Publishers Weekly articles from May 2011

Publishers Weekly archives from May 2011

The adventures of an introspective zombie.(Pick of the week)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 30, 2011... * Raising Stony Mayhall Daryl Gregory. Del Rey, $14 trade paper (448p) ISBN 978-0345-52237-5 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Richly textured settings and nuanced characters mark this introspective novel, in which Gregory (The Devil's Alphabet)...

A better vibe: less angst, more optimism at BEA.(News)(BookExpo America)
May 30, 2011... With the effect of the recession steadily, if slowly, fading, and the industry getting a better grasp on the role e-books will play in its future, the 2011 edition of BookExpo America was the most vibrant since the economy collapsed in late...

Borders lost $132 million in April.(Brief article)
May 30, 2011... According to statements filed with the bankruptcy court, Borders had a loss from continuing operations of $32.1 million in April, and when re organization costs are added in lost a total of $132 million. Sales in the March 27-April 30 period...

BAM has $3.5 million loss.(Books-A-Million)(Brief article)
May 30, 2011... With sales falling 11.1% in the first quarter, to $104 million, Books-A-Million reported a net loss in the period ended April 30 of $3.5 million. In last year's first quarter, BAM had net income of $2 million. Comparable store sales were down...

Bloomsbury forms digital publisher.(Bloomsbury Publishing)(Brief article)
May 30, 2011... Bloomsbury Publishing has formed Bloomsbury Reader, a digital global publisher that will do e-book and print-on-demand editions of books in cases where, according to a statement, "all English-language rights have already reverted to the author...

Regnery launches history imprint.(Regnery Publishing)(Brief article)
May 30, 2011... This fall Regnery Publishing will launch a new history imprint under the direction of Alex Novak, Regnery associate publisher. The launch list includes Founding Rivals: Madison vs. Monroe and the Election That Created the Bill of Rights and...

Pfund named OUP USA prez.(Oxford University Press USA acting president Niko Pfund)(Brief article)
May 30, 2011... Niko Pfund, acting president of Oxford University Press USA since December, has been named president of OUP USA. Pfund will continue as academic publisher of OUP USA.

Black Classic Press buys Howard Univ. press backlist.(Brief article)
May 30, 2011... After 39 years of scholarly publishing focused on African-American life and history around the world, the Howard University Press is closing its doors. The university has reached an agreement with Baltimore-based Black Classic Press, an...

Fox Chapel makes three purchases.(Fox Chapel Publishing's acquisition of Design Originals, Heliconia Press and Plain White Press)(Brief article)
May 30, 2011... Fox Chapel Publishing has completed a three company shopping spree, adding roughly 300 titles and continuing to broaden its reach in the DIY and hobbyist woodworking market. The largest acquisition was of Design Originals, a publisher of craft,...

Books, e-books, and technology at BEA 2011.(Digital Zone)(BookExpo America)
May 30, 2011... After a week that featured the release of two new low-cost digital e-readers, a book blogging invasion of the Javits Center, and endless debate about future business models for electronic publishing, it's appropriate that BookExpo America week...

Spooner lands at business plus.(Deals)(John Spooner)(Brief article)
May 30, 2011... Rick Wolff at Grand Central's Business Plus imprint pre-empted world rights to the new, currently untitled, work by novelist and business book author John Spooner, which is written as a collection of letters to his grandchildren offering...

Basic explores 'Spinoza'; Da Capo gets 'stupid'.(Deals)(Brief article)
May 30, 2011... Agent Sandra Dijkstra sold North American rights, in a two-book deal, to Irvin D. Yalom's The Spinoza Problem to T.J. Kelleher at Basic Books. The novel, which Basic described as a "psycho-philosophical" work, examines the influence of the...

Hardcover bestsellers/fiction.
May 30, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Four U.S. presidents have been assassinated, each murder seemingly unrelated. But what if they were all killed for the same reason--a clause in the U.S. Constitution? Berry's off and running in his seventh Cotton Malone...

Hardcover bestsellers/nonfiction.
May 30, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It's twice the size of Connecticut and at least twice as controversial. With 75,000 copies in print, Jacobsen's book is the first to cover the world's most famous military installation--working from recently...

