Publishers Weekly articles from January 2001, page 3

Publishers Weekly archives from January 2001

FARM FLU.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... TERESA BATEMAN, ILLUS. BY NADINE BERNARD WESTCOTT. Albert Whitman, $15.95 ISBN 0-8075-2274-0 Bateman's (The Ring of Truth) sweetly silly rhyming tale of mounting chaos triggered by good intentions inspires Westcott's (Skip to My Lou)...

THE DIRTY LITTLE BOY.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... MARGARET WISE BROWN ILLUS, BY STEVEN SALERNO. Winslow, $16.95 ISBN 1-89081 7-52-X This story, first published in Jack and Jill in 1939, feels dated now, despite a glossy treatment by Salerno (Chicken Chuck). The title character,...

PI-SHU THE LITTLE PANDA.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... JOHN BUTLER. Peachtree, $15.95 (32p) ISBN 1-56145-242-4 Butler (Little Sibu) turns the spotlight on another endangered species in this tenderly delineated tale of a baby panda, his mother and their quest for a peaceful habitat. Beginning...

I CAN DRAW A WEEPOSAUR AND OTHER DINOSAURS.(Review)
January 29, 2001... ELOISE CREENFIELD, ILLUS. BY JAN SPIVEY GILCHRIST. HarperCollins/Greenwillow, $14.95 (32p) ISBN 0-688-17634-8 A menagerie of fanciful beasts springs from the imagination of the young artist who narrates this slim collection of verses: "My...

MAMA'S WAY.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... HELEN KETTEMAN ILLUS. BY MARY WHYTE. Dial, $15.99 (32p) ISBN 0-8037-2413-6 Ketteman's (I Remember Papa) tale of a girl whose reluctant generosity is rewarded may be predictable, but it is still uplifting. Wynona's sixth-grade graduation...

CURIOUS KITTENS.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... ROY VOLKMANN, Doubleday, $9.95 (24p) ISBN 0-385-32778-1 In this photographic volume keyed to cat lovers, Volkmann begins eliciting the "ahs" from the very first page. With a bit more plot than his recent Hide-and-Seek Puppies, this...

RIDING THE TIGER.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... EVE BUNTING, ILLUS. BY DAVID FRAMPTON. Clarion, $16 (32p) ISBN 0-395-79731-4 Bunting's provocative allegory uses a tiger to personify the powerful allure of the gang. When the tiger calls Danny by name and invites him for a ride through...

Dorothy Allison.(cable television broadcaster to produce film adaptation of book Cavedweller)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... Showtime has optioned Dorothy Allison's Cavedweller for a two-hour prime-time movie, working with Steve Fisher at APA on behalf of literary agent Frances Goldin.

McGraw-Hill's Digital Design: "Beyond the Book".(McGraw-Hill Inc.'s approach to electronic publishing as set forth by vice-president Ted Nardin)(Interview)
January 29, 2001... THE MCGRAW-HILL Companies' approach to e-publishing involves a new approach to publishing itself. As Ted Nardin, group vice-president, describes it, "We want to get beyond the 'book model' with e-publishing and e-books. That is, beyond...

New Inventory Tracking System Launched.(by Publishing Solutions Inc.)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... PUBLISHING SOLUTIONS INC. is prepared to launch an upgraded system February 1 that will allow publishers to track inventory as well as to forecast book sales. The White Plains, N.Y., company conducted a pilot test of its point-of-sale-based...

Joan Bingham.(buys story collection from Rebecca Miller)(Brief Article)
January 29, 2001... Executive editor Joan Bingham at Grove Atlantic has bought a story collection from Rebecca Miller, a daughter of playwright Arthur Miller, her first fiction. It was bought, with a best-bid offer for North American rights, from agent Sarah...

February Publications.(Review)
January 29, 2001... Tales of preachers' kids who rebel and then eventually convert to the faith of their fathers are a dime a dozen, and Live the Adventure: Experience the Excitement of Encountering God and Living in His Love Forever fits the standard mold. The...

Chapters Gets Electronic White Knight.(Canada: Future Shop Ltd. will acquire Chapters Inc.)(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... Future Shop Ltd. makes a bid for C$200 million THE HOSTILE DID by Trilogy to merge Chapters Inc. and Indigo has seemingly come to an end, following an announcement by Future Shop Ltd., an electronics superstore chain, that it will...

