Publishers Weekly articles from July 2007

Publishers Weekly archives from July 2007

Publishers ponder putting e-books on the iPhone: has the tipping point arrived?(Foreword)
July 9, 2007... Has the handheld reading device that e-book publishers have been waiting for finally arrived? The device offers a super-sleek design; slips easily into your pocket or purse; and the large, super high-res, full-color screen allows the user to...

Meredith retrenches.(Meredith Corp. Meredith Books)(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... Meredith Books has eliminated 15 positions and will exit the children's book business and severely reduce the number of titles produced from its New York office. Most of the staff cuts are in the children's and single author areas, and Linda...

Las Vegas BEA delayed.(Book Expo America)(Schedules)
July 9, 2007... BEA organizers have changed plans for the annual convention's return to Las Vegas. Originally set for 2010, BEA will now be held in Las Vegas in 2011; the 2010 show will be held in Washington, D.C. BEA event director Lance Fensterman said...

Hallowed Harry.(Foreword)(Harry Potter)
July 9, 2007... Remember how we used to have to wait until Labor Day, or at least late July, to declare one title the book of the summer? We haven't had that pleasure much in recent years, and we surely won't have it this one: six months before it went up for...

B&T adds Public Square.(Baker and Taylor)(Public Square Books)(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... Baker & Taylor has added Public Square Books to its fold, and Larry Bennett, the founder of PSB, has been named v-p of Spanish-language markets for the wholesaler. Founded in 2004 by Bennett, the company signs exclusive licensing deals with...

Shutterfly makes buy.(Make It About Me!)(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... Shutterfly, one of the largest players in the personalized photo book market with revenue of $123 million, has acquired Make It About Me!, a publishing company that produces customized children's books, including My Adventure on Sesame Street...

Books remain hot license.(Licensing 2007)
July 9, 2007... Publishers and authors were out in full force at this year's Licensing International trade show, held June 19-21 at the Javits Center in New York City. Books have long served as source material for the television shows and films that dominate...

DC Comics launches Zudacomics.(Website overview)(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... DC Comics has announced plans for a Web comics imprint and online community, Zudacomics.com, that will solicit original comics from fans for Web serialization and possible print publication. The majority of the comics published by the site will...

CBA remaking winter show.(Christian Booksellers Association)(Meetings)
July 9, 2007... CBA is canceling CBA Advance, its winter trade show and meeting, and replacing it with a new event that will bring evangelical Christian retailers and publishers together. Although CBA did not disclose many details about the new event, it said...

Wowio tests new e-book model.(Ads)(Website overview)
July 9, 2007... The hard sell behind new Web site Wowio.com is that you can download e-books legally, for free. The site, which launched in last year's fourth quarter, was begun with the intention of addressing the burgeoning market for downloadable textbooks....

Obituary: Craig Walker.(Obituary)(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... Craig Walker, v-p and senior editorial director of trade paperbacks at Scholastic, died July I of cancer. He was 63. Walker's tenure with Scholastic goes back nearly 25 years. He joined the company in 1983 as assistant editor of the See Saw...

A founding father.(Deals)(Robert Morris)(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... Alice Mayhew at Simon & Schuster has acquired North American rights to Charles Rappleye's American Atlas: The Life of Robert Morris from agent Paul Bresnick. The first full-scale biography of this "forgotten" founding father in over a century...

A garment's tale.(Deals)(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... Megan Lynch at Riverhead won an auction for Erika Kawalek's Ragpicker: The Secret History of a Wardrobe via Elisabeth Weed at Trident, who sold North American rights. Kawalek will reveal the entire fashion ecosystem by tracing the social and...

Hot fiction.(Deals)(novels)(Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc.)(Brick House Literary Agents)(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... Knopf's Jenny Jackson has preempted North American rights to Kim Barnes's Bramble via Sally Wofford-Girand at Brick House. In the novel, a young, idealistic couple set out to create their own utopia in the wilds of Idaho, only to find that the...

In paperback.(Deals)(Harper Perennial)(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... Lisa Sharkey and Henry Ferris at Harper Perennial have acquired world rights to the tentatively titled The Undecided Voter's Guide to the Next President by Time editor-at-large and ABC News analyst Mark Halperin. Halperin will examine the...

