Publishers Weekly articles from June 2009

Publishers Weekly archives from June 2009

Crown takes a 'Byte'.(Crown Publishers Inc. acquires Nick Bilton's book Byte. Snack. Meal)(Brief article)
June 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The New York Times's design integration editor, Nick Bilton, has sold Byte. Snack. Meal. to Crown executive editor John Mahaney. Bilton, who's toyed with various interactive content models at the Times, described the...

Two Wiggs in one.(Mira Publishing acquires right to Susan Wiggs and her daughter, Elizabeth Wiggs' upcoming book )(Brief article)
June 1, 2009... Margaret O'Neill Marbury, editorial director at Mira, has acquired a mother-daughter take on wedding planning from prolific women's fiction bestseller Susan Wiggs and her daughter, Eliza beth Wiggs. Meg Ruley and Annelise Robey sold world...

Da Capo editor Jonathan Crowe has nabbed world rights to Nicholas Jubber's In the Shadow of the Shahs, which looks at the two sides of Persian culture in Iran and Afghanistan, from its place in the underground parties of Tehran to its manifestations in Islamic fundamentalism.(Brief article)
June 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Da Capo editor Jonathan Crowe has nabbed world rights to Nicholas Jubber's In the Shadow of the Shahs, which looks at the two sides of Persian culture in Iran and Afghanistan, from its place in the underground...

John Glusman, at Harmony, acquired world rights to Paul Collins's Murder of the Century, about a Gilded Age homicide that sparked a tabloid war and led to the beginnings of modern forensics.(Brief article)
June 1, 2009... John Glusman, at Harmony, acquired world rights to Paul Collins's Murder of the Century, about a Gilded Age homicide that sparked a tabloid war and led to the beginnings of modern forensics. Collins is a founding editor of the Collins Library...

Goodbye gifts.(American Bar Association Publishing outgoing CEO Avin Domnitz )(Brief article)
June 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Outgoing ABA CEO Avin Domnitz is pictured here with one of the many girls he received at Thursday night's tribute at the Marriott Brooklyn, a cutout of James Dean, his dog. Other presents included a first edition of...

ABA remains committed to IndieBound.(American Booksellers Association )
June 1, 2009... A year after the American Booksellers Association launched IndieBound at BookExpo America in Los Angeles to replace 10-year-old BookSense, the wide-ranging program has had some growing pains, though the ABA remains convinced it provides the...

Weiner, Brent leaving Yale UP.(Yale University Press hires publishing executives Tina Weiner and Jonathan Brent)(Brief article)
June 1, 2009... Tina Weiner, associate director and publishing director at Yale University Press, has taken a position as special assistant to the secretary of Yale University, working in the of rice of international affairs. Also at YUP, Jonathan Brent,...

Proulx to three rivers.(Three Rivers Press promotes Heather Proulx to associate publishing manager )(Brief article)
June 1, 2009... Heather Proulx has been promoted to associate publishing manager at Random House's Three Rivers Press imprint (part of the Crown Publishing Group). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Proulx started her publishing career at the Sandra Dijkstra...

Hasbro tweaks global publishing strategy.(Same Page)
June 1, 2009... Over the past six months, toy maker Hasbro has been reconfiguring its global publishing strategy, internally creating long-term story arcs to ensure continuity among the various facets of its entertainment and publishing programs worldwide. The...

Hardcover bestsellers/fiction.
June 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Sign, Raymond Khoury's third bestseller (following The Last Templar and The Sanctuary), has 113,000 copies in print. Before becoming a writer, Khoury was an architect, an investment banker and also dabbled in...

Hardcover bestsellers/nonfiction.
June 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Tonight on The Larry King Show: Larry King! On lay-down date, May 19, the tables were turned, and King was interviewed about his life by Joy Behar, Regis Philbin and Anderson Cooper. During Joy's segment, Larry King...

Paperback bestsellers/mass market.
June 1, 2009... The movie of My Sister's Keeper looks to be a blockbuster straight out of the gate--one sure sign is the presence on our lists of two editions of the book (see Trade column). Still, as Picoult notes on her Web site, "the beauty of a novel is...

