Publishers Weekly articles from December 2008, page 7

Publishers Weekly archives from December 2008

We'll Always Have Paris: Stories.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... We'll Always Have Pads: Stories Ray Bradbury. Morrow, $24.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-167013-8 A nostalgic collection of stories by the celebrated author finds humor and tenderness in unexpected encounters. A few of these brief tales...

The Seance.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... * The Seance John Harwood. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $25 (352p) ISBN 978-0-15-101203-9 Set in Victorian England, Harwood's spellbinding second novel (after The Ghost Writer) pays homage to such 19th-century suspense masters as...

An Accidental Light.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... An Accidental Light Elizabeth Diamond. Other Press, $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-59051-301-9 Diamond's debut is a heartbreaking journey into the aftermath of tragedy. Jack Philips is driving home one night outside of London when he...

Probable Claus.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Probable Claus Jon L. Breen. Five Star, $25.95 (274p) ISBN 978-1-59414-734-0 Santa Claus goes on trial for shooting his brother in this zany legal thriller from Edgar-winner Breen (Eye of God). Of course, he's not really Santa, he's...

Numbers.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Numbers Dana Dane. Ballantine/One World, $14 paper (256p) ISBN 978-0-345-50605-4 The major player in this intense thriller by seminal rapper and radio show host Dane is a gifted mathematician who gives up a possible career with the...

My Mother Never Dies: Stories.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... My Mother Never Dies: Stories Claire Castillon, trans, from the French by Alison Anderson. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $21 (176p) ISBN 978-0-15-101426-2 Punchy, brief takes on complicated mother-daughter relationships dominate French...

The Lost Witness.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... * The Lost Witness Robert Ellis. St. Martin's Minotaur, $25.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-312-36615-5 In Ellis's scorching sequel to City of Fire (2007), LAPD robbery and homicide detective Lena Gamble is surprised when she's handed a...

Supermarket.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Supermarket Satoshi Azuchi, trans, from the Japanese by Paul Warham. St. Martin's/Dunne, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-38294-0 Azuchi's 1981 post-WWII novel, a perennial favorite in Japan, focuses on the then-new concept of the...

Nothing Right.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Nothing Right Antonya Nelson. Bloomsbury, $25 (304p) ISBN 978-1-59691-574-9 In this powerful collection of 11 short stories, Nelson's brilliantly constructed characters negotiate love, family, home and truth. Nelson consistently pays...

PW talks with Abraham Verghese: across continents.(Q&A)(Interview)
December 1, 2008... After two searing memoirs, Abraham Verghese writes Cutting for Stone (Reviews, Oct. 27), an epic novel following twin brothers born to a South Indian nun in Ethiopia who grow up to become doctors. What made you turn to fiction after such...

Lessons in Heartbreak.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Lessons in Heartbreak Cathy Kelly. Pocket/Downtown, $16 paper (512p) ISBN 978-1-4165-8624-1 Kelly (Past Secrets) brings a strong voice and deft hand with character to this engaging story about repairing three generations of broken...

Asta in the Wings.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... * Asta in the Wings Jan Elizabeth Watson. Tin House (PGW, dist.), $14 paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-9802436-1-1 With this, her excellent debut novel, Watson makes quick work of a setup that could prove challenging for even seasoned...

Galway Bay.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Galway Bay Mary Pat Kelly. Grand Central, $26.99 (576p) ISBN 978-0-446-57900-1 In this scattered retelling of her own family's struggles during the Great Irish Starvation, Kelly captures the suffering but neglects the inner lives of...

A Dangerous Affair.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... A Dangerous Affair Caro Peacock. Avon, $13.95 paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-144748-8 Liberty Lane returns in Peacock's newest Victorian London melodrama. Worried about funds, the industrious Liberty (last seen in A Foreign Affair)...

