Publishers Weekly articles from February 2008

Publishers Weekly archives from February 2008

Publishers stand by mass market paperback: despite some softness, format remains important part of publishing mix.(Foreword)
February 4, 2008... Figures from both the Association of American Publishers and Nielsen BookScan show that sales in the mass market paperback segment were a bit soft in 2007, but interviews with publishers and distributors found that while the format faces some...

Amazon buying Audible.(Brief article)
February 4, 2008... Amazon has reached an agreement to acquire Audible Inc. in a deal worth about $300 million. Audible will remain in its Newark, N.J., headquarters under the direction of Don Katz. For the first nine months of 2007, Audible had sales of $78.8...

Media sales jump at Amazon.(Brief article)
February 4, 2008... Media sales, which include book sales, rose 29% last year in Amazon's North America media segment, hitting $4.63 billion. Worldwide media sales rose 31% in the year, to $9.24 billion. Total revenue for the entire company jumped 39% last year,...

Net gains.(Foreword)
February 4, 2008... For a business that's supposedly dying, or at least surely out of touch with "new media," there has been a lot of aggressive Internet-related book activity this past week. First, there was the announcement that Oprah had expanded her idea of a...

Haights selling assets.(Brief article)
February 4, 2008... Haights Cross Communications is putting all its assets up for sale, including its spoken-word audio arm, Recorded Books. Recorded Books had sales of $64.3 million for the first nine months of 2007. Other units to be sold are Triumph Learning,...

Indigo flat.(sales of Indigo Books)(Brief article)
February 4, 2008... Total revenue at Indigo increased by 0.7% in the third quarter ended Dec. 29, 2007, reaching C$322.6 million. Sales at Indigo and Chapters superstores rose 0.6%, while sales at Coles' small format stores were down 1.7%. Online sales grew 8.0%,...

Oprah picks 'A New Earth'.(Oprah Winfrey adds A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose in her book club)(Brief article)
February 4, 2008... Oprah Winfrey announced last week that Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (Penguin) is the latest selection for her book club.

Obituary: Susan Reiheld.(Obituary)(Brief article)
February 4, 2008... Susan Reiheld, a veteran Northern California sales rep, died of cancer on January 28. She was 64. Reiheld sold the BDD and Random House Inc. lists in the Bay Area for 16 years, until her retirement in December 2006. She previously worked...

Correction.(Correction notice)
February 4, 2008... In Spring '08 Fiction Debuts (Jan. 21), we incorrectly identified the editor of Blood Kin. She is Molly Barton, not Molly Hart. Also, in that issue's announcements listings, we misspelled the name of a Square One author; she is Martie Stevens,...

Hoop dreams.(Deals)(George Dohrmann's Take Their Hearts Out)(Brief article)
February 4, 2008... Mark Tavani at Random won an auction for George Dohrmann's Take Their Hearts Out via Andrew Blauner, who sold world rights. The Sports Illustrated writer, who won the Pulitzer in 2000 at the age of 27, will draw on eight years of reporting to...

Orbit preempt.(Deals)(Brief article)
February 4, 2008... Devi Pillai at Orbit preempted a three-book urban fantasy series by debut author Jaye Wells via agent Jonathan Lyons, who sold world English rights for six figures. The series will focus on Sabina Kane, half-mage and half-vampire, whose mixed...

Two more from Ferris.(Deals)(Joshua Ferris)(Brief article)
February 4, 2008... Joshua Ferris, whose Then We Came to the End was a National Book Award finalist and NYTBR Best Book of the Year, and will be a 2008 Richard & Judy pick, has inked a deal for two new books with Reagan Arthur at Little, Brown, who bought North...

Plume debut.(Deals)(Brief article)
February 4, 2008... For Plume, Kate Davis bought North American rights to Alice Pung's Unpolished Gem. This debut memoir, personally recommended to Putnam by house author Amy Tan, is about a Chinese-Cambodian family trying to live the Australian Dream without...

Beatles books.(Deals)(John C. Winn's books)(Brief article)
February 4, 2008... Adam Korn at Three Rivers Press signed up two volumes by Beatles historian John C. Winn that will collectively document the entire Beatles recording legacy, from the Quarry Men's performance on the day John met Paul in 1957 to Ringo's last...

