Library Journal articles from February 2006

Library Journal archives from February 2006

Street lit takes a hit: an African American author raps the genre, but librarians defend it.(Nick Chiles)(Editorial)
February 1, 2006... URBAN FICTION, STREET LIT, GHETTO FICTION, gangsta lit, whatever you call it, this gritty genre of African American writing is enormously popular, both in bookstores and libraries. It's not popular, however, with African American writer Nick...

Let that stinkweed bloom! The hijacking of ALA's IFFORUM.(blatant berry)
February 1, 2006... FREE EXPRESSION IS A PAIN IN THE YOU KNOW what! No phenomenon illustrates this better than IFFORUM, an electronic list (we used to call them listservs until some outfit claimed the term as a trademark). Oy, America! IFFORUM is operated by...

Making speakers pay.(Letter to the Editor)
February 1, 2006... Lost in the debacle over whether speakers for American Library Association (ALA) conferences and ALA division conferences should be given complimentary registration ("Membership Has Its Privileges?" libraryjournal.com,1/ 4/06 and this issue, p....

Stop posting tripe.(Letter to the Editor)
February 1, 2006... Regarding "Puttin' Your Foot in It" (How Do You Manage?; analyses by Janice Elkins, "It's Groveling Time," and Angel Jackson, "You're Outta There!" LJ 12/05, p. 90-92), I am, sadly, not surprised that neither respondent broached the subject of...

Practicum makes perfect.(Letter to the Editor)
February 1, 2006... Thanks for reminding us that schooling is only part of what is needed to make a librarian (Editorial, "The Practice Prerequisite," LJ 9/15/05, p. 8). Without a practicum or internship, new librarians won't know about a busy reference desk with...

Buildings & collections.(Letter to the Editor)
February 1, 2006... Thank you for Beth Dempsey's "Power Users" (LJ 12/05, p. 72-75), a great article that succinctly summed up one of the great problems with many of the wonderful new library buildings--you can't find anything in them! Dempsey's tips will go a...

Akron's architect.(Letter to the Editor)
February 1, 2006... The architects for the beautiful Main Library of the Akron-Summit County Public Library (LJ 12/05, cover) are Richard Fleischman Architects, Inc. (studiorfa.com) of Cleveland and Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects LLC...

Librarians get their cards.(Amy Pelman, trading cards)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2006... Amy Pelman, an LIS student graduating this spring from UCLA Department of Information Studies, thought that librarians merited trading cards featuring a photo and quick Q&A. She started a blog (librariantradingcards.blogspot.com) and announced...

It's popular on flickr.(front desk)
February 1, 2006... "On the great library shelf in the sky, Melvil Dewey cannot be amused." --Daniel H. Pink, New York Times Magazine, 12/11/05, on the rise of Folksonomy, or user-tagging of digital objects

Dalton got his due.(Dalton Trumbo, Mesa County Public Library)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2006... Grand Junction, CO, has made peace with native son Dalton Trumbo, thanks to the efforts of the Mesa County Public Library. The facility's foundation received the rights to publish Trumbo's long-out-of-print novel Eclipse, in which he...

Audible.com's new advertising program, which satirizes a longtime American Library Association poster series (and somewhat deceptively claims a dot-org web site), is called Don't Read.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2006... Audible.com's new advertising program, which satirizes a longtime American Library Association poster series (and somewhat deceptively claims a dot-org web site), is called Don't Read. ALA said early last month that it would ask Audible to...

Stat watch.(front desk)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
February 1, 2006... STAT WATCH The LIBRARY category of the annual America's Most Literate Cities ranking considers five variables: number of school media personnel, number of branch libraries, volumes held, circulation, and number of library...

Open access may heat up in 2006: CURES Act would push NIH; UK Parliament revisits issue.
February 1, 2006... The battle for free public access to government-funded research may heat up after Senators Joe Lieberman (D-CT) and Thad Cochran (R-MS) introduced legislation to establish the American Center for Cures within the National Institutes of Health...

Student's ILL claim crumbles.(interlibrary loan )(Brief Article)
February 1, 2006... An unnamed student at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth said in late December that he was visited by federal agents after requesting the "Peking" edition of Chinese leader Mau Tse-tung's Little Red Book through interlibrary loan...

