Library Journal articles from October 2006

Library Journal archives from October 2006

Dear Mayor Nagin: want to end the negative publicity? Champion NOPL now!(editorial)(New Orleans Public Library)(Editorial)
October 1, 2006... YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD ENOUGH CRITICISM about not reappointing Tania Tetlow to the board of the New Orleans Public Library (NOPL) (see News, p. 14). I'm not writing to repeat that, though I am a Tetlow fan. I worked with her and the staff of...

Management is the problem.(feedback)(Letter to the editor)
October 1, 2006... I just received "The Truth About Libraryland" by Linda Koss (BackTalk, LJ 8/05, p. 52) by email from a friend. As a patron, not a librarian, I suspect Koss omitted the most difficult character with whom librarians deal--their own...

Relevant libraries.(feedback)(Letter to the editor)
October 1, 2006... Again, LJ featured a letter from Eric Welch who says, "[D]igitization will soon eliminate the need for libraries" ("Creating irrelevance," Feedback, LJ 8/06, p. 12). LJ should try to raise the awareness that digitization, which includes the...

The "good" vendors.(feedback)(Letter to the editor)
October 1, 2006... I just read "Big Tech for Every Library" by Sarah Houghton (LJ netConnect, Summer 2006, p. 12-15). I'm a big fan of both LJXpress and netConnect and read them religiously. I have worked in public library service for over 15 years, currently as...

Salt Lake City zines.(feedback)(Letter to the editor)
October 1, 2006... While I was happy to read about all of the wonderful qualities of the Salt Lake City Public Library (SLCPL) (John Berry, "Where Democracy Happens," LJ 6/15/06, p. 32-35), I was genuinely astonished and truly distressed that what to me is the...

Correction.(Correction notice)
October 1, 2006... CORRECTION: In "Creating irrelevance" (Feedback, LJ 8/06, p. 12), we inadvertently misspelled the last name of Eric C. Welch.

Boozocracy aims to help New Orleans PL.(front desk)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... An artist and a professor at Xavier University in New Orleans have offered to give up alcohol for a year to raise money for a library for their recovering Mid-City neighborhood. Professor Michael Homan and artist Bart Everson have set up...

Dewey Decibel concert series: Williamsburg regional library.(front desk)
October 1, 2006... The series at the Virginia library got its name from a musician's quip.

Responding to "the haters".(front desk)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... "You spill love and calm and reassurance.... For those of us who have not mastered this advanced technique, a Revolution in Favor of Kindness and Libraries seems like a nice idea." --Syndicated columnist Molly Ivins, August 28, 2006

Like cabbies, library staff honest with cash.(front desk)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Librarians find all kinds of items left in books, but the canceled checks and old letters are usually not accompanied by more than a few bucks. At the North Brunswick Public Library, NJ, however, library assistant Shirley Paige flipped through...

Stat watch.(front desk)(new signs for Seattle Public Library)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... $49,000 Amount Seattle Public Library will pay a wayfinding professional to create new signs for the dazzling but hard-to-navigate Rem Koolhaas-designed main library, which opened in 2004

Google scans, contract released; search firm also will link to archives, allow downloads.(lj news)
October 1, 2006... University of Michigan (UM) officials have offered a first look at a program called MBooks, which uses scans made by Google in its partnership with UM to give library patrons the capacity to access text directly from the university's catalog....

NOPL board chair ousted.(lj news)(Tania Tetlow of the New Orleans Public Library)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... As the New Orleans Public Library (NOPL) has struggled to rebuild in the post-Katrina landscape, one constant has been board chair Tania Tetlow, a law professor at Tulane University who has led the effort to restore buildings like the Alvar...

LSSI gains CA, TN contracts.(lj news)
October 1, 2006... Increased hours, but at the cost of staff benefits package The Redding, CA, city council, which has agreed to take over the Shasta County Library System, has awarded a 3 1/2-year management contract to Library Systems and Services LLC...

