Xpress Reviews
-- Library Journal, 05/15/2009
LJ's free weekly web evaluations for the weeks of April 24 and May 1, 2009. Go to Reviews on our homepage, then click on Xpress Reviews.
Fiction
Austen, Jane and Seth Grahame-Smith. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Quirk.
Fox, Andrew. The Good Humor Man. Tachyon, dist. by Independent Pubs. Group.
Nonfiction
Ask Me About My Divorce: Women Open Up About Moving On. Seal, dist. by Publishers Group West.
Charters, Samuel. A Language of Song: Journeys in the Musical World of the African Diaspora. Duke Univ.
Davis, Sharon. Lionel Richie: Hello. Equinox, dist. by David Brown: Oxbow.
Gibbons, Leeza & others. Take Your Oxygen First: Protecting Your Health and Happiness While Caring for a Loved One with Memory Loss. LaChance.
Kidder, Tracy. Strength in What Remains. Random.
Kurlansky, Mark. The Food of a Younger Land: A Portrait of American Food—Before the National Highway System, Before Chain Restaurants, and Before Frozen Food, When the Nation's Food Was Seasonal, Regional, and Traditional—from the Lost WPA Files. Riverhead: Penguin Group (USA).
Langer, Ellen J. Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility. Ballantine.
Miller, Logan & Noah Miller. Either You're in or You're in the Way: Two Brothers, Twelve Months, and One Filmmaking Hell-Ride To Keep a Promise to Their Father. Collins: HarperCollins.
Reader, John. Potato: A History of the Propitious Esculent. Yale Univ.
Reichl, Ruth. Not Becoming My Mother: And Other Things She Taught Me Along the Way. Penguin Pr: Penguin Group (USA).
Saval, Malina. The Secret Lives of Boys: Inside the Raw Emotional World of Male Teens. Basic Bks: Perseus.
Silverman, Phyllis R. and Madelyn Kelly. A Parent's Guide to Raising Grieving Children: Rebuilding Your Family After the Death of a Loved One. Oxford Univ.
Vieten, Cassandra. Mindful Motherhood: Practical Tools for Staying Sane During Pregnancy and Your Child's First Year. New Harbinger.
