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You can see Russia.(The Breach)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 30, 2009... * The Breach Patrick Lee. Harper, $7.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-158445-9 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Lee's debut thriller pits ex-con ex-cop Travis Chase against increasingly dire odds as the action ratchets up like levels in a complex video game....
Little cheer from chains: retailers follow weak 2008 third quarter with weaker '09.(Foreword)
November 30, 2009... Despite a boost in sales from The Lost Symbol and facing weak comparisons with last year's third quarter, total revenue from the nation's three largest bookstore chains dropped 2.3% in the period ended October 31, with revenue falling to $1.87...
Bidding (an early) adieu to the book club queen.(One of a Kind)(Oprah Winfrey)
November 30, 2009... She got housewives to read William Faulkner, turned Cormac McCarthy into a household name, shamed James Frey on camera, got dissed by Jonathan Franzen, and turned 63 books into bestsellers. When Oprah Winfrey started her book club on September...
Little, Brown has e-book update.(Little, Brown and Company Inc.)(Brief article)
November 30, 2009... Little. Brown will publish its first e-book--only update December 1 when it makes available a 2,000-word piece on the subject of influenza in its The Vaccine Book by Dr. Robert Sears. first published in October 2007. In the e-book exclusive. Dr....
Bloomberg Press closing.(Brief article)
November 30, 2009... Bloomberg Press is closing down, although the exact timing is still to be worked out. The nine employees of the imprint, a small unit of Bloomberg L.P., may find positions within the larger company. Founded in 1996, Bloomberg Press published...
Dr. King estate in deal with Beacon Press.(Legacy)(Martin Luther King Jr.)
November 30, 2009... While the surviving children of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King continue to squabble over the management of their parents' estates, on one issue they are agreed: the need to preserve their father's legacy for a new generation. To...
'Spin' release moved up.(Let the Great World Spin )(Brief article)
November 30, 2009... Random House has pushed up the paperback publication of the National Book Award winner for fiction, Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann. The trade paperback edition, originally slated for next spring, will now go on sale December 4 with a...
Marching tune.(Sam Barry's performance)(Brief article)(Photograph)
November 30, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] At the November 20-24 annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in New Orleans, Sam Barry, harmonica player for the Rock Bottom Remainders and marketing and promotions manager at HarperOne, entertained...
Selling romance e-books and more.(E-tailing)(Brief article)
November 30, 2009... When Barb Perfetti and Lori James launched All Romance Ebooks in 2006, publishers didn't think an all-romance e-book retailer would work. Since then AllRomanceEBooks.com has grown from 2,000 titles to 30,000 and so far sales in 2009 are up 250%....
Byron Ballard, accent on books, Asheville, N.C.(Galley Talk)(Requiem by Fire)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 30, 2009... The Southern highlands of Appalachia are steeped in family histories and larger-than-life characters. Wayne Caldwell's Requiem by Fire (Random House, Mar.) is gleaned from his own family story and is a rich and thought-provoking read. His first...
Duke to publish Obama's mother.(Duke University Press on S. Ann Dunham's Surviving Against the Odds: Village Industry in Indonesia)(Brief article)
November 30, 2009... The American Anthropological Association is working in conjunction with Duke University Press to publish Surviving Against the Odds: Village Industry in Indonesia, a revised edition of the doctoral dissertation of S. Ann Dunham, the mother of...
Harlequin Horizons has new name.(Brief article)
November 30, 2009... In the wake of criticism over its self-publishing imprint from different authors' groups, Harlequin has changed the imprint's name from Harlequin Horizons to DellArte Press. The imprint is a joint venture between Harlequin and AuthorSolutions.
Minotaur goes to Denmark.(Deals)(Brief article)
November 30, 2009... Marcia Markland, at Thomas Dunne, pre-empted two thrillers from the Danish publisher Gyldendal. The books, by siblings Lotte and S0ren Hammer, are both set in Denmark. The first title, The Beast Within, which kicks offa series about a detective...
'Southern-Fried' memories.(Deals)(Touchstone Fireside acquires Big Appetite: My Southern-Fried Search for the Meaning of Life)(Brief article)
November 30, 2009... Walla Walla, Wash., resident Sam McLeod sold his memoir, Big Appetite: My Southern-Fried Search for the Meaning of Life, to Trish Todd at Touchstone Fireside. The deal, for U.S., Canadian, and open market rights, was brokered by Liv Blumer who...