LSTA funding: slight increase.(Library Services and Technology Act)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2006... NEH official Radice nominated for new head of IMLS In late December, Congress passed the Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations bill, which included a slight increase for Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funding over the previous...

IF award goes to CT's "John Doe".(intellectual freedom, Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2006... Patriot Act still an issue, as Congress must decide this month The 2005 Robert B. Downs Intellectual Freedom Award, which was to be presented at the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting January 21 in San Antonio, went to an...

Newark "Hero" dies at 68.(lj news)(Charles Cummings)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
February 1, 2006... Charles Cummings, the assistant director and a 40-year employee of the Newark Public Library, NJ--and an acclaimed expert on his adoptive home city--died December 21, 2005, at 68. Cummings helped out numerous writers, among them Philip Roth,...

Costs to present at PLA at issue.(Public Library Association)
February 1, 2006... Should speakers from the profession get fee waived? Jenny Levine is such a popular blogger (and a 2003 LI Mover & Shaker) that she was invited to contribute to the American Library Association (ALA) TechSource blog and decided to use her...

Sign up for LJXpress, LJ Academic Newswire.
February 1, 2006... LJXpress is a weekly snapshot of the latest news, research, reviews, and Library Journal.com web exclusives such as interviews with trendmakers, LJ's Advice to the Library-lorn, collection development lists, and more for public and academic...

TN PL bends on religious display.(Tennessee Public Library)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2006... "O'Reilly Factor" a factor after protest gets national nod Though the policy of the Memphis Library and Information Center is not to display any item that promotes a particular religion or sectarian religious belief, among other things,...

Google launches librarian newsletter.(LJ NEWS)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2006... Google has produced the first issue of the company's Newsletter for Librarians, aiming to answer some of the most frequent questions the company gets from that constituency: How does Google index the web, and how does it rank the results?...

Porn issue behind WA bond opposition.(Child Online Protection Act of 1999)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2006... The libraries of the Fort Vancouver Regional Library District in southwest Washington are overcrowded, but the community has failed narrowly to pass bond measures in the past two years to construct a new library in Vancouver and another branch....

ME library saved, thanks to King gift.(Maine, Stephen King, Tabitha King)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2006... Thanks to Maine authors Stephen and Tabitha King, a small library in their home state gained a new lease on life. The two-room, seven-year-old library in Allagash was jeopardized this winter by the high cost of fuel and a balky furnace, the...

Calendar.
February 1, 2006... APRIL 5-7--Oregon Library Assn., Salem www.olaweb.org 5-7--Tennessee Library Assn./ Southeastern Library Assn., Memphis www.lib.utk.edu/~tla; sela.jsu.edu 18-24--Florida Library Assn., Orlando www.flalib.org 19-21--New Mexico...

Carnegie Library: Michele Atkins.(people)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2006... Michele Atkins is now Director of External Relations for the neighborhood locations of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, headquartered in Oakland. She will implement new fundraising programs, including a capital campaign, increase the...

Georgia Highlands College Librarian.(people)(appointment of Beth Cackowski)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2006... Beth Cackowski, former Educational Services Librarian at SOLINET, Atlanta, has been appointed Georgia Highlands College Librarian at Southern Polytechnic State University, Marietta.

Library Services for the City of Murietta.(people)(appointment of Loretta McKinney)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2006... Loretta McKinney, formerly Deputy City Librarian in Escondido, CA, is now Director of Library Services for the City of Murietta, CA.

Pikes Peak Library District.(people)(appointment of Paula J. Miller)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2006... Paula J. Miller, Director of the Westlake Porter Public Library, OH, will take over as Director of the Pikes Peak Library District, Colorado Springs, on February 15.

Carnegie Library: Mike Nangia.(people)(Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2006... Mike Nangia is the new Director of Information Technology for the neighborhood locations of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, headquartered in Oakland. He previously directed projects for several Fortune 500 companies, becoming an independent...

John Nichols.(people)(retirement of John Nichols)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2006... John Nichols is retiring after 23 years as Executive Director of the Oshkosh Public Library and Winnefox Library System, WI. Nichols was named the 2005 DEMCO Librarian of the Year last month by the Wisconsin Library Association.

Rockford Public Library.(people)(appointment of Frank Novak)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2006... Frank Novak, currently Director of the Ela Area Public Library District, Lake Zurich, IL, has been named Director of the Rockford Public Library, IL.

