Publishers Weekly articles from September 2006, page 2

Publishers Weekly archives from September 2006

Plumage from Pegasus.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... * Plumage from Pegasus PAUL DI FILIPPO. Cosmos (www.cosmos-books.com), $32.95 (280p) ISBN 978-0-8095-5609-0 Nothing is sacred to Di Filippo (Ribofunk), as shown in this hilarious collection of parodies and other satirical writings that...

Weatherwitch: Book Three of the Crowthistle Chronicles.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... Weatherwitch: Book Three of the Crowthistle Chronicles CECILIA DART-THORNTON. Tor, $27.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-765-31207-5 Australian author Dart-Thornton shifts to the next generation of weathermasters in her third fey-filled installment in...

Spears of God.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... Spears of God HOWARD V. HENDRIX. Del Rey, $14.95 paper (432p) ISBN 978-0-345-45598-7 Hendrix's latest overstuffed near-future thriller (after 2005's The Labyrinth Key) tracks a multiparty global race to control various meteorites that...

The Android's Dream.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... The Android's Dream JOHN SCALZI. Tor, $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-765-30941-9 Scalzi's swashbuckling satire of interstellar diplomacy (after 2005's Old Man's War) stars Harry Creek a low-level State Department deliverer of bad news to alien...

Wild Things.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... Wild Things DOUGLAS CLEGG. Cemetery Dance (www.cemeterydance.com), $20 (98p) ISBN 978-1-58767-156-2 Clegg (The Machinery of Night) shows how the bestial aspects of horror and humanity are interchangeable in this quartet of psychological...

Clew.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... Clew ANGELA JOOSTE. Prime (www.primebooks.com), $29.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-8095-5607-6 First-time novelist Jooste blends story lines and perspectives in this awkwardly tender love story. Theo, an English professor whose creative work has...

Dark Harvest.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... * Dark Harvest NORMAN PARTRIDGE. Cemetery Dance (www.cemeterydance.com), $40 (172p) ISBN 978-1-58767-147-0 At the start of this mesmerizing new fantasy from Partridge (Mr. Fox and Other Feral Tales), it's Halloween night in 1963 in...

Passionate Thirst.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... Passionate Thirst CAMERON DEAN. Ballantine, $6.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-345-49253-1 In her debut paranormal romance, Dean strives for a mix of sensuality and action a la Laurell K. Hamilton, but the result more closely resembles a grown-up...

Cold as Ice.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... Cold as Ice ANNE STUART. Mira, $6.99 (464p) ISBN 978-0-7783-2356-3 In Anne Stuart's strong follow-up to 2005's spectacular Black Ice, supporting player Peter Jensen moves into the leading role in a romantic suspense story pitting him and...

Billionaires Prefer Blondes.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... Billionaires Prefer Blondes SUZANNE ENOCH. Avon, $6.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-087522-0 Fans of contemporary romantic capers will eat up the third tale of retired cat burglar Samantha Jellicoe and her British billionaire boyfriend, Rick...

No Regrets and Other True Cases: Ann Rule's Crime Files Vol. 11.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... * No Regrets and Other True Cases: Ann Rule's Crime Files Vol. 11 ANN RULE. Pocket Star, $7.99 (411p) ISBN 978-0-7434-4875-8 Prolific and talented true crime author Rule proves her warranted reputation as one of the genre's leading lights...

Action Philosophers Giant-Size Thing.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... Action Philosophers Giant-Size Thing FRED VAN LENTE AND RYAN DUNLAVEY. Evil Twin (www.eviltwincomics.com), $8.95 paper (96p) ISBN 0-9778329-10 The rise of "herd chic" has been in the news of late, and if this lovable comic book series...

Agnes Quill: An Anthology of Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... Agnes Quill: An Anthology of Mystery DAVE ROMAN, RAINA TELGEMEIER, JASON HO AND VARIOUS. Slave Labor Graphics, $10.95 paper (136p)ISBN 1-59362-052-7 Agnes Quill is an odd girl. At the age of 16 she inherits not only her grandfather's...

