Publishers Weekly articles from June 2005

Publishers Weekly archives from June 2005

Gioia vows to change America's reading habits: moving beyond 'Reading at Risk'.(Dana Gioia chairman of National Endowment for the Arts on the literary program called Big Read)
June 27, 2005... Dana Gioia, National Endowment for the Arts chairman, is promising to deliver "the biggest federally run literature program in American history" later this year. The program, expected to be officially announced this fall, will be the most...

Literacy by the numbers.(Foreword)(Brief Article)
June 27, 2005... 44 million: Number of adults who have difficulty using reading, writing and computational skills needed in everyday life 20: Percentage of adults who read at fifth-grade level or below 53: Percentage of 3-5-year-olds who are read to...

Reorg at Perseus/CDS.(Client Distribution Services reorganizes Perseus Books Group)(Brief Article)
June 27, 2005... The integration of Client Distribution Services into the Perseus Book Group has resulted in the elimination of about 12 positions and the departure of CDS president Gilbert Perlman. Under the reorganization, Matty Goldberg, vp of sales and...

Indigo sales slip in '05.(Indigo Books Music and More Inc.)(Brief Article)
June 27, 2005... The sale of its Campus Stores division and a net decline of two outlets were among the major reasons for the 2.3% decline in revenue at Indigo Books & Music for the fiscal year ended April 2, 2005. Total revenue was C$787.5 million ($637...

Story of his life.(Paperback wholessalers rule the market)
June 27, 2005... Could the biggest sensation of last year be one of the underperformers of this one? Bill Clinton's My Life had the hugest hardcover nonfiction opening in history a year ago, as a reported two million people were willing to buy a book...

BAM to buy back shares.(Books-A-Million to sell its shares)(Brief Article)
June 27, 2005... Books-A-Million has begun a tender offer to acquire up to four million of its shares, or just under 25% of those outstanding. BAM is using a modified Dutch auction procedure, which lets a company determine the lowest price at which a...

'Eloise,' 'Olivia' delayed.(Simon & Schuster two biggest books release have been postponed untill 2006)(Eloise in Hollywood , Olivia Does Christmas)(Brief Article)
June 27, 2005... Two of Simon & Schuster's Children's biggest books for this fall have been postponed until 2006. Eloise in Hollywood and Olivia Does Christmas have both been delayed by a year because of "separate illustrator reasons," according to Tracy van...

Scholastic settles FTC charges.(Federal Trade Commission penalises Scholastic Corp)(Brief Article)
June 27, 2005... Scholastic has signed a consent Order with the Federal Trade Commission to settle charges that its telemarketing practices for certain negative option book clubs violated FTC rules. As part of the consent order, Scholastic will pay a $710,000...

Boy meets girl.(Your Big Break by Johanna Edwards)(Brief Article)
June 27, 2005... * Boy meets girl. Girl loses interest in boy. Girl hires girl to dump boy. That's Johanna Edwards's variation on the classic formula in her sophomore chick lit effort, Your Big Break, to be published by Berkley next spring. The novel has one...

A third shot.(Paramount Pictures Corp. gears up to make Nine Lee Child novel Of Jack Reacher)(Brief Article)
June 27, 2005... A third shot at movie stardom? Looks like that's what's in store for Jack Reacher, the ex-military policeman and star of nine Lee Child novels. Paramount put the rugged loner in its crosshairs last week after the series fell out of option...

Has there ever been.(Disney Entertainment Productions enters the DVD market)(Brief Article)
June 27, 2005... * Has there ever been a better time to be a YA author in Hollywood? Just ask Ally Carter. Three weeks ago, Disney preempted the author's first YA novel, I'd Tell You I Love You but Then I'd Have to Kill You, based on two chapters and an...

Schneider to Harper.(HarperCollins Publishers Inc. hires Kathy Schneider)(Brief Article)
June 27, 2005... Jonathan Burnham has brought over former Miramax colleague Kathy Schneider to HarperCollins, where she'll become associate publisher at the Harper imprint of the General Books Group. Schneider was publishing director at Miramax and also...

A P&W party.(Poets and Writers, Inc. celebrate 35th birthday)(Brief Article)
June 27, 2005... Poets & Writers celebrated its 35th birthday June 22 with a Bowery Ballroom bash on Delancey Street. Among the many writers who turned out were (l. to r.) Jonathan Lethem, Colson Whithead, Susan Wheeler, Nick Flynn and Francine Prose.

