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Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Audiobooks

I spent a good deal of time at the Midwinter ALA conference talking with librarians about collecting nonbook materials, and audiobooks in particular. In public libraries it is an easy decision, because audiobooks are so popular with people who commute and people with poor vision, but for school libraries it is not so easy. There is a resistance among many people, parents and teachers, towards the use of audiobooks in education. The thinking seems to be that reading should be work. If something is too easy, it can’t be good. Audiobooks are cheating.

I said, When I was in school (fifty years ago) our teachers read aloud to us. Some of them spent a great deal of time reading aloud to us, and I remember the books they read vividly. No more, I was told. Now you teach only for the tests. If something is not on the standardized tests, you don’t teach it, and reading aloud is not on the tests.

Hmm. Isn’t vocabulary and reading comprehension on the tests? What could be a greater aid in vocabulary building and comprehension than listening to a long story that is written at a level somewhere above where you can read on your own? Isn’t that how kids learn words and sentence structure naturally, by hearing them used, rather than by studying grammar or looking up words in a dictionary?

I looked around to see what others have said.

Here is Dr. Frank Serafini in his book Audiobooks & Literacy, An Educator’s Guide to Utilizing Audiobooks in the Classroom: “Experts agree that reading aloud is the single most important activity for developing proficient reading skills. The road to becoming a reader begins with hearing stories read aloud.” And, “In an overcrowded curriculum, teachers are being asked to do more for each student with less time and fewer resources. This is where audiobooks can play a significant role in developing reading abilities in young readers.”

Here is Janet Allen, who spends her time researching, writing, and consulting with schools and teachers who are changing their literacy practices: “For many readers, saying they don't like to read has become an acceptable response to allow them to escape many reading activities. Not wanting to appear to be schoolboys or schoolgirls, even students who like to read often won't admit it. Once readers say they don't like to read often enough, it becomes a habit and a belief. I found audio books to be the most significant factor in overcoming that belief system in my own classroom and in the literacy project classrooms I visit around the country. Kyle Gonzalez and I wrote extensively about the logistics of using audio books in There's Room for Me Here. It was amazing for us to see students develop such language fluency from reading books with audiotapes that they were able to wean themselves from the recordings. We watched them use the tapes for support as they chose increasingly more difficult texts, thereby compensating for the difference between their listening and reading vocabularies.”

Families nowadays seldom sit together in the evenings, as they did many years ago, listening to someone read Dickens or Thackeray, but we can still have the same experience, if somewhat more solitary, listening to a great reader on an audiobook.

Joseph Miller
Vice-president, Cataloging and General Reference
H. W. Wilson Company

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

What's Up in Publishing: May 6, 2008

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

What's Up This Week in Publishing: April 29, 2008

Here you will find information that may help you select books and other materials for your library. Included here will be the latest awards, best book lists and starred reviews in a number of journals. We will post this each Monday. You may find additional information about starred review titles by subscribing to the Core Collections at www.hwwilson.com. You may also request a trial subscription. If you have suggestions or comments please send them to me at rbarber@hwwilson.com

AWARDS

Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award

Nebula Award

Sidewise Award Nominees

Locus Award Finalists

BEST BOOKS LISTS

“Life Style, Travel, Leisure” Kirkus Reviews
May 1, 2006

STARRED REVIEWS
This week’s reviews are from:
AudioFile. April/May, 2008
Booklist. April 15, 2008
Kirkus Reviews. May 1, 2008
Library Journal. April 15, 2008
Library Journal. May 1, 2008
Library Media Connection. April/May, 2008
New York Times. April 27, 2008
People. May 5, 2008
Publishers Weekly. April 28, 2008
School Library Journal. April, 2008
The Week. April 25, 2008
The Week. May 2, 2008

AUDIOFILE

Audio Books
Note: Last weeks posting included books from the February/March, 2008 issue. That list was taken from a web site and did not match the periodical which arrived today. Here it is correctly identified and complete.