Paperback bestseller/mass market.
May 30, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Just who is this Jason Bourne, who lends his name to so many books and movies? For starters, he's Jason Charles Bourne (ne David Webb), whose first novel appearance was m 1980's The Bourne Identity. That debut was...

Paperback bestseller/trade.
May 30, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Movie date. Perhaps it's their literary leanings, but books on this list seem frequently to morph into movies. Water for Elephants and Something Borrowed have hit the big screens with less-than-rousing success; next up...

Audio bestsellers/fiction.
May 30, 2011... Sara Gruen was inspired to write Water for Elephants by a vintage circus photograph in a newspaper. Inspiration came easy, but the writing proved more difficult. In her interview with About. corn Bestsellers, she described her process: "I was...

Audio bestsellers/nonfiction.
May 30, 2011... "One thing they don't tell you about growing old--you don't feel old, you just feel like yourself. And it's true. I don't feel eighty-nine years old. I simply am eighty-nine years old. "If I didn 't feel so well, I might have a different...

Reimagine everything: new bookstore concepts abound at BEA.(RETAIL NATION)(BookExpo America)
May 30, 2011... Going into this year's BookExpo America, things were not looking particularly upbeat for independent booksellers. The most recent ABACUS study of bookstore sales, for 2009, showed a loss of 8.4% for 61% of the respondents; the other 39% showed...

Authors @ALA: authors are the cornerstone of a loaded conference program.(ALA Preview)(American Library Association)(Conference news)
May 30, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Amid budget stress, technological change, and a tough political climate, librarians and vendors will descend on New...

You might like ...(ALA Preview)(Calendar)
May 30, 2011... Beyond the bestsellers and brand names, PW has scanned the author list for some children's favorites, sleeper choices, and critic's picks well worth seeking out. Please refer to the official conference program for exact details and times, as...

Library love.(ALA Preview)(Calendar)
May 30, 2011... In honor of the ALA, we're highlighting some of the authors who will be appearing at this year's conference with library-themed books. Whether funny, serious, for adult professionals, or for young readers, these books all go a long way toward...

Editor love.(ALA Preview)
May 30, 2011... On Sunday, June 26, 10:30 a.m.-noon, five members of book publishing's top editorial brass will offer behind-the-scenes stories of two of their fall 2011 titles in the second annual Fall Books Preview: "From the Inside(rs) Out: Book Editors and...

Louisiana love.(ALA Preview)(Calendar)
May 30, 2011... In honor of the ALA host city, we've picked some local authors who will be signing their Louisiana-themed books at the conference. Unless otherwise noted, these authors will be in the booth of New Orleans-area Pelican Publishing (1520), which...

Check it out! With Nancy Pearl.(Libraries)(Interview)
May 30, 2011... We're delighted to offer a new monthly column, where librarians, publishers, and other stakeholders in the health of our reading culture can have their voices heard. We expect the conversation will open everyone's eyes to the array of services...

Brewster's millions: Internet Archive rounder Brewster Kahle wants to see millions of library e-books, millions of readers--and millions of dollars for publishers and authors.(ALA Preview)(Interview)
May 30, 2011... At the ALA Midwinter Meeting in San Diego, a standing-room-only panel focused on how e-books will affect the future of libraries. From research and pilot programs to digitizing efforts, libraries have long helped prepare the way for e-books. But...

The big uneasy: librarians gather in new Orleans amid historic fiscal challenges.(ALA Preview)
May 30, 2011... Managing budget pressure is a way of life for library administrators. But as librarians gather in New Orleans for the 2011 ALA Annual Conference, a snapshot of public library budgets across the nation shows the lingering "Great Recession" is...

Save the libraries: bestselling authors rally for readers.(ALA Preview)
May 30, 2011... These are the books that defined my childhood. Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case; The Secret of the Old Clock; Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret; Flowers in the Attic; Gone with the Wind. They thrilled me. They made me feel like I wasn't...

Symbiosis.(ALA Preview)(teacher librarians)
May 30, 2011... In each issue of Publishers Weekly, the problem of survival for the book industry is regularly viewed from virtually every angle but one: teacher librarians. As teacher librarians, we are professionals dedicated to the book industry's goals. We...