The briefing.(Deals)(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... Jamie Raab at Grand Central bought world rights to the next book by Jane Goodall, Hope for Nature; agent Jonathan Lazear made the million-dollar deal. The book will be written with Thane Maynard, director of the Cincinnati Zoo.

Calendar: July 15-21.(Calendar)
July 9, 2007... 7/15 Richard Russo turns 58 today. His first novel since his 2001 Pulitzer Prize--winning Empire Fails is The Bridge of Sighs (Knopf), which will be published September 25. 7/16 Black Lizard/Vintage reissues two classics of L.A....

Big launch for Little Scholastic.(New Market)
July 9, 2007... Scholastic is poised to make a splash in the preschool market with the introduction this month of the first 12 board books in its Little Scholastic publishing program. Geared to youngsters in the 0-3 age span, the books feature a range of...

Cape Town Book Fair Looks to Conquer Africa.(Growing in So. Africa)
July 9, 2007... Nearly 50,000 people attended the second Cape Town Book Fair, held June 15-19, double the attendance in the inaugural year. This year's event attracted some 350 exhibitors, including local publishers, booksellers and cultural organizations. ...

Pugh to Coutts.(People)(Stephen Pugh to Coutts Information Services Ltd.)(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... Stephen Pugh has been named v-p of international sales for Coutts Information Services, a subsidiary of Ingram Book Group. In the job, Pugh will oversee the building of a sales team to work with clients in Asia, Africa, Australia and New...

Kiely to UCP.(People)(University of Chicago Press)(Garrett P. Kiely)(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... Garrett P. Kiely has been named director of the University of Chicago Press. Currently president of Palgrave Macmillan, Kiely will start at UCP on September 1.

Taylor to Ten Speed.(People)(Joanne Taylor appointed at Ten Speed Press)(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... Joanne Taylor has been named project editor at Ten Speed Press's children's imprint, Tricycle Press. Taylor, who was most recently children's book acquisitions editor at Heyday Books, will start at Ten Speed July 16.

Devereaux returns to 'PW'.(People)(Elizabeth Devereaux to Publishers Weekly)(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... Elizabeth Devereaux has rejoined the staff of Publishers Weekly as children's reviews editor.

Lemke to TCP.(People)(Meg Lemke to Teachers College Press)(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... Meg Lemke has been named acquisitions editor at Columbia University's Teachers College Press. Lemke, who was most recently an editor at Seven Stories Press, will be acquiring for TCP's language and literary list, as well as for other topics...

Industry stocks: June performances.(Market Watch)(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... Following two months of strong gains, the Publishers Weekly Stock index fell slightly in June, dropping 1.3% as the stock prices of 10 companies declined and rose at seven. The overall decline was in line with the Dow Jones, which...

Hardcover bestsellers/fiction.
July 9, 2007... Thirteen is a lucky number for Evanovich. Her latest, Lean Mean Thirteen, tops the national charts two weeks running; it earned a starred PW review ("Evanovich is in top, quirky form"). She has also teamed with her longtime friend and...

Hardcover bestsellers/nonfiction.
July 9, 2007... Greene's The Best Life Diet perched on PW's nonfiction list for 13 weeks, from January 8 to April 2, including three times at #1. It's back on the charts with help from Oprah. Greene has been on her show several times this year: January 15,...

Paperback bestsellers/mass market.
July 9, 2007... "Feehan kicks off episode five of her popular Drake Sisters Series--concerning a septet of paranormally gifted sibs--with everything her fans have come to expect: action, gunplay, danger, bad guys, good guys, gorgeous women and magic. This...

Paperback bestsellers/trade.
July 9, 2007... "A dying woman's abiding passion for a lover she met in her 20s propels this eloquent third novel by the gifted author of Monkeys and Folly, Ann's drug-induced hallucinations, memories and imagined conversations . all merge into one roiling...

Comics bestsellers.
July 9, 2007... Tite Kubo's Bleach, vol. 19, takes over the top spot in this month's list. It's the story of high school student Ichigo Kurosaki, who has the power to see ghosts. He encounters a shinigami (death god), who takes the form of a teenage girl, and...

