Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 5/12/2008 05/12/2008
This week: the return of the Moonwatchers! Plus Georgio Armani, love songs gone wrong, Patricia Cornwell's FBI lover, and three delicious travelogues. Plus: poets from Canada and Russia, the Simpsons way of worship, and the new spaghetti noir.
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Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 5/12/2008 05/12/2008
Where War Lives Paul Watson . Rodale/Modern Times , $25.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-59486-957-0 Veteran war correspondent Watson takes the reader on a graphic tour of modern battlefields from Eritrea to Afghanistan, with a particularly haunting stop in war-torn Somalia. It was in Somalia that Watson photographed the corpse of an American soldier being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu—...
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 5/12/2008 05/12/2008
Picture Books Such a Silly Baby! Steffanie and Richard Lorig , illus. by Amanda Shepherd. Chronicle , $15.99 ISBN 978-0-8118-5134-3 As preschoolers will undoubtedly note with glee, the title of this book should be “Such a Silly Mommy!” After all, it's Mommy who can't manage to go on an outing without bringing home an animal instead of her offspring.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 5/5/2008 05/05/2008
This week: trendspotting and bullsh*tting, novel- and biography-writing, napping and dieting, a personal tour of the Congo and a vision for democracy in Iran. Plus: an overweight narcissist sheds the pounds, a Kyoto girl trains to be a geisha, and three historians look at the sex-obsessed weekly newspapers of mid-19th century New York.
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Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 5/5/2008 05/05/2008
Poisoned Profits: The Toxic Assault on Our Children Phillip Shabecoff and Alice Shabecoff . Random , $26 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6430-4 The authors of this unsettling indictment of American industrial mendacity detail the impact of the “trillions of tons” of largely unregulated toxic pollutants that have been poured into the environment after WWII when synthetic chemical compound...
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 5/5/2008 05/05/2008
Picture Books Sergio Makes a Splash! Edel Rodriguez . Little, Brown , $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-316-06616-7 Sergio the penguin isn't afraid of all water—just “the very deep kind.” But with the help of floaties, a snorkel, a life preserver, he discovers that taking the plunge isn't so bad after all.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 4/28/2008 04/28/2008
This week: a look back with Goldwater, midcentury ball players and Sitting Bull; a look inside Steve Jobs, the international food racket and poker's checkered past; economics for the rest of us, another memoir of the modern Midwest, an Olympian oarsman and a lesson in Assholery. Plus more!
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Notes From the Bookroom Elizabeth Devereaux, , September 25, 2007 Jenna's Story
I’d like to thank HarperCollins for making me a tool of the Bush administrati... More