The wire.(Deals)
February 4, 2008... Lisa Clancy at Running Press bought world rights to Terry Border's Bent Objects: The Secret Life of Everyday Things via Sorche Fairbank. Based on Border's popular blog, the work is a collection of his still lifes using everyday objects,...

Hurwitz to SMP.(Deals)(Gregg Hurwitz)(Brief article)
February 4, 2008... Keith Kahla at St. Martin's bought North American rights to three new books by Gregg Hurwitz (The Crime Writer) via Lisa Vance at Aaron Priest. The first thriller, titled Trust No One, is about a man who goes underground as a teenager when his...

Calendar: Feb. 10-14.(Foreword)(Calendar)
February 4, 2008... 2/10 This week, retired porn star Jenna Jameson launches her Jenna Tales series of erotica books ("for the woman on top") with Something Blue (Sounds Publishing, dist. by Kensington). 2/11 The editors of Boink magazine offer a...

Holt Tries MeetUp.com for latest promo.(Online Trials)
February 4, 2008... Holt marketing director Richard Rhorer hadn't heard of Meetup.com, much less thought of using it as a publicity tool, until a work project turned him into a member. Rhorer, who also serves as executive producer of Holt's podcasting site...

Calvin Crosby, Books Inc., San Francisco.(Galley Talk)(Gardens of Water)(Brief article)(Book review)
February 4, 2008... Gardens of Water (Random House, Feb.) starts with fascinating detail, as a family prepares for their son's rite of passage ceremony. First-time novelist Alan Drew takes you just outside of Istanbul, where a massive earthquake hits shortly after...

MPS launches the Global Reader.(Digital Delivery)(Macmillan Publishing Services)
February 4, 2008... Global Reader is an ambitious new global digital service that will deliver content from a variety of publishers directly to a market of international consumers through their mobile phones. Macmillan Publishing Services will launch it on...

May off for good behavior.(Hot Topic)(James Patterson's novels )(Brief article)
February 4, 2008... In 2008, James Patterson has five new novels coming out during a six-month period--impressive even by Patterson standards. Of course, the megaselling author shrugs it off as no big deal: "Well, we had to put 'era somewhere!" he says. ...

Haydis up at OUP.(People)(Bill Haydis, Oxford University Press)(Brief article)
February 4, 2008... Bill Haydis has been promoted to U.S. publications and overstocks manager. Haydis will continue to handle the remainder and wasting programs.

Hire, promos at Charlesbridge.(People)(Charlesbridge Publishing)(Brief article)
February 4, 2008... Children's house Charlesbridge Publishing, in Watertown, Mass., has promoted a number of employees: Emily Mitchell has been bumped from editor to senior editor; Alyssa Mito Pusey to associate editor; and Connie Brown to managing editor. And new...

Hardcover bestsellers/fiction.
February 4, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "In bestseller King's well-crafted tale of possession and redemption, Edgar Freemantle, a successful Minnesota contractor, barely survives after the Dodge Ram he's driving collides with a 12-story crane on a job...

Hardcover bestsellers/nonfiction.
February 4, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In the Department of No Surprises: You is still very much with us, as evidenced by Collins's upcoming April 29 release of You: The Owner's Manual, Updated and Expanded Edition: An Insider's Guide to the Body That...

Paperback bestsellers/mass market.
February 4, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Before he turned to writing fiction, Connelly was a crime reporter. In a Wall Street Journal interview last year, he talked about how journalism affects his fiction. "I try to be accurate about L.A.... And that's not...

Paperback bestsellers/trade.
February 4, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Eat This, Not That is flying out of the stores, and Rodale reports that by February 14, it will have more than 600,000 copies in print. Zinczenko has been doing lots of broadcast media and did his seventh Today Show...

Comics bestsellers.
February 4, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Viz Media's Naruto series continues to dominate the list with a remarkable five titles among the top 10. Volume 27 takes the #2 spot on the list, followed by Volumes 26-23! Volume 27 marks the end of Naruto's...

