Library Journal articles from May 2008

Library Journal archives from May 2008

Tag team review: two librarians, one book.(ON THE WEB)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... "April may be a stripper, but she's also an excellent mom: AJ may have a wife-abuse problem, but he's a good provider: Bassam may be on the verge of flying a plane into the Twin Towers. But he has to Try not to like Americans. May they live on...

In the bookroom: LJ book blog.(ON THE WEB)(Television program review)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Isabelle Allende's The Infinite Plan. Saul Bellow's Herzog, Dave Eggers's What Is the What? Dante's The Inferno. The Las Vegas prison library has quite a sophisticated book collection, at least according to last...

Censorship alert at Hopkins: librarians rescue "abortion" on POPLINE family planning database.(editorial)(Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)(Editorial)
May 1, 2008... A STEALTH ATTACK ON U.S. FREEDOMS--INTELLECTUAL, academic, and personal--came to a halt in early April, at least for the time being, when quick action by librarians restored the term abortion to the search function of a health database. Word...

Tax-based bookstore?(feedback)(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2008... I wish Francine Fialkoff's "The Borders Concept" (Editorial, LJ 3/15/08, p. 8) was true. Except, possibly, for the last paragraph, it is a fantasy. Even then, those small communities that you put so much hope in are connected to places like...

Copyright education.(feedback)(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2008... Loved Francine Fialkoff's "To Kindle or Not" (Editorial, L.J 3/1/08, p. 8).... Some colleagues in public service haven't had much opportunity to learn about the peculiarities of digital collections regarding intellectual rights. This knowledge...

Undeservedly harsh.(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2008... John Berry paints an undeservingly harsh picture of librarianship ("The Vanishing Librarians," Blatant Berry, LJ 2/15/08, p. 10). I'm always disappointed when I read a polemic instead of a constructive examination of an issue. True, some...

"The library lives" in literature.(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... At LJ's In the Bookroom blog (www.libraryjournal.com), Heather McCormack has begun a series about library references in books, and maybe magazines, newspapers, movies, TV, and music. "Even as the news says we read less and less," says...

Stat watch.(publishing industry's journals)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... ARL Libraries and Publishing 44% have publishing operations OF THOSE: 88% report publishing e-journals 79% publish conference papers and proceedings 71% publish monographs Source: Research Library Publishing Services,...

Overheard in Minneapolis.(front desk)(Quotation)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... If PLA was held every year, no one would to go the [American Library Association] summer conventions. --Anon., library director, Long Island, NY, at the Public Library Association conference, March 29, 2008

NOPL's musical ambassador.(front desk)(New Orleans Public Library, Irvin Mayfield)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... There was some marvelous synergy bubbling during the Public Library Association conference at the Dakota Jazz Club & Restaurant in Minneapolis, where Irvin Mayfield, chair of the board of the New Orleans Public Library (NOPL), led the New...

Heard.(front desk)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... "The 42nd Street library [of New York Public Library] is a poster child for the public, for the we, for generosity and openness and sharing. Stephen A. Schwarzman [cofounder of private equity fund the Blackstone Group], on the other hand, is a...

PLA draws nearly 10k to Minneapolis: attendees energized to address the future of the library.(Public Library Association )(Conference notes)
May 1, 2008... An enthusiastic and engaged crowd of 9,635 people attended the 2008 Public Library Association National Conference March 25-29 in Minneapolis, and another 175 "attended" the first-ever virtual conference accompanying it. The total, which...

POPLINE "abortion: search restored.(lj news)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Johns Hopkins University administrators acted quickly April 4 after librarians complained that the search term "abortion" was blocked in POPLINE, a publicly funded database on reproductive health. According to Hopkins officials, the term had...

In NM, first PL sex offender ban.(New Mexico)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... In what is apparently a first, sex offenders have been banned from the 17 libraries in the Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Library System, NM, setting up a potential legal challenge. Albuquerque mayor Martin Chavez has taken a hard line on sex...

Section 108 report emerges: look into copyright addresses "three-copy" rule, preservation.(lj news)
May 1, 2008... The Section 108 Study Group (www.sectionl08.gov), chartered in 2005 to advise on how to update the Copyright Act's exception for libraries and archives in the digital age, has issued a report that, while ambiguous, was hailed by some as a step...

