Publishers Weekly articles from May 2005, page 6

Publishers Weekly archives from May 2005

Map of Bones.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... Map of Bones JAMES ROLLINS. Morrow, $24.95 (448p) ISBN 0-06-076387-6 A mysterious biblical object, nefarious Vatican spies and a deadly centuries-old religious cabal--sound familiar? Sacramento veterinarian Rollins offers more Da Vinci...

Search Angel.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... Search Angel MARK NYKANEN. Hyperion, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 1-4013-0019-7 Nykanen (The Bone Parade) mines the complex world of abandonment, adoption and birth mother searches in an extremely bloody serial killer thriller that takes...

Mission Road.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... Mission Road RICK RIORDAN. Bantam, $24 (416p) ISBN 0-553-80185-6 The past collides explosively with the present in Edgar-winner Riordan's relatively weak sixth Tres Navarre novel (after 2004's Southtown) when Navarre's boyhood friend,...

Killing Rain.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... Killing Rain BARRY EISLER. Putnam, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 0-399-15284-9 At the start of Eisler's taut and compelling fourth thriller to feature John Rain (after 2004's Rain Storm), the freelance assassin's latest employer, Israeli...

The Sound of Us.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... The Sound of Us SARAH WILLIS. Berkley, $23.95 (324p) ISBN 0-425-20302-6 Willis (A Good Distance) gracefully explores the world of foster care through the eyes of 48-year-old Alice Marlowe, an interpreter for the deaf living a lonely life...

Fame.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... Fame KAREN KINGSBURY. Tyndale, $13.99 paper (350p) ISBN 0-8423-8743-9 In a predictable yet entertaining read, bestselling CBA author Kingsbury introduces heartthrob Dayne Matthews and the charming Midwesterner Katy Hart. Dayne,...

Death Watch.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... Death Watch JACK CAVANAUGH AND JERRY KUIPER. Zondervan, $12.99 paper (320p) ISBN 0-310-21576-5 Los Angeles television reporter Sydney St. James usually covers topics like erectile dysfunction and the birth of a hippopotamus at the local...

The Victory Club.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... The Victory Club ROBIN LEE HATCHER. Tyndale, $12.99 paper (350p) ISBN 0-8423-7666-6 Veteran Christian fiction author Hatcher weaves epistolary elements with third-person omniscient narration in this moving novel about a year in the life...

Why are You Doing This?(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... * Why Are You Doing This? JASON. Fantagraphics, $12.95 paper (48p) ISBN 1-560-97655-1 Cross Ingmar Bergman with Walt Kelly and Raymond Carver and you may have some idea of what Norwegian cartoonist Jason's work is like. In his poetic...

Ordinary Victories.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... Ordinary Victories MANU LARCENET. NBM/ComicsLit, $15.95 paper (120p) ISBN 1-56163-423-9 This graphic novel won top honors at France's Cannes-for-comics, Angouleme, and it's easy to see why. French cartoonist Larcenet has created a...

The New Frontier: Volume 2.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... * The New Frontier: Volume 2 DARWYN COOKE. DC Comics, $19.99 paper (208p) ISBN 1-4012-0461-9 The versions of the classic DC Comics heroes that baby boomers grew up reading were developed during comics' "Silver Age," from 1956 through the...

Van Von Hunter, vol. 1.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... Van Von Hunter: Volume 1 RON KAULFERSCH AND MIKE SCHWARK. Tokyopop, $9.99 paper (176p) ISBN 1-59532-692-8 There's a fine line between satirizing the conventions of the fantasy genre and justifying stereotypes and mediocrity by claiming...

Flight: Volume Two.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... * Flight: Volume Two EDITED BY KAZU KIBUISHI ET AL. Image Comics, $24.95 paper (432p) ISBN 1-58240-477-1 Last year, the first volume of Flight introduced a squadron of talented young cartoonists whose anime/animation influence struck a...