Wild things all over.(Children's Books)(Where the Wild Things Are)
February 4, 2008... One of the more significant and highly anticipated literary collaborations of recent years isn't even a book--it's a movie. Where the Wild Things Are, based on Maurice Sendak's classic picture book, is slated for major motion picture release in...

Talia Ross: passionate advocate for libraries.(50 Under 40)(Brief biography)
February 4, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As the director of library marketing for adult trade books at Macmillan, Talia Ross is out "in the real world all the time," visiting libraries to meet with collection development staff and attending library...

Spring 2007 audio.(Spring Audio)(Cover story)
February 4, 2008... The first audiobooks of spring are ready to wing their way to retailers' shelves, and we've got the highlights of the season. Familiar authors, narrators and titles abound, but there's also a bumper crop of debut novels in the mix, as well as...

High tide for summer nonfiction.(books published)
February 4, 2008... As global temperatures rise, could summer nonfiction be getting hotter? Check out Thomas Friedman's look at the greening of American politics and Alice Schroeder's authorized Warren Buffett bio, each set for a million-copy printing. Memoirs...

Maine idea.(Author Profile)(Elizabeth Strout)(Brief biography)
February 4, 2008... "I have such an ambivalent relationship to Maine," Elizabeth Strout says, although her novels are all about life in her home state. She grew up in Harpswell, a small coastal town in Maine, and in Durham, N.H., but for the last 20 years, she's...

Missy.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 4, 2008... * Missy CHRIS HANNAN. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $24 (304p) ISBN 978-0-374-19983-8 This wildly entertaining first novel from Scottish playwright Hannah takes place in the down and dirty Wild West and features one of the most bombastic,...

How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 4, 2008... How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone SASA STANISIC, TRANS. FROM THE GERMAN BY ANTHEA BELL. Grove, $24 (304p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1866-0 Stanisic's debut novel is the moving story of a young Bosnian refugee named Aleksandar Krsmanovic....

The Most of It.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 4, 2008... The Most of It MARY RUEFLE. Wave (Consortium, dist.), $11.95 paper (96p) ISBN 978-1-933517-29-2 These 31 "stories" from poet Ruefle (Indeed I Was Pleased with the World) are more like brief squibs, close observations and meditations....

The Cellist of Sarajevo.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 4, 2008... STEVEN GALLOWAY. Riverhead, $21.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-59448-986-0 Canadian Galloway (Ascension) delivers a tense and haunting novel following four people trying to survive war-torn Sarajevo. After a mortar attack kills 22 people waiting in...

Evening Is the Whole Day.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 4, 2008... Evening Is the Whole Day PREETA SAMARASAN. Houghton Mifflin, $24 (352p) ISBN 978-0-618-87447-7 Set on the outskirts of Ipoh in Malaysia, Samarasan's impressive debut chronicles another bad year in the Big House on Kingfisher Lane. With the...

Skeletons at the Feast.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 4, 2008... Skeletons at the Feast CHRIS BOHJALIAN. Crown/Shaye Areheart, $25 (384p) ISBN 978-0-307-39495-8 In his 12th novel, Bohjalian (The Double Bind) paints the brutal landscape of Nazi Germany as German refugees struggle westward ahead of the...

PW talks with Tony Earley: not a moment too Earley.(Q&A)(American novelist)(Interview)
February 4, 2008... Four years after being prematurely tapped for Granta's Best of the Young American Novelists club, Tony Earley finally released his debut novel, Jim the Boy (2000), a Depression-era pastoral about a 10-year-old and his North Carolina family....

The Legend of Mickey Tussler.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
February 4, 2008... The Legend of Mickey Tussler FRANK NAPPI. St. Martin's, $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-38109-7 Nappi (Echoes from the Infantry) has produced a knowledgeable yet unsentimental book starring an autistic teenager with a fearsome fastball....

Whatever Makes You Happy.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 4, 2008... Whatever Makes You Happy WILLIAM SUTCLIFFE. Bloomsbury, $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-59691-450-6 Three British mothers decide that it's time their 34-year-old sons start to act like mature grownups. And if their sons aren't going to get with...

