Publishers Weekly articles from August 2006, page 5

Publishers Weekly archives from August 2006

Satchel's story.(Deals)(Satchel Paige)(Brief article)
August 14, 2006... Jill Kneerim at Kneerim & Williams just wrapped up a seven-bidder auction for Larry Tye's biography of Satchel Paige, titled Satchel, with Random's Will Murphy winning North American rights; Walker/ Bloomsbury was the underbidder. Paige, who...

Jay-Z's time.(Deals)("Soul of a Hustler: The Hard Knock Life and Crazy Times of Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter")(Brief article)
August 14, 2006... Agent Paul Bresnick has sold North American rights, at auction, to Atria's Malaika Adero for Soul of a Hustler: The Hard Knock Life and Crazy Times of Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter, a biography of the rap artist who started as a drug dealer and is now...

On the brain.(Deals)("Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind" by Gary Marcus)(includes "You Might as Well Win" by Johan Bruyneel book publishing deal)(Brief article)
August 14, 2006... Amanda Cook at Houghton persevered in a nine-way auction to acquire NYU psychologist Gary Marcus's Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind. Christy Fletcher and Donald Lamm at Fletcher & Parry sold North American rights for a...

Business smarts.(Deals)(Portfolio buys world rights to Leander Kahney's "Chairman Steve's Little White Book: The Leadership Secrets of Steve Jobs")(Brief article)
August 14, 2006... Portfolio's Adrian Zackheim bought world rights, at auction, to Wired News managing editor Leander Kahney's Chairman Steve's Little White Book: The Leadership Secrets of Steve Jobs from Ted Weinstein at Ted Weinstein Literary Management. This...

How to Finesse.(Deals)("Your Girlfriends Only Know So Much" by Finesse Mitchell)(Brief article)
August 14, 2006... Saturday Night Live comedian and Essence magazine relationship columnist Finesse Mitchell has sold Your Girlfriends Only Know So Much, a humorous dating and relationship guide for African-American women, to Jen Bergstrom and Patrick Price at...

Berenson to Putnam.(Deals)(Alex Berenson's two new books to be published by Putnam)(Brief article)
August 14, 2006... New York Times reporter Alex Berenson, author of this spring's The Faithful Spy, is moving from Random to Putnam for two new untitled novels; ICM's Heather Schroder sold world rights to Neil Nyren. The novels will both center again on The...

Calendar: Aug. 20-26.(Foreword)(Brief article)(Calendar)
August 14, 2006... 8/20 At last, the unabridged audiobook of Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize--winning classic To Kill a Mockingbird (Caedmon) is released. Oscar-winner Sissy Spacek narrates the 11-CD set. 8/21 Hunters of Dune (Tor), the penultimate...

Six month scorecard ($ in millions).(Foreword)(book publishing)(Houghton Mifflin Co./Marvel Publishing/Pearson Education)(Statistical table)
August 14, 2006... Houghton Mifflin Sales Losses % Chg. 2006 $453.8 $100.8 Sales 2005 $457.3 $96.3 -0.8 Losses -- * The company's higher education...

Hans Weyandt, co-owner, Micawber's Books, St. Paul, Minn.(Galley Talk)(Jonathan Franzen)("The Twenty-Seventh City"/"Strong Motion"/"The Corrections"/"The Discomfort Zone: A Family History"/"How to Be Alone")(Brief article)
August 14, 2006... I wish that Tivo existed in real life so I could simply wind back the whole Jonathan Franzen vs. Oprah Winfrey literary spat of the decade and delete it. The controversy obscures that The Twenty-Seventh City and Strong Motion delighted and...

Booksellers see Starbucks as unneeded competition.(Bookselling)(will sell Mitch Albom's "For One More Day" in its 5,400 stores)
August 14, 2006... While no independent bookseller said the decision by Starbucks to sell Mitch Albom's For One More Day in its 5,400 stores will be a fatal blow to its business, many described it as just the latest in a trend making it that much harder to run...