Nebraska.(United States of Bookselling)(State overview)
July 9, 2007... Nebraska, halfway between the East and West Coasts, has just 1,747,000 residents. Three-fourths of the population lives within a 30-mile radius of Omaha or Lincoln, which are 60 miles apart in the southeastern corner of the state. The Great...

Lesbian press adds straight whodunits; Michigan house sets up U.K. mystery imprint.(Independent Publishing)(Bywater Books releases new titles, launches Bloody Brits)
July 9, 2007... Who would have thought that a small Michigan press that publishes only lesbian fiction could bring some of the most renowned contemporary mystery authors in Britain to the attention of American readers? But then, Bywater Books, founded...

Posh packages and deluxe deliveries: getting readers what they want in erotica.(Cover story)
July 9, 2007... Not so very long ago, erotica was made to be hidden. "Pillow books" were named after the hiding place ladies of the Japanese nobility used for their explicit diaries. Lusty fictional romps like Fanny Hill and The Autobiography of a Flea were...

The Bible according to Kugel.(Author Profile)(James Kugel)
July 9, 2007... It's hard to imagine the Bible as a hot intellectual commodity among Harvard undergrads. But for years, more than 900 students flocked to James Kugel's introductory Bible course--a dose second to Economics 10. "The fellow who taught that and I...

Tipperary: A Novel.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 9, 2007... Tipperary: A Novel FRANK DELANEY. Random, $26.95 (448p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6523-3 Seventy-five years after the death of Charles O'Brien, an Anglo-Irish itinerant healer and occasional journalist born in 1860, his memoir is discovered in a...

Inside.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 9, 2007... Inside KENNETH J. HARVEY. Harcourt, $24 (304p) ISBN 978-0-15-101483-5 Canadian Harvey's spare, terse and intense novel is about the outside, as in "outside of prison." The story focuses on the bitter, ruined life of Mr. Myrden (his first...

Ghost.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 9, 2007... Ghost ALAN LIGHTMAN. Pantheon, $23 (256p) ISBN 978-0-375-42169-3 In this smartly paced novel from the author of Einstein's Dreams, a divorced, former banker witnesses a supernatural event, inspiring him to continue the "search for...

The Prayer Chest: A Novel.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 9, 2007... The Prayer Chest: A Novel AUGUST GOLD AND JOEL FOTINOS. Doubleday, $15.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-385-52023-2 Cofounders of Sacred Center New York, Gold and Fotinos offer a spiritual parable that will appeal to fans of It's a Wonderful Life. The...

Soul Catcher.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 9, 2007... Soul Catcher MICHAEL WHITE. Morrow, $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-134072-7 White's latest novel (after 2004's The Garden of Martyrs), a sweeping if often predictable saga of Antebellum societal and political tensions, follows Augustus Cain,...

Trespass.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 9, 2007... Trespass VALERIE MARTIN. Doubleday/Talese, $25 (304p) ISBN 978-0-385-51545-0 This thought-provoking novel by Orange Prize-winning Martin (for Property) opens deceptively, as the quiet story of a mother slowly adjusting to her 21-year-old...

The Abstinence Teacher.(Book review)
July 9, 2007... The Abstinence Teacher TOM PERROTTA. St. Martin's, $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-312-35833-4 Tom Perrotta knows his suburbia, and in The Abstinence Teacher he carves out an even larger chunk of his distinct terrain. Set in the northeastern...

Tokyo Year Zero.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 9, 2007... * Tokyo Year Zero DAVID PEACE. Knopf, $24 (368p) ISBN 978-0-307-26374-2 British author Peace (GB84, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction) bases this riveting novel on a real-life serial-killer case in post-WWII Japan....

The Last Chicken in America: A Novel in Stories.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 9, 2007... The Last Chicken in America: A Novel in Stories ELLEN LITMAN. Norton, $23.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-393-06511-4 immigrants settle in Pittsburg and attempt to assimilate in this linked set from Litman, who emigrated from Moscow in 1992. Masha, a...

Strange Skies.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 9, 2007... Strange Skies MATT MARINOVICH. Harper Perennial, $13.95 paper (256p) ISBN 978-0-06123391-3 In Marinovich's artful debut, married, childless Paul Mauro, 38, checks in with his doctor after a lump of cancer is removed from his bicep. He gets...

