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Book of the American Indians Marlene Smith-Baranzini and Howard Egger-Bovet, illustrated by T. Taylor Bruce. Book of the American Revolution Howard Egger-Bovet and Marlerie Smith-Baranzini, illustrated by Bill Sanchez. Little, [...]

A boy writes his name and village on paper boats and floats them down a stream, in the hope that 'someone in some strange land will find them and know [...]

Stephen Pekich, director of operations for school publishing at Houghton Mifflin, described the call for increased use of recycled paper as involving environmental and economic contradictions. In addition, he said, [...]

PAPER STAR Seventeen years old and overweight, Vera Brown finds escape from her stifling home life in rural England in drawing a strong, dynamic and beautiful comic strip character: Diana [...]

THE PAPER GRAIL James P. Blaylock. Ace, $17.95 ISBN 0-441-65126-7 Despite a misleadingly slow and uninspiring beginning, this supernatural thriller is enjoyable: a combination of Charles William's books War in [...]

THE FLORENTINE PAPERS Thom Palmer. Gibbs Smith, $17.95 ISBN 0-87905-364-X With a connoisseur's attention to the delights of food and love, Palmer handles language in his first novel the way [...]

THE JAMAIS VU PAPERS: Or Misadventures in the Worlds of Science, Myth, and Magic Wim Coleman and Pat Perrin. Harmony In this fresh, experimental novel, a psychotherapist, Hector Glasco, attempts [...]

In this emblematic, worrisome and involving account, Gruley, a reporter for the Detroit News Washington bureau, describes how the Gannett Company and Knight-Ridder, owners of the country's two largest newspaper [...]

Gordon Korman. Scholastic, $13.95 (176p) ISBN 0-590-46230-X When a motley crew of Little League baseball players acquires a coach 'who had a great mind for science but was a total [...]

April Daniels and Carol Scott. Recovery, $10.95 ISBN 0-941405-27-3 This frightening, moving and often frustrating document alternates between the diaries of the two authors. In her diary, Daniels, a banker [...]

Spenser, Parker's doggedly determined Boston private eye, has been hired by stuffed-shirt socialite Loudon Tripp to investigate unsolved leads in the murder case of his wife, Olivia. Spenser suspects that [...]

Gilbert, Churchill's official biographer, has selected more than 700 documents pertaining to the statesman's second tenure as First Lord of the Admiralty between the outbreak of WW II and his [...]

Joan Wickersham. Viking, $21 ISBN 0670-84064-5 The depiction of a young couple's troubled marriage in this wry, candid and often beguiling first novel depends more on accrued detail than controlled [...]

The federal government is on the verge of taking a step that could lead to greater use of nonacidic paper, which the book publishing community has been under pressure to [...]

Voices on Reform from Moscow Edited by Andrei Melville and Gail W. Lapidus. Westview, $42.50 ISBN 0-8133-0921-2; paper $18.95 -0922-0 There is no open public debate in the Soviet Union [...]

PAPER DOLL Ever since she lost both her legs in an automobile accident, Leslie has devoted herself to playing the violin. Caught up in her music and coodled by her [...]

PAPER CHASE Following the praised Disorderly Elements, Cook again offers all the elements of a proper espionage yarn in a suspenseful, easy-reading package. It begins lightly enough, when a group [...]

PAPER PRODUCTS Fans of Hall's novel (Tropical Freeze) and poetry (False Statements) will have mixed reactions to the stories in this uneven collection. Writing for the most part about the [...]

Algonquin Books is launching a trade paperback line later this month called, simply, Algonquin Paperbacks. Associate publisher Ina Stern will oversee the list, which will do 10 titles per year, [...]

Edited by Clayborne Carson, Ralph E. Luker and Penny A. Russell. Univ. of California, $35 ISBN 0-520-07950-7 Glimmers of the galvanic orator that Martin Luther King Jr. would become sporadically [...]

THE ABILITY OF publishers to cut costs by wringing price concessions from their vendors may be coming to an end. In recent years, publishers have benefited from a sluggish national [...]

Buoyed by consumer demand, many booksellers are finally embracing Book Sense plastic gift cards, which were introduced in October 2003. For many booksellers, Book Sense gift cards offered a much-needed [...]

With its Fiddler on the Roof setting and unabashedly sentimental story line, this warmly evocative tale presents a glimpse of the Jewish immigrant experience. Chava is curious about her next-door [...]

Food and housing are hard to come by in the black South African township of Phameng. And when his father is killed, young Adam must become a monna (man) early [...]

