Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 4/06/2009 04/06/2009
This Week's Web: lyrical essays on a life in poetry, a celebrity psychologist on the sickness of celebrity, a graphic ambulance ride-along, the new science of talent development, and two excellent volumes on music and race relations. Plus: Cezanne the Godfather, Thoreau the arsonist, and Paula Deen the health-conscious (not to worry, it's just for a chapter).
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Spring Religion Listings Compiled by Sally Lodge - 02/23/2009
ABINGDON PRESS Funeral for a Stranger (Aug., $13 paper) by Becca Stevens addresses the issue of attending the funeral of an individual one has never met. Gone to Green (Aug., $13.99 paper) by Judy Christie. A woman finds new faith after leaving her corporate life at a large urban newspaper to run a rural paper.
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High Hopes for New Fiction: Abingdon Enters Christian Fiction Market by Marcia Z. Nelson - 02/23/2009
In these tough economic times, it's a rare publisher who's expanding. But after doing due diligence, strategic planning and careful acquiring, Abingdon Press will launch a Christian fiction line in late summer. In recent years, the market for Christian fiction has been so successfully cultivated by a handful of evangelical Christian publishers, such as Nelson, Tyndale, Bethany House, Zondervan ...
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Nonfiction Reviews 02/09/2009
The American Future: A History Simon Schama . Ecco , $29.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-053923-8 Past performance may not guarantee future returns, but it's the best we have to go on, contends this lively meditation on American history. Looking back from the tumultuous 2008 election campaign, historian Schama (NBCC-award winner for Rough Crossings) ponders four themes in American history as they pl...
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