Believe It or Not: Ripley's and Guinness still strong.(Big Winners)(2007 editions of Ripley's Believe It or Not!, Guinness World Records)
August 14, 2006... When Robert Ripley drew his first cartoon with the catchy headline "Believe It or Not!" in 1913, about a few noteworthy athletic feats of the day, the illustrator/journalist had no idea he was spawning a catchphrase and franchise that would...

Fright night.("Nightmare Academy" by Dean Lorey)(Brief article)
August 14, 2006... Parents may have trouble lulling their children to sleep after exposing them to Nightmare Academy, the first book of a planned trilogy by screenwriter/director Dean Lorey (Arrested Development; My Wife and Kids). The title, whose publishing...

The horse investigator.(Jan Neuharth)("The Hunt")(Oberon Entertainment)(Brief article)
August 14, 2006... When equestrian consultant Jan Neuharth, daughter of USA Today founder Al Neuharth, penned her first mystery, The Hunt (Paper Chase Farms Publishing Group, 2003), she set it in the world she knows best: the foxhunting community of Middleburg,...

Dormant since 2002's adultery drama Unfaithful, director Adrian Lyne has signed on to helm an adaptation of Chuck Hogan's Prince of Thieves (Scribner, 2004).(movies)(Brief article)
August 14, 2006... Dormant since 2002's adultery drama Unfaithful, director Adrian Lyne has signed on to helm an adaptation of Chuck Hogan's Prince of Thieves (Scribner, 2004), a gritty crime drama about a quartet of hoods from Charlestown, Mass., who rip off a...

Writer/ director James Gray (The Yards) has been tapped by Universal and Strike Entertainment to helm and rewrite an adaptation of Steven Knight's drama Alphabet City (Penguin, 1995).(Hollywood)(Brief article)
August 14, 2006... Writer/ director James Gray (The Yards) has been tapped by Universal and Strike Entertainment to helm and rewrite an adaptation of Steven Knight's drama Alphabet City (Penguin, 1995). Knight--who co-created TV's Who Wants to Be a...

Mendlow, Spiro to M-H.(People)(Ellen Mendlow and Leah Spiro appointed McGraw-Hill Book Co.)(Brief article)
August 14, 2006... Leah Spiro and Ellen Mendlow have joined McGrawHill. Spiro, who was most recently an editor at Collins Business, where she edited Jack and Suzy Welch's Winning and Peter F. Drucker's The Daily Drucker, joins the business group as a senior...

Roberson joins Rodale.(People)(David Roberson)(Brief article)
August 14, 2006... David Roberson has been named v-p of finance at Rodale. Roberson, who will be reporting to CFO Bill Ostroff, was previously at Sirius Satellite Radio, where he was senior director of finance.

Hardcover bestsellers/fiction.(includes listings)(Bibliography)
August 14, 2006... Patterson lands in his usual spot for his initial week in the stores--at the top. Little, Brown's first printing for Judge &Jury is one million copies, and the publisher featuring the book's evil villain, Dominic Cavello, with a promo video...

Hardcover bestsellers/nonfiction.(includes listing)(book publishing news)(Bibliography)
August 14, 2006... In a recent blog entry titled "Marley Reincarnated?" Grogan recounts a London wire story about a Doberman pinscher guard dog named Barney who goes on a rampage in a toy museum. "I suppose I shouldn't laugh at the misfortune of all those...

Paperback bestsellers/mass market.(book publishing news)(includes "Paperback Bestsellers/Mass Market" table)(Bibliography)
August 14, 2006... "'Don't move,' I said to Tess, sweaty and out of breath. 'Don't even blink. If you so much as breathe, I know I'm gonna wake up, and I'll be back lugging chaise lounges at poolside, staring at this gorgeous girl that I know something...

Paperback bestsellers/trade.(includes listing)(book publishing news)(Bibliography)
August 14, 2006... Edwards in front of the Blue Willow Bookshop in Houston, where she was feted for her national #1 bestseller with a decorative window and a special cake. More than 75 people attended. After 12 printings, her book is up to 1,325,840 copies. ...

