 792.8. Fishman's interest in the mystique surrounding those who have a unique talent...

Karl Bodmer's North American Prints.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Karl Bodmer's North American Prints. Ed. by Brandon K. Ruud. 2004. 383p. illus. Univ. of Nebraska, $150 (0-8032-1326-3). 769.92. Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied, a German scientist, invited the young Swiss artist Karl Bodmer to join him...

O'Connor, Rosalie. Getting Closer: a Dancer's Perspective.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... O'Connor, Rosalie. Getting Closer: A Dancer's Perspective. Oct. 2004. 102p, illus. Univ. Press of Florida, $29.95 (0-8130-2768-3). 792.8. Who better to "choreograph" via photography the dancer's life than a dancer? Former American Ballet...

Ehrlich, Gretel. The Future of Ice: a Journey into Cold.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... * Ehrlich, Gretel. The Future of Ice: A Journey into Cold. Nov. 2004. 224p. Pantheon, $21.95 (0-375-42251-X). 818. Will winter cease to exist? With no end to heat-increasing pollution, the season of restorative cold may well be imperiled,...

Starker, Janos. The World of Music according to Starker.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Starker, Janos. The World of Music according to Starker. Oct. 2004. 200p. illus. index. Indiana Univ., $29.95 (0-25334452-2). 787.4. Master cellist Starker was born in Budapest in 1924. His mother supported his early musical training, and...

Bloom, Harold. Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Bloom, Harold. Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? Oct. 2004. 304p. Riverhead, $24.95 (1-57322-284-4). 809. Passionate and prolific literary critic Bloom grows more munificent in sharing his erudition and appreciation, discoveries, and opinions...

Heaney, Seamus. The Burial at Thebes: a Version of Sophocles' Antigone.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... * Heaney, Seamus. The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone. Nov. 2004.80p. Farrar, $18 (0-374-11721-7). 822. There are many translations of Sophocles' Antigone but few with the understated power and spare beauty of Irish...

Once upon a Childhood: Stories and Memoirs of American Youth.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Once Upon a Childhood: Stories and Memoirs of American Youth. Ed. by Barbara H. Solomon and Eileen Panetta. Oct. 2004 352p. NAL, paper, $14 (0-451-21296-7). 810.8. In this solid anthology of "timeless" tales of childhood by canonized and...

Housden, Roger. Ten Poems to Last a Lifetime.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... * Housden, Roger. Ten Poems to Last a Lifetime. Oct. 2004. 144p. Harmony, $16 (1-4000-5113-4). 808.81. The outstanding achievement of popular inspirational writer Housden's Ten Poems books (see also Ten Poems to Set You Free [BKL D 103]...

Urrutia, Matilde. My Life with Pablo Neruda.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Urrutia, Matilde. My Life with Pablo Neruda. Tr. by Alexandria Giardino. Oct. 2004. 318p. illus. Stanford, $27.95 (0-8047-5009-2). 861. In the midst of Pinochet's brutal 1973 military coup, Matilde Urrutia, poet Pablo Neruda's lover, wife,...

Vincent, Bev. The Road to the Dark Tower: Exploring Stephen King's Magnum Opus.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Vincent, Bev. The Road to the Dark Tower: Exploring Stephen King's Magnum Opus. Oct. 2004. 416p. NAL, paper, $14.95 (0-4512-1304-1). 813. Vincent's expansive synopsis of horrormeister King's Dark Tower saga arrives nipping the heels of its...

Warren, Deborah. Zero Meridian.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Warren, Deborah. Zero Meridian. Oct. 2004. 96p. Ivan R. Dee, $18.95 (1-56663-596-9). 811. Warren's metrically and formally well-mannered poems--a great many of them sonnets--consistently demonstrate the wit and pith that the revival of...

Bitterman, Pamela Sisman. Sailing to the Far Horizon: the Restless Journey and Tragic Sinking of a Tall Ship.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Bitterman, Pamela Sisman. Sailing to the Far Horizon: The Restless Journey and Tragic Sinking of a Tall Ship. Oct. 2004. 376p. illus. Univ. of Wisconsin/Terrace, $29.95 (0-299-20190-2). 910.4. In 1978, Bitterman found an ad in Co-Evolution...

Lambert, Katherine. The Longest Winter: the Incredible Survival of Captain Scott's Lost Party.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Lambert, Katherine. The Longest Winter: The Incredible Survival of Captain Scott's Lost Party. Oct. 2004. 240p. illus. index. Smithsonian, $24.95 (1-58834-195-X). 919.8. Lambert chronicles the struggle for survival of six members of...

Poole, Robert M. Explorers House: National Geographic and the World It Made.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Poole, Robert M. Explorers House: National Geographic and the World It Made. Nov 2004. 342p. illus. Penguin/The Penguin Press, $25.95 (1-59420-032-7). 910. Ruled until recently by the nepotistic Grosvenor dynasty, National Geographic...

Queenan, Joe. Queenan Country: A Reluctant Anglophile's Pilgrimage to the Mother Country.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Queenan, Joe. Queenan Country: A Reluctant Anglophile's Pilgrimage to the Mother Country. Nov. 2004. 240p. Holt, $22 (0-8050-6980-1). 914.104. Who knew that Joe Queenan--who years ago called the English "pasty-faced, mean-spirited, stingy,...

