Publishers Weekly articles from July 2005

Publishers Weekly archives from July 2005

Smagler to Houghton.(Alan Smagler joins Houghton Mifflin Co.)(Brief Article)
July 11, 2005... Alan Smagler has joined joined Houghton Mifflin as the new publisher of its children's book group, succeeding Andrea Pinkney. Smagler will be based in Boston and will be responsible for all three of HM's children's imprints: HM Books for...

McIntosh named RH audio publisher.(Madeline McIntosh named by Random House Audio Publishing Group)(Brief Article)
July 11, 2005... Madeline McIntosh, Random House's director of adult sales, is moving over to become publisher of the Random Audio Group, beginning in September. She'll report to David Naggar. The job had been held by Scott Matthews, who is leaving for family...

The hot 'Historian'.
July 11, 2005... Most every summer, it seems, one "sleeper" book emerges as a blockbuster. I'm thinking, for example, of novels like The Lovely Bones, ruminations like Tuesdays with Morrie and, oh, yes, a little thriller called The Da Vinci Code. AS we approach...

O'Neal joins Regan.(Maureen O'Neal joins Regan Books)(Brief Article)
July 11, 2005... Maureen O'Neal, editorial director at Ballantine, is headed for ReganBooks, where she has been named senior editor. While at Ballantine, O'Neal focused on commercial fiction and nonfiction. Also moving to Regan is Elizabeth Bewley, who has been...

Viz inks multiple deals.(Viz Media)(Brief Article)
July 11, 2005... Viz Media has plans for prose works, and several deals for video games and retailing, all based on its manga and anime properties. Viz will release prose novelizations of its Shojo Beat manga line and anime titles, such as Ghost in the Shell,...

McKenny joins Holt; Shreve departs.(Claire McKenny joins Henry Holt and Co.)(Brief Article)
July 11, 2005... Claire McKenny, formerly director of publicity at Miramax Books, is joining Henry Holt as its director of publicity in September. McKenny replaces Elizabeth Shreve, Holt's longtime publicity director. Holt president and publisher John...

The nuclear option for the big screen?(Lydia Millet )(Brief Article)
July 11, 2005... The nuclear option for the big screen? Lydia Millet's fifth novel, Oh Pure and Radiant Heart--this time a novel about the atomic bomb--may lack a Hollywood happy ending (hint: start stockpiling the Spam), but premise has caught the attention of...

Satire may have a pretty dismal record at the box office, but at least one studio won't be dissuaded.(Paramount Communications Inc.)(Brief Article)
July 11, 2005... Satire may have a pretty dismal record at the box office, but at least one studio won't be dissuaded. Paramount has made an offer for Company (Doubleday, Jan. 2006) the latest corporate satire from former ad man Max Barry (ne Maxx Barry). In...

Ira Levin meets Dan Brown?(Hollywood Reader)(Brief Article)
July 11, 2005... Ira Levin meets Dan Brown? That's how UTA's Howie Sanders is pitching The Scar Collector, a first novel by Dallas-based screenwriter David Norman. The above description might be the only economical way to describe a thriller involving the...

From Manga to Manwha.(Sigongsa, Seoul Cultural Publishers and Haksan join to publish Korean manga in American market)(Brief Article)
July 11, 2005... In a bid to raise the profile of Korean manga (known as manwha) in a U.S. market dominated by Japanese titles, three Korean media firms are joining together to form Studio ICE to publish Korean manga in America beginning in the fall. The three...

STL makes second buy.(Send the Light Ltd. to acquire Appalachian Distributors)(Brief Article)
July 11, 2005... STL Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of the U.K.-based Send the Light Ltd., has reached an agreement to acquire the Christian distribution company Appalachian Distributors. Appalachian will continue to operate from its Johnson City, Tenn., and Reno,...

Biblio shrinks client list.(Biblio Distribution)(Brief Article)
July 11, 2005... After more than a three-year effort, National Book Network is scaling back its Biblio Distribution unit, formed in 2001 to service micro publishers. "We gave it three-and-a-half years, and did a serious business analysis," says NBN v-p of...

Koen on hold.(Bob Koen hopeful of Koen Book Distributors' recovery)(Brief Article)
July 11, 2005... Bob Koen, president of cash-strapped Koen Book Distributors, remained hopeful late last week that he will be able to work out a deal to keep the Moorestown, N.J., company operating. "We're still negotiating with our bank," said Bob Koen, who...

Industry stocks: June performances.(market watch)(Illustration)
July 11, 2005... Market Watch Industry Stocks June Performances Winners Company May 31 June 30 % CHANGE Advanced Marketing Svc. 4.15 5.00 20.5% Books-A-Million 8.44 ...

Lee to head PGW global sales.(Suk Lee appointed by Publishers Group Worldwide)(Brief Article)
July 11, 2005... Suk Lee, who has worked in international sales for Scholastic, Golden Books and S&S, has been named director of international sales for Publishers Group Worldwide. Lee will be responsible for global sales, with an emphasis on Asia, Europe and...

Writers & readers for sale?(Brief Article)
July 11, 2005... The future of Writers and Readers, the publishing house founded by the late Glenn Thompson, remains uncertain after his heirs rejected a recent offer to purchase the company. A spokesperson said the family is reconsidering their initial...

Oval office artists.(deal)(Brief Article)
July 11, 2005... Basic Books is buying the comic drawings from, and of, dozens of American presidents in a book that's both political and satiric. The authors are the ironists and artists of the Believer-esque Cabinet magazine. The publication has been running...

The biggest little ...(deal)(Brief Article)
July 11, 2005... Random's Julia Cheiffetz has preempted Getting Everleighed: The Rise and Fall of the World's Most Famous Brothel by Karen Abbott. The book--which is being compared by the house to Erik Larson's National Book Award--nominated The Devil in the...

In a somehow appropriate segue, Pamela Paul's landmark 2002 book The Starter Marriage and the Future of Matrimony.(The Briefing)(Brief Article)
July 11, 2005... In a somehow appropriate segue, Pamela Paul's landmark 2002 book The Starter Marriage and the Future of Matrimony has been optioned to Gold Circle Films for a film/TV deal. Here's to a long(er) commitment....

Parke Puterbaugh.(The Briefing)(Brief Article)
July 11, 2005... Da Capo continues its music dominance with a signing of Rolling Stone's Parke Puterbaugh for a Phish bio. Viva Vermont!...

Patricia Beard.(The Briefing)(Brief Article)
July 11, 2005... Former Elle editor Patricia Beard has sold her journalistic account of the recent power struggle at Morgan Stanley to William Morrow; Beard's written about politics and mothers, and most recrently wrote about Wall Street scandals circa 1905.......

Former Counterpoint editor Megan Hustad is poised to sell a guide to being "useful" to Amanda Cook at Houghton, via Trident.(The Briefing)(Brief Article)
July 11, 2005... Former Counterpoint editor Megan Hustad is poised to sell a guide to being "useful" to Amanda Cook at Houghton, via Trident; the book is subtitled "A Beginner's Guide to the Meritocracy," is aimed at 20- and 30- somethings and is described as...

Calendar: July 17-23.
July 11, 2005... 7/17 Phyllis Diller turns 88. PW noted her new "unsparing" memoir, Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse (Tarcher), was fueled by "brash comedy and a surprising bitterness." 7/18 Conceptual artist Damali Ayo continues her eight-city...

Looking beyond the hood.(The Himelstein Project)(Abram Himelstein)(Neighborhood Story Project)
July 11, 2005... When Sam Wylie, 19, and his sister Arlet, 18, took the odium at the American Federation of Musicians hall in New Orleans' Seventh Ward late last month, the room was packed with well-wishers who'd gathered to celebrate the launch of five books...

The Potter effect.(On the Wizard's Cloaktails)
July 11, 2005... From the numbers alone--10.8 million (copies) and 5,000 (opening-night parties)--it's clear that Harry Potter is a singular publishing event. But that doesn't mean it hasn't had a significant lasting effect. In ways both profound and subtle,...

Seitz, Crabtree rise at Ingram.(promotion Audrey Seitz and Tamara Crabtree )(Brief Article)
July 11, 2005... Audrey Seitz, formerly director of publisher and creative services, has been named v-p of merchandising. Tamara Crabtree, formerly director of product marketing and promotions, has been named v-p for publisher marketing and creative services.

Wojtyla rises at S&S Kids.(Karen Wojtyla appointed by McElderry Books)(Brief Article)
July 11, 2005... Former senior editor Karen Wojtyla has been named executive editor of McElderry Books.