Victoria PL lockout ends: pay raises pending after compromise; pages get a boost.(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... A pay equity deal welcomed on March 31 by library workers ended months of labor unrest at the Greater Victoria Public Library, BC, where workers at the nine branches had been locked out since February 17 and had previously conducted various job...

EPA libraries set to reopen.(Environmental Protection Agency )(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said it will reestablish five closed libraries: on-site libraries in Region 5 in Chicago, Region 6 in Dallas, Region 7 in Kansas City, MO, and the newly consolidated EPA Headquarters Repository...

Seattle PL's Jacobs to join Gates Fdn.(lj news)(Deborah Jacobs of the Seattle Public Library joins Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Seattle City Librarian Deborah Jacobs will leave the Seattle Public Library on July 2 to lead the Global Libraries Initiative of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, based in Seattle. Jacobs came to Seattle in 1997 from Corvallis, OR, where she...

Atlanta-Fulton PL plan moves ahead.(lj news)(Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System's plan on building, renovating and closing library facilities)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... The Fulton County Board of Commissioners, GA, voted March 19 to approve the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System's plan to upgrade the county's library services by building, renovating, and closing several library facilities. It didn't,...

Columbus Metropolitan Library.(people)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Cynthia Anderson, Team Leader 1 (Customer Service Staff Supervisor) of the Hilltop Branch, Columbus Metropolitan Library, OH, has retired after 38 years of service.

First Regional Library.(people)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Barbara Evans has been appointed Assistant Director for Public Services at First Regional Library (FRL), Hernando, MS, a five-county library cooperative. She began working for FRL in 1996 as a Branch Manager.

Davis County Library System.(people)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Pete Giacoma has retired after 25 years with the Davis County Library System, Farmington, UT, the last 16 as Director. He is replaced by Chris Sanford, who has managed the system's Northern Branch for the past 17 years.

South Central Regional Library Council.(people)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Mary-Carol Lindbloom has become Executive Director at South Central Regional Library Council, Ithaca, NY, a multitype library consortium. She replaced the retiring Jean Currie. Lindbloom most recently was Library Development Consultant at the...

Gladys Maharam.(people)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Gladys Maharam has retired from the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh after 40 years of service. She served as Deputy Director for the past ten years. Maharam also was president of the eiNetwork consortium serving Allegheny County.

Bonnie Beth Mitchell.(people)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Bonnie Beth Mitchell has retired from Worthington Libraries, OH, where she worked since 1993. From 2002, she had been Associate Director of Support Services. Before Worthington, Mitchell was Deputy Executive Director of the Ohio Library...

Bettendorf Public Library.(people)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Steven Nielsen, Executive Senior VP of Product Development for Alpha Bay, a software company, is the new Director of the Bettendorf Public Library, IA. He replaces Faye Clow, who retired in January after 30 years with the library.

Baltimore County Library System.(people)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Jo Ann Pinder has been appointed Assistant Director of Baltimore County Library System, Towson, MD. She most recently was a library consultant. Before that, she was Executive Director of the Gwinnett County Public Library, Lawrenceville, GA,...

Charleston County Public Library.(people)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Thomas Raines has been named Executive Director of the Charleston County Public Library (CCPL), SC. He succeeds Jan Buvinger, who retired in January 2008. Raines most recently was CCPL's Deputy Director, a post he held for 25 years.

Tech enthusiasm peaks at PLA: gadgets wow and panelists ponder libraries' role in digital future.(PLA CONFERENCE REPORT)(Public Library Association)
May 1, 2008... Proving that nearly everyone admits to a touch of technolust when it comes to the latest and greatest, Leonard Souza gave his popular "Technozoo" presentation to a packed audience at the 2008 Public Library Association Conference in...

Gale databases add ReadSpeaker.(infotech)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Gale has signed an exclusive agreement with VoiceCorp to implement ReadSpeaker, a service for speech-enabled web, to provide text-to-speech capability for six online databases. "This text-to-speech feature appearing on each document page will...

ProQuest adds LexisNexis data.(infotech)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... ProQuest has struck a deal to add bibliographic records from LexisNexis's American State Papers and U.S. Congressional Serial Set to C19: The Nineteenth Century Index. "Direct linking from C19 to these resources will provide mutual customers...