National archives progress report.(lj news)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Declassification proceeds, transparency increases Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein has outlined progress in a program to streamline and make transparent the declassification process for government information--and suggested...

New PL plans for Wichita, Albany.(lj news)
October 1, 2006... One community wants larger branches, another accessible units The board of the Wichita Public Library (WPL), KS, has unveiled a $56 million, 15-year master plan for libraries, involving a new 135,000 square foot central library by 2011 and...

Calendar.(lj news)(Brief article)(Calendar)
October 1, 2006... 1-4--New York Library Assn., Saratoga Springs www.nyla.org 9-10--Virginia Library Assn., Williamsburg www.vla.org 9-12--Colorado Library Assn., Denver www.cal-webs.org 10-11--Hawaii Library Assn., Oahu www.hlaweb.org ...

San Diego new main strained; foundation still far from $85 million needed to build.(LJ NEWS)(new main library)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... The new San Diego main library may be at risk, according to a September 2 San Diego Union-Tribune story that portrays a challenging scenario for the San Diego Public Library (SDPL). The paper reported increasing concern because, to date, the...

CA PL nixes "sexuality" issue; magazine on library's free shelves deemed too provocative.(LJ NEWS)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... The director of the San Luis Obispo City-County Library, CA, ordered the removal and recycling of hundreds of copies of the July/August HopeDance magazine (motto: "Radical Solutions Inspiring Hope"), which is regularly stacked on the library's...

First Carnegie loses library function.(LJ NEWS)(Allegheny Regional branch)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... The first public library funded by Andrew Carnegie, the Allegheny Regional branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (CLP), will no longer be used as a library. The 1890 building has been closed since early April, after a bolt of lightning...

Indianapolis Library union moves ahead.(LJ NEWS)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... After months of resistance, the board of the Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library has agreed to recognize a library union if 75 percent of eligible library workers support it. The seven-member board voted unanimously; board president Louis...

Patterson increases PageTurner Awards.(LJ NEWS)(James Patterson; First Book donates books)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... James Patterson is giving back to the reading community that has made him a best-selling author--and generously. He is upping the ante for the Second Annual PageTurner Awards (www. pattersonpageturner.org) to a whopping $500,000 to libraries,...

County of Los Angeles Public Library.(people)(Migell Acosta)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Migell Acosta will head ILS operations at the County of Los Angeles Public Library. He previously was the Head of Information Management for the City of Santa Monica Public Library, CA.

Sacramento Public Library.(people)(Nina Biddle)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Nina Biddle has been hired as Central Library Manager, Sacramento Public Library, CA. She most recently was Project Manager of the community libraries capital projects at the Minneapolis Public Library.

Johnson County Library.(people)(Mona Carmack)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Mona Carmack, County Librarian of the Johnson County Library, Overland Park, KS, has announced her retirement after 18 years of service, effective January 26, 2007. The library was one of three recipients of the 2005 National Awards for Museum...

NISO.(people)(Todd Carpenter appointment to National Information Standards Organization)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Todd Carpenter has taken over as Managing Director for NISO, the National Information Standards Organization, as of September 1. Previously, Carpenter was the marketing director at the Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.

DeKalb Public Library.(people)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Dee Coover has been promoted from Interim Director to Director, DeKalb Public Library, IL. She served as Interim Director for the past six months and before that was the Adult Services Supervisor for five years.

Dominican University.(people)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Tracie Hall, Director of the American Library Association Office for Diversity, has been appointed Assistant Dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Dominican University, River Forest, IL.

Texas Christian University.(people; appointment)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Judith Koelker has been appointed Dean of Mary Couts Burnett Library, Texas Christian University (TCU), Fort Worth. She has served as Interim Dean for the past year. She joined TCU in 1988 as Associate Director.

Delray Beach Public Library.(people)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Alan Kornblau is the new Director of the Delray Beach Public Library, FL. He previously was Director of the Oakland Park Library, FL.

