Publishers Weekly articles from May 2005, page 8

Publishers Weekly archives from May 2005

Hour of the Cat.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... Hour of the Cat PETER QUINN. Overlook, $25.95 (400p) ISBN 1-58567-597-0 Quinn (Banished Children of Eve) illuminates New York City on the eve of WWII in his noir second novel. As Hitler's army encroaches on the Sudetenland and his...

Earthly Joys.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... Earthly Joys PHILIPPA GREGORY. Touchstone, $16 paper (528p) ISBN 0-7432-7252-8 Seventeenth-century England is the setting for this engaging historical novel based on the life of John Tradescant, a gardener of common birth who transforms...

They're Not Your Friends.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... They're Not Your Friends IRENE ZUTELL. Three Rivers, $12.95 paper (288p) ISBN 1-4000-9758-4 Zutell (I'll Never Have Sex with You Again) spent five years as one of People's L.A. correspondents, and her very funny debut novel damns...

Hand-Me-Down.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... Hand-Me-Down LEE NICHOLS. Red Dress Ink, $12.95 paper (368p) ISBN 0-373-89523-2 After growing up in the shadow of sisters Charlotte, a stunning swimsuit model, and Emily, a brilliant feminist scholar, 29-year-old Anne Olsen has a natural...

Mine Are Spectacular.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... Mine Are Spectacular JANICE KAPLAN AND LYNN SCHNURNBERGER. Ballantine, $23.95 (304p) ISBN 0-345-46859-7 The coauthors of The Botox Diaries reprise their flighty, feel-good formula for women's fiction with their second novel, about...

Emily Ever After.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... Emily Ever After ANNE DAYTON AND MAY VANDERBILT. Broadway, $11.95 paper (256p) ISBN 0-385-51463-8 When smalltown California native Emily Hinton lands an editorial assistant position at a "world-famous" publishing house, she hangs a Bible...

Good Family.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... Good Family TERRY GAMBLE. Morrow, $24.95 (336p) ISBN 0-06-073794-8 Gamble's evocative second novel chronicles a prodigal daughter's fraught homecoming and re-immersion in a family history both harsh and cradling. After an 11-year absence,...

You Poor Monster.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... You Poor Monster MICHAEL KUN. MacAdam/Cage, $23 (350p) ISBN 1-59692-119-6 A Baltimore lawyer acquires an engaging but erratic raconteur for a client in Kun's funny, mazy third novel (after My Wife and My Dead Wife). When corporate lawyer...

McKettrick's Choice.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... McKettrick's Choice LINDA LAEL MILLER. Harlequin, $19.95 (352p) ISBN 0-373-77029-4 The highly enjoyable latest volume of Miller's popular McKettrick series stars older half-brother Holt McKettrick. Learning that his former Ranger...

Dr. Slump, Vol. 1.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... * Dr. Slump, Vol. 1 AKIRA TORIYAMA. Viz/Shonen Jump, $7.99 paper (192p) ISBN 1-59116-950-X The creator of worldwide megahit Dragon Ball, Toriyama is one of the giants of manga. Dr. Slump, which debuted in 1980, is Toriyama's twisted...

The Complete Jon Sable, Freelance: Volume 1.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... The Complete Jon Sable, Freelance: Volume 1 MIKE GRELL. IDW, $24.99 paper (180p) ISBN 1-9323-8287-1 The trend of reprinting comics from the 1980s continues with this adventure series starring Sable, a mercenary willing to act as a private...

Anywhere but Here.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... * Anywhere but Here TORI MIKI. Fantagraphics, $12.95 paper (96p) ISBN 1-56097-630-6 Miki is a renowned Japanese cartoonist and writer who specializes in the kind of scratch-your-head-and-laugh humor popularized in comics like Nancy and...

Neotopia 3: The Kingdoms Beyond.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... Neotopia 3: The Kingdoms Beyond ROD ESHNOSA. Antarctic, $9.99 paper (168p) ISBN 1-932453-75-X The third volume of this anime-inspired fantasy finds commoner Nalyn impersonating the arrogant Grand Duchess Nydia and negotiating for foreign...

