Publishers Weekly articles from January 2012, page 3

Publishers Weekly archives from January 2012

Ammo books: publishing in small, medium, and large.(Indie Publishing)(Company overview)
January 23, 2012... For an indie publisher to launch its first line with a $300 art book takes guts and vision, but that's what Ammo Books' founders Paul Norton and Steve Crist did in 2006 when they published 3,000 copies of Gonzo by Hunter S. Thompson and sold out...

Artisan gets baking.(Deals)(Brief article)
January 23, 2012... Judy Pray at Artisan took world rights to A New Way to Bake by the founder of the Cocolat chain, Alice Medrich. Jane Dystel at Dystel & Goderich handled the deal for Medrich, who's referred to as "the first lady of chocolate." Medrich is...

Thomas Dunne goes 'Gangster'.(Deals)(Brief article)
January 23, 2012... Brendan Deneen at Thomas Dunne bought world rights to journalist Paul Lieberman's Gangster Squad in a deal brokered by Joke Elwell at Harold Ober Associates. The book is expanded from a 10-part series Lieberman did in 2008 for the Los Angeles...

Abawi gets romantic for PYRG.(Deals)(Penguin Young Readers Group buys Atia Abawi's novel)(Brief article)
January 23, 2012... Working without an agent, NBC News foreign correspondent Atia Abawi sold her first novel to Penguin Young Readers Group. The YA work, Star Crossed, was acquired by Philomel's executive editor Jill Santopolo, who took world rights and plans to...

Ozeki again to Viking.(Deals)(Ruth Ozeki)(Brief article)
January 23, 2012... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Ruth Ozeki, who published her last two novels with Viking (1998's My Year of Meats and 2003's All OverCreatbm), has just sold a third work to the publisher. Carole DeSanti bought North American rights to The Time-Being...

Lucia Macro at William Morrow bought U.S., Canadian, and open market rights to Kristina Riggle's novel The Whole Golden World.(Brief article)
January 23, 2012... Lucia Macro at William Morrow bought U.S., Canadian, and open market rights to Kristina Riggle's novel The Whole Golden World. Kristin Nelson at Nelson Literary closed the deal, and Morrow plans to release the book as a paperback original in...

SOPA/PIPA lose steam after massive protest.(Brief article)
January 23, 2012... After what's being called "the largest online protest in Internet history" and a threat from the White House to veto the bills in their current form, legislators are withdrawing their support for the SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA...

Coliloquy launches interactive Kindle books.(Brief article)
January 23, 2012... Coliloquy, a Palo Alto startup, last week launched its first four titles exclusively for Amazon Kindle E-Ink devices. The titles are a digital take on the choose-your-own-adventure, allowing readers to make choices within a book that affect its...

Betsy Mitchell joins Open Road.(Brief article)
January 23, 2012... Open Road has announced that Betsy Mitchell will serve as strategic adviser for science fiction and fantasy. Mitchell retired last year as editor-in-chief of Del Rey and has 30 years of publishing experience, She will spearhead Open Road's...

Fiction, nonfiction mix it up.(Selling Abroad)
January 23, 2012... Germany's top fiction title at the end of December, The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out His Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson climbed up from #5, supplanting previous chart-topper Inheritance (Christopher Paolini's Inheritance was...

African-American indie bookstores: hanging tough.(Retailing)(Eso Won, Hue-Man, Marcus Book Stores and the Shrine of the Black Madonna Cultural Center & Bookstore )
January 23, 2012... In business for a total of 122 years, four well-known African-American-owned bookstores--Eso Won (22 years); Hue-Man (10 years); Marcus Book Stores (52 years); and the Shrine of the Black Madonna Cultural Center & Bookstore (37 years)--are...

Ileene Smith joining FSG as exec editor.(Farrar, Straus and Giroux )(Brief article)
January 23, 2012... Ileene Smith will join Farrar, Straus and Giroux as v-p and executive editor on February 15. She will be acquiring and editing authors on both the FSG and Hill and Wang lists. Smith has been executive editor at large for general interest books...