Spokane Public Library.(appointment of Pat Partovi in place of Jan Sanders)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2006... Pat Partovi, Interim Director of the Spokane Public Library since August, 2005, has been named Director of the library. She joined the Spokane Public Library as Manager of the Downtown Library in 1994, became Manager of Neighborhood Services in...

Portland Public Library.(people)(appointment of Stephen J. Podgajny)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2006... Stephen J. Podgajny, Director of the Curtis Memorial Library, Brunswick, ME, for the past 18 years, is now Director of the Portland Public Library, ME.

Euclid Public Library.(people)(appointment of Thomas Simiele )(Brief Article)
February 1, 2006... Thomas Simiele has been appointed Deputy Director of the Euclid Public Library, OH. He had been Director of the Bristol Public Library, OH.

Urbana Public Library.(people)(appointment of Anke Voss )(Brief Article)
February 1, 2006... Anke Voss is the new Director of the Champaign County Historical Archives, the Genealogy and Local History Department at the Urbana Public Library, IL. She was Archivist and Special Collections Librarian at Illinois Wesleyan University,...

OCLC buys Openly Informatics: million-record database added to WorldCat.(OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc.)
February 1, 2006... It's buyin' time again for OCLC: in the latest in a string of purchases, the cataloging Goliath has acquired the assets of Openly Informatics, a supplier of linking tools for the library market, for an undisclosed sum. This recent purchase,...

Home run: LFPL signs Polaris.(INSTALLATIONS)(Louisville Free Public Library)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2006... The Louisville Free Public Library (LFPL), KY, is upgrading its technology solution with a contract for the installation of a Polaris system. According to the company, in addition to the basic package of standard features, the deal includes the...

McGraw-Hill Pro taps librarians.(McGraw-Hill Professional Book Group)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2006... As the publishing world more firmly embraces the digital world, book--now content--houses are looking outside their own borders for expert advice. McGraw-Hill Professional has formed a Digital Advisory Board comprised of public, academic, and...

ProQuest adds Hartford Courant.(ProQuest Information and Learning Co.)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2006... ProQuest Information and Learning again is growing its already impressive digital newspaper program by adding a significant historical archive. The vendor on December 13 announced the digitization of the Hartford Courant, which dates to...

Serials Solutions in ONIX study.(Edinburgh University Data Library,)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2006... Serials Solutions is partnering with EDINA (Edinburgh University Data Library) for an eight-month project to study "the transfer of metadata about a library's subscriptions to SUNCAT, the UK national serials catalog." The project is being...

A scholarly file to watch.(online libraries)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2006... WHAT'LL THEY DO NEXT? Those savvy EBSCO folks (www.epnet.com) have premiered a Customer Satisfaction Center you should try even if you're not their customer. It's got a smorgasbord of terrific features, including free (yep, free) access to the...

ResearchNow.(E-VIEWS AND REVIEWS)(Product/Service Evaluation)
February 1, 2006... ResearchNow Berkeley Electronic Press. researchnow.bepress.com; request a free demo at www.urbdocs.com A scholarly database hosted by Berkeley Electronic Press (a.k.a. bepress), ResearchNow just may be the face of the future in online...

The value of the container.(ONLINE DATABASES)
February 1, 2006... WHY ALL THE FUSS ABOUT ELECtronic journals? That was the question raised by Michael Gorman, the outspoken president of the American Library Association (ALA), at a session on "Future of Libraries" at the recent Online Information Meeting in...

It pays to be thin: new versions of thin clients can solve the many problems wrought by "fat client" PCs.(INFOTECH FEATURE)
February 1, 2006... The problems with networked PCs area modern-day plague for both librarians and network administrators. PCs crash, they freeze, they require constant updating and patching. End users amuse themselves by finding ways to circumvent whatever...

Everyone's hitching post: Milanof-Schock Library, Mount Joy, PA.(BEST SMALL LIBRARY IN AMERICA 2006)(travelling libraries)
February 1, 2006... The used van that delivers the books from the Milanof-Schock Library (MSL), in Mount Joy, Lancaster County, PA, had just arrived at the nursing home. A retired school teacher who was "homebound" there asked if MSL could bring her some...

Building public will: a five-phase strategy goes beyond marketing to foster ongoing community support for libraries.(Information Access Alliance)
February 1, 2006... In the late 1990s, Multnomah County Library's central building was deemed unsafe, with many of the areas off limits to the public. It could have become a symbol for a declining system, but it didn't. Why? A shift in public will. Over the years...

