Publishers Weekly articles from January 2012

Publishers Weekly archives from January 2012

After Life.(Pick of the week)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 30, 2012... * The Beginner's Goodbye Anne Tyler. Knopf, $24.95 (198p) ISBN 978-0-307-95727-6 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In Tyler's elegant 19th novel, Aaron is an editor at a vanity press with a crippled right arm and leg who thinks of himself as...

Charting the transition: the industry picked up lots of data at Digital Book World.(News)(Statistical data)
January 30, 2012... How the e-book market is evolving and growing was documented in the many presentations made last week at the Digital Book World conference. Growth in the market is being fueled by the increasing number of digital reading devices now in the hands...

Witte, SMP close two.(DEALS)(George Witte and St. Martin's Press )(Brief article)
January 30, 2012... St. Martin's Press editor-in-chief George Witte bought world rights from Lorin Rees of the Rees Agency to the first book by Nicco Mele, a pioneer in Internet fundraising and political communication, who has worked with Howard Dean and Barack...

Amazon acquires 'Idaho'.(DEALS)(Godforsaken Idaho )(Brief article)
January 30, 2012... Amazon's literary fiction editor Ed Park acquired world rights to Shawn Vestal's debut collection, Godforsaken Idaho, at auction from Rende Zuckerbrot at Renee Zuckerbrot Literary Agency. In Vestal's book, the northwestern landscape becomes a...

Messenger's YA novels get six figures at S&S.(DEALS)(Shannon Messenger)(Brief article)
January 30, 2012... Laura Rennert of Andrea Brown Literary Agency sold North American rights for Shannon Messenger's debut young adult novel, Let the Sky Fall, and a sequel. The six-figure deal went to Liesa Abrams, executive editor at Simon & Schuster for the...

Hyperion serves up some frat house cuisine.(DEALS)(Brief article)
January 30, 2012... Chef and food blogger Darlene Barnes will chronicle her immersion into the appetites of men in Hungry Boys: Five Years in a Frat House, which sold in a North American pre-empt to Elisabeth Dyssegaard at Hyperion from Christy Fletcher of Fletcher...

Berkley/Penguin lands antebellum South epic.(DEALS)(Brief article)
January 30, 2012... Joelle Delbourgo at Joelle Delbourgo Associates sold world English rights to Berkley/Penguin for The Writing Box by Elaine Nell Orr, a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee in both memoir and short fiction. The Writing Box is set in the antebellum...

Unbridled goes for Geye.(DEALS)(Unbridled Books and Pete Geye's novel The Lighthouse Road)(Brief article)
January 30, 2012... Greg Michaelson at Unbridled Books has purchased world English rights for Pete Geye's novel The Lighthouse Road, scheduled for release in fall 2012. The book was sold by Laura Langlie and tells the story of a young Norwegian immigrant woman and...

Burnes sells two.(DEALS)(Sarah Burnes sold Mary Kay Zuravleffs third novel, Alan Alive! and Kate Manning's novel My Notorious Life )(Brief article)
January 30, 2012... The Gernert Company's Sarah Burnes made two deals in the last week, first selling Kate Manning's novel My Notorious Life by Madame X to Alexis Gargagliano at Scribner in an auction for North American rights. My Notorious Life is the fictive...

Ig publishing marks a decade.(Indie Publishing)
January 30, 2012... Founded in 2002 by the husband and wife team of Robert Lasner and Elizabeth Clementson, Brooklyn independent Ig Publishing is celebrating its 10th anniversary against all the odds. The house debuted with For Fuck's Sake, a novel by Lasner, which...

At ALA Midwinter, librarians show some fight.(True Grit)(American Library Association's 2012 Midwinter Meeting)(Conference notes)
January 30, 2012... They say everything is bigger in Texas, and that certainly held true for the issues facing librarians at the American Library Association's 2012 Midwinter Meeting, held January 20-24 in Dallas. In a climate of stretched budgets,...

NBC news forms Publishing unit.(NBC Publishing )(Brief article)
January 30, 2012... NBC News has formed NBC Publishing to use its audio and video assets to create its own digital books in text and enhanced editions. NBC v-p Michael Fabiano has been appointed general manager of NBC Publishing and hired two publishing veterans:...

