Library Journal articles from June 2005

Library Journal archives from June 2005

The Krug contribution: she convinced ALA to put its money where its mouth is.(Judith Krug of American Library Association Office for Intellectual Freedom)
June 15, 2005... DESPITE A FEW BATTLES WITH HER, I HAVE ALWAYS admired Judith Krug. She's been director of the American Library Association (ALA) Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) since its founding in 1967. Her service to intellectual freedom, without...

Information wants to be mobile.(Helsinki City Library's Information Gas Station)(Brief Article)
June 15, 2005... The latest development in the Helsinki City Library's iGS (Information Gas Station) is the librarian-staffed "barrel iGS," which in the past year has been placed everywhere from train stations to conferences. Other mobile iGS units are larger...

A historian's read.(David A. Bell)
June 15, 2005... "Not only is the advent of bookless or largely bookless libraries too large and powerful a change to be held back, it also offers too many real advantages for it to be considered a tragedy" --David A. Bell, "The Bookless Future," The New...

Librarians' prestige lags: rank on the professional ladder.(Professional employees' percentile rankings)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
June 15, 2005... POSITION PERCENTILE Postsecondary teachers 74 Registered nurses 72 High school teachers 71 K-8 school teachers 69 Police officers 61 Librarians 56...

Good camper.(Buffalo & Erie County Public Library's overdue book with full late fee was returned by Joel Schlesinger)(Brief Article)
June 15, 2005... A patron at the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library, NY, recently returned an overdue book with the full late fee. Routine, except the book was due 24 years ago, and the fee--at 10 cents a day--was $2190. Former Orchard Park resident Joel...

Oklahoma legislators urge limits on kid's books with gay themes: Tulsa compromises with parenting section; Oklahoma City considers it.(Oklahoma House of Representatives approve of resolution)
June 15, 2005... By a vote of 81-3, members of the Oklahoma House of Representatives May 9 approved a resolution asking Oklahoma libraries to "confine homosexually themed books and other age-inappropriate material to areas exclusively for adult access and...

Mitch Freedman reflects.(Maurice J.Freedman director of Westchester Library System retires)(Brief Article)(Interview)
June 15, 2005... Maurice J. (Mitch) Freedman, director of the Westchester Library System (WLS), NY, will retire at the end of August after 23 years in the job. An automation veteran, Freedman helped automate WLS and later implemented the WESTLYNX catalog,...

U.S. news LIS ratings stale? ALA councilors debate requesting updated survey of 1999 results.(American Library Association request U.S. News and World Report Inc. )(Brief Article)
June 15, 2005... A resolution drafted by American Library Association (ALA) councilor Diedre Conkling, Lincoln County Library District, OR, at the prompting of members of the University of Washington Information School's MLIS advisory committee, would have...

French-Canadian pride.(Bibliotheque nationale, du Quebec's exhibition)(Brief Article)
June 15, 2005... FRENCH-CANADIAN PRIDE: The new Grande Bibliotheque of the Bibliotheque nationale du Quebec, located in Montreal, opened over the April 30 weekend to 18,000 visitors. The $97.6 million CDN ($78.4M USD) six-level facility also houses Quebec's...

Two branches leave Memphis: only one of five suburban branches remains; others link with LSSI.(Millington, Arlington libraries leave Memphis-Shelby County Public Library and Information Center)(Library Systems & Services LLC)(Brief Article)
June 15, 2005... In the wake of county budget cuts that have forced suburban Memphis towns to pay more of their library costs, two of three remaining towns have decided to leave the Memphis-Shelby County Public Library and Information Center and outsource...

ALA partnerships reviewed.(American Library Association's guidelines for partnerships and sponsorships)(Brief Article)
June 15, 2005... In the wake of criticism regarding a partnership with the drugstore chain Walgreens to distribute a brochure on the new Medicare Drug Discount Card Program and other questions about sponsorships (see Front Desk, LJ 7/04, p. 15), the American...

