Library Journal articles from September 2006

Library Journal archives from September 2006

The "no confidence" vote: a new weapon for library staff, effective but dangerous.(Editorial)
September 1, 2006... THE "NO CONFIDENCE" VOTE HAS BECOME AN effective weapon for library unions in their battles with intransigent library directors. One recent use of this strategy cost a library director her job. Another forced a powerful director to come to the...

Saved by a movie.(Letter to the editor)
September 1, 2006... DVDs are a great lure to get young people and their families into the library (Douglas Bartlett, "The public needs VHS," Feedback, LJ 6/15/06, p. 10). Having a good DVD collection has proven to increase library patronage and encourage the...

"MySpace" for books.(Letter to the editor)
September 1, 2006... Francine Fialkoff's editorial quoted Jack Canfield saying "libraries should create a 'MySpace' for books..." ("The 'End' of the Book," LJ 6/15/06, p. 8). The Centre for Youth Literature at the State Library of Victoria has done just this with...

No empathy.(Letter to the editor)
September 1, 2006... So in spite of knowing the many pressures that library directors face, Berry is still unable to muster up empathy for us ("I'm Glad I'm Not a Director," Blatant Berry, LJ 6/1/06, p. 10)? Well, thank him for his support. I'll certainly remember...

Not "new age".(Letter to the editor)
September 1, 2006... James Overbeck's review of our new book, How (Not) To Speak of God, by Peter Rollins (Paraclete, Aug. 2006), equates the "emerging church movement" with the "New Age" (LJ 7/06, p. 86). In the critical last sentence of his review, he even...

Link to LTR.(Letter to the editor)
September 1, 2006... We were very glad to see Jill Grog's issue of Library Technology Reports included on the Link List accompanying Carol Tenopir's "Thinking About Linking" (Online Databases, LJ 7/06, p. 29). Unfortunately, there was no online link given for...

In San Francisco, no holds bard.(front desk)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Taking aim at the English-only movement in this country, San Francisco supervisor Gerardo Sandoval recently proposed that the city's official language should be English--Shakespearean English. Not only should the local newspapers "submit all...

Then Wikipedia locked Colbert-related topics.(front desk)
September 1, 2006... "Together we can create a reality we can all agree on" --The Colbert Report, host Stephen Colbert, coining "wikiality," July 31, 2006

WorldCat opens wide on the web.(front desk)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... First OCLC partnered with Google and Yahoo so you could search WorldCat records via a toolbar. Now finding items has gotten easier, thanks to a direct search option at the public version of WorldCat. Not only can users search for library...

Heard.(front desk)
September 1, 2006... What to do if Mel Gibson has disqualified himself from appearing on READ posters: "Try replacing Mel with the Antonio Banderas poster. Our library has always placed it behind glass so that the female drool doesn't damage it, although the...

Crusading for New York library hours.(front desk)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Under the headline "Gloomy tale of N.Y.'s libraries," the New York Daily News on August 6 offered an old fashioned summertime crusade, calling the limited hours in New York City's three library systems "the shame of the city." The systems...

UC joins Google's scan plan: many details yet to emerge; will OCA compete?(lj news)(University of California )(Open Content Alliance )
September 1, 2006... The University of California (UC) system, a pioneering member of the Yahoo/Microsoft-backed Open Content Alliance (OCA), announced August 9 that it also would participate in Google's massive, controversial library book-scanning plan. Robert C....

OCLC's Kilgour dies at 92.(lj news)(Frederick G. Kilgour, Online Computer Library Center)(Obituary)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Frederick G. Kilgour, who transformed librarianship by founding OCLC and developing the WorldCat database, died on July 31. He was 92 and most recently a distinguished research professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,...

At hearing, ALA, union criticize LC: both warn Congress about cataloging changes, consultation.(lj news)(American Library Association)
September 1, 2006... Trust the Library of Congress (LC) over Google, Saul Schniderman, president of the LC Professional Guild, AFSCME Local 2910, told Congress July 27 during an oversight hearing held by the Committee on House Administration. While last November,...