UNM head retires.(University of New Mexico Press)(Brief Article)
July 11, 2005... David Van Holtby, editor-in-chief of the University of New Mexico Press, is retiring after 27 years.

Briggs retires from Holiday House.(Kate H. Briggs)(Brief Article)
July 11, 2005... Kate H. Briggs, formerly v-p marketing, is retiring after 40 years.

Ecarma joins Fulcrum.(George Ecarma appointed by Fulcrum Publishing)(Brief Article)
July 11, 2005... George Ecarma, formerly a buyer for Baker & Taylor, has been named Eastern sales manager at Fulcrum Publishing.

Harding rises at Curtis Brown.(promotion of Elizabeth Harding)(Brief Article)
July 11, 2005... Elizabeth Harding has been named a vp after 10 years.

Taylor rises at Meredith.(Patrick Taylor promoted)(Brief Article)
July 11, 2005... Patrick Taylor has been promoted to executive director, publishing group communications.

Biggest little Manga house.(Long Haul)(Del Rey Manga)(Brief Article)
July 11, 2005... Formally launched at the 2003 San Diego Comic-con, Del Rey Manga has turned a strategic alliance with Japanese publishing giant Kodansha and a small, targeted list into a recipe for success in the still developing U.S. market for manga. ...

Galley talk.(Foreword)(Vita, Melania G. Mazzucco)(Brief Article)
July 11, 2005... * Bill Cusumano, book buyer, Nicola's Books, Ann Arbor, Mich. At BEA I told the editors at FSG how much I respected them for publishing Melania G. Mazzucco's Vita. This is a tale of the immigrant experience that is very different from the...

UMP hires Doerr.(University of Minnesota Press appoints Susan Doerr)(Brief Article)
July 11, 2005... Susan Doerr, formerly marketing manager at Consortium, has been named marketing and external relations administrator at the University of Minnesota Press.

Hardcover bestsellers/fiction.(Illustration)
July 11, 2005... Hardcover Bestsellers/Fiction BY DAISY MARYLES July 11, 2005 Last Weeks Week on list (1) Eleven on Top. Janet Evanovich. ...

Hardcover bestsellers/nonfiction.(Illustration)
July 11, 2005... Hardcover Bestsellers/Nonfiction BY DAISY MARYLES July 11, 2005 Last Weeks week on list (1) 1776. David McCullough. 1 ...

Paperback bestsellers/mass market.(Illustration)
July 11, 2005... Paperback Bestsellers/Mass Market BY DAISY MARYLHS Last Weeks July 11, 2005 week on list (1) Trace. Patricia Cornwell. ...

Paperback bestsellers/trade.(Illustration)
July 11, 2005... Paperback Bestsellers/Trade BY DAISY MARYLES July 11, 2005 Last Weeks Week on list (1) Q The Kite Runner.Khaled 1 ...

Children's fiction bestsellers.
July 11, 2005... July 11, 2005 (1) Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception. Eoin Colfer. Miramax/Hyperion, $16.95 ISBN 0-7868-5289-5 (2) Eragon. Christopher Paolini. Knopf, paper $9.95 ISBN 0-375-82669-6 (3) Inkheart. Cornelia...

Audio bestsellers/fiction.(Illustration)
July 11, 2005... Audio Bestsellers/Fiction BY SHANNON MAUGHAN August (1) 4th of July (unabr. CD). James Patterson. Read by Carolyn McCormick Time Warner AudioBooks. Seven CDs, eight hours, $39.98 ISBN 1-59483-033-9 (2) The...

Audio bestsellers/nonfiction.(Illustration)
July 11, 2005... Audio Bestsellers/Nonfiction BY SHANNON MAUGHAN August (1) 1776 (unabr. CD). David McCullough. Read by the author. Simon & Schuster Audio. 10 CDs, 12 hours, $49.95 ISBN 0-7435-4423-4 (2) Your Best Life Now...

Lunar park: the novel.(Cover Story)
July 11, 2005... "When you give up life for fiction you become a character," muses the narrator in Bret Easton Ellis's forthcoming novel, Lunar Park. The narrator, "Bret Easton Ellis," promises to tell the tale of how a famous writer comes to terms with the...

