Publishers Weekly articles from June 2005, page 8

Publishers Weekly archives from June 2005

Letters from New Orleans.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 6, 2005... Letters from New Orleans ROB WALKER. Garrett County Press (Biblio, dist.), $12.95 paper (204p) ISBN 1-891053-01-9 Walker the News York Times Magazine's "Consumed" columnist, shares episodic vignettes of three years (2000-2003) spent in...

Once Upon a Time in Italy: The Westerns of Sergio Leone.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 6, 2005... Once Upon a Time in Italy: The Westerns of Sergio Leone CHRISTOPHER FRAYLING. Abrams, $40 (240p) ISBN 0-8109-5884-8 Of Sergio Leone (1929-1989) and his legendary spaghetti westerns, director Martin Scorsese says, "he created a new genre...

Lance Armstrong's War: One Man's Battle Against Fate, Fame, Love, Death, Scandal, and a Few Other Rivals on the Road to the Tour de France.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 6, 2005... Lance Armstrong's War: One Man's Battle Against Fate, Fame, Love, Death, Scandal, and a Few Other Rivals on the Road to the Tour de France DANIEL COYLE. HarperCollins, $25.95 (336p) ISBN 0-06-073497-3 When an athlete is as celebrated as...

The Murder of Abraham Lincoln.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 6, 2005... The Murder of Abraham Lincoln RICK GEARY. NBM/Comics Lit, $15.95 (80p) ISBN 1-36163-425-5 This latest volume of Geary's series A Treasury of Victorian Murder is a must-read for those who are only familiar with cursory details of...

Sutton Impact.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 6, 2005... Sutton Impact WARD SUTTON. Seven Stories, $18.95 paper (128p) ISBN 1-58322-677-X Political cartooning has a long his-and most political cartoonists learn their craft by studying their predecessors. Sutton, however, comes to the field...

The Herbal Kitchen: Cooking with Fragrance and Flavor.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 6, 2005... The Herbal Kitchen: Cooking with Fragrance and Flavor JERRY TRAUNFELD, PHOTOS BY JOHN GRANEN. Morrow, $34.95 (272p) ISBN 0-06-059976-6 The James Beard Award-winning chef of the Herbfarm near Seattle, Traunfeld (The Herbfarm Cookbook)...

A Baker's Tour.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 6, 2005... A Baker's Tour: Nick Malgieri's Favorite Baking Recipes from Around the World NICK MALGIERI. HarperCollins, $34.95 (416p) ISBN 0-06-058263-4 Malgieri (Perfect Cakes, etc.) is a savvy guide to a panoply of breads, pastries, cakes and...

The Tailgater's Cookbook, 1st ed.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 6, 2005... The Tailgater's Cookbook: More Than 90 Winning Recipes--and a Truckload of Tips--for Your Parking Lot Party DAVID JOACHIM. Broadway, $14.95 paper (208p) ISBN 0-7679-1835-5 Joachim's A Man, a Can, a Plan taught culinarily challenged men...

Against the Grain: 150 Good Carb Mediterranean Recipes.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 6, 2005... Against the Grain: 150 Good Carb Mediterranean Recipes DIANE KOCHILAS. Morrow, $24.95 (288p) ISBN 0-06-072679-2 by combining weight-loss tenets of the South Beach Diet with the touted health benefits of the Mediterranean way of eating,...

Recipes from a Very Small Island.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 6, 2005... Recipes from a Very Small Island LINDA GREENLAW AND MARTHA GREENLAW. Hyperion, $25.95 (224p) ISBN 1-4013-0073-1 Linda Greenlaw has proven herself to be a talented fisherwoman and author (The Hungry Ocean; The Lobster Chronicles; etc.)....

Cooking School Secrets for Real World Cooks.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 6, 2005... * Cooking School Secrets for Real World Cooks LINDA CARUCCI. Chronicle, $29.95 paper (352p) ISBN 0-8118-4243-6 Carucci has no TV program or series of books to her name. She is, foremost, a teacher who has worked her way through the ranks...

Dress Your Best: The Complete Guide to Finding the Style That's Right for Your Body.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 6, 2005... Dress Your Best: The Complete Guide to Finding the Style That's Right for Your Body CLINTON KELLY AND STACY LONDON. Three Rivers, $18.93 paper (256p) ISBN 0-307-23671-4 The spunky hosts of TLC's What to Wear present a fashion guide...

The Way of Stretching: Flexibility for Body and Mind.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 6, 2005... The Way of Stretching: Flexibility for Body and Mind ANNE KENT RUSH. Little, Brown, $15.93 paper (288p) ISBN 0-316-17231-6 Rush draws on principles and practices from yoga, massage, the Japanese martial art aikido and other traditions for...