Indianapolis PL project examined: newspaper criticizes board; new leaders say they're looking ahead.(Peoria Public Library appoints Edward Szynaka)
September 1, 2006... After a thorough investigation of the Central Library expansion project of the Indianapolis--Marion County Library, which is $50 million over budget and has been delayed by two years, the Indianapolis Star concluded that the board above all...

Flap over a book in Brooklyn.(lj news)(Brooklyn Public Library to purchase a book about radical Islam in England )(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... A contentious exchange over the Brooklyn Public Library's (BPL) initial reluctance to purchase a book about radical Islam in England made waves in the blogosphere--even as BPL had already decided to purchase the book. Melanie Phillips's book...

Seeking the Best Small Library.(lj news)
September 1, 2006... Library Journal's annual award for the Best Small Library in America, cosponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, now in its third year, honors the public library that most profoundly demonstrates outstanding service to populations of...

UK PubMed Central launches in January.(European Bioinformatics Institute )(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... The desire to make government-funded research freely available to the public got another boost with the announced launch of UK PubMed Central (UKPMC), a repository based on PubMed Central in the United States, which is operated by the National...

Calendar.
September 1, 2006... OCTOBER 2-4--West Virginia Library Assn., Huntington www.wvla.org 3-6--Illinois Library Assn., Chicago www.ila.org 4-7--Idaho Library Assn., Moscow www.idaholibraries.org 4-6--Missouri Library Assn., Columbia molib.org ...

DOPA passes house by Wide Margin.(lj news)(Deleting Online Predators Act)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... The opposition by the American Library Association (ALA) to H.R. 5319, the Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA), apparently made little impression on legislators in the House of Representatives, who voted 410-15 in late July to endorse the...

DCPL revamps Management.(District of Columbia Public Library fires top managers)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... The District of Columbia Public Library (DCPL) fired several top managers prior to the arrival of new library director Ginnie Cooper, who started work last month. "We felt that there needed to be a transformational structure put in place to...

Lancaster leaves Library Trends.(F.W. Lancaster)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... F.W. (Wilf) Lancaster has been forced to step down as the editor of the influential quarterly magazine Library Trends, produced by the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS), where he is professor...

Providence Board to be appointed.(Providence Public Library to change its method of governance)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... At its July 10 meeting, the Providence Public Library (PPL) Board of Trustees agreed, after months of pressure, to change its method of governance. A new municipal library board will consist solely of individuals chosen by elected officials....

UK librarian/thief caught on eBay.(lj news)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... In March, a bookseller contacted the City Council of Manchester, UK, with some startling information: books and manuscripts from the Central Library were being sold on eBay. Police traced the sales to librarian Norman Buckley and recovered more...

Montgomery-Floyd Regional Library.(Paula Alston appointed)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Paula Alston is the new Director of the Montgomery-Floyd Regional Library, Christiansburg, VA. She was Assistant Director of the Chesapeake Public Library System, VA.

Brian Bannon.(joins San Francisco Public Library )(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Brian Bannon joined San Francisco Public Library as Chief of Branches. At Seattle Public Library, he oversaw a multilingual public computing program.

Oak Park Public Library.(Dee Brennan appointed)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Dee Brennan is now Director at the Oak Park Public Library, IL. She most recently was Chief of Public Services at the Boston Public Library.

Ela Area Public Library.(Mary Beth Campe appointed)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Mary Beth Campe is the new Executive Director of Ela Area Public Library, Lake Zurich, IL. Campe was Assistant Director of Outreach Services and Popular Materials at the Palatine Public Library District, IL.

University of Arkansas at Little Rock's Ottenheimer Library.(Wanda Dole appointed)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Wanda Dole has been appointed Dean of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock's Ottenheimer Library. Dole had been Dean of Libraries at Washburn University, Topeka, KS.

MOBIUS.(Beth Fisher appointed)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Beth Fisher is the new Executive Director, MOBIUS, the Columbia, MO-based academic library consortium. She previously was Associate Director of IT acquisitions at Virginia Polytechnic University, Blacksburg.

Librarian-Public Services.(Contra Costa County Library appoints Brian Gyoerkoe as new deputy)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Brian Gyoerkoe is the new Deputy County Librarian-Public Services for Contra Costa County Library, Pleasant Hill, CA. He formerly was the Branch Services Manager for the Sacramento Public Library, CA.

Associate Director for Public Services at BCL.(Broward County Library appoints Julie Hunter)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Julie Hunter, formerly Director of the African-American Research Library and Cultural Center at Broward County Library (BCL), Fort Lauderdale, FL, is now the Associate Director for Public Services at BCL.

Milwaukee Public Library.(Kathleen Huston retires)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Kathleen Huston, City Librarian of the Milwaukee Public Library, has retired after 37 years of service. Under her leadership, the central library and five branches were renovated and two new libraries built.

Lee County Library System.(Sheldon Kaye appointed)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Sheldon Kaye has become Director of the Lee County Library System, Fort Myers, FL. He had been Executive Director of the Portland Public Library, ME.

Library Director at Rollins College.(Jonathan Miller appointed)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Jonathan Miller has been named Library Director at Rollins College, Winter Park, FL. He was Head of Public Services, Hillman Library, University of Pittsburgh.

Kentucky Department.(Kentucky. Department for Libraries and Archives appoints Jim Nelson)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Jim Nelson, State Librarian and Commissioner of the Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives since 1980, has announced his retirement effective September 30.

Cerritos.(Waynn Pearson retires from City Library of Cerritos)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Waynn Pearson, City Librarian for Cerritos, CA, since 1981, has retired. Under his leadership, Cerritos built a library in 1987 that won the American Library Association/AIA Award of Excellence and in 2002 opened the "Experience Library."

Portage County District Library.(Cecilia Swanson promoted to director)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Cecilia Swanson is the new Director at the Portage County District Library, OH. She previously was the Assistant Director.

University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill.(Richard Szary appointed)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Richard Szary has been named Director of the Louis Round Wilson Library and Associate University Librarian for Special Collections at University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill. He was the Carrie S. Beinecke Director of Manuscripts and Archives...

Finance and Administrative Services.(Bryan Thabit promoted at Broward County Library)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Bryan Thabit, formerly Library Business Administrator at the Broward County Library, Fort Lauderdale, FL, is now Associate Director for Finance and Administrative Services.

Ames Public Library.(Art Weeks appointed)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Art Weeks is the new Director, Ames Public Library, IA. He was Director of the Anchorage Municipal Libraries, AK.

San Jose University Library.(Jo Bell Whitlach retires)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Jo Bell Whitlach, Associate Dean at the San Jose University Library, CA, has retired after 33 years of service. She was involved in the implementation of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library, jointly operated with the San Jose Public Library....

Library of Congress.(Diane Vogt-O'Connor appointed)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Diane Vogt-O'Connor has been named Chief of the Conservation Division at the Library of Congress. She was Senior Manager, Conservation Activities, National Archives and Records Administration.

Francisco Partners to acquire Ex Libris Group: technology-focused private equity fund reportedly paying $62 million for Israeli ILS.(infotech)
September 1, 2006... Another ILS vendor is to get gobbled up by an outsider. Ex Libris Group announced July 26 that it has "entered into a definitive agreement with Francisco Partners," a large technology-heavy private equity fund, "for the acquisition of 100...

McMenemy wins Elsevier Award.(David McMenemy, Elsevier/Library and Information Research Group Award)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... British scholar David McMenemy has been named the 2006 winner of the Elsevier/Library and Information Research Group Award. McMenemy, a lecturer at University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, won the 1000 [pounds sterling] prize for his...

ProQuest adds PL freebie.(public library)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Public library customers of ProQuest's Historical Newspapers program are receiving a free upgrade with the inclusion of Extra Edition, which improves searching capabilities and offers a new interface. Using Extra Edition, users can cross-search...

