Publishers Weekly articles from May 2008

Publishers Weekly archives from May 2008

Universe of Stone: A Biography of Chartres Cathedral.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 26, 2008... * Universe of Stone: A Biography of Chartres Cathedral Philip Ball. Harper, $27.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-115429-4 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Anyone who has been thrilled by the great Gothic cathedrals will revel in this study of...

Random House turns the page: new leadership for a different time.(Foreword)
May 26, 2008... The Random House that Peter Olson is leaving behind when he heads for the halls of academia is one in large measure that he created. Olson was Bertelsmann's lead negotiator in the deal that brought the publisher into the German conglomerate's...

Hastings book sales up.(Brief article)
May 26, 2008... Same-store sales of books at Hastings Entertainment rose 5.6% in the first quarter. Hastings said sales of new trade paperbacks, as well as higher sales of used trade paper and hardcover titles, led the gain in the period. Overall, Hastings...

Doubleday Broadway now Doubleday.(Brief article)
May 26, 2008... Effective May 28, Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group will be renamed the Doubleday Publishing Group. With the addition in recent years of Spiegel & Grau and Colorado-based Water brook Multnomah, the group has out grown the Doubleday Broadway...

On the Dohle.(Foreword)(Markus Dohle )
May 26, 2008... The cliches abound--better the devil you know... check; careful what you wish for... check; if it ain't broke.... Well, not every proverb applies. When Random House announced early last week that Markus Dohle would take Peter Olson's...

Chronicle buys handprint.(Brief article)
May 26, 2008... Chronicle Books has acquired Handprint Books, the Brooklyn, N.Y.--based children's book publisher founded in 2000 by former Dutton president and publisher Christopher Franceschelli. Handprint, which has a backlist of 40 titles, has been...

Baker sales rise 16%.(Brief article)
May 26, 2008... Revenue rose 16% at the religious publisher Baker Publishing Group in the fiscal year ended April 30, to $57.9 million, Sales were led by the best seller 90 Minutes in Heaven, and the company reported growth in all divisions.

MHE cuts 149.(McGraw-Hill Education)(Brief article)
May 26, 2008... McGraw-Hill Education, which has undergone several rounds of layoffs in recent years, is eliminating another 149 positions. The majority of the cuts are in the assessment business, which produces various testing products. Parent company...

B&N, BAM disappoint.(Slow Start)(Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million)(Brief article)
May 26, 2008... Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million reported disappointing sales for the first quarter ended May 3. Both attributed the softness to slow customer traffic. B&N CFO Joseph Lombardi said April was the weakest month, and that business has been a...

Linda Grana, buyer and manager, Lafayette Books, Lafayette, Calif.(Galley Talk)(The Secret Scripture )(Brief article)(Book review)
May 26, 2008... I read The Secret Scripture [Viking, June] and I have to say, I'm in love with this author! Novelist, poet, and playwright Sebastian Barry (The Long, Long Way and The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty) weaves a brilliant tale of secrets, memory...

Sarnoff in new role.(Richard Sarnoff)(Brief article)
May 26, 2008... Richard Sarnoff, who has held a number of positions at Random House and Bertelsmann, has been appointed co-chairman of Bertelsmann, Inc. the American holding company for the German giant. He joins Bertelsmann chairman Hartmut Ostrowski as...

PMA now IBPA.(Publishers Marketing Association, Independent Book Publishers Association)(Brief article)
May 26, 2008... The Publishers Marketing Association is changing its name to IBPA, the Independent Book Publishers Association. The new moniker, which will be put in place officially in a ceremony at BEA on Friday, is intended to reflect the organization's...

A chain grows in Dubai.(Opportunity Abroad)
May 26, 2008... "Americans are just waking up to the opportunity to sell books here," said Isobel Abulhoul, founder and owner of Magrudy's, a chain of eight mostly English-language bookstores headquartered in Dubai. "We order stock from both the U.K. and...

New Aperture head.(Juan Garcia de Oteyza )(Brief article)
May 26, 2008... After a lengthy search, Aperture, the New York City photography foundation and resource center, has named the veteran art book publisher Juan Garcia de Oteyza executive director. He starts in July. De Oteyza succeeds Ellen Harris, who...