Breaking the sound barrier.(Collection Development / Parenting a Deaf Child)
February 1, 2006... Parenting any child is a difficult, if rewarding, process, but raising a son or daughter with a hearing disability presents unique challenges. The first hurdle comes with the initial diagnosis of hearing loss. Some children are born with...

Prepub alert.
February 1, 2006... Berenson, Alex. The Faithful Spy. Random. Jun. 2006. 352p. ISBN 0-345-47899-1. $24.95. Berenson escapes from his job as a business reporter at the New York Times to pen this debut thriller about an agent so deeply undercover as a member of...

Times are a changin'.(historical mysteries)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2006... TIMES ARE A CHANGIN' Historical mysteries remain as popular as ever, but new settings and time periods are attracting authors. Revolutionary Paris of the 1790s sets the stage for Susanne Alleyn's Game of Patience. Racially segregated 1950s...

Alleyn, Susanne. Game of Patience.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Alleyn, Susanne. Game of Patience. Thomas Dunne Bks: St. Martin's. Mar. 2006. c.285p. ISBN 0-312-34363-9 [ISBN 978-0-312-34363-7]. $23.95. M It is 1796 in a Paris trying to regain some semblance of order after the Reign of Terror...

Bruen, Ken. The Dramatist.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Bruen, Ken. The Dramatist. Minotaur: St. Martin's. Mar. 2006. c.288p. ISBN 0-312-31647-X. $22.95. M Hired by his former drug supplier--now in prison--to look into his sister's death, Jack Taylor (The Magdalen Martyrs), ex-cop, ex-druggie,...

de Castrique, Mark. Foolish Undertaking.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... * de Castrique, Mark. Foolish Undertaking. Poisoned Pen. Feb. 2006. c.253p. ISBN 1-59058-227-6. $22.95. M Y'Grok Eban, a Montagnard who risked everything in order to help American soldiers in Vietnam, dies in the North Carolina hills where...

Gellis, Roberta. Chains of Folly: A Magdalene la Batarde Mystery.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... * Gellis, Roberta. Chains of Folly: A Magdalene la Batarde Mystery. Five Star: Gale. Apr. 2006. c.319p. ISBN 1-59414-472-9. $25.95. M When the Bishop of Winchester arrives home to find a dead whore in his bedchamber, he sends Sir Bellamy of...

Haines, Carolyn. Penumbra.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... * Haines, Carolyn. Penumbra. Minotaur: St. Martin's. Apr. 2006. c.280p. ISBN 0-312-35160-7. $23.95. M Set in Drexel, MS, during the 1950s, Haines's standalone mystery is the story of two half-sisters who live in separate worlds owing to an...

Jaffarian, Sue Ann. Too Big to Miss.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Jaffarian, Sue Ann. Too Big To Miss. Midnight Ink: Llewellyn. Feb. 2006. c.301p. ISBN 0-7387-0863-1. pap. $13.95. M Sophie London, founder of a support group for large people and owner and star of an online adult web site, shoots herself in...

Mountain, Fiona. Bloodline: A Mystery.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Mountain, Fiona. Bloodline: A Mystery. Thomas Dunne Bks: St. Martin's. Mar. 2006. c.290p. ISBN 0-312-32325-5 [ISBN 978-0-312-32325-7]. $23.95. M Natasha Blake (Pale as the Dead), a genealogist living in the Cotswolds, is delving into the...

O'Neill, Vincent H. Murder in Exile.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... O'Neill, Vincent H. Murder in Exile. Thomas Dunne Bks: St. Martin's. Apr. 2006. c.224p. ISBN 0-312-35207-7 [ISBN 978-0-312-35207-3]. $22.95. M Frank Cole, the bankrupt former owner of a computer company, lives in Exile, FL, and works...

Pawel, Rebecca. The Summer Snow. A Carlos Tejada Alonsoy Leon Investigation.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... * Pawel, Rebecca. The Summer Snow. A Carlos Tejada Alonsoy Leon Investigation. Soho, dist. by Consortium. Feb. 2006. c.328p. ISBN 1-56947-408-7. $23. M Dona Rosalia, Carlos Tejada's great-aunt, is a mean-spirited, bad-tempered old lady who...