Steele, Peter. The Man Who Mapped the Arctic: the Intrepid Life of George Back, Franklin's Lieutenant.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Steele, Peter. The Man Who Mapped the Arctic: The Intrepid Life of George Back, Franklin's Lieutenant. Oct. 2004. 360p. illus. index. Raincoast, paper, $15.95 (1-55192-713-6). 917.1904. Steele's literate, coherent biography introduces one...

Abildskov, Marilyn. The Men in My Country.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Abildskov, Marilyn. The Men in My Country. Nov. 2004. 166p. Univ. of Iowa, $29.95 (0-87745-904-5). 952.04. Abildskov's debut memoir follows the travails of a thirtysomething ex-pat in a medium-size city in the Japanese mountains. At 31,...

Anderson, Lars. The All Americans.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Anderson, Lars. The All Americans. Nov. 2004. 272p. illus. St. Martin's, $24.95 (0-312-30887-6). 940.54. Sports journalist Anderson focuses on four men who played in the 1941 Army-Navy football game just before the Japanese attack on Pearl...

Buchanan, John. The Road to Valley Forge: How Washington Built the Army That Won the Revolution.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Buchanan, John. The Road to Valley Forge: How Washington Built the Army That Won the Revolution. Oct. 2004. 384p. illus. index. Wiley, $30 (0-471-44156-2). 973.3. Buchanan focuses on the most critical period of the Revolutionary War:...

Holt Watson, Jo Anna. A Taste of the Sweet Apple.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... * Holt Watson, Jo Anna. A Taste of the Sweet Apple. Nov. 2004. 232p. Sarabande, paper, $14.95 (1-932511-08-3), 976.9. From its opening scene in a snowy pasture in 1942, this memoir of a Kentucky farm is packed with tales, tobacco, and...

Doherty, Paul. The Death of Alexander the Great.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Doherty, Paul. The Death of Alexander the Great. Nov. 2004. 256p. Carroll & Graf, $25 (0-7867-1340-2). 938. Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.E.) was king of Macedonia and conqueror of Asia Minor, Syria, Egypt, Babylonia, and Persia, and his...

Fagan, Brian. The Rape of the Nile: Tomb Robbers, Tourists, and Archaeologists in Egypt.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Fagan, Brian. The Rape of the Nile: Tomb Robbers, Tourists, and Archaeologists in Egypt. Rev. ed. 2004. 320p. illus. index. Westview, $27 (0-8133-4061-6). 932. Fagan has written numerous archaeology books (e.g., The Little Ice Age, 2000),...

Faison, Seth. South of the Clouds: Exploring the Hidden Realms of China.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Faison, Seth. South of the Clouds: Exploring the Hidden Realms of China. Oct. 2004. 288p illus. St. Martin's, $24.95 (0-312-30640-7). 951.05. Faison spent 12 years in China, 5 (1995 to 2000) as the Shanghai bureau chief for the New York...

Hartfield, Ronne. Another Way Home: The Tangled Roots of Race in One Chicago Family.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Hartfield, Ronne. Another Way Home: The Tangled Roots of Race in One Chicago Family. Oct. 2004. 272p. Univ. of Chicago, $22.50 (0-226-31821-4). 977.3. Hartfield's mother, Day Shepherd, was part of a line of mixed-race individuals, many of...

Herman, Arthur. To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Herman, Arthur. To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World. Nov. 2004. 672p. index. HarperCollins, $26.95 (0-06-053424-9). 941.081. Unlike many of the great empires of the nineteenth century or those of antiquity, the...

Webb, James. Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... * Webb, James. Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America. Oct. 2004. 384p. index. Broadway, $25.95 (0-7679-1688-3). 973. In telling the story of the Scots-Irish in America as a robust and passionate tale, novelist Webb writes...

Horton, James Oliver and Horton, Lois E. Slavery and the Making of America.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Horton, James Oliver and Horton, Lois E. Slavery and the Making of America. Oct. 2004. 256p. illus. index. Oxford, $35 (0-19-517903-X). 973. The Hortons, both history professors, offer a view of American history from the perspective of the...

Hunner, Jon. Los Alamos: The Growth of an Atomic Community.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Hunner, Jon. Los Alamos: The Growth of an Atomic Community. Nov. 2004. 320p. index. Univ. of Oklahoma, $29.95 (0-8061-3634-0) 978.9. This is a civic and sociological account of the birthplace of the atom bomb, covering the years 1942-57. In...

Kaplan, Vivian Jeanette. Ten Green Bottles: The True Story of One Family's Journey from War-Torn Austria to the Ghettos of Shanghai.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Kaplan, Vivian Jeanette. Ten Green Bottles: The True Story of One Family's Journey from War-Torn Austria to the Ghettos of Shanghai. Nov. 2004. 304p. St. Martin's, $24.95 (0-312-33054-5). 940.53. Nini Karpel, her ailing mother, and her...

Zsolt, Bela. Nine Suitcases.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... * Zsolt, Bela. Nine Suitcases. Tr. by Ladislaus Lob. Nov. 2004. 336p. History Schocken, $25 (0-8052-4204-X). 940.53 The author, a Jew, was born in northern Hungary in 1895 and moved to Budapest in 1920. During the next two decades, Zsolt...

Kinder, Chuck. Last Mountain Dancer: Hard-Earned Lessons in Love, Loss, and Honky-Tonk Outlaw Life.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Kinder, Chuck. Last Mountain Dancer: Hard-Earned Lessons in Love, Loss, and Honky-Tonk Outlaw Life. Oct. 2004. 480p. Carroll & Graf, $26 (0-7867-1406-9). 975.4. "West Virginians want the world at large to know they can be as bland and...