OCTOBER 5 was a landmark date for American graphic novels. For the first time, a book from an American comics publisher appeared on the New York Times extended hardcover bestseller [...]

Paper stores were originally news agents selling newspapers, magazines, and cigars. But no more, at least for the Paper Store, headquartered in Acton, Mass. Ever since Bob Anderson, fresh out [...]

'You could absolutely make an argument to do this in trade paper. And you can make an argument to do it in mass market. We decided on the latter.' So [...]

City of Windows Robert Pobi (Minotaur) ISBN978-1-250-29394-7, $26.99 * Brilliant astrophysicist Lucas Page, the distinctive hero of this outstanding series launch, used to be an FBI agent who could survey [...]

Walking Dead: Book Four of The Walker Papers C.E. Murphy. Luna, $14.95 paper (384p) ISBN 978-0-373-80301-9 Shaman Joanne Walker juggles ghosts, zombies and her day job as a greenhorn Seattle [...]

THE NATIONAL WRITERS UNION has released a position paper proposing a set of guidelines addressing online commerce, the use of 'digital cash' and the encouragement of publishing initiatives, both formal [...]

CALLING ONLINE publishing 'the threshold of another form of book distribution,' the National Writers Union released a position paper on the emerging field with recommendations to authors on negotiating issues [...]

Lisa Brackmann (Rock Paper Tiger) sold world English rights to her currently untitled sophomore novel to Juliet Grames at Soho Press. Katherine Fausset at Curtis Brown handled the deal for [...]

"My Body Is Paper" is a collection of unpublished stories and poems by Gil Cuadros, an author known for his work on queer Chicano experiences during the AIDS epidemic. The book explores themes of mortality, sin, and spirituality. The stories and poems touch on topics such as suicide, shame, caretaking, and queer futurity. The collection serves as a tribute to Cuadros, who passed away prematurely. [Extracted from the article]

It may not be a PW record, but impressive, nonetheless: Patterson has five (count 'em, five) books on today's lists--in addition to his Judgment and Toys mass market titles, he's [...]

The recession, combined with the boom in readers turning away from print and to the Web, was a one-two-punch that forced most major American newspapers to cut back their book [...]

MOVIE UPDATE. Two words should be sufficient to bring in audiences: Brad Pitt. (Actually, the two screenwriters--both Oscar winners--are no slouches: The Social Network's Aaron Sorkin and Schindler's List's Steve [...]

'It would have been amusing, if it hadn't had the potential to be so dangerous. Jaymi Flannigan Kramer watched as her younger sister, Cami, sneaked another shy look at Rafer [...]

Ugly Duckling Presse continues its excellent Eastern European Poets series with Paper Children by the late Romanian poet Mariana Marin, trans, by Adam J Sorkin. These elegies are by turns [...]

More than 20 publishers have joined in a commitment to use more recycled paper to publish their books and decrease the use of paper produced from old-growth forests. The effort [...]

Another honor--the newly created Times WHSmith Paperback of the Year--was just awarded to Shaffer and Barrows's widely praised novel. On the December 12 Times of London Web site, Alexander McCall [...]

Author gets education.John Grisham will be the 2010 spring commencement speaker at the University of North Carolina at Chapel to UNC Chancellor Holden Thorp,'John [Grisham] is an engaging speaker who [...]

Rachel Zucker's fourth collection of poems, Museum of Accidents (Reviews, p. 46), is a searing look at the dark side of domestic life, motherhood and marriage. Zucker talks to PW [...]

'Complicity is a theme I 'that runs through all my poems,' says Greg Delanty, an Irish-born poet, recent Guggenheim Fellow and professor at St. Michael's College in Burlington, Vt. 'We're [...]

Publishers and booksellers alike are optimistic that the new Obama administration will support causes that the industry has long backed. In fact, President Obama has already taken several actions that [...]

Penguin Group USA is repackaging some of its paperbacks in high-end trade paper format as part of a new marketing initiative called Penguin Essential Editions. The list will contain books [...]

With a jolt of innovation, the future can catch up with the past. That's just what Bantam is trying to pull off with a new, slimmer format for literary fiction [...]

What could be timelier than a series about a smart, savvy teenage girl whose tough-minded liberal mother is the first female president--no matter that the first three books were originally [...]

Becky Cabaza at Crown's Three Rivers bought the second novel by a Mexican-American author she had launched five years ago in Scribner trade paper; Maria Amparo Escandon's new book is [...]