Europa inks Weldon.(Deals)(Europa Editions signs Fay Weldon)(Brief article)
November 30, 2009... Europa Editions has taken U.S. rights to Fay Weldon's latest, just published in the U.K. by Corvus, Chalcot Crescent. The dystopic work, set in London in 2013, is told from the point of view of an 80-year-old novelist and, according to Europa,...
Harmony plays 'Dead'.(Deals)(Harmony acquires The Book of the Dead)(Brief article)
November 30, 2009... Harmony's John Glusman acquired North American rights to John Lloyd and John Mitchinson's The Book of the Dead. Glusman struck the deal with Jason Cooper at Faber & Faber UK and is planning a September 2010 publication for the title in the...
Briefs.(Deals)(Da Capo acquires Veganize It)(Brief article)
November 30, 2009... Renee Sedliar at Da Capo nabbed world rights to Jenn Shagrin's Veganize It/from Meg Thompson at LJK Literary. Sedliar is planning to pub the title in fall 2010. Multitalented Shagrin--she's a chef/comedian/ actress who's had minor roles on a...
Correction.(Deals)(Correction notice)
November 30, 2009... In last week's Deals column, Billy Kingsland's agency was incorrectly identified as Kuhn Properties; it's Kuhn Projects. And Orbit took world English rights, not world rights, in its three-book deal with Kim Stanley Robinson.
Obiturary: Jim Sutton.(Obituary)(Brief article)
November 30, 2009... Jim Sutton, who helped launch the career of Tom Clancy when Sutton was sales and marketing director at Clancy's first publisher, Naval Institute Press, died last week after suffering a heart attack at the Frankfurt Book Fair. After leaving NIP,...
Keys to success: sex, the good life, and no debt.(Cleis Press Heads to 30)
November 30, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] While others in the industry scramble to get a grip on e-books and lament lack-luster sales in a bad economy, Cleis Press reports sales up 50% over last year, and the company is looking for new offices to accommodate...
Mark joins Janklow & Nesbit.(People)(PJ Mark to Janklow and Nesbit Associates)(Brief article)
November 30, 2009... PJ Mark is joining Janklow & Nesbit Associates in January as an agent. Mark was most recently an agent and international rights director at McCormick & Williams.
Hobson to McCormick & Williams.(People)(Susan Hobson)(Brief article)
November 30, 2009... Susan Hobson has been named director of international rights at McCormick & Williams, filling the position left open by PJ Mark. She was most recently a codirector of foreign rights at Inkwell Management.
Perez to NAL.(People)(Danielle Perez to Penguin Books USA Inc.)(Brief article)
November 30, 2009... Danielle Perez has been named executive editor at NAL/Penguin. Perez, who was senior editor at Random House's Bantam division, will be acquiring predominantly commercial fiction and nonfiction; she'll start on January 4.
Cornell leaving Book Soup.(People)(Tyson Cornell)(Brief article)
November 30, 2009... Due to the imminent sale of Book Soup in West Hollywood to Vroman's Bookstore, Tyson Cornell's position as director of marketing and publicity for Book Soup has been eliminated. Cornell may be reached at tyson.cornell@gmail.com.
Mamangakis to Scribner.(People)(Christina Mamangakis, Scribner Bookstores Inc.)(Brief article)
November 30, 2009... Christina Mamangakis has joined Scribner as a publicist. She was most recently an associate publicist at Norton, where she worked on publicity campaigns for such books as The Music Room: A Memoir by William Fiennes and Yogi Berra: Eternal Yankee...
Hardcover bestsellers/fiction.
November 30, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In a recent interview, weatherman-turned-mystery author Al Roker said of Patterson, "I marvel at what he does" So here's a look at his 2009 hardcover fiction performance. Cross Country ended a 10-week run on February 9....
Hardcover bestsellers/nonfiction.
November 30, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] What can be said about Palin's runaway bestseller that hasn't already been reported ad infinitum? For starters: 2.65 million copies in print after 10 trips to press. The bus tour, reports the publisher, "has been...
Paperback bestsellers/mass market.
November 30, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Even after 37 bestsellers, Jude Deveraux still considers writing her ideal profession: "You get to stay home and you can work all (lay or skip a day. I love looking at a blank sheet of paper and thinking that I can fill...
Paper bestsellers/trade.
November 30, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "In James's stellar 14th Adam Dalgliesh mystery..., the charismatic police commander knows the case of Rhoda Gradwvn, a 47-year-old journalist murdered soon after the removal of an old disfiguring scar..., may be his...
Audio bestsellers/fiction.
November 30, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Villains change with the times, according to crime-writing doyenne Cornwell. "In the 1990s, we had the luxury to be afraid of the Ted Bundys. Now the monsters are everywhere. Most of us are more afraid of the economy...
Audio bestsellers/nonfiction.
November 30, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In the "spoke too soon" department, Levitt and Dubner thank their readers in the introduction to Superfreakonomics, writing, "One of the benefits of writing books in an age of such cheap and easy communication is that...
St. Paul library's got friends: 'fine print and fine food' celebrated at library fundraiser.(Cover story)(Conference notes)
November 30, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Libraries, authors, publishers, and bookstores have long found ways to collaborate around public programs. When libraries have an important occasion--like an annual gala--publishers often lend their support by...
Frances Coady: puts stamp on Picador as paperback publisher.(CHANGE MAKERS)(Biography)
November 30, 2009... When Frances Coady arrived at Picador in 2000, she spoke to many of her new colleagues in the industry, asking for their impression of Picador. "They seemed immensely confused," Coady says now. "It didn't have a clear identity." People knew...
Man of letters: Thomas Mallon on the art and craft of letter writing over the ages.(Author Profile)(Interview)
November 30, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For all the uneasy transitions facing writers and publishers, it could be worse: you could be the U.S. Postal Service. With the advent of e-mail and other cheap, efficient communication methods, post office volume has...
The Imperfectionists.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 30, 2009... * The Imperfectionists Tom Rachman. Dial, $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0385-34366-4 In his zinger of a debut, Rachman deftly applies his experience as foreign correspondent and editor to chart the goingson at a scrappy English-language newspaper in...
The Escape.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 30, 2009... The Escape Adam Thirlwell. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-374-14878-2 Following the travails of aging libertine Raphael Haffner in a spa town somewhere in Bohemia, this unfortunate picaresque by Thirlwell (The Delighted...
A Thread of Sky.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 30, 2009... A Thread of Sky Deanna Fei. Penguin Press, $24.95 (354p) ISBN 978-1-59420-249-0 When Irene Shen's husband of 30 years walks out on her, she says, "Good riddance," only to learn hours later that he's been killed in a car accident. Stunned by...
So Much for That.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 30, 2009... So Much for That Lionel Shriver. Harper, $25.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-06-145858-3 A risk taker with a protean imagination, Shriver (The Post-Birthday World) has produced another dazzling, provocative novel, a witty and timely exploration of the...
The Heights.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 30, 2009... The Heights Peter Hedges. Dutton, $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-525-95113-1 Hedges's first novel in more than a decade reads a lot like Tom Perrotta minus the satire or Jonathan Tropper with less humor, but Hedges's excellent characterization and...
The Changeling.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 30, 2009... * The Changeling Kenzaburo Oe, trans, from the Japanese by Deborah Boliver Boehm. Grove, $24 (480p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1936-0 In 1997, Juzo Itami, one of Japan's most successful film directors, jumped to his death in Tokyo. Nobel laureate Oe...
The Creation of Eve.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 30, 2009... The Creation of Eve Lynn Cullen. Putnam, $25.95 (400p) ISBN 9780-399-15510-6 The largely unknown story of female Renaissance painter Sofonisba Anguissola (c. 1532-1625) is beautifully imagined here in YA novelist Cullen's sparkling adult debut....
The Girl Who Chased the Moon.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 30, 2009... The Girl Who Chased the Moon Sarah Addison Allen. Bantam, $25 (272p) ISBN 978-0-553-80721-9 Allen's latest (after The Sugar Queen) takes the familiar setup of a young protagonist returning to the small town where her elusive mother was...
The Forty Rules of Love.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 30, 2009... The Forty Rules of Love Elif Shafak, Viking, $25.95 (360p) ISBN 978-0670-02145-1 Celebrated Turkish novelist Shafak (The Bastard of Istanbul) serves up a curious blend of mediocre hen lit and epic historical to underwhelming results. In...
