Publishers Weekly articles from August 2011, page 5

Publishers Weekly archives from August 2011

At 20, Martha still speaks to kids.(Children's Books)(Martha Speaks Story Time Collection Special 20th Anniversary Edition)(Brief article)
August 15, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Two decades have passed since Susan Meddaugh's Martha ate her first bowl of alphabet soup in Martha Speaks, and the loquacious pup hasn't stopped chattering since. This picture book spawned five additional tales, which...

Old bookstores, new challenges: buying established stores can bring a few surprises.(RETAIL NATION)
August 15, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When iconic bookstores like Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C., and the Red Balloon Bookshop in St. Paul, Minn., changed hands earlier this year against the backdrop of the closing of Borders, it...

Paul Starr: taking on health care reform.(Author Profile)(Interview)
August 15, 2011... He's been a formidable force in politics and the media since his days as the teenage editor of Columbia University's student newspaper. But Paul Starr, 61, a Pulitzer Prize--winning author, American Prospect magazine cofounder and Princeton...

The top pay grade: improved business nets bigger checks: executives in different parts of the publishing business did fairly well in 2010, according to PW's annual look at salaries. With the exception of those at Books-A-Million and Scholastic, compensation for the top managers went up in the past year as their companies saw generally improved results after recession-plagued years in 2008 and 2009.(Salary Survey)
August 15, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The company that takes the most different approach to compensating its executive officers is Amazon, employing a policy heavily used in Silicon Valley. The country's largest online retailer keeps its base salary low,...

From Bible stories to Buddha mind: religion books for kids face challenges, find success.(Religion Update: Children & Teens)
August 15, 2011... If the Bible is the dairy section of religion publishing, then Bible stories for children are milk cartons sized for kid consumption. Children's religion publishing sells a lot of those cartons, but it also offers a wide variety of books on...

Books for Jewish children nurture joy in the faith.(Religion Update: Children & Teens)
August 15, 2011... There is an old Jewish joke, but only the punch line applies to publishing books for Jewish children: ask two rabbis a question and you get three opinions. That is true of the five Jewish publishers who do trade books for children, who spoke...

Christian YA fiction still finding its footing.(Religion Update: Children & Teens)
August 15, 2011... Eyeing the massive success of YA bestsellers like The Hunger Games and Twilight, many Christian publishers in recent years have positioned themselves to meet the fiction needs of readers in the 12-18 age bracket. For many, however, that market...

Editorial roundtable: what trends do you see in Christian YA?(Religion Update: Children & Teens)(Brief article)
August 15, 2011... Annette Bourland, Zondervan: Dystopian is still going, but shifting into more unique directions. Writers aren't simply using the Hunger Games template, and are looking to dystopian worlds centered around steampunk, highly realistic scenarios, or...

Children's religion books for fall.(Religion Update: Listings)
August 15, 2011... BIG IDEA Series VeggieTales Values to Grow By adds The Case of the Lost Temper, a Lesson in Self-Control Book (Aug., $9.99; ISBN 978-160587-261-2); Hats Off to Lyle, a Lesson in Forgiveness Book (Aug., $9.99; ISBN 978-160587-263-6); The...

In profile.(Religion Update: Profiles)(Max Lucado, Stephanie Perry Moore, Bill Myers and Ruth Sanderson)
August 15, 2011... Max Lucado [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Telling the Story Max Lucado knows the value of story from his perspectives as writer and pastor. And since the church includes both adults and children, when Zondervan began...

Many Days, One Shabbat.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... Many Days, One Shabbat FRAN MANUSHKIN, ILLUS. BY MARIA MONESCILLO. Marshall Cavendish Children's/Shofar, $12.99 (24p)ISBN 978-0-7614-5965-1 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Manushkin and Monescillo's beautiful book teaches concepts and culture at...

Green Bible Stories for Children.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... Green Bible Stories for Children TAMI LEHMAN-WILZIG, ILLUS. BY DURGA YAEL BERNHARD. Rat-Ben, $17.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-7613-5135-1; paper $7.95 ISBN 978-0-7613-5136-8 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Beginning with the Genesis creation account and...