Albuquerque-Bernalillo County Library System.(people)(Eileen Longsworth has retired )(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Eileen Longsworth has retired from her position as Director of the Albuquerque-Bernalillo County Library System, NM, ending a 40-year library career. She joined the system as Director in 2000. Prior to that, she served as Director of the Salt...

New York State Library's Division of Library Development.(people)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Sara McCain will retire September 21 after 22 years with the New York State Library's Division of Library Development. McCain has been New York State's Coordinator of the program that transitioned into the Library Services & Technology Act in...

Easttown Library & Information Center.(people; appointment)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Peggy Mahan has retired as Director of the Easttown Library & Information Center, Berwyn, PA, part of the Chester County Library System (CCLS), headquartered in Extort. Alan Silverman, previously head of technical services for CCLS, is the new...

St. Louis County Library.(people)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Charles Pace has been named Director of the St. Louis County Library, effective October 16. He has been Director of the Fargo Public Library, ND, since 2001. Pace replaces Dan Wilson, who retired earlier this year.

Libraries of Middlesex Automation Consortium.(people)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Eileen Palmer has become Executive Director of the Libraries of Middlesex Automation Consortium, Avenel, NJ. Most recently, she served as Director of the Library Network, Southgate, MI.

Solinet.(people; Southeastern Library Network Inc. appointment)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Mary Ellin Santiago will join SOLINET as Manager of the Gulf Coast Libraries Project. She will lead a team whose responsibilities include setting up temporary library buildings and bookmobiles for Gulf Coast communities. She was Vice President...

New York Public Library.(people)(Kevin Winkler promoted)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Kevin Winkler, formerly Chief of the Circulating Collections at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, has been promoted to Assistant Director of the library. He has been on staff for more than 13 years, beginning as Assistant...

LexisNexis Academic revamping; summer 2007 release addresses librarian/student complaints.(infotech)
October 1, 2006... LexisNexis (LN) long has been top gun for legal and business searchers. The academic version released in 1997, however, quickly became a target of numerous complaints from librarians and students who found it too hard to use. That is set to...

EBSCO/ABC-CLIO linking up.(infotech)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... EBSCO Publishing and ABC-CLIO have struck a direct linking agreement that lets customers of ABC-CLIO's Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life databases link directly "from relevant journal article citations in those resources to the...

ScienceDirect goes to Europe.(infotech)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Elsevier will begin marketing its ScienceDirect College Edition in Europe later this year, the company announced September 4. Designed for students and faculty at smaller teaching colleges who need peer-reviewed scientific research literature,...

ProQuest debuts archive program.(infotech; ProQuest Information and Learning Co.)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... ProQuest Information and Learning is joining with information protection and storage services' vendor Iron Mountain, Inc., to safeguard its Perpetual Access Eicensed (PAL) content in the latter's "specialized vaults to serve PAL customers who...

Korean NDSL seeks SFX.(INSTALLATIONS)(National Digital Science Library)(Ex Libris )(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Ex Libris has signed a "memorandum of understanding" with Korea's National Digital Science Library (NDSL) for the installation of its SFX link resolver. Ex Libris said that NDSL is a scholarly information service providing a comprehensive...

Literary luminescence.(E-VIEWS AND REVIEWS)(EBSCO Publishing, www.epnet.com)
October 1, 2006... TAKE A LOOK Are you using podcasts to promote your electronic resources? A number of libraries are; for example, the Lansing Library Teen News Blog at lansinglibraryteen.blogspot.com features podcasts, RSS feeds, instant messaging, and more,...

Keeping up with expectations.(ONLINE DATABASES)(OCLC WorldCat.org)(Product/service evaluation)
October 1, 2006... USER EXPECTATIONS ARE CHANGING, mainly owing to the web, search engines, and advances in communications technology. Libraries and information industry providers are taking steps, both large and small, to keep pace. A recent cartoon in The...

