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|  | Collier, Paul THE PLUNDERED PLANET
January 15, 2010 - Building on the startling data he analyzed in The Bottom Billion (2007), the author delves into some of the trickiest issues facing mankind, including two paradoxical questions: "Who owns natural resources?" and "Who deserves the profits that are borne from natural resources?" The answers are integral to the developing societies making up the "bottom billion," whose potential to rise from poverty may depend on their ability to discover and manage their natural assets
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| | Lamott, Anne IMPERFECT BIRDS
January 15, 2010 - Lamott, best known for nonfiction, including popular books on writing (Bird by Bird, 1994) and spirituality (Traveling Mercies, 1999), returns to the novel with a sequel of sorts to one of her earliest and best, Rosie (1983). A child in that novel with an alcoholic mother, Rosie is now 17 and her mother, Elizabeth, is generally sober through Alcoholics Anonymous, though not without the occasional relapse
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| Current Issue: Fiction |
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 | Dean, Anna BELLFIELD HALL
January 15, 2010 - When fair young Catherine's heart is broken by the disappearance of her fianc, she sends for her dear maiden aunt Dido to console her and find the missing Mr. Richard Montague. Neither Catherine nor Dido can explain why he vanished after their |
| Palmer, Dexter THE DREAM OF PERPETUAL MOTION
January 15, 2010 - This reads like a science-fiction update of The Tempest as rewritten by Jonathan Lethem. It takes place in the early years of the 20th century, though this is a past reimagined by a futurist, filled with mechanical men who have brought the age of |
| Shaw, Dash BODY WORLD
January 15, 2010 - Looking for the linear narrative of conventional storytelling in the latest from critically acclaimed artist Shaw (Bottomless Belly Button, 2008, etc.) is like trying to drive on LSD. In fact, the riot of color seems hallucinogenic, befitting this |
| Smiley, Jane PRIVATE LIFE
January 15, 2010 - Bookish, shrewdly observant Margaret Mayfield discomfits most men in turn-of-the-20th-century Missouri, but she needs to get married. Her father committed suicide when she was eight, shortly after one of her brothers was killed in a freak accident |
| Current Issue: Nonfiction |
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| Bowden, Charles MURDER CITY
January 15, 2010 - In 2006, shortly after his controversial election, Mexican President Felipe Calderžn, whom half of the nation considers illegitimate, declared war on the region's drug cartels. He sent thousands of federal troops to Juárez's state of Chihuahua, |
| Brinkley, Alan THE PUBLISHER
January 15, 2010 - The son of a Presbyterian missionary, Henry R. Luce (1898–1967) grew up in China. Eager for distinction as a scholarship student at Hotchkiss and Yale, Luce, along with classmate Brit Hadden, founded Time in 1923. This invention of a weekly news |
| Frost, Randy O. STUFF
January 15, 2010 - Frost (Psychology/Smith Coll.) and Steketee (Social Work/Boston Univ.), co-authors, with David Tolin, of Buried in Treasures: Help for Compulsive Acquiring, Saving, and Hoarding (2007), were the first social scientists to conduct systematic studies |
| Hastings, Max WINSTON'S WAR
January 15, 2010 - When Churchill became prime minister in May 1940, the Nazi war machine had swept aside the British in Norway and were headed for France. The time for talk of appeasement and defeatism had passed. "I felt as if I were walking with destiny," Churchill |
| McKibben, Bill EAARTH
January 15, 2010 - In accessible prose and a tone of wistfulness about the state of our planet, environmental activist McKibben (Fight Global Warming Now, 2007, etc.) demonstrates how global warming has already occurred and is irreversible. He describes a new |
| McPhee, John SILK PARACHUTE
January 15, 2010 - Here the author is at his most personal, far from the cool remove that has characterized so much of his superb, voluminous output. As usual, these journalistic pieces are not assignments. McPhee examines things he finds intriguing: canoeing, |
| Shields, David REALITY HUNGER
January 15, 2010 - In an era of hip-hop sampling, James Frey, artistic collage and the funhouse mirror of so-called "reality TV," Shields maintains that so many of the values underpinning cultural conventions are at best anachronisms and at worst lies. And he does so |
| Current Issue: Children's |
