New Adult Non-Fiction 000-399July 27, 2009Annotations from Baker & Taylor or Ingram
Conquering Fear: Living Your Life to the FullestKushner, Harold S.
The best-selling author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People combines anecdotal perspectives with teachings from religious and secular literature to counsel readers on how to address fear, providing specific recommendations for prayer, service, and becoming informed.
Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous LegacyHoffman, David
A history of the end of the arms race describes the Soviet Union’s development of an automatic retaliatory attack system, the United States’ efforts to create space-based missile defenses, and the struggle to prevent nuclear weapons from being acquired by terrorists.
Rescue InkRescue Ink / Flaim, Denise (CON)
An animal rescue organization comprised of tattooed bikers describes the mutual passion that inspired their work, sharing favorite rescue stories as well as descriptions of their visits to schools where they teach students about abuse awareness.
The Ultimate Man’s Survival GuideMiniter, Frank
Presents an introduction to skills that can enhance a man’s masculinity and self-discipline, covering such areas as athletics, wilderness survival, chivalry, heroic behavior, self-defense, and philosophy.
Where Men Win GloryKrakauer, Jon
Traces the controversial story of NFL player and army soldier Pat Tillman, describing the military’s efforts to hide the truth about his death by friendly fire, in an account that draws on Tillman’s journals and letters as well as interviews with family members and fellow soldiers.
Australian author Justine Larbalestier tackles the controversy surrounding the cover of her latest teen novel, “Liar.” the problem: the book’s narrator is black, yet the face staring out at the potential reader from the cover appears to be white. Larbalestier waited to voice her dissenting opinion on Bloomsbury’s choice of cover, but can no longer stand by the publisher’s decision since it impacts the reader on many levels:
Liar is a book about a compulsive (possibly pathological) liar who is determined to stop lying but finds it much harder than she supposed. I worked very hard to make sure that the fundamentals of who Micah is were believable: that she’s a girl, that she’s a teenager, that she’s black, that she’s USian. One of the most upsetting impacts of the cover is that it’s led readers to question everything about Micah: If she doesn’t look anything like the girl on the cover maybe nothing she says is true. At which point the entire book, and all my hard work, crumbles.
also mentioned by Lerbalestier is the alleged practice of publishers removing all traces of race and/or cultural identity from covers for the purpose of selling more books. ‘ugh’ seems completely inadequate.
New Adult Non-Fiction 500-699July 23, 2009Annotations from Baker & Taylor or Ingram
Easy Japanese Cooking: Bento Love
Kobayashi, Kentaro
A collection of more than 60 easy-to-make, portable Japanese recipes from an award-winning cookbook author and television personality, including columns on “Spices, Seasoning and Tupperware for making Bento,” and “White Rice is Good.”
The Hidden Life of Deer: Lessons from the Natural World
Thomas, Elizabeth Marshall
The author describes the vast hidden world she discovered after she observed deer as they fought through a rough winter, bred fawns in the spring, fended off predators and hunters, and made it to the next fall, in a book by the best-selling author of The Hidden Life of Dogs.
Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink
Goodall, Jane
The renowned scientist collects stories of endangered species that have beaten the odds, including the American crocodile, the California condor, and the black-footed ferret, interweaving her own experiences in the field with tales of the accomplishments of premier scientists.
Leading the Charge: Leadership Lessons from the Battlefield to the Boardroom
Zinni, Tony / Koltz, Tony
A retired general examines the leadership challenges of the twenty-first century, addressing outdated practices while citing the importance of tapping the potential of rapidly changing technologies.
Lighting Their Fires
Esquith, Rafe
The best-selling author of Teach Like Your Hair’s on Fire, offers an educator’s view of how parents and teachers can create extraordinary children–in the classroom and beyond.
The New Solar System: Ice Worlds, Moons, and Planets Redefined
Daniels, Patricia / Burnham, Robert
As NASA celebrates fifty years, this reader-friendly book with 160 full-color illustrations explores the new technologies and discoveries that are showing us an ever more detailed vision of the solar system, in a resource that also includes diagrams, maps, essays, sidebars, and fact boxes.
Pink Brain, Blue Brain: How the Surprising New Science of Sex Difference Can Help Us Raise Our Children
Eliot, Lise, Ph.D.
