Publishers Weekly articles from August 2008

Publishers Weekly archives from August 2008

The Dart League King.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 4, 2008... * The Dart League King Keith Lee Morris. Tin House (PGW, dist.), $14.95 paper (280p) ISBN 978-0-9794198-8-1 In this absorbing and intelligent novel, Morris (The Greyhound God) follows five characters through a handful of hours culminating...

Publishers find fans and trends at Comic-Con: the San Diego event is more than just comics.(Foreword)(San Diego Comic-Con International)
August 4, 2008... Every year more traditional book publishers make the pilgrimage to the San Diego Comic-Con International, and 2008 was no exception. Harry N. Abrams used the 2008 Comic-Con to launch Abrams ComicArts, a new imprint for comics and comics-related...

Amazon to buy AbeBooks.(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Amazon, already the country's leading seller of used books, has agreed to acquire AbeBooks, one of the largest online book marketplaces, with over 110 million titles available for sale through its seller network. The deal is expected to close...

Rodale Books revamped.(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Colin Dickerman and Pam Krauss have been appointed v-p, publishing directors of Rodale Books by Karen Rinaldi, senior v-p, publishing director of the book group. Dickerman, who had worked with Rinaldi at Bloomsbury, will oversee the company's...

A family's reading habits.(Books & son)(Editorial)
August 4, 2008... As the editor of this magazine, I get a lot of books sent to me free. (And I'm not complaining, so, please, don't even think about changing your ways.) In fact, free books, sent unbidden, is one of the many great perks of this job--I get books...

Indigo sales up.(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Total revenue at Indigo Books & Music rose 3.1%, to C$191 million ($186 million), in the first quarter ended June 28, and the net loss was cut to C$1.3 million from C$2.8 million during the same quarter last year. The strongest growth was in...

Management shuffle at HC.(HarperCollins)(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... New HarperCollins chief Brian Murray as promoted Larry Nevins to executive v-p, operations. Since 2005, Nevins has overseen HC's creative operations departments and established a digital publishing services group. He will now take on IT and...

Hachette enjoying banner year.(Clicking)
August 4, 2008... The 11% sales increase posted by Hachette Book Group USA in the first six months of 2008 "was very, very satisfying," said CEO David Young, noting that all divisions contributed to the gain. But while all of HBG is doing well, Young said 2008...

'PW' sets writers conference.(Publishers Weekly)
August 4, 2008... Publishers Weekly will hold a one-day seminar September 22 at New York University that will explain the publishing business to would-be authors. "Book Publishing 101" will begin with a keynote by best-selling author Wally Lamb, followed by a...

Lifetime draws viewers with lit adaptations.(Upgrading)
August 4, 2008... TV movies have long been known for high melodrama and kitschy plots, and Lifetime, the cable net aimed at women, has not always avoided that image with its original movies. But recently, the network has drawn unexpectedly strong ratings for its...

The Founders on the Founders: Word Portraits from the American Revolutionary Era.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 4, 2008... "[A]lways an honest Man, often a wise one, but sometimes, and in some things, absolutely out of his senses." [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] --Benjamin Franklin on John Adams More than two centuries after the American struggle for...

Jefferson vs. the Patent Trolls: A Populist Vision of Intellectual Property Rights.(Thomas Jefferson)(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... "Thomas Jefferson's property rights experiences and deliberations are the foundation for the U.S. intellectual property system and provide a framework for analyzing today's industry-changing intellectual property debates. Not only a good...

The Mind of a Patriot: Patrick Henry and the World of Ideas.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 4, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Mind of a Patriot presents an intellectual life of a major figure who has traditionally been seen as an anti-intellectual "child of nature." Starting with neglected pieces of evidence--the inventory of Henry's...

Free Press preempts 'stuff'.(Deals)(The Story of Stuff)(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Wylie O'Sullivan at the Free Press preempted world rights to Annie Leonard's The Story of Stuff via Linda Loewenthal at David Black, who had four preemptive offers and 15 publishers interested. Leonard, the creator of the Internet short film...