McIntosh to Amazon.(Madeline McIntosh )(Brief article)
May 26, 2008... Madeline McIntosh is leaving as senior v-p and publisher of the audio publishing and large print groups at Random House to work for Amazon in Luxembourg. With McIntosh's departure, Amanda D'Acierno has been promoted from director of publicity...

Lang heading Abrams UK.(Chuck Lang)(Brief article)
May 26, 2008... Harry N. Abrams has appointed Chuck Lang managing director of its U.K. office, Abrams UK. Lang, most recently v-p of publishing and marketing at Langenscheidt Publishing Group, will help adapt Abrams U.S. title for the U.K.

Scribner wins Joya.(Deals)(Malalai Joya)(Brief article)
May 26, 2008... Scribner senior editor Colin Robinson beat out five other publishers in Canada and the U.S. for North American rights to Malalai Joya's Raising My Voice via Hilary McMahon at Westwood Creative Artists. Joya is a 30-year-old Afghan member of...

Tilting at windmills.(Deals)(Brief article)
May 26, 2008... Henry Ferris at Morrow just won an auction for William Kamkwamba's The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, to be written with Bryan Mealer, via Heather Schroder at ICM, who sold world rights. Kamkwamba, who is 20 and lives in Malawi, started going to...

Thomas takes three.(Deals)(Karen Thomas won the auction for three books by Kia Dupree )(Brief article)
May 26, 2008... Karen Thomas at Grand Central won an auction conducted by Victoria Sanders for three African-American novels by Kia Dupree. The first of the trio is Wife-in-Law. Dupree, who self-published her first novel, once interviewed to be Sanders's...

Regal double.(Deals)(Joe Regal)(Brief article)
May 26, 2008... Houghton Harcourt editor-in-chief Andrea Schulz acquired world rights to Alex Abella's 90 Miles: How the Island of Cuba Remade the United States in a significant six-figure deal with Joe Regal. Abella, who came to the U.S. from Cuba at age...

Big in YA.(Deals)(young adults)(Brief article)
May 26, 2008... Tracy Farrell at Harlequin has acquired a new YA urban fantasy series by Gena Showalter that will launch the imprint's forthcoming YA line in a seven-figure world rights deal with Deidre Knight. The first book is titled Intertwined and will...

Calendar: June 1-5.(Foreword)(Calendar)
May 26, 2008... 6/1 The O.S. Mint is releasing its 48th state quarter (for Arizona) this week. Jim Noles's A Pocketful of History (Da Capo) looks at the state quarters program. 6/2 Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan discusses...

ABDO brings comics to libraries.(Licensing)(ABDO Publishing)
May 26, 2008... Since it launched a graphic fiction division in 2006, ABDO Publishing has found a lucrative niche publishing library editions of graphic novels that feature many of the world's most famous comic book characters. Through its Spotlight...

Aten to MHS press.(People)(Alison Aten, Minnesota Historical Society press)(Brief article)
May 26, 2008... Alison Aten has been named publicity and promotions manager at MHS Press/Borealis Books in St. Paul, Minn. Aten had been at the Woodbury, Minn., press Llewellyn Worldwide.

Pitts to Lightning Source.(People)(Mark W. Pitts )(Brief article)
May 26, 2008... Mark W. Pitts has joined Lightning Source as v-p of sales for the Americas. Pitts was most recently at Glatfelter Co., in York, Pa., a global manufacturer of specialty papers. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

The world is not flat.(Hot Topic)(Table)
May 26, 2008... As many publishers scramble to bring books into the 21st century with digital editions, others are taking a retro approach to some titles on their fall lists, publishing books that come with 3-D glasses. 3-D may be a throwback, but its allure...

Kaneta up at RH.(People)(Lani Kaneta, Random House )(Brief article)
May 26, 2008... Lani Kaneta has been promoted to associate manager, academic marketing in the Random House academic marketing department, Kaneta joined RH in 2006 as a coordinator.

Cruise to Becker & Mayer.(People)(Robin Cruise )(Brief article)
May 26, 2008... Robin Cruise has been named publisher of the children's book group at packager Becker & Mayer. Cruise, who will join the company in mid-July, was deputy publisher and executive managing editor of children's books at Harcourt. Also at the...