Ref logs now: internal web logs can rejuvenate reference.(INFOTECH FEATURE)
October 1, 2006... The reference desk at Michigan State University (MSU) had settled into a routine, but when recent library school grad Emily Barton collaborated with Arlene Wesmantel, the head of reference, on using a web log as the internal memory for...

Saint Paul's strategic solution: an energetic three-year vision emerges from serious self-examination.(Saint Paul Public Library)(Cover story)
October 1, 2006... Strategic planning is a lengthy and significant undertaking, requiring substantial resources and staff time. It is also a process that should touch the heart and soul of an organization and its members. At the Saint Paul Public Library (SPPL),...

They've got style.(FIRST NOVELISTS FALL 2006)(Sacco and Vanzetti Must Die!)(The American)(The Fugitive Wife)(Riley's Fire)(Winkie)(Mademoiselle Benoir)(47 Rules of Highly Effective Bank Robbers)(The Madonnas of Leningrad)(Love Walked In)(The Stolen Child)(Whiteman)(The Jury Master)(Skinner's Drift)(White Ghost Girls)(The Dream Life of Sukhanov)(The Short Day Dying)(Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow)(Our Holocaust)(Holmes on the Range)(Buffalo Boy and Geronimo)(The Last Templar)(The Thrall's Tale)(The Blight Way: A Sheriff Be Tully Mystery)(Song of the Crow)(The Rug Merchant)(Calling Me Out)(The Natural History of Uncas Metcalfe)(The Birthdays)(A Field of Darkness)(Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife)(Torch)(Rose of No Man's Land)(Beautiful Lies)(Elements of Style)(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Each season, LJ offers retrospective of the previous season's top debut novels to alert librarians to writers who bear watching. A few of those featured here, like Marie Arana and Patrick McManus, are familiar. But the star in this firmament is...

Listen for success!(Collection Development / Audiobooks)(business audiobooks)
October 1, 2006... It is hard to think of a group of nonfiction readers who can benefit more from audiobooks than those with an interest and need for adding to their knowledge of the business world. With multiple formats and access options available, including...

Borrowing privileges.(CASE STUDY)(Case study)
October 1, 2006... "WELCOME TO CLARK-ASTON Public," a smiling Eleanor Dwyer, head of reference, said to new hire Joan Kirvan. "Thanks," Kirvan said. "It's nice to meet you." With a freshly minted MLS, Kirvan was starting in the library's reference...

Pilfering or fraud?(ANALYSIS I)
October 1, 2006... In a recent New Yorker cartoon, the wife tells the husband as he is leaving for work, "It's almost back-to-school time. Steal some office supplies." So the tradition continues with each generation. Has this tradition, sanctioned by its...

Seek proper compensation.(ANALYSIS II)
October 1, 2006... Kirvan, the new library school graduate starting her first professional job, should be commended for bringing out in the open her observation of Dwyer's making personal use of library property. If this behavior is part of the corporate culture,...

Prepub alert.(Travels in the Scriptorium)(The Alexandria Link)(Finn)(Family Tree)(Knots)(The Liar's Diary)(Mistress of the Art Of Death)(Hide)(The Strangler)(In the Country of Men)(High Profile)(Innocent in Death)(Sixty Days and Counting)(Ten Days in the Hills)(Red Cat)(The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome)(Grace Under Fire: Letters of Faith in Times of War)(Ronald Reagan: Fate, Freedom, and the Making of History)(Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic)(America at Night)(The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche)(Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future)(Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World)(No Vulgar Hotel: The Desire and Pursuit of Venice)(Ace of Spades: A Memoir)(Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East; 1776 to the Present)(Socrates in Love: Philosophy for a Passionate Heart)(The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War)(A View from the End of the Bench: Eleven Teams, Six Years, Five Countries, and My So-called Career as a Professional Basketball Player)(Sessions. Unhooked: How Young Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love, and Lose at Both)(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... FICTION Auster, Paul. Travels in the Scriptorium. Holt. Feb. 2007. 160p. ISBN 0-8050-8145-3 [ISBN 978-0-8050-8145-9]. $22. An old man awakens in a room he doesn't recognize and begins reading a mysterious manuscript seemingly left...