Carrying Mason.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... Carrying Mason JOYCE MAGNIN. Zonderkidz, $14.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-310-72681-4 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Magnin (Bright's Pond series) writes her first book for younger readers with this middle-grade story of 13-year-old Luna, whose best...

Making the Team.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... Making the Team STEPHANIE PERRY MOORE & DERRICK MOORE. Moody, $6.99 paper (120p) ISBN 978-0-8024-7874-0 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Writing with her husband, Derrick, a former pro football player, Perry Moore (Payton Skky series;...

Oops!(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... Oops! BILL MYERS. Tyndale, $6.99 paper (192p) ISBN 978-1-4143-3455-4 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Thelma Jean Finkelstein--that would be TJ--has grown a little accustomed to her invisible sidekicks from the 23rd century, Tuna and Herby, who...

RX for wellness: publishers address changes in the medical field's increasingly holistic approach.(Focus on Health)
August 15, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Traditional medicine has always been the mainstay of the health category. And its books reflected that by tending toward a "just the facts" approach that advocated conservative treatment options, all wrapped up in a...

PW talks with Yfat Reiss Gendell: an agent's health talk.(Focus on Health)(Interview)
August 15, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] After stints as a lawyer and a small publisher, Yfat Reiss Gendell cofounded the Foundry Literary + Media agency. While she represents many types of authors, she has a unique perspective on the health category. Her...

The Schoolmaster's Daughter.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... The Schoolmaster's Daughter John Smolens. Pegasus (Norton, dist.), $25.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-60598-252-6 Boston smolders on the eve of the American Revolution in Smolens's ambitious blend of fiction, history, battlefield romance, and...

Of Beasts and Beings.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... * Of Beasts and Beings Ian Holding. Europa (Penguin, dist.), $15 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-60945-054-0 Zimbabwean writer Holding (Unfeeling) delivers another powerful tale of guilt and responsibility set in a dystopian Africa. This...

Parallel Stories.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... Parallel Stories Peter Nadas, trans, from the Hungarian by Imre Goldstein. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $40 (1,152p) ISBN 978-0-374-22976-4 Nadas's (A Book of Memories) immense chronicle of Europe before, during, and after WWII largely...

Before the End, After the Beginning.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... Before the End, After the Beginning Dagoberto Gilb. Grove, $24 (192p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2000-7 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] PEN/Hemingway Award-winner Gilb's 10 new tales, many written as the author recovered from a 2009 stroke, take on family...

The Pilgrim.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... The Pilgrim Hugh Nissenson. Sourcebooks, $24.99 (349p) ISBN 978-1-4022-0924-6 Charles Wentworth is born into a life of piety in England near the turn of the 17th century, but suffers a crisis of faith from earliest childhood, feeling that...

L.A. Mental.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... * L.A. Mental Neil McMahon. Harper, $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-134078-9 McMahon's stellar stand-alone offers a cunning technological twist worthy of the late Michael Crichton. In an ominous prologue, articles from three L.A. newspapers...

The Affair: A Reacher Novel.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... The Affair: A Reacher Novel Lee Child. Delacorte, $28 (416p) ISBN 978-0-385-34432-6 Child's compelling 16th thriller featuring incorruptible vigilante Jack Reacher (after Worth Dying For) rewinds the clock to 1997 when Reacher was still a...

Everybody's Right.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... Everybody's Right Paolo Sorrentino, trans, from the Italian by Antony Shugaar. Europa, $15 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-1-60945-052-6 Italian director Sorrentino's debut novel is all about Tony Pagoda--world-renowned crooner, cokehead, and...

The Night Strangers.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... The Night Strangers Chris Bohjalian. Crown, $25 (400p) ISBN 978-0-307-39499-6 Bestseller Bohjalian's latest novel (after Secrets of Eden) is a gripping paranormal thriller set in a remote New England town. Airline pilot Chip Linton is...

