Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 11/17/2008 11/17/2008
On the Web this week: a stunning index of Indian wildlife, the man who gave birth, country music's Southern roots, a cookbook celebration of Paris's ethnic diversity, and a Booker Prize finalist. Plus: Lana Turner's daughter, a third McCourt brother, and more.
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A Life in Signs by Stephen Camelio - 11/17/2008
In his first memoir, Hands of My Father (Reviews, Oct. 20), children's book author Myron Uhlberg writes of being a hearing child brought up by deaf parents. Do you think having American Sign Language as your first language helped you develop the creativity to become a writer? It played a very important part.
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Portraying Hard Things by Allen Appel - 11/17/2008
In Eclipse (Reviews, Oct. 20), Richard North Patterson focuses on an American lawyer’s desperate struggle to save an embattled freedom fighter in an oil-rich African nation that resembles Nigeria. Was there a particular event that led to your writing this book? The genesis of Eclipse lies in tragic events that occurred in Nigeria almost 15 years ago, when a courageous environmental and hu...
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Can't Buy Me Love 11/17/2008
The Secret Currency of Love: The Unabashed Truth About Women, Money, and Relationships Edited by Hilary Black . Morrow , $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-156096-5 While women have made enormous strides in their earning power and financial self-sufficiency in the past century, research shows that many would still be “very willing” to marry for money, underscoring the complicated natu...
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Nonfiction Reviews 11/17/2008
The Painter’s Chair: George Washington and the Making of American Art Hugh Howard . Bloomsbury Press , $26.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-59691-244-1 Patron of the arts is not the first association one makes with George Washington, but Howard elegantly makes the case that the founder of the nation also helped establish America’s art.
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Children's Book Reviews 11/17/2008
Picture Books How to Build an A Sara Midda . Workman/Artisan , $17.95 ISBN 978-1-57965-378-1 Offering a hands-on approach to learning the alphabet, this small-format book comes with 11 off-white foam shapes (as well as a mesh storage bag). In the book, miniature, stylized people (and the occasional dog) work together to construct each letter of the alphabet, using rectangular blocks and arcs...
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Fiction Reviews 11/17/2008
The Possession of Mr. Cave Matt Haig . Viking , $24.95 (244p) ISBN 978-0-670-02056-0 “Could it have been that the desire to protect is the desire to possess?” wonders antiques dealer Terence Cave in Haig’s overwrought study of a father creepily bent on protecting his beautiful 15-year-old daughter, Byrony.
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Beyond Her Book Barbara Vey, Contributing Editor, Publishers Weekly November 18, 2008 WW Ladies Book Club Blurbs
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