April/May, 2008 [Exceptional audio]
Daly, John
Golf My Own Damn Way (Tantor Media)
Wex, Michael
Just Say Nu: Yiddish for Every Occasion (When English Just Won’t Do) (Macmillan Audio)
Thubron, Colin
Shadow of the Silk Road (ISIS Audio Books)
Strunk, William
The Elements of Style (Recorded Books)
Millan, Cesar
Be the Pack Leader (Random House Audio)
Shubin, Neil
Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Books on Tape)
Hosp, David
Innocence (Recorded Books)
Mortimer, John
Rumpole Misbehaves (BBC Audiobooks America)
Patterson, Richard North
The Race (Macmillan Audio)
King, Stephen
Duma Key (Simon & Schuster)
Kanigel, Robert
The Man Who Knew Infinity: Genius Ramanujan (Blackstone Audiobooks)
Heller, Peter
The Whale Warriors: The Battle at the Bottom of the World to Save the Planet’s Largest Mammals (Tantor Media)
Russell, S. Thomas
Under Enemy Colors (Penguin Audio)
Hughes, Langston
Tambourines to Glory (Recorded Books/Griot Audio)
Follett, Ken
World Without End (Penguin Audio)
Horan, Georgina
The Solitude of Thomas Cave (Blackstone Audio)
Baxter, Charles
Saul and Patsy (Phoenix Audio)
Atwood, Margaret
The EdibleWoman
Kunzru, Hari
My Revolutions
Drew, Alan
Gardens of Water (Random House Audio)
Deutschman, Alan
Change or Die (Harper Audio)
King, Stephen
The Mist (Simon & Schuster Audio)
Wells, H, G.
The War of the Worlds [radio dramatization] (BBC Audiobooks America)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (BBC Audiobooks America)
Dickens, Charles
Great Expectations (BBC Audiobooks America)
Children and Young Adults
Van Drannen
Shredderman: Meet the Gecko (live Oak Media)
Fine, Anne
The Granny Project (BBC Audiobooks America)
Pullman, Philip
Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp (Recorded Books)
Myers, Walter Dean
Jazz (Live Oak Media)
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Treasure Island (Listening Library)
Selznick, Brian
The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Scholastic Audio)
Landy, Derek
Skulduggery Pleasant (Harper Audio)
Colfer, Eoin
Airman (Listening Library)
Pennypacker, Sara
Clementine (RecordedBooks)
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
King for Kids (Hachette Audio)
Prachett, Terry
Witches Abroad (ISIS Audio)
Durham, David Anthony
Acacia: Book One: The War with the Mein (Tantor Media)
Card, Orson Scott
Shadow Puppets (Macmillan Audio)
Martin, George R. R.
Dreamsongs Volume I (Random House Audio)
Martin, George R. R.
Dreamsongs Volume II (Random House Audio)
Martin, George R. R.
Dreamsongs Volume III (Random House Audio)

KIRKUS REVIEWS
May 1, 2008 [starred reviews]

Adult Books
Auster, Paul
Man in the Dark
Canin, Ethan
America America
Clark, Martin
The Legal Limit
Crowley, Roger
Empires of the Sea
DePoy, Phillip
The Drifter’s Wheel
Gardner, Daniel
The Science of Fear
Gilmour, David
The Film Club
Haas, Derek
The Silver Bear
Khan, Mahvish Rukhsana
My Guantanamo Diary
McFetridge, John
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Pham, Alexander X.
The Eaves of Heaven
Wingate, Steven
Wifeshopping
Wittes, Benjamin
Law and the Long War

Children’s Books

Baker, Keith
Potato Joe
Bradbury, Jennifer
Shift
Bradley, Timothy J.
Paleo Bugs
Cyrus, Kurt
Tadpole Rex
George, Madeline
Looks
Hearn, Julie
Ivy
Jackson, Ellen
The Mysterious Universe
Kephart, Beth
House of Dance
Lee, Suzy
Wave
Meldrum, Christian
Madapple
Orr, Wendy
Mokie & Bik Go to the Sea
Prineus, Sarah
The Magic Thief
Vidal, Clara
Like a Thorn
Wedekind, Annie
A Horse of Her Own
Winter, Jonah
Steel Town

LIBRARY JOURNAL
April 15, 2008 [starred reviews]

Beverlwy, Jo
Lady’s Secret
Chace, Allison
Dark Obsession: A Novel of Blackheath Moor
Chace, Loretta
Your Scandalous Ways
Abrams, Peter
Delusion
Adams, Poppy
The Sister
Block, Lawrence
Hit and Run
Gardiner, Meg
The Dirty Secrets Club
Abbott, Jeff
Collision
Abrahams, Peter
Delusion
Block, Lawrence
Hit and Run
Pebbels, Frances de Pontes
The Seamstress
Rosenfelt, David
Don’t Tell a Soul
Sararasan, Pretta
Everything is the Whole Day
Stanisic, Sasa
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone
Elliott, Kate
Shadow Gate
Weir, Alison
The Lady Elizabeth
Brockmeir, Kevin
The View From the Seventh Layer
Dixon, Anne
The Handweavers Pattern Directory
White, Christine
Uniquely Felt: Dozens of Techniques from Fulling and Shaping to Nuno and Cobweb
Shea, Terri
Selbuvotter: Biography of a Knitting Tradition
Steichen, Edward
Steichen: :Lives in Photography
Dixon, Wheeler Winston
A Short History of Film
Gandhi, Rajmohan
Gandhi: The Man, His People, and the Empire
Haro.Daoud
The Translator: A Tribesman’s Memoir of Darjur
Persico, Joseph E.
Franklin & Lucy: President Roosevelt, Mrs. Rutherfurd, and the Other Remarkable Women in His Life
Meyer, Michael
The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed
Malloy, Sean L.
Atomic Tragedy: Henry L. Stimsmon and the Decision to Use the Bomb Against Japan
Rotter, Andrew J.
Hiroshima: The World’s Bomb
Ward, Andrew
The Slaves’ War: The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves
Goldstein, Joyce
Mediterranean Fresh: A Compendium of One-Plate Salad Meals and Mix-and- Match Dressings
Ellis, Richard
Tuna: A Love Story
Chivian, Eric
Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity
Jacobi, Dana
The Essential Best Foods Cookbook: 225 Irresistible Recipes Featuring the Healthiest and Most Delicious Foods
Fixico, Donald L.
Treaties with American Indians: An Encyclopedia of Rights, Conflicts, and Sovereignty

