'A Good American': A family's history, set to music
By LISA MCLENDON McClatchy Newspapers
"A Good American" by Alex George; Amy Einhorn Books ($25.95)
A computer world designed for military training goes frighteningly awry in 'The Demi-Monde: Winter'
By LISA MCLENDON McClatchy Newspapers
"The Demi-Monde: Winter" by Rod Rees; William Morrow ($26.99)
Tony Judt's complex and passionate views of 20th century live on in retelling
By MIKE FISCHER Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"Thinking the Twentieth Century" by Tony Judt with Timothy Snyder; Penguin Press ($36)
Eleanor Brown finds universality in our peculiarities
BY CONNIE OGLE McClatchy Newspapers
Readers are fond of asking author Eleanor Brown which of her fictional, Shakespeare-loving sisters she's most like: capable, responsible Rose (named for Rosalind in "As You Like It") ; independent, prickly Bean (formally Bianca, named for Kate's sister in "The Taming of the Shrew"); the baby of the family, wild child Cordy (short for Cordelia, King Lear's favorite daughter).
'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' turns 50; does it stand up to time?
By CAROLYN KELLOGG Los Angeles Times
"Cuckoo's Nest."
'The Miseducation of Cameron Post': Author tells of a 12-year-old Montana girl whose awakening homosexuality gets her in trouble
By SUSAN CARPENTER Los Angeles Times
"The Miseducation of Cameron Post" by Emily M. Danforth; Balzer & Bray ($17.99, for readers age 14 and up)
Zuckerberg's focus drives Facebook's ascent
By MIKE SWIFT San Jose Mercury News
SAN JOSE, Calif. - When Mark Zuckerberg showed up to rent Judy Fusco's Los Altos, Calif., house in the fall of 2004, soon after he'd arrived in Silicon Valley, the landlord was immediately struck by his confidence.
'The Accidental Feminist' claims Liz Taylor strongly pushed women's rights
By CHRIS FORAN Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted by Her Beauty to Notice" by M.G. Lord; Walker & Co. ($23)
In Nathan Englander's stories, fictional characters straddle worlds in a search for meaning
By DAVID L. ULIN Los Angeles Times
"What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank" by Nathan Englander; Alfred A. Knopf ($24.95)
Tricia Tunstall aims to shine a light on arts education with a chronicle of Dudamel and El Sistema
By REED JOHNSON Los Angeles Times
"Changing Lives: Gustavo Dudamel, El Sistema and the Tranformative Power of Music" by Tricia Tunstall; W.W. Norton ($26.95)
'Catch Me,' a chilling look at pedophile rings
By OLINE H. COGDILL Sun Sentinel
"Catch Me" by Lisa Gardner; Dutton ($26.95)
Award-winning children's authors to headline UK conference
Herald-Leader Staff Report
Three award-winning children's writers and illustrators will be the lead presenters at the University of Kentucky's School of Library and Information Science's annual McConnell Youth Literature Conference next month.
Book review: 'What's Gotten Into Us?'
By SANDY BAUERS The Philadelphia Inquirer
Meet McKay Jenkins, University of Delaware professor, who's feeling just fine but one day goes to the doctor and learns he has a tumor the size of a navel orange growing in his abdomen.
Ask the Experts: What looks attractive for investors?
By CLAUDIA BUCK McClatchy Newspapers
With the economy starting to perk up, investors are wondering where they should be looking next.
Facebook: Who benefits from IPOs?
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
The following editorial appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Friday, Feb. 3:
