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Prepub Exploded: March 2010, Pt. 1 By Barbara Hoffert - 10/01/2009
Books can take you places. In this edition’s fiction, Sonya Chung and Chang-Rae Lee travel to Korea, while Philip Kerr and Craig Nova visit 1930s Berlin. Also in fiction, Mark Spragg heads out West, as do nonfiction authors Laura Bell, memoirist of her life in Montana, and David Cruise and Alison Griffiths, biographers of Wild Horse Annie. More
Prepub Exploded: April 2010, Pt. 1 By Barbara Hoffert - 11/05/2009
Yes, we have thrillers—from the likes of Mary Higgins Clark and Martha Grimes—but with Pearl Abraham’s American Taliban and Ian McEwan’s Solar, fiction gets topical. In nonfiction, check out the good science titles and cheeky memoirs by Wendy Burden and Anna Fields.
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Prepub Mystery By Anna Katterjohn - 11/01/2009
Balzo, Sandra. From the Grounds Up. Severn House. Mar. 2010. 192p. ISBN 978-0-7278-6830-5. $27.95. In Balzo's fifth coffeehouse mystery, owner Maggy Thorsen partners with a real estate agent to rebuild the café, but someone has plans to stop them. Black, Cara. Murder in the Palais Royal. Soho Crime.
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Prepub Alert By Barbara Hoffert - 11/01/2009
Fiction Allen, Sarah Addison. The Girl Who Chased the Moon. Bantam. Mar. 2010. 304p. ISBN 978-0-553-80721-9. $25. CD: Random Audio. After her mother's death, 17-year-old Emily goes to live with her grandfather in Mullaby, NC, where the dead drop little notes and the wallpaper remakes itself daily. Originally previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 1/09, and no doubt worth waiting for.
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Prepub Alert By Barbara Hoffert - 10/15/2009
Fiction Aciman, André. Eight White Nights. Farrar. Feb. 2010. 400p. ISBN 978-0-374-22842-2. $26. A man and a woman meet at a Christmas party and tentatively approach each other over the next seven days. Expect insightful writing from the Out of Egypt memoirist, who proved himself in fiction with the recent debut Call Me by Your Name.
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Free Reference By Barry X. Miller, Austin P.L. - 10/01/2009
When Mayor Shinn, chief executive of River City, admonished his daughter to "watch your phraseology," he was not only contributing to our American lexicon and acting as yet another comic foil in The Music Man, but he was also tendering sagacious advice to every would-be orator. The American rhetorical canon is replete with heroes and heels for whom speechifying is as delicate as a gossamer thre...
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Prepub Mystery By Anna Katterjohn - 10/01/2009
Ault, Sandi. Wild Penance: A Wild Mystery. Berkley Prime Crime. Feb. 2010. 304p. ISBN 978-0-425-23232-3. $24.95. Jamaica Wild witnesses what may be a ritual killing related to a secret ancient religion in the fourth in this Mary Higgins Clark Award-winning series (after Wild Sorrow). Clare, Alys. Mist Over the Water.
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Falling into Bounty: Fall & Winter First Novels By Barbara Hoffert - 10/01/2009
Poignant. Imaginative. Passionate. Original. These are some of the words LJ’s reviewers used to describe the first novels forthcoming this fall and winter. We haven’t been able to review them all yet, but we are providing a listing here, grouped by type, so that librarians can start planning their purchases.
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Design Institute 2007 December 11, 2007 at Chicago's Harold Washington Library Center:Design Institute 2007
Learning Gardens New York's GreenBranches program links the library to the street.
Green Picks: LBD May 2007 Want to reduce your library's carbon footprint? Join the Cradle-to-Cradle revolution. Helen Milling shares the green products her firm is using.
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