Audiobooks

Keraspte, Ted
Merle’s Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog (Tantor Media)
Roberts, Gene
The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, the Awakening of a Nation (Brilliance Audio)

LIBRARY JOURNAL
May 1, 2008 [starred reviews]

Bray, Ilona
U.S. Immigration Made Easy 13th ed.
U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
Welcome to the United States: A Guide for New Immigrants
Available free: www.uscis.gov/newimmigrants
Pass the U.S. Citizenship Exam. 3rd ed. (LearningExpress)
Northcutt, Ellen
Preparation for Citizenship 2002
Skolnick, Solomon M.
The Great American Citizenship Quiz: Can You Pass Your Own County’s Citizenship Test?
U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
The Citizen’s Almanac: Fundamental Documents, Symbols, and Anthems of the United States. Rev ed.
Available free: www.uscis.gov/files/nativedocuments/M76.pdf
Charles, Paul
The Dust of Death: An Inspector Starrett Mystery
Craig, Philip R.
Vineyard Chill: A Martha’s Vineyard Mystery
Knopf, Chris
Head Wounds: A Sam Acquillo Hamptons Mystery
Wall, Kathryn R.
The Mercy Oak: A Bay Tanner Mystery
Phillips, Kathy J.
The Moon in the Water: Reflections on an Aging Parent
Beatty, Paul
Slumberland
Bobis, Merlinda
Banana Heat Summer
Fonseca, Isabel
Attachment
Galchen, Rivka
Atmospheric Disturbances
Jones, Gail
Sorry
Neugeboren, Jay
Two Dollar Radio
Oates, Joyce Carol
My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike
Hao Jiang Tian
Along the Roaring River: My Wild Ride from Mao to the Met
Weiss, Avraham
Spiritual Activism: A Jewish Guide to Leadership and Repairing the World
Wright, N. T.
Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of t he Church
Stuart, Nancy
The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of the Nation
Coll, Steve
The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century
Friedman, Matthew J.
After the War Zone: Practical Guide for Returning Troops and Their Families
Torrey, E. Fuller
The Insanity Offense: How America’s Failure to Treat the Serously Mentally Ill Endangers Its Citizens
Davis, Robert J.
The Health Skeptic: Cutting Through the Hype About Your Health
Edwards, Laurie
Life Disrupted: Getting Real About Cronic Illness in Your Twenties
Pisani, Elizabeth
The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS
Newton, Ruth P.
The Attachment Collection: Parenting a Secure & Confident Child Using the Science of Attachment Theory
Wolfe, Tom
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Wolfe, Tom
The Right Stuff

Audiobooks

Preston, Douglas
Blasphemy (BBC Audiobooks America)
Price, Richard
Lush Life (Macmillan Audio)
Corrigan, Kelly
The Middle Place (Blackstone Audio)

LIBRARY MEDIA CONNECTION
April/May, 2008 [starred reviews]

Ely, Susan Middleton
N is for Novidad
Mansfield, Howard
Hogwood Steps Out: A Good Pig Story
Stuchner, Joan Betty
Josephine’s Dream
Williams, Marcia
Archie’s War
Higgins, F. E.
The Black Book of Secrets
Burg, Shana
A Thousand Never Evers
Gallagher, Liz
The Opposite of Invisible
Gallo, Donald R.
Owning It: Stories About Teens with Disabilities
Bishop, Nic
Nic Bishop Frogs
Irving, Washington adapted by Jeff Zornow
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Shelley, Mary
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow adapted by Elizabeth Genco
Helman, Andrea
Hide and Seek: Nature’s Best Vanishing Acts
Jenkins, Martin
Ape
Mason, Anthony
A History of Western Art: From Prehistory to the Twentieth Century
Kort, Carol
A to Z of American Women Writers, revised edition
Yount, Lisa
A to Z of Women in Science and Math, revised edition
Thomas, Peggy
Farmer George Plants a Nation
Porterfield, Deborah
Top Careers in Two Years: Construction and Trades
Seupel, Celia W.
Top Careers in Two Years: Business, Finance, and Government Administration
Wyckoff, Claire
Top Careers in Two Years: Communications and the Arts
McCully, Emily Arnold
My Heart Glow: Alice Cogswell, Thomas Gallaudet and the Birth of American Sign Language
McCurdy, Michael
So Said Ben
Library of Natural Disasters. 15 volumes (World Book, Inc.)
Kornberg, Arthur
Gern Stories
Denny, Frederick
Atlas of the World’s Religions. 2nd ed.
Oxlade, Chris
Changing Materials
Oxlade, Chris
Joining Materials
Oxlade, Chris
Mixing and Separating
Oxlade, Chris
Shaping Materials
More, John Hartwell
Encyclopedia of Race and Racism

