Publishers Weekly articles from July 2006, page 6

Publishers Weekly archives from July 2006

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders NEIL GAIMAN. Morrow, $26.95 (382p) ISBN 0-06-051522-8 Hot off the critical success of Anansi Boys, Gaiman offers this largely disappointing medley that feels like a collection of idea seeds that...

The Eighth Wonder of the World.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... The Eighth Wonder of the World LESLIE EPSTEIN. Other Press/Handsel, $25.95 (472p) ISBN 1-59051-250-2 Epstein's (King of the Jews; San Remo Drive) ninth book imagines a wisecracking American architectural genius, Amos Prince, who, after...

PW talks with Kate Atkinson: another twist of the Corkscrew: Kate Atkinson's fifth novel, One Good Turn (review, p. 131), marks the return of detective Jackson Brodie, this time to investigate a murder in the author's hometown.(Q&A)(Interview)
July 17, 2006... You live in Edinburgh, not so far from novelists J.K. Rowling, Ian Rankin and Alexander McCall Smith. Is there something in the water up there? I live in the Grange. It's a much nicer neighborhood than Merchiston, where all of them live....

The Ruby in Her Navel.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... The Ruby in Her Navel BARRY UNSWORTH. Doubleday/Talese, $26 (416p) ISBN 0-385-50963-4 Enticing titles are typical of Unsworth (Sacred Hunger); his gleam, this time out, is dimmed by the setting. Thurstan Beauchamp, royal purveyor of...

Country Wives.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... Country Wives REBECCA SHAW. Three Rivers, $12.95 paper (288p) ISBN 1-4000-9821-1 The second entry in Shaw's Barleybridge series (after A Country Affair) is a charming account of life in and out of a small English town's veterinary...

The Marsh Birds.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... The Marsh Birds EVA SALLIS. Allen & Unwin (IPG, dist.), $14.95 paper (264p) ISBN 1-74114-600-3 An Iraqi boy undergoes a harrowing series of trials in Sallis's fifth novel, a harsh but only partially convincing indictment of the author's...

The Girls' Almanac: A Novel in Stories.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... The Girls' Almanac: A Novel in Stories EMILY FRANKLIN. Avon, $12.95 paper (288p) ISBN 0-06-087340-X A weblike illustration mapping the relationships of 30 characters kicks off Franklin's (Liner Notes) collection of interconnected short...

Goodnight, Texas.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... Goodnight, Texas WILLIAM J. COBB. Unbridled, $24.95 (272 p) ISBN 1-932961-26-7 Goodnight by the Sea, Tex. (not to be confused with Goodnight in the Plains, 600 miles away), is a dying gulf coast town where global warming and...

Martian Dawn.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... Martian Dawn MICHAEL FRIEDMAN. Turtle Point, $15.95 paper (149p) ISBN 1-88558644-2 A Richard obviously based on Gere And a Julia obviously based on Roberts are called back to work reshooting--on Mars--the botched ending to a science...

The Dawning of the Day: A Jerusalem Tale.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... The Dawning of the Day: A Jerusalem Tale HAIM SABATO, TRANS. FROM THE HEBREW BY YAACOB DWECK. Toby, $22.95 (200p) ISBN 1-59264-140-7 With a keen eye for custom, award-winning Sabato (Aleppo Tales) beautifully captures the daily rhythms of...

A Spot of Bother.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... A Spot of Bother MARK HADDON. Doubleday, $24.95 (384p) ISBN 0-385-52051-4 Recent retiree George Hall, convinced that his eczema is cancer, goes into a tailspin in Haddon's (Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) laugh-out-loud...

The Meaning of Night: A Confession.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... * The Meaning of Night: A Confession MICHAEL COX. Norton, $26.95 (672p) ISBN 0-393-06203-1 Resonant with echoes of Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens, Cox's richly imagined thriller features an unreliable narrator, Edward Glyver, who...

Disobedience.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... Disobedience NAOMI ALDERMAN. S&S/Touchstone, $24 (240p) ISBN 0-7432-9156-5 Alderman draws on her Orthodox Jewish upbringing and current life in Hendon, England, for her entertaining debut, which won the Orange Prize for New Writers after...

The Righteous Men.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... The Righteous Men SAM BOURNE. HarperCollins, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 0-06-113829-0 Bourne's first novel, with a jacket that promises ancient secrets and mysterious manuscripts, has all the obligatory religious-thriller elements....

The Devil in the Junior League.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... The Devil in the Junior League LINDA FRANCIS LEE. St. Martin's, $22.95 (336p) ISBN 0-312-35495-9 Fredericka Mercedes Hildebrand Ware ("Frede" to her friends) is a 28-year-old extremely moneyed member of the "tres exclusive" Junior League...

Ancestor Stones.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... Ancestor Stones AMINATTA FORNA. Atlantic Monthly, $24 (336p) ISBN 0-87113-944-8 Acclaimed memoirist Forna (The Devil That Danced on the Water) glides into fiction with this sweeping portrayal of the lives of five Sierra Leonean women....

Sleight of Hand.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... Sleight of Hand KATE WILHELM. Mira, $24.95 (384p) ISBN 0-7783-2340-2 At the start of Wilhelm's compelling eighth novel to feature DA Barbara Holloway (after 2003's Clear and Convincing Proof), Wally Lederer, a former pickpocket who once...

The Boy Detective Fails.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... The Boy Detective Fails JOE MENO. Punk Planet & Akashic, $14.95 paper (318p) ISBN 1-93335410-0 Playing such mysteries as "The Case of the Brown Bunny" against the mysteries of mortality and mankind's capacity for evil, the latest from...

Francesca's Kitchen.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... Francesca's Kitchen PETER PEZZELLI. Kensington, $14 paper (352p) ISBN 0-7582-1327-1 Pezzelli (Home to Italy) returns with another tale of an everyday Italian-American family, this one an empty nest. Mamma and all-around good egg...

The Sense of Paper.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... The Sense of Paper TAYLOR HOLDEN. Bantam, $14 paper (384p) ISBN 0-553-80394-8 British journalist Holden (Shell Shock) delivers a superior novel of suspense in her well-plotted fiction debut. Charlotte "Charlie" Hudson, a former reporter...

A King's Trade: An Alan Lewrie Naval Adventure.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... A King's Trade: An Alan Lewrie Naval Adventure DEWEY LAMBDIN. St. Martin's/Dunne, $25.95 (352p) ISBN 0-312-31549-X The 13th title in Lambdin's popular series finds salacious Royal Navy captain Alan Lewrie in hot water for "liberating" a...

Mona Lisa Awakening.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... Mona Lisa Awakening SUNNY. Berkley, $14 paper (288p) ISBN 0-425-21160-6 Once readers get past the silly premise of Sunny's sizzling debut--a humanoid race called the Monere came to Earth from the moon 4,000 years ago--they'll find much...

Somewhere in Germany.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... Somewhere in Germany STEFANIE ZWEIG, TRANS. FROM THE GERMAN BY MARLIES COMJEAN. Univ. of Wisconsin/Terrace, $24.95 (268p) ISBN 0-299-21010-3 Published in Germany in 1996, this autobiographical sequel to Zweig's noteworthy Nowhere in...

Memorial.(Book review)
July 17, 2006... Memorial BRUCE WAGNER. Simon & Schuster, $25 (432p) ISBN 0-7432-7235-8 Like Wagner's previous books, Memorial is set in a Los Angeles descended from Nathaniel West's and Joan Didion's but played for laughs as well as existential dread....

Welcome to the Real World.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... Welcome to the Real World CAROLE MATTHEWS. Red Dress Ink, $21.95 (448p) ISBN 0-373-89590-9 Fern Kendal, London bartender and underappreciated lounge crooner, wants a break as a singer. But, she asks herself in Briton Matthews's latest...

The Chemistry of Death.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... The Chemistry of Death SIMON BECKETT. Delacorte, $22 (320p) ISBN 0-385-34004-4 British author Beckett (Fine Lines) delivers a promising serial-killer whodunit, the first of a new crime series. Dr. David Hunter, a successful forensic...

Swimming Upstream, Slowly.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... Swimming Upstream, Slowly MELISSA CLARK. Broadway, $12.95 paper (256p) ISBN 0-7679-2526-2 Ambitious Sasha Salter, whose master's thesis was turned into a hit children's television show, isn't ready for kids of her own. So when her...

Norah's Ark.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... Norah's Ark JUDY BAER,. Steeple Hill, $13.95 paper (336p) ISBN 0-373-78566-6 Meet Norah Kent, a pet store owner who has her hands full, sharing her Christian faith with her best friend, Lilly, and caring for elderly Auntie Lou. Though...

Do Not Pass Go.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... Do Not Pass Go BEATRIZ RIVERA. Arte Publico, $14.95 paper (368p) ISBN 1-55885-464-9 An unbelievable romance blooms amid family rivalries, office politics and scandalous rumors in Rivera's third novel, a strange and disappointing read....

A Dead Man in Athens.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... A Dead Man in Athens MICHAEL PEARCE. Carroll & Graf, $25.95 (224p) ISBN 0-78671-828-5 Pearce hits his stride with his third mystery (after 2005's A Dead Man in Istanbul) to chronicle the international exploits of Sandor Seymour, a...

Playing God.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... * Playing God KATE FLORA. Five Star, $25.95 (397p) ISBN 1-59414-461-3 Flora's dazzling debut police procedural introduces Sgt. Joe Burgess, a crusty but bighearted Portland, Maine, cop. "This case has everything," Joe says of a murder...

Love, Lies and Liquor: An Agatha Raisin Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... Love, Lies and Liquor: An Agatha Raisin Mystery M.C. BEATON. St. Martin's Minotaur, $22.95 (224p) ISBN 0-312-34910-6 In bestseller Beaton's mildly entertaining 17th Agatha Raisin mystery (after 2005's The Perfect Paragon), Agatha still...

Secondhand Smoke.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... Secondhand Smoke KAREN E. OLSON. Mysterious, $22.99 (272p) ISBN 0-89296-025-6 Authentic urban atmosphere, generous wit and winning characters lift Olson's second outing for Annie Seymour (after 2005's Sacred Cows), which takes the...

Borderline.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... Borderline MARK SCHORR. St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne, $23.95 (224p) ISBN 0-312-35915-2 In this gripping if uneven mystery, the first in a new series from Schorr (Ace of Diamonds), Brian Hansen, a Vietnam vet and recovering addict, works...

Family Business: A Port Silva Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... Family Business: A Port Silva Mystery JANET LAPIERRE. Perseverance (SCB, dist.), $13.95 paper (296p) ISBN 1-880284-85-5 Set in 2002, LaPierre's crisply plotted ninth Port Silva mystery features mother-daughter sleuths Patience and Verity...

Gunpowder Plot: A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... Gunpowder Plot: A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery CAROLA DUNN. St. Martin's Minotaur, $23.95 (272p) ISBN 0-312-34989-0 At the start of Dunn's diverting 15th Daisy Dalrymple mystery (after 2005's Fall of a Philanderer), a pregnant Daisy joins her...

The Thief Taker.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... The Thief Taker JANET GLEESON. Simon & Schuster, $14 paper (320p) ISBN 0-7432-9018-6 Following the cabinetmakers of The Grenadillo Box (2004) and the portraitists of The Serpent in the Garden (2005), Gleeson hangs her solid third...

Chow Down: A Melanie Travis Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... Chow Down: A Melanie Travis Mystery LAURIEN BERENSON. Kensington, $22 (304p) ISBN 0-7582-0815-4 In Berenson's enjoyable 13th dog-themed cozy (after 2005's Raining Cats and Dogs), Melanie Travis's standard poodle, Faith, is a finalist in...

Roman Dusk: A Novel of the Count Saint-Germain.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... SF/FANTASY/ HORROR * Roman Dusk: A Novel of the Count Saint-Germain CHELSEA QUINN YARBRO. Tot, $27.95 (368p) ISBN 0-765-31391-X Set in decadent third-century C.E. Rome, Yarbro's 19th volume in her majestic fantasy series (after...

The Harrowing.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... The Harrowing ALEXANDRA SOKOLOFF. St. Martin's, $21.95 (256p) ISBN 0-312-35748-6 At the start of screenwriter Sokoloff's first novel, a teen terror f1ick in prose, generic Baird College is emptying out for Thanksgiving break, but a few...

The Disunited States of America: Crosstime Traffic, vol. 4.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... The Disunited States of America: Crosstime Traffic--Book Four HARRY TURTLEDOVE. Tor, $24.95 (288p) ISBN 0-765-31485-1 In Turtledove's fast-paced fourth Crosstime Traffic novel (after 2005's In High Places), two teenage protagonists from...

Killing with the Edge of the Moon: A Graphic Novel.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... Killing with the Edge of the Moon: A Graphic Novel (without illustrations) A.A. ATTANASIO. Prime (www.prime-books.com), $27.95 (156p) ISBN 0-8095-5697-9; $14.95 paper ISBN 0-8095-5698-7 In this lyrical fairy tale from fantasy veteran...

Variable Star.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... Variable Star ROBERT A. HEINLEIN AND SPIDER ROBINSON. Tor, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 0-765-31312-X Like a good Ganymedean farmer in the sky, Robinson (Callahan's Key) plants both feet firmly in Heinlein territory with this mostly credible...

Eyes Everywhere.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... Eyes Everywhere MATTHEW WARNER. Raw Dog Screaming (www.rawdogscreaming.com), $29.95 (236p) ISBN 1-933293-18-7 While horror fiction often deals with madness as a reaction to some violation of natural law or as a metaphor for the darker...

Morrigan's Cross.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... * Morrigan's Cross NORA ROBERTS. Jove, $7.99 (352p) ISBN 0-515-14165-8 Romance institution Roberts dives into her first paranormal series with the first book in the Circle Trilogy. In 12th-century Ireland, sorcerer Hoyt Mac Cionaoith...

To Distraction.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... To Distraction STEPHANIE LAURENS. Avon, $7.99 (496p) ISBN 0-06-083910-4 Yet another brave member of the Bastion Club--a small band of wealthy, eligible gentlemen sworn to protect each other from the "marauding mamas" of London...

Crooked.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... Crooked BRIAN M. WIPRUD. Dell, $6.99 (320p) ISBN 0-440-24312-2 Wiprud's latest caper chronicles a gaggle of wacky characters in pursuit of a stolen painting in Manhattan, centering on shady man-about-town Nicholas Palihnic, brother of the...

Just for Kicks.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... Just for Kicks SUSAN ANDERSEN. Mira, $7.99 (384p) ISBN 0-7783-2315-3 The good old "opposites attracts" gambit is the basis for this winning round of Vegas romance, the follow-up to Andersen's bestseller Skintight. Carly Jacobsen is a...

Zombie Powder, vol. 1.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... COMICS Zombie Powder, Vol. 1 TITE KUSO. Viz, $7.99 paper (188p) ISBN 1-42150-152-X Gamma Akutabi is a master criminal ("class S-zero') with a chain-saw sword and a metal arm that allows him to catch bullets. He's also a Powder...

Abandon the Old in Tokyo.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... * Abandon the Old in Tokyo YOSHIHIRO TATSUMI, EDITED BY ADRIAN TOMINE. Drawn and Quarterly, $19.95 (200p) ISBN 1-894937-87-2 The second volume of Drawn and Quarterly's ambitious reprinting of selected works by manga master Tatsumi picks...

Attitude 3: The New Subversive Online Cartoonists.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... Attitude 3: The New Subversive Online Cartoonists EDITED BY TED RALL. NBM (www.nbmpublishing.com), $13.95 paper (128p) ISBN 1-56163-465-4 Rall's third effort in the Attitude series turns its focus to online cartooning, a somewhat...

Shatter.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... Shatter PETER GILLIS AND MIKE SAENZ. AIT/Planet Lar (www.aitplanetlar.com), $14.95 paper (156p) ISBN 1-932051-44-9 The story content of this reprint from the mid-1980s is still interesting, but the art looks stiff and awkward. However,...

The Clan of the Nakagamis.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... The Clan of the Nakagamis HOMERUN KEN. Digital (www.dmpbooks.com), $12.95 paper (144p) ISBN 1-56970-896-7 Tokio Nakagami is 25, but has the body and face of a 14-year-old boy despite being a math teacher. Haruku Iijima, Tokio's secret...

Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment EDITED BY LINDA GORDON AND GARY Y. OKIHIRO. Norton, $29.95 (288p) ISBN 0-393-06073-X When America's War Relocation Authority hired Dorothea Lange to...