Richards Resigns at B&T, Tolworthy Leaves B&N.(Craig Richards, Baker and Taylor; Tom Tolworthy, Barnes and Noble)(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... Two HIGH-PLACED executives with major industry companies left their positions January 12: Craig Richards and Tom Tolworthy resigned from Baker & Taylor and Barnes & Noble, respectively. Richards, who had been CEO of both Baker & Taylor...

Harper Signs Deal with Rights center.Com.(rights to list 500 titles)(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... HARPERCOLLINS is the first publisher to sign an agreement with rightscenter.com based on the online rights-trading service's new subscription-based model. Under the agreement, for a one-time annual fee HG will list a minimum of 500 adult and...

MediaBay to Launch Radio Classics Subsidiary.(RadioClassics Inc. is being planned)(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... MEDIABAY PLANs to launch a new subsidiary, RadioGlassics Inc., to distribute the company's proprietary old-time radio shows to multiple distribution platforms including traditional radio, cable television, satellite television, satellite...

MYSTERY WRITERS AT SEA.(Club Med sponsored conference)(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... A high-powered group of international mystery writers and critics got together at a Club Med--sponsored gathering in the Bahamas last month for an event called "Darkness in the Sunlight," which turned out to be mostly in the rain. A series of...

Audiohighway in Chapter II.(Audiohighway.com)(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... WITH DEBTS MOUNTING and money running out, Audiohighway.com filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California. The filing, on January 10, came only a few months after the company...

'Books in Canada' Back With Amazon's Help.(financial assistance will help the magazine resume publication)(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... BOOKS IN CANADA, One of the country's oldest and most respected book review publications, will be resurrected, thanks to a new sponsorship deal with Amazon.com. The magazine, which was forced to stop publishing in early 2000 after 30 years in...

McGraw-Hill Launches Learning Network.(planned: MHLN.com to provide online textbooks)(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... THE McGRAW-HILL Cos.' education division has just launched the McGraw-Hill Learning Network, a new Web site geared for the k-12 market. The centerpiece of MHLN.com will be the availability of online interactive textbooks. Six science books...

DeBolsillo Goes To Plaza y Janes.(Plaza y Janes will sponsor DeBolsillo paperback imprints in Spain and Latin America)(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... DeBolsillo, a joint publishing venture between Bertelsmann's Plaza y Janes imprint and the Spanish publisher Planeta, will continue to publish as a paperback imprint of Plaza y Janes, following the dissolution of the alliance (News, Jan. 15)....

Library Budgets Rise; ALA Meeting Upbeat.(optimism at the 2001 MidWinter Meeting of the American Library Association)(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... A LIVELY EXHIBITOR HALL and more good news about growth in library funding contributed to a general sense of buoyancy and optimism at this year's American Library Association MidWinter Meeting, held in Washington, D.C., January 12-17. There...

Lightning Source, Digital River Ink Pact.(electronic services to book stores and book publishers)(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... Looking to expand the services it offers publishers and retailers, Lightning Source, Ingram's e-publishing and digital fulfillment service, announced a partnership with Digital River, an e-commerce services provider, to offer a full suite of...

EDC Adds Web-linked Titles, Sales Staff.(Educational Development Corp. will market Internet-related books from Usborne Publishing in the United Kingdom)(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT CORP., the U.S. distributor for books produced by the U.K.-based Usborne Publishing, has started offering a new line of titles that are linked to the Internet. The new books are the result of a research effort by...

People.(Stephen D. Maikowski becomes director of New York University Press)(this and other items are discussed)(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... NEW YORK UNIV. PRESS Stephen D. Maikowski was appointed director. He was acting publisher of the adult and young adult trade reference divisions at Oxford University Press; prior to that he was a senior manager at Rutgers University Press for...

Golden Acquires Hasbro Rights.(Golden Books Family Entertainment signs licensing agreement with toy maker Hasbro)(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... GOLDEN BOOKS FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT has signed a multiyear license with toy marketer Hasbro, allowing it to create coloring and activity books and novelty products for bookstores and mass market retailers. Golden will introduce the first...