The Faraday Girls.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 9, 2007... The Faraday Girls MONICA MCINERNEY. Ballantine, $13.95 paper (448p) ISBN 978-0-34549023-0 McInerney's sixth novel depicts the tensions that emerge between five sisters as they struggle to establish their own identities. The book opens in...

The Spanish Bow.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 9, 2007... The Spanish Bow ANDROMEDA ROMANO-LAX. Harcourt, $25 (560p) ISBN 978-0-15-101542-9 In her impressive debut, Romano-Lax creates the epic story of Feliu Delargo, an underprivileged child prodigy whose musical ability brings him into contact...

The Elephanta Suite.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 9, 2007... The Elephanta Suite PAUL THEROUX. Houghton Mifflin, $25 (256p) ISBN 978-0-618-94332-6 The dismayed, disoriented American travelers in this trio of stereotype shattering novellas from Theroux (following Blinding Light) lament the missing...

The Reincarnationist.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 9, 2007... * The Reincarnationist M.J. ROSE. Mira, $24.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-7783-2420-1 Best known as an author of erotic thrillers, Rose (Lip Service) delves into religious myth and past-life discovery in her well-paced ninth novel. In present-day...

The New Kid.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 9, 2007... The New Kid ELIOT SCHREFER. Simon & Schuster, $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7432-9909-1 Schrefer weds fluid prose to a trashy/ sexy plot in his fun second novel, revisiting the corrupting world of the rich (his debut, Glamorous Disasters, featured...

Invasive Procedures.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 9, 2007... Invasive Procedures ORSON SCOTT CARD AND AARON JOHNSTON. Tor, $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1424-6 In this intriguing medical thriller from bestseller Card (Ender's Game) and screenwriter Johnston, George Galen, a disgraced geneticist,...

Trashed.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 9, 2007... Trashed ALISON GAYLIN. Obsidian, $21.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-451-22113-1 Gaylin's giddy hardcover debut follows young reporter Simone Glass on her short but shocking infiltration of Hollywood's sleazy side. Simone, a recent Columbia...

Red Sea.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 9, 2007... Red Sea EMILY BENEDEK. St. Martin's, $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-35491-6 This fiction debut from journalist Benedek (Through the Unknown, Remembered Gate: A Spiritual Journey) opens with a horrifying and credible scenario-the downing of...

Season of Gene.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 9, 2007... Season of Gene DALLAS HUDGENS. Scribner, $23 (224p) ISBN 978-1-4165-4148-6 The Virginia-based Hudgens (Drive Like Hell) channels regular guy Joe Rice for his rollicking sophomore effort. Gruff, conscientious Joe owns a Washington, D.C.,...

Stealing Lumby.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 9, 2007... Stealing Lumby GAIL FRASER. NAL, $14 paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-451-22208-4 The second installment in a series set in the bucolic Pacific Northwest town of Lumby picks up where The Lumby Lines left off, with Pam Walker bemused by husband...

The Lost Sailors.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 9, 2007... The Lost Sailors JEAN-CLAUDE IZZO TRANS. FROM THE FRENCH BY HOWARD CURTIS. Europa (Consortium, dist.), $14.95 paper (272p) ISBN 978-1-933372-35-8 This moody turn from the late Izzo (1945-2000), author of the hit Marseilles detective...

Cutthroat.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 9, 2007... Cutthroat STEVE BREWER. Bleak House, $24.95 (370p) ISBN 978-1-932557-61-9; $14.95 paper ISBN 978-1-932557-62-6 In this undistinguished, straight-ahead thriller from Brewer (Whipsaw), Solomon Gage acts as a murderous jack of all trades for...

Matecumbe.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 9, 2007... Matecumbe JAMES A. MICHENER. Univ. Press of Florida, $21 (176p) ISBN 978-0-8130-3152-1 According to an afterword by former Michener ghostwriter Joe Avenick, this short novel was rejected by Albert Erskine, Michener's Random House editor,...

