Publishers Weekly articles from August 2006, page 3

Publishers Weekly archives from August 2006

Children's religion notes.(The Secret World of Kabbalah)(The 72 Names of God for Kids: A Treasury of Timeless Wisdom)(Battlefield of the Mind for Teens: Winning the Battle in Your Mind)(The Jewish Alphabet)(Count My Blessings, One through Ten )(Children's review)(Book review)
August 28, 2006... Though many young people have heard about Kabbalah, most likely because it is a faith tradition embraced by some celebrities in recent years, few know exactly what Kabbalah is. Two new books help to illuminate the subject. In The Secret World...

Razing the tower of e-Babel: the reason e-books haven't caught on is simple: they're too complicated.
August 28, 2006... The Pepper Pad is a quirky-looking gizmo with an eight-inch screen surrounded by the left and right sides of a split keyboard. Pepper's tablet computer is splash-resistant and easy to use. It lets you surf the Web, see videos and hear...

Some covers speak too loudly for their words: how 9/11 has changed jacket art.(Foreword)
August 21, 2006... When publisher Richard Meibers started showing an upcoming fall thriller at BookExpo America, he kept getting the same response: everyone hated it. In retrospect, Meibers, who heads Boston's Martin & Lawrence Press, can see why. The jacket...

U.S. dampens Quarto results.(Quarto Group, sales)(Brief article)
August 21, 2006... Six-month sales at U.K.-based publisher and packager Quarto Group inched up from 38.2 million [pounds sterling] last year to 38.3 million [pounds sterling] ($70 million), but operating income jumped 127%, to 2.0 million [pounds sterling]. The...

Drugan resigns from NEBA.(Rusty Drugan, New England Booksellers Association)(Brief article)
August 21, 2006... Illness is forcing Rusty Drugan to step down as executive director of the New England Booksellers Association. NEBA board president Allan Schmid said that Drugan would stay on until a successor is named. He did not specify a date, but...

Weak bestseller lineup hampers chain sales.(After Harry)
August 21, 2006... The first half of this year was one of the softest periods in recent memory in the book industry in terms of hardcover new releases," said Barnes & Noble CEO Steven Riggio, explaining why the latest six-month sales at the retailer were flat...

Self-help imprint from Perigee.(Infinite Ideas signs deal with Penguin's Perigee )(Brief article)
August 21, 2006... Penguin's Perigee imprint has signed a deal with a U.K. publisher to bring a line of best selling British self-help titles to an American audience. 52 Brilliant Ideas, a series published by Infinite Ideas, will be launched by Perigee in 2007;...

First film from random house.(Random House Films producing 'Reservation Road')(Brief article)
August 21, 2006... Reservation Road, based on the same-titled novel by John Burnham Schwartz, is the first Random House Film project to make it to production. The movie is being directed by Terry George (Hotel Rwanda) and stars Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Ruffalo....

Dalkey heading to N.Y.(Dalkey Archive Press Inc.)(Brief article)
August 21, 2006... The indie nonprofit press Dalkey Archive is relocating from Normal, Ill., to Rochester, N.Y. Currently on the campus of Illinois State University, the press will, by January 2007, be at the University of Rochester. At Rochester, Dalkey will...

'ABR' to be revived.(The American Book Review )(Brief article)
August 21, 2006... The American Book Review will be relaunched this November in a new home after nearly a year-long hiatus. The publication is moving from Illinois State University, where it was founded in 1977 by Ronald Sukenick, to the University of...

Marginal profit improvement in '05.(The Bottom Line)
August 21, 2006... With sales gains hard to come by in publishing, particularly on the trade side, companies have focused on squeezing costs out of their operations to boost profitability. A review of the most recently available operating data for 18 companies...

Teesing.
August 21, 2006... ReganBooks publisher Judith Regan (r.) joined her author Dita Von Treese at the Taschen Bookstore in Beverly Hills for a signing of Von Treese's March book, Burlesque and the Art of the Teese. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Varsity Group diversifies.(Brief article)
August 21, 2006... The Varsity Group has added a new range of products it sells to schools. In addition to textbooks, under a deal with Baker & Taylor, Varsity will offer consumer and entertainment products beginning in the fourth quarter. The company has...

Hudson's branding deal with Libreria Martinez & Hue-Man.(Libreria Martinez Books and Art Gallery, Hue-Man Bookstore and Cafe, Hudson Group Ltd.)
August 21, 2006... Beginning this fall, the Hudson Group will add and/or expand Spanish-language and African-American sections at 50 of its bookstores located at 10 airports across the country. To give the sections more distinct identities, they will be branded...

Banta rejects offer.(Cenveo Corp.)(Brief article)
August 21, 2006... Banta's board of directors firmly rejected a proposal from Cenveo Corp. chairman Robert Burton concerning a possible merger. In a letter to Burton, Banta chairman Stephanie Streeter said that since Burton's overture contained so many...

HC bets Snicket boxed set isn't a complete wreck.(HarperCollins Publishers Inc., Lemony Snicket)(Brief article)
August 21, 2006... With a planned first printing of 300,000 for the complete boxed set of Lemony Snicket's Unfortunate Events books, HarperCollins is betting there's still a substantial market for a series that already has more than 26 million copies in print....

Lemony Snicket by the numbers.(Brief article)
August 21, 2006... 25,000: First printings for Snicket's first two books, A Series of Unfortunate Events #1: The Bad Egg and A Series of Unfortunate Events #2: The Reptile Room, both released August 1999 4 million: Total copies in print of The Bad Egg ...

Follett makes tech purchase.(Follett Digital Resources acquires Interactive Constructs Inc.)(Brief article)
August 21, 2006... Follett Digital Resources has acquired Interactive Constructs Inc., a developer of custom e-learning and Web publishing programs for education and publishers. FUR was formed by Follett Corp. last fall to provide services for distributing...

Rhyming.
August 21, 2006... DJ/conceptual artist and author (Rhythm Science) Paul Miller, aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid, with culture critic Douglas Rushkoff at a book party for Rushkoff's new graphic novel, Testament, just out from DC/Vertigo. [ILLUSTRATION...

Love letters.(Doris Cooper acquire rights to 'Other People's Love Letters')(Brief article)
August 21, 2006... Clarkson Potter's Doris Cooper has preempted Bill Shapiro's Other People's Love Letters from Brian DeFiore at DeFiore & Co., who sold North American rights. This will be an illustrated book that collects provocative (but...

Killer novelists.(Josh Kendall acquire rights to Gregg Hurwitz's new book, Henry Ferris acquire rights to 'Now You See Him')(Brief article)
August 21, 2006... Viking's Josh Kendall has just acquired North American rights to Gregg Hurwitz's newest, untitled thriller, from Lisa Erbach Vance at Aaron Priest. Hurwitz, author of the Tim Rackley series (Last Shot; Troubleshooter) published by Morrow,...

Catholic and democratic.(Lara Heimert acquire rights to 'Left at the Altar: How the Democrats Lost the Catholics and the Catholics Can Save the Democrats')(Brief article)
August 21, 2006... Basic's Lara Heimert has acquired Left at the Altar: How the Democrats Lost the Catholics and the Catholics Can Save the Democrats by Michael Sean Winters; Lisa Adams at the Garamond Agency sold world rights. A religion scholar and former...

Bios from Da Capo.(Merloyd Lawrence acquire book written by Brenda Maddox, Ben Schafer acquires book written by John Kruth)(Brief article)
August 21, 2006... Merloyd Lawrence has acquired a new book by Brenda Maddox titled Freud's Wizard: The Enigma of Ernest Jones for her eponymous imprint at Da Capo; Trident's Ellen Levine sold U.S. rights. Maddox, whose other biographies include Nora: The Real...

Surviving a stroke.(New Wiley editor Christel Winkler acquire rights to 'Valerie Greene's Driven by Fire: Surviving a Massive Stroke')(Brief article)
August 21, 2006... New Wiley editor Christel Winkler has acquired Valerie Greene's Driven by Fire: Surviving a Massive Stroke from Maura E. Teitelbaum at Abrams Artists Agency, who sold world rights. The book will be a combination memoir and resource on stroke...

Calendar: Aug 27-Sept. 2.(DVD of Akeelah and the Bee arrives this week, J. Randy Taraborrelli's Elizabeth Taylor bio lands this week, Nora Roberts begins her new book )(Brief article)(Calendar)
August 21, 2006... 8/27 The DVD of Akeelah and the Bee arrives this week along with Newmarket Press's novelization by James Ellison. Expect lots of promotion from coproducer Starbucks Coffee. 8/30 J. Randy Taraborrelli's Elizabeth Taylor bio,...

Insight editions tackles illustrated market.(Palace Press International, Welcome Books )
August 21, 2006... Palace Press International has a long history of printing and packaging illustrated titles, and beginning this summer the San Rafael, Calif.-based company is launching a new publishing unit, Insight Editions. Palace is betting that its...

Jao, Ford up at RH.(Random House Inc. promotes Laura Ford and Jonathan Jao)(Brief article)
August 21, 2006... Laura Ford and Jonathan Jao have both been promoted to the position of editor at Random House. Ford, who joined Random in 2001 as an editorial assistant, has worked on such books as A Sudden Country by Karen Fisher and Curtis Sittenfeld's two...

Fonteneau to rep Oasis.(People)(Anne Fonteneau at Oasis Audio)(Brief article)
August 21, 2006... Anne Fonteneau, ABA sales manager at Blackstone Audio, has been chosen to handle the Oasis Audio line for certain key accounts.

Strauss a star in Europe.(Neil Strauss, top selling books)
August 21, 2006... Neil Strauss apparently found it easier to pick up foreign readers than women. His memoir about transforming himself from a loser to champion pickup artist (pubbed in 2005 by Regan Books) hit the top 10 list in nonfiction in both Sweden and...

Rodale gets Minerva.(People)(Francesca Minerva)(Brief article)
August 21, 2006... Francesca Minerva has been named executive director of special markets, trade books at Rodale. Minerva arrives from McGraw-Hill, where she was a senior account executive and sales manager for catalogue/ associations, online, bulk and premium...

Hire, promos at OUP.(People)(Brian Hughes, Kimberly Craven and Lenny Allen at Oxford University Press)(Brief article)
August 21, 2006... Brian Hughes has been promoted, and Kimberly Craven and Lenny Allen have been hired, at Oxford University Press. Hughes has been bumped up to marketing manager. Craven has been named director of trade and academic marketing, and Allen...

Promos at Sterling.(Sterling Publishing Co. promotes Kate Rados, Kelly Gavin, Anwesha Basu and Meaghan Finnerty)(Brief article)
August 21, 2006... In the marketing and publicity department of Sterling Publishing, the following have been promoted: Kate Rados from senior publicist to publicity manager; Kelly Gavin from associate publicist to publicist; Anwesha Basu from marketing...

Kelly to Ten Speed.(People)(Patricia Kelly at Ten Speed Press)(Brief article)
August 21, 2006... Patricia Kelly has joined Ten Speed Press as special sales director. She arrives from National Book Network, where she was senior director of sales. Before working at NBN, she was with Publishers Group West.

Small press, big book.(Westholme will bring Stealing the General: The Great Locomotive Chase and the First Medal of Honor by Coca-Cola in October)
August 21, 2006... When publisher Bruce Franklin received a manuscript from a Civil War buffon a legendary train heist, he was immediately struck by the voice. "This was like looking at the first work of someone you can imagine becoming a very important...

Dlouhy up at S&S children's.(People)(Caitlyn Dlouhy at Simon and Schuster)(Brief article)
August 21, 2006... Caitlyn Dlouhy has been promoted from executive editor to editorial director at Simon & Schuster's children's imprint Atheneum Books for Young Readers. Dlouhy, who joined Atheneum in 1998, has worked on such award-winning titles as Kira-Kira...

Hardcover bestsellers/fiction.
August 21, 2006... Hardcover Bestsellers/Fiction Last Weeks August 21, 2006 week on list 1 Judge & Jury. James Patterson and 1 2 ...

Hardcover bestsellers/nonfiction.
August 21, 2006... Hardcover Bestsellers/Nonfiction Last Weeks August 21, 2006 week on list 1 Marley & Me. John Grogan. 1 41 ...

Paperback bestsellers/mass market.
August 21, 2006... Paperback Bestsellers/Mass Market Last Weeks August 21, 2006 week on list 1 Lifeguard. James Patterson and 1 3 ...

Paperback-bestsellers/trade.
August 21, 2006... Paperback Bestsellers/Trade Last Weeks August 21, 2006 week on list 1 The Memory Keeper's Daughter. 1 8 ...

Children's picture book bestsellers.
August 21, 2006... August 21, 2006 1 Pirateology. Edited by Dugald A. Steer. Candlewick, $19.99 ISBN 0-7636-3143-4 2 Pirates. John Matthews. Atheneum, $19.95 ISBN 1-416-92734-4 (a) 3 ...

In the dust that refuses to settle: writing fiction after 9/11.(Cover story)
August 21, 2006... Nearly five years have passed since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. In New York minutes, that's a mighty long time, yet Ground Zero remains an architectural void, an ideological stalemate. As we take stock of that day's effects,...

Remembering 9/11 on the page.(Cover story)
August 21, 2006... "Once again, the tragedy you can't avoid," announced the front-page headline of the August 11, 2006, New York Times Weekend Arts section, in an article that listed the many TV documentaries and miniseries marking the fifth anniversary of...

A little bit of country.(Cooking U.S.A.)
August 21, 2006... Far from the gourmet emporiums of Dean & DeLuca in New York City's SoHo neighborhood, a shopper scans the cookbook section at the Wal-Mart in Epping, N.H. There is no guide to making artisanal food, like Charcuterie, which Norton published...

Kids and cooking.(Cooking U.S.A.)
August 21, 2006... "So many of the children's cookbooks that are really successful have air appeal," comments Lynn Waggoner, v-p of global retail books and associate publisher at Disney. Most people in the book business agree that food programs; the rise of...

Grape reads.(Cooking U.S.A.)(Bibliography)
August 21, 2006... Andrea Robinson (nee Immer) is known for demystifying the often intimidating subject of wine. In her eight books, two TV programs and DVD series, she explains why pinot noir is appealing, what to drink with Warm Chocolate Cake, how to...

Roadmap to the regionals.(Regional Trade Shows)(Midwest Booksellers Association, )(Calendar)
August 21, 2006... Booksellers gather in the fall to hear the latest about aspiring authors, forthcoming books, potential markets, software technology and professional development. No matter where, no matter what--there is something for everybody at this year's...

Bascombe is back.(Author Profile)(Frank Bascombe)(Biography)
August 21, 2006... Richard Ford insists he never set out to write a sequel--let alone a trilogy. Still, here he is, about to publish book three on the life of Frank Bascombe, the New Jersey writer-turned-realtor at the center of two novels The Sportswriter...

Winter's gems.(On Sale January-April 2007)(Bibliography)(Calendar)
August 21, 2006... However cold and dark it may get this coming winter, readers will discover a sparkling selection of authors. P.J. O'Rourke, William Langewiesche, Naomi Klein and Richard Preston parse our political moment, while Robert Stone looks back on the...

Ines of My Soul.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 21, 2006... * Ines of My Soul ISABEL ALLENDE. HarperCollins, $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-116153-7 Only months after the inauguration of Chile's first female president, Allende recounts in her usual sweeping style the grand tale of Dona Ines Suarez...

Amazing Disgrace.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 21, 2006... Amazing Disgrace JAMES HAMILTON-PATERSON. Europa Editions, $14.95 paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-933372-19-8 This stylishly funny follow-up to Cooking with Fernet-Branca continues the story of Gerald Samper, the English ghostwriter of exuberant...

A Day of Small Beginnings.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 21, 2006... A Day of Small Beginnings LISA PEARL ROSENBAUM. Little, Brown, $24.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-31601451-9 Rosenbaum's debut sets The Lovely Bones to strains of Fiddler on the Roof. In rural Zokof, Poland, in 1906, young Itzik Leiber protects...

The Deception of the Emerald Ring.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 21, 2006... The Deception of the Emerald Ring LAUREN WILLIG. Dutton, $21.95 (400p) ISBN 0-525-94977-1 Harvard Ph.D. candidate Eloise Kelly continues her research of early 19th-century spies in the smart third book of the Pink Carnation series,...

Everything Must Go.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 21, 2006... Everything Must Go ELIZABETH FLOCK. Mira, $21.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7783-2323-5 For Henry Powell, every day is the same: he wakes just before 7 a.m. to prepare for work at the men's clothing store he's worked at since he was 17. Now 31,...

I Gave You My Heart, but You Sold It Online.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 21, 2006... I Gave You My Heart, but You Sold It Online DIxIE CASH. Morrow, $21.95 (304p) ISBN 0-06-082971-0 Cash, pen name of sisters Pamela Cumbie and Jeffery McClanahan, delivers her third Domestic Equalizers novel (after My Heart May Be Broken...

Miss Understanding.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 21, 2006... Miss Understanding STEPHANIE LESSING. Avon, $12.95 paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-113388-6 Lessing brings back fictional fashion-forward magazine Issues and its newly minted editorial honcho, sartorially challenged feminist Zoe, sister of...

The Long Run.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 21, 2006... The Long Run LEO FUREY. Shambhala/Trumpeter, $22.95 (368p) ISBN 1-59030-411-X In his debut novel, longtime Canadian English teacher Furey spins bleak material--orphans abused by sadistic priests--into a moving and uplifting story....

A Woman's Place.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 21, 2006... A Woman's Place LYNN AUSTIN. Bethany House, $19.99 (400p) ISBN 0-7642-0295-2; paper $13.99 ISBN 0-7642-2890-0 In an engrossing read, three-time Christy Award-winner Austin (All She Ever Wanted; Hidden Places) explores the lives of four...

PW talks with Ray Bradbury: an author of many ages.(Q&A)(Interview)
August 21, 2006... Ray Bradbury is the 86-year-old author of more than 50 books, including such classics as The Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451 and Something Wicked This Way Comes. His latest novel, Farewell Summer (Reviews, Aug. 7), is a sequel to his...

Restless.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 21, 2006... Restless WILLIAM BOYD. Bloomsbury, $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-59691-236-6 When Ruth Gilmartin learns the true identity--and the WWII profession--of her aging mother, Sally Gilmartin, at the start of Boyd's elegant ninth novel (after Any...

Dream Angus: The Celtic God of Dreams.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 21, 2006... Dream Angus: The Celtic God of Dreams ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH. Canongate, $18 (192p) ISBN 978-1-84195823-1 The bestselling author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency novels and the 44 Scotland Street novels has always included one-offs...

Queen of Swords.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 21, 2006... Queen of Swords SARA DONATI. Bantam, $27 (576p) ISBN 0-553-80149-X The fourth in Donati's popular Wilderness series (Into The Wilderness, etc.) takes the Scott family on a perilous journey to New Orleans on the eve of one of the War of...

Frost.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 21, 2006... Frost THOMAS BERNHARD, TRANS. FROM THE GERMAN BY MICHAEL HOFMANN. Knopf, $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4066-7 A student's increasingly erratic dispatches over 27 days comprise this obsessive first novel by Bernhard (1931-1989), published...

Kidnapped.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 21, 2006... Kidnapped JAN BURKE. Simon & Schuster, $24 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7432-7385-5 At the start of Edgar-winner Burke's well-crafted 10th novel of suspense (after 2005's Bloodlines), sociopathic killer Cleo Smith has just murdered a graphic...

Sharp Objects.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 21, 2006... Sharp Objects GILLIAN FLYNN. Crown/Shaye Areheart, $24 (272p) ISBN 978-0-307-34154-9 Flynn gives new meaning to the term "dysfunctional family" in her chilling debut thriller. Camille Preaker, once institutionalized for youthful...

The Winter of Frankie Machine.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 21, 2006... The Winter of Frankie Machine DON WINSLOW. Knopf, $24 (352p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4498-6 Elmore Leonard fans who have not yet discovered Winslow (The Power of the Dog) will be delighted by his fourth thriller with its sympathetic antihero....

The Bancroft Strategy.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 21, 2006... The Bancroft Strategy ROBERT LUDLUM. St. Martin's, $26.95 (544p) ISBN 978-0-312-31673-0 The latest international thriller to appear under Ludlum's name, with its by-the-numbers plot and stereotypical characters, fails to do justice to...

The Annotated Hunting of the Snark: The Definitive Edition.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 21, 2006... The Annotated Hunting of the Snark: The Definitive Edition LEWIS CARROLL, EDITED BY MARTIN GARDNER. Norton, $27.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-393-06242-7 Having prepared the definitive edition of The Annotated Alice (1999), prolific polymath...

The Draft.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 21, 2006... The Draft WIL MARA. St. Martin's/Dunne, $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-35929-4 Off-field maneuvering takes center stage in the prolific Mara's tepid behind-the-scenes take on professional football. Jon Sabino, the general manager of the...

His Secret Little Wife.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 21, 2006... His Secret Little Wife FREDRICA WAGMAN. Steerforth, $17.95 (160p) ISBN 1-58642-116-6 This breathless, elliptical little novel from Wagman (Mrs. Hornstein) pursues the shocking affair between Otto Von Ochsenstein, brilliant pianist and...