Children's fiction bestsellers.(List)
August 14, 2006... Appearing on The Today Show on August 4 for her new book, Meg Cabot spoke about her popularity in high school--more to the point, her lack of same. "I was a writer, I didn't fit in," she told Matt Lauer. "It was horrible. But I have managed...

Hardcover religion bestsellers.(includes listing)(book publishing news)(Bibliography)
August 14, 2006... In this prequel to the Left Behind books, The Rapture describes the disappearance of millions and includes the perspective of those who ascend to heaven. Jenkins and LaHaye have recognized some heroes of the faith by depicting such notables...

Paperback religion bestsellers.(includes listing)(book publishing news)(Bibliography)
August 14, 2006... Kingsbury is the bestselling author of more than 40 books (with more than two million copies in print), including Gideon's Gift, which is in production as a major motion picture scheduled for release later this year. Her latest, Like...

I made it up: advice, how-to and miscellany for first-time authors of fiction.(First Fiction How-to)("The Areas of My Expertise" by John Hodgman)(Column)
August 14, 2006... 1. Go On Television As you may know, before I was a writer I was a high-powered book publishing insider like you, dear reader, a onetime professional literary agent charged with shepherding young novelists out into the world and leaving...

The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears.(Dinaw Mengestu)(Brief article)(Biography)
August 14, 2006... The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears Dinaw Mengestu, 28 (Riverhead, Feb.) Born: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; now lives in New York City Favorite Authors: V.S. Naipaul, Edward P. Jones, Joan Didion, Saul Bellow Career Arc:...

Inheritance.(Natalie Danford)(Brief article)(Biography)
August 14, 2006... Inheritance Natalie Danford, 39 (St. Martin's, Jan.) Born: New Haven, Conn.; now lives in New York City and Italy Favorite authors: Sue Miller, Jane Smiley, Francine Prose Career arc: From "mother tongue assistant" for...

Like Trees, Walking.(Ravi Howard)(Brief article)(Biography)
August 14, 2006... Like Trees, Walking Ravi Howard, 32 (Amistad, Feb.) Born: Montgomery, Ala., now lives in Mobile, Ala. Favorite authors: Ernest J. Gaines, Albert Murray Career arc: Advertising to temp work to travel magazine editorial...

Lost City Radio.(Daniel Alarcon)(Brief article)(Biography)
August 14, 2006... Lost City Radio Daniel Alarcon, 29 (HarperCollins, Feb.) Born: Lima, Peru; lives in Oakland, Calif. Favorite authors: "Right now my favorites are Ryszard Kapuschinski, Juan Rulfo, Borges, Bruno Schultz, Faulkner." ...

Season of Betrayal.(Margaret Lowrie Robertson)(Brief article)(Biography)
August 14, 2006... Season of Betrayal Margaret Lowrie Robertson, 51 (Tatra Press, Oct.) Born: Washington, D.C.; now lives in London Favorite authors: Alan Paton, Graham Greene, Naguib Mahfouz, Austen, Trollope Career arc: "Copy boy" at the New...

Sharp Objects.(Gillian Flynn)(Brief article)(Biography)
August 14, 2006... Sharp Objects Gillian Flynn, 35 (Shaye Areheart Books, Sept.) Born: Kansas City, Mo.; now lives in Chicago Favorite authors: "It's a long list, including Dennis Lehane, Joy Williams, James Ellroy, Kate Atkinson, Joyce Carol Oates,...

Special Topics in Calamity Physics.(Marisha Pessl)(Brief article)(Biography)
August 14, 2006... Special Topics in Calamity Physics Marisha Pessl, 28 (Viking, Aug.--already in bookstores and garnering stellar reviews: "The most flashily erudite first novel since Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated," said Janet...

The Thirteenth Tale.(Diane Setterfield)(Brief article)(Biography)
August 14, 2006... The Thirteenth Tale Diane Setterfield, 41 (Atria, Sept.) Born: Berkshire, U.K.; now lives in Harrogate, Yorkshire, U.K. Favorite author: Carson McCullers Career arc: English teacher in France; French professor; private...