Making Comics.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... * Making Comics SCOTT MCCLOUD. Harper, $22.95 (272p) ISBN 0-06-078094-0 Every medium should be lucky enough to have a taxonomist as brilliant as McCloud. The followup to his pioneering Understanding Comics (and its flawed sequel...

Jonah Hex: Face Full of Violence.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... Jonah Hex: A Face Full of Violence JIMMY PALMIOTTI, JUSTIN GRAY, LUKE ROSS AND TONY DEZUNIGA. DC Comics, $12.99 paper (144p) ISBN 14012-1095-3 Grotesquely deformed cowboys don't die, they come back to fight another day in the hands of...

Comic Volume 1.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... Comic Volume 1 SIHYUN HA. Ice Kunion (www.icekunion.com), $10.95 paper (200p)ISBN 89-527-4607-4 Alice Song may just be a high school student, but she dreams of drawing manhwa--Korean comics. When she wins a contest sponsored by a manhwa...

African Queen: The Real Life of the Hottentot Venus.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... African Queen: The Real Life of the Hottentot Venus RACHEL HOLMES. Random, $22.95 (192p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6136-9 Acelebrated "human curiosity," exhibited in 1810 in London and Paris for her larger-than-average posterior, the so-called...

American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... American Bloomsbury SUSAN CHEEVER. Simon & Schuster, $26 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7432-6461-7 This beguiling book is Cheever's exploration of the extraordinary cross-fertilization of creativity in Concord, Mass., during the mid-19th century,...

The Lady in the Palazzo: At Home in Umbria.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... The Lady in the Palazzo: At Home in Umbria MARLENA DE BLASI. Algonquin, $23.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-56512-473-8 Following A Thousand Days in Venice and A Thousand Days in Tuscany, de Blasi's new book, set in Orvieto, is ostensibly about her...

The Gospel of Food: Why We Eat the Way We Do.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... The Gospel of Food: Why We Eat the Way We Do BARRY GLaSSNER. Ecco, $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-050121-1 In his latest debunking project (after The Culture of Fear), sociologist Glassner argues that "everything you think you know about...

PW talks with Maryanne Vollers: probing a heart of darkness.(Q&A)(Interview)
September 25, 2006... Maryanne Vollers, author of Ghosts of Mississippi and Ice Bound and unnamed co-author of Hillary Clinton's Living History, explores the case of bomber Eric Robert Rudolph (Lone Wolf, reviewed D. 55). What attracted you to Rudolph's story?...

The River of Lost Footsteps: Histories of Burma.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... * The River of Lost Footsteps: Histories of Burma THANT MYINT-U. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-374-16342-6 Analysis of Burma has been "singularly a historical," Thant Myint-U (The Making of Modern Burma), a senior officer...

Healing Invisible Wounds: Paths to Hope and Recovery in a Violent World.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... Healing Invisible Wounds: Paths to Hope and Recovery in a Violent World RICHARD F. MOLLICA. Harcourt, $26 (288p) ISBN 0-15-101036-6 Mollica breaks with what he says is the conventional wisdom that torture victims are untreatable. In...

Conan Doyle, Detective: True Crimes Investigated by the Creator of Sherlock Holmes.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... Conan Doyle, Detective: True Crimes Investigated by the Creator of Sherlock Holmes PETER COSTELLO. Carroll & Graf, $15.95 paper (256p) ISBN 978-0-78671-855-9 Costello (James Joyce), an Irish writer, presents a welcome study of Sir Arthur...

The Scientist as Rebel.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... * The Scientist as Rebel FREEMAN DYSON. New York Review Books, $27.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-59017-216-2 In an eclectic but deeply satisfying collection, Dyson, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and prolific author (Weapons and Hope), presents...

