CHILDREN'S
Released: June 25, 2013
"On the first day, both the light and the dark sides of kindergartners will go to school, their kissing hands clutching a stuffed alligator, self-confidence soaring. (Picture book. 4-7)"
Going into the darkness beyond
Petunia Goes Wild! (2012), Schmid enters the tongue-in-cheek metaphorical alligator/crocodile waters of Candace Fleming (
Who Invited You?, illustrated by George Booth, 2001) and Joe Kulka (
My Crocodile Does Not Bite, 2013).
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CHILDREN'S
Released: June 25, 2013
"Most especially, enthusiastic kids will appreciate the message that there is a time and a place for everything--they needn't stay cool 'round the clock. (Picture book. 4-8)"
NONFICTION
Released: June 25, 2013
"For true believers only--in atheism, that is. Students of the business of religion will find only occasional pearls."
Middling account of an evangelical's 180, written with the assistance of co-author Brown (
Shake the Devil Off: A True Story of the Murder that Rocked New Orleans, 2009, etc.).
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NONFICTION
Released: June 25, 2013
"Do we care if a professionally successful person is a psychological mess? Not, it seems, if we get out of it a great smartphone or a well-organized library. Kendall delivers a mostly engaging history of a handful of America's "obsessive innovators.""
Kendall (Associate Fellow/Trumbull College, Yale Univ.;
The Forgotten Founding Father: Noah Webster's Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture, 2010, etc.) returns with a collection of minibiographies of obsessive personalities who transformed American life.
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FICTION
Released: June 25, 2013
"Greaves (Hush Money, 2012) plots far more waggishly than real life could hope to imitate. Not one reader in a thousand will guess the ending."
A California senatorial candidate's tumble into a honey trap is only the beginning of attorney Jack MacTaggart's brightly daffy second case.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 25, 2013
"A well-written book, mostly free of jargon, that is short on practical solutions and thus, profoundly pessimistic."
A high-ranking economist employed by a major international bank expresses pessimism about the future of the economy in the United States and other traditionally powerful nations.
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FICTION
Released: June 25, 2013
"Josie's eighth (Dolled Up For Murder, 2012, etc.) again provides a good mystery larded with antiques lore."
NONFICTION
Released: June 25, 2013
"A lively account of a company whose products will be familiar to most readers."
How LEGO, the closely held, family-owned Danish toymaker, rose to world leadership in its business class, flirted with bankruptcy collapse and recovered to stake its claim to global leadership once again.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 25, 2013
"An intriguing assortment of work from an athlete with a lot on his mind."
NFL punter Kluwe riffs on everything from social justice to dinosaur obsessions in a lively collection of stories, essays, letters and poems.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 25, 2013
"The author's wit and biting analysis render this a most readable study."
What first appears to be a narrowly academic profile of two rival scholars amplifies into a trenchant, engaging study of the postwar split between the New Left and Western liberalism.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: June 25, 2013
"A straightforward tale of conflict and reconciliation for newly emergent readers? Not exactly, which raises it above the rest. (Easy reader. 4-6)"
In this deceptively spare, very beginning reader, a girl assembles a robot and then treats it like a slave until it goes on strike.
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FICTION
Released: June 25, 2013
"A fine novel about contemporary parenting and relationships."
Toronto-based journalist Onstad pens a novel that asks if everyone is cut out for parenthood. The book also addresses marital relationships in the modern world, in which both men and women are married to careers that define them.
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