The Weight of Smoke.(play by George Robert Minkoff)(Brief article)
August 14, 2006... The Weight of Smoke George Robert Minkoff, 63 (McPherson & Co., Dec.) Born: Brooklyn, N.Y.; now lives in Allford, Mass. Favorite authors: Conrad, Shakespeare, Melville, Dylan Thomas Career arc: Rare-book dealer,...

Forward into fall.(new books)(Bibliography)
August 14, 2006... In the midst of a very hot summer, meteorologically and politically, our look ahead at the fall season promises that books will remain at the center of many debates. From MIT Press's The End of the Wild, on vanishing ecosystems, to a flurry...

Fall trade paperbacks.(Bibliography)
August 14, 2006... ART & ARCHITECTURE ABRAMS IMAGE Rock Tease: The Golden Years of Rock T-Shirts (Sept., $19.95) by Erica Easley and Ed Chalfa surveys the T-shirts over three decades in 200 photos. AMERICAN UNIV. IN CAIRO PRESS (DIST. BY IPM) ...

Lost ... and found.(Author Profile)("The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million" by Daniel Mendelsohn)
August 14, 2006... As a boy in Old Bethpage, Long Island, in the 1960s, classicist and literary critic Daniel Mendelsohn was entranced by his grandfather Aby Jager's stories about the Old Country, long, digressive tales told with humor and dramatic flair,...

The Book of Samson.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 14, 2006... * The Book of Samson DAVID MAINE. St. Martin's, $23.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-312-35339-1 In two previous novels, Maine showcased a great gift for fleshing out the lives of biblical characters (Noah and his relations in The Preservationist;...

The Long Night of Winchell Dear.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 14, 2006... The Long Night of Winchell Dear ROBERT JAMES WALLER. Crown/ Shaye Areheart, $21 (160p) ISBN 0-307-20996-2 Waller, of The Bridges of Madison County fame, takes readers to the unforgiving terrain of south Texas in his 10th novel....

The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: The Adventure Stories: Volume Four.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 14, 2006... The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: The Adventure Stories: Volume Four LOUIS L'AMOUR. Bantam, $24 (672p) ISBN 978-0-553-80494-2 The fourth volume of the late L'Amour's short stories takes the author out of his familiar American...

Blind Submission.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 14, 2006... Blind Submission DEBRA GINSBERG. Crown/ Shaye Areheart, $23.95 (336p) ISBN 0-307-34604-8 Memoirist Ginsberg (Waiting; Raising Blaze) gracefully transitions into fiction with a fresh twist on the aggrieved publishing assistant. Angel...

PW talks with Alyson Richman: Van Gogh's footnotes: Richman's third novel, The Last Van Gogh (Reviews, Aug. 7), is less about the painter than his effects on a country doctor's cloistered family.(Q&A)(Interview)
August 14, 2006... Your first novel (The Mark Carver's Son) is set in historic Japan. Your second novel (Swedish Tango) takes place in mid-century Chile, Finland and Sweden. And now you're in 19th-century rural France. I'm attracted to stories in which the...

Love in a Fallen City.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 14, 2006... * Love in a Fallen City EILEEN CHANG, TRANS. FROM THE MANDARIN BY KAREN S. KINGSBURY AND EILEEN CHANG. NYRB Classics, $14.95 paper (316p) ISBN 978-159017-178-3 Chang died in 1995 in Los Angeles, having emigrated to the U.S. in 1955 at...

Rain Village.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 14, 2006... Rain Village CAROLYN TURGEON. Unbridled, $24.95 (328p) ISBN 978-1-932961-24-9 Tessa Riley, mocked by one and all for being "about a third of ,AL the size of the usual kind," resides uneasily in the early 20th-century farming community of...