Wrack and Ruin.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 4, 2008... Wrack and Ruin DON LEE. Norton, $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-393-06232-8 The trick to reading Don Lee's wonderfully silly second novel (after Country of Origin and a story collection, Yellow) is to take nothing seriously, even when you should....

Perfect Family.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 4, 2008... Perfect Family PAM LEWIS. Simon & Schuster, $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7432-9145-3 Long-festering secrets erupt with devastating consequences to Connecticut's moneyed Carteret clan in Lewis's second novel (after Speak Softly, She Can Hear), a...

Killing Rommel.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 4, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] * Killing Rommel STEVEN PRESSFIELD. Doubleday, $24.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-385-51970-0 After five novels about conflict in ancient times (Gates of War, etc.), Pressfield effortlessly gives flesh life to wartime...

Things I Want My Daughters to Know.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 4, 2008... Things I Want My Daughters to Know ELIZABETH NOBLE. Morrow, $22.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-112219-4 Noble (The Reading Group) hits her stride in her tearjerker fourth novel. Before Barbara Forbes, a mother of four, succumbs to terminal...

South of Shiloh.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 4, 2008... South of Shiloh CHUCK LOGAN. HarperCollins, $24.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-06-113669-6 Tension between the Union and the Confederacy lives on in this fast-paced stand-alone thriller from Logan (Homefront). When Minnesotan Paul Edin is killed...

The Magician and the Fool.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 4, 2008... The Magician and the Fool BARTH ANDERSON. Bantam, $13 paper (304p) ISSN 978-0-583-38359-1 At the start of Anderson's offbeat thriller, Jeremiah Rosemont, a disgraced art historian who's been backpacking through Central America, accepts an...

Cold Plague.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 4, 2008... Cold Plague DANIEL KALLA. Forge, $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1833-6 In Kalla's meticulously detailed and carefully plotted new thriller, Dr. Claude Fontaine engineers a method to tap a huge, mysterious pool of flesh water two miles under...

The Story of Forgetting.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 4, 2008... * The Story of Forgetting STEFAN MERRILL BLOCK. Random, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6679-7 Told from two perspectives that are at once nearly polar and intimately linked, this astounding debut captures an air of the fantastical while...

After River.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 4, 2008... After River DONNA MILNER. Harper, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-146299-3 In this debut from Canadian Milner, a nostalgia as "rich and sweet as... freshly churned butter" belies the lingering bitterness of family tragedy. Natalie Ward is a...

The Bible of Clay.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 4, 2008... The Bible of Clay JULIA NAVARRO, TRANS. FROM THE SPANISH BY ANDREW HURLEY. Bantam, $24 (512p) ISBN 978-0-385-33963-6 International bestseller Navarro (The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud) wades back into the religious artifact suspense pond,...

The Resurrectionist.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 4, 2008... The Resurrectionist JACK O'CONNELL. Algonquin, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-56512-576-6 Two worlds wrapped tight in gloomy gothic trappings vie for dominance in this engrossing, elaborately staged exploration of consciousness from O'Connell...

Phyllida and the Brotherhood of Philander.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 4, 2008... Phyllida and the Brotherhood of Philander ANN HERENDEEN. Harper, $14.95 paper (544p) ISBN 978-0-06-145136-2 In this debut novel, librarian Herendeen creates a quirky and comic Regency romance in which Phyllida Lewis, a young, beautiful and...

Dirty Money.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 4, 2008... Dirty Money RICHARD STARK. Grand Central, $23.99 (284p) ISBN 978-0-446-17858-7 Master thief Parker wraps up some unfinished business in this entertaining if relatively lackluster entry in this long-running crime series from the...

Wit's End.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 4, 2008... Wit's End KAREN Joy FOWLER. Putnam/Marian Wood, $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-399-15475-1 At the start of this quietly funny, slightly mysterious novel of discovering one's roots from bestseller Fowler (The Jane Austen Book Club), 29-year-old...

Codex 632: The Secret Identity of Christopher Columbus.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 4, 2008... Codex 632: The Secret Identity of Christopher Columbus JOSE RODRIGUES DOS SANTOS, TRANS. FROM THE PORTUGUESE BY ALISON ENTREKIN. Morrow, $24.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-117318-9 Historian and journalist dos Santos tries his hand at fiction in...