Skibbins, David. High Priestess.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Skibbins, David. High Priestess. Thomas Dunne Bks: St. Martin's. Apr. 2006. c.320. ISBN 0-312-35233-6 [ISBN 978-0-312-35233-2]. $23.95. M Tarot reader Warren Ritter has settled back into his nondescript life in Berkeley, CA, after almost...

Apodaca, Jennifer. Thrilled to Death.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Apodaca, Jennifer. Thrilled to Death. Kensington. Feb. 2006. c.304p. ISBN 0-7582-0988-6. $22. M Samantha Shaw, dating service owner and wannabe private investigator, is caught between trying to protect her grandfather, a respected...

Benoit, Charles. Out of Order.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Benoit, Charles. Out of Order. Poisoned Pen. Feb. 2006. c.224p. ISBN 1-59085-252-7. $24.95. M Jason Talley, a loan officer in a mortgage company, arrives home one day to find that his neighbors and good friends are dead and the police...

Henderson, J.J. Murder on Naked Beach.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Henderson, J.J. Murder on Naked Beach. CDS Bks. Feb. 2006. c.241p. ISBN 1-59315-287-6. pap. $11.95. M Lucy Ripken, an architectural photographer and writer, goes to Jamaica for the grand opening of a luxury hotel. On the first night, a...

Swift, Virginia. Hello, Stranger.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Swift, Virginia. Hello, Stranger. HarperCollins. Mar. 2006. c.260p. ISBN 0-06-054333-7. $24.95. M All the signs point to abuse of the worst kind when Charlie Preston, daughter of a Laramie, WY, wealthy and politically connected attorney,...

Prepub mystery.
February 1, 2006... Baantjer, A.C. DeKok and Variations on Murder. Speck Pr. Jun. 2006. 208p. ISBN 1-933108-04-5. pap. $14. A dead man gone missing has Inspector DeKok on the prowl. Baantjer, the most widely read author in the Netherlands, was recently...

Beyond grief.(A Dark Oval Stone)(Things We Once Held Dear)(A House Divided)(Wings of Morning)(Eventide)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... BEYOND GRIEF Despite recent trends towards Christian suspense thrillers, futuristic drama, chick lit, and other popular subgenres, faith-based fiction remains strong in addressing such shared human experiences as grief and the loss of loved...

Alexander, Tameara. Rekindled.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... * Alexander, Tameara. Rekindled. Bethany. (Fountain Creek Chronicles, Bk. 1). Mar. 2006. c.296p. ISBN 0-7642-0108-5. pap. $12.99. CF Kathryn and Larson Jennings's ten-year childless marriage suffers from years of unfulfilled needs and...

Konkle, Marsena. A Dark Oval Stone.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Konkle, Marsena. A Dark Oval Stone. Paraclete. Mar. 2006. c.288p. ISBN 1-55725-427-3. $21.95. CF Miriam Kovatch has always lived in the shadow of death, raised by a mother who could not recover from the loss of two sons. Now Miriam seems...

Martinusen, Cindy. Eventide.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Martinusen, Cindy. Eventide. WestBow: Thomas Nelson. Feb. 2006. c.320p. ISBN 1-5955-4082-2. pap. $14.99. CF Lauren Rendell knows that her lifelong best friend, Carrie Myles, will die soon of a degenerative disease. Although happily married...

Morgan, Kathleen. Wings of Morning.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Morgan, Kathleen. Wings of Morning. Revell. (These Highland Hills). Feb. 2006. c.288p. ISBN 0-8007-5964-8. pap. $12.99. CF Set in the lush Scotland Highlands of 1566, Morgan's follow-up to Child of the Mist is another spellbinding tale of...

Tatlock, Ann. Things We Once Held Dear.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... * Tatlock, Ann. Thing We Once Held Dear. Bethany. 2006. c.400p. ISBN 0-7642-0004-6. pap. $13.99. CF Coming home to Mason, OH, after 30 years is difficult for recent widower Neil Sadler. In 1977, after a brutal murder tore his family apart,...

Voeller, Sydell. A House Divided.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Voeller, Sydell. A House Divided. Five Star: Gale. Feb. 2006. c.236p. ISBN 1-59414-435-4. $26.95. CF Rebecca Lorenzo is determined to buy the Victorian house in her Oregon hometown where she fell in love with her late husband, an actor who...