CO Consortium chooses VERSO.(INSTALLATIONS)(Colorada)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Auto-Graphics has signed a contract with the Colorado Nexus library consortium for the installation of its AGent VERSO[TM] integrated library system. Nexus consists of 42 school libraries and eight public libraries. The Colorado Nexus libraries...

BYU installing Ex Libris Suite.(infotech)(Brigham Young University )(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Brigham Young University (BYU), UT, has contracted with Ex Libris for the installation of a trio of its products--Primo, SFX, and Verde. The vendor said that Primo will "serve as a unified interface for searching and retrieving all library...

New order, new thinking.(ONLINE DATABASES)
May 1, 2008... PUBLISHERS, LIKE LIBRARIANS, are figuring out how to incorporate social networking and other Web 2.0 technologies into their information products and services. The 50th annual meeting of NFAIS (National Federation of Advanced Information...

The parallel information universe: what's out there and what it means for libraries.(Cover story)(Product/service evaluation)
May 1, 2008... The Web 2.0 "buzz" starts with new technologies such as virtual worlds, cell phones and handheld devices that offer 24/7 web access, tagging, social networks, and blogs and brings together various web capabilities in unique combinations (known...

L.A. confidential: LJ's BEA breakdown of programs and events.(BEA PREVIEW 2008)(Library Journal, BookExpo America )(Calendar)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Once upon a time BookExpo America (BEA) (May 29-Jun. 1) was strictly a B2B affair between publishers and booksellers, with a few hundred librarians drifting through the aisles. No more! Librarian attendance has...

Best magazines of 2007.
May 1, 2008... Rumors of the death of the magazine are greatly exaggerated. Efforts by some innovative publishers suggest that rather than killing magazines, the Internet may just reinvigorate the medium. The best magazines of 2007 all exhibit responsiveness...

The long and winding road.(Collection Development: U.S. Citizenship)
May 1, 2008... In 1790, Congress passed the first act governing naturalization, which provided that any free, white, male or female adult alien who had resided within the limits and jurisdiction of the United States for a period of two years was eligible for...

Diversity and the MLS.(BACKTALK)(Master of Library Science)
May 1, 2008... I ATTENDED A DIVERSITY WORKshop last fall at Emporia State University, KS, where I mentored a Latino student who had won a full scholarship as part of the school's effort to bring more minorities into the library profession through a program...

Prepub alert.
May 1, 2008... FICTION Asher, Bridget. My Husband's Sweethearts. Delacorte. Aug. 2008. 288p. ISBN 978-0-385-34189-9. $22. What's worse? Finding out that your husband has been cheating or that he's dying? Shook-up Lucy calls in the "sweethearts" to...

Mystery.
May 1, 2008... SCENES OF THE CRIME For mystery fans who like to do a little traveling with their armchair crime solving, this summer's crop of crime fiction features some unusual settings. Mary Anna Evans and Elaine Viets place their books in Florida...

Evans, Mary Anna. Findings.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... * Evans, Mary Anna. Findings. Poisoned Pen. Jul. 2008. c.264p. ISBN 978-1-59058-483-5. $24.95. M Archaeologist Faye Longchamp's friend, mentor, and father figure, Douglass Everett, is murdered the night that he and Faye realize that she...

Prepub mystery.(MYSTERY)
May 1, 2008... Bayard, Louis. The Black Tower. Morrow. Sept. 2008. 400p. ISBN 978-0-06-117350-9. $24.95. Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI have been executed, and their son, the Dauphin, is dead. But can former criminal and current police officer...

Viets, Elaine. Clubbed To Death: A Dead-End Job Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Viets, Elaine. Clubbed To Death: A Dead-End Job Mystery. Obsidian Mysteries: NAL. May 2008. c.264p. ISBN 978-0-451-22394-4. $21.95. M Working as a customer service representative in an exclusive private club not far from Fort Lauderdale,...

Wall, Kathryn R. The Mercy Oak: A Bay Tanner Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... * Wall, Kathryn R. The Mercy Oak: A Bay Tanner Mystery. Minotaur: St. Martin's. May 2008. c.310p. ISBN 978-0-312-37534-8. $24.95. M The South Carolina resort of Hilton Head, for all of its tourist attractions and glitz of Southern wealth,...