Hardcover paperback bestsellers/trade.
June 1, 2009... Which came first: the book or the publicity? Judging from Frankel's busy Web site (bethenny.com), we'd say the publicity. (The site's pop-ups include photos, press, videos, blog, recipes, products) Just since March of this year, this Real...

Tim O'Reilly: adapting content to meet new reading habits.(The Twitter Book)
June 1, 2009... When asked how and how well publishing is reacting to new technology, Tim O'Reilly answered with a question that's indicative of his forward thinking about books, information and business: "I have to ask what you mean by publishing." Tim...

The hard-core in gay & lesbian publishing: indies and UPs remain committed to a market often courted by the mainstream.(GLBT Publishing)
June 1, 2009... These are exciting times for book people, gay book people included. Although the LGBT book world has seen some sad transitions in recent months, including the loss of two of our most venerable bookstores (New York City's Oscar Wilde Bookstore...

Why I write ...(autorship and gay and lesbian literature)
June 1, 2009... Never having prospected for gold, I can't say for sure, but I suspect the thrill of unearthing a good, untold story is similar to what miners felt when they discovered a shiny raw nugget in a Yukon riverbank. When I chanced upon the story of...

Special books for special needs: parents look to books for help and hope in dealing with disabilities and childhood disease.(Special Needs)
June 1, 2009... As autism rates continue to spiral upward--one in every 150 American children, and almost one in 94 boys, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention--parents continue to search for answers. In response to the urgency of...

A Hollywood novel that isn't.(Chandler Burr's You or Someone Like You)
June 1, 2009... When Chandler Burr was 23 and backpacking around the world, he made a last stop in Israel. At the Western Wall, he was approached by "a young, shortish man of indeterminate age. Wispy beard, a little overweight, white and blue knit kippa" who...

Half Broke Horses.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... Half Broke Horses Jeannette Walls. Scribner, $25 (288p) ISBN 978-1-4165-8628-9 For the first 10 years of her life, Lily Casey Smith, the narrator of this "true-life novel" by her granddaughter, Walls, lived in a dirt dugout in west...

PW talks with Jonathan Tropper: death & laughter.(This Is Where I Leave You )(Interview)
June 1, 2009... Jonathan Tropper follows a tumultuous week in the life of Judd Foxman as he confronts a dying marriage, a dead father, infertility and infidelity in This Is Where I Leave You (Reviews, May 18). It's funny. How would you describe the family...

Leviathan: An Event Group Thriller.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... Leviathan: An Event Group Thriller David L. Golemon. St. Martin's/Dunne, $24.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-312-37663-5 Fans of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea will enjoy Golemon's recasting of the Jules Verne novel, his fourth Event...

The Counterfeit Guest.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... The Counterfeit Guest Rose Melikan. Touchstone, $15 paper (432p) ISBN 978-1-4165-6087-6 Set in England in 1796, Melikan's sprightly sequel to The Blackstone Key (2008) finds Mary Finch, once a poor teacher, now a wealthy heiress....

The Wet Nurse's Tale.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... The Wet Nurse's Tale Erica Eisdorfer. Putnam, $25.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-399-15576-5 In her first novel, Eisdorfer offers as a guide to Victorian England her entertaining and surprising protagonist, Susan Rose. A bawdy young woman...

One Foot Wrong.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... One Foot Wrong Sofie Laguna. Other Press, $12.95 paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-59051-316-3 Australian actor and young-adult writer Laguna (Too Loud Lily) delivers a grim, creepy, powerful first-person narrative about a direly neglected...

South of Broad.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... South of Broad Pat Conroy. Doubleday/Talese, $29.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-385-41305-3 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Charleston, S.C., gossip columnist Leopold Bloom King narrates a paean to his hometown and friends in Conroy's first...

New Tricks.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... * New Tricks David Rosenfelt. Grand Central, $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-446-50587-1 In Rosenfelt's excellent seventh legal thriller to feature Paterson, N.J., defense attorney Andy Carpenter (after Play Dead), Andy takes on another...

Speed Shrinking.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... Speed Shrinking Susan Shapiro. St. Martin's, $23.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-58156-5 In Shapiro's bubbly latest, self-help guru Julia Goodman is fresh out of advice. Just as Julia is about to follow up her bestseller Up in Smoke with...