Google, pub's dance plays on.(Association of American University Presses on the Google library scanning program)(Association of American Publishers)(Brief Article)
June 27, 2005... The publishing industry's concerns about Google's library scanning program are beginning to be heard by the giant company. Although the Association of American University Presses has not received a reply to its letter to Google expressing its...

Golden Books returns to CBA.(Golden Books Publishing Company Inc.)(Christian Booksellers Association)(Brief Article)
June 27, 2005... Golden Books is planning a return to the Christian Booksellers Association (CBA) market after a long hiatus. Official ramp-up for the new Golden Inspirational campaign begins at the CBA trade conference in Denver next month, where reissued...

Pearson buys testing unit.(Pearson Education Inc. to acquire)(AGS Publishing)(WRC Media)(Brief Article)
June 27, 2005... Pearson has agreed to acquire the testing and special education publisher AGS Publishing from WRC Media for $270 million. Pearson said sales at AGS increased by 20% in 2004 and operating profit was $23 million. WRC will use proceeds from the...

On vacation.
June 27, 2005... Sara Nelson is away this week. Her column will return in the July 11 issue.

The Da Vinci Coady.(Bill Shinker on the most influenced book The Book that Changed My Life)(Brief Article)
June 27, 2005... Quick: a dream scenario for a reading-guide masterpiece. How about the biggest authors writing essays about the books that influenced them most as collected by one of the country's best-known booksellers? That's a description, barely...

The Nagasaki project.(Henry Dunow to wirte on the details of George Weller's work)(Brief Article)
June 27, 2005... George Weller was one of the first reporters in Nagasaki after the bombing in 1945, but it's taken 60 years to tell his remarkable story. The late correspondent for the Chicago Daily-News (Weller died at 95 three years ago) snuck into the...

How Conde Nasty?(Steve Florio signs with Crown's Rick Horgan )(Brief Article)
June 27, 2005... Steve Florio is the latest media exec to parachute-and-tell. Or is he? The retirement--bound Advance Publications exec--he's currently vice chairman and has held a number of prominent roles--has signed with Crown's Rick Horgan for at least a...

Lydia Millet.(Harcourt General Inc. rides on Oh Pure, Radiant Heart)(Brief Article)
June 27, 2005... This week's Small Press Buy of the Week comes courtesy of Soft Skull, from where Harcourt has scooped up Lydia Millet's Oh Pure and Radiant Heart, about atomic bomb inventors who turn up in 2003 and embark on a campaign for global...

TV carpenter Eric Stromer, of the Learning Channel's Clean Sweep, will hammer away.(The Briefing)(Brief Article)
June 27, 2005... TV carpenter Eric Stromer, of the Learning Channel's Clean Sweep, will hammer away at book writing after Peter McGuigan sold his first to Bantam....

Billy Graham-mania has struck.(Warner Faith to write on evangelical leaders)(Brief Article)
June 27, 2005... Billy Graham-mania has struck. Warner Faith has signed Time's Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy to write on the evangelical leader's relationships with presidents from Truman to Bush II, bought from Robert Barnett. This as Putnam is doing...

Trident Media hires Cope.(Trident Media Group hires Eileen Cope)(Brief Article)
June 27, 2005... Eileen Cope, formerly with Lowenstein-Yost Associates, has joined Trident as an agent.

New hires at S&S Children's.(Jon Rosenberg, Justin Chanda)(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, Simon Scribbles)(Brief Article)
June 27, 2005... Justin Chanda, formerly with Harper's Joanna Cotler Books, has been named executive editor, Atheneum Books for Young Readers. Jon Rosenberg, formerly creator and owner of Jokar Productions, has been named editorial director of the Simon...

Stevenson rises at Clarion.(Clarion Books promotes Dinah Stevenson)(Brief Article)
June 27, 2005... Dinah Stevenson, vp and associate publisher of Clarion Books, has been named v-p and publisher.

WMA hires Michel.(William Morris Agency UK Ltd. appoints Caroline Michel)(Brief Article)
June 27, 2005... Caroline Michel, formerly managing director at Harper Press in the U.K., has been named managing director of the William Morris Agency's U.K. division, effective in August.

