Previews, Reviews, and Collection Development
This will be the last Prepub Alert in 2012; there will be no newsletters on December 24 and December 31. January is shaping up to be a brisk month, though. Aside from my standard coverage, in this case of July 2013 titles, I’m working on a big spring and early summer mystery roundup, National Poetry [...]
Reviews of Steve Cory & Diane Slavik’s Affordable Bathroom Upgrades, Gretchen Hirsch’s Gertie’s New Book for Better Sewing, and Dominic Bradbury’s The Iconic Interior, plus a fill list of craft and DIY titles from the Nov. 15 issue.
Reviews of Toxic Tears, The Innkeepers, and As a Young Girl of Thirteen, plus a full list of video reviews in the Nov. 15 issue.
Mass market paperbacks worth checking out.
By Jeff Ayers Barclay, Linwood. Trust Your Eyes. NAL: Penguin Group (USA). ISBN 9780451237903. $25.95; eISBN 9781101602713. Ray Kilbride cares for his schizophrenic brother, Thomas, who is obsessed with a computer program similar to Google Street View called Whirl360.com. When Thomas witnesses a murder online, the brothers uncover a deadly conspiracy. An exhilarating and breathtaking [...]
When Whitman declares in “Native Moments,” “I will play a part no longer, why should I exile myself / from my companions? / I come forthwith in your midst, I will be your poet, / I will be more to you than to any of the rest,” he defines, in one context, the innermost desire [...]
Now that American viewers have had seen the new PBS series Call the Midwife, there might be demand for titles about midwifery and requests for other TV series with the same kind of resonance. Here are two novels, two memoirs, and another PBS program to suggest. And don’t forget to offer the memoir the series [...]
Spratford, Becky Siegel. The Readers’ Advisory Guide to Horror. 2nd ed. ALA. 2012. 184p. bibliog. index. ISBN 9780838911129. pap. $48. PRO MEDIA Here is an excellent readers’ advisory book for those unfamiliar with the horror genre as well as those who want to round out their collections. Spratford coauthored the first edition in 2004, and [...]
Graphic novels with protagonists ranging from superheroes to everyman to Abraham Lincoln
Librarians from the Tacoma Public Library discuss their library’s intergenerational Introduction to Genealogy class
LJ Reviews Social Club