Fireflies in December.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... * Fireflies in December Jennifer Erin Valent. Tyndale, $12.99 paper (350p) ISBN 978-1-4143-2432-6 When her best friend Gemma's parents are killed in a house fire, Jessilyn Lassiter's parents take the girl in. Trouble is, the year is...

Havana Lunar.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Havana Lunar Robert Arellano. Akashic, $14.95 paper (200p) ISBN 978-1-933354-68-2 In the weeks before Hurricane Andrew sweeps down on Cuba in 1992, Dr. Mano Rodriguez is caught up in intrigue in this thoughtful, lushly detailed...

Whisper to the Blood: A Kate Shugak Novel.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... * Whisper to the Blood: A Kate Shugak Novel Dana Stabenow. St. Martin's Minotaur, $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-36974-3 In Edgar-winner Stabenow's excellent 16th Kate Shugak novel (after 2007's A Deeper Sleep), feisty, independent...

Cat Playing Cupid: A Joe Grey Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Cat Playing Cupid: A Joe Grey Mystery Shirley Rousseau Murphy. Morrow, $16.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-112397-9 Murphy's diverting 14th mystery to feature talking feline gumshoe Joe Grey (after 2008's Cat Deck the Halls) finds Joe a...

Aunt Dimity Slays the Dragon.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Aunt Dimity Slays the Dragon Nancy Atherton. Viking, $24.95 (232p) ISBN 978-0-670-02050-8 The charm has begun to wear a bit thin in Atherton's 14th paranormal cozy to feature U.S. ex-pat Lori Shepherd (after 2008's Aunt Dimity:...

No More Dying.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... No More Dying David Roberts. Soho Constable, $25 (272p) ISBN 978-1-56947-539-3 A foreign plot to assassinate Winston Churchill drives Roberts's disappointing ninth mystery to feature Lord Edward Corinth and journalist Verity Brown...

The Love Potion Murders in the Museum of Man.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... The Love Potion Murders in the Museum of Man Alfred Alcorn. Zoland, $14.95 paper (288p) ISBN 978-0-58195-231-5 At the start of Alcorn's entertaining second Norman de Ratour mystery (after 1997's Murder in the Museum of Man), Norman,...

Can't Never Tell: A Southern Fried Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Can't Never Tell: A Southern Fried Mystery Cathy Pickens. St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne, $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-35444-2 Summertime and the living is frightful for South Carolina lawyer Avery Andrews in Pickens's fifth Southern...

The Joys of My Life: A Hawkenlye Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... The Joys of My Life: A Hawkenlye Mystery Alys Clare. Severn, $27.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6695-0 Set in 1199, Clare's compelling 12th mystery to feature Sir Josse d'Acquin (after 2008's The Paths of the Air) takes the knight and his...

Lamentation.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... * Lamentation Ken Scholes Tor, $25.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2127-5 Scholes's mesmerizing debut novel, the first installment of the five-volume Psalms of Isaak saga, hunches him into the stratosphere of contemporary epic fantasy....

Men of the Otherworld.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Men of the Otherworld Kelley Armstrong. Bantam Spectra, $22 (384p) ISBN 978-0-553-80709-7 Armstrong expands her Women of the Otherworld series (following 2008's Living with the Dead) with these tales of the male werewolves of the...

Steal Across the Sky.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Steal Across the Sky Nancy Kress. Tor, $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1986-9 Nebula and Hugo-winner Kress (Dogs) presents a fascinating mystery in classic SF style. The alien Atoners come to Earth with a startling message: some 10,000...

Horizon: The Sharing Knife, Volume Four.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Horizon: The Sharing Knife, Volume Four Lois McMaster Bujold. Eos, $25.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-06-137536-1 Bujold's Sharing Knife series concludes on a cheerful note that will please fans of fantasy romance. The Lakewalkers have been...

Dead Right.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Dead Right Gate Noble, Zebra, $6.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-8217-7633-9 Noble's impressive romantic thriller debut introduces hot CIA operative Dante Johnson in the first of a steamy new series. Dante almost rots in a Thailand prison after...