NEW YORK TIMES
April 27, 2008 [Editors’ Choice]

Bolger, Dermot
The Journey Home
Ozick, Cynthia
Dictation: A Quartet
Judt, Tony
Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century
Oates, Joyce Carol
Wild Nights: Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James and Hemingway
Fraser, Steve
Wall Street: America’s Dream Palace
Morris, Charles R.
The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash
Sherrill, Martha
Dog Man: An Uncommon Life on a Faraway Mountain
Ashbery, John’
Notes from the Air: Selecter Later Poems
Strout, Elizabeth
Olive Kitteridge

PEOPLE(
May 5, 2008 [score of 3.5 or higher]

Burroughs, Augusten
A Wolf at the Table
Erdrich, Louise
The Plague of Doves

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
April 28, 2008 [starred reviews]

Adult Books

Winslow, Don
The Dawn Patrol
Letts, Billie
Made in the U.S.A.
Guthrie, Allan
Savage Night
White, Dave
The Evil That Men Do
Bolton, S.J.
Sacrifice
Vargas, Fred
The Night’s Foul Work
Gimenez-Bartlett, Alicia
Death Rites
Due, Tenanarive
Blood Colony
Lake, Jay
Escapement
Engel, Beverly
The Nice Girl Syndrome: Stop Being Manipulated and Abused – And Start Standing Up for Yourself
Dolnick, Edward
The Forger’s Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century
Harvey, Miles
Painter in a Savage Land: The Strange Saga of the First European Artist in North America
Sedaris, David
When You Are Engulfed in Flames
Walters, Barbara
Audition
Chapman, Gary
Love as a Way of Life: Seven Traits That Will Transform Your Relationships
Cepero, Helen
Journaling as a Spiritual Practice: Encountering God Through Attentive Writing
Kaufman, David
Doris Day: The Untold Story of the Girl Next Door

Children’s BooksHarris, Robie H.
Mail Harry to the Moon
Schertle, Alice
Little Blue Truck
Marr, Melissa
Ink Exchange
Meehl, Brian
Suck It Up
Venkatraman
Climbing the Stairs
Bauer, Joan
Peeled
Brothers, Meagan
Debby Harry Sings in French
Birdsall, Jeanne
The Penderwicks on Gardam Street
McKay, Hilary
Forever Rose
Michael, Pamela
River of Words: Young Poets and Artists on the Nature of Things

Audiobooks

Tucker, Lisa
The Cure for Modern Life (Brilliance Audio)
Price, Richard
Lush Life (Macmillian Audio)
Dickens, Charles
Our Mutual Friend (Naxos Audiobooks)
Archer, Jeffrey
A Prisoner of Birth (Macmillan Audio)
Kinsella, Sophie
Remember Me?
Black, Benjamin
The Silver Swan (Macmillan Audio)
Harris, Mark
Pictures at a Revolution (Tantor Audio)
Hari, Daoud
The Translator: A Tribesman’s Memoir of Darfur (Random House Audio)

Web Exclusive Reviews

Dean, John W.
Pure Goldwater
Bernstein, Jared
Crunch: Why Do I Feel so Squeezed? (And Other Unsolved Economic Mysteries)
Wilson, Des
Ghosts at the Table: Riverboat Gamblers, Texas Rounders, Roadside Hucksters, and the Living Legends Who Made Poker What It Is Today
Yenne, Bill
Sitting Bull

SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL(
April, 2008

Crowley, Joy
Chicken Feathers
Crow, Kristyn
Cool Daddy Rat
Gravett, Emily
Monkey and Me
Horse, Harry
Little Rabbit’s New Baby
Jenkins, Emily
Skunkdog
Kerby, Mona
Owney: The Mail-Pouch Pooch
Nivola, Claire
Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai
Rumford, James
Silent Music
Savadier, Elivia
Will Sheila Share?
Swanson, Susan Marie
The House in the Night
Bolden, Tanya
George Washington Carver
Harmon, Michael
The Last Exit to Normal
Kluger, Steve
My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park
Myers, Walter Dean
Sunrise Over Fallujah
Schmidt, John A.
Students on Strike: Jin Crow, Civil Rights, Brown, and Me
Valentine, Jenny
Me, the Missing, and the Dead
Woodson, Jacqueline
After Tupac and D. Foster
Lansflord, Tom
Exploring American History: From Colonikal Times to 1877