Lone Wolf: Eric Rudolph: Murder, Myth, and the Pursuit of an American Outlaw.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... * Lone Wolf: Eric Rudolph: Murder, Myth, and the Pursuit of an American Outlaw MARYANNE VOLLERS. HarperCollins, $25.95 (352p) ISBN 0-06-059862-X Eric Rudolph, who in 1996 and 1997 set off deadly bombs in Atlanta and Birmingham--at two...

The Science of Orgasm.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... The Science of Orgasm BARRY R. KOMISARUK, CARLOS BEYER-FLORES AND BEVERLY WHIPPLE. Johns Hopkins Univ., $25 (280p) ISBN 978-0-8018-8490-X Behind its tongue-in-cheek "plain brown wrapper" cover, this unique book offers a thorough...

The End of the Line: How Overfishing Is Changing the World and What We Eat.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... * The End of the Line: How Overfishing Is Changing the World and What We Eat CHARLES CLOVER. New Press, $26.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-59558-109-9 In this devastating book, first published in Great Britain and now revised and updated for North...

Darwin Loves You: Natural Selection and the Re-Enchantment of the World.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... Darwin Loves You: Natural Selection and the Re-enchantment of the World GEORGE LEVINE. Princeton Univ., $29.95 (280p) ISBN 0-691-12663-1 Although the bumper-sticker title seems glib, Levine's book is most assuredly not. It will be a...

Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense JONATHAN D. MORENO. Dana (Univ. of Chicago, dist.), $23.95 (205p) ISBN 1-932594-16-7 Imagine a future conflict in which one side can scan from a distance the brains of soldiers on the other...

A Small Moment of Great Illumination: Searching for Valentine Greatrakes, the Master Healer.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... A Small Moment of Great Illumination: Searching for Valentine Greatrakes, the Master Healer LEONARD PITT. Shoemaker & Hoard, $22 (224p)ISBN 978-1-59376-126-4 Pitt (Walks Through Lost Paris) delves into the life and times of the now...

Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Rise of the Lesbian Rights Movement.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Rise of the Lesbian Rights Movement MARCIA M. GALLO. Carroll & Graf, $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-78671-634-0 The Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) may be little known today, but...

The Lavender Locker Room: 3000 Years of Great Athletes Whose Sexual Orientation was Different.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... The Lavender Locker Room: 3000 Years of Great Athletes Whose Sexual Orientation was Different PATRICIA NELL WARREN. Wildcat (wildcatintl.com), $24.95 (360p) ISBN 978-1-889135-07-6 Speculating about who's gay and who isn't has long been a...

Color of Violence: The Incite! Anthology.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... Color of Violence: The Incite! Anthology INCITE! WOMEN OF COLOR AGAINST VIOLENCE. South End, $19 (312p) ISBN 0-89608-762-X Anyone who's complacent about the successes of the feminist movement should dip into this collection of 28 essays...

What Was Asked of Us: An Oral History of the Iraq War by the Soldiers Who Fought It.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... What Was Asked of Us: An Oral History of the Iraq War by the Soldiers Who Fought It TRISH WOOD. Little, Brown, $25.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-316-01670-4 The thing about fighting in a war, relates one soldier in this penetrating, terrifying...

We Were One: Shoulder to Shoulder with the Marines Who Took Fallujah.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... We Were One: Shoulder to Shoulder with the Marines Who Took Fallujah PATRICK K. O'DONNELL. Da Capo, $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-306-81469-3 Military historian O'Donnell Onto the Rising Sun) embedded himself in the 1st Platoon of Lima Company,...

Baghdad Burning II: More Girl Blog from Iraq.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... Baghdad Burning II: More Girl Blog from Iraq RIVERBEND, INTRO. BY JAMES RIDGEWAY AND JEAN CASELLA. Feminist, $14.95 paper (224p) ISBN 1-55861-529-6 The distinctive voice of pseudonymous Riverbend shines through this continuation of her...