Idea Group's InfoSci-Online.(Idea Group Publishing launches new database)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Idea Group is now marketing InfoSciOnline, an aggregated full-text database that the company says "contains every book chapter, journal article, teaching case, and conference proceeding" published by Idea Group, Information Science Publishing,...

InstaBook soliciting PLs.(InstaBook Corporation, public libraries)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... InstaBook Corporation (InstaBook.net) has mounted a Digital Libraries initiative and seeks public library partners. In association with the Project Gutenberg Consortia Center and other bodies, InstaBook is allowing the public to download for...

Polaris expands staff.(Polaris Library Systems appoints Eric Graham, Kathryn Spier-Miller, Elizabeth Race and promotes Brad Rogers)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Polaris Library Systems announced a handful of new hires and promotions. Eric Graham joins the company in the new position of custom services developer. A librarian, Graham previously worked for EBSCO and Dynix in the public sector and served...

Statistically speaking.(E-VIEW AND REVIEWS)(Recommended readings)
September 1, 2006... MAP LIBRARIANS, if you haven't yet taken a look at the Antique Map Price Record CD-ROM, you should. Available from MapRecord Publications (www.maprecord.com), the disc lets you quickly identify historical maps and find records of their prices...

Readers who like this book.(ONLINE DATABASES)(Reader's Advisor Online, Amazon.com Inc.)
September 1, 2006... I LIKE RECREATIONAL SUMMER reading and quickly go through the newest books of my favorite contemporary authors and look for titles with similar themes. Readers' advisory librarians use a plethora of book resources to help readers like me find...

Baker's smudges: open source collaborations hope to revive the insights once garnered from dirty catalog cards.(INFOTECH FEATURE)(Nicholson Baker )
September 1, 2006... In 1994, novelist Nicholson Baker published an article in The New Yorker called "Discards," a fervent defense of the library card catalog, then rapidly being replaced by the online catalog. He focused on the richness of the information...

Catalog annotations.(Ann Arbor District Library cataloging)
September 1, 2006... If you are truly yearning for the old card catalog, the Ann Arbor District Library (AADL) online catalog features a nostalgic tip-of-the-hat to the low-tech library. Each item record has a link to its own old-style catalog card. Using a...

Kenyan-born Nobel prize winner.(FALL EDITORS' PICK)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Wangari Maathai, who has effected social change throughout Africa, studied in the United States as a young woman. Marcus Samuelsson was born in Ethiopia but raised in Sweden, eventually becoming a celebrated New York chef. Locke biographer...

Watchtowers.(Giraffe)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Giraffe By J.M. Ledgard Penguin Pr: Penguin Group (USA). Sept. ISBN 1-59420-099-8. $24.95. Sometime in the 1990s, in a scant few lines in a Czech newspaper, a television cameraman who had previously defected recalled that in 1975 the...

A versatile mind.(Locke: A Biography)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Locke: A Biography By Roger Woolhouse Cambridge Univ. Dec. ISBN 0-521-81786-2 [ISBN 978-0-521-81786-8]. $40. "We [Americans] are sometimes faulted for a naive faith that liberty can change the world. If that's an error it began with...

Of music and wolves.(Wild Harmonies)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Wild Harmonies By Helene Grimaud Riverhead: Putnam, Sept. tr, from French by Ellen Hinsey, ISBN 1-59448.927-0. $24.95. From the moment she slashed her heel on a cracked bit of Corsican glass one childhood summer, experiencing what she...

Visual memorial.(The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation By Sid Jacobson (ed.) & Ernie Colon (illus.) Hill & Wang: Farrar. Sept. ISBN 0-8090-5738-7. $30; pap. ISBN 0-8090-5739-5. $16.95. With United 93 and World Trade Center, 2006 will be seen as the year...

My pet read (abridged).(My Pet Virus: The True Story of a Rebel without a Cure)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... It arrived in a clear plastic wrapper, as if the contents would contaminate my fingers. The galley cover featured the author locked behind a door emblazoned with a biohazard symbol. As cheesy as this gimmick was, it was working. The more I was...