Size Matters: How Height Affects the Health, Happiness, and Success of Boys--And the Men They Become.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... Size Matters: How Height Affects the Health, Happiness, and Success of Boys--and the Men They Become STEPHEN S. HALL. Houghton Mifflin, $26 (352 pages) ISBN 0-618-47040-9 Bond had always mistrusted short men," Ian Fleming wrote;...

I Like You: Hospitality under the Influence.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence AMY SEDARIS. Warner, $27.95 (304p) ISBN 0-4465-7884-3 Sedaris's sidesplitting guide to throwing parties hopes to return readers to the times when the word "entertainment" was "charmingly...

The Boys of Everest: Chris Bonington and the Tragedy of Climbing's Greatest Generation.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... The Boys of Everest: Chris Bonington and the Tragedy of Climbing's Greatest Generation CLINT WILLIS. Carroll & Graf, $26.95 (560p) ISBN 0-78671-579-0 With nowhere to go but down after the 1953 conquest of Mt. Everest, mountain climbing...

Fierce Food: The Intrepid Diner's Guide to the Unusual, Exotic, and Downright Bizarre.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... Fierce Food: The Intrepid Diner's Guide to the Unusual, Exotic and Downright Bizarre CHRISTA WEIL. Plume, $14 paper (256p) ISBN 0-452-28700-6 Fierce food turns eating into a form of an extreme sport," Well declares, "in which we face our...

PW talks with Ron Rosenbaum: to pause or not to pause? Ron Rosenbaum examines the correct phrasing of a line and other white-hot debates in The Shakespeare Wars (Reviews, June 26).(Q&A)(Interview)
July 17, 2006... It's incredible that the behind-the-scenes world of Shakespeare scholarship turns out to be so complex Also exciting and significant. I wanted the book to appeal to the intelligent, educated reader who's seen and read Shakespeare and has...

George Mason: Forgotten Founder.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... George Mason: Forgotten Founder JEFF BROADWATER. Univ. of North Carolina, $34.95 (400p) ISBN 0-8078-3053-4 One of the fruits of publishers' recent obsession with the founding fathers is a spate of books on lesser-known revolutionary...

Passionate Minds.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... Passionate Minds DAVID BODANIS. Crown, $24.95 (352p) ISBN 0-307-23720-6 The passion overshadows the minds in this breathless account of the decade-long love affair between Emilie du Chatelet, a rare 18th-century woman scientist who wrote...

Irene Nemirovsky: Her Life and Works.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... Irene Nemirovsky: Her Life and Works JONATHAN WEISS. Stanford Univ., $24.95 (198p) ISBN 0-8047-5481-0 Irene Nemirovsky's brilliant 1940 novel Suite Franfaise was a surprise bestseller earlier this year. Nemirovsky published more than a...

Refuge Denied: The St. Louis Passengers and the Holocaust.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... Refuge Denied: The St. Louis Passengers and the Holocaust SARAH A. OGILVIE AND SCOTT MILLER. Univ. of Wisconsin, $21.95 (192p) ISBN 0-299-21980-1 The doomed ship St. Louis--carrying German-Jewish refugees and refused permission to dock...

The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations ORI BRAFMAN AND ROD BECKSTROM. Portfolio, $24.95 (240p) ISBN 1-59184-143-7 Brafman and Beckstrom, a pair of Stanford M.B.A.s who have applied their business...

The Altruism Equation: Seven Scientists Search for the Origins of Goodness.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... The Altruism Equation: Seven Scientists Search for the Origins of Goodness LEE DUGATKIN. Princeton Univ., $24.95 (224p) ISBN 0-691-12590-2 If evolution involves a competition for survival, then how can we explain altruism? Biologist...

Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved FRANS DE WAAL. Princeton Univ., $22.95 (200p) ISBN 0-691-12447-7 Celebrated primatologist de Waal expands on his earlier work in Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and...

Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong MARC D. HAWSER. Ecco, $27.95 (512p) ISBN 0-06-078070-3 How do humans develop their capacity to make moral decisions? Harvard biologist Hauser (Wild Minds) struggles...

Broken: My Story of Addiction and Redemption.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... Broken: My Story of Addiction and Redemption WILLIAM COPE MOYERS, WITH KATHERINE KETCHAM. Viking, $25.95 (368p) ISBN 0-670-03789-3 The prodigal son of Bill Moyers, the exemplary broadcast journalist, wrecked a bright career at CNN and...