Futter's first.(Deals)(Deb Futter )(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Grand Central editor-in-chief Deb Futter has made her first acquisition since joining the company at the end of last year, preempting a debut novel, Roses, by Leila Meacham. David McCormick sold world English rights. Spanning the 20th century,...

Life's soundtrack.(Deals)(13 Ways of Looking at a Pop Song)(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Three Rivers senior editor Carrie Thornton bought North American rights for Crown to a new book by Rob Sheffield to be called 13 Ways of Looking at a Pop Song; Daniel Greenberg made the sale. The book is a collection of essays on some of the...

Reinterpreting Lawrence.(Deals)(Lawrence in Arabia: A Story of Leadership )(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Bantam's John Flicker preempted North American rights to James Schneider's Lawrence in Arabia: A Story of Leadership via E.J. McCarthy. This nonfiction account of T.E. Lawrence's odyssey as a guerrilla leader during WWI will reconsider his role...

Beier goes shopping.(Deals)(Elizabeth Beier)(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Elizabeth Beier at St. Martin's Press bought world rights to Janice Lieberman's How to Shop for a Husband in a deal with Karen Gantz Zahler. Today Show consumer correspondent Lieberman, with Bonnie Teller, will offer rules based on techniques...

Calendar Aug. 10-16.(Calendar)
August 4, 2008... 8/10 Out this week: Dumbfounded: A Memoir (Crown), a funny debut by 27-year-old Matt Rothschild, that should appeal to fans of David Sedaris and Augusten Burroughs. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 8/11 PW noted that the changing...

Not meant for cooking.(Hot Topic)
August 4, 2008... Food Network stars may do well publishing $14.95 paperbacks, but these days, there's another breed of cookbook on the market, one that combines food, art and, armchair travel. Here are five of this fall's gems, priced to move... eyebrows. ...

Cristina Nosti, Books & Books, Coral Gables, Fla.(Galley Talk)(Victor Pelevin's The Sacred Book of the Werewolf )(Brief article)(Book review)
August 4, 2008... Reader, beware: Victor Pelevin's The Sacred Book of the Werewolf [Viking, Sept. 4] may liberate you. It's not hard to imagine Russian-born Pelevin as a Zen master of the literary, intent on provoking enlightenment--his own? our own?--through...

Hardcover bestsellers/fiction.
August 4, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Moscow Rules rules the national bestseller charts--and author Daniel Silva lands in the top spot for the first time. This is Silva's eighth novel featuring art restorer--cum--Israeli secret agent Gabriel Allon:...

Hardcover bestsellers/nonfiction.
August 4, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Little, Brown went back to press on The Last Lecture and now has 3,390,000 copies in print. When Carnegie Mellon computer sciences professor Pausch died July 25 of pancreatic cancer at age 47, just about every...

Paperback bestsellers/mass market.
August 4, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Dell launched John Grisham's #1 bestseller Playing for Pizza with a 2.5 million-copy first printing. Back on October 8, 2007, the Doubleday hardcover also landed in the top spot with an announced first printing of...

Paperback bestsellers/trade.
August 4, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A July 11 story in the Philadelphia Inquirer on bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert talks about her store, Two Buttons, the 2,200-sq.-ft. home/emporium Gilbert owns with her husband, Jose Nunes (Felipe in Eat,...

Comics bestsellers.
August 4, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Tokyopop's Fruits Basket manga series just keeps selling, and Vol. 20 is no different. Fruits Basket is the story of an orphaned girl who discovers that members of her adopted family turn into the animal spirits of...

Word for word: sharing translation costs gets foreign fiction into diverse markets.
August 4, 2008... Back in 2003, at the Bologna Children's Book Fair, Colleen MacMillan, associate publisher of Vancouver-based Annick Press, and Erica Wagner, children's publisher at Australia's Allen & Unwin, both found themselves pursuing a German medieval...

Mattering to readers: some advice to publishers from an Internet guru and author about how to survive in the digital age.(Digital Publishing)
August 4, 2008... I come from the geek tribe, and I've been writing about the Internet in various forums on the Internet since the early '90s. As a result, I'm often asked why I wrote Here Comes Everybody--my recent book about how social tools like the Web and...