Amazon, HMH ink pact.(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt )(Brief article)
January 30, 2012... Amazon Publishing has reached a licensing deal with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for HMH to publish and distribute all adult titles from AP's New York office under a new HMH imprint to be called New Harvest. The deal starts with Amazon Publishing's...

Gantos, Raschka, Whaley take home top kids' prizes.(Awards)(Jack Gantos, Chris Raschka and John Corey Whaley )
January 30, 2012... Last Monday, the American Library Association announced its annual Youth Media Awards at its Midwinter conference, held this year in Dallas. The 2012 John Newbery Medal went to author Jack Gantos for Dead End in Norvelt (FSG), a...

Hardcover bestsellers/fiction.
January 30, 2012... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For historical novelist Cornwell, fiction is series business. His Richard Sharpe series--21 volumes and counting--spans the Napoleonic Wars, beginning with Sharpe's Tiger, which covered 1799's Siege of Seringapatam....

Hardcover bestsellers/nonfiction.
January 30, 2012... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Levin's latest, subtitled The Unmaking of America, follows his Liberty and Tyranny, which ran for 26 weeks on our 2009 Nonfiction list. Famous for rarely coming out of his "bunker," when the radio talk-show host does...

Paperback bestsellers/mass.
January 30, 2012... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Trader is Martini's 12th thriller to feature crackerjack defense attorney Paul Madriani; the first, Compelling Evidence, was published in 1992. (His 1994 and '96 Madriani books, Undue Influence and The Judge, became...

Paperback bestseller/trade.
January 30, 2012... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Oscar Update. Five titles on this week's list were nominated in various Academy Award categories, including three titles that received Best Picture nods--Extremely Loud, The Help, and Moneyball. Moneyball and The Girl...

Audio bestsellers/fiction.(List)
January 30, 2012... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Andre Braugher--who smoothly reads sections of the book narrated by Cross--captures the tough, often frustrated, at times furious lawman, but also portrays Cross's warmer side as he deals with domestic problems...

Audio bestsellers/nonfiction.(List)
January 30, 2012... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Dylan Baker's narration is straightforward and precise, and maintains listener interest throughout. Though numerous individuals discuss Jobs... it's always clear who is speaking, which proves a testament to Baker's...

Children's series and tie-ins bestsellers.(List)
January 30, 2012... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Hunger Games movie doesn't open until March 23, but PW got an exclusive advance interview with Amandla Stenberg, age 13, who plays Rue in the film. She talked at length about her experience on the movie set as well...

A day in the life of Walker Group's Karen Lotz.(Children's Books)
January 30, 2012... Six months ago Karen Lotz, president and publisher of Candlewick Press since 1999, took on the added responsibility of sole managing director for Walker Group, parent company to Candlewick and Walker Books UK and Australia. In 2010, she had...

A winning winter Institute: the seventh annual event delivers energy boost to booksellers.(RETAIL NATION)(American Booksellers Association Winter Institute )(Conference notes)
January 30, 2012... Buoyed by a strong finish to 2011, indie booksellers celebrated their independence at this year's seventh annual American Booksellers Association Winter Institute held at the Astor Crowne Plaza in New Orleans, January 18-20. Some who recently...

Digital Lysenkoism: DRM, "social DRM," and the madness of publishers.(With a Little Help)(digital rights management )
January 30, 2012... Talking with the lower echelon employees of publishing reminds me of a description I once read about the mutual embarrassment of Western and Soviet biologists when they talked about genetics. Soviet-era scientists were required, on pain of...

There's an app developer for that: new companies emerge to meet the demand for book-based apps.(App Developers)(Company overview)
January 30, 2012... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Getting into the app space can be a daunting prospect for publishers, but a wide range of developers have sprung up to help houses steer through what is still an uncertain new frontier for book interactivity. What...

Olen Steinhauer: a literary spy.(Author Profile)
January 30, 2012... Olen Steinhauer can thank James Joyce and an exchange program as an undergraduate in Eastern Europe for his writing aspirations. "I was living in a garret in Zagreb in 1989, reading Joyce for the first time," he says over lunch at a French cafe...

The Age of Miracles.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 30, 2012... * The Age of Miracles Karen Thompson Walker. Random, $27 (288p) ISBN 978-0-8129-9297-7 In this gripping debut, 11-year-old Julia wakes one day to the news that the earth's rotation has started slowing. The immediate effects--no one at...