The Secret in Their Eyes.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... The Secret in Their Eyes Eduardo Sacheri, trans, from the Spanish by John Cullen. Other Press, $15.95 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-1-59051-450-4 In Argentinian author Sacheri's beguiling novel, the basis for the 2010 Academy Award-winning...

Damascus.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... * Damascus Joshua Mohr. Two Dollar Radio (Consortium, dist.), $16 trade paper (208p) ISSN 978-0-9826848-9-4 Browbeaten characters belly up to a San Francisco saloon in Mohr's third novel, rife with themes of humanity, passion, and...

The Lost Angel.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... The Lost Angel Javier Sierra, trans, from the Spanish by Carlos Frias. Atria, $25.99 (448p) ISBN 978-1-4516-3279-8 Set in the near future, this religious thriller from Spanish author Sierra (The Secret Supper) suffers from a lack of a...

The Luminist.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... The Luminist David Rocklin. Hawthorne (PGW, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (322p) ISBN 978-0-9790188-7-9 Rocklin's debut novel, a case of style over content, was inspired by Julia Margaret Cameron's work in the new field of photography in the...

The Popularity Rules.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... The Popularity Rules Abby McDonald. Sourcebooks, $14.99 trade paper (480p) ISBN 978-1-4022-5668-4 Ex-besties achieve fame by applying high school rules to London's social scene in McDonald's biting second novel. From the day they met as...

Lionheart.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... Lionheart Sharon Kay Penman. Putnam/Marian Wood, $28.95 (608p) ISBN 978-0-399-15785-1 In this gritty, unsentimental, and richly detailed epic, Penman (The Sunne in Splendour) tackles the legendary King Richard the Lionheart (son of Henry...

Flick.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... Flick Abigail Tarttelin. Beautiful (IPG, dist.), $12.95 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-907616-18-1 The postindustrial town of Redcar on the rusting seaside of northern England is the setting for Brit actress Tarttelin's debut novel, a place...

The Stonehenge Legacy.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... The Stonehenge Legacy Sam Christer. Overlook, $24.95 (368p) ISBN 978-1-59020-676-8 Stonehenge, a popular venue for historical conspiracy thrillers, looms large in Christer's intriguing first novel. At the Sanctuary, a vast, secret...

Pulp and Paper.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... Pulp and Paper Josh Rolnick. Univ. of Iowa, $16 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-1-60938-052-6 In a creditable first collection, Rolnick splits his time between New Jersey and New York. Each setting offers four tales and feature narrators who...

How to Stop Loving Someone: Stories.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... How to Stop Loving Someone: Stories Joan Connor. Leapfrog (Consortium, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-935248-20-0 Sprightly, sanguine writing infuses these 13 tales of faulty love and fizzled connections with a compelling...

Hominid.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... * Hominid John C. Boland. Perfect Crime (www.perfectcrimebooks.com), $15.95 trade paper (350p) ISBN 978-1-935797-16-6 At the start of this superior science fiction thriller from Boland (Out of Her Depth), archeologist David Isaac arrives...

Lying in Bed.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... Lying in Bed Polly Samson. Virago, $13.95 trade paper (213p) ISBN 978-1-84408-708-2 Although quite cunning, Samson's (Perfect Lives) central characters often succumb to an unexpected fate in this equally haunting and satisfying collection...

How the Mistakes Were Made.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... How the Mistakes Were Made Tyler McMahon. St. Martin's Griffin, $14.99 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-65854-0 In McMahon's debut novel, punk rock refugee Laura Loss narrates the whirlwind rise and fall of the Mistakes, a Seattle band...

When She Woke.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... When She Woke Hillary Jordan. Algonquin, $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-56512-629-8 Though she was raised a good Christian, Hannah Payne often asks uncomfortable questions in Jordan's second novel (after Mudbound), such as "Why does God let...

Little Gale Gumbo.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... Little Gale Gumbo Erika Marks. NAL Accent, $14 trade paper (448p) ISBN 978-0-451-23465-0 Marks's expansive but generic debut chronicles the lives and loves of young sisters Dahlia and Josie, who move with their mother, Camille, from New...