Lighthouse at the End of the World.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 9, 2007... Lighthouse at the End of the World JULES VERNE, EDITED AND TRANS. FROM THE FRENCH BY WILLIAM BUTCHER. Univ. of Nebraska, $29.95 (210p) ISBN 978-0-8032-4676-8; $15.95 paper ISBN 978-0-8032-6007-8 Fans of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea...

Intimate Relations with Strangers.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 9, 2007... * Intimate Relations with Strangers DAVID VALENTINE BERNARD. Atria/ Strebor, $23 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4165-4036-6 In this profoundly disturbing debut, Bernard, a native of Grenada who moved to New York City as a child, uses elements of time...

Night Work.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 9, 2007... Night Work STEVE HAMILTON. St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne, $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0312-35361-2 Edgar-winner Hamilton's first standalone crime thriller falls short of his excellent Alex McKnight series (A Stolen Season, etc.). When Joe...

My Hands Came Away Red.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 9, 2007... My Hands Came Away Red LISA McKAY. Moody, $12.99 paper (384p) ISBN 978-0-8024-8982-1 In this fast-paced, thought-provoking debut novel, McKay, a psychologist who works with humanitarian relief, explores injustice, religious reconciliation,...

Christ versus Arizona.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 9, 2007... Christ Versus Arizona CAMILO JOSE CELA, TRANS. FROM THE SPANISH BY MARTIN SOKOLINSKY. Dalkey Archive, $13.95 paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-56478-341-7 Among the most experimental of Cela's works, this audacious and provocative novel tells the...

A Wrongful Death.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 9, 2007... A Wrongful Death KATE WILHELM. Mira, $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7783-2491-1 Wilhelm's sharp ninth Barbara Holloway legal thriller (after 2006's Sleight of Hand) proves compelling action can take place outside a courtroom. A not entirely...

The Bloodstone Papers.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 9, 2007... The Bloodstone Papers GLEN DUNCAN. Ecco, $25.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-06-123966-3 A listless part-time teacher and writer of pornographic novels helps his elderly father quench a decades-old thirst for revenge in Duncan's sixth novel...

The Burnt House.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 9, 2007... The Burnt House FAYE KELLERMAN. Morrow, $25.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-06-122732-5 A coincidence so improbable that a character comments on it renders bestseller Kellerman's 16th novel to feature Lt. Peter Decker of the LAPD and wife Rina...

The Drop Edge of Yonder.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 9, 2007... The Drop Edge of Yonder DONIS CASEY. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (228p) ISBN 978-1-59058-446-0 Casey's mellow third Alafair Tucker whodunit (after 2006's Hornswoggled) is as laid-back as its 1914 Oklahoma setting. Alafair, farmer's wife and busy...

When One Man Dies.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 9, 2007... * When One Man Dies DAVE WHITE. Three Rivers, $17.95 paper (288p) ISBN 978-0-307-38278-8 Derringer Award--winner White's engrossing, evocative debut novel will grab most readers from its opening sentences: "I've killed three men in my...

The Tale of Hawthorn House: The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 9, 2007... The Tale of Hawthorn House: The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter SUSAN WITTIG ALBERT. Berkley Prime Crime, $23.95 (336p) ISBN 9780-425-21655-2 Albert's charming fourth Beatrix Potter mystery (after 2006's The Tale of Cuckoo Brow Wood) finds...

Unspoken.(Unspoken: A Mystery)(Brief article)(Book review)
July 9, 2007... Unspoken MARI JUNGSTEDT, TRANS. FROM THE SWEDISH BY TIINA NUNNALLY. St. Martin's Minotaur, $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-36377-2 At the start of Jungstedt's somber, subtle second mystery set on the Swedish island of Gotland (after 2006's...

Obsession, Deceit and Really Dark Chocolate.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 9, 2007... Obsession, Deceit and Really Dark Chocolate KYRA DAVIS. Red Dress Ink, $13.95 paper (400p) ISBN 978-0-878-89553-3 Sophie Katz flirts with dirty politics and a certain Russian PI in Davis's cool but sometimes overcaffeinated third chick lit...

Face Down o'er the Border: A Lady Appleton Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 9, 2007... Face Down o'er the Border: A Lady Appleton Mystery KATHY LYNN EMERSON. Perseverance (SCB, dist.), $14.95 paper (236p) ISSN 978-1-880284-91-9 Emerson's engrossing 16th-century mystery (her 11th, after 2006's Face Down Beside St. Anne's...

