Web Exclusive Children's Book Reviews: 10/2/2009 10/02/2009
This collection of web-exclusive children's book reviews includes new work from R.L. LaFevers, Lynne Jonell, Mark Dunn and a star for Sally Gardner's sequel to The Red Necklace.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: 9/28/2009 09/28/2009
This week: archeologist Timothy Pauketat on the Big Apple of ancient America, former FBI special agent Jack Owens on Hoover's bureau, Yes Man man Danny Wallace's quest for playmates, grieving mom Sorrel King's inspiring chronicle of medical malpractice, and an adventurer's history of K2 from Ed Viesturs. Plus: an L. Frank Baum biography, the story of Springsteen's Born to Run, and ecological rallying cries from David W. Orr, John Wargo and Orin H. Pilkey.
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Web Exclusive Children's Book Reviews: 9/24/2009 09/24/2009
This selection of web-exclusive children's book reviews includes new books from Rachel Isadora, Peter Yarrow and Amber Kizer, as well as debut work from Jan Bozarth, Carolyn Q. Ebbitt and Donny Bailey Seagraves.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: 9/21/2009 09/21/2009
This week: young vet Michael Anthony reports on an army hospital in Iraq, Andrew Zimmern's bizarre adventures make it to print, a memoir from Headline News host Jane Velez-Mitchell, L.A. elementary school teacher Rafe Esquith returns, a Jewish-American reporter covers Tokyo's criminal underworld, and a pair of travelogues investigate an extinct and a near-extinct species. Plus Ivanka Trump, Robert T. Kiyosaki, and a glowing review for a guy who hardly needs it: Dan Brown.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: 9/14/2009 09/14/2009
This week: the mad masticatable art of Ferran Adria, bagel man Noah Alper, the 1982 Montana-Clark pass that made the 49ers, Mr. Done is back, Serena Williams plays nice, Beth Alison Maloney cures her son's OCD, and Patricia O'Conner gently but firmly corrects your English. Plus: starred fiction from Gwyneth Jones, a starred fiction collection from the editors Lansdale, and more.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: 9/7/2009 09/07/2009
This week: stars for George Wendt, Ken Fisher, Rebecca Katz, Jim Lahey and Michael Collier. Plus: guides to pregnancy and body-image, the Republican crackup, Kennedy's Berlin crisis and the life of coffee shop waitresses.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: 8/31/2009 08/31/2009
This week: Microsoft researchers Bell and Gemmell try remembering everything, psychoanalyst Ken Corbett re-evaluates boyhood, Louis Breger disses Freud, small-town sportswriter Mike Sielski tackles the war, Judy Dutton reviews the science of sex, and an indispensible new guide to shorebirds from Richard Chandler. Plus memoirs from two fun-to-say, easy-to-laugh-at names: Blagojevich and Buttafuoco.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: 8/24/2009 08/24/2009
This week: Margaret Drabble puzzles together a history of jigsaws, Jonathan A. Edlow recounts alarming medical mysteries, law professor Christopher M. Fariman looks at the history of a four-letter word, Maureen Wood and Ron Kolek go ghost hunting, Ilan Berman engages the engagement with radical Islam, and Beth Wareham just says no. Plus: a new Frankenstein installment from Dean Koontz, the first book from the World Ocean Census, and more.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: 8/17/2009 08/17/2009
This week: David Freeland with the vanished hotspots of NYC, Tara L. Masih leads a rousing short-short story workshop, Douglas Rogers reports from his home country of Zimbabwe, Alice Eve Cohen chronicles her late-in-life pregnancy, and more. Plus children's books from Denise Vega, Melissa de la Cruz, Jessica Wollman and others.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: 8/10/2009 08/10/2009
This week, stars for Michael Gecan's study of America's Midlife Crisis, Amir D. Aczel's archeological adventure, Idan Ben-Barak's tour of microbes, Sam Chapman's gossip-busting management techniques, James M. Bergquist's history of the mid 19th Century, and Julia M. Usher's plans for eight awesome cookie parties.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: 8/3/2009 08/03/2009
This week: a heartening look at undocumented students from William Perez, all of Reagan's men, former mobster Kenny Gallo, a contrary look at the counterculture from Jenny Diski, and three worthy new science titles from Matt Young & Paul K. Strode, Brian Cox & Jeff Forshaw, and Paul Halpern. Plus: eulogizing love, one failed relationship at a time, with Kathleen Horan.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: 7/27/2009 07/27/2009