Meeting room crisis at MA PL: library closed at noon after city bars white supremacist group.(Somerville Public Library)(Brief Article)
June 15, 2005... The Somerville Public Library, MA, was closed May 7 at noon after city officials, citing safety concerns, barred members of the supremacist group White Revolution from using a library meeting room. The group had booked the room under the name...

Libraries defeat "broadcast flag": still, FCC effort may recur; conferees say copyright needs work.(Federal Communications Commission defeated by American Library Association)
June 15, 2005... In a 3-0 decision May 6, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that the Federal Communications Commission exceeded its delegated authority by requiring that, beginning in July 2005, TV manufacturers tailor their...

LJ seeks politician of the year nominees.(LJ NEWS)(Brief Article)
June 15, 2005... Are there political figures making a difference in your community? The editors of LJ want to know about them and what they've achieved for libraries in your area. Past winners of this award include Vermont Congressman Bernie Sanders (2003),...

NYPL raises $35m from sale: however, classic New York scene goes to Arkansas collector.(New York Public Library auctions Asher B. Durand's 'Kindred Spirits')(Brief Article)
June 15, 2005... The New York Public Library (NYPL) raised more than $35 million from the sale of Asher B. Durand's "Kindred Spirits." The 1849 landscape is known for its portrayal of Thomas Cole, the painter and founder of the Hudson River School of...

ACS opposes PubChem file: will legislators pressure NIH to shut down or scale back free service?(American Chemical Society against the National Institutes of Health's free service)(Brief Article)
June 15, 2005... Officials at the American Chemical Society (ACS) are seeking to shut down or at least scale back the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) PubChem database, a free collection of chemical compounds, saying the database competes with their...

Subsidy cut for MOBIUS consortium.(Missouri Bibliographic Information User System)(Brief Article)
June 15, 2005... A Missouri House and Senate conference committee approved Governor Matt Blunt's proposal to cut $650,000 in funding for MOBIUS, the Missouri Bibliographic Information User System (MOBIUS), a statewide consortium of 60 members, mostly academic...

KS board restores ALA language.(American Library Association Library Bill of Rights to continue)(Brief Article)
June 15, 2005... After the board of the Johnson County Library, Overland Park, KS, dropped language from the American Library Association Library Bill of Rights from its collection development guidelines (see News, LJ 6/1/05, p. 28), the terms of two members...

Dalhousie LIS school renamed.(The School of Library and Information Studies at Dalhousie University gets renamed as School of Information Management)(Brief Article)
June 15, 2005... The School of Library and Information Studies at Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, has been renamed the School of Information Management. "The new name reflects and promotes the breadth of the education and research conducted by members of...

Fremont Area District Library.(Ray Arnett)(Brief Article)
June 15, 2005... Ray Arnett is now Director, Fremont Area District Library, MI. He was Director, Dickinson County Library, Iron Mountain, MI.

Bibliographical Center for Research.(Heather Clark appointed)(Brief Article)
June 15, 2005... Heather Clark is a Librarian/Trainer, Bibliographical Center for Research, Aurora, CO. She was Collection Management Librarian, Carey S. Thomas Library, Denver Seminary.

Nancy Cunningham, formerly Director, Learning Resource Center, Southwest Florida College, Fort Myers, is now Associate Director of Reference and Instruction, Tampa Library, University of South Florida (USF), effective July 1.(Brief Article)
June 15, 2005... Nancy Cunningham, formerly Director, Learning Resource Center, Southwest Florida College, Fort Myers, is now Associate Director of Reference and Instruction, Tampa Library, University of South Florida (USF), effective July 1. Catherine...

U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science.(Trudi Bellardo Hahn appointed)(Brief Article)
June 15, 2005... Trudi Bellardo Hahn has been appointed Executive Director, U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS), Washington, DC. She has been Interim Director since November 2004.

University of Maryland Libraries.(Jasmin Nof appointed)(Brief Article)
June 15, 2005... Jasmin Nof is now Judaica and Hebraica Cataloger, University of Maryland Libraries, College Park. She had earned her MLS from Indiana University School of Library and Information Science, Bloomington.