Children's picture book bestsellers.
January 23, 2012... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I Want My Hat Back, the story of a slow-witted bear searching for his missing hat, which PW called "delectable" in a starred review has grown into a phenomenon. The book pubbed last September and sales built throughout...

Hardcover bestsellers/fiction.
January 23, 2012... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] With a 160,000-copy first printing, Believing is George's first book in nearly two years; This Body of Death spent five weeks on our list in May 2010. Given her novels' English settings, most fans are certain she's a...

Hardcover bestsellers/nonfiction.
January 23, 2012... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Our celebrity-saturated world could learn a lot from her--and from this book," So said Walter Isaacson of Smith's latest bio (she's already covered Princess Diana, John & Jackie Kennedy, the Clintons, et al.),...

Paperback bestsellers/mass market.
January 23, 2012... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] MOVIE UPDATE. We reported last week in our Fiction column that Janet Evanovich's first film foray, One for the Money, is opening Jan. 27. Checking out IMDb.com, we noted a raft of performers who, in addition to star...

Paperback bestsellers/trade.
January 23, 2012... Stories that Rob Lowe only tells his TV interviewers. It figures that the actor who toiled (or four seasons on TV's West Wing--as White Mouse communications director Sam Seaborn--would have at least a soup Con of political acumen: when Lowe...

Spring is here!(Spring 2012 Announcements)(publishersweekly.com/announcements)(Cover story)(Brief article)
January 23, 2012... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Welcome to the season of hope and green shoots and new books. In this, our third season gathering our announcements with the help of Above the Treeline's EdelWeiss system, we had almost exactly 3,000 more titles to...

Masters, design, sustainability.(ART & ARCHITECTURE)(Book review)
January 23, 2012... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In art book publishing, there is an increasing confluence of disciplines--visual arts becomes urban design becomes...

Global reach.(BUSINESS)(book reviews)(Book review)
January 23, 2012... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Globalization was supposed to bring economic benefits to people all over the world; while it brought improvements...

Persistence of memoirs.(COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS)(Recommended readings)
January 23, 2012... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This spring's best graphic novels showcase the power of comics to capture personal memories as no other medium can, from a friendship with...

Back to the land ... again.(COOKBOOKS)(Recommended readings)
January 23, 2012... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] There is nothing simpler and tastier than a juicy, vine-picked tomato sprinkled with salt and drizzled with olive oil, or a freshly caught mackerel stuffed with bay leaves, and grilled on an...

Dark days.(LITERARY FICTION)(Recommended readings)
January 23, 2012... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The election is still nine months away, but already our airwaves are clogged with power-mad men in power ties lying...

People in peril.(MYSTERIES & THRILLERS)(Recommended readings)
January 23, 2012... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Chris Pavone, a former New York book editor, draws on his experiences living with his family in Luxembourg for his...

Mix and matchmake.(ROMANCE)(Recommended readings)
January 23, 2012... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Romance authors are always looking for the perfect match, not just between their protagonists but also among...

To boldly go.(SF/FANTASY/HORROR)(Recommended readings)
January 23, 2012... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The spring is a time for new growth, which may explain why the spring SF/fantasy/horror list is packed full of...

War!(HISTORY & MILITARY HISTORY)(Recommended readings)
January 23, 2012... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WWII and the American Civil War have been staples in military history publishing for years. But with the U.S....

The next trick; down dog; up with cats.(LIFESTYLE)(Recommended readings)
January 23, 2012... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The heaviest hitter on the lifestyle shelf this spring is not a diet book but the newest offering from...

Literary magic from east to west.(LITERARY ESSAYS & CRITICISM)(Recommended readings)
January 23, 2012... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A biographer's work is never done. Just when you think you've written the definitive life, new material crops up...