The Barbarian Nurseries.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 30, 2011... The Barbarian Nurseries Hector Tobar. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27 (432p) ISBN 978-0-374-10899-1 Tobar (The Tattooed Soldier) delivers a riveting, insightful morality tale of conspicuously consuming Americans and their Mexican servants...

The Language of Flowers.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 30, 2011... The Language of Flowers Vanessa Diffenbaugh. Ballantine, $25 (326p) ISBN 978-0-345-52554-3 Diffenbaugh's affecting debut chronicles the first harrowing steps into adulthood taken by a deeply wounded soul who finds her only solace in an...

Tender Hooks.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 30, 2011... Tender Hooks Moni Mohsin. Broadway, $13 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-0-307-88924-9 The lady of the house is a social-climbing shopaholic, yapping yenta, and mistress of malapropism, but her hilarious and unsettling story unfolds not in...

The Cut.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 30, 2011... * The Cut George Pelecanos. Little, Brown/Reagan Arthur, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-316-07842-9 Pelecanos's excellent first in a new crime series introduces Spero Lucas, a 29-year-old Iraq War vet who does investigative work for a...

Girls in White Dresses.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 30, 2011... Girls in White Dresses Jennifer Close. Knopf, $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-307-59685-7 Artfully spare prose adds a literary tinge to the chick lit staples--navigating relationships, bridesmaid duties, disappointing first jobs--explored in...

Spycatcher.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 30, 2011... Spycatcher Matthew Dunn. Morrow, $25.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-06-203767-1 British author Dunn draws on his real-life experience as an MI6 agent for his strong spy thriller debut. MI6 agent Will Cochrane, code name Spartan, winds up shot after...

The Angel of Blythe Hall.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 30, 2011... The Angel of Blythe Hall Darci Hannah. Ballantine, $15 trade paper (512p) ISBN 978-0-345-52056-2 Angelic visions mix uncomfortably with 15th-century Scottish politics in a historical tale with a substantial paranormal streak. The Blythe...

PW talks with Jeff Abbott: Abbott and cloak-and-dagger.(Q&A)(Interview)
May 30, 2011... Jeff Abbott's thriller adrenaline (reviews, may 23), the first in a series, introduces Sam Capra: former CIA agent, husband, and soon-to-be father. Are you doing something different in Adrenaline compared to your previous thrillers? If so,...

The Hypnotist.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 30, 2011... * The Hypnotist Lars Kepler, trans, from the Swedish by Marlaine Delargy. FSG/Sarah Crichton, $27 (512p) ISBN 978-0-374-17395-1 The brutal slaying of gambling addict Anders Ek, his wife, and his younger daughter propels this outstanding...

Split Second.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 30, 2011... Split Second Catherine Coulter. Putnam, $26.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-399-15743-1 At the start of bestseller Coulter's exciting 15th FBI thriller featuring husband-wife agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock (after Whiplash), Dillon arrives...

Things We Didn't Say.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 30, 2011... Things We Didn't Say Kristina Riggle. Morrow, $14.99 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-200304-1 Riggle's third novel (after The Life You've Imagined) explores love, devotion, and alcoholism in the modern dysfunctional family....

Among the Missing.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 30, 2011... Among the Missing Morag Joss. Delacorte, $25 (272p)ISBN 9780-385-34274-2 In this haunting psychological thriller from Joss (The Night Following), a recently married middle-aged English couple staying at a Scottish Highlands hotel hit a...

Quinn.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 30, 2011... * Quinn Iris Johansen. St. Martin's, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-65121-3 Bestseller Johansen's thrilling second entry (after Eve) in a special trilogy featuring forensic sculptor Eve Duncan finds Eve at the hospital bedside of her...

The Silent Girl: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 30, 2011... The Silent Girl: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel Tess Gerritsen. Ballantine, $26 (336p) ISBN 978-0-345-51550-6 In Gerritsen's gripping ninth Rizzoli & Isles novel (after Ice Cold), a severed hand found on a Chinatown street leads Det. Jane...

