[bksvol-discuss] New Books (53) for 08-27
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=====FICTION, 20
20: THE BEST OF THE DRUE HEINZ LITERATURE PRIZE, BY JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN
"20" is a culmination of twenty years of excellence in short fiction
writing. It celebrates the hopes, dreams, and individual successes of
all the authors who participated in the contest through the past two
decades.
Excellent Quality, 344 Pages
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/110675/
BAD MAN BLUES: A PORTABLE GEORGE GARRETT, BY GEORGE P. GARRETT
A new collection of stories, anecdotes, and personal essays, with a few
poems added for good measure, by the writer whose first collection of
short fiction was published to high praise some 40 years ago.
Excellent Quality, 234 Pages
Poetry, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/110633/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0870744399/
BENGAL NIGHTS, BY CATHERINE SPENCER AND MIRCEA ELIADE
"Bengal Nights" is also a cruel account of the wreckage left in the wake
of a young man's self-discovery.
Excellent Quality, 176 Pages
History, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/110620/
CALIFORNIA CLASSICS: THE CREATIVE LITERATURE OF THE GOLDEN STATE: ESSAYS
ON THE BOOKS AND THEIR WRITERS, BY LAWRENCE CLARK POWELL
Essays by 31 writers, from California, about California, or who at least
passed through California, and the books they wrote that have had some
lasting impact on how California is viewed; from its discovery to the
1970s (when the book was published).
Excellent Quality, 393 Pages
History, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/89914/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0378077813/
CAPTIVE OF GOR (CHRONICLES OF COUNTER-EARTH #7), BY JOHN NORMAN
SLAVE-WOMAN ON GOR ...Elinor Brinton of New York City--beautiful, rich,
spoiled, used to having her way with the men of earth--is hunted down
and abducted by alien beings to find herself a captive on Gor, where men
are absolute masters, and women their complete slaves.
Excellent Quality, 372 Pages
Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/109860/
DEVLIN'S LIGHT, BY MARIAH STEWART
New York Times best-selling author Mariah Stewart sweeps readers to the
shores of Delaware Bay with this captivating romance full of intrigue,
mystery, and desire.
Excellent Quality, 398 Pages
Romance, Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/108057/
DOWN BY THE OLD BLOODSTREAM, BY ALFRED HITCHCOCK
An anthology of 12 short stories compiled and edited by Hitchcock. All
the stories in this collection have to do with premeditated murder,
which are guaranteed to keep you hooked.
Excellent Quality, 196 Pages
Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/110628/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0440121272/
KILLER WEEKEND, BY RIDLEY PEARSON
Eight years ago in Sun Valley, all that stood between State attorney
general Liz Shaler and a knife-wielding intruder was patrolman Walt
Fleming. Now, Fleming is the county sheriff, and Shaler is returning for
a meeting of heavy hitters. The event also attracts a hired assassin
with an ingenious plan.
Excellent Quality, 360 Pages
Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/108476/
OPEN SEAON: STORIES, BY LUCY HONIG
"Open Season" is an exquisite collection of 5 stories that once again
displays the love of language and the nuances of character that have
brought Lucy Honig widespread praise.
Excellent Quality, 160 Pages
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/110703/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0972028722/
PARADISE ROAD, BY KIRK NESSET
Winner of the 2007 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, the stories in Kirk
Nesset's "Paradise Road" vividly examine the various pitfalls, both
physical and emotional, we encounter and suffer trying to find lasting
meaning in love.
Excellent Quality, 140 Pages
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/110699/
RISK, BY ELANA DYKEWOMON
Risk is a beautifully told story that spans the years from the
mid-eighties to the post-9/11 world. Carol is an idealistic,
Berkeley-educated, Jewish lesbian living in Oakland, California.
Downwardly mobile, the Berkeley grad makes her living by tutoring high
school students. Through Carol's life, Dykewomon explores the changing
times and values in America.
Excellent Quality, 253 Pages
Literature and Fiction, Gay and Lesbian
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/80120/
SHORT CUTS: SELECTED STORIES, BY ROBERT ALTMAN AND RAYMOND CARVER
A collection of nine fiction short stories and nine poems, which form an
indelible portrait of American innocence and loss. This new movie tie-in
edition is filled with deadpan humor and enormous tenderness as only an
author of Altman's caliber could.
Excellent Quality, 160 Pages
Poetry, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/110702/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0679748644/
STREET MAGIC, BY CAITLIN KITTREDGE
The first novel in a sensational new fantasy series. When a young
detective is called to investigate the case of a girl kidnapped from the
streets of London, she is shocked to discover that the informant is a
mysterious man--a mage--from her past.