Hardcover bestsellers/fiction.
May 26, 2008... Emily Giffin's first three books--Something Borrowed (2004), Something Blue (2005) and Baby Proof (2006)--have a combined total of about three million copies in print. Her latest bestseller, Love the One You're With, is in its third printing,...

Hardcover bestsellers/nonfiction.
May 26, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Morrow launched Stolen Innocence, by a former member of the FLDS church, with a 225,000-copy printing. Wall grew up with very limited exposure to the outside world, so traveling to Chicago for Oprah, L.A. for Larry...

Paperback bestsellers/mass market.
May 26, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Stuart Woods has been busy doing more than just writing books. On April 7, he married Barbara Ellen, and they plan to share their lives with a Labrador Retriever named Fred (like all his dogs) in their homes in Key...

Paperback bestsellers/trade.
May 26, 2008... Three Cups of Tea continues to inspire people around the country and around the world. Greg Mortenson and David Relin have speaking engagements lined up into 2009. The book has been adopted by colleges for their FYE (first-year experience),...

Children's series and tie-ins bestsellers.
May 26, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It's the fifth anniversary for the Junie B. Jones Stupid Smelly Bus Tour, which kicked off on May 14 and runs through July 2. The hot pink bus, featuring actors playing Junie B. Jones and Mr. Woo, the bus driver,...

Audio bestsellers/fiction.
May 26, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Ron McLarty's gruff voice enhances this fast-moving thriller, as he takes the listener through barrages of deadly assaults featuring gunfire, knives, bombs and hacksaws. The sound track is comparable to a terrific...

Audio bestsellers/nonfiction.
May 26, 2008... Bestseller Watch [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] David Sedaris's new collection of essays, When You Are Engulfed in Flames ($34.98; unabridged on eight CDs), will be released by Hachette Audio on June 3. It includes four live recordings:...

Carrie Kania: branding with attitude.(50 UNDER 40)(Interview)
May 26, 2008... Although Carrie Kania shows up for our interview, at a Manhattan restaurant, dressed in a suit, the senior v-p and publisher of Harper Perennial is, despite appearances and title, about as far from a suit as you can get. Even by publishing...

Poetry adoption: Copper Canyon takes on an orphaned press.(Independent Publishing)(Ausable Press)
May 26, 2008... The history of poetry publishing is littered with lost books, vanished presses and poets abandoned to oblivion. Poetry publishing has always been a tenuous enterprise, destined to be a money loser, surviving largely as a labor of love....

More on creative services outsourcing: a new hot niche segment.(Content Services)
May 26, 2008... There is a lot more to creative services than just imagination and doodling skill--Q2AMedia and Planman Technologies will attest to that. CEO Sudhir Singh of Q2AMedia, a pioneer in creative services specializing in k-12 educational and...

The individual man: business management for a new generation.(Category Closeup)
May 26, 2008... By the year 2012 retiring baby boomers will have vacated more than 165 million jobs in the marketplace, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Inevitably, many companies will be forced to replace proven managers with generations X...

The new color of money.(Category Closeup)(Book review)
May 26, 2008... Green has always been the favorite hue of business publishers--teaching how to earn it, how to spend it and how to save it. This season, however, the color stays constant, but the meaning has changed. Several forthcoming titles sound a call...

Tracking biz book buyers online.(Category Closeup)(Brief article)
May 26, 2008... Bowker's PubTrack has compiled data on the sale of business management books in 2007, and the buying habits confirm that the market might be trending younger, if buying books online as opposed to retail is any indication. Almost half (49%) of...

Travels with Lucius: Lucius Shepard has been traveling for most of his life, starting at age 15, when he fled his Southern gentry roots and caught a freighter to Ireland.(Author Profile)(Biography)
May 26, 2008... The Best of Lucius Shepard, due this August from specialty genre publisher Subterranean, packs two decades of travelogue into 600-plus pages. 1985's Nebula-winning novella "R&R" (later expanded into his best-known novel, Life During Wartime)...

