Publishers Weekly articles from December 2011, page 3

Publishers Weekly archives from December 2011

Lower forecast from Wiley.(John Wiley )(Brief article)
December 12, 2011... Total sales rose 1% at John Wiley in the second quarter ended October 31, but net income declined to $50.8 million, from $53.7 million. Wiley lowered its sales guidance for the full fiscal year while maintaining its earnings per share forecast.

Hardcover bestsellers/fiction.
December 12, 2011... With 320,000 copies in print of his latest smash (book #17 to feature lawyer Harry Bosch), Connelly spent pub week (Nov. 28) at events in L.A. and Orlando, and made a special visit to Page & Palette in Fairhope, Ala.--they had won an...

Hardcover bestsellers/nonfiction.
December 12, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It's easy to run out of superlatives when discussing Harry Potter in any of his multiple incarnations. Example: the final film in the astoundingly popular series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2, grossed...

Paperback bestsellers/mass market.
December 12, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In addition to his Toys, the ubiquitous Mr. Patterson's got four additional titles on today's charts: Cross Fire, #12 on this list; two hardcover bestsellers; and Tick Tock, #19 on our Trade Paper list. He's also...

Paperback bestsellers/trade.
December 12, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Will The Help need some help? As the time for Oscar nominations draws closer (they'll be announced Jan. 24), the film version of Stockett's novel is definitely in contention--but for just how much recognition? After...

Children's fiction bestsellers.
December 12, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] After winding up his national tour for Wonderstruck, Brian Selznick headed to Rome for the premiere of Hugo, the film made from his Caldecott-winning novel, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, directed by Martin Scorsese;...

Beyond Bananagrams: gifts, games, and other nonbook items add to booksellers' profitability.(RETAIL NATION)
December 12, 2011... At a time when e-books and e-tailers are capturing a greater portion of the bricks-and-mortar book market, sidelines have become essential for filling the void formerly occupied by books--and keeping cash registers ringing. So much so that when...

Partnership models and the African-American book market.(African-American Market)
December 12, 2011... Unconventional business partner ships that create imprints to publish books for the African-American market are generating a wave of opportunities for authors, publishers, and entrepreneurs alike. Not all of the ventures covered here are...

Tie-ins: always risky, often rewarding.(Books and Movies)
December 12, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Movie tie-in publishers see a significant upside for programs tied to strong-film properties, despite a growing list of risks and difficulties. Reduced shelf space for...

Cinema for spring: film on the high Cs.(Books and Movies)(List)
December 12, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Claymation, Chimpanzee, Coriolanus, Close (Glenn), comedy (lots), and classics (happy 200th birthday, Mr. Dickens)--looks like a cool collection. Several of the season's movies are based on nonfiction works: Julianne...

True grit: Jan-Philipp Sendker.(Author Profile)(Interview)
December 12, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] How Jan-Philipp Sendker's first novel came to be published in the U.S. 10 years after its initial publication in Germany is a story a lot like the one fluttering at the core of The Art of Hearing Heartbeats (Other...

Kingdom Come.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... * Kingdom Come J.G. Ballard. Norton/Liveright, $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-393-08178-7 With all the attention paid lately to terrorist narratives and novels of suburban malaise, the prescience of Ballard's last novel, receiving its...

Forgotten Country.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... * Forgotten Country Catherine Chung. Riverhead, $26.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-59448-808-5 In this beautiful debut novel, sisters Janie and Hannah demonstrate very different reactions to their Korean parents and heritage. The dutiful Janie has...

The Vanishers.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... The Vanishers Heidi Julavits. Doubleday, $25.95 (275p) ISBN 978-0-385-52381-3 A young student surpasses her troubled mentor, unleashing much wrath, in Julavits's wry, witty new novel (after The Uses of Enchantment). Julia Severn is a...

The House I Loved.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... The House I Loved Tatiana de Rosnay. St. Martin's, $25.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-312-59330-8 Parisian Rose Bazelet is a woman in mourning, for her husband and son, both long dead; for her distant daughter; and because of Napoleon III's...

Waterline.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... Waterline Ross Raisin. Harper Perennial, $14.99 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-210397-0 Raisin's (Out Backward) second novel is a powerful depiction of the dislocating effects of grief. Glasgow shipyard worker Mick Little is unmoored...

The Warmest December.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... The Warmest December Bernice L. McFadden, foreword by James Frey. Akashic, $15.95 trade paper (287p) ISBN 978-1-61775-035-9 McFadden's reissued second novel takes an unflinching look at the corrosive nature of alcoholism. At 34, Kenzie...