Lady Sings the Cruels.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 14, 2006... Lady Sings the Cruels ERIC PETE. NAL, $13.95paper (320p) ISBN 0-451-21954-6 Pete (Don't Get It Twisted) traces the lives of three Houston residents in his fifth novel with mixed results. Waitress and aspiring singer Amelia is derailed...

The Willow Field.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 14, 2006... The Willow Field WILLIAM KITTREDGE. Knopf, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4097-1 Memoirist and story writer Kittredge's first novel (after The Nature of Generosity and Hole in the Sky) tells the life story of Rossie Benasco, the ornery...

Four Kinds of Rain.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 14, 2006... * Four Kinds of Rain ROBERT WARD. St. Martin's Minotaur, $22.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-35780-1 Robert Wells, the hapless psychiatrist hero of Ward's superior noir novel, has spent many thousands of hours helping people at his free clinic...

Cotton Song: A Novel.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 14, 2006... Cotton Song TOM BAILEY. Crown/Shaye Areheart, $24 (336p) ISBN 1-4000-8332-X In his haunting second novel (after The Grace That Keeps This World), Bailey presents a vicious history of race relations in his home state. Set in fictionalized...

The Secret Heiress.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 14, 2006... The Secret Heiress JUDITH GOULD. NAL, $23.95 (320p) ISBN 0-451-21966-X The world is a candy store for Niki Papadaki, a wild international party girl one week away from her 21st birthday--the date established in her late father's will...

Short Straw.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 14, 2006... Short Straw STUART WOODS. Putnam, $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-399-15368-6 At the start of this taut tale of a very bad woman out to fleece a very good man from bestseller Woods, Santa Fe, N.Mex., lawyer Ed Eagle wakes up one morning with a...

Not Easily Broken.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 14, 2006... Not Easily Broken T.D. JAKES. Warner Faith, $23.99 (256p) ISBN 0-446-57677-8 How does a marriage fall apart, and how does one go about saving it? Bestselling author T.D. Jakes (Woman, Thou Art Loosed!) puts those questions at the heart...

The Lazy Boys.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 14, 2006... The Lazy Boys CARL SHUKER. Shoemaker & Hoard, $15 paper (304p) ISBN 978-1-59376-123-3 Richard "Souse" Sauer, the 18-year-old antihero narrator of New Zealand writer Shuker's second novel (after Method Actors) is on a violent behavior jag...

Millersburg.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 14, 2006... * Millersburg HARRY CAULEY. Permanent, $26 (205p) ISBN 978-1-57962-133-9 During the steamy summer of 1939, a lurid double murder rocks sleepy Millersburg, N.J., in Cauley's accomplished third novel. The crime implicates Josh Pritchard,...

Hundred-Dollar Baby.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 14, 2006... Hundred-Dollar Baby ROBERT B. PARKER. Putnam, $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-399-15376-1 April Kyle, the damsel in distress that Spenser rescued in two earlier books, Ceremony (1982) and Taming a Sea Horse (1986), again turns to the iconic...

Heaven Is a Long Way Off.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 14, 2006... Heaven Is a Long Way Off WIN BLEVINS. Forge, $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-765-30576-3 Spur Award-winner Blevins adds this fourth volume to the developing epic of western mountain man Sam Morgan (last seen in Dancing with the Golden Bear)....

Haweswater.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 14, 2006... Haweswater SARAH HALL. Harper Perennial, $13.95 (304p) ISBN 0-06-081725-9 Mardale, the remote British hamlet where Hall's remarkable debut novel is set, is a close-knit community of tenant farmers "where grand events and theatrical...

The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 14, 2006... The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf MOHJA KAHF. Carroll & Graf, $14.95 paper (280p) ISBN 0-7867-1519-7 In comp lit professor Kahf's fiction debut' Khadra Shamy recalls growing up in an immigrant Syrian family in 1970s Indianapolis. Khadra's...

The Peruvian Notebooks.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 14, 2006... The Peruvian Notebooks BRAULIO MUNOZ. Univ. of Arizona, $17.95 paper (288p) ISBN 978-08165-2506-5 On a Saturday afternoon in December 1995, Peruvian immigrant Antonio Alday Gutierrez lies in his small Delaware house, contemplating his...