Evil Hour in Colombia.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... Evil Hour in Colombia FOREST HYLTON. Verso, $23 (174p) ISBN 978-1-84467-551-7 Colombia's long-drawn-out internal strife between guerrillas, paramilitaries and the state is confusing to many outsiders. The numerous groups fighting for...

The Gettysburg Gospel: The Lincoln Speech That Nobody Knows.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... * The Gettysburg Gospel: The Lincoln Speech That Nobody Knows GABOR BORITT. Simon & Schuster, $28 (432p) ISBN 0-7432-8820-3 In this engrossing study, Civil War scholar Boritt (editor of The Lincoln Enigma) offers a revealing history of...

Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... * Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man HUGH SEBAG-MONTEFIORE. Harvard Univ., $35 (701p) ISBN 0-674-02439-7 Sebag-Montefiore (Enigma: The Battle for the Code) exploits a gap in the U voluminous Dunkirk historiography for this first-rate account...

Howl on Trial: The Battle for Free Expression.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... Howl on Trial: The Battle for Free Expression EDITED BY BILL MORGAN AND NANCY J. PETERS. City Lights, $14.95 paper (224p) ISBN 0-87286-479-0 For the 50th anniversary of the publication of Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems, the poet's...

Best Food Writing 2006.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... Best Food Writing 2006 EDITED BY HOLLY HUGHES. Marlowe, $15.95 paper (400p) ISBN 1-56924-287-9 In this excellent collection, Hughes brings together an eclectic mix of writing by restaurant reviewers, chefs, food writers and food lovers...

How I Learned to Cook: Culinary Educations from the World's Greatest Chefs.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... How I Learned to Cook: Culinary Educations from the World's Greatest Chefs EDITED BY KIMBERLY WITHERSPOON AND PETER MEEHAN. Bloomsbury, $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-59691-247-2 Forty chefs representing notable restaurants all over the world...

Tunney: Boxing's Brainiest Champ and His Upset of the Great Jack Dempsey.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... Tunney: Boxing's Brainiest Champ and His Upset of the Great Jack Dempsey JACK CAVANAUGH. Random, $27.95 (474p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6009-2 On September 23, 1926, in Philadelphia, Gene Tunney easily defeated Jack Dempsey for the title of...

Pimps, Hos, Playa Hatas, and All the Rest of My Hollywood Friends: My Life.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... Pimps, Hos, Playa Haters, and All the Rest of My Hollywood Friends JOHN LEGUIZAMO. Ecco, $25.95 (320p) ISBN 0-06-052071-X In this brash autobiography, comic Leguizamo recalls a life lived "on the fine line between acting and acting out."...

Spy: The Funny Years.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... Spy: The Funny Years KURT ANDERSEN, GRAYDON CARTER AND GEORGE KALOGERAKIS. Miramax, $25 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4013-5239-4 With equal parts nostalgia and snarkiness, this history /anthology celebrates the now legendary satirical magazine...

Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... * Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination NEAL GABLER. Knopf, $35 (816p) ISBN 978-0-679-43822-9 Few men could be said to have as pervasive an influence on American culture as Walt Disney, and Gabler (Winchell) scours the...

Incognito Street: How Travel Made Me a Writer.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... Incognito Street: How Travel Made Me a Writer BARBARA SJOHOLM. Seal, (327p) ISBN 978-1-58005-172-9 Sjoholm (The Pirate Queen, and Blue Windows as pen name Barbara Wilson) shares the story of how she became a writer. Barely 20 in 1970,...

Challenging the Pacific: the First Woman to Row the Kon-Tiki Route.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... Challenging the Pacific: The First Woman to Row the Kon-Tiki Route MAUD FONTENOY, TRANS. FROM THE FRENCH BY ANTHONY ROBERTS. Arcade, $24 (168p) ISBN 978-1-55970-818-0 In 2003, 25-year-old Fontenoy was the first woman to row solo across...

