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Books for Grownups, August 2007
The third installment of PW and AARP's ongoing series of lists of new books for baby boomers features titles that will make you laugh, sooth your soul, and also stir up controversy.
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Jeff Gannon Sets the Record Straight
Remember Jeff Gannon, the White House "correspondent" for Talonnews.com who turned out to be a right-wing shill? Now the journalist who wasn’t is back in the news with a book that doesn’t exist—and another one that does. And it all revolves around the Democrats’ favorite bogeyman, former White House confidant Karl Rove.
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 8/27/2007
Picture Books What Happens on Wednesdays Emily Jenkins , illus. by Lauren Castillo. FSG/Foster , $16 (40p) ISBN 978-0-374-38303-9 Radiant mixed-media art by a debut illustrator captures the warmth and candor in Jenkins's (Five Creatures) sparkling slice-of-life tale, narrated by a much-loved child in Brooklyn.
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Giving Monsters a Voice
Turning traditional fairy tales inside out, Tiptree Award—winner Valente lets witches, demons and beasts tell their own stories of seeking—and not always finding—happily ever after. The tone of In the Cities of Coins and Spice is much darker than the first Orphan’s Tales book, In the Night Garden.
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Imagining the Roads Not Taken
Two Jungian psychoanalysts suggest an inner dialogue called “active imagination” as a way to deal with unrealized dreams in Living Your Unlived Life.
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Fiction Reviews: Week of 8/27/2007
Harriet and Isabella Patricia O'Brien . Touchstone , $25 (352p) ISBN 978-1-4165-5220-8 Smooth flashbacks carry this inventive romp through a 19th-century New England scandal, which opens at the deathbed of Henry Ward Beecher, “the most brilliant preacher in America,” in March of 1887. Around him are his many siblings, notably his famous sister, Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Un...
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Reigning Cats and Dogs
In the words of Houghton Mifflin senior editor Susan Canavan, “There’s no mistake about it: people have more thoughtful relationships with their pets than ever before.” And thereby hangs a tail: dogs and cats have taken up residence in American homes in record numbers, according to the American Pet Products Manufacturers Association.
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SF/Fantasy/Horror Notes
SEPTEMBER PUBLICATIONS In the 11 years since publishing Anne McCaffrey: A Critical Companion, Robin Roberts has been collecting material for Anne McCaffrey: A Life with Dragons, a detailed biography of the trail-blazing author. Roberts’s overview of McCaffrey’s life covers much the same ground as previous bios by Todd McCaffrey (Anne’s son and occasional collaborator) and Mart...
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Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 8/27/2007
Touch and Go: A Memoir Studs Terkel . New Press , $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-59558-043-6 After a lifetime of interviewing others, Terkel finally turns the tape recorder on himself. At least, that's what he would have us think. Terkel's memoir is more a medley of all the extraordinary characters he's encountered through his career, from the adult loners of his youth in Chicago's Wells-Grand Hot...
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Licensing Hotline: August 2007
When the long-awaited fourth film in the Indiana Jones franchise is released on May 22, 2008, Scholastic and DK—both long-time partners of Lucas Licensing on Star Wars—will release a range of children’s books appropriate for a PG-13 movie.
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Mike Lupica to Write Series for Children
Mike Lupica, sports columnist for the New York Daily News and bestselling children’s author, has signed with Philomel Books to write a new middle-grade series called Comeback Kids.
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Peter Sís
Peter Sís, two-time Caldecott Honor artist (for Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei and Tibet: Through the Red Box) draws from his own childhood in his latest book, The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain.
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Birds of a Feather
It’s not uncommon for real-life events to inspire books for children. But when the story of a hawk that took residence along New York City’s fabled Fifth Avenue, which captured national attention, spawns the publication of not one, but two new picture books, that’s reason to take notice.
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A Second Career at 90: PW Talks to Millard Kaufman
Ninety is an unusual age to embark upon a second career, but that’s just what Oscar-nominated screenwriter and co-creator of Mr. McGoo is doing. McSweeney’s will publish Kaufman’s debut novel, Bowl of Cherries.
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Fan Creativity Explodes at Comiket
550,000 attendees gathered for 3 days to buy fanzines and parodies at Tokyo's enormous Comiket show.
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Udon on the Upswing
Wide-ranging Udon Entertainment will launch a line of Korean Manhwa this fall.
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Harper Hopes Teens Fall for Miki Falls
Mark Crilley is the creator of the manga-influenced Akiko kids comics and the popular Akiko prose book series, but his new graphic novel series, Miki Falls, is a step beyond global manga.
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Kannagi knows the Ring Finger
Boys love pioneer Satoru Kannagi has written heartfelt romances for both prose and manga.
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Panel Mania: Inanna's Tears
In this 8-page preview of Rob Vollmar and mpMann's Inanna's Tears, a political tragedy set in ancient Sumeria circa 3000 BC, residents of the city of Birith prepare for a successor priest to the goddess Inanna, while powerful interests outside the city challenge the authority of the Temple. Archaia Studios Press will begin serializing the story this month.
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Comics Briefly
Dabel Brothers announce Koontz license; 2007 Doug Wright Award winners; and Thor leads July sales
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