The Folded Earth.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 30, 2012... The Folded Earth Anuradha Roy. Free Press, $14 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-1-4516-3333-7 After her husband, Michael, dies in a mountain-climbing mishap, Maya flees to the tiny Himalayan town of Ranikhet to escape her past and find peace....

The Singles.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 30, 2012... The Singles Meredith Goldstein. Plume, $15 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-0-452-29805-7 This debut by Boston Globe "Love Letters" columnist Goldstein chronicles the wedding of lawyer Bee Evans and Matt Fee from the viewpoints of five...

The 13th Tribe.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 30, 2012... The 13th Tribe Robert Liparulo. Thomas Nelson, $16.99 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-1-59554-169-7 Liparulo (Comes a Horseman) opens the Immortal Files series with a bang: an intruder is shot at MicroTech, a supplier to the Pentagon. That...

The Welcome Committee of Butternut Creek.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 30, 2012... The Welcome Committee of Butternut Creek Jane Myers Perrine. Hachette/FaithWords, $14.99 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-0-89296921-0 Readers looking for a gentle, funny, romantic, and honest new series will find it in this latest effort by...

The Re-education of Cherry Truong.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 30, 2012... The Re-education of Cherry Truong Aimee Phan. St. Martin's, $25.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-312-32268-7 In her debut novel, Phan traces the difficulties of forming identity and preserving family for Vietnamese refugees on two continents. When...

PW talks with Karen Thompson Walker: slow ride.(Q&A)(Interview)
January 30, 2012... In Karen Thompson Walker's debut novel, The Age of Miracles (Reviews, this issue, p. 30; pub date, June), an 11-year-old girl wakes up one morning to the news that the earth's rotation is slowing. Did you always know that Julia, an adolescent...

The Sea Is My Brother.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 30, 2012... The Sea Is My Brother Jack Kerouac. Da Capo, $26.50 (224p) ISBN 978-0-306-82125-7 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Unpublished in North America for nearly 70 years, Kerouac's first novel, written when he was 21, offers a tantalizing glimpse of...

That Deadman Dance.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 30, 2012... That Deadman Dance Kim Scott. Bloomsbury, $25 (368p) ISBN 9781-60819-705-7 Australian novelist Scott's (Benang) complex Commonwealth-winning (South East Asia/Pacific Region) third novel begins in 1833 with Bobby Wabalanginy, part of the...

What They Do in the Dark.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 30, 2012... What They Do in the Dark Amanda Coe. Norton, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-393-08138-1 It begins for 10-year-old Gemma Barlow, almost mockingly as it turns out, with another one of her "perfect Saturdays," a languid day of swimming and hot...

Perla.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 30, 2012... * Perla Carolina De Robertis. Knopf, $25,95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-307-59959-9 Following her successful fiction debut, Invisible Mountain, De Robertis tackles the lingering repercussions of the state-sponsored disappearances of political...

I Hadn't Understood.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 30, 2012... I Hadn't Understood Diego De Silva, trans, from the Italian by Antony Shugaar. Europa, $15 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-1-60945-065-6 Meet Vincenzo Malinconico, "master of the improvisational jazz of complications" (as in creating,...

Make It Stay.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 30, 2012... Make It Stay Joan Frank. Permanent, $26 (164p) ISBN 9781-57962-227-5 Frank's latest (after In Envy Country) is a poignant if narrow portrait of love, friendship, and mortality. In a bohemian Northern California town, writer Rachel Blum...

Losing Clementine.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 30, 2012... Losing Clementine Ashley Ream. Morrow, $14.99 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-209363-9 Ream's debut kicks off with a brash introduction to brazen artist Clement*he Pritchard, who's fired both her shrink/ lover and her well-meaning...

The White Pearl.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 30, 2012... The White Pearl Kate Furnivall. Berkley, $15 trade paper (448p) ISBN 978-0-425-24100-4 In another of her historical action stories, Furnivall (The Russian Concubine) takes readers on a tour through the islands of the Southeast Asian...

The Other Shoe.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 30, 2012... * The Other Shoe Matt Pavelich. Counterpoint, $16.95 trade paper (334p) ISBN 978-1-58243-795-8 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Pavelich's haunting, beautifully observed second novel opens with Calvin Teague, an Iowan drifter, at the mercy of the...