Arana, Nikki. In the Shade of Jacaranda.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Arana, Nikki. In the Shade of Jacaranda. Revell. (Regalo Grande, Bk. 2). Feb. 2006. c.336p. ISBN 0-8007-3049-6. pap. $12.99. CF Attorney Angelica Amante, who married Mexican stableman Antonio in The Winds of Sonoma, discovers she is...

Carlson, Melody. On This Day.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Carlson, Melody. On This Day. WaterBrook: Random. Feb. 2006. c.352p. ISBN 1-57856-841-2. pap. $12.99. CF Gathered at the rural Lakeside Inn to attend the wedding of Michael and Jennifer Fairbanks, five different women connected to the bride...

Culliford, Penny. Theodora's Baby.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Culliford, Penny. Theodora's Baby. Zondervan. 2006. c.304p. ISBN 0-310-26558-4. pap. $10.99. CF The third volume in the "Theodora" series (after Theodora's Diary and Theodora's Wedding) carries on the saga of now newlyweds Kevin and...

Dekker, Ted. Showdown.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Dekker, Ted. Showdown. Westbow: Thomas Nelson. 2006. c.375p. ISBN 1-5955-4005-9. $22.99. CF When a mysterious preacher named Marsuvees Black arrives in the remote Colorado town of Paradise, he announces that God has called him to bring...

Henderson, Dee. The Witness.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Henderson, Dee. The Witness. Tyndale House. Feb. 2006. c.378p. ISBN 1-4143-0812-4. pap. $13.99. CF Bests-selling author Henderson ("O'Malley Family" and "Uncommon Heroes" series) makes her Tyndale debut with this tale of inspirational...

Norris, Chuck & others. The Justice Riders.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Norris, Chuck & others. The Justice Riders. Broadman & Holman. 2006. c.304p. ISBN 0-8054-4032-1. $24.99. CF This good old-fashioned Western, set during the Civil War era, features a band of heroic freedom fighters working under a secret...

Billingsley, ReShonda Tate. I Know I've Been Changed.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Billingsley, ReShonda TaLe. I Know I've Been Changed. Pocket: S. & S. Feb. 2006. c.352p. ISBN 1-4165-1197-0. pap. $14. CF Houston news anchor Raedella Rollins left her family far behind in Arkansas when she came to Texas. She lives the high...

Collins, Brandilyn. Web of Lies.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Collins, Brandilyn. Web of Lies. Zondervan. (Hidden Faces). Feb. 2006. c.304p. ISBN 0-310-25106-0. pap. $12.99. CF Forensic artist Annie Kingston returns in the fourth book of the "Hidden Faces" series (after Brink of Death, Stain of Guilt,...

Dickson, Athol. River Rising.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Dickson, Athol. River Rising. Bethany. 2006. c.304p. ISBN 0-7642-0162-X. $17.99. CF Set in 1927 Louisiana, Dickson's fourth novel (after They Shall See God) revolves around a man raised in an orphanage who searches for his birth family's...

Griffith, Marilynn. Pink.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Griffith, Marilynn. Pink. Revell. (Shades of Style). Feb. 2006. c.320p. ISBN 0-8007-3040-2. pap. $12.99. CF Griffith's debut "Shades of Style" series features four women in the fashion industry: Raya, Chenille, Lily, and Jean. The women...

Hatcher, Robin Lee. Another Chance to Love You.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Hatcher, Robin Lee. Another Chance To Love You. Steeple Hill. Feb. 2006. c.251p. ISBN 0-373-78555-0. pap. $12.95. When Daniel Rourke returned to his Idaho hometown for a visit, he never imagined he would discover that his college...

Heley, Veronica. Secret of the Hall.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Heley, Veronica. Secret of the Hall. Zondervan. (Eden Hall). Feb. 2006. c.352p. ISBN 0-310-26561-4. pap. $12.99. CF Minty Sands (Eden Hall; The Lady of the Hall) has suffered a miscarriage and heads for Europe to get over her loss. She is...

Kelly, L.A. Return to Alastair.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... Kelly, L.A. Return to Alastair. Revell. 2006. c.368p. ISBN 0-8007-3116-6. pap. $12.99. CF Kelly, known more for her family stories (Julia's Hope; Emma's Gift; Rorey's Secret) under the name of Leisha Kelly, continues her foray into...