Excellent Quality, 336 Pages
Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/106748/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/031294361X/
THE BARRACKS THIEF, BY TOBIAS WOLFF
"The Barracks Thief" is the story of three young paratroopers waiting to
be shipped out to Vietnam. Brought together one sweltering afternoon to
stand guard over an ammunition dump threatened by a forest fire, they
discover in each other an unexpected capacity for recklessness and violence.
Excellent Quality, 110 Pages
Military, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/110678/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0880010495/
THE FACE IN THE ABYSS, BY A. MERRITT
The tale is brilliant! It is full of weird imagination, marvelous
writing, horror, beauty, and it may well be called the most "visual"
book ever written for the world of fantasy. It is a grand book with a
grand cast of characters. Visualize, if you are able, a monstrous head
that cries tears of gold, locked deep in a cavern out of time forgotten.
Consider also the incredible, Snake Mother, who is both human and
reptilian, and her battle with the thing called the Lord of Evil.
Excellent Quality, 181 Pages
Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/106019/
THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE, BY REG KEELAND AND STIEG LARSSON
Mikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine
Millennium, has decided to publish a story exposing an extensive sex
trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating
well-known and highly placed members of Swedish society, business, and
government.
Excellent Quality, 509 Pages
Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/110784/
THE LIGHT BEYOND THE FOREST: THE QUEST FOR THE HOLY GRAIL, BY ROSEMARY
SUTCLIFF
A retelling of the adventures of King Arthur's knights, Sir Lancelot,
Sir Galahad, Sir Bors, and Sir Percival, as they search for the Holy Grail.
Excellent Quality, 144 Pages
History, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/110692/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0140371508/
VANISHED, BY JOSEPH FINDER
Lauren Heller and her husband Roger, a brilliant executive at a major
corporation, are attacked in a Georgetown parking lot after an evening out.
Excellent Quality, 391 Pages
Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/110967/
VINTAGE: A GHOST STORY, BY STEVE BERMAN
Walking an empty stretch of highway at night, a gay teen meets and is
then haunted by the dangerous and obsessive ghost of a star athlete
killed in 1957.
Excellent Quality, 149 Pages
Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy, Gay and Lesbian
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/98118/
WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LOVE, BY RAYMOND CARVER
In his second collection of stories, as in his first, Carver's
characters are peripheral people -- people without education, insight or
prospects, people too unimaginative to even give up. Carver celebrates
these men and women.
Excellent Quality, 176 Pages
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/110700/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0679723056/
=====NONFICTION, 16
AMERICAN JEWISH LANDMARKS: A TRAVEL GUIDE AND HISTORY, VOLUME I, BY
LIONEL KOPPMAN AND BERNARD POSTAL
"American Jewish Landmarks" is more than a manual for the tourist, it is
an important book for students of American Jewish history.
Excellent Quality, 670 Pages
History, Nonfiction, Reference, Travel
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/110669/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0830301518/
APPRECIATIVE INTELLIGENCE: SEEING THE MIGHTY OAK IN THE ACORN, BY CAROL
METZKER AND TOJO THATCHENKERY
With a nod to Howard Gardner's ideas on multiple intelligences,
Thatchenkery (organizational learning, George Mason U.) and Metzker
(M.S.) introduce appreciative intelligence as the ability to perceive
positive potential.
Excellent Quality, 220 Pages
Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/110536/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1576753530/
BEARING THE CROSS, BY DAVID J. GARROW
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Based on more than 700 recorded
conversations, including interviews with all of King's closest surviving
associates, this is a powerful portrait of Martin Luther King Jr. and
the movement to which he dedicated himself.
Excellent Quality, 801 Pages
History, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Religion and Spirituality
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/110845/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0394756231/
BEYOND A BOUNDARY, BY C. L. R. JAMES
Part memoir of a West Indian boyhood, part celebration of the game of
cricket, this self-portrait of a life spent playing, watching and
writing about the game, tells us of its psychology and aesthetics,
players the author knew, and the issues of class, race and the politics
surrounding it.
Excellent Quality, 280 Pages
History, Nonfiction, Sports, Biographies and Memoirs
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/110664/
BLACKBERRY WINTER: MY EARLIER YEARS, BY MARGARET MEAD
The autobiography of a pioneer, this is Margaret Mead's story of her
life as a woman and as an anthropologist.
Excellent Quality, 338 Pages
Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/110662/
COMMUNITY: THE STRUCTURE OF BELONGING, BY PETER BLOCK
Training and development consultant Peter Block discusses how to foster
community in organizations.
Excellent Quality, 250 Pages
Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/110541/
CULTIVATING COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE: A GUIDE TO MANAGING KNOWLEDGE, BY
WILLIAM SNYDER AND RICHARD A. MCDERMOTT AND ETIENNE WENGER
In order to find out how to make the best use of the knowledge that a
company's employees possess, the authoring consultants lift models from
Xerox, Daimler Chrysler and the World Bank to show how to tap into the
wisdom within.