THE WEEK
April 25, 2008 [books of the week]

Peterson, Russell, L.
Strange Bedfellows: How Late-Night Comedy Turns Democracy Into a Joke
Block, Stefan Merrill
The Story of Forgetting

THE WEEK
May 2, 2008 [books of the week]

Glenny, Misha
McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld
Crouch, Katie
Girls in Trouble

OTHER
ARTICLES OF NOTE

UNESCO. Information for all Programme (IFAP) Towards Information Literacy Indicators. Paris, UNESCO, 2008.
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0015/001587/158723e.pdf

BOOKSELLING THIS WEEKEach week Bookselling This Week produces a Media Guide which includes:
1. What books are being reviewed weree.
2. Who are the book quests on TV.
3. What books are being talked about on National Public Radio and other syndicated book related radio shows.
4. Book related events by area.
5. Information about authors on tour.
http://news.bookweb.org/mediaguide/

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

What's Up in Publishing: April 22, 2008

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

What's Up in Publishing: April 15, 2008

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

What's Up in Publishing: April 8, 2008

Here you will find information that may help you select books and other materials for your library. Included here will be the latest awards, best book lists and starred reviews in a number of journals. We will post this each Monday. You may find additional information about starred review titles by subscribing to the Core Collections at www.hwwilson.com. You may also request a trial subscription. If you have suggestions or comments please send them to me at rbarber@hwwilson.com

AWARDS

2008 Book Sense Book of the Year Winners

Pulitzer Prize

BEST BOOKS LISTS

The 2008 Christianity Today Book Awards
Christianity Today
April 2008 p. 28-29.

April 2008 Book Sense Picks & Notables Preview
Book Selling This Week
March 6, 2008

Best Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror 2007
VOYA
April, 2008 p.10-12

Pure Poetry: VOYA’s Poetry Picks for 2007
VOYA
April, 2008 p. 13

Amelia Bloomer Project
BOOKLIST
April 1, 2008 p. 52

STARRED REVIEWS

BOOKLIST
April 1, 2008

Adult Books

Nieman, Susan
Moral Clarity:A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists
Kauffman, Bill
Ain’t My America: The Long Noble History of Anti-War Conservatism and Middle American Anti-Imperialism
Schweber, Silvan S.
Einstein and Oppenheimer: The Meaning of Genius
Rothenberg, David
Thousand Mile Song: Whale Music in a Sea of Sound
Tusntall, Tricia
Note by Note: A Celebration of the Piano Lesson
Rogers, Pattiann
Wayfare
Ventura, Jesse
Don’t Start the Revolution Without Me!
Dunwell, Francis
The Hudson: America’s River
Revoyr, Nina
The Age of Dreaming
Cushman, Anne
Enlightenment for Idiots
Samartasan, Preeta
Evening is the Whole Day
Hermon, Aleksandar
The Lazarus Project
Vlautin, Willy
Northline
Brown, Rita Mae
The Sand Castle
Learner, Tobsha
Soul
Fossum, Karin
Black Seconds
Harrod-Eagles,Cynthia
Game Over
Harrington, Kent
The Good Physian
Bernard, Robert
Last Post
Diotalevi, Dave
Miracle Myx
Millar, Martikn
Lonely Warewolf Girl
Murphy, C. E.
The Queen’s Bastard
Moore,John Hartwell
Encyclopedia of Race & Racism
Magill’s Medical Guide. 4th ed.
Books for Youth
Adoff, Jaime
The Death of Jayson Porter
Teckentrup, Britta
Grumpy Cat
Rodman, Mary Ann
Jimmy’s Stars
Doctorow, Cory
Little Brother
Meldrum, Christiana
Madapple
Page, Robin
Sisters & Brothers: Sibling Relationships in the Animal World
Preller, James
Six Innings
Seeger, Laura Vaccaro
Two’s Company
Un-oh, Cleo
Harper, Jessica
George, Jean Craighead
The Wolves are Back
Abramson, Andra Serlin
Heavy Equipment Up Close

Video

The Jewish Americans (PBS)
Maarathon Challenge (WGBH)
Banks, Kate
Max’s Words (Weston Woods)
Giovanni, Nikki
Rosa (Weston Woods)

Audiobooks

Tolkien, J. R. R.
The Children of Hurin (Trafalgar)
Ahern, Cecelia
There’s No place Like Here (Books on Tape)