Cents and sensibilities.(Salary Survey)
July 11, 2005... The 15th edition of our annual salary survey is our most comprehensive to date, with responses from 911 industry members. Over the 15 years, some things about the trade publishing industry, as revealed by the survey, have not changed. The...

Seeing China.(Author Profile)(Biography)
July 11, 2005... Lisa See grew up in the back room of the F. Suie One Company, a Chinese antiques business founded by her paternal great-grandparents in Sacramento, which later moved to Los Angeles. While she is one-eighth Chinese, the one-time PW...

Religion stays strong.
July 11, 2005... Wasn't the boom era for religion books supposed to be over? The category's continuing strength confounds those who've said for--the past 15 years or so now--that it couldn't last. It has, and it will, if the publishers whose books are listed in...

Faith for Beginners.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 11, 2005... Faith for Beginners AARON HAMBURGER. Random, $23.95 (356p) ISBN 1-4000-6298-5 A woman hopes a family trip to Israel will help her reclaim her confused, rebellious son in Hamburger's entertaining, irreverent first novel (after the...

Minaret.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 11, 2005... Minaret LEILA ABOULELA. Black Cat, $14 paper (276p) ISBN 0-8021-7014-5 Aboulela's U.S. debut is written in the voice of Najwa, an upper-class Sudanese woman, and covers, episodically, 20 years of her life. A Khartoum teen, Najwa flees to...

Dancing in the Dark.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 11, 2005... * Dancing in the Dark CARYL PHILLIPS. Knopf, $23.95 (224p) ISBN 1-4000-4396-4 Picking up from the cultural criticism collected in A New World Order (2001), Phillips goes one step further, imagining himself into the life of Burt Williams...

Panic.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 11, 2005... Panic JEFF ABBOTT. Dutton, $23.95 (368p) ISBN 0-525-94904-6 An unassuming documentary filmmaker is plunged into the dark world of contract killing and espionage in this superior, fast-paced thriller, Abbott's eighth outing (after Do Unto...

The Mad Cook of Pymatuning.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 11, 2005... The Mad Cook of Pymatuning CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT. Simon & Schuster, $24 (320p) ISBN 0-684-83427-8 When 17-year-old Jerry Muller returns to Camp Seneca as a junior counselor in Lehmann-Haupt's entertaining new novel of summertime...

Out of Season.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 11, 2005... Out of Season ROBERT BAUSCH. Harcourt, $24 (384p) ISBN 0-15-101014-5 There's lots of quiet mourning in Bausch's elegiac novel set in Columbia Beach, Md., a tourist town that's seen better days. County sheriff David Caldwell is in town on a...

The Time of the Uprooted.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 11, 2005... The Time of the Uprooted ELIE WIESEL. Knopf, $25 (320p) ISBN 1-4000-4172-4 Nobel Prize-winner Wiesel (The Judges, Night) considers the cost of exile for a writer and his circle of refugee friends in this meandering yet weighty new novel....

Accidents.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 11, 2005... * Accidents YAEL HEDAYA, TRANS. FROM THE HEBREW BY JESSICA COHEN. Holt/Metropolitan, $27.50 (464p) ISBN 0-8050-7348-5 Though the three novellas of Hedaya's Housebroken (2001) are funny and accomplished, they do not prepare one for the depth...

Her second Act.(PW Talks with Denise Nicholas)(Interview)
July 11, 2005... The Emmy-winning actress revisits Freedom Summer. Like your protagonist, Celeste Tyree, you went South during the Civil Rights movement. From 1964 to 1966, you performed with the Free Southern Theater, and your debut novel [Freshwater Road,...

Pigtopia.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 11, 2005... Pigtopia KITTY FITZGERALD, Miramax/Hyperion, $22.95 (247p) ISBN 1-4013-5251-0 Irish playwright Fitzgerald's prose reads like the saw-sound of a Gaelic folksong, with most of the macabre moral fable told in the particular patois of Jack...

The Saint of Lost Things.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 11, 2005... The Saint of Lost Things CHRISTOPHER CASTELLANI. Algonquin, $23.95 (336p) ISBN 1-56512-433-2 Castellani explores the lives of Italian-American immigrants in this eloquent, leisurely tale about dreams and disappointments, a follow-up to his...

The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 11, 2005... The Zahir PAULO COELHO, TRANS. FROM THE PORTUGUESE BY MARGARET JULL COSTA. HarperCollins, $24.95 (304p) ISBN 0-06-082521-9 The press chat cites 65 million copies of Coelho's eight previous novels in print, making the Brazilian author one of...