American Library Association.(Karen O'Brien appointed)(Brief Article)
June 15, 2005... Karen O'Brien has been appointed Director, Office for Accreditation, American Library Association, replacing Ann O'Neill, who is now Dean, School of Library and Information Management, Emporia State University, KS. O'Brien was Interim...

Camden-Carroll Library, Morehead State University.(Pritchard, Elsie appointed)(Brief Article)
June 15, 2005... Elsie Pritchard has been named Dean of Library Services, Camden-Carroll Library, Morehead State University, KY. She was Assistant Director for Technical Services and Automation at the library.

Pasco County Library System.(Ruth Urbanski appointed)(Brief Article)
June 15, 2005... Ruth Urbanski is the new Technical Services Manager, Pasco County Library System, Hudson, FL. She was the library's Automation Coordinator for 14 years as well as Acting Assistant Libraries Director for Support Services for the past two years.

Association of College and Research Libraries.(Pamela Snelson has been elected as president)(Brief Article)
June 15, 2005... Pamela Snelson, Librarian, Franklin and Marshall College Library, Lancaster, PA, since 1998, has been elected President, Association of College and Research Libraries.

Irene Wang, Manager, Diamond Bar Library, CA, is the 2005 Librarian of the Year.(people)(Brief Article)
June 15, 2005... Irene Wang, Manager, Diamond Bar Library, CA, is the 2005 Librarian of the Year, awarded by the County of Los Angeles Public Library.

Obituary.(Wells Bradford Kormann division chief of National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
June 15, 2005... Wells Bradford Kormann, Chief of the Materials Development Division, National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress, for the past ten years, died recently at the age of 51.

Illinois clicks! Portal revamping: more than 140 librarians help to update online offerings.
June 15, 2005... The state of Illinois is strongly promoting library service through the Internet. In addition to taking the lead on the Government Information Online project (see InfoTech, LJ 6/1/05, p. 35), it has recruited more than 140 librarians...

SFX mates with Google Scholar.(Ex Libris Inc.'s ScholarSFX)(Brief Article)
June 15, 2005... Ex Libris May 11 announced that it is now marketing ScholarSFX, which lets libraries create links to their holdings that will appear in Google Scholar search results. "With these tools," according to the company, "institutions with the SFX...

ProQuest adds Chicago Defender.(Brief Article)
June 15, 2005... ProQuest is adding a significant publication to its already impressive list of titles included in its ongoing Historical Newspapers project (InfoTech, LJ 5/1/05, p. 27). The company will digitize the full content of the African American...

Wiley digitizing legacy content.(Wiley Periodicals Inc.)(Brief Article)
June 15, 2005... Let the scanning begin. Wiley has embarked on a massive project to digitize the full runs of all its journals dating back to the 1800s and mount them on its Wiley InterScience platform. Wiley expects the project to run over the next two...

EBSCO host adds NISC databases.(INFOTECH)(EBSCO Publishing partners with National Information Services Corp.)(Brief Article)
June 15, 2005... EBSCO Publishing and the National Information Services Corporation (NISC) have partnered to make five NISC databases immediately available via EBSCOhost, with seven additional database titles to be added in the near future. Current NISC...

Polaris Library Systems.(enhanced)(Brief Article)
June 15, 2005... Polaris Library Systems has added a customizable outreach services module to version 3.2 of its ILS. "Polaris Outreach Services are designed to manage outreach and homebound programs from the most basic manual process to large programs with...

Ovid Technologies is now marketing SearchSolver, its next-generation federated search tool.(Brief Article)
June 15, 2005... Ovid Technologies is now marketing SearchSolver, its next-generation federated search tool. The company told LJ the product combines searching and linking capabilities to present results in a simple web-based format similar to Google. Users...

Edinburgh's Royal Botanic Garden has selected Sirsi's Unicorn as its automation solution.(Brief Article)
June 15, 2005... Edinburgh's Royal Botanic Garden has selected Sirsi's Unicorn as its automation solution. The system is being installed on a Windows server and will provide access to the iLink e-Library and the modules for cataloging and interlibrary loan,...