Fierce.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... Fierce JEREMY LOVE AND ROBERT LOVE. Dark Horse/Rocket Comics, $13.95 paper (100p) ISBN 1-59307-326-7 Jonathan Fierce first attracted attention as a psychic child in Jamaica by describing crimes that would take place days later. Recruited...

Cold Granite.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... * Cold Granite STUART MACBRIDE. St. Martin's Minotaur, $24.95 (464p) ISBN 0-31233995-X Relentless rain reflects the tormented mood that permeates MacBride's impressive debut set in Aberdeen, Scotland. Det. Sgt. Logan MacRae, back from a...

No Corners for the Devil.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... No Corners for the Devil OLIVE ETCHELLS. Carroll & Graf, $25 (272p) ISBN 0-7867-1565-0 Set on Cornwall's scenic Roseland Peninsula, British author Etchells's smoothly written police procedural features an intuitive and sensitive hero,...

Denial: A Lew Fonesca Mystery.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... Denial: A Lew Fonesca Mystery STUART M. KAMINSKY. Forge, $23.95 (288p) ISBN 0-765-31165-8 In the brilliant scene that introduces Kaminsky's haunting story, PI Lew Fonesca reluctantly opens his door to Ann Horowitz, a no-nonsense...

Scratch the Surface: A Cat Lover's Mystery.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... Scratch the Surface: A Cat Lover's Mystery SUSAN CONANT. Berkley Prime Crime, $22.95 (288p) ISBN 0-425-20259-3 Fans of Conant's Dog Lover's mysteries (Bride and Groom, etc.) will lap up the first installment of a new series, which...

The Holmes Factor.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... The Holmes Factor BRIAN FREEMANTLE. Severn, $28.95 (320p) ISBN 0-7278-6207-3 The mundane title gives no hint of the rich panorama of events chronicled in British author Freemantle's second thriller (after 2004's The Holmes Inheritance)...

Blood Atonement: A Dahlgreen Wallace Mystery.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... Blood Atonement: A Dahlgreen Wallace Mystery JIM TENUTO. Lyons, $21.95 (320p) ISBN 1-59228-613-5 Fly-fisherman Tenuto tends to tell rather than show in his first novel, in which characters out of central casting--a short, pompous...

June publications.(Shoes to Die For: A Jaine Austen Mystery)(Monica Ferris's Embroidered Truths: A Needlecraft Mystery)(Ruddy Gore: A Phryne Fisher Mystery)(Murder at Midnight)(The Excursion Train)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... In Monica Ferris's Embroidered Truths: A Needlecraft Mystery, the ninth entry in this winning cozy series (after 2004's Crewel Yule), needlework shop owner Betsy Devonshire comes to the rescue of her friend and employee, Godwin, when Godwin...

Harshini: Book Three of the Hythrun Chronicles.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... Harshini: Book Three of the Hythrun Chronicles JENNIFER FALLON. Tor, $25.95 (496p) ISBN 0-765-30988-2 Australian author Fallon's rousing final entry in her Demon Child trilogy (after 2004's Treason Keep) relies less on standard high...

Mammoth.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... * Mammoth JOHN VARLEY. Ace, $23.95 (368p) ISBN 0-441-01281-7 When eccentric megabillionaire Howard Christian commissions a hunt for a frozen mammoth in northern Manitoba to clone a new model in Varley's rollicking, bittersweet tale of...

A Rumor of Gems.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... A Rumor of Gems ELLEN STEIBER. Tor, $25.95 (496p) ISBN 0-312-85879-5 The first adult novel by children's author Steiber is a somewhat prolix fantasy in a recognizably contemporary world, featuring an intriguing setting--the enchanted yet...

Century Rain.(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... Century Rain ALASTAIR REYNOLDS. Ace, $24.95 (512p) ISBN 0-441-01290-6 In his latest SF novel, Reynolds (Absolution Gap) creates yet another quirky, noirish vision of humanity's future. Three centuries from now, a technologically induced...

Kiss the Goat: A Twenty-first Century Ghost Story.(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... Kiss the Goat: A Twenty-first Century Ghost Story BRIAN STABLEFORD. Prime (www.prime-books.com), $29.95 (196p) ISBN 0-8095-4484-9 In this unusual ghost story from Stableford (The Carnival of Destruction, etc.), Kit Miner, a young...

Maybe Baby.(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... Maybe Baby LANI DIANE RICH. Warner Forever, $6.50 (304p) ISBN 0-446-61578-1 Wacky characters, nonstop action, riotous dialogue and a "large, stinky, green chicken" (aka Kakapo, a rare, nearly extinct parrot) give flight to Rich's latest...

Unzipped.(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... Unzipped LOIS GREIMAN. Bantam Dell, $6.99 (368p) ISBN 0-440-24262-2 Wholly--and sometimes heavy-handedly--full of froth, this first contemporary romance-mystery from Greiman (who's better known for historical romances like Seducing a...

November Mourns.(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... November Mourns TOM PICCIRILLI. Bantam Spectra, $5.99 (304p) ISBN 0-553-58720-X The investigation of a young girl's apparent murder takes a sharp turn into Twilight Zone territory in Piccirilli's moody follow-up to A Choir of Ill...

City of the Dead.(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... City of the Dead BRIAN KEENE. Leisure, $6.99 (352p) ISBN 0-8439-5415-9 In this sequel to the Stoker-winning The Rising (2003), Keene ingeniously asks, if human corpses can be reanimated, why not dead dogs, rats, sparrows, goldfish, etc.?...

Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse, the Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954.(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954 HILARY SPURTING. Knopf, $40 (544p) ISBN 0-679-43429-1 The first volume of Spurling's magisterial biography, The Unknown Matisse, covered his evolution...

Solo: My Adventures in the Air.(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... Solo: My Adventures in the Air CLYDE EDGERTON. Algonquin, $23.95 (296p) ISBN 1-56512-426-X Beginning with a fateful trip to a local North Carolina airport at age four and ending with midlife adventures in a small private plane, novelist...

Charlemagne's Tablecloth: A Piquant History of Feasting.(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... * Charlemagne's Tablecloth: A Piquant History of Feasting NICHOLA FLETCHER. St. Martin's, $24.95 (256p) ISBN 0-312-34068-1 We all e at, but how many of us know how to feast? If Fletcher, a food writer and occasional feast designer, has...

Living Dangerously: The Adventures of Merian C. Cooper, Creator of King Kong.(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... Living Dangerously: The Adventures of Merian C. Cooper, Creator of King Kong MARK COTZ. Villard, $24.95 (464p) ISBN 1-4000-6276-4 With Peter Jackson's King Kong remake due in December, this boisterous, chest-thumping biography of film...

Heavy Words Lightly Thrown: The Reason Behind the Rhyme.(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... * Heavy Words Lightly Thrown: The Reason Behind the Rhyme CHRIS ROBERTS. Gotham, $20 (208p) ISBN 1-592-40130-9 A librarian by night and a London tour guide by day, Roberts deploys an informal style of scholarship to dazzling effect,...

Camp.(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... Camp MICHAEL D. EISNER. Warner, $22.95 (256p) ISBN 0-446-53369-6 No one who attended the Walt Disney Co.'s 2004 annual meeting could forget Michael Eisner's sangfroid before a throng of shareholders who were calling for his ouster. ...

Make the Leap: The Practical Guide to Breaking the Patterns That Hold You Back.(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... Make the Leap: The Practical Guide to Breaking the Patterns That Hold You Back FARRELL SILVERBERG. Marlowe, $14.95 paper (240p) ISBN 1-56294-418-9 A Psychoanalyst in private practice for many years, Silverberg makes the valid but...

Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson: The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding.(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson: The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding DARREN STALOFF. Hill & Wang, $30 (488p) ISBN 0-8090-7784-1 By now it's commonplace to ascribe the principles of the American founding to the...

Young Patriots: The Remarkable Story of Two Men, Their Impossible Plan and the Revolution That Created the Constitution.(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... Young Patriots: The Remarkable Story of Two Men, Their Impossible Plan and the Revolution That Created the Constitution CHARLES CERAMI. Sourcebooks, $24.95 (368p) ISBN 1-4022-0235-0 This engaging if shallow history of the making of the...

The Memoirs of Catherine the Great.(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... The Memoirs of Catherine the Great TRANS. FROM THE RUSSIAN BY MARK CRUSE AND HILDE HOOGENBOOM. Random, $26.95 (352p) ISBN 0-679-64299-4 Catherine the Great's memoirs have long been seen as a self-serving attempt to justify her seizing the...

Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash ELIZABETH ROYTE. Little, Brown, $24.95 (304p) ISBN 0-316-73826-3 The v-p of a New York City waste transfer station recommends, "You want to solve the garbage problem? Stop eating. Stop living."...

A Wild Perfection: The Selected Letters of James Wright.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... A Wild Perfection: The Selected Letters of James Wright EDITED BY ANNE WRIGHT AND SAUNDRA ROSE MALEY WITH JONATHAN BLUNK. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $30 (528p) ISBN 0-374-18506-9 Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Wright (1927-1980) is well served...

Alec Guinness: The Authorized Biography.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... Alec Guinness: The Authorised Biography PIERS PAUL READ. Simon & Schuster, $35 (624p) ISBN 0-7432-4498-2 When Guinness died in 2000, his widow designated Read (Alive!) as the actor's authorized biographer, and the results are mixed. Read...

Superstud: Or How I Became a 24-Year-Old Virgin.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... Superstud: Or How I Became a 24-Year-Old Virgin PAUL FEIG. Three Rivers, $13.95 paper (320p) ISBN 1-4000-5175-4 It bodes well that the dedication to this book is laugh-out-loud funny, and indeed, Feig (Kick Me) does not disappoint in...

Riding in the Shadows of Saints: A Woman's Story of Motorcycling the Mormon Trail.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... Riding in the Shadows of Saints: A Woman's Story of Motorcycling the Mormon Trail JANA RICHMAN. Crown, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 1-4000-4542-8 Raised a Mormon, Richman had heard stories of her seven great-great-grandmothers walking from Nauvoo,...

The Lost Night: A Daughter's Search for the Truth of Her Father's Murder.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... The Lost Night: A Daughter's Search for the Truth of Her Father's Murder RACHEL HOWARD. Dutton, $24.95 (256p) ISBN 0-525-94862-7 In 1986, when the author was 10, her father was stabbed while sleeping next to his third wife; his murder...

Texas Hold 'Em: How I Was Born in a Manger, Died in the Saddle, and Came Back as a Horny Toad.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... Texas Hold 'Em: How I Was Born in a Manger, Died in the Saddle, and Came Back as a Horny Toad KINKY FRIEDMAN. St. Martin's, $23.95 (218p) ISBN 0-312-33154-1 The Kinkster, "Kinky's term of endearment for himself," has been busy churning...

A Prison Diary.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... A Prison Diary: Volume Three--North Sea Camp: Heaven JEFFREY ARCHER. St. Martin's, $25.95 (496p) ISBN 0-312-34217-9 In 2001, bestselling novelist Archer (Sons of Fortune; etc.) was sentenced to four years' imprisonment for perjury. Volume...

Waging Peace: A Special Operations Team's Battle to Rebuild Iraq.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... Waging Peace: A Special Operations Team's Battle to Rebuild Iraq ROB SCHULTHEIS. Gotham, $26 (304p) ISBN 1-592-40127-9 Veteran war correspondent Schultheis (Night Letters: Inside Wartime Afghanistan) spent six months in Iraq with an Army...

