Malice By Chris Wooding, illustrated by Dan Chernett Scholastic Press, $14.99, 380 pages What if you could transport yourself to another world by following an incantation found in a comic book? Well, you might find the world a frightening and terrible place, just as children find in the new novel [[[Malice]]]. Chris Wooding, an accomplished…
Diana Laurence’s How to Catch and Keep a Vampire: A Step-By-Step Guide to Loving the Bad and the Beautiful (Sellers Publishing, 10/23/09, $14.95 trade paperback) is advertised as non-fiction and humor. It’s 160 pages, complete with FAQs, myth busting, case studies, cutesiness with perhaps a nod to Sex and the City, references to the latest…
James Bond Encyclopedia By John Cork and Collin Stutz 334 Pages, DK Publishing, $40 Nobody does it better. DK Publishing continues to put out the best assortment of visual reference books on pop culture and as we near the holidays, they keep pumping out one must have collection after another. Few literary figures have endured…
Lego Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary By Simon Beecroft 96 pages, $21.99, DK Publishing It used to be that Lego would never feature licensed characters. Instead, you could construct moon bases or pirate ships and make up your own characters to tell tales plucked straight from your imagination. Then came the first license, [[[Star Wars]]],…
[[[Seeking Spirits: The Lost Cases of the Atlantic Paranormal Society]]] By Jason Hawes, Grant Wilson with Michael Jan Friedman Pocket Books, 272 pages, $16 One of the major successes of the Sci Fi Channel was the arrival of [[[Ghost Hunters]]], a series focusing on the explorations into the paranormal as conducted by Jason Hawes and…
…the nice folks at Random House & Suvudu have set aside a few things for you: • Mark of the Demon signed by author Diana Rowland • Child of Fire signed by author Harry Connolly • Luck in the Shadows signed by author Lynn Flewelling • Black and White signed by authors Jackie Kessler and…
First the good news: Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams Books, is set to release the fourth book in Jeff Kinney’s Harvey Award-winning series, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days, on October 12, 2009 (October 13 in Canada). To support the release of the book, a Diary of a Wimpy Kid ice cream truck…
From Quirk Books, the people who brought you Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, comes a new tale of romance, heartbreak, and tentacled mayhem. Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters expands the original text of Jane Austen’s beloved novel with all-new scenes of giant lobsters, rampaging octopi, two-headed sea serpents, swashbuckling pirates, and other seaworthy creatures……
From a commenter of Megan McArdle’s at The Atlantic: I was walking through a bohemian part of town and ran across this place called a “bookstore”. I thought, “Hmm, that’s interesting. I’ve always gotten my books electronically on my kindle, but this could be an interesting idea.” So I stepped inside. What I saw was…
Kids aren’t just short adults; if you spend any time around them, you’ll learn that quickly. (This is also the reason why many people choose not to spend much time around children.) And, similarly, books for children aren’t the same as books for adults, nor are they adult books simplified or dumbed down. This week,…
We are saddened to report on the passing of David Eddings, author of the Belgariad and Malloreon series of books, at the age of 77. The first volume of the Belgariad series, Pawn of Prophecy, came out back in 1982 and was followed in short order by Queen of Sorcery, Magician’s Gambit, Castle of Wizardry…
It’s fascinating to see the same material presented in competing books, approached in entirely different ways. DK Publishing, the successful home to the various character-specific Ultimate Guides, offers up Wolverine: Inside the World of the Living Weapon (200 pages, $24.99) while Pocket Books, which has been home to the Marvel novels, gives us The Wolverine…