BULLETIN OF THE CENTER FOR CHILDREN’S BOOKS
March, 2008

Amato, Mary
The Chicken of the Family
Bunce,Elizabeth C.
A Curse as Dark as Gold
Frazee, Marla
A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever
Sanders, Scott Loring
The Hanging Woods
Strum, Jame
Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow

CHRISTIANITY TODAY
March, 2008 [4 stars and above]

Perrotta, Tom
The Abstinence Teacher
D’Souza, Dinesh
What’s So Great about Christianity
Samet, Elizabeth D.
Soldier’s Heart: Reading Literature Through Peach and War at West Point
Turner, John G.
Bill Bright and Campus Crusade for Christ: The Renewal of Evangelicalism in Postwar America
Pointer, Richard W.
Encounters of the Spirit: Native Americans and European Colonial Religion

ELERY QUEEN MYSTERY MAGAZINE
May, 2008 [score of 4 or above]

Koontz, Dean
The Darkets Evening of the Year

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
April 11, 2008 [score of B+ or better]

Kellerman, Jesse
The Genius
Harris, Joanne
The Girl With No Shadow
Murphy, Caroline P.
Murder of a Medici Princess
Hernandez, Jamine
The Education of Hopey Glass
Smith, Jeff
RASL #1

KIRKUS REVIEWS
April 15, 2008 [starred reviews]

Adult Books
Akpan, Uwem
Say You’re One of Them
Fisher, Paul
House of Wits
Galchen, Rivka
Atmospheric Disturbances
Gilbert, Avery
What the Nose Knows
Gill, A. A.
Previous Convictions
Leary, Ann
Outtakes from a Marriage
Sedaris, David
When You Are Engulfed in Flames
Sheeler, Jim
Final Salute
Wood, James
How Fiction Works
Children’s Books
Bechtold, Lisze
Sally and the Purple Socks
Fletcher, Charlie
Ironhand
Greenwood, Mark
The Donkey of Gallipoli
Hines, Anna Grossnickle
1, 2, Buckle My Shoe
Kostick, Conor
Saga
Mickelson, Richard
As Good As Anybody
Pulver, Robin
Silent Letters Loud and Clear
Rappaport, Doreen
Lady Liberty
Rodman, Mary Ann
Jimmy’s Stars
Sage, Angie
Queste
Steig, Jeanne
Fleas!
Vila, Laura
Building Manhattan

LIBRARY JOURNAL
April 1, 2008 [starred reviews]

De Castrique, Mark
Blackman’s Coffin
Box, C. J.
Blood Trail: A Joe Pickett Novel
Merkel, E. L.
Virgins and Martyrs: An Aria Quynn Novel
Leon, Donna
The Girl of His Dreams: A Commisario Guido Brunetti Mystery
Raichev, R. T.
Assassins at Ospreys
Vasquez
In the Heat
George, Elizabeth
Carel.ess in Red
Perry, Thomas
Fidelity
Dekker, Ted
Adam
Dickson, Athol
Winter Haven
Beninoff, David
City of Thieves
Coben, Harlan
Hold Tight
Freely, Maureen
Enlightenment
Furst, Alan
Spies of Warsaw
Hemon, Aleksandar
The Lazarus Project
Meyer, Stephanie
The Host
Robinson, Roxana
Cost
Le Normand-Rpomain, Antoinette
The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of Works in the Musee Rodin vol 1
Greer, Germaine
Shakespeare’s Wife
Doty, Mark
Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems
Mort, Valzhyna
Factory of Tears
Yang, Kao Kalia
The Latecomer: AHmung Family Memoir
DeGrott, Gerald J.
The Sixties Unplugged: A Kaleidoscopic History of a Disorderly Decade
Hermon, Arthur
Ghandi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Out Age
Horwitz, Tony
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World
Buell, Emmett H.
Attack Politics: Negativity in Presidential Campaigns Since 1860
Sheckman, Rick
Just How Stupid Are We?: Facing the Truth About the American Voter
Doubilet, Peter M.
Your Developing Baby, Conception to Birth: Witnessing the Miraculous 9-Month Journey
Rovina, Nesta
TreeBarking: A Memoir
Yarosh, Daniel
The New Science of Perfect Skin: Understanding Skin Care Myths and Miracles for Radiant Skin at Any Age
Dumbach, Annette
Slophie Scholl and the White Rose

Audiobooks

Roberts, Nora
Blood Brothers (Brilliance Audio)
Dungy, Tony
Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, and Priorities of a Winning Life (Recorded Books)
Hitchens, Christopher
The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever (Phoenix, Audio)

NEW YORK TIMES
April 6, 2008 [Editors’ Choice]