Brent Cunningham: knows why small press publishing is like baseball.
August 4, 2008... Brent Cunningham didn't plan on becoming operations director of Small Press Distribution (SPD), the 40-year-old, San Francisco-based nonprofit distributor of more than 500 of America's best small, tiny and micro publishers. Like many people...

On sale in September.
August 4, 2008... With more major laydowns than any other September in recent memory, the month peaks with Christopher Paolini's Brisingr, for kids (2.5 million copies), and Nicholas Sparks's The Lucky One, for adults (1.5 million). There's Thomas Friedman on...

An L.A. State of Mind.(Author Profile)(Michael Connelly)
August 4, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Bestselling crime novelist Michael Connelly, 52, says that his inspiration "was always wrapped up in Los Angeles, even though I'd never been there." It was reading quintessential L.A. master Raymond Chandler that...

Health front and center: with health care and costs a national concern, publishers hope consumers turn to the book.
August 4, 2008... As in every category, with health books, a strong platform is no guarantee of success, but it's a good start. Kathy Freston, author of the Weinstein Books May title Quantum Wellness, appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show (Oprah was inspired to...

Big books, on campus and off: hot independent press and university press titles for the fall.(Indie/U.P. Sleepers)(Bibliography)
August 4, 2008... Smaller presses and university presses fill an important niche in the book publishing market. They are often willing to tackle difficult subjects that larger houses avoid, like Sex Trafficking (Columbia Univ.).They're also more willing to take...

Blindspot.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 4, 2008... Blindspot Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore. Spiegel & Grau, $24.95 (600p) ISBN 978-0-385-52619-7 Professors Kamensky and Lepore try for playful historical romance, but deliver instead a novel that is, if rich in period detail, also...

Disquiet.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 4, 2008... * Disquiet Julia Leigh. Penguin, $13 paper (128p) ISBN 978-0-14-311350-8 Leigh follows her internationally acclaimed The Hunter with a haunting family drama tightly packed into a tense novella. Olivia, referred to primarily (and somewhat...

Family Planning.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 4, 2008... Family Planning Karan Mahajan. Harper Perennial, $13.95 paper (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-153725-7 The patriarch of a chaotic family living in a hectic land must come to terms with himself and what he's wrought at home and at work in this...

The Art of Social War.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 4, 2008... The Art of Social War Jodi Wing. Harper, $13.95 paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-06156824-4 In her debut novel, Wing uses Sun-Tzu's classic The Art of War and her own difficult transition from New York to L.A. to craft a brainy, satiric chick lit...

Isaac's Torah.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 4, 2008... * Isaac's Torah Angel Wagenstein, trans, from the Bulgarian by Elizabeth Frank and Deliana Simeonova. Other Press/Handsel, $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-59051-245-6 Bulgarian author and screenwriter Wagenstein devotes his powerful novel to an...

The Howling Miller.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 4, 2008... The Howling Miller Arto Paasilinna,trans. from the Finnish into French by Anne Colin du Terrail; trans, from the French by Will Hobson. Canongate, $14 paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-84767-181-3 Gunnar Huttunen, the cranky protagonist of...

Salmonella Men on Planet Porno.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 4, 2008... Salmonella Men on Planet Porno Yasutaka Tsutsui, trans, from the Japanese by Andrew Driver. Pantheon, $21.95 (2 72p) ISBN 978-0-307-37726-5 In this collection, his American debut, Tsutsui--recipient of a Chevalier des Arts et des...

I See You Everywhere.(Book review)
August 4, 2008... I See You Everywhere Julia Glass. Pantheon, $24 (304p) ISBN 978-0-375-42275-1 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The fictional palate of Julia Glass, bestselling author of 2002's ThreeJunes, is one of dog-breeding women and foxhunts, tony...

Open Doors.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 4, 2008... Open Doors Gloria Goldreich. Mira, $13.95 paper (496p) ISBN 978-0-7783-2543-7 Goldreich's latest wide-ranging novel, rooted in suburban New York, skillfully delineates contemporary and conservative Jewish lift, but with a...

The Ghost in Love.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 4, 2008... The Ghost in Love Jonathan Carroll. Sarah Crichton/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-374-16186-6 Death is not the end but rather the start of a series of madcap and sometimes moving adventures for characters in this spry novel...