Until the Next Time.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... Until the Next Time Kevin Fox. Algonquin, $15.95 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-1-56512-993-1 In his debut novel, screen and television writer Fox has a fresh and fascinating take on an absorbing concoction of myth, belief, memory, identity,...

What Happened to Hannah?(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... What Happened to Hannah? Mary Kay McComas. Morrow, $14.99 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-208478-1 When Hannah Benson was 17, she fled her brutal father, who had discovered her kissing local boy Grady Steadman. Later that night, her...

What We Talk About When We Talk about Anne Frank.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... * What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank Nathan Englander. Knopf, $24.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-307-95870-9 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It's a tribute to Englander's verve and scope that the eight stories in his new collection, although...

Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman Friedrich Christian Delius, trans, from the German byJamie Bulloch. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $13 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-0374-53329-8 Despite well-executed lyricism and a strong sense of time and...

Got a Right to Be Wrong.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... Got a Right to Be Wrong K.L. Brady. S&S/Gallery, $15 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-4516-1657-6 It's a Comedy of Errors for the hip-hop generation, as misunderstandings and trickery separate lovers meant to be together but sabotaged by...

Before the Scarlet Dawn.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... Before the Scarlet Dawn Rita Gerlach. Abingdon, $14.99 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-1-4267-1414-6 Gerlach (Surrender the Wind) opens the' Daughters of the Potomac series with a tale set mostly in Revolutionary War Maryland. The...

Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty Diane Williams. McSweeney's, $22 (118p) ISBN 978-1-936365-71-5 The author's newest work, an avant-garde exercise in constructing evocative and mysterious microstories, mixes touches of the profane, the fantastic,...

Lunatics.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... Lunatics Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel. Putnam, $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-15869-8 Humorists Barry (Tricky Business) and Zweibel (The Other Shuhnan) team up to spin the madcap adventure of Philip Horkman and Jeffrey A. Peckerman, who meet...

Darker than Any Shadow: A Tai Randolph Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... Darker than Any Shadow: A Tai Randolph Mystery Tina Whittle. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (306p) ISBN 978-1-59058-546-7; $14.95 trade paper ISBN 978-1-59058-548-1 The appealing Atlanta odd couple of redneck gun shop operator Tai Randolph and...

Girlchild.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... * Girlchild Tupelo Hassman. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $23 (224p) ISBN 978-0-374-16257-3 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Blighted opportunity and bad choices revisit three generations of women in a Reno, Nev., trailer park in these affecting...

Hanging Hill.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... * Hanging Hill Mo Hayder. Atlantic Monthly, $25 (432p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2006-9 In this superb stand-alone from British author Hayder (Pig Island), the brutal murder of 16-year-old Lorne Wood, found dead in a park with words written on her...

Restless in the Grave.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... Restless in the Grave Dana Stabenow. Minotaur, $25.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-55913-7 Finn Grant's death in the crash of his small plane in an apparent act of sabotage raises the quest:ion: who would want the self-made billionaire dead?...

Raylan.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... Raylan Elmore Leonard. Morrow, $26.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-211946-9 MWA Grand Master Leonard's fast-paced, darkly humorous third crime novel starring straight-shooting, supercool U.S. marshal Raylan Givens (after 1995's Riding the Rap)...

The Fear Index.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... The Fear Index Robert Harris. Knopf, $25.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-307-95793-1 In this smart but uneven thriller on technology run amok from bestseller Harris (The Ghost Writer), Dr. Alex Hoffmann, an American scientific refugee from the abandoned...

Night Rounds.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... Night Rounds Helene Tursten, trans, from the Swedish by Laura A. Wideburg. Soho Crime, $25 (336p) ISBN 978-1-61695-006-4 A self-effacing but effective lead plus a complex whodunit plot add up to a superior Scandinavian crime novel,...

The Comedy Is Finished.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... The Comedy Is Finished Donald E. Westlake. Hard Case Crime, $25.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-85768-409-7 MWA Grand Master Westlake (1933--2008) shows his skill and versatility as an author in this posthumous crime novel. In 1977, the radical...

The Shadow Patrol.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... The Shadow Patrol Alex Berenson. Putnam, $25.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-399-15829-2 Edgar-winner Berenson's compelling sixth spy thriller starring ex-CIA operative John Wells (after 2011 's The Secret Soldier) highlights an unsavory aspect of...

The Next One to Fall.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... The Next One to Fall Hilary Davidson. Forge, $24.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2698-0 Davidson's exciting follow-up to her debut, 2010's The Damage Done, takes travel journalist Lily Moore, who's still reeling from her sister's death in The...