City of Silver.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... * City of Silver Annamaria Alfieri. Minotaur, $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-312-38386-2 Alfieri effortlessly recreates 17th-century Peru in her impressive debut. In 1650, concerned that counterfeit silver coins originating in Potosf,...

The Fitzgerald Ruse.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... The Fitzgerald Ruse Mark de Castdque. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (254p) ISBN 978-1-59058-629-7 At the start of de Castrique's winning second Sam Blackman mystery (after 2008's Blackman's Coffin), the former U.S. military CID officer and...

A Slice of Murder.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... A Slice of Murder Chris Cavender. Kensington, $22 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7582-2948-9 Pizza lovers will relish the pseudonymous Cavender's delightful first in a new cozy series, which introduces Eleanor Swift, owner of A Slice of Life,...

Soul Murder.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... Soul Murder Andrew Nugent. Minotaur, $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-53656-5 Irish author Nugent's less than inspired third police procedural to feature Supt. Denis Lennon and Sgt. Molly Power of the Garda Siochana (after 2006's...

Whiskey with a Twist: A Whiskey Mattimoe Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... Whiskey with a Twist: A Whiskey Mattimoe Mystery Nina Wright. Midnight Ink (www.mignightinkbooks.com), $14.95 paper (312p) ISBN 978-0-7387-1470-7 At the outset of Wright's frothy fifth cozy to feature Magnet Springs, Mich.,...

Shanghaied: The Fourth Ray Sharp Novel.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... Shanghaied: The Fourth Ray Sharp Novel Eric Stone. Bleak House (www.bleakhousebooks.com), $24.95 (296p) ISBN 978-1-60648030-4; $14.95 paper ISBN 978-1-60648- 031-1 Set soon after the 1997 Chinese takeover of Hong Kong, Stone's fourth novel...

Shadow Magic.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... * Shadow Magic Jaida Jones and Danielle Bennett. Bantam Spectra, $23 (400p) ISBN 978-0-553- 80697-7 This entertaining sequel to 2008's fantasy epic Havemercy extends Jones and Bennett's successful blend of cultural diversity and...

Nine Gates.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... Nine Gates Jane Lindskold. Tor, $24.95 (400p) ISBN 9780-7653-1701-8 Readers unfamiliar with 2008's Thirteen Orphans may occasionally find themselves lost over some early references to the magical Land of Smoke and Sacrifice in this...

PW talks with Kwei Quartey: Ghana, not forgotten.(Q&A)(Interview)
June 1, 2009... Kwei Quartey, the son of an African-American mother and African father, is a doctor in the U.S. but he grew up in Ghana where he's set his first novel, Wife of the Gods (Reviews, Apr. 13). How did the idea come to you of setting a whodunit...

Forever Twilight 2: Windows to the Soul.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... Forever Twilight 2: Windows to the Soul Peter Crowther. Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $40 (192p) ISBN 978- 159606-258-0 The second installment of Crowther's horror-nuanced Forever Twilight saga (after 2002's Darkness,...

Stalking the Dragon: A Fable of Tonight.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... Stalking the Dragon: A Fable of Tonight Mike Resnick. Pyr, $15.98 paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-59102-745-4 The freshness and imagination on display in 1987's Stalking the Unicorn and 2008's Stalking the Vampire are renewed for this noirish...

Bleak History.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... Bleak History John Shirley. Pocket, $15 paper (400p) ISBN 978-1-4165-8412-4 This urban occult fantasy from cyberpunk author and screenplay writer Shirley (Black Glass) reads like the script for a bloated summer blockbuster, loaded with...

The Kingdom Beyond the Waves.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... The Kingdom Beyond the Waves Stephen Hunt. Tor, $25.95 (560p) ISBN 978-07653-2043-8 A delightful, thrill-packed adventure set. in the world of 2008's Court of the Air, this charming steam-pulp yarn chronicles the journey of...

Loves Me, Loves Me Knot.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... Loves Me, Loves Me Knot Heidi Betts. St. Martin's Paperbacks, $6.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-94672-2 Betts spins a realistic but problematic follow-up to 2009's Tangled Up in Love. Jenna Langan can't get over her ex-husband,...

Bundle of Trouble.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... Bundle of Trouble Diana Orgain. Berkley Prime Crime, $6.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-425-22924-8 In Orgain's charming debut thriller, office manager Kate Connolly becomes a supersleuth and a new mom in the same week. From the moment she...