Evil without a Face.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Evil Without a Face Jordan Dane. Avon, $7.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-147412-5 This intense thriller establishes Dane (No One Lives Forever) as a diva of the flawed, baggage-laden but likable heroine. Putting romance on the back burner...

Seeing Red.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Seeing Red Susan Crandall. Grand Central/Forever, $6.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-446-17857-0 Crandall (Pitch Black) opens this tense thriller with a 15-year flashback. When teen Ellis Greene's cousin Laura was kidnapped and assaulted,...

Undone: Outcast Season, Book One.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Undone: Outcast Season, Book One Rachel Caine. Roc, $7.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-451-46261-9 This fast-paced series opener spins off from Caine's Weather Warden series (Gale Force, etc.), with plenty of excitement to draw in new readers....

08: A Graphic Diary of the Campaign Trail.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... 08: A Graphic Diary of the Campaign Trail Michael Crowley and Dan Goldman. Three Rivers, $17.95 paper (160p) ISBN 978-0-307-40511-1 For everyone who didn't get quite enough coverage and analysis of the longest presidential campaign...

Last One Standing.('Without Warning', 'Enclave' )(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Two powerful novels explore the plight of isolated survivors of global disaster. Without Warning John Birmingham. Del Rey, $26 (528p) ISBN 978-0-345-50289-6 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Australian author Birmingham (Axis of Time)...

Rocky, Volume 2: Strictly Business.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Rocky, Volume 2: Strictly Business Martin Kellerman. Fantagraphics, $12.95 paper (112p) ISBN 978-1-56097-852-7 This second English-language collection of the lighthearted, loosely autobiographical Swedish comic strip gives readers an...

Lulu and Mitzy: Best Laid Plans.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Lulu and Mitzy: Best Laid Plans S. Eddy Bell. SLG (www.slgcomic.com), $10.95 paper (128p) ISBN 978-1-593621-37-7 The grimy streets of San Francisco prove to be no place for a lady in this impressive debut about a pair of illegal...

Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo Mahiro Maeda with Yura Ariwara and Gonzo. Del Rey, $10.95 paper (224p) ISBN 978-0-345-50520-0 Based on the anime series by the same name, which is derived from the novel The Count of Monte Cristo...

Get Your War On: The Definitive Account of the War on Terror, 2001-2008.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Get Your War On: The Definitive Account of the War on Terror, 2001-2008 David Rees. Soft Skull, $15.95 paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-59376-213-1 "Outrageously funny" is the best description of this incendiary collection of strips that...

One Nation Under Dog: Adventures in the New World of Prozac-Popping Puppies, Dog-Park Politics, and Organic Pet Food.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... * One Nation Under Dog: Adventures in the New World of Prozac-Popping Puppies, Dog-Park Politics, and Organic Pet Food Michael Schaffer. Holt, $24 (304p) ISBN 978-0-8050-8711-6 A Fast Food Nation for dog lovers, this astute and...

All My Patients Have Tales: Favorite Stories from a Vet's Practice.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... All My Patients Have Tales: Favorite Stories from a Vet's Practice Jeff Wells. St. Martin's, $24.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-312-53739-5 Wells, a practicing veterinarian in a rural Colorado clinic, delivers a humorous and insightful look at...

Beyond the Revolution: A History of American Thought from Paine to Pragmatism.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Beyond the Revolution: A History of American Thought from Paine to Pragmatism William H. Goetzmann. Basic, $35 (480p) ISBN 978-0-465-00495-9 This lively work makes a case not often advanced these days: that the United States owes...

Pictures from a Drawer: Prison and the Art of Portraiture.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... * Pictures from a Drawer: Prison and the Art of Portraiture Bruce Jackson. Temple Univ., $34.95 (192p) ISBN 978-1-59213-949-1 In a stimulating introductory essay accompanying this collection of extraordinary photographic portraits,...

Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton with Erin Torneo. St. Martin's, $27.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-37653-6 In July 1984, Thompson-Cannino, a white college student in...

I'm Sorry You Feel That Way: The Astonishing but True Story of a Daughter, Sister, Slut, Wife, Mother and Friend to Man & Dog.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... I'm Sorry You Feel That Way: The Astonishing but True Story of a Daughter, Sister, Slut, Wife, Mother and Friend to Man & Dog Diana Joseph. Putnam/Amy Einhorn, $23.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-399-15528-4 In this bleak, sad and occasionally...

PW talks with Sarah Lawrence-Lightfoot: the golden age.(Q&A)(Interview)
December 1, 2008... Renowned sociologist and MacArthur winner, Lawrence-Lightfoot documents the rich possibilities for intellectual growth and personal transformation between the ages of 50 and 75 in The Third Chapter (Reviews, Oct. 20). What prompted you...

Undress Me In the Temple of Heaven.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Undress Me In the Temple of Heaven Susan Jane Gilman. Grand Central, $23.99 (306p) ISBN 978-0-446-57892-9 Youthfully upbeat, Gilman (Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress) delivers an entertaining memoir of her ill-starred attempt to...

A Pint of Plain: How the Irish Pub Lost Its Magic but Conquered the World.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... A Pint of Plain: How the Irish Pub Lost Its Magic but Conquered the World Bill Barich. Walker, $25 (240p) ISBN 978-0-8027-1701-6 All that the author, a California transplant, wanted was to find the perfect pub in his Dublin...

How the World Makes Love: What the World Taught a Jilted Groom about Love.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... How the World Makes Love: What the World Taught a Jilted Groom About Love Franz Wisner. St. Martin's, $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-34083-4 Wisner's earlier book, Honeymoon with My Brother, was based on the two years he spent...

How Lincoln Learned to Read: Twelve Great Americans and the Education That Made Them.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... * How Lincoln Learned to Read: Twelve Great Americans and the Education That Made Them Daniel Wolff. Bloomsbury, $26 (352p) ISBN 978-1-59691-290-8 This extended essay, in the form of a dozen entertaining profiles of great...

Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... * Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line Martha A. Sandweiss. Penguin Press, $27.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-59420-200-1 Sandweiss (Print the Legend) serves a delicious brew of public accomplishment...

Darwin's Sacred Cause: How a Hatred of Slavery Shaped Darwin's Views on Human Evolution.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... * Darwin's Sacred Cause: How a Hatred of Slavery Shaped Darwin's Views on Human Evolution Adrian Desmond and James Moore. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $30 (496p) ISBN 978-0-547-05526-8 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Who better than...

Lost in the Sacred: Why the Muslim World Stood Still.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Lost in the Sacred: Why the Muslim World Stood Still Dan Diner. Princeton Univ., $29.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-691-12911-2 Diner (Beyond the Conceivable) offers an unsettling "intervention" into why the Middle East is "falling behind" and...

Demagogue: The Fight to Save Democracy from Its Worst Enemies.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Demagogue: The Fight to Save Democracy from Its Worst Enemies Michael Signer. Palgrave MacMillan, $26.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-230-60624-1 Signer, senior policy adviser at the Center for American Progress, delivers hope, confidence and a...

Dispatches from the War Room: In the Trenches with Five Extraordinary Leaders.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... * Dispatches from the War Room: In the Trenches with Five Extraordinary Leaders Stanley B. Greenberg. St. Martin's/Dunne, $27.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-312-35152-6 Greenberg (The Two Americas), polling adviser to Gerhard Schroder and Al...

Keeping Down the Black Vote: Race and the Demobilization of American Voters.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Keeping Down the Black Vote: Race and the Demobilization of American Voters Frances Fox Piven, Lorraine C. Minnite and Margaret Groarke. New Press, $26.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-59558-354-3 From three distinguished academic authorities on...

