The Beach House
Kirkus Reviews: A Nantucket house sparks romance and mystery in the latest from Green (Second Chance, 2007, etc.). Windermere is a glorious beach house on the shores of Nantucket. The home has been the site of riotous parties, romance and tremendous loss. The Powell family has inhabited Windermere for generations. Nan Powell-a woman of a […]
The Magic School Bus Butterfly And The Bog Beast: A Book About Butterfly Camouflage
When Phoebe suggests the Walkersville Elementary Butterflies as the name for the soccer team, the others kids think the name is boring and wimpy. That's when Ms. Firzzle whisks the class off to a bog full of butterflies to learn what those flying creatures are really like.
The Downhill Lie : a Hacker's Return to a Ruinous Sport
Presented by Phyllis Armstrong in memory of Eugene McGregor. School Library Journal: Hiaasen, the Miami Heraldcolumnist and author of some hilarious fiction (e.g., Striptease, Skinny Dip), shares his renewed interest in golf in this departure onto the green. He recounts how easy it is to get sucked into the sport, even when trying not to. […]
Your Developing Baby, Conception to Birth
Presented by Phyllis Armstrong in memory of Eugene McGregor. Library Journal: Ultrasound has become a common practice in pregnancy, both to confirm the health of the fetus and to provide information about gender to the prospective parents. Using 250 diagnostic ultrasound images, Harvard radiology professors Doubilet and Carol B. Benson, with health writer Roanne Weisman, […]
Medical Myths That Can Kill You : and the 101 Truths That Will Save, Extend, and Improve Your Life
Presented by Phyllis Armstrong in memory of Eugene McGregor. Library Journal: Snyderman, chief medical editor for NBC News, here examines some common medical myths-e.g., that only old people get heart attacks and strokes, that "natural" means safe-explaining why they have become so prevalent, why they are wrong, and what sensible approaches people can take to […]
Sabertooth
School Library Journal: Gr 3-5- A look at saber-toothed cats, with an emphasis on Smilodon , which perished in the thousands in the La Brea Tar Pits, leaving their blackened bones to be discovered 10,000 years later. O'Brien traces the feline family back to early Proailurus (30 to 20 million years ago), mentions a number […]
Up Close: Thurgood Marshall
Kirkus Reviews Crowe offers an engaging, insightful portrait of the first African-American Supreme Court justice. Prefacing Marshall's life story with an overview of race relations in the United States prior to his birth, the narrative effectively portrays both the racist society Marshall was born into and the way the injustices of his times shaped his […]
In the Woods
The New York Times – Marilyn Stasio: ? [French] sets a vivid scene for her complex characters, who seem entirely capable of doing the unexpected. Drawn by the grim nature of her plot and the lyrical ferocity of her writing, even smart people who should know better will be able to lose themselves in these […]
Moscow Rules
Library Journal Gabriel Allon-art restorer, master spy, and sanctioned assassin-returns in Silva's 11th thriller about terrorism in our violent world. After the murder of an informant in St. Peter's Basilica, Allon is sent to the newly wealthy but corrupt Moscow to stop arms dealer Ivan Kharkov from selling sophisticated weapons to al-Qaeda. Allon is caught […]
The Likeness
Kirkus Reviews: The discovery of her murdered doppelganger leads a Dublin detective to insert herself into the victim's life. Cassandra Maddox, the Irish cop introduced in French's In the Woods (2007), gets an urgent call from her homicide-detective boyfriend Sam O'Neill. She is to drop everything, disguise herself and hustle to a murder scene that […]