Excellent Quality, 290 Pages
Nonfiction, Professional and Technical, Business and Finance
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/110560/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1578513308/
GLENN BECK'S COMMON SENSE: THE CASE AGAINST AN OUT-OF-CONTROL
GOVERNMENT, BY GLENN BECK
In any era, great Americans inspire us to reach our full potential. They
know with conviction what they believe within themselves. They
understand that all actions have consequences. And they find commonsense
solutions to the nation's problems.
Excellent Quality, 186 Pages
Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/110495/
KEEPING UNUSUAL ANIMALS AS PETS, BY JEF HEWITT
Describes the care requirements, habits and beauty of several types of
exotic pets from amphibians, to reptiles and invertebrates.
Excellent Quality, 130 Pages
Nonfiction, Animals, Outdoors and Nature
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/110450/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0806972785/
THE HEART OF BOSWELL, BY JAMES BOSWELL
This volume is a distillation of the first six volumes of "The Yale
Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell", which are in turn
derived from discoveries and purchases of Boswell's papers at intervals
between the year of his death, 1795, and the middle years of the present
century.
Excellent Quality, 412 Pages
History, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/110542/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0070267758/
THE HUMAN CONDITION, BY HANNAH ARENDT
A work of striking originality bursting with unexpected insights, "The
Human Condition" is in many respects more relevant now than when it
first appeared in 1958. In her study of the state of modern humanity,
Hannah Arendt considers humankind from the perspective of the actions of
which it is capable.
Excellent Quality, 333 Pages
Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/110508/
THE PROMISE OF DEATH, THE PASSION OF LIFE, BY JANA BALDRIDGE VARGAS
The book explores the certainty of death in a direct, personal manner
and draws life affirming lessons from the truth of loss.
Excellent Quality, 156 Pages
Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/110978/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0977176304/
THE WIVES OF HENRY VIII, BY ANTONIA FRASER
In the popular imagination the unfortunate consorts of Henry VIII
survive as feminine stereotypes: the Betrayed Wife, the Temptress, the
Good Woman, the Ugly Sister, the Bad Girl and the Mother Figure. Now
Fraser restores these women to human dimensions while unraveling the web
of forces that raise them to the throne and sometimes brought them to
the headman's block.
Excellent Quality, 482 Pages
History, Biographies and Memoirs
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/110516/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/067973001X/
THE WOMEN WHO BROKE ALL THE RULES: HOW THE CHOICES OF A GENERATION
CHANGED OUR LIVES, BY JOAN P. AVIS AND SUSAN B. EVANS
Featuring in-depth interviews with over 100 women, this important book
uncovers the untold stories of lives in progress, doing one's best and
rewriting old rules.
Excellent Quality, 256 Pages
History, Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/110543/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1570714304/
VERMONT RIVER, BY W. D. WETHERELL
Selected by Trout magazine as one of the thirty finest fly-fishing
books, "Vermont River" is the brilliant chronicle of a writer and fisherman.
Excellent Quality, 150 Pages
Nonfiction, Outdoors and Nature
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/110701/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1558212612/
WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP IN MARGINAL RELIGIONS: EXPLORATIONS OUTSIDE THE
MAINSTREAM, BY CATHERINE WESSINGER
In "Women's Leadership in Marginal Religions", historians, folklorists,
and theologians explore what factors within these groups support women's
religious leadership.
Excellent Quality, 256 Pages
History, Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/110712/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0252020251/
=====TEENS & CHILDREN, 17
BLADE OF FIRE, BY STUART HILL
It's been 20 years since Queen Thirrin and her allies defended the
Icemark against a brutal invasion, but now General Bellorum is back.
Also, Thirrin and Oskans cold-hearted daughter Medea may be the downfall
of the kingdom. Sequel to Cry of the Icemark.
Excellent Quality, 586 Pages
Teens, Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/110849/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0439873274/
CHOPSTICK, BY SANDRA BYRD
Told in the alternating voices of two thirteen-year-old girls who learn
real lessons about faith while competing against one another in a
worship music contest offering a four-hundred-dollar prize.
Excellent Quality, 236 Pages
Teens, Literature and Fiction, Religion and Spirituality
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/110843/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0764200216/
COLD COMFORT FARM, BY STELLA GIBBONS
In Gibbons's classic tale, a resourceful young heroine finds herself in
the gloomy, overwrought world of a Hardy or Bronte novel and proceeds to
organize everyone out of their romantic tragedies into the pleasures of
normal life.
Excellent Quality, 126 Pages
Teens, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/110614/
DOOLEY MACKENZIE IS TOTALLY WEIRD, BY JANICE HARRELL
Andie faces the trials of teen life when the boy she is dating sends a
Christmas card to her parents signed "your future son-in-law," and one
of her new friends, Dooley Mackenzie, is getting into trouble so his
father will notice him.