Equal: Women Reshape American Law.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... * Equal: Women Reshape American Law Fred Strebeigh. Norton, $35 (544p) ISBN 978-0-393-06555-8 Beyond the hot-button issue of abortion, feminist lawyers and scholars have worked a quieter but equally far-reaching revolution in law and...

China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... * China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation Xinran, trans, from the Chinese by Esther Tyldesley, Nicky Harman and Julia Lowell. Pantheon, $28.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-375-42547-9 Beijing-born, London-based writer Xinran, traveling...

Bombing Civilians: A Twentieth-Century History.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Bombing Civilians: A Twentieth-Century History Edited by Marilyn B. Young and Yuki Tanaka. New Press, $30 (304p) ISBN 978-1-59558-363-5 Young, a professor of history at NYU, and Tanaka, of the Hiroshima Peace Institute, bring...

Lies, Damned Lies, and Science: How to Sort through the Noise around Global Warming, the Latest Health Claims, and Other Scientific Controversies.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Lies, Damned Lies, and Science: How to Sort Through the Noise Around Global Warming, the Latest Health Claims, and Other Scientific Controversies Sherry Seethaler. Pearson/FT Press, $24.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-13715-522-4 When judging...

Barbie and Ruth: The Story of the World's Most Famous Doll and the Woman Who Created Her.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Barbie and Ruth: The Story of the World's Most Famous Doll and the Woman Who Created Her Robin Gerber. Collins Business, $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-134131-1 Just in time for the 50th anniversary of Barbie is this behind-the-scenes...

Joseph P. Kennedy Presents: His Hollywood Years.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Joseph P. Kennedy Presents: His Hollywood Years Cari Beauchamp. Knopf, $35 (512p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4000-1 The legendary financier and Kennedy-clan patriarch impressed even Hollywood with his heartlessness, according to this meticulous...

Recently reviewed online.(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... ** Nonfiction * The Best Food writing 2008 Edited by Holly Hughes. Da Capo Lifelong, Nov. Brothers In Arms: The Kennedys, the Castros, and the Politics of Murder GUS RUSSO and Stephen Molton. Bloomsbury, Nov. Jewish Pirates of...

Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World Liaquat Ahamed. Penguin Press, $29.95 (480p) ISBN 978-1-59420-182-0 If you think today's economy is scary, check out the Jazz Age horrors chronicled in this financial history of the...

The Error World: An Affair with Stamps.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... The Error World: An Affair with Stamps Simon Garfield. Houghton Mifflin, $24 (252p) ISBN 978-0-15-101396-8 "I have built up a stamp collection I can barely afford," Garfield confesses, "and it has brought me to the brink of ruin."...

Pure Simple Cooking: Effortless Meals Every Day.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Pure Simple Cooking: Effortless Meals Every Day Diana Henry. Ten Speed, $21.95 (192p) ISBN 978-1-58008-948-7 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Most cookbooks start off with chapters dedicated to appetizers, soups or salads. Henry, food...

The Cracker Kitchen.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... The Cracker Kitchen Janis Owens, intro. by Pat Conroy. Scribner, $25 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4165-9484-0 Owens (My Brother Michael), who proudly calls herself a "Florida Cracker," turns a derogatory term into a loving, humorous label for...

The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First Mark Hyman, M.D. Scribner, $26 (352p) ISBN 978-1-4165-4971-0 From his own account, stress and mercury poisoning transformed Lenox, Mass., physician Hyman...

Magnificent Mind at Any Age: Natural Ways to Unleash Your Brain's Maximum Potential.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Magnificent Mind at Any Age: Natural Ways to Unleash Your Brain's Maximum Potential Daniel G. Amen, M.D. Harmony, $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-307-33909-6 "A magnificent mind starts with a healthy brain," claims psychiatrist Amen (Change...

