Uncertain Times (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
photograph by Edmund Shea This is a cropped (cropper unknown) image from the cover of Trout Fishing in America, The Pill versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, In Watermelon Sugar New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1969 . I saw Richard Brautigan speak at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, NY, sometime in October of 1981. I don't remember much about what he said, but I had enjoyed his...
propernoun.net (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
Gran You’ve Got Mail! Jo Hoestlandt Delacorte Press (Sept 2008) 128 pages Grades 3 to 5 interest “A broken friendship is as serious as a broken heart.” This epistolary story tells of an intergenerational friendship that starts because Annabelle needs to practice her typing. What better way to practice than to type letters? Gran seems a bit strange at [...]
A Book Blogger's Diary (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
This week, in my mailbox, arrived these reads: My Husband's Sweethearts by Bridget Asher Publisher: Delacorte Press (August 19, 2008) When Lucy discovered that her charming, cheating husband was dying, she came home, opened up his little black book, and decided she wasn’t going through this alone. After all, Artie’s sweethearts were there for the good times—is it fair that Lucy should have to manage...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
No One You Know By Michelle Richmond Delacorte Press; 306 pages; $23 Ellie Enderlin is a professional coffee taster from San Francisco on assignment in the Dominican Republic. Though she loves her job, she's still haunted by the murder of her brilliant...
New York Post (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
ONCE again it looks like Hollywood will be following France's lead - and best-selling New Jersey mystery writer Harlan Coben will profit from Tinseltown's timid ways. Shortly after Delacorte Press published Coben's best-selling novel, "Tell No One...
Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine (Free subscription) | 06/01/2008
The 2008 Anthony Award Nominees Best Novel: James Lee Burke-Tin Roof Blowdown- Simon and Schuster Lee Child – Bad Luck and Trouble Delacorte Press Robert Crais- The Watchman Simon and Schuster William Kent Krueger-Thunder Bay Atria Laura Lippman – What the Dead Know William Morrow Best First Novel: Sean Chercover- Big City, Bad Blood William Morrow Tana French- In the Woods Viking Adult Lisa Lutz-The...
propernoun.net (Free subscription) | 03/24/2008
Like a Thorn Clara Vidal Delacorte Press (June 2008) 128 pages High School Interest Melie’s mother is unpredictable. Light and dark. Sweet and Rosy Mother is kind and nurturing to Melie, but at any moment Dark and Mean Mother might appear. Dark Mother gives her daughter bizarre gifts and berates her mercilessly. Melie tiptoes around [...]
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 03/03/2008
By the Fort Worth Star-Telegram "The Anatomy of Deception" by Lawrence Goldstone; Delacorte Press ($24) The history: In the late 1800s, patients who entered a hospital were more likely to die than get better.
Booksquare (Free subscription) | 12/03/2007
Thanks to the magic of TiVo, I rarely see commercials these days. In fact, I am at the point where a commercial is a wondrous thing: Oh look, I think, someone is trying to sell me something. Serendipity is a great thing. Every now and then I’ll mess up on the fast-forwarding and discover that [...]
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 11/21/2007
Attention, shoppers! The P-I's book critic picks holiday books to satisfy 10 kinds of folks found on many holiday shopping lists, including golfer, celeb lover, favorite teacher and baby boomer.
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 11/07/2007
A Field Guide to High School by Marissa Walsh; Delacorte Press; $15.99 hardcover; 131 pages. Have you ever wanted a guide for freshman year of high school?
Sheryl McFarlane's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 10/21/2007
More children's book news on Book Awards. The short-list for the GGs in children's literature in both text and illustrations are out and we have couple of west-coasters among them; John Wilson and Iain Lawrence. Now what I'm trying to figure out is why was Margaret Atwood on the jury for illustration? Ain't life strange! Children's Literature English-language Finalists (Text) Hugh Brewster , Toronto,...
LibrariAnne (Free subscription) | 10/11/2007
How to Get Suspended and Influence People by Adam Selzer Originally uploaded by annethelibrarian How to Get Suspended and Influence People by Adam Selzer Delacorte Press, 2007 It all starts with an assignment. Leon's "gifted and talented" class has to make educational videos for the sixth and seventh graders. Leon originally chooses "sex ed" as his subject in the hopes of showing a flash of boob. But...
OREGON LEGAL RESEARCH (Free subscription) | 09/18/2007
I found this question, What is Baker's Law?, in list of Q&A compiled by a group of librarians who participate in online reference (aka digital ref, e-ref, the Oregon ones, Lnet and Ask Us (from Multnomah Co). It caught my eye partly because it reminded me about a recently characterized genre of fiction: Misery Lit . Anyone who reads fiction will recognize this genre. While some love it, some of us...
ricklibrarian (Free subscription) | 08/31/2007
Having to eat starry gazey pie with all of the fish heads looking up is just one of many trials for fourteen year old John Spencer when his ship wreaks on the rocks of Cornwall in the novel The Wreckers by Iain Lawrence. He also has to avoid being killed by the villagers who put out the false beacons in the storm. Deciding whom to befriend is critical. The Wreckers is a mixture of mystery and suspense,...