Catalina: A True Story.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 21, 2006... Catalina: A True Story MARKUS ORTHS, TRANS. FROM THE GERMAN BY HELEN ATKINS. Toby, $24.95 (250p)ISBN 1-59264-165-2 German writer Orths's recounting of the miraculous and ribald life of the 17 th-century Basque transvestite Catalina...

PW talks with Robert Ward: Baltimore Grit goes Hollywood.(Q&A)(Interview)
August 21, 2006... Robert Ward's Red Baker won the PEN West prize for Best Novel of 1985. After a stint in Hollywood writing for such shows as Miami Vice, he's back with his latest Baltimore tome, Four Kinds of Rain. What do Red Baker and Four Kinds of Rain...

The Day the Bozarts Died.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 21, 2006... The Day the Bozarts Died LARRY DUBERSTEIN. Permanent, $26 (168p) ISBN 1-57962-134-1 The Blaisdell Street Artists Cooperative, carved out of an old Massachusetts college lab building in 1979 and "styled" after the Hotel des Beaux-Arts (or...

Correction.(Correction notice)
August 21, 2006... The title of Pam Jenoff's A Fine Crack of Light (Reviews, Aug. 7) has been changed to The Kommandant's Girl and the month of publication to March 2007.

The Do-Re-Mi.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 21, 2006... The Do-Re-Mi KEN KUHLKEN. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-59058-337-1 Set in 1972, Kuhlken's fourth mystery to feature the endearing Hickey clan (after 1994's The Angel Gang) follows 22-year-old Clifford Hickey, an aspiring folk...

The Shadow of the Lords.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 21, 2006... * The Shadow of the Lords SIMON LEVACK. St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne, $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-34841-0 Levack's second 16th-century Aztec mystery (after 2005's impressive Demon of the Air) is another intellectual page-turner that will...

The Hounds and the Fury.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 21, 2006... The Hounds and the Fury RITA MAE BROWN. Ballantine, $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-345-46547-4 In bestseller Brown's diverting fifth foxhunting mystery (after 2005's The Hunt Ball), "Sister" Jane Arnold, the 73-year-old master of foxhounds at...

The Budapest Connection.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 21, 2006... The Budapest Connection HENRY C. LEE AND JERRY LABRIOLA. Prometheus, $24 (275p) ISBN 978-159102-465-1 The first fiction collaboration between medical doctors Lee and Labriola (coauthors of the true crime studies Dr. Henry Lee's Forensic...

Electric Blue.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 21, 2006... Electric Blue NANCY BUSH. Kensington, $19.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7582-0907-8 The shrewd, sassy protagonist of Bush's Jane Kelly series gets tangled in dangerous family politics in her lively second outing (after 2005's Candy Apple Red)....

Candy from Strangers.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 21, 2006... Candy from Strangers MARK COGGINS. Bleak House (www.bleakhousebooks.com), $23.95 (360p) ISBN 978-1-932557-16-9 The third gripping Augustus Riordan hard-boiled exploit (after 2002's Vulture Capital) launches the very human hero into action...

American Skin.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 21, 2006... American Skin KEN BRUEN. Justin, Charles/Kate's Mystery, $24.95 (301p) ISBN 978-1-932112-47-4 At the start of Bruen's dark tribute to the Irish fascination with the American dream, Stephen Blake is on the run after a bank heist, hoping...

Vanity Fire.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 21, 2006... Vanity Fair JOHN M. DANIEL. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (262p) ISBN 978-1-59058-322-7 In Daniel's engaging second Guy Mallon whodunit (after 2005's The Poet's Funeral), an unscrupulous businessman, Fritz Marburger, offers Mallon, a smalltime...

Bloodring.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 21, 2006... Bloodring FAITH HUNTER. Roc, $14 paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-451-46108-7 Thorn St. Croix, a stone mage, lives secretly among humans in this entertaining if flawed postapocalyptic fantasy, the first in a new series from the pseudonymous...

PW talks with Terry Brooks: Knight of the Word.(Q&A)(Interview)
August 21, 2006... Set on an Earth devastated by nuclear disasters, global warming, plagues and marauding demons, Brooks's Armageddon's Children (Reviews, Aug. 7) unites the Tolkien-influenced fantasy of his Shannara series with the urban fantasy of his Word...

Eifelheim.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 21, 2006... * Eifelheim MICHAEL FLYNN. Tor, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-765-30096-6 A present-day scientific odd couple who are longtime domestic partners, physicist Sharon Nagy and historian Tom Schwoerin, look into the fate of the Black Forest...