He Who Fears the Wolf.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... He Who Fears the Wolf KARIN FOSSUM, TRANS. FROM THE NORWEGIAN BY FELICITY DAVID. Harcourt, $23 (288p) ISBN 0-15-101091-0 In Fossum's impressive psychological police procedural, her second to be published in the U.S. to feature Insp....

The Mosaic of Shadows: A Byzantine Mystery.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... * The Mosaic of Shadows: A Byzantine Mystery TOM HARPER. St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne, $23.95 (304p) ISBN 0-312-33867-8 British author Harper effortlessly draws the reader into the court intrigues and conspiracies of 11th-century Byzantium...

Dangerous Games: A Jack Liffey Mystery.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... Dangerous Games: A Jack Liffey Mystery JOHN SHANNON. Carroll & Graf/Penzler, $25 (256p) ISBN 0-7867-1543-X When an aimless shot from a car full of teens strikes Jack Liffey's 16-year-old daughter, Maeve, the professional child finder has...

Nothing like the Night.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... Nothing like the Night DAVID LAWRENCE. St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 0-312-32880-X In British author Lawrence's gory, gripping follow-up to his well-received debut, The Dead Sit Round in a Ring (2004), series heroine...

Thicker Than Blood.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... Thicker Than Blood PENNY RUDOLPH. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (310p) ISBN 1-59058-148-2 An intrigue centered on the water politics of Southern California promises high tension and high stakes, but Rudolph (Listen to the Mockingbird) loses sight...

Lethal Beauty.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... Lethal Beauty CHARLES O'BRIEN. Severn, $28.95 (256p) ISBN 0-7278-6184-0 O'Brien's fourth Anne Cartier mystery falls short of the high standard set by earlier books in the series (Mute Witness, etc.), which explored issues of social...

Marsh Madness.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... Marsh Madness CAROLINE COUSINS. John F. Blair, $22.95 (208p) ISBN 0-89587-315-X In the pseudonymous Cousins's fizzy second adventure (after 2003's Fiddle Dee Death), South Carolina cousins Lindsey Fox, Margaret Ann ("Mam") Matthew and...

June publications.(Mystery Notes)
May 16, 2005... In Victoria Thompson's Murder on Lenox Hill: A Gaslight Mystery, the well-crafted seventh entry in this late Victorian historical series (after 2004's Murder on Marble Row), midwife Sarah Brandt and her detective friend, Frank Malloy, look...

A Princess of Roumania.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... A Princess of Roumania PAUL PARK. Tor, $24.95 (368p) ISBN 0-765-31096-1 Sharp characterization and an unusual historical backdrop distinguish Park's charming leadoff to an intricate new fantasy series. In an alternate 18th-century world...

Attack of the Jazz Giants and Other Stories.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... * Attack of the Jazz Giants and Other Stories GREGORY FROST. Golden Gryphon, $24.95 (344p) ISBN 1-930846-34-7 Frost (Fitcher's Brides) demonstrates his mastery of the short story form in what will surely rank as one of the best fantasy...

Building Harlequin's Moon.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... Building Harlequin's Moon LARRY NIVEN AND BRENDA COOPER. Tor, $25.95 (464p) ISBN 0-765-31266-2 Fans of both hard and softer, psychological SF will welcome veteran Niven and newcomer Cooper's well-written tale of a 60,000-year layover in...

Smoke and Mirrors.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... Smoke and Mirrors TANYA HUFF. DAW, $24.95 (400p) ISBN 0-7564-0262-X Poor Tony Foster with his burgeoning wizardly powers. No matter how many times he and his undead ex-boyfriend battle malevolent spirits to save the cast and crew of...

Alector's Choice: The Fourth Book of the Corean Chronicles.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... Alector's Choice: The Fourth Book of the Corean Chronicles L.E. MODESITT JR. Tor, $27.95 (496p) ISBN 0-765-31387-1 While not quite up to the Spellsong saga or the best of the Recluce novels, Modesitt's complex fourth entry in his Corean...