Bleed for Me.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... Bleed for Me Michael Robotham. Little, Brown/Mulholland, $25.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-316-12638-0 When 14-year-old Sienna Hegarty appears at the back door of psychologist Joe O'Loughlin's estranged wife, dazed and dripping blood, O'Loughlin...

The Bedlam Detective.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... * The Bedlam Detective Stephen Gallagher. Crown, $25 (256p) ISBN 978-0-307-40664-4 Set in England in 1912, this masterful whodunit from Gallagher (Red, Red Robin) introduces Sebastian Becket, a former policeman and Pinkerton agent who now...

The Evil That Men Do: A Dorothy Martin Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... The Evil That Men Do: A Dorothy Martin Mystery Jeanne M. Dams. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8090-1 Dams's mild 11th Dorothy Martin mystery (after 2011's A Dark and Stormy Night) takes American-born Dorothy and her British husband,...

PW talks with Paul Grossman: a Jewish cop at the end of Weimar: Paul Grossman brings 1929 Berlin to life in Children of Wrath (Reviews, Nov. 28), his second historical featuring Jewish policeman Willi Kraus.(Q&A)(Interview)
December 12, 2011... Where did Kraus come from? I wanted to write a novel set during the final days of the Weimar Republic, using the political drama of the Nazi rise to power as a backdrop. In researching the subject, I came across the remarkable figure of...

The Case of the General's Thumb.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... The Case of the General's Thumb Andrey Kurkov, trans, from the Russian by George Bird. Melville International Crime, $14.95 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-1-61219-060-0 Set in Kiev in 1997, this offbeat crime novel from Ukrainian author Kurkov...

Death, Island Style.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... Death, Island Style Maggie Toussaint. Five Star, $25.95 (262p) ISBN 978-1-4328-2566-9 Widow MaryBeth Cashour, a former Maryland resident, makes a fresh start on the tiny coastal island of Sandy Shores, Ga., after the mysterious drowning...

Gem of a Ghost: A Ghost of Granny Apples Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... Gem of a Ghost: A Ghost of Granny Apples Mystery Sue Ann Jaffarian. Midnight Ink (www.midnightinkbooks.com), $14.95 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-0-7387-1381-6 At the start of Jaffarian's sweet and sassy third Granny Apples mystery (after...

Hunting Sweetie Rose.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... * Hunting Sweetie Rose Jack Fredrickson. Minotaur, $24.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-312-60526-1 In Fredrickson's excellent third mystery featuring unlicensed--and certainly unorthodox--Chicago PI Dek Elstrom (after 2009's Honestly Dearest, You're...

Mystery in Prior's Ford.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... Mystery in Prior's Ford Evelyn Hood. Severn, $28.95 (214p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8091-8 The fifth entry in Hood's series set in Prior's Ford (Scandal in Prior's Ford, etc., all under the pseudonym Eve Houston) offers a warm and vivid portrait of...

Living Proof.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... Living Proof Kira Peikoff. Tor, $24.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2930-1 Journalist Piekoff's unsettling, timely debut presents an uncomfortably plausible near-future, in which the destruction of all human embryos has been outlawed in the name...

Mother Love.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... Mother Love Maureen Carter. Severn/Creme de la Crime, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-78029-008-9 Birmingham Det. Insp. Sarah Quinn, introduced in 2011's A Question of Despair, returns to tackle the abductor of teacher Olivia Kent in a muddled...

Accused.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... Accused Janice Cantore. Tyndale, $12.99 trade paper (300p) ISBN 978-1-4143-5847-5 Det. Carly Edwards juggles a high-profile murder case and a rocky romance in Cantore's suspenseful first of a three-book series. When Los Angeles mayor...

The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow Plus ...(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow Plus... Cory Doctorow. PM (IPG, dist.), $12 trade paper (136p) ISBN 978-1-60486-404-5 This short collection harnesses the harmlessly nihilistic title story with the essay "Creativity vs. Copyright" and...

The Bride Wore Black Leather.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... The Bride Wore Black Leather Simon R. Green. Ace, $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-937007-13-3 Green's superlative 12th Nightside novel (after 2011's A Hard Day's Knight), set in a world "hidden deep in the dark and dangerous heart of London,"...

Dark Victory.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... Dark Victory Michele Lang. Tor, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3045-1; $14.99 trade paper ISBN 978-0-7653-2318-7 Lang's pallid sophomore effort (after 2011's Lady Lazarus) continues the saga of a Jewish witch in 1939 Europe trying to use...