WaterBrook dines out on 'Perfect Stranger'.(Dinner with a Perfect Stranger by David Gregory)
June 27, 2005... A Christian fable with a clever high concept, David Gregory's Dinner with a Perfect Stranger is looking like a major crossover title for WaterBrook Press, the evangelical division of the Doubleday Broadway group. Enthusiasm from the company's...

Princeton tabs Dougherty.(Princeton Book Company, Peter Dougherty)(Brief Article)
June 27, 2005... Peter Dougherty, formerly group publisher for the social sciences, has been named director of the press.

What are you reading?(Kinga Harth)(Brief Article)(Interview)
June 27, 2005... Kinga Harth, 30 Registered nurse, Waikiki, Hawaii What are you reading? Rocket City by Cathryn Alpert. Where did you get it? A friend gave it to me. I just moved here from Budapest, Hungary, so I'm watching my spending....

What I did for my summer book tour.(writers do promotional tours for their books)(Brief Article)
June 27, 2005... To promote his new novel, Canaan's Tongue, John Wray will navigate his hand-built raft down the Mississippi River from Memphis, Tenn., to New Orleans, coming ashore for events at five inland bookstores along the way. The book, based on the...

Calendar: July 3-July 16.(Foreword)(Calendar)
June 27, 2005... 7/3 Got a taste for blood and camp? Hal Bodner's newly released gay tongue-in-cheek vampire tale, Bite Club (Alyson), is filled with hunky West Hollywood gym bunnies and screaming queens. 7/4 Celebrate our nation's 229th...

Trade group looks to use Black power.(Black Book Publishers Trade Association)(Brief Article)
June 27, 2005... At a time when African-American publishing ventures, not to mention individual black self-publishers, are proliferating, a group comprising experienced and relatively new black publishers is attempting to launch the first black trade...

Booksellers get a crack at 'Cures'.('Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About' by Kevin Trudeau)
June 27, 2005... It's not hard to see why Kevin Trudeau's self-published Natural Cures 'They' Don't Want You to Know About has hit PW's bestseller list at #13 after its first few weeks on sale in bookstores. All it took was a popular $500,000-a-week...

Hardcover bestsellers/fiction.(Illustration)
June 27, 2005... Hardcover Bestsellers/Fiction DAISY MARYLES June 27, 2005 Last Weeks week on list (1) The Historian. Elizabeth Kostova. ...

Hardcover bestsellers/nonfiction.(Illustration)
June 27, 2005... Hardcover Bestsellers/Nonfiction BY DAISY MARYLES June 27, 2005 Last Weeks week on list (1) 1776. David McCullogh. ...

Paperback bestsellers/mass market.(Illustration)
June 27, 2005... Paperback Bestsellers/Mass Market BY DAISY MARYLES June 27, 2005 Last Weeks week on list (1) Black Rose. Nora...

Paperback bestsellers/trade.(Illustration)
June 27, 2005... Paperback Bestsellers/Trade BY DAISY MARYLES June 27, 2005 Last Weeks week on list (1) The Kite Runner. ...

Children's series and tie-ins bestsellers.(Illustration)
June 27, 2005... Children's Series and Tie-ins Bestsellers BY DIANE ROBACK June 27, 2005 (1) The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Ann Brashares. Delacorte (2) Star Wars. Random House, ...

Dining by the book.(Turning the Tables: Restaurants from the Inside Out by Steven Shaw)(Book Review)
June 27, 2005... Steven Shaw pokes his arctic char tartare and brings a small piece up to his mouth. He peers at it, takes a bite. "It's got salt in it," he says. "Most of the time, when chefs make these tartares, they won't mix the salt in, because if you...

Making Hay-on-Wye.(Welcome to Booktown)
June 27, 2005... The 18th annual Hay Festival in rural Wales looked like a cross between an upscale country wedding and an unusually clean county fair. Sheep grazed on the hills overlooking a field where well-dressed guests and media photographers mingled...

Flying starts.(John Green, D.L. Garfinkle, Cecil Castellucci debut)
June 27, 2005... Teens already rule at the multiplex and the music store. Now, more than ever, they're also showing their clout at the bookstore. For our semi-annual Flying Starts feature, we profile three of the most exciting debut novelists writing for...

Reader, heal thyself.
June 27, 2005... It's enough to make you sick. In 2000, the average patient visit to a physician lasted a scant 18 minutes, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (Less doctor-friendly sources give current durations as low as five...

Tooth and Claw.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 27, 2005... * Tooth and Claw T.C. BOYLE. Viking, $25.95 (304p) ISBN 0-670-03435-5 The threat of imminent demise--whether self-inflicted or from an ungentle Mother Nature--hovers in Boyle's seventh collection (after the novel The Inner Circle)....

Ghost Town: Tales of Manhattan Then and Now.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 27, 2005... Ghost Town: Tales of Manhattan Then and Now PATRICK MCGRATH. Bloomsbury, $16.95 (256p) ISBN 1-58234-312-8 Beneath Manhattan's ever-changing skyline, familial betrayal and guilt remain hauntingly constant in these three juicy novellas, the...

The Year the Music Changed.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 27, 2005... The Year the Music Changed DIANE COULTER THOMAS. Toby, $22.95 (246p) ISBN 1-59264-122-9 Fictional letters between the up-and-coming Elvis Presley and Achsa J. McEachern, a precocious 14-year-old fan, make up Thomas's fanciful debut...

Bleed into Me.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 27, 2005... Bleed into Me STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES. Univ. of Nebraska, $22 (112p) ISBN 0-8032-2605-5 Jones paints a bleak picture in this collection about Native American men struggling to break the circle of violence, alcoholism and broken families...

The Painted Drum.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 27, 2005... * The Painted Drum LOUISE ERDRICH. HarperCollins, $25.95 (288p) ISBN 0-06-051510-4 Though Erdrich's latest lyrical novel returns to Ojibwe territory (Four Souls; Love Medicine, etc.), it departs from the concentrated vigor of her best...

The Last Days of Dogtown.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 27, 2005... The Last Days of Dogtown ANITA DIAMANT. Scribner, $25 (288p) ISBN 0-7432-2573-2 Fans of Diamant's The Red Tent who were disappointed by her sophomore effort (Good Harbor) will be happy to find her back on historical turf in her latest,...

Lunar Park.(Book Review)
June 27, 2005... Lunar Park BRET EASTON ELLIS. Knopf, $25 (320p) ISBN 0-375-41291-3 Having ridden to fame as the laureate of Reagan-era excesses, Ellis serves up a self-eviscerating apologia for all the awful things (wanton drug use, reckless promiscuity,...

Into Temptation.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 27, 2005... Into Temptation PENNY VICENZI. Overlook, $26.95 (672p) ISBN 1-58567-708-6 The third in the Lytton family trilogy (Something Dangerous; No Angel) takes the patrician English clan--and all its jockeying for power, money and approval--into...

Creepers.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 27, 2005... Creepers DAVID MORRELL. CDS, $24.95 (368p) ISBN 1-59315-237-X Morrell takes a creative kind of breaking-and-entering as the remise for his latest thriller (after Nightscape), a gripping story that demands to be read in a single sitting....

Exposure.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 27, 2005... * Exposure TALITHA STEVENSON. Harcourt, $24 (480p) ISBN 0-15-101162-1 Rich and psychologically astute, British author Stevenson's impressive second novel (after 2004's An Empty Room) refracts the life of an upper-middle-class English...

The Monsters of Gramercy Park.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 27, 2005... The Monsters of Gramercy Park DANNY LEIGH. Bloomsbury, $24.95 (352p) ISBN 1-58234-646-1 Although slow at first, the debut novel of 33-year-old Brit Leigh soon reveals itself to be a taut psychological thriller mostly worthy of its Kate...

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 27, 2005... * A Thousand Years of Good Prayers YIYUN LI. Random, $21.95 (224p) ISBN 1-4000-6312-4 A beautifully executed debut collection of 10 stories explores the ravages of the Cultural Revolution on modern Chinese, both in China and America....

The Days of Awe.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 27, 2005... The Days of Awe HUGH NISSENSON. Sourcebooks Landmark, $18 (320p) ISBN 1-4022-0551-1 The national tragedy of 9/11 collides with the personal tragedy of a Manhattan book illustrator. Artie Rubin, 67, lives on the Upper West Side with his...

Hunger's Brides: A Novel of the Baroque.(Book Review)
June 27, 2005... Hunger's Brides: A Novel of the Baroque PAUL ANDERSON. Carroll & Graf, $35 (1,376p) ISBN 0-7867-1541-3 A nearly 1,500-page novel that was 12 years in the making deserves consideration, even though in this instance, its complex central...

Twins.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 27, 2005... Twins MARCY DERMANSKY. Morrow, $21.95 (304p) ISBN 0-06-075978-X Two teenagers struggle with identity and self-determination in Dermansky's entertaining debut. To the casual observer, twins Chloe and Sue are exactly the same--even their...

Freeing Vera.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 27, 2005... Freeing Vera ELISSA A. RAFFA. Permanent, $28 (286p) ISBN 1-57962-120-1 Frannie D'Amato, the lesbian artist and activist narrator of Raffa's earnest, angry debut novel, owns all the willfulness and fury her multiple sclerosis-stricken...

Love, Work, Children.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 27, 2005... Love, Work, Children CHERYL MENDELSON. Random, $25.95 (356p) ISBN 0-375-50837-6 Mendelson returns to the well-to-do residents of Manhattan's Upper West Side for the second book of a projected trilogy (after Morningside Heights). Peter...

Perfect.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 27, 2005... Perfect MARNE DAVIS KELLOGG. St. Martin's, $24.95 (336p) ISBN 0-312-33732-9 In Kellogg's latest frothy adventure, retired jewel thief Kick Keswick leaps to the rescue when a trusted servant steals some of Queen Elizabeth II's most...

Faithless.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 27, 2005... Faithless KARIN SLAUGHTER. Delacorte, $25 (393p) ISBN 0-385-33945-3 Georgia medical examiner Sara Linton returns in Slaughter's Grant County crime thriller series (Indelible), and this time she's hot on the trail of a demented killer who...

Midnight Plague.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 27, 2005... * Midnight Plague GREGG KEIZER. Putnam, $24.95 (352p) ISBN 0-399-15319-5 An impressive follow-up to Keizer's debut, The Longest Night, this grandly imagined, character-driven novel of action and intrigue overflows with biological...

Robert Ludlum's The Moscow Vector.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 27, 2005... Robert Ludlum's The Moscow Vector PATRICK LARKIN. St. Martin's/Griffin, $15.95 paper (416p) ISBN 0-312-31677-1 One might think that time would have taken its toll on the crusty, disgruntled Soviet dinosaurs who want to return Russia to...

User I.D.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 27, 2005... User I.D. JENEFER SHUTE. Houghton Mifflin, $23 (272p) ISBN 0-618-53906-9 Shute (Free Fall) tackles a current headline--identity theft--in her well-researched and absorbing fourth novel. Protagonist Vera de Sica is a risk-averse, single,...

In Perfect Light.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 27, 2005... In Perfect Light BENJAMIN ALIRE SAENZ. HarperCollins/ Rayo, $24.95 (336p) ISBN 0-06-077920-9 A poet, children's book author, former priest and author of House of Forgetting, Saenz returns with the gut-wrenching drama of a...

Ain't No Valley.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 27, 2005... Ain't No Valley SHARON EWELL FOSTER. Bethany House, $12.99 paper (336p) ISBN 0-7642-2886-2 In this follow-up to Ain't No Mountain and its predecessor, Ain't No River, Foster pens a sassy tale full of African-American slang. This time,...

Rorey's Secret.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 27, 2005... Rorey's Secret LEISHA KELLY. Revell, $12.99 paper (256p) ISBN 0-8007-5985-0 Kelly begins the new Country Road Chronicles trilogy with this novel, catching up with the Wortham and Hammond families on their Illinois farms seven years after...

Younger.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 27, 2005... Younger PAMELA REDMOND SATRAN. Downtown, $13 paper (304p) ISBN 1-4165-0558-X Last year was 44-year-old Alice's annus horribilis: her mother died, her dentist husband ran off with his hygienist, and her only daughter packed herself off to...

The Rabbi's Cat.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 27, 2005... * The Rabbi's Cat JOANN SFAR. Pantheon, $21.95 (152p) ISBN 0-375-42281-1 Sfar, the French cartoonist behind the Little Vampire children's books, has come up with a hilarious and wildly original graphic novel for adults. The nameless,...

Y the Last Man: Ring of Truth.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 27, 2005... Y the Last Man: Ring of Truth BRIAN K. VAUGHN, PIA GUERRA AND JOSE MARZAN JR. DC/Vertigo, $14.99 paper (144p) ISBN 1-4012-0487-2 An adolescent male daydream becomes a nightmare in this convoluted SF thriller. Having somehow survived a...