Spiritual living.(Recommended readings)
May 1, 2008... May... the kingdom of the hawthorn in flower, the nightingale, dances around the Maypole, and a few good books. May 2008 finds Spiritual Living in a mood of optimism, perhaps even irrational exuberance. Among the Basics, we have James...

Q & A: Kathy J. Phillips.(SPIRITUAL LIVING)(Interview)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Kathy J. Phillips (English, Univ. of Hawai'i at Manoa) is the author of The Moon in the Water (for a review, see p. 50), an innovative book that brings together art appreciation, personal spirituality, East-West...

Allen, Sarah Addison. The Sugar Queen.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Allen, Sarah Addison. The Sugar Queen. Bantam. May 2008. c.276p. ISBN 978-0-553-80549-9. $22. F Allen's new magical realism romance follows her New York Times best-selling debut, Garden Spells, and is also set in western North Carolina....

Beatty, Paul. Slumberland.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... * Beatty, Paul. Slumberland. Bloomsbury, dist. by Macmillan. Jul. 2008. c.256p. ISBN 978-1-59691-240-3. $24.99. F In his third novel (after Tuff and The White Boy Shuffle), Beatty creates a story from music. DJ Darky, a Los Angeles musician...

Bobis, Merlinda. Banana Heart Summer.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... * Bobis, Merlinda. Banana Heart Summer. Delta: Dell. May 2008. c.272p. ISBN 978-0-385-34112-7. pap. $12. F "Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon"--this Dalai Lama quote appears on the title page of Bobis's (White Turtle)...

Bohjalian, Chris. Skeletons at the Feast.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Bohjalian, Chris. Skeletons at the Feast. Shaye Areheart: Harmony. May 2008. c.384p. ISBN 978-0-307-39495-8. $25. F Based on a real-life World War II diary, Bohjalian's (The Double Bind) 12th novel chronicles the...

Brown, Rita Mae. The Sand Castle.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Brown, Rita Mae. The Sand Castle. Grove. Jul. 2008. c.112p. ISBN 978-0-8021-1870-7. $18.95. F This short novel brings back the infamous Hunsenmeir sisters previously introduced to readers in Six of One (1978), Bingo (1988), and Loose Lips...

Cabot, Meg. Queen of Babble Gets Hitched.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Cabot, Meg. Queen of Babble Gets Hitched. Morrow. Jul. 2008. c.288p. ISBN 978-0-06-085202-3. $22.95. F This is Cabot's third book (after Queen of Babble and Queen of Babble in the Big City) to feature up-and-coming vintage wedding gown...

Deveraux, Jude. Secrets.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Deveraux, Jude. Secrets. Atria: S. & S. May 2008. c.310p. ISBN 978-0-7434-3718-9. $25.95. F Deveraux's (Someone To Love) latest romance has an old-fashioned feel to it. Cassie Madden was a lonely 12-year-old when she fell in love with...

Ferry, Peter. Travel Writing.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Ferry, Peter. Travel Writing. Harcourt. Aug. 2008. c.304p. ISBN 978-0-15-101436-1. $24. F Ferry is the narrator and the author of this novel--and if you just did a double take, that's to be expected, as this work plays with the reader's...

Fonseca, Isabel. Attachment.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] * Fonseca, Isabel. Attachment. Knopf. May 2008. c.288p. ISBN 978-0-307-26691-0. $23.95. F The nature of attachment--or, more accurately, detachment from self, spouse, career, and family--forms the skeleton of...

Fulton, Alice. The Nightingales of Troy: Stories of One Family's Century.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Fulton, Alice. The Nightingales of Troy: Stories of a Family's Century. Norton. Jul. 2008. c.256p. ISBN 978-0-393-04887-2. $23.95. F Set in Troy, NY, this debut novel by acclaimed poet Fulton uses ten linked stories to show how the Garrahan...

Galchen, Rivka. Atmospheric Disturbances.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... * Galchen, Rivka. Atmospheric Disturbances. Farrar. Jun. 2008. c.256p. ISBN 978-0-374-20011-4. $23. F To Dr. Leo Liebenstein, a New York psychiatrist, it's the puppy that gives it away. His much younger "real" wife, Rema, does not like...

