Publishers Weekly articles from August 2010

Publishers Weekly archives from August 2010

The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires.(Pick of the week: An Empire State of Mind)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 30, 2010... * The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires Tim Wu. Knopf, $26.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-307-26993-5 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] According to Columbia professor and policy advocate Wu (Who Controls the Internet?), the great...

Barnes & Noble, Burkle draw battle lines: proxy fight heats up ahead of September 28 annual meeting.(News)(Ron Burkle)
August 30, 2010... The proxy fight for control of Barnes & Noble began in earnest last week when both sides sent out materials to shareholders to solicit votes. As in any battle, the two parties slammed the qualifications of their opponents, with B&N...

PW select live.(Publishers Weekly)(Brief article)
August 30, 2010... The PW Select Web site is live and accepting registrations from self-published authors who want to be in the December self-publishing supplement. Cost for the listing is $149. PW subscribers who are self-published authors get one listing for...

Flatworld inks digital textbook deal.(Flatworld Knowledge signs digital licensing agreement with Virginia State University)(Brief article)
August 30, 2010... Flatworld Knowledge announced an innovative digital licensing agreement with Virginia State University that will give students in business courses access to digital textbook content for a flat $20 student fee. VSU president Keith T. Miller...

GABBS Shows off bargain books.(Great American Bargain Book Show)(Brief article)
August 30, 2010... Attendance was down 10% from last year's 268 buyers at the Great American Bargain Book Show, which returned to Boston for a second year on August 19 and 20. This year's show offered more programming aimed specifically at helping online and...

Random House sets 40% bar for some titles.(Digital Royalties)
August 30, 2010... When Random House and the Wylie Agency released a joint statement last week stating that the two parties had "resolved their differences" regarding the 13 titles by Random House authors included in Odyssey Editions (Andrew Wylie's publishing...

Lamb aiming for a new Vantage Point.(Rejuvenating)(David Lamb's plans for Vantage Press )
August 30, 2010... Back in its heyday, Vantage Press ruled the self-publishing (then known as vanity publishing) world, with a market share that hovered around 25% from the 1950s through the early 1990s. The profitable family-run New York company occasionally drew...

AAP June sales report.(News)(Table)
August 30, 2010... AAP June Sales Report % CHANGE % CHANGE CATEGORY June YTD Adult Hard (17) * -13.9% 13.1% Adult Paper (19) 0.9 12.1 Mass Market (9) -35.4 -14.9 Juvenile Hard...

Free books from Kaplan.(Brief article)
August 30, 2010... Test prep publisher Kaplan Publishing is giving away free downloads of 98 of its titles through the iBookstore and the free iBooks app for iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch.

Small gains at Bloomsbury USA.(Brief article)
August 30, 2010... North American sales at Bloomsbury rose 2.3% in the first half of 2010. Revenue rose to 8.9 million [pounds sterling] ($13.9 million). Operating income increased to 600,000 [pounds sterling] from just over breakeven in the first six months of...

ATT debuts serendipity.(Above the Treeline )(Brief article)
August 30, 2010... Above the Treeline launched Serendipity, an interactive Web-based digital catalogue for small presses. The service costs $20 per month for the first title and $10 per month for each additional title.

'PW' likes the Kindle 3.(Publishers Weekly)(Brief article)
August 30, 2010... PW's review of Amazon's Kindle 3 called it "arguably, the best e-reading device currently available. It's been thoughtfully redesigned with small but meaningful updates on the design and functionality of the Kindle 2. The Kindle 3 is easier and...

Adams Media debuts Kidz Bop books.(Brief article)
August 30, 2010... F+W Media's Adams Media will de* but a new line of print and e-books with Kidz Bop, the kids' music brand, which has sold more than 11 million CDs of kids singing popular songs. The Kidz Bop series will be introduced in May 2011, and the books...

Lerner's Graphic Universe keeps growing.(Comics for Kids)
August 30, 2010... Despite the economic downturn and declines in some sectors Of the graphic novel market, Lerner Graphic Universe, the comics division of Lerner Publishing Group, has continued to grow and continues to expand its list of graphic novels aimed at...

