en-us http://www.publishersweekly.com/community/Reviews/47159.html?nid=3336 2009 Reed Business Information. Subject to its http://www.publishersweekly.com/info/337409.html Terms of Use. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:09:31 MST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6705660.html?nid=3336 Starred reviews for: Still Life by Melissa Milgrom; Paper Fortunes by Roy C. Smith; Our Times by A.N. Wilson; The Harvard Psychedelic Club by Don Lattio; Love & War by John and Stasi Eldredge; Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6705659.html?nid=3336 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6705658.html?nid=3336 Reviewed this week, new novels from Peter Carey, Alexander McCall Smith, Katherine Center, John Lescroat, and Lori Lansens. Plus, Lindsey Davis takes on the English civil war, Ann Mah sends an out-of-work journo to Beijing, James Greer plots a clever caper, and John McNally digs into writerly envy. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6705993.html?nid=3336 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6705666.html?nid=3336 To the fantastically successful family in Jonathan Dee's The Privileges, failure is foreign, and money is not money. Is this perilous? Perhaps. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6705661.html?nid=3336 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704405.html?nid=3336 Stars for Elif Batuman's The Possessed, Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow, Sean Carroll's From Eternity to Here, Raj Patel's The Value of Nothing, Lee Smith's The Strong Horse, and Andrew Friedman's Knives at Dawn. Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704404.html?nid=3336 This week's reviews include picture books from Alexandra Day, Peter H. Reynolds, and Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney; starred reviews for new fiction from Katherine Sturtevant and Jean-Claude Mourlevat; comics from Lark Pien and Holly Black; and books to invigorate minds and imaginations. Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704403.html?nid=3336 Reviewed this week, new books by T.C. Boyle, Douglas Preston, Louise Erdrich, Jack Higgins, Jerome Charyn and Jim Harrison. Plus, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein creates an "athiest with a soul," Katherine McMahon unravels a post-WWI mystery, Wallace Stroby kicks off what looks like a promising new series, and Bill Flanagan chronicles 40 years of rock and roll. Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704528.html?nid=3336 This week: stars for Michael Psilakis's How to Roast a Lamb, Andrew Smith's Eating History, Peter Nichols's Final Voyage, Rebecca K. O'Connor's Lift, Desmond Morris's Planet Ape, and Sherry Jones's The Sword of Medina. Plus: journalist Amy Goodman, conservationist Lawrence Anthony, actor Robert Englund, ex-J.A.P. Lisa Fineberg Cook, international trade expert Daniel Griswold, 60 Minutes correspondent Byron Pitts, and more. Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704514.html?nid=3336 This enthralling stunner, a good old-fashioned read, may herald the overdue return of those delicious doorstop epics from such writers as Barbara Taylor Bradford and Colleen McCullough. Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704286.html?nid=3336 "Trauma changes the body; it changes behavior and in the social context of poverty and violence, it may be the real thing we have to deal with." Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704285.html?nid=3336 Leila Meacham makes a grand return after a 20-year absence with Roses, a compelling East Texas saga with echoes of Gone with the Wind. Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6703674.html?nid=3336 The return of photographer Andrew Zuckerman and documentarian Ken Burns, TV's Dogtown in print, a personal story of integrating Ole Miss, a rower's education, an oral history of Second City, and a fine appreciation of Strunk & White's Elements of Style. Plus: the year's best food writing, a couple new volumes on cheese, and more. Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6703657.html?nid=3336 "I lived for some time in a remote Arctic village, where I became fascinated by the Eskimo culture. I wanted to write some kind of crime fiction... and when I read Hillerman in the 1980s, the light went on." Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6703656.html?nid=3336 "I hope to make people understand what we [in China] went through collectively, the terror in its daily and hourly incarnation. Just like Kafka, you know?" Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6703538.html?nid=3336 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6703537.html?nid=3336 Stars for Alice Wood's Wealth Watchers and How They See Us, edited by James Atlas. Also featured: Steven Solomon, Alanna Nash, P.D. James, Frank Kermode, Alison Weir, Shankar Vedantam, and more. Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6703536.html?nid=3336 Picture books from Claudia Rueda, Laura Leuck& Marc Boutavant, Sharon Werner & Sarah Forss, and more; fiction from Audrey & Akila Couloumbis, Helen Stringer, Andrew Auseon, Mal Peet, others; plus a jumbo roundup of Christmas titles. Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6703535.html?nid=3336 Reviewed this week, new fiction from Robert Crais, Sandra Brown, Stephen Coonts, Ron Rash, Nicholas Coleridge and Jude Deveraux. Also, Leila Meacham delivers a big, fat Texas epic, Canadian radio host Stuart McLean revisits the Vinyl Cafe, Johanna Moran finds inspriation in an old polygamy case, and Susan Abulhawa revisits Palestinian-Jewish conflicts. Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST