Previews, Reviews, and Collection Development
Last call to register for Library Journal’s annual BEA Galley & Signing Guide, ready this week! Last year’s guide was packed with more than 300 titles, and this year’s guide promises to be even bigger. From big houses and small, from Jamie Ford and Alice McDermott, Jonathan Franzen and Curtis Sittenfeld, the guide will cover [...]
Albom, Mitch. The First Phone Call from Heaven. Harper: HarperCollins. Nov. 2013. 272p. ISBN 9780062294371. $24.99; ebk. ISBN 9780062294395. lrg. prnt. CD: HarperAudio. POP FICTION Phones are ringing off the hook in little Coldwater, MI, but the callers are all deceased, stirring emotions from joyous relief to uncertain fear as they report being happy in [...]
Auster, Paul. Report from the Interior. Holt. Nov. 2013. 352p. ISBN 9780805098570. $27; ebk. ISBN 9780805098594. CD: Macmillan Audio. MEMOIR At 63, celebrated novelist Auster wrote an account of his body and of physical sensation generally that was published last year as Winter Journal. In this work he charts the life of the mind, particularly [...]
Cooper, Artemis. Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure. New York Review Books. Oct. 2013. 480p. ISBN 9781590176740; e-book 9781590176993. BIOGRAPHY Lovers of travel writing everywhere know the name Patrick Leigh Fermor, whose walk across Europe in the 1930s, at age 18, is legendary. Fewer people know about his involvement in the resistance to German occupation of [...]
Columnist Lisa Campbell reviews cooking titles that focus on healthy and tasty recipes.
Berger, Glen. The Song of Spider-Man: The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History. S. & S. Nov. 2013. NAp. ISBN 9781451684568. $25; ebk. ISBN 9781451684582. MUSICALS Chosen by Julie Taymor to collaborate on the book of the Spider-man musical, Emmy Award–winning television and theater writer Berger saw the entire musical unfold [...]
Cookbooks, Food Memoirs, and Eating Advice from Chopra Choi, Roy & others. L.A. Son: My Life, My City, My Food. Anthony Bourdain Bks/Ecco: HarperCollins. Nov. 2013. 320p. ISBN 9780062202635. $29.99; ebk. ISBN 9780062202642. COOKERY.MEMOIR Chopra, Deepak. What Are You Hungry For?: The Chopra Solution to Permanent Weight Loss, Well-Being, and Lightness of Soul. Harmony, dist. [...]
Reviews of Getting Physical: The Rise of Fitness Culture in America, The Audacity of Hops: The History of America’s Craft Beer Revolution, My Backyard Jungle: The Adventures of an Urban Wildlife Lover Who Turned His Yard into Habitat and Learned To Live with It, plus a full list of Science & Technology titles from the May 15 issue.
Gardens in tiny spaces, how-tos on creating miniature worlds, arid, lush, and flower filled.
Librarian and author Josh Harnagarne discusses his experiences with Tourette Syndrome and his passion for books.
Titles by Cook and Lutz, an introspective character study from Parks, and a nuanced and loving relationship between mother and daughter, Louisa May Alcott and Marmee
A literary fantasy from Malkasian and a literary memoir and a treatise on grief from Nilsen
An anti-aging plan from Good Housekeeping, Chris Kyle on guns, Maconie on Stravinsky, Plummer on Le Corbusier, and The Basics of Reiki
A fresh crime novel from Brackmann, the best Robert Landon novel yet from Dan Brown, Mark’s fast-paced police procedural, brisk action from O’Shea, Finnish crime fiction from Tuomainen, and Ulfelder blazes ahead with Shotgun Lullaby
The romance of Living Dangerously, following the Rules of Entanglement, falling in love with The Rebound Girl
The ladies in this month’s selections are feisty, cunning, disrespectful to everyone, and laser beam-focused on fulfilling their self-centered desires.
Tantorious is a semi-monthly podcast series featuring interviews with well-known authors, hosted by Allan Hoving and presented by Tantor Audio. Brandon Baltzley was born in Louisiana and started working in the kitchens of gay bars and bistros as a kid. He was a musician and traveled widely before becoming a rising young chef in Chicago. In [...]
Another year, another BookExpo America. This year’s festivities start on Wednesday, May 29, at the Jacob K. Javits Cemter in New York City, with conferences and special events that include Library Journal’s Day of Dialog. On May 30-June 1, doors are open to the exhibits, where you’ll be hunting for books and authors to love. [...]
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