The Woman of Substance: the Secret Life that Inspired the Renowned Storyteller Barbara Taylor Bradford.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... The Woman of Substance: The Secret Life That Inspired the Renowned Storyteller Barbara Taylor Bradford PIERS DUDGEON. St. Martin's, $23.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-35340-7 Dudgeon, a British biographer with books on Catherine Cookson and...

The Wisdom of Uncle Kasimir.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... The Wisdom of Uncle Kasimir EDITED BY GABI CZERNIAK AND WILLIAM CZERNIAK-JONES. Bloomsbury, $14.95 paper (272p) ISBN 978-1-59691-151-2 Born in 1918 in Poland, Kasimir Czerniak was a WWII soldier and spy who was penniless in 1945. Arriving...

The Diary of an Honest Mum.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... The Diary of an Honest Mum JOOLS OLIVER. Hyperion, $23.95 (320p) ISBN 1-4013-0270-X Memoirs on motherhood focus either on a particular aspect, like a preemie birth or juggling work and baby, or are otherwise beautifully written,...

The Maui Millionaires: Discover the Secrets Behind the World's Most Exclusive Wealth Retreat and Become Financially Free.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... The Maui Millionaires: Discover the Secrets Behind the World's Most Exclusive Wealth Retreat and Become Financially Free DAVID FINKEL AND DIANE KENNEDY. Wiley, $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-470-04537-4 Being invited into a secret gathering of...

Riding the Blue Train: A Leadership Plan for Explosive Growth.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... Riding the Blue Train: A Leadership Plan for Explosive Growth BART SAYLE AND SURINDER KUMAR. Portfolio, $24.95 (222p) ISBN 1-59184-135-6 Sayle and Kumar's "breakthrough" management style turns out to be little more than self-help...

The Speed of Trust: Why Trust is the Ultimate Determinant of Success or Failure in Your Relationships, Career and Life.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... The Speed of Trust: Why Trust Is the Ultimate Determinant of Success or Failure in Your Relationships, Career and Life STEPHEN M.R. COVEY. Free Press, $26 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7432-9730-1 Trust is so integral to our relationships that we...

Diana.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... Diana SARAH BRADFORD. Viking, $25.95 (464p) ISBN 0-670-03807-5 This biography of the doomed Princess of Wales by Bradford, an experienced British celebrity biographer, was published with far less fanfare, though also embargoed, than the...

Short Trip to the Edge: Where Earth Meets Heaven--a Pilgrimage.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... Short Trip to the Edge: Where Earth Meets Heaven--A Pilgrimage SCOTT CAIRNS. Harper San Francisco, $22.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-084322-9 As a former Baptist who passed through the Presbyterian and Episcopal churches on his way to the...

China's Sacred Sites.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... China's Sacred Sites NAN SHUN-XUN AND BEVERLY FOIT-ALBERT. Himalayan Institute, $49.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-89389-262-3 This stunning volume, co-written by two architects, suggests that Chinese religious architecture is fundamentally...

What Makes You Not a Buddhist.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... What Makes You Not a Buddhist DZONGSAR JAMYANG KHYENTSE. Shambhala, $19.95 (128p) ISBN 978-159030-406-8 Here at last is a crisp new voice in Tibetan Buddhism. Khyentse, a lama from an influential family and Buddhist lineage in Bhutan, is...

Confessions of an Amateur Believer.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... * Confessions of an Amateur Believer PATTY KIRK. Nelson, $13.99 paper (275p) ISBN 978-0-7852-2041-1 Kirk came to Christian faith kicking and screaming after years as a lapsed-Catholic atheist, but once in the fold she embraced her...

The Chocolate Cake Sutra: Ingredients for a Sweet Life.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... The Chocolate Cake Sutra: Ingredients for a Sweet Life GERI LARKIN. Harper San Francisco, $22.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-083695-5 Because everyone yearns for a recipe for a fruitful life, many may gravitate to this friendly, accessible...