Half a Crown.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 4, 2008... Half a Crown Jo Walton. Tor, $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-07653-1621-9 In Walton's fine conclusion to her alternative-history trilogy (after Ha'penny), former Scotland Yarder Peter Carmichael, now head of the secret police organization known as...

A Most Wanted Man.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 4, 2008... A Most Wanted Man John le Carre. Scribner, $28 (336p) ISBN 9781-4165-9488-8 When boxer Melik Oktay and his mother, both Turkish Muslims living in Hamburg, take in a street person calling himself Issa at the start of this morally complex...

A Partisan's Daughter.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 4, 2008... A Partisan's Daughter Louis de Bernieres. Knopf, $21 (208p) ISBN 978-0-307-26887-7 De Bernieres (Corelli's Mandolin) delivers an oddball love story of two spiritually displaced would-be lovers. During a dreary late 1970s London winter,...

Peripheral Vision.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 4, 2008... Peripheral Vision Patricia Ferguson. Other Press, $24.95 (376p) ISBN 978-1-59051-287-6 The aftermath of a child's injury leaves a trail of love, loss and mystery around generations of women in British author--and former nurse--Ferguson's...

The Fire.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 4, 2008... * The Fire Katherine Neville. Ballantine, $26 (464p) ISBN 978-0-345-50067-0 Fans of Neville's debut, The Eight (1988), which long before there was a Da Vinci Code featured a complex historical setting, ciphers, conspiracies, puzzles and a...

Happy Families.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 4, 2008... Happy Families Carlos Fuentes, trans, from the Spanish by Edith Grossman. Random, $27 (352p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6688-9 This collection by celebrated Mexican author Fuentes (The Eagle's Throne) treks a wide swath of Mexican history,...

The Darker Side.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 4, 2008... The Darker Side Cody McFadyen. Bantam, $24 (368p) ISBN 978-0-553-80694-6 Full of horrific violence, this solid third thriller to feature scarred FBI agent Smoky Barrett (after The Face of Death) shows that McFadyen knows how to shock. When...

The Whiskey Rebels.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 4, 2008... The Whiskey Rebels David Liss. Random, $26 (544p) ISBN 978-14000-6420-5 Set in and around Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and New York City in the years after the Revolutionary War, this clever thriller from Liss (The Ethical Assassin) follows...

Flesh House.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 4, 2008... * Flesh House Stuart MacBride. St. Martin's Minotaur, $24.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-312-38263-6 Not for the faint of heart or weak of stomach, MacBride's superbly unsettling fourth novel (after Bloodshot) sets Det. Sgt. Logan McRae on the trail...

The Letters.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 4, 2008... The Letters Luanne Rice and Joseph Monninger. Bantam, $22 (208p) ISBN 978-0-553-80741-7 The bestselling Rice teams up with Monninger in this epistolary novel of an unraveling marriage. Sam and Hadley West separated following the death of...

Nine Kinds of Naked.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 4, 2008... Nine Kinds of Naked Tony Vigorito. Harcourt, $14 paper (416p) ISBN 978-0-15-603123-3 Fans of Vigorito's originally self-published 2007 cult hit Just a Couple of Days will have a ball with this hyperactive, zany novel. Twenty-year-old...

Dog Eats Dog.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 4, 2008... Dog Eats Dog Iain Levison. Bitter Lemon, $14.95 paper (282p) ISBN 978-1-904738-31-2 When wounded bank robber Phil Dixon flees a botched holdup in New Jersey at the start of this entertaining crime novel from Levison (Working Stiff's...

Hurting Distance.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 4, 2008... Hurting Distance Sophie Hannah. Soho, $25 (364p) ISSN 978-1-56947-521-8 In Hannah's intense second thriller (after Little Face), Det. Sgt. Charlie Zailer and her sidekick, Det. Constable Simon Waterhouse, pursue a serial rapist who preys...

Life after Genius.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 4, 2008... Life After Genius M. Ann Jacoby. Grand Central, $24.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-446-19971-1 A boy genius has a rough go of it in college in Jacoby's uneven debut. While Theodore Mead Fegley's domineering mother looked over his shoulder and his...