Hastings, Max
Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-1945
Ferguson, Charles
No End in Sight: Iraq’s Descent into Chaos
Roach, Mary
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
Wolff, Tobias
Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories
Winterson, Jeanette
The Stone Gods
Bickerton, Derek
Bastard Tongues: A Trailblazing Linguist Finds Clues to Our Common Humanity in the World’s Lowliest Languages
Bang, Mary Jo
Elegy: Poems
Goodison, Lorna
From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island
Woiwode, Larry
A Step from Death: A Memoir

PEOPLE
April 14, 2008 [score of 3.5 or higher]

Weller, Sheila
Girls Like Us
Strout, Elizabeth
Olive Kittridge

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
March 31, 2008 [starred reviews]

Adult Books
Le, Nam
The Boat
Sharra, Jeff
The Steel Wave
Burke, Shannon
Black Flies
Saylor, Steven
The Triumph of Caesar: A Novel of Ancient Rome
Straley, John
The Big Both Ways
Muth, John J.
M: A Graphic Novel
Yun, Ch’oe
There a Petal Silently Falls: Three Stories
Salamon, Julie
Hospital: Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God, and Diversity on Steroids
Dawidoff, Nicholas
The Crowd Sounds Happy: A Story of Love, Madness and Baseball
Kershaw, Alex
Escape from the Deep: The Epic Story of a Legendary Submarine and Her Courageous Crew
Freston, Kathy
Quantum Wellness: A Practical and Spiritual Guide to Health and Happiness
Sheeler, Jim
Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives
Brandow, Todd
Edward Steichen: Lives in Photography
Sorensen, Ted
Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History
Khudayyir, Muhammad
Bastayatha: The Story of a City
Audiobooks
White, T.H.
The Sword in the Stone (Naxos)
Woodward, Solon Timothy
Cadillac Orpheus (HighBridge Audio)
Winspear, Jacqueline
An Incomplete Revenge (Macmillan Audio)
Parker, T. Jefferson
L.A. Outlaws (Brillance Audio)
Haig, Matt
The Labrador Pact (HighBridge Audio)
Perez-Reverte, Arturo
The Painter of Battles (Random House Audio)
Buxbaum, Julie
The Opposite of Love (Random House Audio)
Beaumont, Maria
37 (Blackstone Audio)
Tolstoy, Leo
The Death of Ivan Illyich (Naxos)
Breslin, Jimmy
The Good Rat: A True Story (BBC Audiobooks)
Dooley, Mike
Leveraging the Universe and Engaging the Magic (Simon & Schuster Audio)

Children’s Books

Kerley, Barbara
What to Do About Alice?
Newbery, Linda
Lost Boy
Levine, Gail Carson
Ever
Jinks, Catherine
Genius Squad
Averbeck, Jim
In a Blue Room
Starred Reviews from the Web
Brottman, Mikita
The Solitary Vice: Against Reading
Quammen, David
Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature
Berlin, Richard M.
Poets on Prozac: Mental Illness, Treatment and the Creative Process
Scibona, Salvatore
The End

Adult Books
April 7, 2008 [starred reviews]

Krasikov, Sana
One More Year
Oates, Joyce Carol
My Sister, My Love
Morris, R. N.
A Vengeful Longing
Unger, Lisa
Black Out
Butler, Robert Olen
Intercourse:Stories
De Castrique, Mark
Blackman’s Coffin
Housewright, David
Madman on a Drum: A McKenzie Novel
Brennan, Marie
Midnight Never Come
Quinn, Susan
Furious Improvisation: How the WPA and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art Out of Desperate Times
Vidal, Gore
The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal
Preston, Douglas
The Monster of Florence: A True Story
Macfarlane, Robert
The Wild Places
Thompson, Barbara
Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body

Children’s Books
Giovanni, Nikki
The Grasshopper’s Song: An Aesop’s Fable Revisited
Hooks, Bell
Grump Groan Growl
Gonzalez, Lucia
The Storyteller’s Candle/La velita de los cuentos
Henkes, Kevin
Bird Lake Moon
Reinhardt, Dana
How to Build a House
O’Connor, Jane
Fancy Nancy’s Favorite Fancy Words: From Accessories to Zany
Law, Ingrid
Savvy
Starred Reviews from the Web
Tonello, Michael
Bringing Home the Birkin: My Life in Hot Pursuit of the World’s Most Coveted Handbag
Hodges, Michael
AK47: The Story of a Gun
Dallas, Gregor
Metro Stop Paris:An Underground History of the City of Light
Stiglitz, Joseph E.
The Three Trillion Dollar War:The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict
Patoski, Joe Nick
Willie Nelson: An Epic Life
Le Men, Segolene
Courbet
Rock, Rose
Mama Rock’s Rules: Ten Lessons for Raising a Houseful of Successful Children

QUILL & QUIRE
March, 2008 [starred reviews]