This week: Ryan Grim on drugs, 21 humor writers and Mike Sacks, Jane Jeong Trenka's search for home, Richard L. Brandt examines the Google boys, and Corinne Maier hates on kids. Plus: Children's books from Ursula Vernon, Anna Hays, Todd H. Doodler, and fiction from Jill Mansell, Brett Battles, C.C. Finlay, and Maxine Paetro backing up James Patterson.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: 7/20/2009 07/20/2009
This week: new biographies on Colin Powell, Teddy Roosevelt and unicorns; two flavors of childhood memoirs: Kapka Kassabova's communist hell and Kaylie Jones's literary minefield; and polemics from Howard Dean and David Cross, covering health care reform and proper drinking motivation, respectively. Plus: debut novels from James A. Levine, Sulaiman S.M.Y. Addonia, Robert Rave and Matthew Specktor.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: 7/13/2009 07/13/2009
This week's Web: Daisaku Ikeda on 1000 years in Buddhism, Timothy J. LeCain on open-pit copper mining, Dyana Z. Furmansky on conservation "hellcat" Rosalie Edge, an impressive fiction debut from Anna Katherine, and an excellent anthropology of entertainment culture from Peter G. Stromberg. Plus: an exciting roundup of American labor posters from LIncoln Cushing and Timothy W. Drescher, and a beautiful volume from Denis Kitchen and Paul Buhle pays tribute to Harvey Kurtzman.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: 7/6/2009 07/06/2009
Authors reviewed this week on the Web: Bob Coen and Eric Nadler, Rebecca Brown, Jeff Gillman, Kevin Dolgin, Aisling Juanjuan Shen, Greg Craven, Alan Axelrod, Danielle Svetcov, R.M. Johnson, Mary Caponegro and Richard Martin. Plus: children's books from Nan Marino, Scott Mebus, and others, and a thoughtful collection of tributes to classic albums from editor Peter Terzian.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: 6/29/2009 06/29/2009
This week: David Henry Sterry collects stories from sex workers, Andrew Blauner compiles the stories of brothers, and Zack Lynch recounts tales from the frontiers of neurotechnology; new memoirs from Buzz Aldrin, Jan Lancaster, Quinn Cummings and Czech ecobiologist Vojtech Novotny; a look at athletes Lance Armstrong and Michelle Wie; and fiction from Carl Reiner, Kaye Dacus, Wayne D. Overholser and Rosemary Rogers.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: 6/22/2009 06/22/2009
Four Daily News sports reporters turn in the definitive story of Roger Clemens and drugs in baseball; Miles Kington presents a lively epistolary meta-nonfiction collection about dying; Sam Pocker catches retailers gone wild; and smallpox eradicator D.A. Henderson chronicles his showdown with the disease. Plus: fiction from Jane Porter, Sarah Prineas's second Magic Thief novel, and Alex Flinn's Gossip Girl makeover of "Sleeping Beauty."
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Web Exclusive Reviews: 6/15/2009 06/15/2009
On the Web: Robert Greenfield on a counterculture couple, Steve Nicholls on the history of U.S. nature, Paula E. Morton on the man who made the National Enquirer, William Zinsser on a life of writing well, Mike Torrey photographs Machu Picchu, and Stacey Levine returns with another strange story collection. Plus: new picture books from Sarah Verroken, Jason Deeble, and the duo of Laura Kraus Melmed & Henri Sorensen.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: 6/8/2009 06/08/2009
This week: Doug Stanton tells the story of mounted U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, C. David Heymann dishes on the post-JFK affair of Jackie and Bobby, Evan I. Schwartz chronicles L. Frank Baum, Reverend Jen divulges two years of "sexperiments," Marie Celeste Arranas shares life lessons, and Lawrence Block indulges his love of running (and racewalking). Plus: trips through Johannesburg and the former Soviet Union, a flaky fictional mom-com, and everything pickleable.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: 6/1/2009 06/01/2009
On the Web: Eric Sanderson's epic natural history of Manhattan, the memoir of a U.S. Marine helping train the Iraqi Army, Andrew Ross reporting on worldwide labor conditions in harsh decline, and WSJ reporter Kate Kelly catches the last gasps of Bear Stearns. Plus: Michael Sorkin walks, Alan Cheuse travels, Jane and Michael Stern eat out, and Sabrina McCormick clears the (carcinogenic) air.
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