Penguin Snags Newbery, Caldecott Medals.(Randolph Caldecott and John Newbery Medals, 2001)(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... RICHARD PECK, author ofA Year Down Yonder, and David Small, illustrator of So You Want to Be President?, are the winners of the 2001 John Newbery and Randolph Caldecott Medals. A Year Down Yonder (Dial) is Peck's sequel toA Long Way to...

Curbstone Marks 25th Year With Hispanic Lit Prize.(Miguel Marmol Prize created)(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... To MARK ITS FIRST quarter century, nonprofit literary publisher Curbstone Press has established the Miguel Marmol Prize. Named for the legendary Salvadoran labor union leader, this annual prize will enable a Latina or Latino writer to publish...

AK Press Gives S.F. Parting Shot.(AK Press moves from San Francisco to Oakland, California, with a book launch party for 'Hollow City: Gentrification and the Eviction of Urban Culture' by Rebecca Solnit)(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... DESPITE A FALLING Nasdaq, dot-com--fueled gentrification continues to sweep through San Francisco, displacing many arts organizations and drawing daily attention in the local papers. When AK Press, publishers and distributors of radical...

'First' (the Third) Is Fourth.(Brad Meltzer's 'The First Counsel' makes the best-seller list)(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... Translation: Brad Meltzer's third suspense yarn, The First Counsel, grabs our #4 fiction spot in its first full week of sales. (The author's first two novels, 1997's The Tenth Justice and 1998's Dead Even, enjoyed 10-week and four-week runs,...

No Abandoning This Ship.(reissuing a 1958 book dealing with America's greatest naval disaster)(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... Here's a book whose history is nearly as dramatic as the story it relates. Abandon Ship! The Death of the U.S.S. Indianapolis (debuting at #14 on our nonfiction list) chronicles the greatest naval disaster in American history: the July 30,...

'Daylight' Dawns.('An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood' by former president Jimmy Carter)(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... Our other new arrival on this week's nonfiction list also has its roots in American history, albeit of a slightly earlier vintage. In An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood, former President Jimmy Carter shares "sometimes random...

You Can Go Home Again.(marketing John Grisham's new book)
January 22, 2001... In his upcoming novel, John Grisham takes a risk and leaves the lawyers behind Every year there's a Grisham. It's staple that could be a fixture in the farmer's almanac: for the last decade, every February, Doubleday publishes the latest...

Spinning Web Partnerships.(bookseller and museum create a Web site partnership)(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... Kepler's and BookPeople find Web partnerships are profitable for them and for the community In an expansion of efforts by booksellers to serve as community resources, at least two prominent stores have begun using Web sales to support...

Stacey's Palo Alto Store Closes After 40 Years.(Stacey's Bookstores of San Francisco)(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... Stacey's Bookstores of San Francisco is closing its Palo Alo store at the end of this month. A presence in Palo Alto for 40 years and at its University Avenue location for the last two decades, the store closing after several years of...

Successful Partnering.(Partners Publishers Group )(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... Over the past six months three small press distributors--Subterranean, Access and Blessingway--have been forced to close. PW contacted one of the few remaining distributors that specialize in micro presses to ask whether small press...

Consortium Turns on City Lights.(Consortium Book Sales and Distribution will distribute City Lights' books)(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... After a strong 2000, which saw a complete upgrade of Consortium Book Sales and Distribution's Web site, www.cbsd.com, to include a searchable database and attendant bells and whistles, the distributor is looking forward to starting off 2001...

Entering the New Millennium.(Client Distribution Services adds New Millennium Worldwide as a client)(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... Client Distribution Services (CDS), whose principals come from Random House, is starting off the new year by adding New Millennium Worldwide, a multimedia company in Beverly Hills, Calif., to its client base. Although New Millennium published...

Happy Birthday, Arthur.(childrens' literature character Arthur the aardvark celebrates its 25th anniversary)(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... This May, the lovable aardvark, star of many books and a PBS TV series, turns 25 While Marc Brown's Arthur will always be eight years old, his book and TV franchise marks its 25th anniversary this spring. Young readers have purchased...