Dying to Kill: The Allure of Suicide Terror.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... * Dying to Kill: The Allure of Suicide Terror MIA BLOOM. Columbia Univ., $24.95 (272p) ISBN 0-231-13320-0 An "explanation of the unexplainable," this lucid and comprehensive study of the historical roots and contemporary motivations of...

The Boys of Pointe Du Hoc: Ronald Reagan, D-Day, and the U.S. Army 2nd Ranger Battalion.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... The Boys of Pointe Du Hoc: Ronald Reagan, D-Day, and the U.S. Army 2nd Ranger Battalion DOUGLAS BRINKLEY. Morrow, $22.95 (288p) ISBN 0-06-056527-6 On the 40th anniversary of D-Day, President Reagan chose the subtitle's battalion as a...

General George Washington.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... * General George Washington EDWARD G. LENGEL. Random, $29.95 (496p) ISBN 1-4000-6081-8 Lengel's Washington is the archetypal American soldier--an amateur citizen in arms who struggles to learn an unfamiliar and demanding craft on the...

Chariot: The Astounding Rise and Fall of the World's First War Machine.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... Chariot: The Astounding Rise and Fall of the World's First War Machine ARTHUR COTTERELL. Overlook, $29.95 (352p) ISBN 1-58567-667-5 This dense but readable scholarly study summarizes the chariot's history from its disputed origins in...

Lavoisier in the Year One: The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... Lavoisier in the Year One: The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution MADISON SMARTT BELL. Norton/Atlas, $22.95 (256p) ISBN 0-393-05155-2 Novelist Bell (The Stone That the Builder Refused, etc.) knows a good story when he sees...

Dr. Space: The Life of Wernher von Braun.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... Dr. Space: The Life of Wernher von Braun BOB WARD, FOREWORD BY JOHN GLENN. Naval Institute, $29.95 (300p) ISBN 1-59114-926-6 This paean offers uncritical praise of every aspect of rocket scientist von Braun's life. While there's an...

When I Knew.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... When I Knew EDITED BY ROBERT TRACHTENBERG. Regan, $19.95 (128p) ISBN 0-0605-7146-2 When I was six," writes Tammy Lynn Michaels, "I loved my first grade teacher so much I knew I would have to grow up to be a boy so I could come back and...

Walking a Blues Road.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... Walking a Blues Road SAMUEL CHARTERS. Marion Boyars, $17.95 paper (280p) ISBN 0-7145-3107-3 Charters has devoted his life to studying and writing about the blues, and this book (covering 1956 through 2004) includes thoughtful liner...

The Rivals: Chris Evert vs. Martina Navratilova: Their Epic Duels and Extraordinary Friendship.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... The Rivals: Chris Evert vs. Martina Navratilova: Their Epic Duels and Extraordinary Friendship JOHNETTE HOWARD. Broadway, $24.95 (304p) ISBN 0-7679-1884-3 For 16 years, Evert and Navratilova faced each other on the tennis court; they met...

Inside the Cage: A Season at West 4th Street's Legendary Tournament.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... Inside the Cage: A Season at West 4th Street's Legendary Tournament WIGHT MARTINDALE JR. Simon Spotlight, $22.95 (272p) ISBN 1-4169-0539-1 Wedged into a corner of the intersection at West 4th V Y Street and Sixth Avenue in Manhattan's...

Dish & Tell: Life, Love and Secrets.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... Dish & Tell: Life, Love and Secrets THE MIAMI BOMBSHELLS (PATRICIA SAN PEDRO, MERCEDES SOLER, ANNIE SAN ROMAN, TAMMI LEADER FULLER, LYDIA SACASA, SARA ROSENBERG). Morrow, $23.95 (304p) ISBN 0-06-077771-0 The Miami Bombshells, six...