Mystery.(Kidnapped: An Irene Kelly Novel)(Electric Blue: A Jane Kelly Mystery)(Gaits of Heaven: A Dog Lover's Mystery)(Pictures)(Cruel Sister: A Haunted Ballad)(Murder on the Ballarat Train)(When Gods Die: A Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery)(The Body in the Ivy: A Faith Fairchild Mystery)(Death in the Orchid Garden: A Gardening Mystery)(Master of Souls: A Novel of Ancient Ireland)(Drawing Dead: A Jake Morgan Mystery)(The Fourth Perspective: A C.J. Floyd Mystery)(Shadow Laws)(Season of the Burning Souls)(Under Dragon House)(The Case of Emily V.)(The Hounds and the Fury)(Stripped)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... MURDER, WESTERN STYLE Mystery buffs tired of the usual big-city crime scene will enjoy traveling west of the Rockies with Robert Greer (The Fourth Perspective) and Jim Michael Hansen (Shadow Laws), who set their novels in their home state of...

Prepub mystery.(Flesh and Bone)(Water Like a Stone)(Hurricane Punch)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Bass, Jefferson. Flesh and Bone. Morrow. Feb. 2007. 352p. ISBN 0-06-075983-6. $24.95. With his lover's body on the slab, Dr. Bill Brockton of the Body Farm (the only lab devoted to the study of human decomposition) finds himself a suspect...

Allende, Isabel. Ines of My Soul.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Allende, Isabel. Ines of My Soul. HarperCollins. Nov. 2006. c.320p, tr. from Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. ISBN 0-06-116153-5 [ISBN 978-0-08-116153-7 ]. $25.95. F Allende (The House of the Spirits) once again features a strong woman in...

Baratz-Logsted, Lauren. Vertigo.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Baratz-Logsted, Lauren. Vertigo. Delta: Dell. 2006. c.368p. ISBN 0-385-34031-1. pap. $12. F London. December 31, 1898. Emma Smith's New Year's resolution: to become a better person. In Baratz-Logsted's (How Nancy Drew Saved My Life) third...

Braffet, Kelly. Last Seen Leaving.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... * Braffet, Kelly. Last Seen Leaving. Houghton. Nov. 2006. c.272p. ISBN 0-61844144-1 [ISBN 978-0-618-44144-0]. $23. F Anne Cassidy and her twentysomething daughter, Miranda, are struggling to cope with the sudden death of husband and father...

Brooks, Max. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Brooks, Max. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War. Crown. 2006. c.320p. ISBN 0-307-34660-9 [ISBN 978-0-30734660-5]. $24.95. F As the author of the deadpan Zombie Survival Guide, Brooks (son of filmmaker Mel) is clearly qualified...

Carter, Steven. Famous Writers School.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Carter, Steven. Famous Writers School. Counterpoint: Perseus. Oct. 2006. c.245p. ISBN 1-58243-356-9 [ISBN 978-1-58243356-1]. $23. F Wendell Newton would take exception to the maxim, "Those who can't do, teach." He believes that the $295 he...

Cook, Thomas H. The Cloud of Unknowing.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Cook, Thomas H. The Cloud of Unknowing. Harcourt. Jan. 2007. c.320p. ISBN 0-15101260-1 [ISBN 978-0-15-101260-2]. $24. F The legacy of a troubled family lies at the heart of this haunting new novel by mystery writer Cook (Red Leaves). David...

Darwin, Emma. The Mathematics of Love.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Darwin, Emma. The Mathematics of Love. Morrow. Jan. 2007. c.416p. ISBN 0-06114026-0 [ISBN 978-0-06-114026-6]. $24.95. F In this strong debut, Charles Darwin's great-great-granddaughter describes two evolving relationships. The first,...