Horizon.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... Horizon Sophie Littlefield. Luna, $14.95 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-0-373-80342-2 Littlefield's third novel of the zombie apocalypse (Aftertime; Rebirth) is relentlessly hard on Cass Dollar, who started the series as a dazed yet driven...

When We Were Executioners.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... When We Were Executioners J.M. McDermott. Night Shade (www.nightshadebooks.com), $14.99 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-1-59780-338-0 The second Dogsland novel picks up where Never Knew Another left off, with a wolfskin-wearing priest and...

House of Doors.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... House of Doors Chaz Brenchley. Severn House, $28.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8089-5 Freshly widowed and raw with grief in the middle of the London blitz, nurse Ruth Taylor would prefer reassignment to a foreign land, where she hopes to meet...

The Troupe.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... * The Troupe Robert Jackson Bennett. Orbit, $13.99 trade paper (512p) ISBN 978-0-316-18752-7 Bennett (The Company Man) melds an energetic reimagining of medieval myth with an engrossing backdrop of impresarios, puppeteers, and amazing...

Arctic Rising.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... Arctic Rising Tobias S. Buckell. Tor, $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1921-0 Working from actual U.S. Navy reports, bestseller Buckell (Halo: The Cole Protocol) produces an intimate technothriller about an ecological showdown in an ice-free...

The Dread.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... The Dread Gail Z. Martin. Orbit, $7.99 mass market (640p) ISBN 978-0-316-09361-3 An unexpected death kicks off this epic but forgettable dark fantasy, the direct sequel to The Sworn (2011) and sixth overall in Martin's sprawling saga. The...

Lightspeed: Year One.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... * Lightspeed: Year One Edited by John Joseph Adams. Prime (www.prime-books.com), $16.95 trade paper (576p) ISBN 978-1-60701-304-4 Lightspeed editor Adams (Brave New Worlds) provides an outstanding print anthology of stories collected...

Stud.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... Stud Cheryl Brooks. Sourcebooks Casablanca, $7.99 mass market (416p) ISBN 978-1-4022-5168-9 A catlike alien finds romance with a human woman in Brooks's eighth Cat Scar Chronicles tale (after Virgin). Handsome but illiterate Tarq...

Summer of Secrets.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... Summer of Secrets Charlotte Hubbard. Kensington/Zebra, $6.99 mass market (352p) ISBN 978-1-4201-2169-8 Hubbard (Law of Attraction) centers her new inspirational series on the Sweet Seasons Cafe, where everyone in Willow Ridge, Mo., knows...

The Lord of Illusion.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... * The Lord of Illusion Kathryne Kennedy. Sourcebooks Casablanca, $7.99 mass market (448p) ISBN 978-1-4022-3654-9 Fans will adore the satisfying conclusion (after The Lady of the Storm) of Kennedy's Elven Lords romantic fantasy series. In a...

She Tempts the Duke.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... She Tempts the Duke Lorraine Heath. Kensington/Zebra, $7.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-202246-2 Bestseller Heath (Pleasures of a Notorious Gentleman) launches the Lost Lords of Pembrook series with a one-note antagonist in an...

Colt.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... Colt Georgina Gentry. Kensington/Zebra, $6.99 mass market (352p) ISBN 978-1-4201-2167-4 Gentry's third Texans western (Rio; Diablo) features stock characters in a rote, overwrought story. Lt. Colton Prescott reaches his new assignment, a...

My Wicked Little Lies.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... * My Wicked Little Lies Victoria Alexander. Kensington/Zebra, $7.99 mass market (352p) ISBN 978-1-4201-1706-6 Alexander (The Perfect Mistress) delights with a strong heroine, dashing hero, and unexpected plot twists with a heavy dose of...

Not Wicked Enough.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... Not Wicked Enough Carolyn Jewel. Berkley Sensation, $7.99 mass market (320p) ISBN 978-0-425-24660-3 Miss Lily Wellstone visits her best friend, hoping to improve Ginny's lingering postwidowhood depression. Unexpectedly, Lily falls into a...

Matthew.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... Matthew Emma Lang. Kensington/Brava, $14 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-0-7582-6904-1 Matthew Graham, the oldest of eight siblings, told the Republic of Texas land office that his wife, Hannah, made him eligible to stake a family ranch claim....

Undeniably Yours.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... Undeniably Yours Shannon Stacey. HQN, $7.99 mass market (378p) ISBN 978-0-373-77685-6 Stacey's latest Kowalskis contemporary (after Exclusively Yours) is as spicy and insubstantial as popcorn laced with cayenne. When down-to-earth Beth...