Telling it like it is ... or was.(MEMOIR)(Recommended readings)
January 23, 2012... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Memoir can be cathartic, painful, shocking, funny, revelatory, informative, entertaining. Inquiring minds want to...

Hits from the '70s.(MUSIC)(Recommended readings)
January 23, 2012... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I remember hanging out with my best friend and a couple of girls in a 1973 Dodge Challenger muscle car his older...

Let us entertain you.(PERFORMING ARTS)(Recommended readings)
January 23, 2012... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] According to Mr. Webster, an icon is "an object of uncritical devotion"--a definition that has diversified notably...

Mid-career triumphs.(POETRY)(Recommended readings)
January 23, 2012... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This spring, lots of very strong poets are bringing out new volumes of poetry--it's not the usual stampede of...

America, left and right.(POLITICS)(Recommended readings)
January 23, 2012... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] What's happening on the left? The right? What's become of the center? Spring's books turn inwards, taking stock of...

It's all local.(SOCIAL SCIENCE)(Recommended readings)
January 23, 2012... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As the 2012 presidential campaign shifts into high gear and talk of American values hits a fever pitch, this spring's social science books...

Genes are in season--brains, too.(SCIENCE)(Recommended readings)
January 23, 2012... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Out of the 60 notable science titles for spring 2012, six have the word "brain" in the title; four more have the...

Olympians, Yogi & the knuckler.(SPORTS)(Recommended readings)
January 23, 2012... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This June, the Summer Olympics from London will be hard to escape, and there are no fewer than five books in the...

Meander is a river ...(TRAVEL)(Recommended readings)
January 23, 2012... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ... in Turkey, that starts in the central highlands of the country and follows so many twists and turns to the...

Ron Carlson delivers the whimsy.(Author Profile)
January 23, 2012... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Ron Carlson, author of six short story collections and five novels, including Five Skies (Viking, 2007) and The Signal (Viking, 2009), has gathered 30 years' worth of his poems in the forthcoming Room Service: Poems,...

Blue Asylum.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 23, 2012... Blue Asylum Kathy Hepinstall. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-547-71207-9 Hepinstall (The Absence of Nectar) exquisitely illustrates the fate of societal outsiders in this richly compelling Civil War-era tale of the former...

Hemlock Grove.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 23, 2012... Hemlock Grove Brian McGreevy. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. $15 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-0-374-53291-8 In screenwriter McGreevy's smartly constructed debut novel, a former mill town is swept with fear when the corpse of a local teen is...

A Surrey State of Affairs.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 23, 2012... A Surrey State of Affairs Ceri Radford. Viking/Pam Dorman, $25.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-670-02342-4 Set in the English town of Surrey, Radford's wildly entertaining and amusing debut novel is composed of prim and proper Constance Harding's...

Barefoot Season: A Blackberry Island Novel.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 23, 2012... Barefoot Season: A Blackberry Island Novel Susan Mallery. Mira, $14.95 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-7783-1338-0 Gritty and magical, angst-ridden and sweet, this coming-home story by bestseller Mallery (Only His) pulls no punches. Veteran...

Traveler of the Century.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 23, 2012... Traveler of the Century Andres Neuman. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $30 (528p) ISBN 978-0-374-11939-3 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] From the Argentina-born Neuman, winner of Spain's coveted Alfaguara and Nation Critics Prizes, comes this...

The Song Remains the Same.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 23, 2012... The Song Remains the Same Allison Winn Scotch. Putnam, $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-15758-5 Bestseller Winn Scotch (The Department of Lost & Found) sparkles in her captivating fourth novel. Nell Slattery, one of only two survivors of a...

The New Republic.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 23, 2012... The New Republic Lionel Shriver. Harper, $25.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-210332-1 A separatist organization based in a fictionalized Portuguese peninsula could have been fertile territory for Shriver (We Need to Talk About Kevin) to send up...