In the Winners' Circle.(Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction; Charlotte Zolotow Award)(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... The Art of Keeping Cool by Janet Taylor Lisle, published by Atheneum/Jackson, has won the 2001 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction. Established in 1981 by Newbery Medalist O'Dell, the annual award is given to a book written by an...

The Seventh Tower.(book series planned)(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... Lucas Licensing and Scholastic have expanded their partnership with a six-book original fantasy/SF series, The Seventh Tower, for middle-graders. The two companies have allied before, most recently for Star Wars: Jedi Apprentice, a line of...

Bob the Builder.(two publishers are planning titles related to Bob the Builder)(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... Golden Books and Simon & Schuster will publish titles tied to Bob the Builder, a HIT Entertainment preschool series that launched on Nick Jr. earlier this month....

The Lord of the Rings.(Houghton Mifflin plans books on The Lord of the Rings film trilogy)(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... Houghton Mifflin acquired the rights from New Line Cinema for J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy. The longtime Tolkien publisher will release at least two titles tied to each film, which will premiere in consecutive...

TEKNO.(Scholastic Books planning a book on TEKNO the Robotic Puppy)(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... Scholastic Books has acquired the rights for Manley Toy Quest's TEKNO the Robotic Puppy. Scholastic will publish a book to guide children in teaching and nurturing the toy....

DragonTales.(Mott's promotional contest, linked to the 'DragonTales' series, includes DragonTales books)(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... A promotional contest teaming Mott's applesauce and apple juice with the animated series DragonTales (licensed by Sesame Workshop and Sony Pictures Family Entertainment) will offer 20,000 DragonTales books as second prizes. Random House is...

Jimmy Neutron.(Little Bill, Rocket Power, Jimmy Neutron licensed by Simon Spotlight)(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... Simon Spotlight added three new licenses through its partnership with sister company Nickelodeon for publication in 2001. They include Jimmy Neutron, Little Bill and Rocket Power....

His Dark Materials.(film license by Scholastic Entertainment)(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... Scholastic Entertainment optioned the film rights for His Dark Materials, the fantasy/mystery trilogy by British author Philip Pullman....

Harold and the Purple Crayon.(Sony Pictures Consumer Products plans for an HBO animation series)(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... Sony Pictures Consumer Products has introduced a licensing effort for Crockett Johnson's Harold and the Purple Crayon, which will debut as an HBO Family animated series in June 2001....

Richard Scarry.(New Organics Company to produce organic food patterned after Richard Scarry's characters)(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... New Organics is selling a line of organic children's foods based on Richard Scarry's characters, licensed by Viacom Consumer Products....

Just the Two of Us.(title of a book, based on a Will Smith song, to be published by Scholastic)(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... Scholastic will publish Just the Two of Us, a picture book based on the hit song by actor/musician Will Smith, this spring. The title is the first release in a multibook deal brokered by licensing company Momentum Partners on behalf of Smith...

Tomb Raider.(Pocket Books will issue books based on the 'Tomb Raider' video game and film)(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... Pocket Books will publish adult and young adult novelizations and illustrated paperbacks tied to Viacom's Tomb Raider, a video-game-based live-action film scheduled for summer 2001....

For Dummies.('For Dummies' brand licensed by IDG)(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... IDG has licensed the For Dummies brand to The Booksource for Table Talk conversation cards and to Anchor Bay Entertainment for home video....

Toby.(toy company to produce Toby plush, based on a Cyndy Szekeres' character)(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... Applause is offering Toby plush, based on the mouse from Cyndy Szekeres's book series published by S&S....

Golden Books.('Peter Cottontail' licensing program by Golden Books)(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... Golden Books announced a licensing program for its Easter classic, Peter Cottontail. Licensees, including collectibles-maker Enesco and plush-marketer Stuffins, will launch merchandise in spring 2001....

Correction.
January 22, 2001... In the last "Licensing Hotline" (PW, Jan. 8), it was misstated that there had been no major Gumby book series until Chronicle released its Gumby titles last fall. In fact, Doubleday published a line of Gumby photographic concept books by Jane...

2001: A Digital Book Odyssey.(survey of small, start-up electronic publishers)(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... Small ventures show how e-publishing mayor may--not--work in the future DESPITE HAVING TO surf alternating waves of media hype and industry skepticism about the prospects for e-publishing, e-book entrepreneurs keep on coming up with new...