I Could Love You.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 30, 2011... I Could Love You William Nicholson. Soho, $25 (368p) ISBN 978-1-56947-954-4 Screenwriter (Gladiator) and novelist Nicholson follows up The Secret of Everyday Life with this sharp ensemble tale of suburban English drama, missed connections,...

East of the West: A Country in Stories.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 30, 2011... East of the West: A Country in Stories Miroslav Penkov. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $24 (226p) ISBN 978-0-374-11733-7 Bulgarians, both at home and abroad, are the subject of the wistful, tragic, and funny stories in this impressive debut....

The End of Everything.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 30, 2011... * The End of Everything Megan Abbott. Little, Brown/Reagan Arthur, $23.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-316-09779-6 Fans of Tana French and Kate Atkinson will welcome Abbott's haunting psychological thriller set in what appears to be pre-cellphone...

The Way.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 30, 2011... The Way Kristen Wolf. Crown, $25 (368p) ISBN 978-0307-71769-6 A young girl in ancient Palestine struggles with her calling as a spiritual leader in Wolf's audacious, deftly woven debut. Anna is % handsome child" with an androgynous...

French Lessons.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 30, 2011... French Lessons Ellen Sussman. Ballantine, $24 (236p) ISBN 978-0-345-52277-1 Three Americans explore Paris alongside their attractive French tutors and find themselves caught up in a delightful day of desire in Sussman's second novel (after...

Dreams of the Dead.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 30, 2011... Dreams of the Dead Perri O'Shaughnessy. S&S/Gallery, $25 (352p) ISBN 978-1-4165-4973-4 O'Shaughnessy's suspenseful 13th Nina Reilly novel (after Show No Fear) revisits one of the most painful episodes in the Lake Tahoe attorney's life....

A Good Excuse to Be Bad.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 30, 2011... A Good Excuse to Be Bad Miranda Parker. Kensington/Dafina, $14 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-0-7582-5950-9 Parker's choppy debut introduces Georgia bail recovery agent Angel Crawford, an alluring package of physical toughness with enough...

The Darkling Spy.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 30, 2011... * The Darkling Spy Edward Wilson. Arcadia (Dufour, dist.), $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-906413-64-4 Wilson's smart, finely written sequel to The Envoy mines an underutilized place and period of cold war history: Berlin, 1956. William Catesby...

Tyrant Memory.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 30, 2011... Tyrant Memory Horacio Castellanos Moya, trans, from the Spanish by Katherine Silver. New Directions, $15.95 trade paper (330p) ISBN 978-0-81121917-4 Moya's absorbing new novel is set in early 1944 El Salvador after a coup fails to depose real...

Next to Love.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 30, 2011... Next to Love Ellen Feldman. Random/Spiegel & Grau, $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8129-9271-7 Feldman's latest (after Scottsboro) follows three female friends through WWII and into the '60s as lives, loves, and perceptions change both within...

Plainsong.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 30, 2011... Plainsong Kazushi Hosaka, trans, from the Japanese by Paul Warham. Dalkey Archive, $17.95 trade paper (176p) ISBN 978-1-56478- 638-8 A deliberate aimlessness haunts the protagonists in this feline-obsessed first novel by Hosaka. The Chernobyl...

The Seamstress and the Wind.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 30, 2011... The Seamstress and the Wind Cesar Aira, trans, from the Spanish by Rosalie Knecht. New Directions, $12.95 trade paper (144p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1912-9 This surrealist, self-indulgent exercise set between Patagonia and the Argentinian city of...

The Pianist in the Dark.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 30, 2011... The Pianist in the Dark Michele Halberstadt, trans, from the French by Andrew Litvak. Pegasus (Norton, dist.), $22 (140p) ISBN 978-1-60598-118- 5 This spare and elegant depiction of the life of blind Austrian piano prodigy Maria-Theresia Von...

Lion of Babylon.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 30, 2011... Lion of Babylon Davis Bunn. Bethany House, $22.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7642-0993-2; $14.99 trade paper ISBN 978-0-7642-0905-5 Novelist Bunn (To the Ends of the Earth) does for readers what keeps them coming back: he. offers the expected...