Gingrich, Newt & William R. Forstchen. Days of Infamy.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Gingrich, Newt 8, William R. Forstchen. Days of Infamy. Thomas Dunne Bks: St. Martin's. May 2008. c.384p, photogs. ISBN 978-0-312-36351-2. $26.95. F The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor has spawned multitudes of what-if scenarios. In the...

Jones, Gail. Sorry.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... * Jones, Gall. Sorry. Europa Editions, dist. by Consortium. Jun. 2008. c.240p. ISBN 978-1-933372-55-6. pap. $15.95. F This is a courageously uncompromising and beautifully crafted novel about a failed marriage and a young child trying to...

Kirino, Natsuo. Real World.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Kirino, Natsuo. Real World. Knopf. Jul. 2008. c.224p, tr. from Japanese by Philip Gabriel. ISBN 978-0-307-26757-3. $22.95. F Toshi, a high school girl at home during summer vacation, is surprised late one morning by the sound of crashing...

Kitterman, Barry. The Baker's Boy.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Kitterman, Barry. The Baker's Boy. Southern Methodist Univ. May 2008. c.336p. ISBN 978-0-87074-520-1. $22.50. F Now middle-aged, troubled Tanner Johnson has left his pregnant wife and his job at a sports shop to work as a baker in a small...

Land, Jon. The Seven Sins: The Tyrant Ascending.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Land, Jon. The Seven Sins: The Tyrant Ascending. Forge: Tor. Jun. 2008. c.368p. ISBN 978-0-7653-1534-2. $24.95. F After his parents' death, Sicilian-born Michele Nunziato was raised by the boss of all bosses, Don...

McCartney, Alistair. The End of the World Book.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... McCartney, Alistair. The End of the World Book. Terrace: Univ. of Wisconsin. 2008. c.314p. ISBN 978-0-299-22630-5. $26.95. F In this experimental melange of memoir, fiction, poetry, and mock essay, McCartney parodies encyclopedias such as...

McGrath, Patrick. Trauma.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... McGrath, Patrick. Trauma. Knopf. 2008. c.224p. ISBN 978-1-4000-4166-4. $24.95. F McGrath's (Port Mongo) latest tale concerns Charlie, a psychiatrist, and his dysfunctional life and family. A distant father and alcoholic mother have left...

Mojtabai, A.G. All That Road Going.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Mojtabai, A.G. All That Road Going. Triquarterly. May 2008. c.182p. ISBN 978-0-8101-5200-7. $21.95. F Mojtabai (Ordinary Time) returns to the literary scene with a winner. Set on a crosscountry bus, the story shifts perspective from...

Monroe, Mary Alice. Time Is a River.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Monroe, Mary Alice. Time Is a River. Pocket: S. & S. Jul. 2008. c.369p. ISBN 978-1-4165-4436-4. $25. F After losing her job and her self-confidence, Mia Landan, a thirtysomething breast cancer survivor from Charleston, SC, finds her way to...

After the fall.('One More Year' and 'Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love')(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Krasikov, Sana. One More Year. Spiegel & Grau. Aug. 2008. c.208p. ISBN 978-0-385-52439-1. $21.95. F The fiction of postSoviet immigrants has been gaining in popularity over the past few years but has mainly focused on the experience of...

Neugeboren, Jay. 1940.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... * Neugeboren, Jay. 1940. Two Dollar Radio, dist. by Consortium. 2009. c.274p. ISBN 978-0-9763895-6-9. pap. $15. F Dr. Eduard Bloch, the Austrian Jewish physician who cared for Adolph Hitler's family, is at the center of Neugeboren's...

Niederhoffer, Gail. The Romantics.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Niederhoffer, Gall. The Romantics. St. Martin's. Jul. 2008. c.288p. ISBN 978-0-312-37337-5. $23.95. F Niederhoffer's debut novel, A Taxonomy of Barnacles, centered on an upper-class Manhattan family. The wealthy continue to fascinate the...

Oates, Joyce Carol. My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... * Oates, Joyce Carol. My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike. Ecco: HarperCollins. Jul. 2008. c.576p. ISBN 978-0-06-154748-5. $25.95. F In 1999, Oates (The Gravedigger's Daughter) wrote an article discussing and reviewing...