A Few Good Eggs: Two Chicks Dish on Overcoming the Insanity of Infertility.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 6, 2005... A Few Good Eggs: Two Chicks Dish on Overcoming the Insanity of Infertility JULIE VARGO AND MAUREEN REGAN. Regan, $26.50 (400p) ISBN 0-06-077681-1 The comprehensiveness of this accessible guide to managing infertility reflects the...

The Hungry Tide.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 6, 2005... * The Hungry Tide AMITAV GHOSH, READ BY FIRDOUS BAMJI. Recorded Books, unabridged, 14 CDs, 15.75 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 1-4193-3694-0 One of the great delights of reading a novel by the likes of Ghosh or Salman Rushdie is imagining their...

Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules.(Brief Article)(Audiobook Review)(Book Review)
June 6, 2005... Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules EDITED BY DAVID SEDARIS, READ BY SEDARIS, MARY-LOUISE PARKER ET AL. Simon & Schuster Audio, unabridged stories, three CDs, 3.5 hrs., $19.95 ISBN 0-7435-5019-6 This recording of five stories...

In the Company of Liars.(Brief Article)(Audiobook Review)(Book Review)
June 6, 2005... In the Company of Liars DAVID ELLIS, READ BY DICK HILL AND SUSIE BRECK. Brilliance Audio, unabridged, seven cassettes, 10 hrs., $32.95 ISBN 1-59086-773-4 Chicago lawyer Ellis's fourth thriller (after last year's Jury of One) begins with...

Dead of Night.(Brief Article)(Audiobook Review)(Book Review)
June 6, 2005... Dead of Night RANDY WAYNE WHITE, READ BY DICK HILL. Brilliance Audio, unabridged, eight cassettes, 11 hrs., $34.95 ISBN 1-59086-966-4 The past 11 adventures featuring Marion "Doc" Ford have found the marine biologist/ex--black ops...

Star Wars, Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.(Brief Article)(Audiobook Review)
June 6, 2005... Star Wars, Episode III: Revenge of the Sith MATTHEW STOVER, READ BY JONATHAN DAVIS. Random House Audio, abridged, four CDs, 5 hrs., $25.95 ISBN 0-7393-1831-4 If you've well and truly caught the Star Wars bug--i.e., seen the movie twice,...

Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America.(Brief Article)(Audiobook Review)
June 6, 2005... Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America MORGAN SPURLOCK, READ BY THE AUTHOR. Penguin Audio, unabridged, seven CDs, 8 hrs., $29.95 ISBN 0-14-305731-6 Though he wasn't much of an activist before his monthlong,...

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything.(Brief Article)(Audiobook Review)
June 6, 2005... Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything STEVEN D. LEVITT AND STEPHEN J. DUBNER, READ BY DUBNER. Harper Audio, unabridged, six CDs, 7 hrs., $29.95 ISBN 0-06-077613-7 Though the idea of listening to an...

My Life So Far.(Brief Article)(Audiobook Review)
June 6, 2005... * My Life So Far JANE FONDA, READ BY THE AUTHOR. Random House Audio, abridged, eight CDs, 10 hrs., $34.95 ISBN 0-7393-1984-1 Thanks to Fonda's bravura reading, this eloquent abridgement of her stirring 500-page autobiography is one of the...

The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century.(Brief Article)(Audiobook Review)
June 6, 2005... The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, READ BY OLIVER WYMAN. Audio Renaissance, unabridged, 15 CDs, 19 hrs., $59.95 ISBN 1-59397-669-0 With the rise of technologies like high-speed Internet and...

My Daddy Is a Giant.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 6, 2005... My Daddy Is a Giant CARL NORAC, ILLUS. BY INGRID GODON. Clarion, $16 (32p) ISBN 0-618-443991 Daddy looms large both figuratively and literally in Norac's (I Love You So Much) ode to a father from a child's perspective. In Godon's (One...

Diary of a Spider.(Children's Review)
June 6, 2005... * Diary Of A Spider DOREEN CRONIN, ILLUS. BY HARRY BHSS. HarperCollins/Cotler, $15.99 (40p) ISBN 0-06-000153-4 Cronin and Bliss repeat the comic ingredients that made Diary of a Worm so successful in this rib-tickling sequel. This time...

Little Miss Liberty.(Children's Review)
June 6, 2005... Little Miss Liberty CHRIS ROBERTSON. Chronicle, $15.95 (32p) ISBN 0-8118-4669-5 Robertson enters the children's book arena with a lighthearted tribute to the Statue of Liberty on the 120th anniversary of her inauguration on the 4th of...

Saving the Liberty Bell.(Children's Review)
June 6, 2005... Saving the Liberty Bell MEGAN McDONALD, ILLUS. BY MARSHA GRAY CARRINGTON. Atheneum/Jackson, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 0-689-85167-7 Blending bits of history and long-accepted lore into a snappy story, McDonald (Is This a House for a Hermit Crab?;...