DeMille, Nelson. Wild Fire.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... * DeMille, Nelson. Wild Fire. Warner. Nov. 2006. c.519p. ISBN 0-446-57967-X [ISBN 978-0-446-57967-4]. $26.99. F This is the exciting sequel to DeMille's hugely successful Night Fall and is his fourth novel to feature the irrepressible and...

Donati, Sara. Queen of Swords.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Donati, Sara. Queen of Swords. Bantam. Oct. 2006. c.576p. ISBN 0-553-80149-X. $27. F The latest volume in Donati's popular Bonner family series opens where Fire Along the Sky (2004) left off, with Luke Bonner's wife, Jennet, a captive of a...

Forna, Aminatta. Ancestor Stones.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... * Forna, Aminatta. Ancestor Stones. Atlantic Monthly. 2006. c.336p. ISBN 087113-944-8 [ISBN 978-0-87113-944-3]. $24. F Able, a West African woman who has lived in London for years, learns that she has inherited the family coffee plantation...

Grady, James. Mad Dogs.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... * Grady, James. Mad Dogs. Forge: Tor. 2006. c.336p. ISBN 0-765-31649-8 [ISBN 978-0-765-31649-3]. $24.95. F Five agents, all hidden in a lunatic asylum in Maine because they are damaged goods, make a break for the Boston--Washington, DC...

Hoffman, Alice. Skylight Confessions.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Hoffman, Alice. Skylight Confessions. Little, Brown. Jan. 2007. c.256p. ISBN 0-316-05878-5 [ISBN 978-0-316-05878-0]. $24.99. F A Connecticut ferryboat captain dies, leaving his motherless 17-year-old daughter, Arlyn, an orphan. On the day...

Kittredge, William. The Willow Field.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Kittredge, William. The Willow Field. Knopf. Oct. 2006. c.320p. ISBN 1-4000-4097-3 [ISBN 978-1-4000-4097-3]. $24.95. F Kittredge (English & creative writing, Univ. of Montana; Hole in the Sky: A Memoir) uses strong, earthy language to tell...

Pedersen, Laura. The Big Shuffle.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Pedersen, Laura. The Big Shuffle. Ballantine. Oct. 2006. c.400p. ISBN 0-345-47956-4 [ISBN 978-0-345-47956-3]. pap. $13.95. F Hallie Palmer is back, and her world remains as turbulent as ever. This third entry in Pedersen's Palmer series,...

Pollard, Eve. Jack's Widow.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Pollard, Eve. Jack's Widow. Morrow. Nov. 2006. c.288p. ISBN 0-06-081703-8 [ISBN 978-0-06-081703-9]. $24.95. F Pollard, who authored a 1971 biography of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Jackie, has now recreated her subject as a romantic heroine...

Powers, Martha. Death Angel.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Powers, Martha. Death Angel. Oceanview, dist. by Midpoint Trade. Oct. 2006. c.336p. ISBN 1-933515-03-1. $24.95. F Falling somewhere between Mary Higgins Clark and Tami Hoag in terms of intensity, Powers (Gazebo Rendezvous) presents a...

Pyper, Andrew. The Wildfire Season.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Pyper, Andrew. The Wildfire Season. Thomas Dunne Bks: St. Martin's. Dec. 2006. c.320p. ISBN 0-312-35454-1. $23.95. F Set in the Yukon Territory, Pyper's novel is populated by characters that either by choice or necessity have little contact...

Robertson, Margaret Lowrie. Season of Betrayal.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... * Robertson, Margaret Lowrie. Season of Betrayal. Tatra. Oct. 2006. c.280p. ISBN 0-9776142-0-4. $24. F Lara McCauley is trapped in a failed marriage, but can't admit it yet. Her husband, Mac, an international news correspondent, is great...

Rosenbaum, Lisa Pearl. A Day of Small Beginnings.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Resenbaum, Lisa Pearl. A Day of Small Beginnings. Little, Brown. Nov. 2006. c.384p. ISBN 0-316-01451-6 [ISBN 978-0-316-01451-9]. $24.99. F This brilliant debut novel opens in 1906 in the small Polish town of Zokof, where Itzik Leiber, a...