Parker, Robert B. Resolution.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Parker, Robert B. Resolution. Putnam. Jun. 2008. c.304p. ISBN 978-0-399-15504-8. $25.95. F Parker's writing is a pure pleasure to read--terse and strong, it carries a good story and lays its messages between the lines. His latest Western...

Swierczynski, Duane. Severance Package.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Swierczynski, Duane. Severance Package. Minotaur: St. Martin's. May 2008. c.272p. ISBN 978-0-312-34380-4. pap. $13.95. F The best word to describe Swierczynski's (The Blonde) latest thriller is frenetic, and even that is likely an...

Tremain, Rose. The Road Home.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Tremain, Rose. The Road Home. Little, Brown. Aug. 2008. c.432p. ISBN 978-0-316-00261-5. $24.99. F Widower Lev, the quintessential "everyman," arrives in London from an economically deprived area of Russia, armed with only a cursory...

Verne, Jules. The Golden Volcano.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Verne, Jules. The Golden Volcano. Bison: Univ. of Nebraska Pr. (Frontiers of Imagination). May 2008. 362p. tr. from French & ed. by Edward Baxter. ISBN 978-0-8032-9633-6. $29.95; pap. ISBN 978-0-8032-9635-0. $15.95. F When this book was...

Weisberger, Lauren. Chasing Harry Winston.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Weisberger, Lauren. Chasing Harry Winston. S. & S. Jun. 2008. c.294p. ISBN 978-1-4165-9019-4. $25.95. F Weisberger's latest novel chronicles the lives of three glamorous New Yorkers la Sex and the City. Sexy Adriana lives off her rich Brazilian...

Williams, Polly. A Bad Bride's Tale.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Williams, Polly. A Bad Bride's Tale. Hyperion. Jun. 2008. c.352p. ISBN 978-1-4013-0232-0. $23.95. F Stevie Jonson has everything a girl's supposed to hope for--she's got a career that she loves as a graphic designer, and she's about to get...

Le, Nam. The Boat.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Le, Nam. The Boat. Knopf. May 2008. c.272p. ISBN 978-0-307-26808-2. $22.95. F Born in Vietnam, Le was raised in Australia, where he trained as a lawyer, and came to the United States to attend the Iowa Writers' Workshop. So it might panic...

Chinnery, John. Treasures of China: The Glories of the Kingdom of the Dragon.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Chinnery, John. Treasures of China: The Glories of the Kingdom of the Dragon. Duncan Baird, dist. by Sterling. Jun. 2008. 224p. illus, bibliog, index. ISBN 978-1-84483-621-5. $35. FINE ARTS This book's title doesn't do justice to its...

De Lima Greene, Alison & others (text) & Rocky Kneten (photogs.). Isamu Noguchi: A Sculpture for Sculpture.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... De Lima Greene, Alison & others (text) & Rocky Kneten (photogs.). Isamu Noguchi: A Sculpture for Sculpture. Yale Univ. 2008. 168p. photogs, bibliog. ISBN 978-0-30013891-7. $45. FINE ARTS In 1986, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, celebrated...

Ephemeral Bodies: Wax Sculpture and the Human Figure.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Ephemeral Bodies: Wax Sculpture and the Human Figure. Getty Research, dist. by Oxford. 2008. 352p. ed. by Roberta Panzanelli. photogs, index. ISBN 978-0-89236-877-8. $49.95. FINE ARTS Evolving from "Lasting Impressions: The Art of Wax...

Leonard, Joanne. Being in Pictures: An Intimate Photo Memoir.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Leonard, Joanne. Being in Pictures: An Intimate Photo Memoir. Univ. of Michigan. May 2008. 252p. photogs. ISBN 978-0-472-11402-3. $35. FINE ARTS Leonard's (art history & women's studies, Univ. of Michigan) autobiographical photographs and...

Perkis, Philip (photogs.). The Sadness of Men.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Perkis, Philip (photogs.). The Sadness of Men. Ouantuck Lane Pr., dist. by Norton. 2008. 280p. photogs. ISBN 978-1-59372-034-8. $45. PHOTOG This is a 50-year retrospective of the work of American photographer Perkis, who is professor...

Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions. Yale Univ. in assoc, with the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2008. 432p. ed. by Pierre Rosenberg & Keith Christiansen. illus. bibliog, index. ISBN 978-0-300-13668-5. $65. FINE ARTS The catalog of a recent...