A neuroscientist shatters the myths about gender differences, arguing that the brains of boys and girls are largely shaped by how they spend their time, and offers parents and teachers concrete ways to avoid reinforcing harmful stereotypes.
Puppyhood: How to Raise the Perfect Dog
Millan, Cesar
The star of Dog Whisperer presents a wealth of advice, tips, and techniques for ideally raising a puppy, addressing a range of common concerns from selecting a compatible breed and meeting health needs to housebreaking essentials and achieving ideal behavior. TV tie-in.
Soul of A Dog
Katz, Jon
Explores the question of whether animals have souls, sharing stories about the author’s Border collie and other pet and farm animals he lives with to consider their spiritual characters and seemingly moral or amoral choices.
The Way of Boys: Raising Healthy Boys in an Age of Unfair Expectations, Diagnoses, and Pills
Rao, Anthony / Seaton, Michelle
Offers an urgent call to parents, educators, pediatricians, and other developmental experts to stop over-medicating active boys and to cease treating boyhood as an illness, teaching parents how to rear their sons with respect for their natural development.
Target is apparently a big player in selling books. consumers are paying attention to the guiding light of Target and its employees who choose titles to feature.
In publishing circles Target has long been known as a place that can move many copies of discounted best sellers, as do other mass-merchant retailers like Wal-Mart and Costco. But in the last few years, much in the way it has cultivated its image as a counterintuitive purveyor of Isaac Mizrahi clothes or Michael Graves tea kettles, Target has been building itself into a tastemaker for books.
“Sarah’s Key, a debut novel by Tatiana de Rosnay, is a prime example of a title benefiting from Target’s attention: the original hardcover sold only 2,000 copies where as the special Target paperback edition sold 145,000 copies and the regular paperback edition sold 200,000. just a little bump. this also explains why we now have 53 holds on our 14 copies – we had to purchase an additional 10 copies from our original 4 copies bought in 2007. libraries need to pay attention to retail and media outlets pushing books, this is just a small reminder.
wanna read the next Spencer Quinn (aka Peter Abrahams) mystery, “Thereby Hangs a Tail?” be the first Sno-Isle Libraries employee to comment and the arc is yours. scheduled release is 1/05/10.
posting by marin (who really just wanted an excuse to post a photo of bob)
big name British authors and illustrators plan to boycott school visits this upcoming academic year with the implementation of a database registering those who work at and/or visit schools for screening purposes. Philip Pullman, Anne Fine, and Anthony Horowitz are among those protesting the registration.
Pullman, author of the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials, described the Home Office policy as “corrosive and poisonous to every kind of healthy social interaction”. He said: “I’ve been going into schools as an author for 20 years, and on no occasion have I ever been alone with a child. The idea that I have become more of a threat and I need to be vetted is both ludicrous and insulting. Children have never been in any danger from visiting authors or illustrators, and the idea that they should be is preposterous.
those who register are then charged a fee of approximately $105.
Lawrence McDonald author of A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers, said this morning on NPR that the blame for the fiasco at LB can be laid at the feet of those in charge.
Check out the NPR interview, to hear just how out of touch these guys were.
Common Sense is in the catalog with an on order status.
yes, Amazon messed up royally this past week by removing a couple of George Orwell titles from the accounts of Kindle customers, “1984″ and “Animal Farm.” apparently, the versions were not authorized. Amazon is well within its rights to remove titles from a Kindle accounts based on the terms of service. But it begs a couple of questions: just what are the rights of readers when it comes to ebooks and how did Amazon allow illegal Kindle copies to be uploaded?
today’s Shelf Awareness provided a list of media sources covering the controversy:
Amazon’s decision late last week to remove copies of George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm from its customers’ Kindles sparked widespread controversy, anger among owners of the e-reader and irresistible opportunities for headline writers:
for more to ponder, check out Richard Stallman’s essay “The Right to Read,” published a little over 12 years ago, predicting such a world in which the reader is at the mercy of the corporations in the digital age.
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wanna read the next Spencer Quinn (aka Peter Abrahams) mystery, “Thereby Hangs a Tail?” be the first Sno-Isle Libraries employee to comment and the arc is yours. scheduled release is 1/05/10.