Chanting the Psalms: A Practical Guide with Instructional CD.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... * Chanting the Psalms: A Practical Guide with Instructional CD CYNTHIA BOURGEAULT. Shambhala/New Seeds, $18.95 (240p) ISBN 1-59030-257-5 The pointed and shaking finger of our adamant inner schoolteachers often accompanies calls to engage...

The Thrill of the Chaste: Finding Fulfillment While Keeping Your Clothes On.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... The Thrill of the Chaste: Finding Fulfillment While Keeping Your Clothes On DAWN EDEN. W, $13.99 paper (224p) ISBN 0-8499-1311-X New York Daily News columnist and blogger Eden offers a Christian apologetic for premarital chastity, aimed...

Science and the Search for Meaning: Perspectives from International Scientists.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... Science and the Search for Meaning: Perspectives from International Scientists EDITED BY JEAN STAUNE. Templeton, $24.95 paper (272p) ISBN 1-59947-102-7 Into the already overcrowded science-and-religion field comes this collection of...

The Way into the Varieties of Jewishness.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... * The Way into the Varieties of Jewishness SYLVIA BARACK FISHMAN. Jewish Lights, $24.99 (250p) ISBN 1-58023-030-X Anyone who's befuddled by the differences among Jewish communities will appreciate this marvelous primer by Brandeis...

Evil and the Justice of God.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... Evil and the Justice of God N.T. WRIGHT. InterVarsity, $18 (192p) ISBN 0-8308-3398-6 Why does evil persist in a world created by a good God? And why does the church seem so feeble in counteracting evil? Wright, a New Testament scholar...

The Little Book of Hindu Deities: From the Goddess of Wrath to the Sacred Cow.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... The Little Book of Hindu Deities: From the Goddess of Wrath to the Sacred Cow SANJAY PATEL. Plume, $14 paper (144p) ISBN 0-452-28775-8 Don't mess with Kali, cautions Patel on the opening page of this arresting, innovative, entertaining...

The Love There That's Sleeping: The Art and Spirituality of George Harrison.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... The Love There That's Sleeping: The Art and Spirituality of George Harrison DALE C. ALLISON JR. Continuum, $17.95 paper (176p) ISBN 0-8264-1917-8 Allison, who teaches New Testament at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, turns to religion...

Kabbalah: A Brief Introduction for Christians.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... Kabbalah: A Brief Introduction for Christians TAMAR FRANKIEL. Jewish Lights, $16.99 (176p) ISBN 1-58023-303-1 God isn't only for Jews and neither is Kabbalah," according to Frankiel. Maintaining that "Kabbalah as a theosophy is primarily...

I Have a Little Dreidel.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... I Have a Little Dreidel MAXIE BAUM, ILLUS. BY JULIE PASCHKIS. Scholastic/Cartwheel, $9.99 ISBN 0-439-64997-8 The popular Jewish tune gets a heartfelt makeover, thanks to Baum's new lyrics and Paschkis's (Yellow Elephant) cheery,...

The Miracle of Hanukkah.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)(Children's review)
September 25, 2006... The Miracle of Hanukkah SEYMOUR CHWAST. Blue Apple (Chronicle, dist.), $14.95 (28p) ISBN 1-59354-157-0 Chwast (The Left-Handed Designer) opts for a "just the facts" approach to the Hanukkah story--but since he's also one of the leading...

Eight Wild Nights: A Family Hanukkah Tale.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... Eight Wild Nights: A Family Hanukkah Tale BRIAN P. CLEARY, ILLUS. BY DAVID UDOVIC. Lerner/Kar-Ben, $16.95 (24p) ISBN 1-58013-152-2 While the family in I Have a Little Dreidel is the very picture of heimish, the ties that bind in this...

Hanukkah at Valley Forge.(book)(Brief article)(Children's Review)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... * Hanukkah at Valley Forge STEPHEN KRENSKY, ILLUS. BY GREG HARLIN. Dutton, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 0-525-47738-1 The young Jewish soldier at the center of this story doesn't seem to have much to celebrate. Nonetheless, he dons a yarmulke and...