The Dog Who Danced.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 30, 2012... The Dog Who Danced Susan Wilson. St. Martin's, $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-67499-1 Justine Meade has spent most of her 43 years on the move. She left home young, got in and out of an early marriage, and had a son who, unhappy with her...

Fatal Induction: A Professor Bradshaw Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 30, 2012... Fatal Induction: A Professor Bradshaw Mystery Bernadette Pajer. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (232p) ISBN 978-1-59058-612-9; $14.95 trade paper ISBN 978-1-59058-614-3 President McKinley's assassination casts a pall over Pajer's somewhat...

The Stolen Bride.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 30, 2012... * The Stolen Bride Tony Hays. Forge, $25.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2629-4 Utterly convincing characters and a perfect balance between action and sleuthing distinguish Hays's suspenseful fourth mystery set in King Arthur's Britain (after...

Kings of Midnight.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 30, 2012... Kings of Midnight Wallace Stroby. Minotaur, $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-00037-8 The real-life Lufthansa heist from Kennedy Airport in 1978 provides the backdrop for Stroby's suspenseful second novel featuring driven but ethical thief...

Buried in Buttercream: A Savannah Reid Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 30, 2012... Buried in Buttercream: A Savannah Reid Mystery G.A. McKevett. Kensington, $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7582-3812-2 If the crazies would take a break, Savannah Reid could finally tie the knot with her former police partner, Det. Sgt. Dirk Coulter,...

The Deep Zone.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 30, 2012... The Deep Zone James M. Tabor. Ballantine, $26 (432p) ISBN 978-0-445-53061-5 In Tabor's first novel, a routine near-future medical thriller, a new, lethal, and contagious bacterial infection has reached the U.S. through stricken American...

Barnstorming: A Gail McCarthy Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 30, 2012... Barnstorming: A Gail McCarthy Mystery Laura Crum. Perseverance (SCB, dist.), $14.95 trade paperback (192p) ISBN 978-1-56474-508-8 Crum gently winds down her Gail McCarthy horse mystery series with the 12th and final volume (after 2010's...

Stay Close.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 30, 2012... * Stay Close Harlan Coben. Dutton, $27.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-525-95227-5 Edgar-winner Coben (Caught) continues to mine rich veins of terror in his New Jersey novels of domestic suspense, exploring both the reality and the ideal of family...

Blowout.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 30, 2012... Blowout Byron L. Dorgan and David Hagberg. Forge, $25.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2737-6 Former U.S. senator Dorgan (Take This Job and Ship It: How Corporate Greed and Brain-Dead Politics Are Selling Out America), assisted by bestseller...

Chasing Midnight.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 30, 2012... Chasing Midnight Randy Wayne White. Bantam, $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-399-15831-5 Technology buffs will enjoy the cool gadgets in bestseller White's 19th Doc Ford novel (after 2011's Night Vision), but those looking for emotional depth...

Running the Maze: A Sniper Novel.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 30, 2012... Running the Maze: A Sniper Novel Jack Coughlin with Donald A. Davis. St. Martin's, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-31255495-8 Shortly before the Taliban massacre nine U.N. doctors and nurses on a mission to treat Pakistani flood victims in...

Stein, Stung: A Harry Stein Soft-Boiled Murder Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 30, 2012... Stein, Stung: A Harry Stein Soft-Boiled Murder Mystery Hal Ackerman. Tyrus (www.tyrusbooks.com), $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4405-3307-5; $15.95 trade paper ISBN 978-1-4405-3306-8 Sly humor abounds in Ackerman's second mystery featuring aging...

The Magic Line.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 30, 2012... The Magic Line Elizabeth Gunn. Severn, $28.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8116-8 Sarah Burke looks into a botched drug stash house raid that results in five bodies and a house filled with bullet holes in Gunn's engaging fourth mystery featuring...

Force of Nature.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 30, 2012... * Force of Nature C.J. Box. Putnam, $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-399-15826-1 Edgar-winner Box's breakneck 12th Joe Pickett novel (after 2011 's Cold Wind) focuses on Joe's outlaw buddy, Nate Romanowski. Nate's been hiding in the foothills of...