Child Care Today: Getting It Right for Everyone.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... * Child Care Today: Getting It Right for Everyone Penelope Leach. Knopf, $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4256-2 Venerable British child psychologist Leach, author of the classic Your Baby & Child, addresses the overarching question of...

Childhood Unbound: Saving Our Kids' Best Selves--Confident Parenting in a Sky's the Limit World.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Childhood Unbound: Saving Our Kids' Best Selves--Confident Parenting in a Sky's the Limit World Ron Taffel. Free Press, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4165-5927-6 Psychologist/author and popular lecturer Taffel (The Second Family) claims that...

I Heard God Talking to Me: William Edmondson and His Stone Carvings.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... I Heard God Talking to Me: William Edmondson and His Stone Carvings Elizabeth Spires. FSG/Foster, $17.95 (64p) ISBN 978-0-374-33528-1 Of interest to adults as well as children, this handsomely produced black-and-white book...

Rhyming Dust Bunnies.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Rhyming Dust Bunnies Jan Thomas. S&S/Atheneum, $12.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4169-7976-0 "We rhyme all the time?" declares one of four googly-eyed dust bunnies, ebullient in their palette of bright solid colors and Smurf-like bodies. Three...

My Mom Is Trying to Ruin My Life.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... * My Mom Is Trying to Ruin My Life Kate Feiffer, illus, by Diane Goode. S&S/Wiseman, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4169-4100-2 What if Mom and Dad were finally jailed for their crimes against their school-age daughter's humanity (e.g.,...

Most Loved in All the World: A Story of Freedom.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... * Most Loved in All the World: A Story of Freedom Tonya Hegamin, illus, by Cozbi A. Cabrera. Houghton Mifflin, $17 (40p) ISBN 978-0-6184-1903-6 Hegamin (M+ 0 4EVR) tackles difficult concepts of slavery, courage and sacrifice in a...

A Penguin Story.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... A Penguin Story Antoinette Portis. HarperCollins, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-145688-6 Edna the penguin yearns for something more stimulating than a minimalist horizon. The endless white of snow and ice, the black of the night sky...

Bring Me Some Apples and I'll Make You a Pie: A Story About Edna Lewis.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... * Bring Me Some Apples and I'll Make You a Pie: A Story About Edna Lewis Robbin Gourley. Clarion, $16 (48p) ISBN 978-0-618-15836-2 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In her children's book debut, cookbook author/illustrator Gourley...

Peace, Locomotion.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... * Peace, Locomotion Jacqueline Woodson. Putnam, $15.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-399-24655-5 Following the character introduced in Locomotion, Woodson switches from poetry to letters to show how 12-year-old Lonnie Collins Motion, aka...

My Fair Godmother.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... My Fair Godmother Janette Rallison. Walker, $16.99 ISBN 978-0-8027-9780-3 Rallison (All's Fair in Love, War, and High School) offers hilarious mishaps from the Middle Ages and modern times as her spurned teen heroine is granted three...

North of Beautiful.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... * North of Beautiful Justina Chen Headley. Little, Brown, $16.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-316-02505-8 Laced with metaphors about maps and treasure, Headley's (Girl Overboard) finely crafted novel traces a teen's uncharted quest to find...

Let It Begin Here! April 19, 1775: The Day the American Revolution Began.(All Stations! Distress! April 15, 1912: The Day the Titanic Sank)(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
December 1, 2008... * Let It Begin Here! April 19, 1775: The Day the American Revolution Began; * All Stations! Distress! April 15, 1912: The Day the Titanic Sank Don Brown. Roaring Brook/Flash Point, $17.95 each (64p) ISBN 978-1-59643-221-5;...

It takes two: booksellers must cooperate with publishers and distributors.(Soapbox)(Column)
December 1, 2008... The publishing business is on the brink of making a catastrophic mistake. No, this isn't about e-books or returns or high advances. It's about data. I'll explain: until recently, publishers and distributors imagined that their sales were...