The confidence game: this fall, publishers bet on brand names.(Fall On-Sale Calendar)(Calendar)
May 26, 2008... Politics-obsessed media may have less time for books this presidential election season, but there are 25% more titles than usual in our preview of fall's biggest printings. In fiction, publishers are betting brand names will deliver needed...

Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 26, 2008... * Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3 Annie Proulx. Scribner, $25 (240p) ISBN 978-14165-7166-7 The steely Proulx (The Shipping News, etc.) returns with another astonishing series of hardscrabble lives lived in the sparse,...

Germania.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 26, 2008... Germania Brendan McNally. Simon & Schuster, $26 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4165-5882-8 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Former journalist McNally puts a magical spin on the last days of the Third Reich in his debut, a busy, beguiling novel perhaps too...

Man in the Dark.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 26, 2008... Man in the Dark Paul Auster. Holt, $23 (192p) ISSN 978-0-8050-8839-7 A retired book critic is targeted by an assassin from an alternate universe in Auster's flawed latest. August Brill lies awake in his daughter's Vermont home, making up...

At First Sight.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 26, 2008... At First Sight Stephen J. Cannell. Perseus/Vanguard, $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-59315-482-0 This disappointing thriller from bestseller Cannell (Three Shirt Deal) features 55-year-old Chick Best, a failed California businessman whose DVD...

The Lemur.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 26, 2008... * The Lemur Benjamin Black. Picador, $13 paper (192p) ISBN 978-0-312-42808-2 In this excellent novella from Edgar-finalist Banville (Christine Falls), John Glass, an Irish-born journalist living in New York, reluctantly accepts an offer...

The Creator's Map.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 26, 2008... The Creator's Map Emilio Calderon, trans, from the Spanish by Katherine Silver. Penguin Press, $24.95 (272 p) ISBN 978-1-59420-181-3 A Nazi quest for an ancient map pinpointing the source of black magic, Vatican spies and Spanish Civil...

Still Waters.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 26, 2008... Still Waters Nigel McCrery. Pantheon, $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-307-37703-6 The hero of British author McCrery's tepid thriller, DCI Mark Lapslie of the Essex police, suffers from synesthesia, a rare neurological condition that causes him...

PW talks with Tana French: huge turning points.(Q&A)(Publishers Weekly)(Interview)
May 26, 2008... Irish homicide detective Cassie Maddox, the co-star of In the Woods (2007), which won an Edgar Award, takes center stage in Tana French's new novel of psychological suspense, The Likeness (Reviews, May 19), in which the murder victim, Lexie...

Vicious Circle.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 26, 2008... Vicious Circle Mike Carey. Hachette/Grand Central, $24.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-446-58031-1 In Carey's fine second supernatural thriller (after The Devil You Know), Felix Castor, an exorcist with paranormal abilities who lives in a...

Moscow Rules.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 26, 2008... Moscow Rules Daniel Silva. Putnam, $26.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-399-15501-7 Short on moral complexity, bestseller Silva's eighth thriller starring Israeli master-spy Gabriel Allen (after The Secret Servant) may remind some readers of an...

Somebody Else's Daughter.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 26, 2008... Somebody Else's Daughter Elizabeth Brundage. Viking, $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-670-01900-7 A surfeit of characters and subplots weigh down Brundage's overwrought second novel (after 2005's The Doctor's Wife). Seventeen years after San...

Alive in Necropolis.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 26, 2008... Alive in Necropolis Doug Dorst. Riverhead, $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-59448-987-7 This charming first novel maps the landscape and lives of a small town where ghosts and the living are sometimes indistinguishable from one another. That's...

When We Were Romans.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 26, 2008... * When We Were Romans Matthew Kneale. Doubleday/Talese, $23.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-385-52625-8 Kneale, who won the Whitbread for English Passengers (2000), returns with a tale narrated by fiery, precocious, pitch-perfect Lawrence, who at...

Where the River Ends.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 26, 2008... Where the River Ends Charles Martin. Broadway, $19.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7679-2698-0 In this sentimental story about a terminal cancer patient's demise, Martin (When Crickets Cry) examines the lengths to which a loving husband will go for...