The Other Side of Silence.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 4, 2008... The Other Side of Silence Bill Pronzini. Walker, $24 (224p) ISBN 978-08027-1713-9 The client: a woman in peril. The case: a missing person. The hero: an investigator. The complication: thugs and secrets. MWA Grand Master Pronzini (The...

The Wrecking Ball.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 4, 2008... The Wrecking Ball Christiana Spens. Harper Perennial, $13.95 paper (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-164934-9 Spens's protagonist, Alice, just a few years older than the debut novelist herself, is the product of a transcontinental teenagehood, a...

Final Judgment.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 4, 2008... Final Judgment Eliot Asinof. Bunim & Bannigan (IPS, dist.), $20 (224p) ISBN 978-1-933480-24-4 In this posthumous novel, Asinof (who died in June and is best known for Eight Men Out) presents a cartoonish indictment of Bush-era morals with...

Stray Dog Winter.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 4, 2008... Stray Dog Winter David Francis. MacAdam/Cage, $24 (333p) ISBN 978-1-59692-315-7 This overwrought sophomore effort from novelist Francis (The Great Inland Sea) finds young gay Australian artist Darcy Bright reluctantly traveling to Moscow...

The Butt.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 4, 2008... * The Butt Will Self. Bloomsbury, $25 (368p) ISBN 978-1-59691-555-8 From Self, the British master of the satirical fantasy, comes a loquacious and inventive farce about the demise of civilization. Tom Brodzinski, relaxing on vacation in the...

Godchildren.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 4, 2008... * Godchildren Nicholas Coleridge. St. Martin's, $25.95 (528p) ISBN 978-0-312-38258-2 In this sweeping drama, Coleridge (A Much Married Man) zeroes in on a charismatic tycoon whose desires and drive know no bounds. As a godfather of six,...

Blacklight Blue.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 4, 2008... Blacklight Blue Peter May. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (236p) ISBN 978-1-59058-552-8 In May's dark, intense third mystery to feature Scottish forensic scientist Enzo Macleod, Enzo takes on his third cold case described in a book by Parisian...

The Sins of the Children: An Alison Glasby Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 4, 2008... * The Sins of the Children: An Alison Glasby Mystery James Brownley. Severn, $27.95 (240p) ISSN 978-0-7278-6664-6 The quiet, charming wit that's the hallmark of Brownley's second mystery to feature floundering British journalist Alison Glasby...

Clean Cut: An Anna Travis Novel.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 4, 2008... Clean Cut: An Anna Travis Novel Lynda La Plante. Touchstone, $15 paper (416p) ISBN 978-1-4165-8666-1 In La Plante's solid third police procedural to feature London Det. Insp. Anna Travis (after 2007's The Red Dahlia), Anna's lover and...

Bright Hair about the Bone.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 4, 2008... Bright Hair About the Bone Barbara Cleverly. Delta, $13 paper (432p) ISBN 978-0-385-33989-6 Dagger Award-winner Cleverly's third Laetitia Talbot mystery falls short of the high standard set by the first in this historical series, The Tomb of...

The Tale of Briar Bank: The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 4, 2008... The Tale of Briar Bank: The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter Susan Wittig Albert. Berkley Prime Crime, $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-425-22361-1 At the start of Albert's delightful fifth cottage tale (after 2007's The Tale of Hawthorn House),...

A Spoonful of Poison: An Agatha Raisin Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 4, 2008... A Spoonful of Poison: An Agatha Raisin Mystery M.C. Beaton. St. Martin's Minotaur, $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-34912-7 When elderly Mrs. Andrews blithely jumps to her death offthe tower of Saint Odo the Severe during a church charity event...

The Fourth Victim.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 4, 2008... The Fourth Victim Tony Spinosa. Bleak House (www.bleakhousebooks.corn), $24.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-60648009-0; $14.95 paper ISBN 978-1-60648-010-6 In this passable whodunit from Spinosa, the sequel to Hose Monkey (2006), Joe Serpe and Bob...