Tyrus books buys Busted Flush Press.(Brief article)
August 30, 2010... One-year-old crime fiction publisher Tyrus Books has acquired Busted Rush Press LLC, which publishes previously out-of-print thrillers and hard-boiled crime fiction. Busted Rush publisher David Thompson will continue in that position and put out...

Karen Ford, McLean & Eakin booksellers, Petoskey, Mich.(Galley Talk)(Brief article)
August 30, 2010... Having been totally smitten with Catherine Gildiner's Too Close to the Falls, I have eagerly awaited a follow-up--and After the Falls (Viking, Nov.) certainly does not disappoint. From the unsettling move to Buffalo, N.Y., as a spirited 12-year...

'Bamboo People' party.(Mitali Perkins has launched his new novel Bamboo People with a party)(Brief article)
August 30, 2010... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Charlesbridge held a launch party for Mitali Perkins's new novel Bamboo People at Porter Square books in Cambridge, Mass. Pictured (l. to r.) are Charlesbridge staffers Sarah Thomas, Gina Choe, Lili Cohen, and Perkins.

Paperback bestsellers/trade.
August 30, 2010... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In 2008, Chris Cleave launched a column in Britain's The Guardian that garnered a wide readership; last March he signed off with this finale: "Two years ago I started writing this weekly column as a celebration of the...

Audio bestsellers/fiction.
August 30, 2010... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Kim McDaniels was barefooted, wearing a blue-and-white striped Juicy Couture mini-dress when she was awoken by a thump against her hip, a bruising thump. She opened her eyes in the blackness, questions breaking the...

Audio bestsellers/nonfiction.
August 30, 2010... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "The WWII Flyboys were the first to engage in combat aviation in large numbers. In bomber jackets, posing with thumbs up, they epitomized masculine glamour. They were cool, and they knew it, and any earthbound fool had...

Palo Alto: Stories.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 30, 2010... Palo Alto James Franco. Scribner, $24 (208p) ISBN 978-1-4391-6314-6 Given that Franco could have opted to coast by on movie star mystique, the decision to write about the suburb of his upbringing is intriguing. But the author fails to find...

Starlit.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 30, 2010... Starlit Usa Rinna. S&S/Gallery, $24.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4391-7761-7 Soap star/entrepreneur/self-improvement guru Rinna whips up a breezy, good tart versus bad tart Tinseltown tale where the women are hot, the men are weaklings, and...

The Dead Path.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 30, 2010... * The Dead Path Stephen M. Irwin. Doubleday, $26 (384p) ISBN 978-0-385-53343-0 Australian author Irwin's impressive debut, a supernatural thriller, evokes a world full of death and spirits to which we are, mercifully, oblivious. Since the...

What We Are Made Of.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 30, 2010... What We Are Made Of Thomas Hettche, trans, from the German by Shaun Whiteside. Picador (IPG, dist.), $12.95 paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-330- 45208-3 Hettche's enigmatic suspense novel gets off to a promising start with the arrival of German...

The Trail of the Red Diamonds.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 30, 2010... The Trail of the Red Diamonds L. Ron Hubbard. Galaxy, $9.95 paper (140p) ISBN 978-1-59212-331-5 Hubbard fans will welcome this golden age reprint volume, whose rollicking title tale first appeared in Thrilling Adventures magazine in...

The Good Sister.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 30, 2010... The Good Sister Drusilla Campbell. Grand Central, $13.99 paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-446-53578-6 A mother on trial for the attempted murder of her children opens Campbell's piercing latest. The story shifts back in time to explore Simone...

The Company of Heaven: Stories from Haiti.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 30, 2010... The Company of Heaven: Stories from Haiti Marilbne Phipps-Kettlewell, Univ. of Iowa, $16 paper (210p) ISBN 978-1-58729-921-6 Told rather than "written," Phipps-Kettlewell's tales are portraits of Haitian life. Since characters appear in...

Working Backwards from the Worst Moment of My Life.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 30, 2010... Working Backwards from the Worst Moment of My Life Rob Roberge. Red Hen (CDC, dist.), $19.95 (104p) ISBN 978-1-59709-165-7 Seedy characters find themselves in even seedier situations in Roberge's debut collection. In the title story,, a...