Questia Academic Site Goes Live.(www.questia.com)(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... Questia Media Inc., the long-awaited online service designed to help college students write research papers, officially opens its doors for business today at www.questia.com. Flouston-based Ouestia's 200 employees have invested more than two...

DigitalOwi Gets More VC Backing.(venture capital financing)(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... DigitalOwl, the Winter Park, Fla.-based digital content distribution and marketing company, has received $11.1 million in its second round of venture capital financing. Noro-Moseley Partners of Atlanta, one of the Southeast's oldest and...

FIRE IN THE HOLE.(Review)
January 22, 2001... ELMORE LEONARD. Contentville Press (www.contentville.com) $7 (50p) Skinheads and U.S. marshals cross paths in this quick and dirty novella, the first e-book original by esteemed crime novelist Leonard (Pagan Babies, etc.). Raylan Givens...

POISONOUS KISS.(Review)
January 22, 2001... ANDRAS TOTISZ. Boson (www.bosonbooks.com), $7.50 (180p) Translating into English a book he published in the 1970s, Hungarian-born Totisz presents the story of police detective John Arany. Traumatized by the shooting death of his partner,...

THE UNSINKABLE SPIRIT: Episode I-- In Search of Love, Adventure & Riches.(Review)
January 22, 2001... BORIS KING AND SHIRLEY KING. Ebooksonthenet (www.ebooksonthe.net), $14.95 (315p) Motivational speaker King and his wife, Shirley, dreamed the impossible-- that they, with no knowledge of sailing, could travel from Vancouver to Australia...

Death Comes for the Archfiend.(Review)
January 22, 2001... At the end of a 15-month manhunt led covertly by U.S. operatives, Pablo Escobar's career as a Colombian cocaine cartel kingpin ended with his death in 1993. The events leading to his demise race through Killing Pablo: The Hunt for Pablo, the...

Make Mine Strawberry.(Review)
January 22, 2001... Every once in a while you lust have to break the rules. So says writer Leslie Levine, who sings the praises of life's smaller pleasures in Ice Cream for Breakfast (Contemporary Books, Mar.). Covering such topics as "Eat the Dough," which...

Election Follies.(Review)
January 22, 2001... "We timed the book for the election, but I had no idea it would be this dramatic-or this extended," says Robert Shogan, author of Bad News: Where the Press Goes Wrong in the Making of the President (Ivan R. Dee, Apr.). Former reporter for...

About Face!(Review)
January 22, 2001... "Reading--and using--facial expressions is common to everyone, but it's something we take totally for granted. And yet it's an incredibly subtle, intricate and fascinating language of its own," says publisher Sean Moore of the subject at the...

Spicy Adventures.(Review)
January 22, 2001... Brooklyn-based food writer Pat Willard calls saffron an aphrodisiac based on personal experience. During college while suffering from a bad head cold, she received a "strange visit" from the friend of a friend. "He made me this saffron dish...

Sanity, Sanity.(Review)
January 22, 2001... Marjorie Heims doesn't assume that violence in entertainment is harmful to kids--she doubts it is. She isn't an advocate of V-chips or Internet filters either, at least not to protect youngsters from the irreparable harm that received wisdom...

Freud or Fraud?(Review)
January 22, 2001... Sitting in a window of New York City's famed Barney's department store portraying Sigmund Freud during the holiday season, David Rakoff remarks, "I am Christmas Freud. People tell me what they wish for. I tell them the ways their wishes are...

Going Hog Wild.(Review)
January 22, 2001... Openly, few of us admit to reading the tabloids, yet we all know about the aliens who abducted the gym teacher, the woman who gave birth to 27 children, and Donna Rice. Yet, despite pleas from George Clooney et al., the tabloid business...

Sci-Fry Explained.(Review)
January 22, 2001... By telling How to Read a French Fry: And Other Stories of Intriguing Kitchen Science (Houghton Mifflin, May), Russ Parsons jumps into the popular jambalaya of authors revealing why food preparation behaves the way it does. "I characterize the...

