Web Exclusive Book Reviews: 11/16/2009 11/16/2009
This week: stars for a look at Fidel Castro by Ann Louise Bardach, Todd McLeish basking with endangered New England sea creatures, a fresh look at problem solving from Ian Mitroff and Abraham Silvers, trial lawyer Terrence Mix on fertility drugs, a women's career guide by Linda Tarr-Whelan, and more. Plus new books on Molly Ivins, Paulo Coelho, Georgia O'Keefe, George Carlin, dogs, death and sex.
More
PW Talks with Raj Patel by Robert Avila - 11/16/2009
"We need to shun the idea that the only way we can shape the world is through our consumption choices."
More
PW Talks with Joshua Ferris by Shaun Manning - 11/16/2009
"We're always sort of grasping at hope. The answer is always right around the corner, and yet it eludes us."
More
Nonfiction Book Reviews: 11/16/2009 11/16/2009
This week: stars for Lynne Olson's Citizens of London, Daring Young Men by Richard Reeves, Susan Krauss's The Search for Fulfillment, and David Kynaston's Family Britain: 1951-1957. Plus: Daniel Menaker, Kathleen Rooney, Larry McMurty, Mikhail Chekhov, Ellen Sandbeck, and more.
More
Children's Book Reviews: 11/16/2009 11/16/2009
In this week's children's book reviews: picture books from Peter McCarty, David McPhail, Sandra Boynton, and Arnold and Adrianne Lobel; fiction from Iain Lawrence, Mike Lupica, James Patterson, and Peter Lerangis; and a round-up of the latest pop-up books to hit the market.
More
Fiction Book Reviews: 11/16/2009 11/16/2009
Reviewed this week, new fiction from Joshua Ferris, T. Jefferson Parker, Stuart Woods, A.L. Kennedy, and Jayne Anne Krentz. Plus, Peter Bognanni chronicles a punk-rock-in-an-Iowa-geodesic-dome adolescence, the aliens arrive in Evan Mandery's smart and funny romp, Bob Morris finds more trouble in the Sunshine State, and Bernard Cornwell delivers another big, bloody epic.
More
Beyond Her Book Barbara Vey, Contributing Editor, Publishers Weekly November 18, 2008 WW Ladies Book Club Blurbs
Yahoo now has a section with events in your city, so I was checking out the happening... More
August 8, 2007 From Dahl to Dahl
My audiobook listening time is currently being consumed by Tracy Kidder's wholly... More