The Devil Colony: A Sigma Force Novel.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 30, 2011... The Devil Colony: A Sigma Force Novel James Rollins. Morrow, $27.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-061-78478-1 A secret from the past threatens to destroy the modern world in bestseller Rollins's riveting seventh Sigma Force novel (after The Doomsday...

Nairobi Heat.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 30, 2011... Nairobi Heat Mukoma Wa Ngugi. Melville (Random, dist.), $14.95 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1935554-64-6 The discovery of the body of an attractive young blonde woman on the Madison, Wis., doorstep of Joshua Hakizimana, popularly known as...

In Search of the Rose Notes.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 30, 2011... * In Search of the Rose Notes Emily Arsenault. Morrow, $14.99 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-201232-6 Arsenault follows her well-received debut, The Broken Teaglass, with a compelling psychological mystery, told from the alternating...

Liquid Smoke.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 30, 2011... Liquid Smoke Jeff Shelby. Tyrus (Consortium, dist.), $24.95 (284p) ISBN 978-1-935562-39-9; $15.95 trade paper ISBN 978-1-935562-54-2 Shelby's searing third Noah Braddock novel (after 2006's Wicked Break) takes the San Diego surfer and PI...

Dandy Gilver and the Proper Treatment of Bloodstains.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 30, 2011... Dandy Gilver and the Proper Treatment of Bloodstains Catriona McPherson. Minotaur, $23.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-65418-4 Agatha Christie meets Upstairs, Downstairs in McPherson's charming fifth interwar whodunit featuring Edinburgh sleuth...

A Spark of Death: A Professor Bradshaw Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 30, 2011... A Spark of Death: A Professor Bradshaw Mystery Bernadette Pajer. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (222p) ISBN 978-1-59058-905-2; $14.95 trade paper ISBN 978-1-59058-907-6 Set in 1901 Seattle, Pajer's deft, highly entertaining debut introduces calm,...

The Cuckoo's Child.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 30, 2011... The Cuckoo's Child Marjorie Eccles. Severn, $28.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8032-1 Laura Harcourt, the plucky 21-year-old heroine of this solid stand-alone set in 1909 from British veteran Eccles (Last Nocturne), has sought her independence...

Vision Impossible: A Psychic Eye Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 30, 2011... Vision Impossible: A Psychic Eye Mystery Victoria Laurie. NN_/0bsidian, $23,95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-451-23406-3 In Laurie's lightweight eighth Psychic Eye mystery (after 2010's A Glimpse of Evil), the CIA taps psychic investigator Abby Cooper...

Yours until Death.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 30, 2011... * Yours Until Death Gunnar Staalesen, trans, from the Norwegian by Margaret Amassian. Arcadia/Eurocrime (Dufour, dist.), $16.95 trade paper (332p) ISBN 978-1-906413-70-5 Fans of contemporary noir will welcome Staalesen's superior second...

Rogue: An Ike Schwartz Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 30, 2011... Rogue: An Ike Schwartz Mystery Frederick Ramsay. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-59058-902-1; $14.95 trade paper ISBN 978-1-59058-904-5 Ike Schwartz has clearly seen better days than those confronting him at the start of Ramsay's...

Death in the Opening Chapter.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 30, 2011... Death in the Opening Chapter Tim Heald. Severn/Creme de la Crime, $28.95 (224p) ISRN 978-1-78029-002-7 As the title promises, the first chapter of Heald's stately new entry in his Simon Bognor series (Red Herrings, etc.) does indeed find...

Titus Awakes.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 30, 2011... Titus Awakes Maeve Gilmore and Mervyn Peake. Overlook, $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-59020-428-3 Gilmore, Peake's widow, has expanded a handful of pages written by her husband into a full-length sequel to Peake's celebrated Gormenghast trilogy...

Green-Eyed Envy.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 30, 2011... * Green-Eyed Envy Kasey Mackenzie. Ace, $7.99 mass market (304p) ISBN 978-0-441-02049-2 Marissa "Riss" Holloway, chief magical investigator and Fury, takes on Boston's first arcane serial killer in this engrossing sequel to 2010's Red Hot...

Property of a Lady.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 30, 2011... Property of a Lady Sarah Rayne. Severn House, $28.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8028-4 A gnarled haunted house story spanning centuries makes a promising supernatural venture by crime fiction author Rayne (What Lies Beneath). Literature...