Wake Up Dead.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 30, 2009... * Wake Up Dead Roger Smith. Holt, $25 (304p) ISBN 978-08050-8876-2 At the start of this stellar thriller from South African author Smith (Mixed Blood), Cape Town meth heads Godwynn Macintosh and Disco De Lilly hijack wheelerdealer Joe...
Hush.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 30, 2009... Hush Kate White. Harper, $24.99 (352p) ISBN 978-006-157661-4 Bestseller White, Cosmo's editor-in-chief, takes a break from her Bailey Weggins series (Lethally Blond, etc.) with this stand-alone thriller that generates a real sense of jeopardy...
Baba Yaga Laid an Egg.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 30, 2009... Baba Yaga Laid an Egg Dubravka Ugresic, trans, from the Croatian by Ellen Elias-Bursac, Celia Hawkesworth, and Mark Thompson. Grove, $23 (336p) ISBN 9780-8021-1927-8 Ugresic's postmodern take on myth, femininity, and aging provides a...
Angel's Den.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 30, 2009... Angel's Den Jamie Carie. B&H, $14.99 paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-8054-4814-6 Carie, author of five romances for the Christian market, now offers fans a contrived story set in the early 1800s, the time period noted for exploration of the...
PW talks with Robert Crais: Slaying dragons: Joe Pike, a supporting character in Robert Crais's Elvis Cole series, takes center stage in The First Rule (Reviews, Oct. 26), Crais's second crime thriller to feature Pike.(Q&A)(Interview)
November 30, 2009... Why did you return to Joe Pike? Joe is so different for me to write as a character. In the outline for The Monkey's Raincoat, he was actually supposed to die at the end. That's how smart I am. But when I got to that scene, I just couldn't do...
The Swan Thieves.(Book review)
November 30, 2009... Elizabeth Kostova. Little, Brown, $26.99 (576p) ISBN 978-0-316-06578-8 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Elizabeth Kostova made a dramatic debut in 2005 with her megabestselling The Historian. The first debut novel to hit the New York Times...
Beguiled.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 30, 2009... Beguiled Deeanne Gist and J. Mark Bertrand. Bethany House, $14.99 paper (336p) ISBN 978-0-76420628-3 Veteran romance writer Gist (A Bride Most Begrudging) teams with tyro crime writer Bertrand to create a mix of their specialties. Their...
Doors Open.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 30, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Doors Open Ian Rankin. Little, Brown/Reagan Arthur, $24.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-316-02478-5 In Scottish author Rankin's intricately plotted heist thriller, software millionaire Mike Mackenzie, high-end banker Allan...
Altar of Eden.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 30, 2009... Altar of Eden James Rollins. Morrow, $27.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-061231-42-1 Bestseller Rollins (Subterranean) explores the genetic engineering theme popularized by Jurassic Park, if less imaginatively than, say, Warren Fahy did in his 2009...
Among Thieves.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 30, 2009... Among Thieves David Hosp. Grand Central, $24.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-446-58015-1 The real-life 1990 theft of paintings currently valued at half a billion dollars from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and never recovered provides the...
Not My Daughter.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 30, 2009... Not My Daughter Barbara Delinsky. Doubleday, $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-385-52498-8 Delinsky proves once again why she's a perennial bestsetler with this thoughtprovoking tale of three smart, popular teenage girls who make a pact to become...
An Irish Country Girl.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 30, 2009... An Irish Country Girl Patrick Taylor. Forge, $24.99 (320p)ISBN 9780-7653-2071-1 Taylor (An Irish Country Doctor; etc.) continues his charm streak with this latest dip into Ballybucklebo, Ireland, spinning out the stoW of Kinky Kincaid. Known...
The Blue Orchard.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 30, 2009... The Blue Orchard Jackson Taylor. Touchstone, $14.99 paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-4165-9294-5 In what could be a modern classic, poet and fiction writer Taylor takes an unblinking look at abortion in America many decades before Roe v. Wade....
The Book of Murdock.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 30, 2009... The Book of Murdock Loren D. Estleman. Forge, $23.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1600-4 Prolific western and mystery writer Estleman (The Branch and the Scaffold) combines the best of both in his 43rd novel, an exciting western loaded with...