After Hours at the Almost Home.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 4, 2008... After Hours at the Almost Home TARA YELLEN. Unbridled, $14.95 paper (272p) ISBN 078-1-932961-48-5 Yellen's first novel is a valiant attempt to capture, in plainly realistic prose, the complex inner workings of a generic American bar over...

True Story: A Christianity Worth Believing In.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 4, 2008... True Story: A Christianity Worth Believing In JAMES CHOUNG. InterVarsity, $15 paper (224p) ISBN 978-0-8308-3609-3 Brian McLaren started a genre of fiction in which a disenchanted evangelical meets a wizened ethnic teacher of a new sort of...

Trapp's Secret War.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 4, 2008... Trapp's Secret War BRIAN CALLISON. Severn, $27.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6540-3 British author Callison (Redcap) continues the bizarre adventures of Capt. Edward Trapp, the seaman who sees the chaos of WWII as an opportunity for his own...

Zora & Nicky: A Novel in Black & White.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 4, 2008... Zora & Nicky: A Novel in Black & White CLAUDIA MAIR BURNEY. David C. Cook, $13.99 paper (400p) ISBN 978-0-7814-4550-4 The voice of beautiful Zora Nella Hampton Johnson--her name echoing the author of her favorite novel, Their Eyes Were...

Compulsion: An Alex Delaware Novel.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 4, 2008... Compulsion: An Alex Delaware Novel JONATHAN KELLERMAN. Ballantine, $26.95 (368p)ISBN 978-0-345-46527-6 Bestseller Kellerman serves all up the elements his fans have come to love in the 22nd entry in his Alex Delaware series (Obsession,...

Peculiar Treasures.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 4, 2008... Peculiar Treasures ROBIN JONES GUNN. Zondervan, $14.99 paper (304p) ISBN 978-0-310-27656-2 Katie Weldon is just finishing her junior year at Bible College. As she juggles finals, maid-of-honor duties at her best friend's wedding, work and...

Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 4, 2008... * Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana ANNE RICE. Knopf, $25.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4352-1 In the New Testament, the miracle at the wedding at Cana--where Jesus turned water into wine--marks the commencement of his tumultuous three-year...

Hollywood Crows.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 4, 2008... Hollywood Crows JOSEPH WAMBAUGH. Little, Brown, $26.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-316-02528-7 Gallows humor and the grim realities of street police work coexist uneasily in this less than stellar follow-up to Hollywood Station (2006) from MWA Grand...

Silent Witness.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 4, 2008... Silent Witness MICHAEL NORMAN. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-59058-498-9 In Norman's solid sequel to his well-received debut, The Commission (2007), cops Sam Kincaid and Kate McConnell try to unsnarl a tangle of crimes in Salt...

The Headhunters.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 4, 2008... * The Headhunters PETER LOVESEY. Soho Crime, $24 (304p) ISBN 978-1-56947-490-7 Lovesey's second novel starring Chichester CID inspector Henrietta "Hen" Mallin (after 2005's The Circle) provides further proof that the CWA Diamond Dagger...

Sleeping Dogs.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 4, 2008... ED GORMAN. St. Martin's Minotaur/ Dunne, $23.95 (256p) ISSN 978-0-312-36784-8 Shamus-winner Gorman (Fools Rush In) puts his experience as a political speechwriter to good use in this entertaining first of what appears to be a new series....

The Unraveling of Violeta Bell: a Morgue Mama Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 4, 2008... The Unraveling of Violeta Bell: A Morgue Mama Mystery C.R. CORWIN. Poisoned Pen, $24.93 (240p) IS8N 978-1-59058-501-6 In Corwin's charming third Morgue Mama mystery (after 2005's Dig), Maddy Sprowls, an Ohio newspaper librarian in her late...

Sleight of Hand: a Jo Banks Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 4, 2008... Sleight of Hand: A Jo Banks Mystery ROBIN HATHAWAY. St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne, $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-312-37092-3 At the start of Hathaway's disappointing third mystery to feature Dr. Jo Banks (after 2004's Satan's Pony), Jo is riding...

