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|  | Kostova, Elizabeth THE SWAN THIEVES
November 09, 2009 - Kostova follows up her blockbuster debut about the undead (The Historian, 2005) with a romance about a contemporary painter's obsession with an undiscovered 19th-century Impressionist...Neither Robert's decisions nor Marlow's make a lot of sense, but lush prose and abundant drama will render logic beside the point for most readers. 
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| | Agassi, Andre OPEN
November 09, 2009 - Enigmatic tennis great Agassi lays it all on the line...From a heart-wrenching childhood loss to a cheating Jeff Tarango to his last professional victory, a brutal five-setter against Marcos Baghdatis, Agassi's photographic recall of pivotal matches evokes the raw intensity of watching them from the stands. Lovers of the sport will also appreciate this window into the mind of a champion
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| Current Issue: Fiction |
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 | Ferris, Joshua THE UNNAMED
November 15, 2009 - Tim Farnsworth's condition has no name (hence the title), and it may disappear for years at a time, but when it returns, Tim feels compelled to walk with no destination, to the point of exhaustion, abandoning all responsibilities of work and family |
| Hoag, Tami DEEPER THAN THE DEAD
November 15, 2009 - On their way home from school, three fifth-graders take a detour through a neighboring woods and oh, how they'll wish they hadn't. It's a fateful detour with agonizing consequences that will render their lives nightmarish. They stumble on the corpse |
| Rash, Ron BURNING BRIGHT
November 15, 2009 - The scourge of meth addiction ravages North Carolina's mountain communities in three of these 12 stories. For Devon, playing guitar for the wasted wretches at a funky roadhouse in "Waiting for the End of the World," it's mordant humor that gets him |
| Current Issue: Nonfiction |
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| Friedman, Andrew KNIVES AT DAWN
November 15, 2009 - Food and tennis writer Friedman (co-author, with Pino Luongo: Dirty Dishes: A Restaurateur's Story of Passion, Pain, and Pasta, 2008, etc.) dynamically illustrates the colorful personalities, ego-battering conflicts, career-defining aspirations, |
| Hansen, James STORMS OF MY GRANDCHILDREN
November 15, 2009 - After sounding the climate alarm in papers and conferences for two decades, here Hansen takes off the gloves, faulting "the undue influence of special interests and government greenwash" for the failure to take the actions necessary to stabilize |
| Hoare, Philip THE WHALE
November 15, 2009 - The author approaches his subject with fascination, with the creatures themselves, but also their environment: the ports that grew in their wake, the literature they spawned and, of course, the ocean, captured by Thoreau just the way Hoare likes |
| Ingrassia, Paul CRASH COURSE
November 15, 2009 - In the mid 1920s, Henry Ford, mass production's inventor, outsold all competitors combined. General Motors CEO Alfred Sloan pioneered mass marketing—"a car for every purse and purpose"—and hired the auto industry's first design staff. Walter |
| Thomson, David BETTE DAVIS
November 15, 2009 - Eminent film critic Thomson (The Moment of Psycho: How Alfred Hitchcock Taught America to Love Murder, 2009, etc.) brings a historian's acumen and poet's sensibility to his portraits of Bette Davis, Ingrid Bergman (ISBN: 978-0-86547-934-0), Humphrey |
| Current Issue: Children's |
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| Alton, Steve BLOOD AND GOO AND BOOGERS TOO!
November 15, 2009 - You just know a book with an ooey-gooey touch-and-feel booger on the cover has got to be good, and this gleefully gross pop-up doesn't disappoint. With a scope that includes the respiratory and circulatory systems, the book moves from the nose and |
| Carter, David A. WHITE NOISE
November 15, 2009 - Noises in most pop-up books are accidents: An over-glued element gets unstuck, or—horrors—rips entirely. But this, the fifth and last in Carter's Color series (600 Black Spots, 2007, etc.), actively crackles, tinkles and creaks. Using his customary |
| Hodgkinson, Leigh SMILE!
November 15, 2009 - When her mom says no to more cookies, chipper little Sunny loses her smile and searches the whole house hoping to get it back. She peers under the bed, sifts through the couch and questions poor Glittergills the goldfish. Even with a small, |
| Parker, Jake MISSILE MOUSE
November 15, 2009 - When his mission to recover an ancient star compass goes wrong, intrepid Galactic Security Agent Missile Mouse finds himself saddled with a partner. Agent Hyde, the son of a senator and a rookie, is willing to please, but part of his job (according |
| Shelton, Paula Young CHILD OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
November 15, 2009 - Civil rights can be a difficult topic, even for adults, so finding simple language to explain the complexity of injustice and oppression to children is challenging. Shelton, daughter of Andrew Young, accepts the challenge and rises to meet it, |
| Soup, Cuthbert A WHOLE NOTHER STORY
November 15, 2009 - Three children and their inventor dad on the run from government agents, international superspies AND corporate baddies are finally forced to take a stand in this picaresque debut. Thanks largely to warnings from their psychic dog and the ability to |
| Summers, Courtney SOME GIRLS ARE
November 15, 2009 - The familiar plot of a girl facing social exile after a near-rape at a party takes on a brutal twist. Popular Regina is ostracized by her clique after her best friend's boyfriend attacks her; Anna, the best friend, would rather believe that Regina |
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| "We welcome reader feedback"
November 15, 2009 - Lately in our reader-feedback inbox we've had a few pleas to split our Children's section into subsections based on audience age. I understand these readers' motivations: There are only so many minutes in a day, and to spend some of them reading reviews of books you don't work with can feel burdensome...But I have to say that simply putting together the Best Children's Books (in the Nov. 15 issue) and Best Young Adult Books (in the Dec. 1 issue) supplements this year was agony for me. While it's easy enough, I suppose, to declare Jerry Pinkney's glorious "The Lion and the Mouse" a children's book and Nick Burd's edgy-in-the-extreme "The Vast Fields of Ordinary" a YA book, drawing the line got pretty arbitrary
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