Lint.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... Lint STEVE AYLETT. Thunder Mouth's Press, $14.95 paper (240p) ISBN 1-56025-684-2 Informed SF readers, particularly Philip K. Dick fans, will enjoy British author Aylett's laugh-out-loud (mock) biography of (fictitious) cult writer Jeff...

Black Rose.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... * Black Rose NORA ROBERTS. Jove, $7.99 (384p) ISBN 0-515-13865-7 Book two of Roberts's In the Garden trilogy (following Blue Dahlia) ably showcases the author's many strengths, from her creation of appealing characters to her melding of...

Haunted.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... Haunted KELLEY ARMSTRONG. Bantam, $6.99 (496p) ISBN 0-553-58708-0 Smart-mouthed Eve Levine, a witch with a reputation for breaking the rules, may be dead, but as she proves in this overstuffed paranormal romance (a follow-up to Industrial...

Confessions of a Lingerie Addict.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... Confessions of a Lingerie Addict JENNIFER ASHLEY. Love Spell, $6.99 (368p) ISBN 0-505-92636-0 A promising setup builds to a somewhat disappointing outcome in this first contemporary romance from Ashley, who's best known for her pirate...

A Perfect Hero.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... A Perfect Hero SAMANTHA JAMES. Avon, $6.99 (384p) ISBN 0-06-000663-3 In the fast-moving conclusion to James's Regency trilogy about the Sterling family (A Perfect Groom; A Perfect Bride), Lady Julianna Sterling, abandoned at the altar...

Cleopatra and Rome.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... Cleopatra and Rome DIANA E.E. KLEINER. Harvard Univ., $29.95 (340p) ISBN 0-674-01905-9 The few documented episodes of Cleopatra's life are notoriously difficult to interpret: they are shrouded not so much in mystery as in fame. She was...

Thomas Paine and the Promise of America.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... * Thomas Paine and the Promise of America HARVEY J. KAYE. Hill & Wang, $25 (352p) ISBN 0-8090-8970-X Kaye offers a masterful and eloquent study of the man he reestablishes as the key figure in the American Revolution and the radical...

Turning the Tables: Restaurants from the Inside Out.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... Turning the Tables: Restaurants from the Inside Out STEVEN A. SHAW. HarperCollins, $24.95 (240p) ISBN 0-06-073780-8 Shaw, known in Internet food circles as the Fat Guy, and founder of the culinary Web site eGullet.org, offers a sort of...

Auschwitz: A History.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... Auschwitz: A History SYBILLE STEINBACHER, TRANS. FROM THE GERMAN BY SHAUN WHITESIDE. Ecco, $23.95 (128p) ISBN 0-06-082581-2 In concise and sober fashion, German historian Steinbacher traces the history of Auschwitz from a medieval trading...

Master Mind: The Rise and Fall of Fritz Haber, the Nobel Laureate Who Launched the Age of Chemical Warfare.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... Master Mind: The Rise and Fall of Fritz Haber, the Nobel Laureate Who Launched the Age of Chemical Warfare DANIEL CHARLES. Ecco, $24.95 (336p) ISBN 0-06-056272-2 Fritz Haber (1868-1934), winner of the 1918 Nobel Prize for chemistry, was,...

Twilight of Love: Travels with Turgenev.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... Twilight of Love: Travels with Turgenev ROBERT DESSAIX. Shoemaker & Hoard, $24 (288p) ISBN 1-59376-063-9 Dessaix, an Australian writer, scholar and radio presenter, may not be well known in America, but this enchanting memoir of his...

Hip Hop Matters: Politics, Pop Culture, and the Struggle for the Soul of a Movement.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... Hip Hop Matters: Politics, Pop Culture, and the Struggle for the Soul of a Movement S. CRAIG WATKINS. Beacon, $24.95 (288p) ISBN 0-8070-0982-2 Beneath the glitz and glut of mainstream hip-hop, there's an underground movement of...