While We're Far Apart.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 30, 2010... While We're Far Apart Lynn Austin. Bethany House, $14.99 paper (400p) ISBN 978-0-7642-0497-5 Austin loves to blend storytelling and interesting history, with her newest novel no exception. She sets her characters in one New York City...

Konig's Fire.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 30, 2010... Konig's Fire Marc Schooley. Marcher Lord (Ingram, dist.), $15.99 paper (342p) ISBN 978-0-9825987-5-7 Car salesman turned speculative-fiction writer Schooley (The Dark Man) burrows deep into the heart of Sascha Konig, called Nebuchadnezzar...

Valley of Dry Bones.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 30, 2010... Valley of Dry Bones Priscilla Royal. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (244p) ISBN 978-1-59058-763-8; $14.95 paper ISBN 978-1-59058-765-2 Prioress Eleanor of Tyndal needs all her intelligence to quell the sacred and profane troubles that arise in...

Unholy Awakening.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 30, 2010... * Unholy Awakening Michael Gregorio. Minotaur, $14.99 paper (464p) ISBN 978-0-312-62502-3 At the start of Gregorio's stellar fourth historical featuring Prussian magistrate Hanno Stiffeniis (after 2009's A Visible Darkness), Hanno and his...

Ghost in Trouble.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 30, 2010... Ghost in Trouble Carolyn Hart. Morrow, $19.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-191501-7 In Agatha-winner Hart's charming third mystery featuring ghostly emissary Bailey Ruth Raeburn of heaven's "Department of Good Intentions" (after 2009's Merry,...

Red Herring: A Joe Gunther Novel.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 30, 2010... Red Herring: A Joe Gunther Novel Archer Mayor. Minotaur, $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-38193-6 A single drop of unexplained blood at each of three murder scenes perplexes Joe Gunther in Mayor's engrossing 21st novel to feature the Vermont...

The Best American Mystery Stories 2010.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 30, 2010... * The Best American Mystery Stories 2010 Edited by Lee Child. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Mariner, $14.95 paper (416p) ISBN 978-0-547-23746-6 The 20 short stories in the 14th edition of this "best of" series offer a wider variety than some...

Noir 13.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 30, 2010... Noir 13 Ed Gorman. Perfect Crime (www.perfectcrimebooks.com), $14.95 paper (252p) ISBN 978-09825157-5-4 Gorman (Stranglehold) showcases the darker side of his talents in this solid collection, a mix of previously published and original...

Gingerbread Cookie Murder.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 30, 2010... Gingerbread Cookie Murder Joanne Fluke, Laura Levine, Leslie Meier. Kensington, $23 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7582-3495-7 Fluke, Levine, and Meier each offer a yuletide whodunit treat in this entertaining follow-up to 2007's Candy Cane Murder....

PW talks with Stephanie Barron: Jane Austen's Unknown History.(Q&A)(Interview)
August 30, 2010... Lord Byron is accused of murder in Jane and the Madness of Lord Byron (Reviews, Aug. 23), the 10th Jane Austen mystery from Stephanie Barron, the pseudonym of Francine Mathews. This is the first book in the series since 2006's Jane and the...

Recently reviewed online.(Recommended readings)(List)
August 30, 2010... www.publishersweekly.com Nonfiction Aftermath: A Guide to Preparing for and Surviving Apocalypse 2012 Lawrence E. Joseph. Broadway, July Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other. In Praise of Adoption Scott Simon. Random, Sept. On the...

Shroud of Dishonour: A Templar Knight Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 30, 2010... Shroud of Dishonour: A Templar Knight Mystery Maureen Ash. Berkley Prime Crime, $14 paper (272p) ISBN 978-0-425-23790-8 When the strangled body of a young Woman turns up in a Templar chapel, hidden in a garment chest, near the outset of...

Kismet (Novel)
August 30, 2010... Kismet: A Kayankaya Mystery Jakob Arjouni, trans, from the German by Anthea Bell. Melville International Crime (Consortium, dist.), $15 paper (192p) ISBN 978-1-935554-23-3 Hard-boiled detective fans should welcome German author Arjouni's U.S....

Kill the Dead.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 30, 2010... Kill the Dead Richard Kadrey. Eos, $22.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-06-171431-3 James Stark, antihero of 2009's Sandman Slim, returns in this gritty, over-the-top tale of supernatural mayhem. Having taken his revenge on the rival magician who got...