Scoop.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 14, 2006... Scoop RENE GUTTERIDGE. WaterBrook, $12.99 paper (352p) ISBN 1-4000-7157-7 This humorous novel from Gutteridge kicks off her new series, the Occupational Hazards, featuring seven siblings in a clown family that disbands when the parents...

The Widow.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 14, 2006... The Widow CARLA NEGGERS. Mira, $21.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7783-2303-7 Bestseller Neggers (Dark Sky) keeps the reader guessing "whodunit" to the end of her intriguing novel of romantic suspense. Seven years after Boston homicide detective...

Mineral Spirits.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 14, 2006... Mineral Spirits HEATHER SHARFEDDIN. Bridge Works, $21.95 (264p) ISBN 978-1-882593-98-9 Sharfeddin's second western (after 2005's Blackbelly) is a sharp, perceptive blend of crime and contemporary life issues. When 10-year-old Gray...

Strange Candy.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 14, 2006... Strange Candy LAURELL K. HAMILTON. Berkley, $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-425-21201-1 Fans will best appreciate the 14 often darkly humorous fictions in bestseller Hamilton's first story collection, which includes several unpublished tales....

Three Sides to Every Story.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 14, 2006... Three Sides to Every Story CLARENCE NERO. Broadway/Harlem Moon, $12.95 (256p) ISBN 0-7679-2136-4 Nero's second outing (after Cheekie), set against the backdrop of New Orleans's pre-Katrina Ninth Ward, deploys three deftly drawn narrators...

Julius Winsome.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 14, 2006... Julius Winsome GERARD DONOVAN. Overlook, $23.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-58567-849-5 Donovan's poetic, well-crafted third novel, like his debut, Schopenhauer's Telescope, shows how violence can infect and take over a person's life. Julius...

Uke Rivers Delivers.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 14, 2006... Uke Rivers Delivers R.T. SMITH. Louisiana State Univ., $16.95 paper (152p) ISBN 0-8071-3187-3 These 14 monologues are not so much short stories as Robert Browning--like soliloquies. In them, poet (Split the Lark) and Shenandoah editor...

Havoc.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 14, 2006... Havoc JACK Du BRUL. Dutton, $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-525-94882-7 Thriller fans who don't demand much realism in their reads should enjoy the first hardcover entry in bestseller Du Brul's adventure series featuring geologist and spy Philip...

A Simple Distance.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 14, 2006... A Simple Distance K.E. SILVA. Akashic, $14.95 paper (205p) ISBN 1-933354-11-9 In this earnest debut, young attorney and biracial lesbian Jean Sousa is accustomed to living between worlds. But it's Jean's Jamaica Kinkaid--like...

Everybody Kills Somebody Sometime: A "Rat Pack" Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 14, 2006... Everybody Kills Somebody Sometime: A "Rat Pack" Mystery ROBERT J. RANDISI. St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne, $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-33862-6 Randisi (Arch Angels) provides a snazzy snapshot of a mythic 1960 Las Vegas in this...

Why We Die.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 14, 2006... * Why We Die MICK HERRON. Carroll & Graf, $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-78671-827-6 In Herron's dazzling third Zoe Boehm adventure, the second to appear in the U.S. (after 2004's The Last Voice You Hear), the struggling London PI gets mixed...

Red Hook: An Artie Cohen Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 14, 2006... Red Hook: An Artie Cohen Mystery REGGIE NADELSON. Walker, $23.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-8027-1534-0 Nadelson's strong sixth Attic Cohen whodunit (after 2005's The Disturbed Earth) depicts a grim and gritty post-9/11 New York City faced with...

Chaucer and the Doctor of Physic.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 14, 2006... Chaucer and the Doctor of Physic PHILIPPA MORGAN. Carroll & Graf, $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-78671-824-5 Intrigue involving "land pirates," who plant false lights to lure merchant ships to their doom on the rocky English coast, is the...