Desperado City.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... Desperado City Rebecca Coleman. Medallion, $7.95 (458p) ISBN 978-1-60542-056-1 Coleman's freshman effort, a schizophrenic tangle that can't decide whether it's a mystery or a coming-of-age soap opera, follows several self-absorbed...

The Age of Ra.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... * The Age of Ra James Lovegrove. Solaris, $7.99 (448p)ISBN 978-1-84416-747-0 Ancient Egyptian gods have defeated other gods (including Jehovah, Allah, Odin and Zeus), and now specific dieties control various earthly power blocs in...

A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... * A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge Josh Neufeld. Pantheon, $24.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-307-37814-9 American Splendor artist Neufeld beautifully depicts the lives of seven New Orleans residents who survived Hurricane Katrina. In the...

Black Bird, Vol. 1.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... Black Bird, Vol. 1 Kanoko Sakurakoji. Viz, $8.99 paper (194p) ISBN 978-1-4215-2764-2 High school is hard enough, even under the best of circumstances. Misao Harada would love a normal high school life, but she has been burdened...

The Dresden Files: Storm Front, Vol. 1: The Gathering Storm.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... The Dresden Files: Storm Front, Vol. 1: The Gathering Storm Jim Butcher, Mark Powers and Ardian Syaf. Del Rey, $22.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-345-506399 Beginning an unusually successful adaptation, this volume covers the first part of...

Shake the Devil Off: A True Story of the Murder That Rocked New Orleans.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... * Shake the Devil Off: A True Story of the Murder That Rocked New Orleans Ethan Brown. Holt, $25 (304p) ISBN 978-0-8050-8893-9 On October 17, 2006, 28-year-old Iraq war veteran Zackery Bowen leapt to his death from a New Orleans hotel...

Why Are Jews Liberals?(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... Why Are Jews Liberals? Norman Podhoretz. Doubleday, $25 (352p) ISBN 978-0-385-52919-8 Eminent neoconservative Podhoretz (World War IV) surveys the centuries of atrocities that, he says, have pushed most Jews to the Left, notably the...

Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink Jane Goodall with Thane Maynard and Gall Hudson. Grand Central, $27.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-446-58177-6 With the resurgence of red wolves and...

A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School Carlotta Walls Lanier with Lisa Frazier Page. Ballantine/One World, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-0-345-51100-3 At 14, Lanier was the youngest of the "Little Rock Nine,"...

PW talks with Mike Dash: America's first godfather.(Q&A)(Interview)
June 1, 2009... The First Family (Reviews, May 25) is Mike Dash's account of Giuseppe Morello, the first American Mafia don. Why isn't Morello's story more widely known? He's a shadowy figure because he operated well before the Mafia became a media...

Ordinary Injustice: How America Holds Court.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... Ordinary Injustice: How America Holds Court Amy Bach. Metropolitan, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7447-5 Lawyer and journalist Bach exposes a litany of failures and systematic shoddiness at the core of the American criminal justice system...

The Solomon Secret: 7 Principles of Financial Success from King Solomon, History's Wealthiest Man.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... The Solomon Secret: 7 Principles of Financial Success from King Solomon, History's Wealthiest Man Bruce Fleet with Alton Gansky. Tarcher, $19.95 (160p)ISBN 978-1-58542-735-2 Fleet (Demystifying Wall Street) offers familiar advice...

Never Make the First Offer and Other Wisdom No Dealmaker Should Be Without.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... * Never Make the First Offer and Other Wisdom No Dealmaker Should Be Without Donald Dell with John Boswell. Portfolio, $25.95 (256p)ISBN 978-1-59184-265-1 Legendary sports agent Dell reveals the secrets to successful negotiating in...

Losing the News: The Future of the News That Feeds Democracy.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... Losing the News: The Future of the News That Feeds Democracy Alex S. Jones. Oxford Univ., $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-19-518123-4 Pulitzer Prize journalist Jones (coauthor of The Patriarch) argues that the demise of the newspaper industry...

Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... * Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement Patricia Sullivan. New Press, $26.95 (528p) ISBN 978-1-59558-446-5 In The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. Du Bois prophetically labeled the central challenge of the...

Fitzgerald and Hemingway: Works and Days.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... Fitzgerald and Hemingway: Works and Days Scott Donaldson. Columbia Univ., $32.50 (496p) ISBN 978-0-231-14816-0 In this collection of 24 essays written during a long career as a literary biographer (Archibald MacLeish), Donaldson...

The Hemingway Patrols: Ernest Hemingway and His Hunt for U-boats Aboard the Pilar.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... The Hemingway Patrols: Ernest Hemingway and His Hunt for U-boats Aboard the Pilar Terry Mort. Scribner, $25 (272p) ISBN 978-1-4165-9786-5 One of celebrated novelist Ernest Hemingway's more quixotic exploits opens a window into his soul...

Robertson Davies: A Portrait in Mosaic.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... Robertson Davies: A Portrait in Mosaic Val Ross. McClelland & Stewart, $19.95 paper (400p) ISBN 978-0-7710-7776-0 A bear of a man, with flowing white hair and beard, the flamboyant and magic-obsessed Robertson Davies (i 913-1995) was...

Green Metropolis: What the City Can Teach the Country About True Sustainability.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... * Green Metropolis: What the City Can Teach the Country About True Sustainability David Owen. Riverhead, $25.95 (368p) ISBN 978-1-59448-882-5 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] While the conventional wisdom condemns it as an environmental...

The Venus Fixers: The Untold Story of the Allied Soldiers Who Saved Italy's Art During World War II.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... The Venus Fixers: The Untold Story of the Allied Soldiers Who Saved Italy's Art During World War II Ilaria Dagnini Brey. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $25 (304p) ISBN 978-0-374-28309-4 They were a gaggle of misfits--nerdy, old, bookish and...

Hammer and Tickle: The Story of Communism, a Political System Almost Laughed Out of Existence.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... Hammer and Tickle: The Story of Communism, a Political System Almost Laughed Out of Existence Ben Lewis. Pegasus (Norton, dist.), $26.95 (354p) ISBN 978-1-60598-055-3 This often enjoyable but flat-footed compilation and study of jokes...

I'm Dying Up Here: Heartbreaks and High Times in Standup Comedy's Golden Era.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... * I'm Dying Up Here: Heartbreaks and High Times in Standup Comedy's Golden Era William Knoedelseder. Public Affairs, $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-58648-317-3 In 1978, Knoedelseder (Stiffed: A True Story of MCA, the Music Business, and the...

I, Doll: Life and Times with the New York Dolls.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... I, Doll: Life and Times with the New York Dolls Arthur "Killer" Kane. Chicago Review, $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-556529-41-2 In this posthumous memoir, Kane details his outlandish experiences as bassist for the proto-glam/punk band the...

The Perfect Fruit: Good Breeding, Bad Seeds, and the Hunt for the Elusive Pluot.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... The Perfect Fruit: Good Breeding, Bad Seeds, and the Hunt for the Elusive Pluot Chip Brantley. Bloomsbury, $25 (240p) ISBN 978-1-59691-381-3 After a conversion experience at the Los Angeles farmers' market where he first tasted the...

The Locust and the Bird.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... The Locust and the Bird Hanan al-Shaykh. Pantheon, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-307-37820-0 Al-Shaykh, a Lebanese journalist and author of six novels (including Story of Zahra), finally succumbs to her illiterate mother Kamila's haranguing...

Headless Horsemen: A Tale of Chemical Colts, Subprime Sales Agents, and the Last Kentucky Derby on Steroids.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... Headless Horsemen: A Tale of Chemical Colts, Subprime Sales Agents, and the Last Kentucky Derby on Steroids Jim Squires. Times, $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-8050-9060-4 Squires, a newspaperman-turned-horse breeder who bred 2001 Kentucky Derby...

History of the Mafia.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... History of the Mafia Salvatore Lupo, trans, from the Italian by Antony Shugaar. Columbia Univ., $32.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-231-13134-6 A dark thread of crime and corruption weaves insidiously through the fabric of Sicilian society...

New Classic Family Dinners.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... * New Classic Family Dinners Mark Peel with Martha Rose Shulman. Wiley, $34.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-470-38247-9 In this sophisticated yet homecentric cookbook, Peel, the longtime chef/owner of Los Angeles's Campanile restaurant has...