Excellent Quality, 119 Pages
Teens, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/110850/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0671696696/
FIGHT, BULLDOGS, FIGHT!, BY JEANNE BETANCOURT
It's time for the big football game between the Claymore Bulldogs and
their legendary rivals, the Cougars. As the rivalry heats up, some of
the pranks get out of hand...
Excellent Quality, 120 Pages
Sports, Teens, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/110851/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/059097808X/
FIND THE MIRACLE (WATCHING ALICE #4), BY LEE MILLER AND DANIEL PARKER
Tom Sinclair is on the run--wanted for murder and kidnapping. Disturbing
messages from the mystery person known as "Watching Alice" continue to
taunt him. And each new clue he uncovers further obscures the truth
about his girlfriend's disappearance.
Excellent Quality, 172 Pages
Teens, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/110842/
RIVER SECRETS (THE BOOKS OF BAYERN #3), BY SHANNON HALE
Razo has no idea why he was chosen to be a soldier. He can barely swing
a sword, and his brothers are forever wrestling him to the ground.
Excellent Quality, 309 Pages
Teens, Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/110874/
DOUBLE DARE, BY SANDRA BYRD
Tess wants to be noticed. But making her mark has a high cost. Is it all
worth it? Can super achievements change her into someone really special?
This year's birthday is the worst. First, Tess is cut from the school play.
Excellent Quality, 112 Pages
Children's Books, Literature and Fiction, Religion and Spirituality
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/110844/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1578560195/
ELSIE'S WIDOWHOOD, BY MARTHA FINLEY
Edward and Elsie's daughter, young Elsie, is saddened by a separation
from her beloved Lester, who is studying art in Italy. Shortly after
Lester leaves for Europe, the family is devastated by Edward's sudden
death. Sequel to Elsie's Children.
Excellent Quality, 230 Pages
Children's Books, Literature and Fiction, Religion and Spirituality
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/110630/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1888306408/
GIRLS TO THE RESCUE: TALES OF CLEVER, COURAGEOUS GIRLS FROM AROUND THE
WORLD (BOOK 1), BY BRUCE LANSKY
A collection of ten stories featuring admirable girls in both familiar
and exotic settings.
Excellent Quality, 118 Pages
Children's Books, Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/110568/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0881662151/
NEW GIRL IN CABIN SIX (CAMP SUNNYSIDE FRIENDS #4), BY MARILYN KAYE
A new girl comes to Camp Sunnyside and is placed in cabin six... and she
spells troubl! Katie was the first to suggest a "Welcome" banner for the
new girl assigned to Cabin Six ... but that was before they met her.
Excellent Quality, 128 Pages
Children's Books, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/110599/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0380757036/
THE HOUSE OF DIES DREAR, BY VIRGINIA HAMILTON
The house held secrets, Thomas knew, even before he first saw it looming
gray and massive on its ledge of rock.
Excellent Quality, 249 Pages
Children's Books, Teens, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/110772/
THE NEW AND IMPROVED SARAH (CAMP SUNNYSIDE FRIENDS #9), BY MARILYN KAYE
Katie, Trina, Megan, Sarah, and Erin are back at the all-girls
camp--Camp Sunnyside. Sarah notices that a lot of guys like Erin and
decides that maybe she should do a makeover!
Excellent Quality, 120 Pages
Children's Books, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/110597/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0380761807/
THE RED PONY, BY JOHN STEINBECK
Tells a story of a young boy and his life on his father's California
ranch, raising a sorrel colt.
Excellent Quality, 122 Pages
Children's Books, Animals, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/110693/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0553242172/
THE RUMPELSTILTSKIN PROBLEM, BY VIVIAN VANDE VELDE
Have you ever wondered just what was going on when that odd little man
with the long name stepped up and volunteered to spin straw into gold
for the miller's daughter? If you stop and think about it, there are
some very peculiar and rather hard-to-explain components to the story.
Excellent Quality, 116 Pages
Children's Books, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/110690/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0618055231/
THE THREE INVESTIGATORS IN THE MYSTERY OF THE FIERY EYE, BY ROBERT ARTHUR
Three junior detectives solve a mystery involving a collection of
antique busts, a legacy, a strange letter, and a red ruby.
Excellent Quality, 173 Pages
Children's Books, Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/110707/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0394864077/
WHAT A CATCH! (ANGEL PARK ALL-STARS #4), BY DEAN HUGHES
Brian Waters is so nervous that he can't seem to do anything right on
his little league team, the Angel Park Dodgers, but a pep talk from a
big league star psyches him up to make a winning catch.
Excellent Quality, 90 Pages
Children's Books, Sports, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/110697/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0679904298/
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