Justice Deferred.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 30, 2012... Justice Deferred Jeffrey Ashford. Severn, $27.95 (192p)ISBN 978-0-7278-8100-7 Why is truth sometimes so hard to prove? Why does falsehood seem more plausible? This psychological crime novel from British veteran Ashford (Criminal Innocence)...

Hell's Legionnaire.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 30, 2012... Hell's Legionnaire L. Ron Hubbard. Galaxy, $9.95 trade paper (152p) ISBN 978-1-59212-355-1 The title story of this Hubbard pulp fiction reissue isn't actually the most interesting of the three pulse-pounding long short stories in the...

Till Death Do Us Purl.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 30, 2012... Till Death Do Us Purl Anne Canadeo. S&S/Gallery, $15 trade paper (288p) tSBN 978-1-4391-9140-8 In Canadeo's smooth fourth knitting cozy (after 2010's A Stitch Before Dying), Maggie Messina, owner of the Black Sheep Knitting Shop in...

Hide Me Among the Graves.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 30, 2012... * Hide Me Among the Graves Tim Powers. Morrow, $25.99 (528p) ISBN 978-0-06-123154-4 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The vampiric specter of John Polidori, who published the first work of vampire fiction in 1819 and died a probable suicide in...

The Sound of a Scream.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 30, 2012... The Sound of a Scream John Manning. Pinnacle, $7.99 mass market (352p) ISBN 978-0-7860-2763-7 At the start of this by-the-numbers serial killer thriller from Manning (All the Pretty Girls), 22-year-old orphan Daphne May, fresh out of a...

Witchful Thinking.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 30, 2012... Witchful Thinking H.E Mallory. Bantam, $7.99 mass market (336p) ISBN 978-0-345-53145-2 Mallory's third Jolie Wilkins paranormal (after the self-published Toil and Trouble and Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble) .finds the hapless,...

Deadfall Hotel.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 30, 2012... Deadfall Hotel Steve Rasnic Tern. Centipede, $125 (400p) ISBN 978-1-61347-012-1 "No ordinary hotel" but more "a state of mind," the eponymous setting for this haunting dark fantasy from horror eminence Tern (The Book of Days) provides the...

Initiate's Trial: The Wars of Light and Shadow, Vol. 9.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 30, 2012... Initiate's Trial: The Wars of Light and Shadow, Vol. 9 Janny Wurts. HarperCollins UK/Voyager (Trafalgar Square, dist.), $29.95 (544p) ISBN 978-0-00-736212-7 Magical factions scheme in the shadow of impending religious war in the hefty...

The Steel Seraglio.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 30, 2012... The Steel Seraglio Mike Carey, Linda Carey, and Louise Carey. ChiZine (Diamond, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (440p) ISBN 978-1-92685-153-2 The family Carey (spouses Mike and Linda, daughter Louise) team up to explore the ancient city of...

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Vol. 6.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 30, 2012... The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Vol. 6 Jonathan Strahan. Night Shade (www.nightshadebooks.com), $19.99 trade paper (500p) ISBN 978-1-59780-345-8 Strahan's sixth annual genre-spanning anthology lacks the clarity (or...

The Kingdoms of Dust.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 30, 2012... * The Kingdoms of Dust Amanda Downum. Orbit, $7.99 mass market (416p) ISBN 978-0-316-06898-7 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Necromancer Isyllt Iskaldur, exiled and forsworn following the events of 201 l's The Bone Palace, takes refuge with her...

Bridge of Dreams.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 30, 2012... Bridge of Dreams Anne Bishop. Roc, $26.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0451-46381-4 Bishop adds a third chapter (after Sebastian and Belladonna) to the story of the living world Ephemera. Protagonist Lee is a Bridge, able to join disparate chunks of...

Dead Harvest.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 30, 2012... Dead Harvest Chris F. Holm. Angry Robot, $7.99 mass market (416p) ISBN 978-0-85766-218-7 A war is brewing between angels and demons in this twisty, fast-paced, and thoroughly enjoyable urban fantasy debut. Sam Thornton is a Collector: he...

Black Howl.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 30, 2012... Black Howl Christina Henry. Ace, $7.99 mass market (288p) ISBN 978-1-937007-33-1 Maddy Black enters the third installment of her adventures (after Black Night) with far too many skills she doesn't understand, men she can't handle, and...