Waking Hours.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... Waking Hours Lis Wiehl with Pete Nelson, Thomas Nelson, $26.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-59554-940-2 Forensic psychiatrist Dani Harris teams with former football star and aspiring PI Tommy Gunderson to investigate the ritualistic murder of a girl...

Anticipated Results.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... Anticipated Results Dennis E. Bolen. Arsenal Pulp (Consortium, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (242p) ISBN 978-1-55152-400-9 In this collection of linked short stories set in Vancouver, Canadian author Bolen (Kaspoit!) depicts the quiet despair...

The Falcon Killer.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... The Falcon Killer L. Ron Hubbard. Galaxy, $9.95 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-1-59212-313-1 At the start of this "golden age" pulp novella, Hubbard (Dead Men Kill) describes the effect of a Japanese attack on the fictional Chinese port city...

Hell to Pay.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... Hell to Pay Wendy Corsi Staub. Avon, $7.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-189508-1 At the outset of this violent, generic thriller from bestseller Staub, the third in a trilogy that began with Live to Tell and Scared to Death, a freak...

A Sound among the Trees.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... * A Sound Among the Trees Susan Meissner. WaterBrook, $14.99 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-307-45885-8 A woman marries into a Southern family with a dark past in this mystery about love and loss. Marielle Bishop meets her future husband,...

Sunrise on the Battery.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... Sunrise on the Battery Beth Webb Hart. Thomas Nelson, $15.99 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-59554-200-7 Hart (Love, Charleston) writes inspirational fiction that leaves readers pondering the subtly expressed life lessons well after the...

Unexpected Dismounts.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... * Unexpected Dismounts Nancy Rue. David C. Cook, $14.99 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-1-4347-6492-8 Recent winner of two Christys, Rue (The Reluctant Prophet) returns with the second cleverly named installment of the Reluctant Prophet series...

Wild Horses.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... Wild Horses Linda Byler. Good Books, $13,99 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-56148-736-3 Byler (Lizzie Searches for Love series) is a gifted writer whose novel of the Amish in Montana will be savored as much by those who love horse stories as...

Micrograms.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... Micrograms Jorge Carrera Andrade, trans, from the Spanish by Alejandro de Acosta and Joshua Beckman. Wave (Consortium, dist.), $16 trade paper (96p) ISBN 978-1-933517-55-1 In his short, lyrical introduction to the form--which...

Once.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... Once Meghan O'Rourke. Norton, $24.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-393-08062-9 Expect a big rollout for O'Rourke's second collection of verse, her first since her memoir about her mother's death from cancer, The Long Goodbye, won massive national...

The City, Our City.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... The City, Our City Wayne Miller. Milkweed (PGW, dist.), $16 trade paper (132p) ISBN 978-1-57131-445-1 The city where Miller's third book takes place is decidedly modern: it has movie theaters and "I-beams," airplanes and streetlights--"the...

Counter-Amores.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... Counter-Amores Jennifer Clarvoe. Univ. of Chicago, $18 trade paper (88p) ISBN 978-0-226-10928-2 The last part is the best part of this astute second volume from Clarvoe: its witty and volatile couplets and stanzas respond, poem by poem, to...

Touch.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... * Touch Henri Cole. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $23 (80p) ISBN 978-0-374-27835-9 Cole's eighth book of poems may be his most sensitive (in the manner of a compass needle), pointing as precisely as possible to the various sources of a...

Threshold Songs.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... * Threshold Songs Peter Gizzi. Wesleyan, $22.95 (104p) ISBN 978-0-81957-174-8 Gizzi can be as sly and digressive as the New York School poets, as challenging and idiomatic as the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets, but he differentiates himself from...

Coming to That.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... * Coming to That Dorothea Tanning. Graywolf, $15 trade paper (64p) ISBN 978-1-55597-601-9 The second poetry collection from centenarian artist and writer Tanning is playfill and unrestrained, each poem containing a spontaneous logic of its...