Lullaby.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 30, 2009... Lullaby Claire Seeber. St. Martin's, $24.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-55577-1 British journalist Seeber begins her debut, an overlong thriller, with a reasonable scenario---an abducted baby, a distraught mother, and a husband under a slight cloud...
Day Out of Days.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 30, 2009... Day Out of Days Sam Shepard. Knopf, $24.95 (304p) ISBN 9780-307-26540-1 Actor and playwright Shepard strikes a world-weary note in his latest (after Great Dream of Heaven). Though billed as a short story collection, there are poems and...
A Matter of Class.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 30, 2009... A Matter of Class Mary Balogh. Perseus/Vanguard, $15.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-59315-554-4 Ah, the arranged marriage. Can even the bestselling Balogh (Seducing an Angel) find anything fresh in this staple of historical romance? The answer, as...
The Biographer.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 30, 2009... * The Biographer Virginia Duigan. Vintage Australia (IPG, dist.), $16.95 paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-74166-715-8 In this searingly honest novel from Australian author Duigan (Days Like These), Greer Gordon, who abandoned her husband for...
Heard It All Before.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 30, 2009... Heard It All Before Michele Grant. Kensington/Dafina, $14 paper (336p) ISBN 978-0-7582-4219-8 Grant's scorching debut follows the pursuit of love and happiness for Dallas girls Jewellen Capwell and Renee Nightingale and their possibly very...
The Darker Sex: Tales of the Supernatural and Macabre by Victorian Women Writers.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 30, 2009... The Darker Sex: Tales of the Supernatural and Macabre by Victorian Women Writers Edited by Mike Ashley. Peter Owen (Dufour, dist.), $19.95 paper (253p) ISBN 978-0-72061335-3 Prolific editor Ashley (The Mammoth Book of Fantasy) does his...
Once in a Lifetime.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 30, 2009... Once in a Lifetime Cathy Kelly. Pocket, $16 paper (400p) ISBN 978-1-4165-8625-8 Kelly (What She Wants), whose novels routinely hit #1 on bestseller lists in Ireland, sets her seventh heartbreaker in Kenny's Department Store in the small Irish...
Richmond Noir.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 30, 2009... Richmond Noir Edited by Andrew Blossom, Brian Castleberry, and Tom De Haven. Akashic, $15.95 paper (290p) ISBN 978-1-933354-98-9 David L. Robbins's "Homework," a moving account of a brief encounter between a burglar and a teacher, stands head...
Broken Places.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 30, 2009... * Broken Places Sandra Parshall. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (308p) ISBN 978-1-59058-653-2; $14.95 paper ISBN 978-1-59058-710-2 Near the start of Parshall's excellent third Rachel Goddard mystery (after 2007's Disturbing the Dead), the Mason County,...
Bellfield Hall: A Dido Kent Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 30, 2009... Bellfield Hall: A Dido Kent Mystery Anna Dean. Minotaur, $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-56294-6 Dean's promising debut, the first in a new historical series, introduces Dido Kent, a single lady of a certain age who's not too old to regret she...
Tattoo.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 30, 2009... Tattoo Manuel Vazquez Montalban, trans, from the Spanish by Nick Caistor. Serpent's Tail, $14.95 paper (232p) ISBN 978-1-84668-667-2 Those who prefer getting inside characters' heads to figuring out whodunit will enjoy this mystery in...
Let It Ride.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 30, 2009... Let It Ride John McFetridge. Minotaur, $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-59948-5 Too many characters and points of view throw off the rhythm of this sprawling homage to caper-master Elmore Leonard from Canadian author McFetridge (Everybody Knows...
Diary of a Confessions Queen.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 30, 2009... Diary of a Confessions Queen Kathy Carmichael. Medallion (IPG, dist.), $15.95 paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-60542-095-0 Sprightly humor and eccentric characters invigorate this chick lit cozy from romance writer Carmichael (Hot Flash). Amy Crosby,...
Ticket to Ride.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 30, 2009... Ticket to Ride Ed Gorman. Pegasus (Norton, dist.), $25 (240p) ISBN 978-1-60598-070-6 Smalltown small-mindedness drives Gorman's entertaining eighth mystery to feature lawyer Sam McCain (after 2007's Fools Rush In). As the Vietnam war...