PW Talks with Caitlin R. Kiernan: Pernicious thought contagions.(Q&A)(Interview)
January 30, 2012... Kiernan has established herself as an author of compelling, sometimes brutal, dark fantasy. Her latest novel, The Drowning Girl: A Memoir (Reviews, Jan. 16), about a schizophrenic young woman obsessed with a painting, is a chillingly effective...

The Wolf Who Loved Me.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 30, 2012... The Wolf Who Loved Me Lydia Dare. Sourcebooks Casablanca, $7.99 mass market (416p) ISBN 978-1-4022-6346-0 Dare returns to her gentleman werewolves in 1820 Mayfair with a new story arc featuring Weston, Grayson, and Archer Hadley, penniless...

Purgatory.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 30, 2012... Purgatory Jeff Mann. Lethe, $18 trade paper (286p) ISBN 978-1-59021-375-9 Mann's love story between a Confederate soldier and a Yankee POW illuminates the daily horrors of war but doesn't quite hang together as a novel. In 1865, the rules...

Believe It or Not.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 30, 2012... Believe It or Not Tawna Fenske. Sourcebooks Casablanca, $6.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-1-4022-5718-6 Fenske's sophomore effort (after Making Waves) is an extended meet-cute scenario, with an entertainingly quirky cast that makes for...

The Husband Hunt.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 30, 2012... The Husband Hunt Lynsay Sands. Avon, $7.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-196310-0 The feisty Madison sisters from The Heiress are back in this amusing and sentimental Regency. Lisa Madison adores her neighbor Robert, Lord Langley, but...

The Runaway Countess.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 30, 2012... The Runaway Countess Leigh LaValle. Samhain, $6.50 e-book (321p) ISBN 978-1-60928-768-9 LaValle's slow-moving debut keeps the focus on sexual tension. Mazie Chetwyn is a known accomplice to the so-called Midnight Rider, a Robin Hood-like...

A Kiss in the Wind.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 30, 2012... A Kiss in the Wind Jennifer Bray-Weber. Harlequin/Carina, $4.99 e-book (219p) ISBN 978-1-4268-9349-0 A rollicking pirates-of-the-Caribbean romance is fatally marred by sheer implausibility and torturous turns of phrase ("The menacing...

Assassins in Love.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 30, 2012... Assassins in Love Kris DeLake. Sourcebooks Casablanca, $6.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-1-4022-6282-1 DeLake (Kristine Kathryn Rusch's newest pseudonym) takes readers on a fast ride with this passionate futuristic tale, the first in a...

Nightborn.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 30, 2012... Nightborn Lynn Viehl. Signet Select, $7.99 mass market (336p) ISBN 978-0-451-41321-5 Viehl returns to the world of the Darkyn (after November 2011's Nightshine) in the disappointing first of a new trilogy about vampire lords. Korvel,...

Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 30, 2012... Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb Jonathan Fetter-Vorm. FSG/Hill and Wang, $22 (160p) ISBN 978-0-8090-9468-4 Although billed as "the first-ever graphic novel to tell the story of the atomic bomb," Jim Ottaviani's Fallout...

Is That All There Is?(Brief article)(Book review)
January 30, 2012... Is That All There Is? Joost Swarte. Fantagraphics, $35 (144p) ISBN 978-1-60699-510-5 Like many of the underground comics artists of the 1970s and '80s, Swarte worked at a right angle to mainstream style by imitating elements of it so...

A.D.D. Adolescent Demo Division.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 30, 2012... A.D.D. Adolescent Demo Division Douglas Rushkoff, Goran Sudzuka, and Jose Marzan Jr. DC/Vertigo, $24.99 (152p) ISBN 978-1-4012-2355-7 This heavy-handed fable presents the tale of a group of teens raised from birth in a life of...

Uncle Swami: South Asians in America Today.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 30, 2012... Uncle Swami: South Asians in America Today Vijay Prashad. New Press (Perseus, dist.), $21.95 (208p) ISBN 978-1-59558-784-8 As Trinity College's South Asian history professor Prashad (The Karma of Brown Folk) writes, for South...

Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror, and Deliverance in the City of Love.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 30, 2012... * Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror, and Deliverance in the City of Love David Talbot. Free Press, $28 (464p) ISBN 978-1-4391-0821-5 Late 1960s San Francisco faced an identity crisis: conservative Irish values clashed with the breed...