Sachs, Dana. If You Lived Here.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Sachs, Dana. If You Lived Here. Morrow. Mar. 2007. c.336p. ISBN 0-06-113048-6 [ISBN 978-0-06-113048-9]. $24.95. F Shelley Marino married Martin right out of college, giving up her dreams of traveling the world. It didn't matter that he was...

Shaara, Jeff. The Rising Tide.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... * Shaara, Jeff. The Rising Tide. Ballantine. Nov. 2006. c.672p. ISBN 0-345-46141-X [ISBN 978-0-345-46141-4]. $27.95. F This is the magnificent opening volume of a trilogy about World War II in Europe. Author Shaara has already shown his...

Sharfeddin, Heather. Mineral Spirits.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Sharfeddin, Heather. Mineral Spirits. Bridge Works. Oct. 2006. 264p. ISBN 1-882593-987 [ISBN 978-1-882593-98-9]. $21.95. F There hasn't been a murder in Mineral County, MT, since the stagecoach days. When a woman's skeleton turns up near...

Shay, Kevin. The End as I Know It: A Novel of Millennial Anxiety.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Shay, Kevin. The End as I Know It: A Novel of Millennial Anxiety. Doubleday. Dec. 2006. c.320p. ISBN 0-385-51821-8 [ISBN 978-0-385-51821-5]. $23.95. F This first novel by humor writer Shay (coeditor, Created in Darkness by Troubled...

Shields, Jody. The Crimson Portrait.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Shields, Jody. The Crimson Portrait. Little, Brown. Dec. 2006. c.256p. ISBN 0-316-78528-8 [ISBN 978-0-316-78528-0]. $23.99. F It's 1915, and Catherine's home in England is turned into a hospital for soldiers with facial wounds, at the...

Spring, Michelle. The Night Lawyer.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Spring, Michelle. The Night Lawyer. Ballantine. Nov. 2006. c.336p. ISBN 0-345-43746-2 [ISBN 978-0-345-43746-4]. $24,95. F Spring's (In the Midnight Hour) latest novel features a troubled young woman recovering from a mental breakdown and...

Turgeon, Carolyn. Rain Village.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Turgeon, Carolyn. Rain Village. Unbridled. Nov. 2006. c.336p. ISBN 1-932961-24-0 [ISBN 978-1-932961-24-9]. $24.95. F Twelve-year-old Tessa Riley, too small to help out on her impoverished family's Kansas farm, instead assists her small...

Unsworth, Barry. The Ruby in Her Navel.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Unsworth, Barry. The Ruby in Her Navel. Nan A. Talese: Doubleday. Oct. 2006. c.416p. ISBN 0-385-50963-4 [ISBN 978-0-38550963-3]. $26. F Set in the Kingdom of Sicily in the mid-12th century, this tale of romance, intrigue, and betrayal...

Vonnegut, Laureen. Oasis.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Vonnegut, Laureen. Oasis. Counterpoint: Perseus. Oct. 2006. c.200p. ISBN 1-58243-360-7 [ISBN 978-1-58243-360-8]. $24. F In Vonnegut's debut, we first meet Lilt in the Western Sahara desert. She has been abandoned by her Moroccan...

Wambaugh, Joseph. Hollywood Station.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... * Wambaugh, Joseph. Hollywood Station. Little, Brown. Nov. 2006. c.352p. ISBN 0-316-06614-1 [ISBN 978-0-316-06614-3]. $24.99. F Thirty-five years after the debut of The New Centurions, the grand master of cop fiction is back with another...

Franklin, Emily. The Girls' Almanac.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Franklin, Emily. The Girls' Almanac. Avon. Oct. 2006. c.288p. ISBN 0-06-087340-X [ISBN 978-0-06-087340-0]. pap. $12.95. F Franklin's (The Principles of Love) collection of stories centers on a group of women who are connected tangentially,...