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Panelmania: Gunnerkrigg Court: Orientation

| 11/04/2008 @ 02:38PM

A young girl named Antimony attends a boarding school where magic and

science collide in this 13-page preview of Gunnerkrigg Court: Orientation.
Marvel Publishing Sales Slip

| 11/03/2008 @ 10:33PM

Trade paperback sales were off in Marvel's third quarter, leading to a 3% decline in revenue in the period while profits fell 15%.
Nonfiction Reviews

| 11/03/2008 @ 07:00AM

Summer World: A Season of Bounty Bernd Heinrich . Ecco , $26.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-074217-1 In his pursuit of actively observing his camp in the forests of western Maine and the woods, beaver bog and gardens around his Vermont home, Heinrich (The Trees in My Forest) delights with the surprising activities of local flora and fauna—and his own scientific antics: with a pet grackle name...
Fiction Reviews

| 11/03/2008 @ 07:00AM

Waveland Frederick Barthelme . Doubleday , $24.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-385-52729-3 In his first novel since PEN/Faulkner finalist Elroy Nights, Barthelme offers a strangely detached exploration of the post-Katrina Mississippi Gulf Coast. One year after the hurricane and a divorce, Vaughn Williams has more or less recovered from the shock of both.
Children's Book Reviews

| 11/03/2008 @ 07:00AM

Picture Books Do You Love Me? Joost Elffers and Curious Pictures . HarperCollins/Bowen , $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-166799-2 Elffers (Food Play) teams up with Curious Pictures, producer of such TV shows as Little Einsteins, to introduce Snuzzles. Amorphous and solid-colored, the Snuzzles look a lot like rubber squeak toys, with their heads defined only by protrusions for noses and ears and ...
Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 11/03/2008

| 11/03/2008 @ 05:00AM

On the Web this week: mountain-scaling management techniques, writing like a Russian realist, analyzing the Zionists, the origins of French cuisine, another fine regional barbecue bible, and financial advice for a world in (literal) tribulation. Plus: the life of Fred Astaire, the early work of fashion photog Edward Steichen, and the self-defense of Eminem's mom.
On Tour with Dave and Ridley

| 10/30/2008 @ 06:00AM

Science Fair, the seventh collaboration between Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, pubbed with a 250,000-copy first printing. The pair then embarked on an eight-city tour over 10 days, including a visit to Good Morning America.
Q & A with Ellen Klages

By Lynda Brill Comerford | 10/30/2008 @ 06:00AM

TheGreen Glass Sea, winner of the 2007 Scott O’Dell Award, tells the story of the creation of the first atomic bomb through the eyes of Suze and Dewey, two children of scientists working on the project. Bookshelf spoke with Ellen Klages about her sequel, White Sands, Red Menace (Viking), set in Alamogordo, N.M, after the war.
Peachy Performance for a YA Series

By Sally Lodge | 10/30/2008 @ 04:00AM

Three very different teens forge a friendship one summer while working in a Georgia peach orchard in Jodi Lynn Anderson’s Peaches, published in 2005 by HarperTeen. The girls were reunited in 2006’s Secret of Peaches and meet once again in Love and Peaches, which was released this week with an initial print run of 100,000 copies.
An Encore for Aidan Chambers

By Sally Lodge | 10/30/2008 @ 04:00AM

Aidan Chambers’s Dance Sequence, six novels with shared themes (though not characters) debuted 30 years ago with the publication of Breaktime. This month, Amulet Books is releasing paperback reissues of this young adult novel, as well as the second installment, Dance on My Grave. The publisher will reissue the third and fourth books, Now I Know and The Toll Bridge, in spring 2009.
Comics Go to the Ivy League

By Laura Hudson | 10/28/2008 @ 02:35PM

Academic Librarian Karen Green has successfully made the case for the literary legitimacy of comics at one of the most elite schools in the nation, and transformed Columbia’s collection of graphic novels from a paltry few to over 800 books and climbing.
Bill Willingham Recreates the Fables

By Douglas Wolk | 10/28/2008 @ 02:34PM

Besides the ongoing Jack of Fables spin-off title, written by BBill Willingham's frequent collaborator Matthew Sturges, and an upcoming book collecting artist James Jean's covers for Fables itself, there are three more Fables-related projects coming in 2009.
Bat-Manga: Go Go Go!

by Frank Santoro | 10/28/2008 @ 02:33PM

Thie Chip Kidd-edited and designed anthology of an obscure Janapanese Batman manga is a vivid, primal take on the character
This American Elf

By Laura Hudson | 10/28/2008 @ 02:32PM

James Kochalka celebrates the 10th anniversary of his daily diary strip, American Elf
Comics Briefly 10/28

Compiled by Ada Price | 10/28/2008 @ 02:31PM
Panelmania: World of Quest

| 10/28/2008 @ 02:30PM

World of Quest, Jason Kruse's kid-oriented sword and sorcery Web comic, which recently made the leap to both print and television animation, hits stands with its second volume this December. In our exclusive 6-page preview, Quest faces the wrath of The Hive.
Nonfiction Reviews

| 10/27/2008 @ 06:00AM

Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America Julia Angwin . Random , $27 (336p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6694-0 Angwin, an award-winning journalist for the Wall Street Journal, recounts the history of MySpace.com in this well-written, entertaining and drama-filled chronicle. From its founding by Chris DeWolfe to its surprising purchase for nearly $600 million by Rupert ...
Children's Book Reviews

| 10/27/2008 @ 06:00AM

Picture Books I Got Two Dogs John Lithgow , illus. by Robert Neubecker. Simon & Schuster , $17.99 (32p with CD) ISBN 978-1-4169-5881-9 Lithgow’s (I’m a Manatee) singing tribute to a couple of canine ne’er-do-wells named Fanny and Blue strives for the kind of goofy, bouncy simplicity of Burl Ives’s classic Little White Duck album.
A Look at the Real Alaskans

| 10/27/2008 @ 06:00AM

Fifty Miles from Tomorrow: A Memoir of Alaska and the Real People William L. Iggiagruk Hensley . Farrar, Straus & Giroux , $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-374-15484-4 Although this fascinating memoir is set hundreds of |miles from where most Americans have ever dared to travel, Hensley brings to life this “little-known part of America” through myriad tales of toil, triumph and the Inu...
In Profile

| 10/27/2008 @ 06:00AM

Barbara Dianne Savage Diversity Reigns in the Black Church In the clash between Sen. Barack Obama and his former pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barbara Dianne Savage sees the conflict between the African-American political experience and the so-called “black church” writ large. “One of the problems is that both Obama and Wright spoke as if there was such a thing as the black ch...

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