Walk the Blue Fields.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 26, 2008... Walk the Blue Fields Claire Keegan. Grove/Black Cat, $13 paper (176p) ISBN 978-0-8021-7049-1 Seven foreboding tales from Keegan (Antarctica) examine family, buried secrets and forbidden love in contemporary rural Ireland. In the title...

Just Too Good to Be True.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 26, 2008... Just Too Good to Be True E. Lynn Harris. Doubleday, $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-385-49272-0 In the latest cautionary tale from bestseller Harris (I Say a Little Prayer, etc.), Brady Bledsoe, Georgia Central University football star and...

Party Favors.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 26, 2008... Party Favors Nicole Sexton and Susan Johnston. Globe Pequot/Lyons, $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-59921-459-7 With help from playwright Johnston and a handbag-full of chick lit cliches, former Republican fund-raiser Sexton offers a behind the...

One city, two ways.(Book review)
May 26, 2008... Two visions of New Orleans: one you may recognize, the other--hopefully not. Babylon Rolling Amanda Boyden. Pantheon, $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-375-42533-2 Former contortionist and trapeze artist Boyden (Pretty Little Dirty) invokes...

In the Name of Sarah Pogford.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 26, 2008... In the Name of Sarah Pogford Jon Edward Jordan. Permanent, $26 (157p) ISBN 978-1-57962-166-7 A former grade school teacher haunted by a terrible past narrates this thin, predictable debut novel. An aging, conservative dresser with a deep...

Over and Under.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 26, 2008... Over and Under Todd Tucker. St. Martin's/Dunne, $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-37990-2 A bitter 1979 labor strike at southern Indiana's Borden Casket Company serves as the volatile backdrop for this haunting coming-of-age novel from...

Young Irelanders: Stories.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 26, 2008... Young Irelanders: Stories Gerard Donovan. Overlook, $24.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-59020-030-8 Donovan (Julius Winsome) writes convincingly about loss and survival in an Ireland where big gaps remain between what his characters want and what...

War.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 26, 2008... War Todd Komarnicki. Arcade, $24.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-55970-866-1 Screenwriter, producer and author of Famine, Komarnicki delivers a maudlin dystopian war novel. The narrator, referred to as "--", joins a secret government military group...

Skin Deep.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 26, 2008... Skin Deep Gary Braver. Forge, $24.95 (448p) ISBN 978-07653-0975-4 In this well-crafted thriller from Braver (Flashback), Lt. Steve Markarian, a Boston police detective with marital and alcohol problems, investigates the strangling death...

The Garden of Evil.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 26, 2008... * The Garden of Evil David Hewson. Delacorte, $24 (480p) ISBN 978-0-385-33957-5 At the outset of this dark jewel of a thriller, Hewson's sixth to feature Roman detective Nic Costa (after The Seventh Sacrament), Costa and his team are...

Street Vengeance.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 26, 2008... Street Vengeance Evie Rhodes. Dafina, $14 paper (304p) ISBN 978-0-7582-1668-7 This inspiring urban thriller from gospel songwriter Rhodes charts the meteoric rise of Brandi Hutchinson, a smart "fabulously beautiful" 18-year-old, who...

Painted Dresses.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 26, 2008... Painted Dresses Patricia Hickman. WaterBrook, $13.99 paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-4000-7199-9 Hickman's slow-paced but best novel since Katrina's Wings begins with protagonist Gaylen Boatwright, whose life is a mess. In her late 20s, she's...

Don't You Forget About Me.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 26, 2008... Don't You Forget About Me Jancee Dunn. Villard, $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0345-50190-5 Memoirist (But Enough About Me) and Rolling Stone writer Dunn turns in a first-class piece of reunion lit. After her husband announces "I'm bored by our...

True to the Game III.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 26, 2008... True to the Game III Teri Woods. Grand Central, $14.99 paper (214p) ISBN 978-0-446-58168-4 Urban fiction fans will welcome the melodramatic final entry in bestseller Woods's True to the Game trilogy, which vividly depicts the 1990s drug...