The Days of Abandonment.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 11, 2005... The Days of Abandonment ELENA FERRANTE, TRANS. FROM THE ITALIAN BY ANN GOLDSTEIN. Europa Editions (www.europaeditions.com), $14.95 paper (192p) ISBN 1-933372-00-1 Once an aspiring writer, Olga traded literary ambition for marriage and...

MacDougal Street Ghosts.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 11, 2005... MacDougal Street Ghosts HESPER ANDERSON. Simon & Schuster, $23 (288p) ISBN 0-7432-2924-X The collateral damage from a long-ago love affair resurfaces when Callie Hyde Epstein, now a successful, middle-aged Los Angeles screenwriter,...

Beyond the Blonde.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 11, 2005... KATHLEEN FLYNN-HUI. Warner, $21.95 (288p) ISBN 0-446-50017-8 Readers hoping for more hauteur a la Bergdorf Blondes can reach for this debut by a celebrity colorist at a Manhattan salon. Flynn-Hui's alter ego, sweet but street-smart Georgia,...

If You Want Me to Stay.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 11, 2005... If You Want Me to Stay MICHAEL PARKER. Algonquin, $22.95 (176p) ISBN 1-56512-484-7 Writing in a Faulknerian first person that conveys the 14-year-old protagonist's mental escape artistry, Parker (Hello Down There) explores the bonds of a...

Wild Ducks Flying Backward: The Short Writings of Tom Robbins.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 11, 2005... Wild Ducks Flying Backward: The Short Writings of Tom Robbins TOM ROBBINS. Bantam Dell, $25 (255p) ISBN 0-553-80451-0 The author of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues and Still Life with Woodpecker has regularly published shorter pieces in...

Fury.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 11, 2005... Fury ROBERT K. TANENBAUM. Atria, $25.95 (496p) ISBN 0-7434-5290-9 At the center of Tanenbaum's scattershot, complicated 17th entry in his Butch Karp/Marlene Ciampi series (Hoax, etc.) is a decade-old rape perpetrated by four young men...

Lipstick Jungle.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 11, 2005... Lipstick Jungle CANDACE BUSHNELL. Hyperion, $24.95 (416p) ISBN 0-7868-6819-8 Though Bushnell's fourth book opens in familiar Sex and the City territory--a fashion show in Bryant Park where attendees sport Jimmy Choo and Baume &...

Incendiary.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 11, 2005... Incendiary CHRIS CLEAVE. Knopf, $22.95 (288p) ISBN 0-385-66170-3 An al-Qaeda bomb attack on a London soccer match provides the tragicomic donne of former Daily Telegraph journalist Cleave's impressive multilayered debut: a novel-length...

Perfect Nightmare.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 11, 2005... Perfect Nightmare JOHN SAUL. Ballantine, $25.95 (352p) ISBN 0-345-46731-0 A creepy stalker story becomes a shrewd whodunit as Saul's latest tracks a move from tranquil suburbia to the big city. After a job promotion, the Marshall family...

Body Scissors.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 11, 2005... Body Scissors MICHAEL SIMON. Viking, $23.95 (276p) ISBN 0-670-03443-6 In Simon's worthy sequel to his debut thriller, Dirty Sally (2004), Dan Reles, the only Jewish detective on the Austin, Tex., police force, is on the trail of the...

Dead at Daybreak.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 11, 2005... * Dead at Daybreak DEON MEYER. Little, Brown, $23.95 (384p) ISBN 0-316-00012-4 South African crime writer Meyer's expertly crafted second thriller (after 2004's Heart of the Hunter) confirms his place as one of the genre's finest new...

The Hunt Ball.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 11, 2005... The Hunt Ball RITA MAE BROWN. Ballantine, $24.95 (336p) ISBN 0-345-46549-0 The most appealing characters in Brown's underplotted new mystery are the animals, even without Sneaky Pie's coauthorship. Septuagenarian "Sister" Jane Arnold, the...

From Here to Reality.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 11, 2005... From Here to Reality STEVEN SCHINDLER. Pocket, $14 paper (336p) ISBN 1-4165-0046-4 Schindler (Sewer Balls; From the Block) has two decades of TV producing and writing under his belt, so it's no surprise that his third novel, an erratic...