What's the Bzzzzzz?(the book 'Mosquito,' to be published by Hyperion)(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... Idle chatter can prove productive. As Will Schwalbe, an executive editor at Hyperion, recollects, "I was talking with Michael D'Antonio [author of last year's Tin Cup Dreams] about things that terrify us." To their mutual surprise, both...

Out of Africa.(Review)
January 22, 2001... Mirella Ricciardi, author of the photographic survey African Visions, a Sterling April reprint from Cassell & Co., says she "photographs from the womb." That visceral approach shows in this collection of photographs that depict a wide range...

Saving Fido.('Canine Caper: The True Story of a Female Pet Vigilante')(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... After she left an abusive marriage, Sharon Curry closed her heart to romance and channeled her energy toward neglected and abused dogs. But Curry wasn't content simply rescuing strays wandering the streets, so she began secretly stealing dogs...

Wooden You Know It?(Walker Books to publish three science-oriented books from Welsh publisher Wooden Books)(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... Here's the stuff of legend: Walker publisher George Gibson, widely admired for his smart acquisition of Dava Sobel's bestselling Longitude, was in the bookshop of the Science Museum in London--"the best science bookstore I've ever...

Old Glory.(book: 'Long May She Wave: A Graphic History of the American Flag')(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... Whether it is displayed in multiples behind aspiring presidential candidates or burned in the street, there are few images that provoke as much reaction as the American flag. Ten Speed's May offering Long May She Wave: A Graphic History of...

Profits Are Paramount.(book: 'Engulfed: The Death of Paramount Studios and the Birth of Corporate Hollywood')(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... Years ago, a debate on the greatest lines in movies might include "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" or "Love means never having to say you're sorry." But today, the only lines that matter are the bottom ones, according to Bernard Dick,...

Librarians Beware!(book: 'Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books')(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... When Yale University Press editor Lara Heimert came across H.J. Jackson's Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books, a book that bemoans the decline of scribbling in the margin of books, her interest was very personal. "I scribble incessantly in...

Whipped Cream, Anyone?(book: 'What Flavor is Your Personality? Discover Who You Are by Looking at What You Eat')(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... Wonder why pregnant women crave certain foods? Why some foods trigger headaches? Why some chefs have a poor sense of taste? What your food preferences reveal about you? Then check out What Flavor is Your Personality? Discover Who You Are by...

A Girl's Best Friend: Books?(book: 'Bibliotherapy: The Girls Guide to Books for Every Phase of Our Lives')(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... Diamonds may be a girls best friend, but where else does a woman turn in times of true spiritual crisis but to the self-help section? Bibliotherapy: The Girls Guide to Books for Every Phase of Our Lives (Dell, Mar.), by Nancy Peske and...

You Should Look It Up.(Checkmark Books adds to its list of literary reference books)(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... It's a tough world out there in the reference field, but there are those who are prepared to face it. One fearless player is Checkmark Books, the trade paperback imprint of Facts on. File Inc., itself a championship contender in the field....

Rock 'n' Roll Heaven.(book: 'VH1 Behind the Music: Casualties of Rock')(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... "Hope die before I get old." Its not just a classic Rolling Stones lyric--it's a fact of life for many rock stars, who have a penchant for messy, early deaths. Now Pocket Books/VH1 has gathered all the information about the demises of popular...

Nursing Wounds.(book: 'Trauma Junkie: Memoirs of an Emergency Flight Nurse')(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... Although the title, Trauma Junkie: Memoirs of an Emergency Flight Nurse (Firefly Books, Mar.), implies an addiction to trauma itself, author Janice Hudson clarifies: "Trauma junkies tend to be adrenaline junkies." A nurse since graduation...

From Sea to Shining Sea.(books: 'American Icons' and 'American Originals')(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... Prize-winning photographer Steve Gottlieb offers readers the fruits of a two-decade "icon odyssey" in American icons (Court Wayne Press, Mar.), a paean to the quintessentially American image. From the ball-park hotdog to the Capitol at dusk,...

Flirt for Success.(Brief Article)
January 22, 2001... Those who thought flirting had only one, er, end in sight might be surprised by Peta Heskell's Flirt Coach (Thorsons, July). A corporate trainer, hypnotherapist and former assistant editor of Forum magazine, Heskell is well known in the U.K....