Coral Glynn.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 23, 2012... * Coral Glynn Peter Cameron. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25 (210p) ISBN 978-0-374-29901-9 Set in the English countryside in the aftermath of WWII, this quietly compelling sixth novel from Cameron (The Weekend) focuses on the story of the...

PW talks with William Boyd: to Vienna, for adventure.(Q&A)(Interview)
January 23, 2012... Waiting for Sunrise (Reviews, Jan. 16; pub month, Apr.) combines suspense with an unusual romance as William Boyd again explores the effects of war on ordinary lives. Would you describe Waiting for Sunrise as a psychological thriller or an...

The Cyclist Conspiracy.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 23, 2012... The Cyclist Conspiracy Svetislav Basara, trans, from the Serbian by Randall A. Major. Univ. of Rochester/Open Letter, $15.95 trade paper (285p) ISBN 978-1-934824-58-0 In this first English translation of a 1988 Serbian classic, Major's...

All for Now.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 23, 2012... All for Now Joseph Di Prisco. MacAdam/Cage, $24 (278p) ISBN 978-1-59692-371-3 Di Prisco (Sun City) takes a bold and unexpectedly amusing look at the unfortunately joined subjects of religion and pedophilia. When Brother Stephen, an...

An Open Secret.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 23, 2012... An Open Secret Carlos Gamerro, trans, from the Spanish by Ian Barnett. Pushkin Press, $15 trade paper (286p) ISBN 978-1-906548-48-3 A nice sense of place is the most positive thing about renowned Argentinian author Gamerro's slack and...

Dancing on Broken Glass.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 23, 2012... Dancing on Broken Glass Ka Hancock. S&S/Gallery, $15 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-1-4516-3737-3 Thirty-somethings Mickey Chandler and Lucy Houston are married and desperately in love, but like all couples, they have their...

Angelmaker.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 23, 2012... * Angelmaker Nick Harkaway. Knopf, $26.95 (496p) ISBN 978-0-307-59595-9 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In Harkaway's endlessly inventive second novel (after The Gone-Away World), Londoner Joe Spork has turned his back on his late father's...

Leaving Sophie Dean.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 23, 2012... Leaving Sophie Dean Alexandra Whitaker. Grand Central/5 Spot, $13.99 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-446-58394-7 In Whitaker's contrived debut, Adam Dean attempts to leave his dowdy wife, Sophie, and their two young sons for another...

What Doesn't Kill You.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 23, 2012... What Doesn't Kill You Iris Johansen. St. Martin's, $27.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-312-65123-7 Catherine Ling, an enormously talented CIA agent introduced in the Eve Duncan novel Chasing the Night (2010), takes center stage in bestseller...

Three A.M.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 23, 2012... * Three A.M. Steven John. Tor, $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3116-8 The opening of John's compelling debut, set in an unnamed near-future U.S. city, could come straight out of a 1950s hard-boiled detective novel ("She was blond, of course....

Phantom.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 23, 2012... Phantom Ted Bell. Morrow, $27.99 (496p) ISBN 978-0-06-185930-4 At the outset of bestseller Bell's exciting seventh thriller featuring MI6 agent Alex Hawke (after 2010's Warlord), Alex learns that his lost love, Anastasia Korsakova, the...

So Pretty It Hurts: A Bailey Weggins Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 23, 2012... So Pretty It Hurts: A Bailey Weggins Mystery Kate White. Harper, $24.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-157660-7 Cosmo editor-in-chief White's entertaining sixth Bailey Weggins mystery (after 2007's Lethally Blonde) finds whip-smart reporter Bailey...

Clawback.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 23, 2012... Clawback Mike Cooper. Viking, $26.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-670-02329-5 In Cooper's engaging if flawed financial thriller, Silas Cade, a former black ops soldier now working as a consultant, seeks "clawback" ("the mandatory return of...