Win Your Case: How to Present, Persuade, and Prevail--Every Place, Every Time.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... Win Your Case: How to Present, Persuade, and Prevail--Every Place, Every Time GERRY SPENCE. St. Martin's, $24.95 (304p) ISBN 0-312-33881-3 Spence's cowboy Uncle Slim once said, "You can't get nowhere with a thousand-dollar saddle on a...

Life Could Be Sweeter: 101 Great Ideas from Around the World for Living a More Rewarding Life.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... Life Could Be Sweeter: 101 Great Ideas from Around the World for Living a More Rewarding Life WILLIAM SINUNU. Marlowe, $14.95 paper (320p) ISBN 1-56924-374-3 Using anecdotes culled from his peripatetic life as a flight attendant, Sinunu...

Tough Transitions: Navigating Your Way Through Difficult Times.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... Tough Transitions: Navigating Your Way Through Difficult Times ELIZABETH HARPER NEELD. Warner, $24.95 (336p) ISBN 0-446-53149-9 Neeld, a consultant to Fortune 500 companies and a former professor at Texas A&M, offers useful guidance on...

Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw: Travels in Search of Canada.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... Tough Transitions: Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw: Travels in Search of Canada WILL FERGUSON. Canongate, $14.95 paper (368p) ISBN 1-84195-652-X Humorist Ferguson (Why I Hate Canadians) offers an appealing, brisk account of his many travels in...

The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King: Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King: Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time MICHAEL CRAIG. Warner, $24.95 (288p) ISBN 0-446-57769-3 The "professor" is Howard Lederer, a professional poker player whose rigorous analytical...

The Age of Conversation.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... The Age of Conversation BENEDETTA CRAVERI, TRANS. FROM THE FRENCH BY TERESA WAUGH. New York Review of Books, $30 (500p) ISBN 1-59017-141-1 Craveri's account of the French aristocratic circles in which conversation emerged as an art offers...

Who We Are: On Being (and Not Being) a Jewish American Writer.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... Who We Are: On Being (and Not Being) a Jewish American Writer EDITED BY DEREK RUBIN. Schocken, $25 (368p) ISBN 0-8052-4239-2 The recent death of Saul Bellow casts an unintended perspective on this anthology. Bellow is the first writer in...

Running the World: The Inside Story of the National Security Council and the Architects of American Power.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... Running the World: The Inside Story of the National Security Council and the Architects of American Power DAVID J. ROTHKOPF. Public Affairs, $29.95 (756p) ISBN 1-58648-248-3 The NSC is a semi-defined group--the president, vice president,...

Why White Kids Love Hip-Hop: Wankstas, Wiggas, Wannabes, and the New Reality of Race in America.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... Why White Kids Love Hip-Hop: Wankstas, Wiggas, Wannabes, and the New Reality of Race in America BAKARI KITWANA. Basic Civitas, $23 (240p) ISBN 0-465-03746-1 Caucasian parents anxiously seeking explanations for either the descending...

The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805 RICHARD ZACKS. Hyperion, $25.95 (448p) ISBN 1-4013-0003-0 The author of The Pirate Hunter, which made Captain Kidd come to life, focuses here more...

Sinatra: The Life.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... Sinatra: The Life ANTHONY SUMMERS AND ROBBYN SWAN. Knopf, $26.95 (580p) ISBN 0-375-41400-2 The second collaboration for the husband-and-wife team (after their Nixon bio, The Arrogance of Power) is hardly the first book about Frank...

Wobblies! A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... Wobblies! A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World EDITED BY PAUL BUHLE AND NICOLE SCHULMAN. Verso, $25 paper (305p) ISBN 1-84467-525-4 The Wobblies, as members of the Industrial Workers of the World were known, were...

100 Ways to Be Pasta: Perfect Pasta Recipes from Gangivecchio.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... * 100 Ways to Be Pasta: Perfect Pasta Recipes from Gangivecchio WANDA TORNABENE AND GIOVANNA TORNABENE WITH CAROLYNN CARRENO. Knopf, $24.95 (182p) ISBN 1-4000-4104-X pasta's very simplicity can sometimes trip up cookbook authors. Pasta's...