Elaine's Circle: A Teacher, a Student, a Classroom and One Unforgettable Year.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... Elaine's Circle: A Teacher, a Student, a Classroom and One Unforgettable Year BOB KATZ. Marlowe, $15.95 paper (240p) ISBN 1-56924-384-0 While working on a "book of uplifting (and true) stories about teachers," Katz (The New Public School...

Truth: A Guide for the Perplexed.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... Truth: A Guide for the Perplexed SIMON BLACKBURN. Oxford Univ., $28 (288p) ISBN 0-19-518370-3 Admirably sketching the battle lines currently staked out over the idea of objective truth, a Cambridge professor of philosophy makes his...

Innocents Lost: When Child Soldiers Go to War.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... Innocents Lost: When Child Soldiers Go to War JIMMIE BRIGGS. Basic, $26 (288p) ISBN 0-465-00798-8 Briggs does not lack for material--an estimated 10% of the world's fighting forces is under 18--or real empathy for the subject, but his...

The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa MICHAEL KIMMELMAN. Penguin, $24.95 (225p) ISBN 1-59420-055-6 The chief art critic of the New York Times, Kimmelman (Portraits) delivers an uplifting art-is-good-for-you message...

Competition Demystified: A Radically Simplified Approach to Business Strategy.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... Competition Demystified: A Radically Simplified Approach to Business Strategy BRUCE GREENWALD AND JUDD KAHN. Penguin/Portfolio, $26.95 (386p) ISBN 1-59184-057-0 A conscious simplification of Michael Porter's classic Competitive Strategy,...

Divided Minds: Twin Sisters and Their Journey Through Schizophrenia.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... * Divided Minds: Twin Sisters and Their Journey Through Schizophrenia PAMELA SPIRO WAGNER AND CAROLYN S. SPIRO. St. Martin's, $24.95 (336p) ISBN 0-312-32064-7 This harrowing but arresting memoir--written in alternating voices by...

Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All into Patients.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All into Patients RAY MOYNIHAN AND ALAN CASSELS. Nation, $26 (272p) ISBN 1-56025-697-4 This accessible study about the collusion between medical science...

Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World NICHOLAS OSTLER. HarperCollins, $29.95 (640p) ISBN 0-06-621086-0 Ostler's ambitious and accessible book is not a technical linguistic study--i.e., it's not concerned with language...

Expletive Deleted: A Good Look at Bad Language.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... Expletive Deleted: A Good Look at Foul Language RUTH WAJNRYB. Free Press, $18 (304p) ISBN 0-7432-7434-2 If you find obscenity in print shocking, skip this review and stay away from Wajnryb's very objective--and entertaining--study of the...

Your Life Only a Gazillion Times Better: A Practical Guide to Creating the Life of Your Dreams.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... Your Life Only a Gazillion Times Better: A Practical Guide to Creating the Life of Your Dreams CATHY BRESLIN AND JUDY MAY MURPHY. HCI, $12.95 paper (280p) ISBN 0-7573-0246-7 Believe it! Act it! Feel it! So say Breslin, a life coach and...

A Cop's Life: True Stories from the Heart Behind the Badge.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... * A Cop's Life: True Stories from the Heart Behind the Badge RANDY SUTTON. St. Martin's, $23.95 (224p) ISBN 0-312-33896-1 Veteran Las Vegas police sergeant Sutton, who edited the acclaimed True Blue, brilliantly evokes the tormented inner...

Res Life: How College Students Are Really Living Today.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... Res Life: How College Students Are Really Living Today BARRETT SEAMAN. Wiley, $25.95 (320p) ISBN 0-471-49119-5 Seaman, a longtime reporter and editor at Time magazine, retired in 2001. A trustee at his alma mater, Hamilton College, since...