Innovative has scored several new contracts.(Innovative Software Ltd.)(Brief Article)
June 15, 2005... Innovative has scored several new contracts. Toledo-Lucas County PL; GreaterVictoria Public Library, BC; and Oregon's Deschutes PL and Multnomah County Library all have opted for the vendor's Millennium system.

ABC-CLIO celebrates.(DEFINING HISTORY)
June 15, 2005... ADVANCING THE ART AND SCIENCE OF HISTORY REFERENCE Throughout its history, ABC-CLIO has continued to make strides in providing access to landmark history scholarship. From the publication of the first print issue of Historical Abstracts...

Ovid's social policy.(Ovid Social Policy and Practice, online database)(Product/Service Evaluation)
June 15, 2005... NIGHTMARE OF BAIT AND SWITCH A reader writes, "My experience with bait and switch... concerned a major, national ebook vendor. It advertised a collection of some 800 medical titles, a one-time purchase unlike the usual subscription model....

Doing data differently.(metadata in digital library management)
June 15, 2005... METADATA IS OFTEN CREATED IN a time-consuming process by catalogers, digital library technicians, and others. It is then underused in our systems and the systems of those with whom we share the information. But recent experiments by some...

Five steps to excellence: Gale/Library Journal Library of the Year: Fayetteville Public Library, AR.
June 15, 2005... On Halloween Day, in a black cape and mask, Louise Schaper was introduced to the staff of Arkansas's Fayetteville Public Library (FPL) as the new executive director. The incredible progress of FPL from that day on has won it the Gale/Library...

The disintegrating world of library automation: working together, librarians and vendors can solve the problems that hamper innovation.
June 15, 2005... Innovations from Google[TM] and Amazon[R] are clear wake-up calls that as a profession and an industry we need to do things differently. Automation vendors and librarians must work together to ensure that the profession is positioned to take...

The post-Martin era: Robert Martin, the first librarian to head the IMLS, reflects on the state of libraries, ALA's relationship with the administration, and more from his time in the top spot.(Institute of Museum and Library Services)(American Library Association)(Interview)
June 15, 2005... It was like a gift and from an unexpected source--the administration of George W. Bush. In June 2001, Robert S. Martin was nominated by President Bush to be director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The first librarian...

Good orientation counts.(training and orientation for new librarians, library employees)
June 15, 2005... MUCH IS MADE OF THE TENSION that occurs in the workplace between the NextGens and established library staff, but there may also be some more tangible reasons why new library professionals report feeling uncomfortable. Consider the way your...

In praise of Big Mac lit.(popular literature in library collection development)
June 15, 2005... STEPHEN KING ONCE REFERRED to himself as a Big Mac of literature, meaning high volume, standard format, highly popular, and lowbrow. Librarians at least used to have periodic fistfights over the propriety of carrying popular literature when...

Prepub alert.(Black Hole)(The Camel Club)(The Grace That Keeps This World)(Book Review)
June 15, 2005... Bailey, Tom. The Grace That Keeps This World. Shaye Areheart: Crown. Oct. 2005. 288p. ISBN 0-307-23801-6. $24. Forester Gary Hazen leads what he considers the good life in the Adirondacks, but his sons aren't so sure--and the bad feelings...

Addonizio, Kim. Little Beauties.(Book Review)
June 15, 2005... Addonizio, Kim. Little Beauties. S. & S. Aug. 2005. c.256p. ISBN 0-7432-7182-3. $23. F Diana McBride works in a baby store called Teddy's World. She doesn't like babies, her husband has just left her, and she's an obsessive-compulsive...

Baddiel, David. The Secret Purposes.(Book Review)
June 15, 2005... Baddiel, David. The Secret Purposes. Morrow. Jul. 2005. c.416p. ISBN 0-06076582-8. $24.95. F In this historical novel, Baddiel focuses on the internment of German Jews living in England during World War II, drawing on the experiences of...