ChocolateChocolate.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... ChocolateChocolate LISA YOCKELSON, PHOTOS BY BEN FINK. Wiley, $45 (528p) ISBN 0-471-42807-8 Yockelson (Baking with Flavor) has produced a book that is both encyclopedic and deeply personal, combining detailed information, clear...

True Blueberry: Recipes for Soups, Salads, Desserts, and More.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... True Blueberry: Recipes for Soups, Salads, Desserts, and More LINDA DANNENBERG, PHOTOS BY ZEVA OELBAUM. Stewart, Tabori & Chang, $22.50 (128p) ISBN 1-58479-417-8 The blueberry is not only "phenomenally nutritious and beneficial to your...

The Multi-Orgasmic Woman: Discover Your Full Desire, Pleasure, and Vitality.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... The Multi-Orgasmic Woman: Discover Your Full Desire, Pleasure, and Vitality MANTAK CHIA AND RACHEL CARLTON ABRAMS. Rodale, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 1-59486-027-0 For women who seek "heightened spiritual consciousness" with their extended and...

The Hardness Factor: How to Achieve Your Best Health and Sexual Fitness at Any Age.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... The Hardness Factor: How to Achieve Your Best Health and Sexual Fitness at Any Age STEVEN LAMM WITH GERALD SECOR COUZENS. HarperCollins, $25.95 (368p) ISBN 0-06-075551-2 Lamm's premise is that for men, good health and a hard erection are...

Eating Well When You're Expecting.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... Eating Well When You're Expecting HEIDI MURKOFF WITH SHARON MAZEL. Workman, $12.95 paper (453p) ISBN 0-7611-3326-7 For many pregnant women, eating healthy during pregnancy is a catch-22: "The reason you want to eat healthy is because...

The Karl Lagerfeld Diet.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... The Karl Lagerfeld Diet KARL LAGERFELD AND JEAN-CLAUDE HOUDRET. powerHouse, $19.95 paper (224p) ISBN 1-57687-251-3 Famed couturier Lagerfeld was determined to lose weight, not because he was obese or suffered from health problems, but...

The Salvage Sisters' Guide to Finding Style in the Street and Inspiration in the Attic.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... The Salvage Sisters' Guide to Finding Style in the Street and Inspiration in the Attic KATHLEEN HACKETT AND MARY ANN YOUNG. Artisan, $22.95 (144p) ISBN 1-57965-245-X; paper $14.95 ISBN 1-57965-288-3 What could become of a five-dollar box...

Altered Book Collage.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... Altered Book Collage BARBARA MATTHIESSEN. Sterling, $19.95 (144p) ISBN 1-4027-1410-6 Matthiessen--a crafter, designer and author--isn't suggesting anything untoward when she speaks of altering books. Rather, she advocates recycling and...

Eat Your Peas, Ivy Louise!(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... Eat Your Peas, Ivy Louise! LEO LANDRY. Houghton, $12 (32p) ISBN 0-618-44886-1 Landry's (The Snow Ghosts) sprightly story introduces an imaginative--and clearly not ravenous--towheaded toddler whose mother drops a spoonful of peas on her...

Snip Snap! What's That?(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... Snip Snap! What's That? MARA BERGMAN, ILLUS. BY NICK MALAND. HarperCollins/Greenwillow, $15.99 (32p) ISBN 0-06-077754-0 Bergman's (Bears, Bears Everywhere!) shaggy-dog/ghost-story includes just enough repetition and courageous characters...

Pirate Girl.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
May 9, 2005... Pirate Girl CORNELIA FUNKE, ILLUS. BY KERSTIN MEYER, TRANS. BY CHANTAL WRIGHT. Scholastic/Chicken House, $15.95 (32p) ISBN 0-439-71672-1 Captain Firebeard, helmsman Morgan O'Meany and the crew of the Horrible Haddock make "the knees of...