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| Cole, Henry A NEST FOR CELESTE
January 15, 2010 - Starting outside a house, the reader's viewpoint moves indoors page by page until there "sat Celeste, hunched over her work table" under the floorboards. Celeste's a mouse, her nest cozy and treasured—until it becomes unsafe, forcing her to look |
| Fisher, Catherine INCARCERON
January 15, 2010 - A far-future thriller combines riveting adventure and masterful world-building with profound undertones. Finn cannot remember anything before awakening in the vast sentient prison called Incarceron, but he is sure that he comes from outside its |
| Hines, Anna Grossnickle I AM A BACKHOE
January 15, 2010 - Like many young boys, this book's protagonist marries an active imagination to a love of trucks. In a layout perfectly designed for the youngest readers, Hines uses one double-page spread to show the young boy acting out the motions of one of his |
| Hopkins, Lee Bennett SHARING THE SEASONS
January 15, 2010 - Cheery, upbeat and accessible—and lovely to boot. Veteran poet and anthologist Hopkins makes good choices among contemporary poets young readers might recognize—Rebecca Kai Dotlich, Marilyn Singer, April Halprin Wayland, to name a few—and a few |
| Lloyd, Saci THE CARBON DIARIES 2017
January 15, 2010 - Two years have passed since the Carbon Diaries 2015 (2009), and Laura just wants to play punk music. With carbon rationing and the Thames flooding constantly, London's not like it used to be. Laura and her loved ones experience drought, flood, |
| Raschka, Chris HIP HOP DOG
January 15, 2010 - A neglected pup raps a bravado-laced memoir that chronicles his life on the street and gradual embrace of hip-hop culture. Raschka produces a text that—yes!—completely comprehends how to handle this larger-than-life-size poetic form in a short |
| Taylor, Sarah Stewart AMELIA EARHART
January 15, 2010 - The Center of Cartoon Studies, producer of the critically lauded graphic biographies of Harry Houdini, Satchel Paige and Henry David Thoreau, adheres to the same winning formula with this charmer about famed aviator Amelia Earhart. Readers meet the |
| Teller, Janne NOTHING
January 15, 2010 - The seventh graders of Tring School are much like any others, until Pierre Anthon has an existential crisis, climbs a tree and refuses to come back to school. The other students can't live their lives as usual with one of their classmates sitting |
| Watt, Mlanie CHESTER'S MASTERPIECE
January 15, 2010 - Chester, Canadian cat author extraordinaire, is back for a third self-aggrandizing volume without any help from Mlanie Watt. He has hidden her art supplies AND her computer mouse (which apparently tastes like chicken). He is in full control of this |
| Wight, Eric FRANKIE PICKLE AND THE PINE RUN 3000
January 15, 2010 - Gentlemen, start your engines. Frankie Pickle, fresh off his incarnation as Indiana Jones, returns in another imaginative, over-the-top fantasy. This time, Frankie, bearing an uncanny resemblance to Speed Racer, attempts to overcome his merit-point |
| Williams-Garcia, Rita ONE CRAZY SUMMER
January 15, 2010 - A flight from New York to Oakland, Calif., to spend the summer of 1968 with the mother who abandoned Delphine and her three sisters was the easy part. Once there, the negative things their grandmother had said about their mother, Cecile, seem true: |
| Winter, Jonah HERE COMES THE GARBAGE BARGE!
January 15, 2010 - A stinky story never seemed so sweet. Winter tackles the true-life tale of the 1987 Garbage Barge fiasco in this entirely amusing mix of fact and fiction.When the city of Islip on Long Island ends up with too much garbage, some businessmen (merged |
| Wittenstein, Vicki Oransky PLANET HUNTER
January 15, 2010 - On an inhospitable Hawaiian mountaintop, using one of the most powerful optical telescopes in the world, astronomer Dr. Geoffrey Marcy and others search for planets outside our solar system. When the first one was discovered in 1995, he and his team |
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| Talk Like a Man: Robert B. Parker Tribute
January 15, 2010 - I still remember the first time I heard Spenser's voice ring out in the opening chapter of The Godwulf Manuscript (1973), as he razzes the college president who's trying to hire him. What's this guy's problem? I thought. Why does he have such an attitude? The attitude, I soon learned, had deep roots...Part of it was a temperamental similarity to Spenser's creator, Robert B. Parker, who died on Jan. 18th at age 77.
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