Bezos, MacKenzie. The Testing of Luther Albright.(Book Review)
June 15, 2005... Bezos, MacKenzie. The Testing of Luther Albright. Fourth Estate: HarperCollins. Aug. 2005. c.256p. ISBN 0-06-075141-X. $23.95. F A civil engineer by trade and an obsessive by nature, Luther Albright has constructed a life in which all...

Bond, Larry. Dangerous Ground.(Book Review)
June 15, 2005... Bond, Larry. Dangerous Ground. Forge: Tor. 2005. c.368p. ISBN 0-7653-0788-X. $25.95. F Bond (The Enemy Within) sets his exciting new technothriller on the USS Memphis, an aging nuclear submarine on its final assignment before...

Brodeur, Adrienne. Man Camp.(Book Review)
June 15, 2005... Brodeur, Adrienne. Man Camp. Random. Jul. 2005. c.224p. ISBN 1-4000-6214-4. $21.95. F Lucy falls out of love with her boyfriend, Adam, after a Valentine's Day fiasco reveals his shortcomings, while Martha is not able to get beyond the...

Clark, Mary Jane. Dancing in the Dark.(Book Review)
June 15, 2005... Clark, Mary Jane. Dancing in the Dark. St. Martin's. Jul. 2005. c.352p. ISBN 0-312-32315-8. $21.95. F To her chagrin, KEY News correspondent Diane Mayfield is ordered to go to Ocean Grove, NJ, to investigate the abduction of a young woman...

Cutler, Jessica. The Washingtonienne.(Book Review)
June 15, 2005... Cutler, Jessica. The Washingtonienne. Hyperion. Jun. 2005. c.304p. ISBN 1-401-30200-9. $23.95. F An attractive young woman comes to Washington, DC, accepts an intern job on Capitol Hill, kisses many, and tells all on her weblog....

Delinsky, Barbara. Looking for Peyton Place.(Book Review)
June 15, 2005... Delinsky, Barbara. Looking for Peyton Place. Scribner. Jul. 2005. c.368p. ISBN 0-7432-4644-6. $24.95. F When a successful writer based in Washington, DC, returns home to New Hampshire's Middle River following her mother's death, many of...

Diamant, Anita. The Last Days of Dogtown.(Book Review)
June 15, 2005... * Diamant, Anita. The Last Days of Dogtown. Scribner. Sept. 2005. c.288p. ISBN 0-7432-2573-2. $25. F In her latest novel, Diamant (The Red Tent; Good Harbor) expertly weaves together seemingly disparate stories of a dying Massachusetts...

Dudman, Clare. 98 Reasons for Being.(Book Review)
June 15, 2005... Dudman, Clare. 98 Reasons for Being. Viking. Jul. 2005. c.352p. ISBN 0-670-03424-X. $25.95. F Set in 1852 Frankfurt and loosely based on notes from the files of physician Heinrich Hoffman, this novel deals with the fictitious case of a...

Foley, Mick. Scooter.(Book Review)
June 15, 2005... Foley, Mick. Scooter. Knopf. Aug. 2005. c.320p. ISBN 1-4000-4414-6. $23.05. F In his second novel (after Tietam Brown), renowned WWF wrestler Foley presents a coming-of-age story about Scooter Reilly, named for Yankee MVP ball player...

Halter, Marek. Zipporah, Wife of Moses.(Book Review)
June 15, 2005... * Halter, Marek. Zipporah, Wife of Moses. Crown. (Canaan Trilogy, Bk. 2). Jul. 2005. c.288p. ISBN 1-4000-5279-3. $23. F Sarah, the first book in Halter's "Canaan Trilogy," was enthralling, but this follow-up is even better. Mentioned by...

Harrison, Kathryn. Envy.(Book Review)
June 15, 2005... Harrison, Kathryn. Envy. Random. Jul. 2005. c.320p. ISBN 1-4000-6346-9. $24.95. F Everyone in Harrison's latest novel is having sex--marital sex, adulterous geriatric sex, sex that crosses that critical therapist/patient line. And then,...

Hicks, Robert. The Widow of the South.(Book Review)
June 15, 2005... * Hicks, Robert. The Widow of the South. Warner. Aug. 2005. 409p. bibliog. ISBN 0446-50012-7. $24.95. F John McGavock, the husband of our eponymous heroine, isn't even dead when she begins wearing black, but the mantle of mourning seems...

Kerley, Jack. The Death Collectors.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 15, 2005... * Kerley, Jack. The Death Collectors. Dutton. Jul. 2005. c.336p. ISBN 0-52594877-5. $24.95. F Perhaps Kerley's 25 years in advertising explain his delight in the macabre, what he calls the shadowy side of human nature. In his debut...

King, Lily. The English Teacher.(Book Review)
June 15, 2005... * King, Lily. The English Teacher. Atlantic Monthly. Sept. 2005. c.256p. ISBN 087113-897-2. $24. F When Vida Avery, an English teacher at a Maine prep school, marries a local widower after a brief courtship, the narrow world she has...

Kostova, Elizabeth. The Historian.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 15, 2005... Kostova, Elizabeth. The Historian. Little, Brown. Jun. 2005. c.647p. ISBN 0-31601177-0. $25.95. F Did Bram Stoker base his character Count Dracula on the historical Vlad Dracul, the cruel 15th-century prince of Wallachia? Some believe...

McCarthy, Cormac. No Country for Old Men.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 15, 2005... McCarthy, Cormac. No Country for Old Men. Knopf. Jul. 2005. c.352p. ISBN 0375-40677-8. $26. F McCarthy has reached the pinnacle of literary success, with critical recognition, best-seller status, and cult-author cachet. It is a difficult...

Mathews, Harry. My Life in CIA: A Chronicle of 1973.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 15, 2005... Mathews, Harry. My Life in CIA: A Chronicle of 1973. Dalkey Archive. 2005. 203p. ISBN 1-56478-392-8. pap. $13.95. F The author--and main character--of this work is the only American member of the experimental French writers' group Oulipo,...

Mehran, Marsha. Pomegranate Soup.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 15, 2005... Mehran, Marsha. Pomegranate Soup. Random. Aug. 2005. c.240p. ISBN 1-40006-241-1. $24.95. F Recalling James Joyce's Dubliners, this first novel by Mehran (who was born in Iran but now lives in Ireland) centers on the inhabitants of a...

Merullo, Roland. A Little Love Story.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 15, 2005... Merullo, Roland. A Little Love Story. Shaye Areheart: Harmony. Aug. 2005. c.288p. ISBN 1-4000-4867-2. $23. F Right from the start, it's clear that Merullo's latest novel (after In Revere, in Those Days) is about loss and grief, with...

Mina, Denise. Field of Blood.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 15, 2005... * Mina, Denise. Field of Blood. Little, Brown. Jul. 2005. c.368p. ISBN 0-31673593-0. $24.95. F A bonny wean is brutally murdered in gritty Glasgow (a city where a bloke can earn himself a beating for flourishing an umbrella), and the...

Ravel, Edeet. A Wall of Light.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 15, 2005... Ravel, Edeet. A Wall of Light. HarperCollins. Aug. 2005. c.272p. ISBN 006-076146-6. $23.95. F In this third book in a trilogy that includes Ten Thousand Lovers and Look for Me, also set in Tel Aviv and featuring a woman separated from...

Reichs, Kathy. Cross Bones.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 15, 2005... Reichs, Kathy. Cross Bones. Scribner. Jun. 2005. c.368p. ISBN 0-7432-3348-4. $25. F Tempe Brenner gets mixed up in historical and international intrigue in Reich's latest book featuring the forensic anthropologist (see also Monday...

Rubio, Gwyn Hyman. The Woodsman's Daughter.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 15, 2005... Rubio, Gwyn Hyman. The Woodsman's Daughter. Viking. Aug. 2005. c.416p. ISBN 0-670-03321-9. $24.95. F Monroe Miller is in his element on his turpentine plantation, where his workmen treat him with respect. But at home, his wife and two...

Saenz, Benjamin Alire. In Perfect Light.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 15, 2005... Saenz, Benjamin Alire. In Perfect Light. Rayo: HarperCollins. Jul. 2005. c.336p. ISBN 0-06-077920-9. $24.95. F Saenz (creative writing, Univ. of Texas, El Paso; The House of Forgetting) here weaves together two narratives. The first...

Salvayre, Lydie. The Lecture.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 15, 2005... Salvayre, Lydie. The Lecture. Dalkey Archive. Jun. 2005. 131p. tr. from French by Linda Coverdale. ISBN 1-56478-351-0. pap. $12.50. F Salvayre's odd, short novel is made up entirely of the text of a lecture given by a nameless bore who...

Shapiro, Dana Adam. The Every Boy.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 15, 2005... Shapiro, Dana Adam. The Every Boy. Houghton. Jul. 2005. c.224p. ISBN 0-618-47800-0. $19.95. F Fifteen-year-old Henry Every has died at the beginning of this first novel, but he has left behind a 2600-page, color-coded ledger diary....

Slovo, Gillian. Ice Road.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 15, 2005... Slovo, Gillian. Ice Road. Norton. 2005. 560p. ISBN 0-393-32720-5. pap. $15.95. F Memoirist and novelist Slovo's (Red Dust) star is rising, and this novel will affirm her status as a keen observer of human nature and its agonizing...

Swarup, Vikas. Q & A.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 15, 2005... Swarup, Vikas. Q & A. Scribner. Aug. 2005. c.336p. ISBN 0-7432-6747-8. $24. F Swarup's debut novel is not for the faint of heart. Set in contemporary India, it opens with the arrest of a poor orphan boy named Ram Mohammed Thomas who wins...

Thomson, Rupert. Divided Kingdom.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 15, 2005... * Thomson, Rupert. Divided Kingdom. Knopf. Jun. 2005. c.368p. maps. ISBN 14000-4218-6. $25.95. F The most unsettling nightmares are those that feel as though they could really happen, and Thomson's novels (e.g., Book of Revelation) have...

Waller, Robert James. High Plains Tango.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 15, 2005... Waller, Robert James. High Plains Tango. Shaye Areheart: Harmony. Jun. 2005. c.304p. ISBN 0-307-20994-6. $24.95. F Waller here extends The Bridges of Madison County franchise by focusing on the son of photographer Robert Kincaid, the...

West, Michael Lee. Mad Girls in Love.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 15, 2005... West, Michael Lee. Mad Girls in Love. HarperCollins. Jul. 2005. c.544p. ISBN 006-018406-X. $24.95. F In this sequel to Crazy Ladies, it's a few weeks later in 1972, and we're back with Dorothy, Clancy Jane, Bitsy, Violet, and Jennifer. A...

Willis, Sarah. The Sound of Us.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 15, 2005... Willis, Sarah. The Sound of Us. Berkley: Penguin Putnam. Jun. 2005. c.336p. ISBN 0-425-20302-6. $23.95. F One hot morning in July, the phone rings a little after 2 a.m., waking Alice Marlowe from a sound sleep and changing her life...

Durcan, Liam. A Short Journey by Car.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 15, 2005... Durcan, Liam. A Short Journey by Car. Esplanade: Vehicule Pr. 2005. c.160p. ISBN 1-55065-189-7. pap. $12.95. F Canadian neurologist Liam Durcan operates successfully on both the brain and the heart in his debut short story collection,...

Hasak-Lowy, Todd. The Task of This Translator.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 15, 2005... Hasak-Lowy, Todd. The Task of This Translator. Harvest: Harcourt. Jun. 2005. c.272p. ISBN 0-15-603112-4. pap. $13. F Hasak-Lowy's debut collection places uneasy protagonists in a variety of difficult and often absurd situations and lets...