The Wellwishers.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 26, 2008... The Wellwishers Richard Fountain. Silver Dagger (IPG, dist.), $14.95 paper (272p) ISBN 978-1-57072-326-5 At the start of Fountain's middling debut, a melange of political thriller, XFiles-ish science fiction and romance, CIA officer John...

Folly du Jour.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 26, 2008... Folly du Jour Barbara Cleverly. Soho Constable, $24.94 (288p) ISBN 978-1-56947-513-3 In Cleverly's fine seventh 1920s historical to feature Scotland Yard's Joe Sandilands (after 2007's Tug of War), the engaging sleuth refuses to believe...

Singularity.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 26, 2008... * Singularity Kathryn Casey. St. Martin's Minotaur, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-37950-6 Lt. Sarah Armstrong balances the challenges of being the Texas Rangers' lone criminal profiler and a single mom in the riveting fiction debut from...

The Black Hand: A Barker & Llewelyn Novel.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 26, 2008... The Black Hand: A Barker & Llewelyn Novel Will Thomas. Touchstone, $14 paper (304p) ISBN 978-1-4165-5895-8 In Thomas's lively fifth Victorian historical to feature "enquiry agents" Cyrus "Guv" Barker and Thomas Llewelyn (after 2007's The...

Wishbones: A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 26, 2008... Wishbones: A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery Carolyn Haines. St. Martin's Minotaur, $23.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-312-37708-3 Sarah Booth Delaney heads for Hollywood in Haines's entertaining eighth cozy to feature the Zinnia, Miss., PI (after...

The Children of Black Valley.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 26, 2008... The Children of Black Valley Evan Kilgore. Bleak House (www.bleakhousebooks.com), $24.95 (340p) ISBN 978-1-932557-88-6; $14.95 paper ISBN 978-1-932557-89-3 Kilgore follows his enigmatic debut, Who Is Shayla Hacker? (2007), with a...

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot: A Shady Grove Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 26, 2008... Swing Low, Sweet Chariot: A Shady Grove Mystery Jackie Lynn. St. Martin's Minotaur, $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-37681-9 At the start of Lynn's charming third Shady Grove mystery (after 2007's Jacob's Ladder), series heroine hose...

Uneasy Relations.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 26, 2008... Uneasy Relations Aaron Elkins. Berkley Prime Crime, $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-425-22176-1 In Edgar-winner Elkins's absorbing 15th novel to feature forensics anthropology professor Gideon Oliver (after 2007's Little Tiny Teeth), Oliver and...

Nox Dormienda (A Long Night for Sleeping): An Arcturus Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 26, 2008... Nox Dormienda (A Long Night for Sleeping): An Arcturus Mystery Kelli Stanley. Five Star, $24.95 (323p) ISBN 978-1-59414-666-4 Despite endorsements from Gayle Lynds, James Rollins and Ken Bruen, Stanley's debut offers little new that fans...

Hungry Ghosts.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 26, 2008... Hungry Ghosts Susan Dunlap. Counterpoint (PGW, dist.), $25 (272p) ISBN 978-1-58243-417-9 In Anthony-winner Dunlap's intriguing second mystery to feature Buddhist stuntwoman Darcy Lott (after 2007's A Single Eye), Darcy returns to her...

Lord Tophet: A Shadowbridge Novel.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 26, 2008... * Lord Tophet: A Shadowbridge Novel Gregory Frost. Del Rey, $14 paper (240p)ISBN 978-0-345-49759-8 The "infinite bridge spirals of Shadowbridge" cover a watery world full of enchanting stories, the wonderfully eerie environment for this...

MultiReal: Volume 2 of the Jump 225.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 26, 2008... MultiReal: Volume 2 of the Jump 225 David Louis Edelman. Pyr, $15 paper (460p) ISBN 978-1-59102-647-1 A sly variation on the traditional cyberpunk novel, Edelman's sequel to 2006's Infoquake views a stunning new technology through the...

The Veil of Gold.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 26, 2008... * The Veil of Gold Kim Wilkins. Tor, $25.95 (496p) ISBN 978-07653-2006-3 Aurealis-winner Wilkins (The Autumn Castle) refracts Russian history through a brilliantly jeweled kaleidoscope of folklore in this sparkling tale. Papa Grigory, a...