Reviews of genre fiction titles, horror, historical, action & aventure, religious & more from Library Journal.
Book News: Webcast Tackles Large Print Issues Michael Rogers - 05/06/2008 LJ’s Best Practices in Large Print webcast clearly proved that there is far more to the subject that “do you have large print or not.”
More
Book News: Bantam Giving Libraries Free Copies of L’Amour Book Michael Rogers - 05/06/2008
To celebrate Louis L’Amour’s centennial, his long-time publisher Bantam Books is “offering a complimentary copy” of a new hardcover edition of his volume Education of a Wandering Man “to every one of the more than 100,000 free libraries in the U.S.
More
Book News: Guillermo del Toro Directing The Hobbit Michael Rogers - 04/29/2008 New Line Cinema April 24 announced that Guillermo del Toro indeed has signed on to direct The Hobbit as well as a sequel detailing the action during the time period between The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings.
More
Mystery By Jo Ann Vicarel - 05/01/2008
Scenes of the Crime For mystery fans who like to do a little traveling with their armchair crime solving, this summer's crop of crime fiction features some unusual settings. Mary Anna Evans and Elaine Viets place their books in Florida locations not commonly visited by tourists, and Kathryn R. Wall uses the South Carolina island resort of Hilton Head as her backdrop.
More
Book News: Consortium To Distribute Profile Books Michael Rogers - 04/21/2008
Consortium Book Sales & Distribution, a member of the Perseus Books Group, has announced that it will be distributing Profile Books’ frontlist (history, memoir, current affairs, business, popular science, and some fiction) for the fall 2008 season.
More