Alichino, Vol. 2.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 27, 2005... Alichino, Vol. 2 KOUYU SHUREL. Tokyopop, $9.99 paper (164p) ISBN 1-59532-479-8 The questions of destiny, life and death will ring hollow and pretentious for those not willing to surrender to this manga's beautiful art. The tale is...

Walt & Skeezix, Book One.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 27, 2005... * Walt & Skeezix, Book One FRANK KING. Drawn & Quarterly, $29.95 (424p) ISBN 1-896597-64-5 Chris Ware edited and designed this volume of Frank King's classic comic strip Gasoline Alley, but this collection doesn't quite begin at the...

Ultra: Seven Days.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 27, 2005... Ultra: Seven Days JOSHUA LUNA AND JONATHAN LUNA. Image Comics, $17.95 paper (232p) ISBN 1-58240-483-6 In the not-so-distant future, or maybe a parallel today, there exists a world where superheroes walk--and sometimes fly--among ordinary...

Crimson Snow: A Hilda Johansson Mystery.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 27, 2005... Crimson Snow: A Hilda Johansson Mystery JEANNE M. DAMS. Perseverance, $13.95 paper (256p) ISBN 1-880284-79-0 In the fifth installment of Agatha winner Dams's beloved cozy series set in early 20th-century Indiana, Hilda Johansson, head...

Rituals of the Season.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 27, 2005... * Rituals of the Season MARGARET MARON. Mysterious, $23.95 (320p) ISBN 0-89296-809-5 At the start of Maron's first-rate 11th Deborah Knott mystery (after 2004's High Country Fall), the judge and her fiance, sheriff deputy Dwight Bryant,...

For Edgar.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 27, 2005... For Edgar SHELDON RUSCH. Berkley Prime Crime, $23.95 (320p) ISBN 0-425-20409-X The titular "Edgar" of Rusch's sharply written debut is Edgar Allan Poe himself: somebody is committing murders in Poe's name and leaving behind garish works...

Dead Man Docking: A Bed-and-Breakfast Mystery.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 27, 2005... Dead Man Docking: A Bed-and-Breakfast Mystery MARY DAHEIM. Morrow, $23.95 (336p) ISBN 0-06-056648-5 In Daheim's disappointing 21st bed-and-breakfast cozy (after 2004's This Old Souse), B&B owner Judith Flynn and cousin Renie tear off to...

The Last Resort: A Moroccan Mystery.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 27, 2005... * The Last Resort: A Moroccan Mystery CARMEN POSADAS, TRANS. FROM THE SPANISH BY KRISTINA CORDER. Random, $23.95 (320p) ISBN 0-375-50886-4 Secrets, lies and society scandals are just a few of the seductive delights that Posadas (Little...

The Cradle Robbers.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 27, 2005... The Cradle Robbers AYELET WALDMAN. Berkley Prime Crime, $23.95 (224p) ISBN 0-425-20284-4 Juliet Applebaum, ex-public defender and "self-employed mother," juggles the demands of her oversized four-month-old daughter and a case involving a...

Cape Perdido.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 27, 2005... Cape Perdido MARCIA MULLER. Mysterious, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 0-89296-006-X MWA Grand Master Muller delivers a relatively routine stand-alone, a murder mystery with an environmental veneer, which falls short of the quality of her acclaimed...

The Life of Riley.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 27, 2005... The Life of Riley ALEXANDER C. IRVINE. Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $25 (140p) ISBN 1-59606-013-1 Having reimagined the past (A Scattering of Jades; One King, One Soldier), Irving presents an intriguing near-future in which...

Starwater Strains.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 27, 2005... * Starwater Strains GENE WOLFE. Tor, $25.95 (368p) ISBN 0-765-31202-6 Unlike his previous all-fantasy short fiction collection Innocents Aboard (2004), Wolfe's seventh volume of stellar short stories, written mostly between 2000 and...

Old Twentieth.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 27, 2005... Old Twentieth JOE HALDEMAN. Ace, $24.95 (272p) ISBN 0-441-01285-X Immortality can get boring after a while, especially when most of Earth's population and many of its treasures have been destroyed in a war between the haves and the...