To Kill or Cure.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 4, 2008... To Kill or Cure Susanna Gregory. Sphere (IPG, dist.), $24.95 (448p) ISBN 978-1-84744-032-7 A murderous town-and-gown conflict propels the action of Gregory's engrossing 13th mystery set in 14th-century Cambridge and featuring physician...

The January Dancer.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 4, 2008... * The January Dancer Michael Flynn. For, $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1817-6 Acclaimed SF writer Flynn (Eifelheim) delivers an epic tale of adventure, intrigue, suspense and mystery. Forced to land for repairs on an unnamed, remote...

Skeleton in the Closet and Other Stories.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 4, 2008... Skeleton in the Closet and Other Stories Robert Bloch. Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $40 (312p) ISBN 978-1-59606-122-4 Pulp icon Bloch (1917-1994) left his mark in many genres--crime fiction, fantasy, science fiction,...

The Shadow Pavilion.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 4, 2008... The Shadow Pavilion Liz Williams. Night Shade (www.nightshadebooks.com), $24.95 (248p) ISBN 978-1-59780122-5 The fourth Det. Insp. Chen mystery (after 2007's Precious Dragon) adds a bit of Bollywood to the high-stakes intrigues of...

Eastern Tide.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 4, 2008... Eastern Tide Juliet E. McKenna. Orbit, $12.95 paper (608p) ISBN 978-1-84149-377-0 The fourth Aldabreshin Compass novel (after 2005's Western Shore) raises the stakes for dragon-chasing Kheda, who has resorted to working with magewoman...

The Knight of the Red Beard.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 4, 2008... The Knight of the Red Beard Andre Norton and Sasha Miller. Tor, $25.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0748-4 Although billed as the conclusion to Miller and Norton's Oak, Yew, Ash and Rowan Cycle, this fifth installment (after 2005's Dragon Blade)...

Defenseless.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 4, 2008... Defenseless Celeste Marsella. Bantam Dell, $6.99 (404p) ISBN 978-0-440-24466-0 This captivating debut by criminal defense attorney Marsella kicks off a series with a complex, intriguing mystery. After a drunken night at a popular mob...

Risking Her Heart.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 4, 2008... Risking Her Heart Liz Allison and Wendy Etherington. HQN, $6.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0473-77319-0 In this leisurely sequel to 2007's No Holding Back, beautiful Rachel Garrison, manager of the Garrison family NASCAR racing team, struggles with...

Stamped Out.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 4, 2008... * Stamped Out Terri Thayer. Berkley Prime Crime, $6.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-425-22329-1 Packed full of family drama and small-town charm, Thayer's enjoyable mystery series debut outshines most other crafting cozies. After her marriage...

His Captive Lady.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 4, 2008... His Captive Lady Anne Gracie. Berkley Sensation, $7.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-425-22324-6 Australian author Gracie's second "Devil Riders" Regency romance (after The Stolen Princess) is a breezy diversion that follows the trials of Lady Helen...

Alan's War: The Memories of G.I. Alan Cope.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 4, 2008... Alan's War: The Memories of G.I. Alan Cope Emmanuel Guibert. Roaring Brook/First Second, $24 paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-5964-3096-9 Guibert writes and draws for American G.I. Alan Cope in this poignant and flank graphic memoir of young soldier...

Burma Chronicles.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 4, 2008... Burma Chronicles Guy DeLisle. Drawn & Quarterly, $19.95 (208p) ISBN 978-1-897299-50-0 DeLisle's (Pyongyang) latest exploration of Asian life is probably the best possible argument against the ruling junta in the embattled (and now nearly...

Franz Kafka's The Trial: A Graphic Novel.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 4, 2008... Franz Kafka's The Trial: A Graphic Novel Franz Kafka, David Zane Mairowitz and Chantal Montellier. Sterling, $14.95 (128p) ISBN 978-1-4114-1591-1 In Kafka's famed story, bank clerk Joseph K is arrested for a crime that didn't take place...

Herbie Archives, Volume One.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 4, 2008... Herbie Archives, Volume One Shane O'Shea and Ogden Whitney. Dark Horse, $49.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-59307-987-1 Superman. Batman. The Fantastic Four. Second-stringers, the lot of them, when measured against the awesomeness that is Herbie...