Crawling: A Father's First Year.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... Crawling: A Father's First Year ELISHA COOPER. Pantheon, $19.95 (176p) ISBN 0-375-42455-5 In spite of all the fine children's books he'd written and illustrated (Magic Thinks Big; Dance!), Cooper always knew, deep down, that he didn't...

There Is No Me without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... * There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children MELISSA FAY GREENE. Bloomsbury, $25.95 (352p) ISBN 1-59691-116-6 Not unlike the AIDS pandemic itself, the odyssey of Haregewoin Teferra, who took in AIDS...

Sins of the Innocent: A Memoir.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... Sins of the Innocent: A Memoir MIREILLE MAROKVIA. Unbridled, $24.95 (288p) ISBN 1-932961-25-9 A Politically naive French country girl when she entered the Sorbonne in 1928, Marokvia (Immortelles: Memoir of a Will-o'-the-Wisp), who today...

The Subway Chronicles: Scenes from Life in New York.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... The Subway Chronicles: Scenes from Life in New York EDITED BY JACQUELIN CANGRO. Plume, $14 paper (224p) ISBN 0-452-28779-0 Here is a delightful collection of New York stories by veteran straphangers--both known and unknown--dedicated to...

The Mystery Guest: An Account.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... The Mystery Guest: An Account GREGOIRE BOUILLIER, TRANS. FROM THE FRENCH BY LORIN STEIN. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $18 (128p) ISBN 0-374-18570-0 In this slim and lyrical memoir, French writer Bouillier tells of the moment when e received...

The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West NIALL FERGUSON. Penguin Press, $32.95 (800p) ISBN 1-59420-100-5 Why, if life Was improving so rapidly for so many people at the dawn of the 20th century, were...

Is Iraq Another Vietnam?(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... Is Iraq Another Vietnam? ROBERT K. BRIGHAM. Public Affairs. $24 (224p) ISBN 1-58648-413-3 U.S. policymakers went to war in Vietnam and Iraq," writes Brigham, "with the expectation that a distinctively American story would emerge." In...

Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965 MARK MOYAR. Cambridge Univ., $30 (400p) ISBN 0-521-86911-0 A full-blooded member of what he calls the "revisionist school" of Vietnam War historians, Moyar firmly believes that America's...

Democracy Reborn: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post-Civil War America.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... Democracy Reborn: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post-Civil War America GARRETT EPPS. Holt/Macrae, $25 (384p) ISBN 0-8050-7130-X In December 1865, the 39th Congress had urgent business, says Epps in this...

Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers' Schemes.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... * Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers' Schemes SHARON LAMB AND LYN MIKEL BROWN. St. Martin's, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 0-312-35250-6 That girls are overwhelmed by images of princesses, demure femininity and pink, pink,...

The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next LEE SMOLIN. Houghton Mifflin, $26 (416p) ISBN 0-618-55105-0 String theory--the hot topic in physics for the past 20 years--is a dead-end,...

The Sea Captain's Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... The Sea Captain's Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century MARTHA HODES. Norton, $24.95 (384p) ISBN 0-393-05266-4 Hodes reconstructs the intriguing and unusual life of Eunice Richardson Stone Connolly. a mill...

The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug THOMAS HAGER. Harmony, $24.95 (352p) ISBN 1-4000-8213-7 Modern bacteriology was born on the...

Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer HELEN CALDECOTT. New Press, $23.95 (240p) ISBN 1-59558-067-0 Caldecott's latest antinuke book searingly debunks the claim that the impending "nuclear power renaissance," purported by some to be the only...

Building Red America: The New Conservative Coalition and the Drive for Permanent Power.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... Building Red America: The New Conservative Coalition and the Drive for Permanent Power THOMAS B. EDSALL. Basic, $26 (288p) ISBN 0-465-01815-7 In this comprehensive and insightful book, Edsall shows just how much angrier Democrats could...

Welcome to the Homeland: A Journey to the Heart of America's Conservative Revolution.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 17, 2006... Welcome to the Homeland: A Journey to the Heart of America's Conservative Revolution BRIAN MANN. Steerforth, $24.95 (288p) ISBN 1-58642-111-5 Forget the red state/blue state divide--the real fault line is between progressive metropolitan...