The solace of the imagination.(The Book of Lost Things)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... The Book of Lost Things By John Connolly Atria: S. & S. Nov. ISBN 0-7432-9885-3. $22. In 1999, Irish journalist John Connolly took the crime fiction world by storm with his Shamus Award--winning debut, Every Dead Thing, which featured...

The making of a scientist.(Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man By Dale Peterson Houghton. Nov. ISBN 0-395-85405-9 [ISBN 978-0-395-85405-1]. $35. At a London conference in the spring of 1962, a 28-year-old English secretarial school graduate--turned--untrained...

In pursuit of flavor.(The Soul of a New Cuisine: A Discovery of the Foods and Flavors of Africa)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... The Soul of a New Cuisine: A Discovery of the Foods and Flavors of Africa By Marcus Samuelsson Wiley. Oct. ISBN 0-7645-6911-2. $40. Born Kasshun Tsegie in Ethiopia and placed in an orphanage when his mother died of tuberculosis, Marcus...

Ambassador for peace.(FALL 2006 EDITORS' PICKS)(Wangari Maathai receives the Nobel Peace Prize)(Interview)
September 1, 2006... Unbowed By Wangari Maathai Knopf. Nov. ISBN 0-307-26348-7. $24.95. Political activist. Scientist. Feminist. Nobel Peace Prize winner. Wangari Maathai is all of the above. The Green Belt Movement she founded in 1977 to help restore...

Library 2.0: service for the next-generation library.
September 1, 2006... Libraries are changing. Funding limits and customer demands are transforming staffing levels, service models, access to resources, and services to the public. Administrators and taxpayers are seeking more efficient ways of delivering services...

An evolving collection.(Collection Development Evolutionary Biology)(textbooks)(Bibliography)
September 1, 2006... Evolution changes everything. The concepts of evolutionary biology underlie our scientific understanding of the origin of life's diversity. And, especially in the United States, they also continue to form the grist of a cultural debate about...

Cell hell.(cell phone use in the library)
September 1, 2006... "I'LL TAKE THESE THREE AND could you tell me where I can find, oh, wait a minute...." The patron standing before librarian Henrietta Blom began fishing her cell phone from her purse as it played the theme from Love Story. "Hello. Oh, hi, Jane,...

Take it outside.(cell phone use in the library)
September 1, 2006... In the library world, you walk a fine line between burgeoning technology and the need to provide a welcoming environment. It is a race to keep policy in balance with the emerging technology. Some policy addressing the issue of cell phone use in...

Courtesy is key.(ban cell phone use in the library)
September 1, 2006... Blom's suggestion to ban cell phone use in the library and Cronin's suggestion for a cell phone--friendly area are not diametrically opposed. Cell phone usage would be banned in the main areas of the library, and patrons would be directed to...

Nice infomercial, Google.(BACKTALK)
September 1, 2006... BEING AN EARLY RISER, I WAS IN my American Library Association conference hotel lobby waiting for the cat? to open for breakfast. As I waited, the ever-present television monitor was tuned to an infomercial for a new product that, according to...

Prepub alert.(Bibliography)
September 1, 2006... FICTION Amis, Martin. House of Meetings. Knopf. Jan. 2007. 240p. ISBN 1-4000-4455-3 [ISBN 978-1-4000-4455-9]. $23. Moscow, 1946: the war is over, but two brothers and a young Jewish woman are set for conflict of a different sort that...

Mystery.(Bibliography)
September 1, 2006... A PUZZLING COMEBACK Mystery authors are returning to the more complex plots and techniques used by Agatha Christie, Rex Stout, and other writers of the genre's golden age. Lyndon Stacey (Six to One Against) and Kathleen Newberg (Mystery at...

Q & A: Steve Hamilton.(MYSTERY)(Interview)
September 1, 2006... Set against the stark, chilly beauty of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Steve Hamilton's Alex McKnight private investigator series have long attracted fans and critical raves for its vigorous prose, gripping suspense, and fully rounded characters....