The Cardinal's Blades.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 30, 2010... * The Cardinal's Blades Pierre Pevel, trans, from the French by Tom Clegg. Pyr, $16 paper (312p) ISBN 978-1-61614-245-2 Pevel, winner of the 2002 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire and the 2005 Prix Imaginales, makes a stunning English-language...

Memories of Envy.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 30, 2010... Memories of Envy Barb Hendee. Roc, $15 paper (320p)ISBN 978-0-451-46353-1 The dramatic third Vampire Memories urban fantasy (after 2009's Hunting Memories) plays up the emo side of vampirism. Eleisha Clevon of Portland, Ore., and her...

Mr. Monster.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 30, 2010... Mr. Monster Dan Wells. Tor, $21.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2248-7; $9.99 paper ISBN 978-0-7653-2790-1 Near-psychopath John Wayne Cleaver channels his murderous urges into taking down serial killers in this dark, fast-paced, gripping horror...

Diving Mimes, Weeping Czars and Other Unusual Suspects.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 30, 2010... * Diving Mimes, Weeping Czars and Other Unusual Suspects Ken Scholes. Fairwood (www.fainvoodpress.com), $17.99 paper (248p) ISBN 978-0-9820730-8-7 A mysterious voice, an alien songstress, a postapocalyptic Santa Claus, and a host of other...

The Book of the Living Dead.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 30, 2010... The Book of the Living Dead Edited by John Richard Stevens. Berkley, $15 paper (416p) ISBN 978-0-425-23706-9 This solid collection of classic gothic horror stories from the 19th and early 20th centuries relies heavily on highly...

Nocturnal Emissions.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 30, 2010... Nocturnal Emissions Jeffrey Thomas. Dark Regions (www.darkregions.com), $19.95 paper (198p) ISBN 978-1-888993-84-4 Vividly mixing SF, horror, and mundane life, Thomas's intense first collection of six published and three new stories should...

Simply Irresistible.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 30, 2010... Simply Irresistible Jill Shalvis. Grand Central/Forever, $6.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-446-57161-6 In this heartwarming and sexy contemporary romance from bestseller Shalvis (Instant Temptation), Maddie Moore meets the man of her dreams, but...

Eternal Hunger.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 30, 2010... * Eternal Hunger Laura Wright. Signet Eclipse, $7.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-451-23149-9 Just when it seems every possible vampire twist has been turned, Wright launches a powerful series with a rich mythology, page-turning tension, and...

On Target.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 30, 2010... On Target Mark Greaney. Jove, $9.99 (592p) ISBN 978-0-515-14845-9 Disgraced former CIA agent Court "The Gray Man" Gentry (introduced in 2009's The Gray Man) makes ends meet as an assassin working for clients he cannot trust. Russian arms...

Grave Witch.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 30, 2010... Grave Witch Kalayna Price. Roc, $6.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0451-46380-7 Only a thin border separates the worlds of the living and the dead in Price's captivating series debut. Alex Craft is a penniless PI attached to two very high-profile...

How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 30, 2010... How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less Sarah Glidden. Dg/Vertigo, $24.99 paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-4012-2233-8 Glidden, a progressive American Jew who is sharply critical of Israeli policies vis-a-vis the Occupied Territories, went on...

The Best American Comics 2010.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 30, 2010... The Best American Comics 2010 Editor by Nell Gaiman; series editors, Jessica Abel and Matt Madden. Houghton Mifflin, $23 (TKp) ISBN 978-0-547-24177-7 This yearly anthology is always something to look forward to, with its impressive...

A Sickness in the Family.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 30, 2010... A Sickness in the Family Denise Mina and Antonio Fusa. DC/Vertigo Crime, $19.99 (184p) ISBN 978-1-401-21081-6 Scottish crime novelist Mina, previously known in comics for a run on Hellblazer, provides a creepy, taut tale of family greed...

Sal Mineo: A Biography.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 30, 2010... Sal Minee: A Biography Michael Gregg Michaud. Crown Archetype, $25.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-307-71868-6 Artist and photographer Michaud delivers a prismatic portrait of actor Mineo, who made 21 films before his brutal 1976 murder. In a...

Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 30, 2010... Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets Dick Cavett. Times, $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-8050-9195-3 The erstwhile host of The Dick Cavett Show unburdens himself in this collection of rambling though piquant essays...

Starstruck: The Business of Celebrity.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 30, 2010... Starstruck: The Business of Celebrity Elizabeth Currid-Halkett. Faber and Faber, $26 (307p) ISBN 978-0-86547-909-8 Currid-Halkett (The Warhol Economy) takes a tasty subject and rehashes it into sawdust in her repetitive study of celebrity....

Fraser's Penguins: A Journey to the Future In Antarctica.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 30, 2010... Fraser's Penguins: A Journey to the Future In Antarctica Fen Montaigne. Holt, $26 (336p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7942-5 Montaigne (Reeling in Russia), a journalist and travel writer, spent five months tracking penguins through the breeding season...

The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 30, 2010... The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street Robert Scheer. Nation, $15.95 paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-56858-434-8 Following Ronald Reagan's obsession "with the "radical...

Listen to This.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 30, 2010... * Listen to This Alex Ross. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, $27 (416p) ISBN 978-0-374-18774-3 In this brilliant collection, music critic Ross (The Rest Is Noise) utilizes a wide musical scale--classical music in China; opera as popular art;...

How Music Works: The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds, from Beethoven to the Beatles and Beyond .(Brief article)(Book review)
August 30, 2010... How Music Works: The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds, from Beethoven to the Beatles and Beyond John Powell. Little, Brown, $24.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-316-09830-4 In this enlightening book, Powell, a British scholar and professor,...

Lost Lustre: A New York Memoir.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 30, 2010... Lost Lustre: A New York Memoir Josh Karlen.Tatra (MidpointTrade, dist.), $16 paper (230p) ISBN 978-0-9819-3211-8 In his first book, Karlen, a former journalist now working in broadcast media, recounts tales of his youth growing up during...

Ten Thousand Joys & Ten Thousand Sorrows: A Couple's Journey through Alzheimer's .(Brief article)(Book review)
August 30, 2010... Ten Thousand Joys and Ten Thousand Sorrows: A Couple's Journey Through Alzheimer's Olivia Amos Hoblitzelle. Tarcher, $16.95 paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-58542-827-4 Both Hoblitzelle and her husband of nearly 40 years, Hob, practiced the...

Learn Like a Leader: Today's Top Leaders Share Their Learning Journeys (Essay collection)
August 30, 2010... * Learn Like a Leader Edited by Marshall Goldsmith, Beverly Kaye, and Ken Shelton. Nicholas Brealey (NBN, dist.), $19.95 paper (222p) ISBN 978-1-85788-557-6 In these riveting essays, 35 prominent figures in management and organizational...

PW talks with Ron Padgett: a poet exploring good and evil.(Q&A)(Interview)
August 30, 2010... Poet Ted Berrigan's close friend Ron Padgett co-edited Dear Sandy (Reviews, Aug. 2), a collection of letters the young Ted wrote his wife when she was institutionalized by her parents for marrying him. What was your relationship with Ted...

The Laws of Charisma.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 30, 2010... The Laws of Charisma Kurt W. Mortensen. Amacorn, $21.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-8144-1591-7 Some people seem to be born with the ability to captivate, charm, influence, and inspire others. But certain skills and traits can be learned, says...

The Best American Essays 2010.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 30, 2010... * The Best American Essays 2010 Edited by Christopher Hitchens; Robert Atwan, series editor. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $14.95 paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-547-39451-0 This collection is satisfying in its unexpected diversity and tasty...

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2010.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 30, 2010... The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2010 Edited by Freeman Dyson; Tim Folger, series editor. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $14.95 paper (416p) ISBN 978-0-547-32784-6 The latest addition to this uniformly excellent series, edited...

The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 30, 2010... The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, and Indian Allies Alan Taylor. Knopf, $35 (656p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4265-4 Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Taylor (William Cooper's Town) presents the War of 1812...

A Secret Kept.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
August 30, 2010... * A Secret Kept Tatiana de Rosnay, read by Simon Vance. Macmitlan Audio, unabridged, seven CDs, 9 hrs., $34.99 ISBN 978-1-4272-1095-1 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Together, de Rosnay and Simon Vance guide us through a sister and brother's...