Dublin Dead.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 23, 2012... * Dublin Dead Gerard O'Donovan. Scribner, $25 (288p) ISBN 978-1-4516-1063-5 In Irish author O'Donovan's excellent follow-up to 2011's The Priest, Det. Insp. Mike Mulcahy, the head of the Garda Siochana's drug squad's small International...

Blackstone and the Great War: An Inspector Sam Blackstone Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 23, 2012... Blackstone and the Great War: An Inspector Sam Blackstone Mystery Sally Spencer. Severn, $28.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8123-6 Spencer's ninth whodunit featuring Scotland Yard's Insp. Sam Blackstone (after 2010's Blackstone and the Wolf of...

Dead Tease: A Loon Lake Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 23, 2012... Dead Tease: A Loon Lake Mystery Victoria Houston. Tyrus (www.tyrusbooks.com), $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4405-3312-9; $15.95 trade paper ISBN 978-1-4405-3311-2 Reading Houston's spare 12th Loon Lake mystery (after 2011's Dead Deceiver) is...

False Report: An Abbot Agency Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 23, 2012... False Report: An Abbot Agency Mystery Veronica Heley. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8117-5 Heley's sixth Abbot Agency mystery, a slight improvement over 2011's middling False Money, finds Bea Abbot at a turning point in her life....

Murder at the Lanterne Rouge.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 23, 2012... * Murder at the Lanterne Rouge Cara Black. Soho Crime, $25 (320p) ISBN 978-1-61695-061-3 At the start of Black's outstanding 12th novel featuring PI Aimee Leduc (after 2011's Murder in Passy), Aimee attends a birthday party for Meizi Wu,...

When Maidens Mourn: A Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 23, 2012... When Maidens Mourn: A Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery C.S. Harris. NAL/Obsidian, $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-451-23577-0 Set in August 1812, Harris's intriguing seventh Regency whodunit featuring aristocratic sleuth Sebastian St. Cyr (after 2011 's...

Cat's Claw.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 23, 2012... Cat's Claw Susan Wittig Albert. Berkley Prime Crime, $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-425-24527-9 China Bayles shares top billing with Sheila Dawson in Albert's diverting 20th cozy set in the touristy Texas town of Pecan Springs (after 2011's...

PW talks with Lyndsay Faye: NYPD day one.(Q&A)(Publishers Weekly)(New York City Police Department)(Interview)
January 23, 2012... The beginnings of the New York City Police Department in 1845 are at the heart of Lyndsay Faye's series debut, The Gods of Gotham (Reviews, Jan. 16; pub date, Mar.). Where did this book come from? I began with the concept of day one, cop...

November Hunt: A Murder-by-Month Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 23, 2012... November Hunt: A Murder-by-Month Mystery Jess Lourey. Midnight Ink (www.midnightinkbooks.com), $14.95 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-0-7387-3136-0 Set in Battle Lake, Minn., Lourey's seventh cozy featuring PI wannabe Mira James (after 2011's...

A Velvet Scream: A Joanna Piercy Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 23, 2012... A Velvet Scream: A Joanna Piercy Mystery Priscilla Masters. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8109-0 In Masters's solid 10th Joanna Piercy mystery (after 2009's Grave Stones), the Staffordshire detective inspector faces three...

Nameless Dame: Murder on the Russian River.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 23, 2012... Nameless Dame: Murder on the Russian River Bart Schneider. Soft Skull (PGW, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-1-59376-435-7 Schneider's second Augie Boyer mystery (after 2008's The klan in the Blizzard) takes the marijuana-smoking...

The Truth of All Things.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 23, 2012... * The Truth of All Things Kieran Shields. Crown, $25 (416p) ISBN 978-0-307-72027-6 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Set in 1892 in Portland, Maine, Shields's stellar first novel plays ingenious variations on both the Holmesian omnipotent sleuth...