Hose Monkey.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 14, 2006... Hose Monkey TONY SPINOSA. Bleak House (www.bleakhousebooks.com), $23.95 (312p) ISBN 978-1-932557-18-3 A well-developed protagonist lifts this police thriller, the first of a new series from Spinosa, the pseudonym of Edgar-finalist Reed...

Deadly Interest.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 14, 2006... Deadly Interest: An Alex St. James Mystery JULIE HYZY. Five Star, $25.95 (385p) ISBN 978-1-59414-494-3 Hyzy's second cozy to feature Chicago TV reporter Alex St. James delivers on the promise of the first in the series, Deadly Blessings...

Grave Surprise.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 14, 2006... Grave Surprise CHARLAINE HARRIS. Berkley Prime Crime, $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0425-21203-5 At the start of Harris's winning second supernatural caper to feature Harper Connelly (after 2005's Grave Sight), a skeptical anthropology...

To Be Continued: The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, Volume One.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 14, 2006... To Be Continued: The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, Volume One ROBERT SILVERBERG. Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $35 (392p) ISBN 978-1-59606-061-6 Beginning with his very first sale, "Gorgon Planet," Hugo and Nebula...

Chasing the Dead.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 14, 2006... * Chasing the Dead JOE SCHREIBER. Ballantine, $16.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-345-48747-6 Abandon hope, all readers who enter Schreiber's taut, scary debut: &you're not going anywhere until you devour every one of its tension-filled pages. Sue...

Spirit Gate: Book One of Crossroads.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 14, 2006... Spirit Gate: Book One of Crossroads KATE ELLIOTT. Tor, $25.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-765-31055-2 Elliott's elaborate first entry in a projected seven-book fantasy series introduces a once prosperous but now lawless land called the Hundred....

Once upon a Spring Morn.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 14, 2006... Once Upon a Spring Morn DENNIS L. McKIERNAN. Roc, $23.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-451-46112-4 The fairy Princess Celeste of Springwood finds a lover in the chevalier Roel after he rescues her from brigands in McKiernan's entertaining fourth and...

The Eunuch's Heir.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 14, 2006... The Eunuch's Heir ELAINE ISAAK. Eos, $14.95 paper (432p) ISBN 978-0-06-078255-9 The lusty Prince Wolfram, heir to the late, saintly King Kattanan Rhys, flees the kingdom of Lochalyn following an attempt on his life in Isaak's colorful...

Dark Moon Defender.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 14, 2006... Dark Moon Defender SHARON SHINN. Ace, $23.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-441-01430-9 In Shinn's intrigue-filled third Twelve Houses fantasy (after The Thirteenth AL House and Mystic and Rider), Justin, one of the elite King's Riders who serve King...

Catalyst.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 14, 2006... Catalyst NINA KIRIKI HOFFMAN. Tachyon (www.tachyonpublications.com), $14.95 paper (184p) ISBN 978-1-892391-38-4 This weird novel of alien contact from Stoker-winner Hoffman (A Fistful of Sky) careens like a pinball among the bumpers of...

The Last Match.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 14, 2006... The Last Match DAVID DODGE. Dorchester/Hard Case Crime, $6.99 (320p) ISBN 978-08439-5596-5 It has been 54 years since Dodge's most famous book, To Catch a Thief, hit the shelves and was shortly thereafter made into the classic Hitchcock...

The Stolen Bride.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 14, 2006... The Stolen Bride BRENDA JOYCE. HQN, $6.99 (560p) ISBN 978-0-373-77184-4 This third volume of Joyce's popular de Warenne dynasty (following The Masquerade) features impetuous and independent de Warenne daughter Eleanor, betrothed to a...

Atlantis.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 14, 2006... Atlantis DAVID GIBBINS. Dell, $6.99 (496p) ISBN 978-0-553-58792-0 Marine archeologist Jack Howard may have found the key to uncovering Atlantis, the legendary sunken city purportedly built by a flourishing culture. A scrap of papyrus...