Complete book coverage for Feb. 21, 2010
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Lise Haines’ ‘Girl in the Arena’ follows an engaging teen narrator in a world where mass entertainment centers on deadly gladiator battles.
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A writer’s experience of teaching the craft of writing behind bars.
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He creates science fiction that doesn’t trade in extremes and objects to ‘apocalyptic thinking.’ His newest novel is ‘Galileo’s Dream.’
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A thriller about U.S. and Middle Eastern politics puts several female characters front and center as it ruminates on the nature of modern war and who is innocent and who is a victim.
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A Texas attorney and law professor chronicles his often difficult efforts to have death-row clients spared in a book that is part memoir and part historical account.
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An argument why science alone will not solve the Earth’s problems.
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When Kenneth Hartman was 19, he came across a drifter in a Long Beach park and, for no particular reason, beat him to death.
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A catalog of an exhibit by the American artist pays tribute to our nostalgia -- or is it perpetual adolescence? -- for toys.
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Plus: ‘The Art of Eating In’ and ‘This Book Is Overdue!’
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Fiction Weeks on list1.The Help by Kathryn Stockett (Putnam: $24.95) The lives of a maid, a cook and a college graduate become intertwined as they change a Mississippi town. 37 2.First Rule by Robert Crais (Putnam: $26.95) Joe Pike’s past catches up with him when an old friend’s entire family is killed.5 3.The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson (Knopf: $25.95) A hacker implicated in two murders must revisit her past to prove her innocence. 25 4.Wild Child by T.C.
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Fiction 1. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson ($14.95) 2.