Q&A.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 11, 2005... Q&A VIKAS SWARUP. Scribner, $24 (336p) ISBN 0-7432-6747-8 When Ram Mohammad Thomas, an orphaned, uneducated waiter from Mumbai, wins a billion rupees on a quiz show, he finds himself thrown in jail. (Unable to pay out the prize, the...

Here Is Where We Meet.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 11, 2005... Here Is Where We Meet JOHN BERGER. Pantheon, $24 (256p) ISBN 0-375-42336-2 Lisbon is to Mother as Geneva is to Borges? Berger's elegiac gathering of semi-autobiographical vignettes seems at first to propose an elegant, somewhat chilly game...

Little Beauties.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 11, 2005... Little Beauties KIM ADDONIZIO. Simon & Schuster, $23 (256p) ISBN 0-7432-7182-3 Two women a generation apart meet and work to overcome their hurt in this flawed but sympathetic first novel from Addonizio, a poet (Tell Me) and short story...

The Washington Story.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 11, 2005... The Washington Story ADAM LANGER. Riverhead, $24.95 (416p) ISBN 1-57322-324-7 Langer's dense, sprawling follow up to Crossing California features the same ambitious clutch of highschoolers on the cusp of Harold Washington's bid for Chicago...

Freshwater Road.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 11, 2005... * Freshwater Road DENISE NICHOLAS. Agate, $23.95 (333p) ISBN 1-932841-10-5 In her rich, absorbing debut, actress Nicholas (Room 222; In the Heat of the Night) follows a young woman South to "trench Mississippi, gutbucket Mississippi"...

Clearcut.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 11, 2005... Clearcut NINA SHENGOLD. Anchor, $13 paper (304p) ISBN 1-4000-7969-1 playwright Shengold debuts with a shaggy, steamy '70s menage a trois in a Pacific Northwest logging town. Chainsaw-wielding "shake-rat" Earley Ritter (he clears and sells...

Passport Diaries.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 11, 2005... Passport Diaries TAMARA T. GREGORY. Amistad, $22.95 (256p) ISBN 0-06-078927-1 Hollywood producer Gregory's fun-filled debut introduces stylish L.A. lawyer Kia Carson, who always tries to do the right thing, though she often disagrees with...

With or Without You.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 11, 2005... With or Without You CAROLE MATTHEWS. Red Dress Ink, $17.95 (432p) ISBN 0-373-89545-3 A lover's infidelity prompts a homebody toward big adventures and new priorities in Brit Matthews's entertaining romantic comedy. Lyssa Allen works at a...

Summer Lovin'.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 11, 2005... Summer Lovin' CARLY PHILLIPS. Harlequin, $16.95 (304p) ISBN 0-373-77019-7 Phillips's latest cheerful romance (Hot Number; The Bachelor) relates the opposites-attract sizzle between a sexy, Greek Jersey girl and a buttoned-down Boston...

Point Blank.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 11, 2005... Point Blank CATHERINE COULTER. Putnam, $25.95 (384p) ISBN 0-399-15322-5 Coulter's new thriller romance (Blowout, etc.) opens with Ruth Warnecki lost in a cave in rural Virginia while fellow (married) FBI agents Dillon Savich and Lacey...

Life's a Bitch: The Complete Bitchy Bitch Stories vol. 1.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 11, 2005... Life's a Bitch: The Complete Bitchy Bitch Stories Vol. 1 ROBERTA GREGORY. Fantagraphics Books, $16.95 paper (272p) ISBN 156097656-X Midge McCracken is the self-destructive pessimist every office has. Not to mince words about it, she's a...

Heartbreakers Meet Boilerplate.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 11, 2005... Heartbreakers Meet Boilerplate PAUL GUINAN AND ANINA BENNETT. IDW Publishing, $9.99 paper (104p) ISBN 1-932382-86-0 In the near future, the world is in turmoil as cloned humans, created for slave labor, fight for their rights. Queenie and...

WE3.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 11, 2005... * WE3 GRANT MORRISON AND FRANK QUITELY. DC Comics/Vertigo, $12.99 paper (104p) ISBN 1-4012-0495-3 Bandit, Tinker and Pirate are three pets who just want to go home. This collection of Vertigo's three-issue release tells the tale of a dog,...