Prepub mystery.(Bibliography)
September 1, 2006... Abbot, Megan. The Song Is You. S. & S. Jan. 2007. 160p. ISBN 0-7432-9171-9 [ISBN 978-0-7432-9171-2]. $23. Edgar-nominated Abbot (Die a Little) imagines the conclusion to 1949 Tinseltown's still-unsolved "Daughter of Black Dahlia" case....

Christian fiction.(Recommended readings)
September 1, 2006... THE MYSTERY OF FAITH Thrillers and mysteries continue to explode in the inspirational fiction market. Although struggles with belief and the characters' relationships with God are always present, many of these whodunits and high-stakes suspense...

Inspirational chick lit author Laura Jensen Walker (Dreaming in Blade and White, Dreaming in Technicolor) is also a breast cancer survivor.(BRIEFLY NOTED)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Inspirational chick lit author Laura Jensen Walker (Dreaming in Blade and White, Dreaming in Technicolor) is also a breast cancer survivor. Her latest novel, Reconstructing Natalie (see review in breast cancer roundup on p. 173), is a hopeful...

Aaron, Relentless. Extra Marital Affairs.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Aaron, Relentless. Extra Marital Affairs. St. Martin's/Griffin: St. Martin's. Sept. 2006. c.288p. ISBN 0-312-35935-7. pap. $14.95. F Aaron's latest novel, which deals with societal and class issues and knowing who your friends are in a...

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. Half of a Yellow Sun.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. Half of a Yellow Sun. Knopf. Sept. 2006. c.416p. ISBN 1-4000-4416-2 [ISBN 978-1-4000-4416-0]. $24.95. F Nigerian-born Adichie's first novel, Purple Hibiscus, won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the...

Aidan, Pamela. Duty and Desire: A Novel of Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman.(Darcy's Story)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Aidan, Pamela. Duty and Desire: A Novel of Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman. Touchstone: S. & S. Oct. 2006. c.304p. ISBN 0-7432-9136-0 [ISBN 978-0-7432-9136-1]. pap. $14. Aylmer, Janet. Darcy's Story. Harper: HarperCollins. 2006. c.288p. ISBN...

Beall, Will. L.A. Rex.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Beall, Will. L.A. Rex. Riverhead: Putnam. Sept. 2006. c.320p. ISBN 1-59448-926-2. $24.95. F Beall, a Los Angeles police officer, has written a fairly interesting debut crime novel that mixes sequences of past and present to tell its story....

Belli, Gioconda. The Scroll of Seduction.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Belli, Gioconda. The Scroll of Seduction. Rayo: HarperCollins. Sept. 2006. c.320p. tr. from Spanish by Lisa Dillman. ISBN 0-06-083312-2 [ISBN 978-0-06-083312-1]. $24.95. F This latest endeavor by Nicaraguan poet, novelist, and essayist...

Boon, Louis Paul. Summer in Termuren.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Boon, Louis Paul. Summer in Termuren. Dalkey Archive. Sept. 2006. c.88p. tr. from Flemish by Paul Vincent. ISBN 1-56478-285-9. pap. $14.95. F Together with its companion, De Kapellekensbaan, this work is considered Flemish author Boon's...

Boyd, William. Restless.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Boyd, William. Restless. Bloomsbury, dist. by St. Martin's. Oct. 2006. c.352p. ISBN 1-59691-236-7 [ISBN 978-1-59691-236-6]. $24.95. F In his latest novel, Boyd (A Good Man in Africa) entwines two stories. One, set in England in 1976,...

Bradbury, Ray. Farewell Summer.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Bradbury, Ray. Farewell Summer. Morrow. Oct. 2006. c.141p. ISBN 0-06-117154-7. $24.95. F A follow-up to Bradbury's 1957 novel, Dandelion Wine, this Tom Sawyer-meets-Peter Pan novella is creepier than the first book but retains the elegiac...

Christianse, Yvette. Unconfessed.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... * Christianse, Yvette. Unconfessed. Other. Nov. 2006. c.360p. ISBN 1-59051-240-5 [ISBN 978-1-59051-240-1]. $25.95. F Sila van den Kaap doesn't recall much about her childhood, but one thing is clear: as a young girl, she was taken from her...