Ichiro.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... Ichiro Ryan Inzana. Houghton Mifflin, $19.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-547-25269-8 Inzana uses his talents for expressive nonfiction--last seen in the comics adaptation of Studs Terkel's Working--and to investigate cultural identity through a mix...

Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White Lila Quintero Weaver. Univ. of Alabama, $19.95 (264p) ISBN 978-0-8173-5714-6 The deep South of the early 1960s was a world with a deep division between black and white, a time explored in this debut...

Who Is Jake Ellis?(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... Who Is Jake Ellis? Nathan Edmonson and Tonci Zonjic. Image (Diamond, dist.), $16.99 trade paper (136p) ISBN 978-1-60706-459-6 Edmonson and Zonjic ask a simple question: who is Jake Ellis? The answer is anything but simple. Finding the...

Jonah Hex: Bury Me in Hell.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... Jonah Hex: Bury Me in Hell Justin Gray, Jimmy Palmiotti, and various. DC, $17.99 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-1-4012-3283-0 Gray and Palmiotti collaborate with several artists in a series of independent tales of uneven quality in this...

Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China Paul French. Penguin, $26 (272p) ISBN 978-0-14412100-8 Historian French (Through the Looking Glass: China's Foreign Journalists from Opium Wars...

America's Great Debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise That Preserved the Union.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... * America's Great Debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise That Preserved the Union Fergus M. Bordewich, Simon & Schuster, $30 (496p) ISBN 978-1-4391-2460-4 In this vivid, insightful history of the bitter controversy...

Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile Taras Grescoe. Times, $25 (336p) ISBN 978-0-8050-9173-1 Getting there might be half the fun, but it's also a point of serious consideration in the latest from journalist...

Just Run It!: Running an Exceptional Business Is Easier Than You Think.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... Just Run It!: Running an Exceptional Business Is Easier Than You Think Dick Cross. Bibliomotion (www.bibliomotion.com), $24.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-937134-00-6 Business adviser Cross is a steadfast believer in the power of the American small...

Fat, Drunk, & Stupid: The Inside Story Behind the Making of Animal House.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... Fat, Drunk, & Stupid: The Inside Story Behind the Making of Animal House Matty Simmons. St. Martin's, $25.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-312-55226-8 Animal House producer Simmons takes a fond look back on the "little movie" that turned into a...

The Juju Rules; or, How to Win Ballgames from Your Couch: A Memoir of a Fan Obsessed.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... The Juju Rules; or, How to Win Ballgames from Your Couch: A Memoir of a Fan Obsessed Hart Seely. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $25 (256p) ISBN 978-0-547-62237-8 Juju, an "anecdotal science rooted in the theory that every living being has a...

Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood Anne Enright. Norton, $24.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-393-07828-2 In Enright's only work of nonfiction, the Man Booker Prize-winning Irish author (The Gathering) describes what it's like to become a mother...

PW talks with Katherine Boo: the earned fact: in her first book, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (reviews, Oct. 17), Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Katherine Boo explores the lives of several disparate personalities in a poor--yet far from hopeless--squatter settlement.(Q&A)(Interview)
December 12, 2011... "The beautiful forever" of your title refers to the wall along the airport road that divides the haves from the have-nots. How did that resonate with you? The kids looking for trash [to sell for recycling] on that "beautiful forever" wall is...

The Taste of Tomorrow: Dispatches from the Future of Food.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... The Taste of Tomorrow: Dispatches from the Future of Food Josh Schonwald. Harper, $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-180421-2 In search of what people will be probably be eating in 2035, Chicago food writer Schonwald considered sustainability and...

Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection A.J. Jacobs. Simon & Schuster, $26 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4165-9907-4 With three bestselling titles in his One Man's Humble Quest series, Jacobs decided to become "the...

How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog Chad Orzel. Basic, $16.99 paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-465-02331-8 Physics professor Orzel follows his How to Teach Physics to Your Dog with a compact and instructive walk through Einstein's theory of...

1616: The World in Motion.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] * 1616: The World in Motion Thomas Christensen. Counterpoint (PGW, dist.), $35 (384p) ISBN 978-1-58243-774-3 At the outset, Christensen confesses his lack of academic standing to write history, given his...

That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor Anne Sebba, St, Martin's, $27.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-00296-9 "I hope to humanize rather than demonize" the woman for whose sake King Edward VIII abdicated the British throne,...

Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power.(Brief article)(Book review)
December 12, 2011... Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power Andrew Nagorski. Simon & Schuster, $28 (400p) ISBN 978-1-4391-9100-2 This account by former Newsweek staffer Nagorski (The Greatest Battle) offers precise firsthand...