Traffic with Macbeth.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... Traffic with Macbeth Larissa Szporluk. Tupelo (www.tupelopress. org), $16.95 trade paper (76p)ISBN 978-1-936797-02-8 Szporluk's fifth collection evokes an atmosphere as darkly portentous as that of Shakespeare's play: the book is a wild,...

Spectable & Pigsty.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... Spectable & Pigsty Kiwao Nomura, trans, from the Japanese by Kyoko Yoshida and Forrest Gander. Omnidawn (IPG, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (96p) ISBN 978-1-890650-53-7 "You're the one./Unbearably sucking air rasping and gasping......

The Angel in the Dream of Our Hangover: Aphorisms.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... The Angel in the Dream of Our Hangover: Aphorisms Mark Leidner. Sator (www.satorpress.com), $13 trade paper (104p) ISBN 978-0-9832437-0-0 It's fitting that Leidner's first book--a wistful and incisive series of poems in the form of...

Waifs and Strays.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... Waifs and Strays Micah Ballard. City Lights (Consortium, dist.), $13.95 trade paper (88p) ISBN 978-0-87286-544-0 Though raised in Baton Rouge, La., Ballard now seems energetically tied to San Francisco, since his offhand intensities,...

The Best American Poetry 2011.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... The Best American Poetry 2011 Edited by Kevin Young and David Lehman. Scribner, $16 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-1-4391-8149-2 This year's volume of poetry's most popular annual anthology contains the usual eclectic mix of famous and...

Seeing Stars.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... Seeing Stars Simon Armitage. Knopf, $25 (96p) ISBN 978-0-307-59943-8 Armitage, the author of many books of poetry and prose, is among Britain's most popular poets (and poets are actually a bit famous over there), though this is only his...

New Jersey Noir.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... New Jersey Noir Edited by Joyce Carol Oates. Akashic, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-61775-034-2; $15.95 trade paper ISBN 978-1-61775-026-7 Oates's introduction to Akashic's noir volume dedicated to the Garden State, with its evocative...

Bad Moon Rising.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... * Bad Moon Rising Ed Gorman. Pegasus (Norton, dist.), $25 (208p) ISBN 978-1-60598-260-1 Social turmoil overshadows the sleuthing in Gorman's excellent ninth Sam McCain mystery (after 2009's A Ticket to Ride). In 1968, a hippie commune near...

Troubled Bones: A Crispin Guest Medieval Noir.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... Troubled Bones: A Crispin Guest Medieval Noir Jeri Westerson. Minotaur, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-62163-6 Set in 1385, Westerson's fine fourth historical featuring disgraced knight Crispin Guest (after 2010's The Demon's Parchment)...

Sweet Money.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... Sweet Money Ernesto Mallo, trans. from the Spanish by Katherine Silver. Bitter Lemon, $14.95 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-904738- 73-2 Set in Argentina during the 1980s, Mallo's gritty, atmospheric second Inspector Lascano mystery...

Death Plays Poker: A Clare Vengel Undercover Novel.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... Death Plays Poker: A Clare Vengel Undercover Novel Robin Spano. ECW (IPG, dist.), $24.95 (422p) ISBN 978-1-55022-994-3; $14.95 trade paper ISBN 978-1-55022-987-5 In the prologue of Canadian author Spano's muddled, unsuspenseful second...

PW talks with Kirk Russell: murder by the bay.(Q&A)(Interview)
August 15, 2011... Kirk Russell, author of four novels about California Department of Fish and Game warden John Marquez, introduces San Francisco homicide inspector Ben Raveneau in A Killing in China Basin (Reviews, Aug. 1). You succeeded in breaking new ground...

India Black and the Widow of Windsor.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... India Black and the Widow of Windsor Carol K. Carr. Berkley Prime Crime, $14 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-425-24319-0 When Queen Victoria hears via a medium that her late husband, Prince Albert, wants her to travel to Balmoral Castle in...

Wicked Autumn: A Max Tudor Novel.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... Wicked Autumn: A Max Tudor Novel G.M. Malliet. Minotaur, $23.99 (256p)ISBN 978-0-312-64697-4 This appealing first in a new cozy series from Agatha-winner Malliet (Death at the Alma Mater) introduces Max Tudor, exMI5 officer turned Anglican...