Super Sad True Love Story.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
August 30, 2010... Super Sad True Love Story Gary Shteyngart, read by Adam Grupper and Ali Ahn. Recorded Books, unabridged, 11 CDs, 13.25 hrs., $56.95 ISBN 978-1-4498-0968-3 In a near-future America that teeters even more desperately on the financial and...

The Island.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
August 30, 2010... The Island Bin Hilderbrand, read by Denice Hicks. Hachette Audio, unabridged, 13 CDs, 15 hrs., $34.98 ISBN 978-1-60-788240-4 Denice Hicks effectively sets the tone for Hilderbrand's latest crowd-pleasing beach tale exploring the ups and...

The Broom of the System.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
August 30, 2010... * The Broom of the System David Foster Wallace, read by Robert Petkoff. Hachette Audio, unabridged, 14 CDs, 17 hrs., $29.98 ISBN 978-1-60788-388-3 Fans of the late, great David Foster Wallace will delight in narrator Robert Petkoff's...

The Faculty Club.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
August 30, 2010... The Faculty Club Danny Tobey, read by Rich Orlow. Simon & Schuster Audio, unabridged, seven CDs, 8.5 hrs., $29.99 ISBN 978-1-4423-0608-0 Rich Orlow's youthful voice is a good fit for protagonist Jeremy Davis, a first year law school...

Pray for Silence.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
August 30, 2010... Pray for Silence Linda Castillo, read by Kathleen McInerney. Macmillan Audio, unabridged, nine CDs, 11.5 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-4272-0971-9 The horrific murder of an Amish family rocks the small town of Painters Mill, Ohio, in...

The Summer We Read Gatsby.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
August 30, 2010... The Summer We Read Gatsby Danielle Ganek, read by Justine Eyre. Tantor Media, unabridged, seven CDs, 9 hrs., $34.99 ISBN 978-1-4001-1564-8 Ganek's wispy story unfolds a tad too slowly for the audio medium; listeners may find their...

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
August 30, 2010... * A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Mark Twain, read by William Dufris. Tantor Media, unabridged, 10 CDs, 12 hrs., $34.99 ISBN 978-1-4001-1607-2 When Hank Morgan is transported from 19th-century Hartford, Conn., to sixth-century...

Innocent.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
August 30, 2010... * Innocent Scott Turow, read by Edward Herrmann and Orlagh Cassidy. Hachette Audio, unabridged, 12 CDs, 14 hrs., $39.98 ISBN 978-1-60024-921-1 It's been more than two decades since Edward Hermann narrated Presumed Innocent, splendidly...

Storm Prey.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
August 30, 2010... Storm Prey John Sandford, read by Richard Ferrone. Penguin Audio, unabridged, nine CDs, 11 hrs., $39.95 ISBN 978-0-14-242776-7 When a robbery of a hospital pharmacy leads to the death of one the pharmacists, the sudden switch from theft to...

Dimanche and Other Stories.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
August 30, 2010... Dimanche and Other Stories Irene Nemirovsky, read by Cassandra Campbell. Blackstone Audio, unabridged, seven CDs, 8.5 hrs., $29.95 ISBN 978-1-4417-4868-3 Cassandra Campbell offers a fine, straightforward reading of the 10 stories Nemirovsky...

American Subversive.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
August 30, 2010... American Subversive David Goodwillie, read by David Drummond and Tavia Gilbert. Tantor Media, unabridged, 10 CDs, 12.5 hrs., $37.99 ISBN 978-1-4001-1754-3 When terrorists attack a Manhattan high-rise, Aidan Cole receives a tip that the...

The Oscar Wilde Collection.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
August 30, 2010... The Oscar Wilde Collection Oscar Wilde, read by a full cast. L.A. Theatre Works, unabridged, 10 CDs, 8.5 hrs., $69.95 ISBN 978-1-5808-1753-0 Fans of Oscar Wilde will delight in this collection of four of the author's bestloved plays and a...

Mrs. Dalloway.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
August 30, 2010... Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf, read by Juliet Stevenson. Naxos Audio, unabridged, six CDs, 7 hrs., $29.98 ISBN 978-962-634-133-9 As Clarissa Dalloway prepares to host a party in 1920s London, she is unexpectedly reunited with her old friend...