Adult Books
Abbott, Andre
Sugar: Bittersweet History
Lewis, Naomi, K.
Cricket in a Fist
Books for Young People
Tamaki, Mariko
Skim

ROMANTIC TIMES
May, 2008

Adult Books [Top Picks]
Jacobs, Ann
Full Circle
Page, Sharon
Black Silk
Bernard, Renee
A Rouge’s Game
Bradley, Celeste
The Duke Next Door
Bradley, Celeste
Duke Most Wanted
Dawson, Geralyn
The Loner
Hoyt, Elizabeth
To Taste Temptation
McKerrigan, Sarah
Danger’s Kiss
Small, Bertrice
The Sorceress of Belmair
Coble, Colleen
Anathema
Hunt, Angela
She Always Wore Red
Harris, Joanne
The Girl with No Shadow
Wilson, D. J.
Flight to Freedom
Kellerman, Jesse
The Genikus
Rose, Karen
Scream for Me
Saums, Mary
Mighty Old Bones
Wall, Kathryn R.
The Mercy Oak
Frost, Jeaniene
One Foot in the Grave
Harris, Charlaine
From Dead to Worse
MacAliser, Katie
Playing with Fire
Dane, Jordan
No One Left to Tell
Byrd, Rhyannon
Last Wolf Watching
Darcy, Lilian
The Millionaire’s Makeover
Galloway, Shelley
The Mommy Bride
Gates, Olivia
The Desert Lord’s Baby
Herron, Rita
In the Flesh
Leigh, Jo
Have Mercy
Mackenzie, Myrna
The Heir’s Convenient Wife
Napier, Susan
Accidental Mistress
Salonen, Debra
Baby by Contract
Welsh, Kate
Time for Grace
Whiddon, Karen
Black Sheep P.I.
Yaye, Pamela
Her Kind of Man

Teen books [3.5 stars or higher]

Scott, Kieran
Geek Magnet
Cusick, Richie Tankersley
Walk of the Spirits

SB&F: SCIENCE BOOKS & FILMS
Science Books & Films
January/February, 2008
[Editor’s Choice]
Roots, Clive
Animal Parents
Sheldon, David
Barnum Brown: Dinosaur Hunter
Karsten, Heuer
Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with Caribou
Peluso, Beth A.
The Charcoal Forest: how Fire Helps Animals and Plants
Fetty, Margaret
Chimpanzees
Seuling, Barbara
Cows Sweat Through Their Noses and Other Freaky Facts about Animal Habits, Characteristics, and Homes
Lunis, Natalie
Crows
Dingus, Lowell
Dinosaur Eggs Discovered! Unscrambling the Clues
Ingram, Scott
Dolphins
Searl, Duncan
Elephants
Hardesty, Von
Epic Rivalry: The Inside Story of the Soviet and American Space Race
Lynch, Wayne
The Everglades
Nicklin, Flip
Face to Face with Dolphins
Day, Leslie
Field Guide to the Natural World of New York City
Gunderson, Jessica
Friends and Flowers
Everson, Ted
The Gene: A Historical Perspective
Herbst, Judith
Germ Theory
Blaisdell, Molly
The Grass Patch Project
Walker, Richard
How the Incredible Human Body Works
Somerville, Barbara A.
The Human Body
Myers, Tim
If You Give a T-Rex a Bone
Thales, Sharon
Inclined Planes to the Rescue
Jenkins, Steve
Living Color
Vardon, Catherine
Meet the Shark
Broll, Brandon
Microcosmos: Discovering the World Through Microscopic Images from 20 x to Over 22 Million x Magnification
Landstrom, Lee
Nature’s Yucky!: The Desert Southwest
Walker, Gabrielle
An Ocean of Air: Why the Wind Blows and Other Mystgeries of the Stmosphere
Strauss, Rochelle
One Well: The Story of Water on Earth
Fetty, Margaret
Parrots
Lawrence, Krauss
The Physics of Star Trek
Searl, Duncan
Pigs
Whitehouse, Patricia
Plants
Collard, Sneed
Pocket Babies and Other Amazing Marsupials
Henry, Michael
Raptor: The Life of Young Deinonychus
Farrell, John
Stargazer’s Alphabet from A to Z
Gunderson, Jessica
The Sunflower Farmer
Blaisdell, Molly
Surprising Beans
Johnson, Rebecca L.
Ultra-Organized Cell Systems
Allen, Arthur
Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine’s Greatest Lifesaver
Singer, Marilyn
Venom
Sayre, April
Vulture View
Davies, Nikcola
White Owl, Barn Owl
Preston, Richard
The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
Daigle, Evelyne
The World of Penguins

THE WEEK
April 4, 2008 [books of the week]

Baker, Nicholson
Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization
Baxter, Charles
The Soul Thief

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