Me!(Children's Review)
June 6, 2005... Me! PHILIP WAECHTER, TRANS. BY CHRISTOPHER FRANCESCHELLI. Handprint (Chronicle, dist.), $9.95 (64p) ISBN 1-59354-087-6 Although the title seems to indicate otherwise, this earnestly winsome, small-format book is actually a tribute to the...

The Journey of the One and Only Declaration of Independence.(Children's Review)
June 6, 2005... * The Journey of the One and Only Declaration of Independence JUDITH ST. GEORGE, ILLUS. BY WILL HILLENBRAND. Philomel, $16.99 (48p) ISBN 0-399-23738-0 St. George (So, You Want to Be President?) offers readers another engaging foray...

Captain Arsenio: Inventions and (Mis)adventures in Flight.(Children's Review)
June 6, 2005... Captain Arsenio: Inventions and (Mis)adventures in Flight PABLO BERNASCONI. Houghton, $16 (40p) ISBN 0-618-50749-3 According to this droll mock-biography, whimsically set in the 1780s, would-be aviator Captain Arsenio "had little...

Sea Surprise.(Children's Review)
June 6, 2005... Sea Surprise LEO LANDRY. Holt, $15.95 (64p) ISBN 0-8050-6645-4 Landry's (Eat Your Peas, Ivy Louise!, reviewed May 9) spry if slight underwater tale opens as mermaid Kate asks her buddy Dave, a shark, what they should do that day. Dave...

Clemency Pogue: Fairy Killer.(Children's Review)
June 6, 2005... Clemency Pogue: Fairy Killer J.T. PETTY, ILLUS. BY WILL DAVIS. S&S, $9.95 (128p) ISBN 0-689-87236-4 Inanity abounds in Petty's debut novel, a snippet of a tale that borrows from the sagas of Peter Pan and Rumpelstiltskin. After a nasty...

Nasty Book.(Children's Review)
June 6, 2005... Nasty Book BARRY YOURGRAU. HarperCollins/ Cotler, $11.99 (192p) ISBN 0-06-057978-1 These 43 very short--vignettes? essays? anecdotes?--aim at outrageousness but fall curiously flat. An unidentified narrator relates a variety of gruesome,...

The Sledding Hill.(Children's Review)
June 6, 2005... * The Sledding Hill CHRIS CRUTCHER. HarperCollins/ Greenwillow, $15.99 (240p) ISBN 0-06-050243-6 Crutcher takes the fad in authorial intrusion one better, inserting himself as a character in this metafictional novel with a heavy-handed...

Far from Xanadu.(Children's Review)
June 6, 2005... Far from Xanadu JULIE ANNE PETERS. Little, Brown/ Tingley, $16.99 (290p) ISBN 0-316-15581-X Many of the themes that Peters mined in Luna appear in this novel, but are more smoothly integrated, making this a more accessible read. For one...

By These Ten Bones.(Children's Review)
June 6, 2005... By These Ten Bones CLARE B. DUNKLE. Holt, $16.95 (229p) ISBN 0-8050-7496-1 This spine-tingling tale by the author of the Hollow Kingdom trilogy features a plucky heroine, a stranger with a dark secret and an angry mob. War has diminished...

Burning City.(Children's Review)
June 6, 2005... Burning City ARIEL AND JOAQUIN DORFMAN. Random, $15.95 (272p) ISBN 0-375-83203-3 Heller Highland, 16, works at "Soft Tidings," an unlikely Manhattan company that delivers "news with a personal touch." Uncommon empathy makes him the...

Rainbow Party.(Children's Review)
June 6, 2005... Rainbow Party PAUL RUDITIS. Simon Pulse, $8.99 paper (256p) ISBN 1-4169-0235-X Promiscuous sophomore Gin is throwing a "Rainbow Party," at which girls "put on a different color lipstick, and the guys all drop their pants." In theory,...

Summer sizzlers.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)
June 6, 2005... A host of sequels surface just in time for hot beach reading. The trio from Melissa de la Cruz's The Au Pairs--Mara, Eliza and Jacqui--are back for some Skinny-dipping. Mara and Ryan (elder brother to Mara's charges), who hooked up in the...

Getting Klutzier.
June 6, 2005... After 28 years in business, Klutz, the book-plus publisher, is introducing a new imprint, Chicken Socks, whose books are aimed at kids ages 4-up. Eight titles are included in the imprint's debut list. Coloring is the key to enjoying...

The big chill? What the controversy at America means for Catholic writers and publishers.(Soapbox)
June 6, 2005... Father Tom Reese, the deposed editor of the influential Jesuit magazine America, could have been chosen by central casting: he's intelligent, scholarly, witty, adroit. (Full disclosure: I also consider him a good friend.) Until his dismissal...