Happily Ever After.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 30, 2011... * Happily Ever After Edited byJohn Klima. Night Shade (www. nightshadebooks.com), $15.99 trade paper (480p) ISBN 978-1-59780-220-8 Klima (Logorrhea) brings together many of the greatest minds in fantasy, horror, and young adult fiction in...

The Century's Best Horror Fiction, Vol. 1: 1901-1950.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 30, 2011... The Century's Best Horror Fiction, Vol. 1: 1901-1950 Edited by John Pelan. Cemetery Dance (www.cemeterydance.com), $75 (706p) 1SBN 978-1-58767-080-0 The 20th century was the first to yield a steady stream of horror fiction from its turn to...

The Century's Best Horror Fiction, Vol. 2: 1951-2000.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 30, 2011... The Century's Best Horror Fiction, Vol. 2: 1951-2000 Edited by John Pelan. Cemetery Dance (www.cemeterydance.com), $75 (868p) ISBN 978-1-58767-172-2 This second volume of Pelan's centenary celebration of horror fiction shows the genre...

Winter has come.(A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire, vol. 5)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 30, 2011... Ice, fire, and blood infuse a long-awaited epic tale. A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 5 George R.R. Martin. Bantam, $35 (1,056p) ISBN 978-0-553-80147-7 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A few images recur in the enormously...

The Snow Queen's Shadow.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 30, 2011... * The Snow Queen's Shadow Jim C. Hines. DAW, $7.99 mass market (352p) ISBN 978-0-7564-0674-5 Hines brings his skillfully crafted Princess Series to a close with his fourth tale (after 2010's Red Hood's Revenge) of tough princesses,...

It's Always Been You.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 30, 2011... It's Always Been You Victoria Dahl. Kensington/Zebra, $6.99 mass market (352p) ISBN 978-1-4201-0484-4 This tender Victorian tale of second chances reunites businessman Aidan York with his former paramour, Katie Tremont, whom he had...

The Ideal Man.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 30, 2011... The Ideal Man Julie Garwood. Dutton, $26.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-525-95225-1 Bestseller Garwood (Shadow Music) turns out another high-quality romantic thriller. St. Louis trauma surgeon Ellie Sullivan walks in on a failed gun-dealer bust,...

Never Cry Wolf.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 30, 2011... * Never Cry Wolf Cynthia Eden. Kensington/Brava, $14 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-0-7582-4215-0 Nonstop action from the first page to the last makes this sexy paranormal romance a winner. Lucas Simone, Alpha of the L.A. werewolf pack, has...

Cold Touch.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 30, 2011... Cold Touch Leslie Parrish. Signet Eclipse, $7.99 mass market (368p) ISBN 978-0-451-23300-4 Parrish revisits the eXtreme Investigations team introduced in 2010's Cold Sight, pulling readers in with a tense and gritty story that skillfully...

Mystical Warrior.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 30, 2011... Mystical Warrior Janet Chapman. Pocket Star, $7.99 mass market (368p) ISBN 978-1-4391-5990-3 Chapman follows February's Dragon Warrior with a romantic, funny, quietly intense story of wounded survivors reluctantly finding love. Fiona...

Lure of the Wicked.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 30, 2011... Lure of the Wicked Karina Cooper. Avon, $7.99 mass market (364p) ISBN 978-0-06-204690-1 A futuristic Seattle devastated by witchcraft and run by a tyrannical Christian church is the setting for this fast-paced but muddled follow-up to...

Deeper Than Midnight.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 30, 2011... Deeper Than Midnight Lara Adrian. Dell, $7.99 mass market (416p) ISBN 978-0-440-24611-4 The solid ninth and penultimate entry in bestseller Adrian's Midnight Breed vampire romance series (after Taken by Midnight) advances the overall story...

Feynman.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 30, 2011... Feynman Jim Ottaviani and Leland Myrick. Roaring Brook/First Second, $29.99 (266p) ISBN 978-1-59643-259-8 Jumping from the Manhattan Project laboratories of Los Alamos, N.Mex., to the beaches of Rio, Ottaviani and Myrick's portrait of the...