Living Raw Food: Get the Glow with 100 More Recipes from Pure Food and Wine.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... Living Raw Food: Get the Glow with 100 More Recipes from Pure Food and Wine Sarma Melngailis. Morrow, $35 (416p) ISBN 978-0-06-145847-7 This follow-up to Raw Food/Real World offers 100 new recipes inspired by the New York City...

Robin Rescues Dinner: 52 Weeks of Quick-Fix Meals, 350 Recipes, and a Realistic Plan to Get Home-Cooked Weeknight Dinners on the Table.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... Robin Rescues Dinner: 52 Weeks of Quick-Fix Meals, 350 Recipes, and a Realistic Plan to Get Home-Cooked Weeknight Dinners on the Table Robin Miller. Clarkson Potter, $19.95 paper (304p) ISBN 978-0-307-45140-8 Star of the Food Network's...

The Philosophical Baby: What Children's Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... The Philosophical Baby: What Children's Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life Alison Gopnik. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-374-23196-5 Psychologist Gopnik (The Scientist in the Crib) points out...

Recently reviewed online.(www.publishersweekly.com)(Brief article)
June 1, 2009... www.publishersweekly.com Nonfiction Bum This Book: PEN writers Speak out on the Power of the word Edited by Toni Morrison. Harper Studio, May The Canary Sang but Couldn't Fly: The Fatal Fall of Abe Reles. the Mobster Who Shattered...

Bridget Fidget and the Most Perfect Pet.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... Bridget Fidget and the Most Perfect Pet Joe Bergen Dial, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3405-0 In his debut picture book, Berger, a British animator and cartoonist for the Guardian newspaper, introduces Bridget, a hyperkinetic and highly...

Itty Bitty.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... Itty Bitty Cece Bell. Candlewick, $9.99 (32p) ISBH 978-0-7636-3616-6 Where does a tiny dog find just the right decor for his hollowed-out-bone house? Why, the "teeny-weeny department" at a huge store downtown, of course? Such is the...

Mousie Love.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... Mousie Love Dori Chaconas, illus, by Josee Masse. Bloomsbury, $16.99 (32p)ISBN 978-1-59990-111-4 In this rodent screwball comedy, a boy mouse named Tully and a girl mouse named Frill meet cute while fleeing a rapacious cat. Tully is so...

Crazy Hair.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... Crazy Hair Neil Gaiman, illus, by Dave McKean. HarperCollins, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-057908-1 "Mister, you've got crazy hair," Bonnie, a girl in a tank top, tells the narrator, whose dark hair twists and tangles across the...

Love That Puppy! The Story of a Boy Who Wanted to Be a Dog.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... Love That Puppy! The Story of a Boy Who Wanted to Be a Dog Jeff Jarka. Holt, $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-8741-3 Jarka channels the Cartoon Network aesthetic to the hilt with this debut story of a boy in touch with his inner canine....

The Hermit Crab.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... The Hermit Crab Carter Goodrich. S&S, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4169-3892-7 Goodrich (A Creature Was Stirring), who has worked on Finding Nemo, Monsters, Inc. and Ratatouille, tells a story that tips its hat not only to the Pixar/Disney...

Shining Star: The Anna May Wong Story.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... Shining Star: The Anna May Wong Story Paula Yoo, illus, by Lin Wang. Lee & Low, $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-60060-259-7 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Yoo (Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds) spotlights a famous Chinese-American actress from...

Pip: The Story of Olive.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... Pip: The Story of Olive Kim Kane. Random/Fickling, $15.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-385-75171-1 Kane's original debut stars 12-year-old Olive, who lives in an Australian seaside suburb with Mog, her hippie-turned-high-profile-barrister mother....

Confetti Girl.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... Confetti Girl Diana Lopez. Little, Brown, $15.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-316-02955-1 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Apolonia "Lina" Flores is a brave Latina girl trying to restore her life in Corpus Christi, Tex., after her mother's death....

Emily the Strange: The Lost Days.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... Emily the Strange: The Lost Days Rob Reger and Jessica Gruner, illus, by Rob Reger and Buzz Parker. HarperCollins, $16.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-145229-1 Merchandising icon Emily the Strange--no stranger to T-shirts, accessories and...