Guns in the Gallery: A Fethering Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 23, 2012... Guns in the Gallery: A Fethering Mystery Simon Brett. Severn/Creme de la Crime, $28.95 (208p) ISBN 978-1-78029-015-7 Louise Penny fans will enjoy Brett's 13th cozy set in the West Sussex town of Fethering (after 2011's Under the Beach...

The Icon Thief.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 23, 2012... * The Icon Thief Alec Nevala-Lee. Signet, $9.99 mass market (416p) ISSN 978-0-451-23620-3 Nevala-Lee's cerebral, exciting debut proves there's plenty of life left in the Da Vinci Code-style thriller as long as fresh venues and original...

The Shape of Desire.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 23, 2012... * The Shape of Desire Sharon Shinn. Ace, $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-937007-17-1 Loving a shape-shifter requires a life full of lies in this touching domestic fantasy by Shinn (Troubled Waters). Maria has known, and kept, her lover's secret...

Range of Ghosts.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 23, 2012... Range of Ghosts Elizabeth Bear. Tor, $25.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2754-3 Bear (Ad Eternum) launches a trilogy in a fantastic new world with this compelling tale. Temur, nephew to the now-dead khan of khans, is a survivor on the losing...

Emperor Mollusk Versus the Sinister Brain.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 23, 2012... Emperor Mollusk Versus the Sinister Brain A. Lee Martinez. Orbit, $19.99 (306p) ISBN 978-0-316-09352-1 With this flashy tale of alien invaders and an evil, time-hopping brain, Martinez (Chasing the Moon) delivers space opera straight out...

And Blue Skies from Pain.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 23, 2012... And Blue Skies from Pain Stina Leicht. Night Shade (www.nightshadebooks.com), $14.99 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-59780-347-2 This deft sequel to Of Blood and Honey, set in 1977 Ireland, follows half-fey Liam Kelly in his continuing...

Bleeding Hearts: Book 1 of the Demimonde.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 23, 2012... Bleeding Hearts: Book 1 of the Demimonde Ash Krafton. Pink Narcissus (pinknarc.com), $16.95 trade paper (370p) ISBN 978-0-9829913-6-7 A meet-cute at an Egyptian antiquities exhibit draws self-confessed bleeding-heart advice columnist...

Jane Carver of Waar.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 23, 2012... Jane Carver of Waar Nathan Long. Night Shade (www.nightshadebooks.com), $14.99 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-59780-396-0 In this affectionate and often raunchy parody of Edgar Rice Burroughs's John Carter of Mars books, the...

Commedia della Morte.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 23, 2012... Commedia della Morte Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. Tor, $29.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3104-5 The millennia-old vampire SaintGermain' faces the dangers of the Reign of Terror in Yarbro's 30th historical horror novel (after An Embarrassment of...

Exogene.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 23, 2012... * Exogene T.C. McCarthy. Orbit, $7.99 mass market (400p) ISBN 978-0-316-12815-5 Former CIA analyst McCarthy delivers a stark and wrenching sequel to Germline. Against the backdrop of a continent-spanning, barely described war in Asia,...

Irregulars.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 23, 2012... Irregulars Nicole Kimberling, Josh Lanyon, Astrid Amara, and Ginn Hale. Blind Eye (www.blindeyebooks. com), $15.95 trade paper (480p) ISBN 978-1-935560-16-6 A shadowy NATO agency tasked with policing magical creatures from other realms...

Lessons in Loving a Laird.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 23, 2012... Lessons in Loving a Laird Michelle Marcos, St. Martin's Paperbacks, $7.99 mass market (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-38179-0 Marcos continues the saga of the Slayter children, branded as traitors and orphaned after their father is falsely accused...

A Rogue by Any Other Name.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 23, 2012... A Rogue by Any Other Name Sarah MacLean. Avon, $7.99 mass market (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-206852-1 MacLean starts a new pre-Victorian series with enjoyable romps, witty banter, and electric sexual tension. Michael Lawler, the marquess of...