Easy Innocence.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 4, 2008... Easy Innocence LIBBY FISCHER HELLMANN. Bleak House (www.bleakhousebooks.com), $24.95 (396p) ISSN 978-1-932557-66-4 The author of the Ellie Foreman series (A Shot to Die For, etc.) launches the underwhelming first of a new series...

Antiques to Die For: A Josie Prescott Antiques Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 4, 2008... JANE K. CLELAND. St. Martin's Minotaur, $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-36827-2 In Cleland's engaging third Josie Prescott mystery to feature the New Hampshire antiques dealer (after 2007's Deadly Appraisal), Josie is stunned to learn that...

Hangman's Corner.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 4, 2008... Hangman's Corner PETER KING. Five Star, $25.95 (275p) ISBN 978-1-59414-645-9 Set in 1870 London, King's lively first in a new series introduces hansom cab driver Ned Parker, who hides out with such colorful cohorts as Smiling Sid,...

On Stranger Tides.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 4, 2008... * On Stranger Tides TIM POWERS. Subterranean (www. subterraneanpress.com), $18.95 (328p) ISBN 978-1-59606-167-5 World Fantasy Award-winner Powers (Three Days to Never) demonstrates a precise control of complex narratives in this reprint of...

The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 4, 2008... The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories JOHN KESSEL. Small Beer (www. smallbeerpress.com), $24 (336p)) ISBN 978-1-931520-50-8; $16 paper ISBN 978-1-931520-51-5 This nuanced mostly reprint collection, the first in a decade...

The Dreaming Void.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 4, 2008... The Dreaming Void PETER F. HAMILTON. Del Rey, $26.95 (640p) ISBN 978-0-345-49653-9 In the tradition of grand-scale SF sagas that explore the potential of human evolution, this densely plotted and intensely thought-provoking opener for...

The Lost Ones: Book Three of the Veil.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 4, 2008... The Lost Ones: Book Three of the Veil CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN. Bantam Spectra, $12 paper (448p) ISBN 078-0-553-38328-7 Stoker-winner Golden concludes his Veil series (following 2007's The Borderkind) with a battle of mythic proportions between...

Shadow Gate: Book Two of Crossroads.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 4, 2008... Shadow Gate: Book Two of Crossroads KATE ELLIOTT. Tor, $25.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1056-9 In this many-layered second installment in the Crossroads fantasy series (after 2007's Spirit Gate), Marit, an eagle-riding reeve, awakens as a...

To Wed a Wicked Prince.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 4, 2008... To Wed a Wicked Prince JANE FEATHER. Pocket, $7.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4165-2552-3 Feather follows her well-crafted debut (A Wicked Gentleman) with this second installment of her Cavendish Square trilogy. Livia Lacey, the enchanting and...

Poison Sleep.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 4, 2008... Poison Sleep T.A. PRATT. Bantam Spectra, $6.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-553-58999-3 Maria Mason, guardian mage of the east coast city of Felport, returns in her second major magical challenge (after Blood Engines): catching a psycho, and psychic,...

A Dangerous Love.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 4, 2008... A Dangerous Love BRENDA JOYCE. HQN, $7.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-373-77275-9 In Joyce's latest de Warenne Dynasty Victorian romance (following The Perfect Bride), Ariella de Warenne is an extremely well-traveled young gentlewoman with radical...

Silent Run.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 4, 2008... Silent Run BARBARA FREETHY. Onyx, $7.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-451-41253-09 Freethy (Taken) hits the ground running as she kicks off another winning romantic suspense series. A nervous Sarah Tucker is speeding north out of Los Angeles in a...

The Merchant of Venice.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 4, 2008... The Merchant of Venice GARETH HINDS. Candlewick Press, $21.99 (80p) 188N 978-0-7836-3024-9; paper $11.99 ISBN 978-0-7636-3025-6 Fans of the play will find this an intriguing adaptation. Hinds sets his version in modern dress and...

Skim.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 4, 2008... Skim MARIKO TAMAKI AND JILLIAN TAMAKI. Groundwood (www.groundwoodbooks. corn), $16.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-88899-753-1 This auspicious graphic novel debut by cousins Mariko and Jillian Tamaki tells the story of "Skim," aka Kimberly Keiko...