Second You Sin.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... Second You Sin Scott Sherman. Kensington, $15 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-04582-6651-4 In Sherman's less than satisfying sequel to 2008's First You Fall, which won the 2009 Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Mystery, New York City male...

The Alloy of Law.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... The Alloy of Law Brandon Sanderson. Tor, $24.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3042-0 Sanderson gives the world of Scadrial the Wild West treatment in this rollicking adventure tale set 300 years after the popular Mistborn epic fantasy trilogy....

Fighting to Survive: As the World Dies, Book 2.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... Fighting to Survive: As the World Dies, Book 2 Rhiannon Frater. Tor, $14.99 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3127-4 First self-published in 2009, this revised and expanded edition continues the story begun in July's The First Days. When...

Aloha from Hell.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... Aloha from Hell Richard Kadrey. HarperVoyager, $23.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-06-171432-0 Compelling if cartoon-like ultra-violence and sometimes brilliantly metaphoric language drive Kadrey's third Sandman Slim contemporary noir fantasy (after...

Mirror Maze.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... Mirror Maze Michaele Jordan. Pyr, $16 trade paper (370p) ISBN 978-1-61614-529-3 More maze than mirror, Jordan's Victorian fantasy debut is an exciting and well-conceived story of demon possession, generations of betrayal and intrigue, and...

Ashes of a Black Frost: Book 3 of the Iron Elves.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... Ashes of a Black Frost: Book 3 of the Iron Elves Chris Evans. Gallery, $25.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4391-8066-2 Evans ably continues the saga of the determined and driven Iron Elves and their valiant leader, Maj. Konowa Swift Dragon, in this...

PW talks with Maureen McHugh: apocalyptically ever after.(Q&A)(Interview)
August 15, 2011... The nine short stories in Hugo-winner McHugh's new collection, After the Apocalypse (Reviews, Aug. 8), emphasize the human ability to survive and even thrive in the face of global disaster. Each of your stories has its own apocalypse:...

Snuff.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... * Snuff Terry Pratchett. HarperCollins, $25.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-06-201184-8 Pratchett's 39th Discworld novel (after 2010's I Shall Wear Midnight) brings back fan favorite Sam Vimes, the cynical yet extraordinarily honorable Ankh-Morpork...

Harbor.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... Harbor John Ajvide Lindqvist. St. Martin's/Dunne, $25.99 (512p) ISBN 978-0-312-68027-5 Lindqvist (Let Me In) turns a young girl's mysterious disappearance into the catalyst for revelations about centuries-old natural and supernatural...

Ganymede.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... * Ganymede Cherie Priest. Tor, $14.99 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2946-2 The smashing third volume in Priest's Clockwork Century steampunk alternate-history Civil War series (after 2010's Dreadnought) stars Josephine Early, New...

Until There Was You.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... Until There Was You Kristan Higgins. HQN, $7.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-0-373-77611-5 Good girl Posey Osterhagen and bad boy Liam Murphy dance around one another in a whirl of attraction, miscommunication, and personal bugaboos in...

The Time Seam: Blackston Gold, Book 2.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... The Time Seam: Blackston Gold, Book 2 Sylvia Kelso. Five Star, $25.95 (342p) ISBN 978-1-4328-2547-8 Kelso completes the story started in The Solitaire Ghost with a mix of action-adventure activism, police procedural, and legal...

Night after Night.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... Night After Night Janelle Denison. St. Martin's Paperbacks, $7.99 mass market (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-37228-6 Denison again mixes Las Vegas glitz, glamorous women, and buff men with just enough friction to ignite the pages of this zippy...

Werewolf in the North Woods.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2011... Werewolf in the North Woods Vicki Lewis Thompson. Signet Eclipse, $7.99 mass market (336p) ISBN 978-0-451-23498-8 The sequel to A Werewolf in Manhattan takes a step up in quality with a trip to the Oregon wilderness, where loyal...