Death at the Alma Mater.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 30, 2009... Death at the Alma Mater G.M. Malliet. Midnight Ink (www.midnightinkbooks.com), $14.95 paper (312p) ISBN 978-0 7387-1967-2 At the start of Agatha-winner Malliet's witty third cozy to feature Det. Chief Insp. Arthur St. Just (after 2009's Death...
Angelic.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 30, 2009... Angelic Kelley Armstrong. Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $20 (104p) ISBN 978-159606-246-7 Armstrong (No Humans Involved) skimps on character development and plot in this novella, but makes up for it with accessible prose and a...
Starbound.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 30, 2009... Starbound Joe Haldeman. Ace, $24.95 (304p) ISBN 9780-441-01817-8 The workmanlike sequel to 2008's Marsbound continues the adventures of red planet colonist Carmen "The Mars Girl" Dula and her pilot husband, Paul Collins, as they set out on a...
Arms-Commander.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 30, 2009... Arms-Commander L.E. Modesitt Jr. Tor, $27.99 (528p) ISBN 9780-7653-2381-1 Modesitt's 16th Reduce novel (after 2008's Mage-Guard of Hamor) continues the story of Westwind, an all-female enclave in a feudalistic world. Westwind's chauvinistic,...
Galileo's Dream.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 30, 2009... Galileo's Dream Kim Stanley Robinson. Spectra, $26 (544p) ISBN 978-0-553-80659-5 The creative imagination of Hugo, Nebula, and Locus--winner Robinson (The Years of Rice and Salt) is on display in this offbeat novel of scientific discovery. In...
Dust of Dreams: Book 9 of the Malazan Book of the Fallen.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 30, 2009... Dust of Dreams: Book 9 of the Malazan Book of the Fallen Steven Edkson. Tor, $29.99 (832p) ISBN 978-07653-1009-5; $17.99 paper ISBN 978-0-7653-16554 Ragged armies and gods old and new collide in the dizzyingly complex penultimate tale of the...
Chalice of Roses.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 30, 2009... Chalice of Roses Jo Beverley, Mary Jo Putney, Karen Harbaugh, and Barbara Samuel. Signet Eclipse, $15 paper (400p) ISBN 978-0-451-22902-1 Four engaging novellas bring romance to the legend of the Holy Grail. In Beverley's "The Raven and the...
The Sculptor.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 30, 2009... The Sculptor Gregory Funaro. Pinnacle, $6.99 (352) ISBN 978-0-7860-2212-0 A serial killer calling himself the Sculptor, who reshapes his victims into replicas of works by Michelangelo, sends creepy messages to art historian Cathy Hildebrant....
Heart's Blood.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 30, 2009... Heart's Blood GaB Dayton. Tor, $6.99 (432p) ISBN 978-07653-6251-3 Love and magic collide in the thrilling sequel to 2009's New Blood. Orphaned sorceress Pearl Parkin lives on the rough streets of Victorian London, disguised as a boy for her...
Dead Air.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 30, 2009... Dead Air Mary Kennedy. Obsidian, $6.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-451-22877-2 Clinical psychologist and young adult author Kennedy (Secrets of a South Beach Princess) ventures into the amateur sleuth world with this slight mystery. Licensed...
Spellbent.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 30, 2009... * Spellbent Lucy A. Snyder. Ballantine, $7.99 (360p) ISBN 978-0-345-51209-3 Snyder combines the best of Jim Butcher and T.A. Pratt in this wildly imaginative and intensely gripping urban fantasy trilogy launch. When an innocent spell somehow...
Afrodisiac.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 30, 2009... Afrodisiac Jim Rugg and Brian Maruca. AdHouse (www.adhousebooks.com), $ 14.95 (96p) ISBH 9781-935233-06-0 From the creators of the excellent Street Angel comes this thoroughly entertaining and utterly nutso pastiche of several eras of...
Graphic Classics: Louisa May Alcott.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 30, 2009... Graphic Classics: Louisa May Alcott Louisa May Alcott and various. Eureka (www.graphicclassics.com), $17.95 paper (144p) ISBN 978-0-9787919-8-8 To give readers a broader understanding of classic writers, books in this ongoing series include...