Christmas Remembered.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... Christmas Remembered TOMIE DEPAOLA. Putnam, $19.99 (96p) ISBN 0-399-24622-3 DePaola (26 Fairmount Avenue) waxes nostalgic in slightly new territory here--a series of autobiographical vignettes of Christmases past aimed at an audience...

The Night Before Christmas.(Brief article)(Book review)(Children's review)
September 25, 2006... * The Night Before Christmas CLEMENT C. MOORE, ILLUS. BY WILL MOSES. Philomel, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 0-399-23745-3 Moses (Silent Night) does his family legacy proud, putting his own cozy folk-style stamp on this much-loved holiday poem, a...

The Night Before Christmas.
September 25, 2006... * The Night Before Christmas CLEMENT C. MOORE, ILLUS. BY GENNADY SPIRIN. Cavendish, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 0-7614-5298-2 Spirin's (The Tale of the Firebird) luxurious watercolor-and-colored pencil compositions whisk readers to what looks like...

A Creature Was Stirring.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... A Creature Was Stirring ADAPTED AND ILLUSTRATED BY CARTER GOODRICH. S&S, $16.95 (40p) ISBN 0-689-86399-3 Forget mice. A wide-eyed boy is the kind of creature Clement C. Moore would not have imagined scurrying around while the events of...

How the Easter Bunny Saved Christmas.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)(Children's review)
September 25, 2006... How the Easter Bunny Saved Christmas DEREK ANDERSON. S&S, $15.95 (40p) ISBN 0-689-87634-3 What if Santa couldn't make his appointed Christmas Eve rounds? Anderson (the Little Quack series) imagines this unthinkable scenario by providing...

Mrs. Claus Takes a Vacation.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)(Children's review)
September 25, 2006... Mrs. Claus Takes a Vacation LINAS ALSENAS. Scholastic, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 0-439-77978-2 Tired of "snow, snow, and more snow!" a cranky Mrs. Claus packs her bags and her passport to see a bit more of the world in this playful peek at the...

I've Seen Santa!(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... I've Seen Santa! DAVID BEDFORD, ILLUS. BY TIM WARNES. Tiger Tales, $15.95 (32p) ISBN 1-58925-058-3 Curious about Santa's impending visit, Little Bear stays awake on Christmas Eve, determined to catch St. Nick in action. The cub finds...

Merry Un-Christmas.(book)(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... Merry Un-Christmas MIKE REISS, ILLUS. BY DAVID CATROW. HarperCollins, $15.99 (32p) ISBN 0-06-059126-9 Is it possible to have too much Christmas? For Noelle, a resident of Christmas City, Texmas, where it's Christmas 364 days a year, the...

Pablo's Christmas.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 25, 2006... Pablo's Christmas HUGO C. MARTIN, ILLUS. BY LEE CHAPMAN. Sterling, $14.95 (24p)ISBN 1-4027-2560-4 Christmas South of the border for Pablo and his family isn't looking so merry with money scarce, and Papa away finding extra work. But the...

Christmas Eve Magic.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)(Children's review)
September 25, 2006... Christmas Eve Magic LUCIE PAPINEAU, ILLUS. BY STEPHANE POULIN. Kids Can, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 1-55337-953-5 The ghosts of classics past float through Papineau's (No Spots for Gilda the Giraffe!) paper-overboard homage to Dickens, starring a...

Mystery in the Stable.(book)(Brief article)(Book review)(Children's review)
September 25, 2006... Mystery in the Stable LISA FLINN AND BARBARA YOUNGER, ILLUS. BY JUDI NIERNBERGER. Abingdon, $18 (32p) ISBN 0-687-49336-6 What's all the commotion in the stable behind the inn? That's the logical question of Jacob and Anna, siblings living...