The Burning Glass: A Jean Fairbairn/Alasdair Cameron Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 9, 2007... The Burning Glass: A Jean Fairbairn/Alasdair Cameron Mystery LILLIAN STEWART CARL. Five Star, $25.95 (403p) ISBN 978-1-59414-591-9 Veteran Carl brings Great Scot reporter Jean Fairbairn and ex-cop Alasdair Cameron to the hills of the...

Hard Row.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 9, 2007... Hard Row MARGARET MARON. Grand Central, $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-446-58243-8 Fans of Edgar-winner Maron's reliably pleasing Deborah Knott series will be glad to see the North Carolina judge back on the bench in this intriguing 13th mystery...

How to Kill a Guy in 10 Days.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 9, 2007... How to Kill a Guy in 10 Days KAYLA PERRIN AND BRENDA MOTT. Avon, $13.95 paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-088472-7 This breezy collaboration between Perrin (Sisters of Theta Phi Kappa) and Mott (Man from Montana), the first in a new series,...

Best New Romantic Fantasy.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 9, 2007... Best New Romantic Fantasy EDITED BY PAULA GURAN. Juno (www.juno-books.com), $13.95 paper (304p) ISBN 978-0-8095-5784-4 By turns deliriously romantic and richly melancholic, Guran's second anthology (after Best New Paranormal Romance)...

Queen of Candesce.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 9, 2007... * Queen of Candesce KARL SCHROEDER. Tor, $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1544-1 Schroeder's ambitious sequel to 2006's Sun of Suns further explores Virga, the vast enclosed realm containing a miniature cosmos of floating worlds, wheellike...

Lucinda, Darkly.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 9, 2007... Lucinda, Darkly SUNNY. Berkley Sensation, $14 paper (288p) ISBN 978-0-425-21464-0 Full of paranormal passion, Sunny's fast-paced first in a new erotic fantasy series, the Demon Princess Chronicles, introduces Lucinda, a 600-year-old demon...

A Betrayal in Winter: Book Two of the Long Price Quartet.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 9, 2007... A Betrayal in Winter: Book Two of the Long Price Quartet DANIEL ABRAHAM. Tor, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-765-31341-6 Set 15 years after the events of 2006's A Shadow in Summer, Abraham's clever second novel follows the tribulations of Otah...

Third Watch: Acorna's Children.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 9, 2007... Third Watch: Acorna's Children ANNE MCCAFFREY AND ELIZABETH ANN SCARBOROUGH. Eos, $24.95 (288) ISBN 978-0-06-052541-5 At the start of this readable light entry in McCaffrey and Scarborough's popular Acorna series (Acorna's Rebels, etc.),...

Dark Possession: A Carpathian Novel.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 9, 2007... Dark Possession: A Carpathian Novel CHRISTINE FEEHAN. Berkley, $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-425-21709-2 Bestseller Feehan's steamy and dreamy 18th Carpathian novel (after 2006's Dark Celebration) explores the erotic allure of ancient...

The Serpent Prince.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 9, 2007... The Serpent Prince ELIZABETH HOYT. Grand Central, $6.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-446-40053-4 Incredibly vivid lead characters, earthy writing and an intense love story buoy the third entry in Hoyt's Georgian-set romance series (following The...

The Bone Man.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 9, 2007... The Bone Man VICKI STIEFEL. Leisure, $7.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-8439-5937-6 Grief counselor Tally Whyte is back, this time taking some well-deserved time off to deal with her own grief, having lost her mother (who's also her boss) in her last...

Tempted at Every Turn.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 9, 2007... Tempted at Every Turn ROBYN DEHART. Avon, $5.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-112753-3 The battle of the sexes tests more than just wills in this charming Victorian whodunit romance, the third installment in DeHart's Ladies' Amateur Sleuth Society...

Dead Right.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 9, 2007... Dead Right BRENDA NOVAK. Mira, $6.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-7783-2439-3 Novak's latest Stillwater novel (after Dead Giveaway) revisits the small Mississippi town, where journalist/newspaper owner Madeline Barker is still seeking closure two...