How to Be a Man: Scenes from a Protracted Boyhood.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... How to Be a Man: Scenes from a Protracted Boyhood THOMAS BELLER. Norton, $14.95 paper (256p) ISBN 0-393-32683-7 Old cars, custom carpentry and chemistry sets are just some of the topics novelist Belier (The SleepOver Artist) uses to...

Everything I Ate: A Year in the Life of My Mouth.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... Everything I Ate: A Year in the Life of My Mouth TUCKER SHAW. Chronicle, $14.95 paper (496p) ISBN 0-8118-4772-1 Shaw likes cold cereal. Bananas, oatmeal, ice cream, Popsicles, trail mix and brioches also figure prominently in this...

Lost: A Photo Expedition's Desperate Battle for Survival in the Amazon Jungle.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... Lost: A Photo Expedition's Desperate Battle for Survival in the Amazon Jungle STEPHEN KIRKPATRICK. W Publishing, $21.99 (240p) ISBN 0-8499-0015-8 Desperate, divorced, with collection agencies breathing down his neck, freelance...

Big Dead Place: Inside the Strange and Menacing World of Antarctica.(Big Dead Place: Inside the Strange and Menacing World of Antarctica )(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... Big Dead Place: Inside the Strange & Menacing World of Antarctica NICHOLAS JOHNSON. Feral House, $16.95 paper (276p) ISBN 0-922915-99-7 When Johnson went to work for U.S. Antarctic Program (devoted to scientific research and education in...

Offshore: The Dark Side of the Global Economy.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... Offshore: The Dark Side of the Global Economy WILLIAM BRITTAIN-CATLIN. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $25 (320p) ISBN 0374-25698-5 In this ambitious meditation on the soul of capitalism, "offshore" means places like the Cayman Islands, where...

The Fate of Africa: From the Hopes of Freedom to the Heart of Despair.(Stoic Warriors: The Ancient Philosophy Behind the Military Mind )(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... * The Fate of Africa: From the Hopes of Freedom to the Heart of Despair MARTIN MEREDITH. Public Affairs, $ 35 (800p) ISBN 1-58648-246-7 The value of Meredith's towering history of modern Africa rests not so much in its incisive analysis,...

Stoic Warriors: The Ancient Philosophy Behind the Military Mind.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... Stoic Warriors: The Ancient Philosophy Behind the Military Mind NANCY SHERMAN. Oxford Univ., $26 (236p) ISBN 0-19-515216-6 You don't need a working knowledge of the writings of Cicero, Aristotle, Seneca, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius to...

The Assassination Business: A History of State Sponsored Murder.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... The Assassination Business: A History of State Sponsored Murder RICHARD BELFIELD. Carroll & Graf, $14.95 paper (288p) ISBN 0-7867-1343-7 The following advice--"No assassination instructions should ever be written or recorded"--appeared...

The Battle: A New History of Waterloo.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... The Battle: A New History of Waterloo ALESSANDRO BARBERO, TRANS. FROM THE ITALIAN BY J. CULLEN. Walker, $27 (323p) ISBN 0-8027-1453-6 This new and valuable history of the 815 French defeat begins with a minimum of background for the...

The Grizzly Maze: Timothy Treadwell's Fatal Obsession with Alaskan Bears.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... The Grizzly Maze: Timothy Treadwell's Fatal Obsession with Alaskan Bears NICK JANs. Dutton, $24.95 (272p) ISBN 0-525-94886-4 Jans (Tracks of the Unseen, etc.) presents a fast-paced, thoughtful and evenhanded account of the life and death...

William Empson: Vol. I: Among the Mandarins.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... William Empson: Vol. I: Among the Mandarins JOHN HAFFENDEN. Oxford Univ., $45 (696p) ISBN 0-19-927659-5 Haffenden takes a completist approach to his idiosyncratic subject and his groundbreaking critical works, including Seven Types of...

Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human MICHAEL CHOROST. Houghton Mifflin, $20 (256p) ISBN 0-618-37829-4 Chorost had been severely hearing impaired since birth when, one morning in 2001, his remaining hearing suddenly and...

Raising Less Corn, More Hell.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... Raising Less Corn, More Hell GEORGE PYLE. Public Affairs. $25 (256p) ISBN 1-58648-115-0 Can American farmers feed more of the world's hungry by growing fewer crops? Veteran journalist Pyle argues that they can--and they must, if the...

Yes: Screenplay and Notes.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... Yes: Screenplay and Notes SALLY POTTER. Newmarket, $24.95 (144p) ISBN 1-55704-667-0; paper $16.95 ISBN 1-55704-666-2 Potter's upcoming film Yes is set in London, and centers on the affair of an Irish-born American biologist, "She," and a...

The Lonely Planet Guide to Experimental Travel.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... The Lonely Planet Guide to Experimental Travel RACHAEL ANTONY AND JOEL HENRY. Lonely Planet, $18 (280p) ISBN 1-74104-450-2 Those aching for a relief from packaged tours or Club Med vacations would do well to pick up this...

Bullies, Tyrants, & Impossible People: How to Beat Them Without Joining Them.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... Bullies, Tyrants, & Impossible People: How to Beat Them Without Joining Them RONALD M. SHAPIRO AND MARK A. JANKOWSKI, WITH JAMES DALE. Crown Business, $25 (256p) ISBN 1-4000-5011-1 Following up on The Power of Nice, agent-attorney Shapiro...

A Strange Death.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... A Strange Death HILLEL HALKIN. Public Affairs, $24 (400p) ISBN 1-58648-271-8 This promises to be about a mystery relating to a pro-British spy ring in WWI Palestine; in the end it delivers both more and less. Halkin, who delightfully...

Art Is a Spiritual Path.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... Art Is a Spiritual Path PAT B. ALLEN. Shambhala, $16.95 paper (224p) ISBN 1-59030-210-9 Allen (Art Is a Way of Knowing) offers a particular paradigm for making art, a model for meditation in action designed to help artists deepen their...

Praying Backwards: Transform Your Prayer Life by Beginning in Jesus' Name.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... Praying Backwards: Transform Your Prayer Life by Beginning in Jesus' Name BRYAN CHAPELL. Baker, $12.99 paper (208p) ISBN 0-8010-6527-5 The words "in Jesus' name, Amen"--traditionally used to close Christian prayer--take on significantly...

PW talks with Chuck Colson: living well.(Q&A)(Interview)
May 16, 2005... You mention that The Good Life (reviewed on p. 58) was in part inspired by people's reactions to How Now Shall We Live. Can you explain? Well, a lot of people said that they read How Now Shall We Live and wanted to give it to their...

The Wisdom of the Benedictine Elders: Thirty of America's Oldest Monks and Nuns Share Their Lives' Greatest Lessons.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... The Wisdom of the Benedictine Elders: Thirty of America's Oldest Monks and Nuns Share Their Lives' Greatest Lessons MARK W. MCGINNIS. BlueBridge, $14.95 paper (304p) ISBN 0-9742405-3-2 As Joan Chittister suggests in the powerful foreword...

Is the Reformation Over? An Evangelical Assessment of Contemporary Roman Catholicism.(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... Is the Reformation Over? An Evangelical Assessment of Contemporary Roman Catholicism MARK A. NOLL AND CAROLYN NYSTROM. Baker Academic, $24.99 (272p) ISBN 0-8010-2797-7 The eminent evangelical historian Noll and journalist Nystrom offer a...

The Jgirl's Guide: The Young Jewish Woman's Handbook for Coming of Age.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... The Jgirl's Guide: The Young Jewish Woman's Handbook for Coming of Age PENINA ADELMAN, ALI FELDMAN AND SHULA REINHARZ. Jewish Lights, $14.99 paper (240p) ISBN 1-58023-215-9 Kol k'vodah bat melekh p'nimah: The true majesty of a royal...

The Prayer God Longs For.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... The Prayer God Longs For JAMES EMERY WHITE. InterVarsity, $12 (128p) ISBN 0-8308-3327-7 The prayer that Jesus handed down to his disciples--known in the New Testament as "The Lord's Prayer"--has a long history of devotion among...

The Good Life: Seeking Purpose, Meaning, and Truth in Your Life.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... The Good Life: Seeking Purpose, Meaning, and Truth in Your Life CHARLES COLSON WITH HAROLD FICKETT. Tyndale, $24.99 (394p) ISBN 0-8423-7749-2 Colson--bestselling author, political figure and ministry leader--wrote this book to help...

Charles W. Colson: A Life Redeemed.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... Charles W. Colson: A Life Redeemed JONATHAN AITKEN. Doubleday, $23.95 (448p) ISBN 0-385-50811-5 Evangelical leader Chuck Colson could hardly ask for a more friendly biographer--not only did Aitken write a sympathetic biography of Richard...

Losing Moses on the Freeway: America's Broken Covenant with the 10 Commandments.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... Losing Moses on the Freeway: America's Broken Covenant with the 10 Commandments CHRIS HEDGES. Free Press, $24 (224p) ISBN 0-7432-5513-5 Hedges, a correspondent at the New York Times, first made a name in the book world with his...

God's Secret Agents: Queen Elizabeth's Forbidden Priests and the Hatching of the Gunpowder Plot.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... God's Agents: Queen Elizabeth's Forbidden Priests and the Hatching of the Gunpowder Plot ALICE HOGGE. HarperCollins, $27.95 (448p) ISBN 0-06-054227-6 As historian Hogge points out in this sometimes dry and sometimes lively popular...

The Gods Drink Whiskey: Stumbling Toward Enlightenment in the Land of the Tattered Buddha.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... The Gods Drink Whiskey: Stumbling Toward Enlightenment in the Land of the Tattered Buddha STEPHEN T. ASMA. HarperCollins, $24.95 (254p) ISBN 0-06-072395-5 Asma opens this memoirish spiritual travel guide with a central purpose: by...

Before Darwin: Reconciling God and Nature.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... Before Darwin: Reconciling God and Nature KEITH THOMSON. Yale Univ., $25 (352p) ISBN 0-300-10793-5 When aspiring naturalist and onetime divinity student Charles Darwin departed on HMS Beagle in 1831, tensions between religious and...

What Every Christian Ought to Know: Essential Truths for Growing Your Faith.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... What Every Christian Ought to Know: Essential Truths for Growing Your Faith ADRIAN ROGERS. Broadman & Holman, $19.99 (256p) ISBN 0-8054-2692-2 Evangelicals frequently grouse over slight doctrinal differences, often falling upon their...

Silly Horse.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... * Silly Horse VADIM LEVIN, ILLUS. BY EVGENY ANTONENKOV, TRANS. FROM THE RUSSIAN BY TANYA WOLFSON & TATIANA ZUNSHINE. Pumpkin House (614-470-3280), $15.95 (32p)ISBN 0-9648010-1-X Levin's charming collection, first published in Russia in...

Mr. Blewitt's Nose.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... Mr. Blewitt's Nose ALASTAIR TAYLOR. Houghton, $16 (32p) ISBN 0-618-42353-2 Taylor (Swollobog) serves up an absurd but only moderately funny story of a lost-and-found nose. Primrose Pumpkin, a girl with a pleasant floral name, discovers...

Papa, Do You Love Me?(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 16, 2005... Papa, Do You Love Me? BARBARA M. JOOSSE, ILLUS. BY BARBARA LAVALLEE. Chronicle, $15.99 ISBN 0-8118-4265-7 Featuring a dramatically different setting from the collaborators' Mama, Do You Love Me?, which centers on an Alaskan Inuit mother...