Seattle Post-Intelligencer: BooksRead the latest book reviews and book-related news from seattlepi.comBooks: 'Captain America: The Chosen'- (Found July 23, 2008 ) David Morrell has done something totally new: The best-selling author of action thrillers has written a comic-book series.http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/books/371610_staybook23.html?source=rss Books: 'The Dark Side'- (Found July 23, 2008 ) In Jane Mayer's angry and important book "The Dark Side," the tenacious New Yorker reporter takes us, step by step, through the process by which practices and methods we associate with tyrannies became official U.S. policy.http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/books/371227_staybook22.html?source=rss Books: 'Minders of Make-Believe'- (Found July 23, 2008 ) In this highly readable book aimed at adults, children's book historian Leonard S. Marcus details the rise (and, often, the fall) of major U.S. children's book publishers.http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/books/371209_staybook21.html?source=rss Free audio excerpt available of Thomas L. Friedman's new book- (Found July 23, 2008 ) Readers can receive a free audio excerpt of Thomas L. Friedman's expected fall blockbuster, "Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution and How It Can Renew America."http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/books/371380_tf221.html?source=rss Book Review: 'You Can Do It' by Tony Dungy- (Found July 23, 2008 ) It couldn't be easy being Tony Dungy's little brother. Now you can read all about it in Dungy's first children's book, "You Can Do It."http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/books/371031_staybook19.html?source=rss Ethan Canin's big and ambitious 'America America' is poorly assembled- (Found July 23, 2008 ) Ethan Canin's latest novel, "America America," is big in size and ambition, but uneven in execution. The Iowa City author discusses it at two Seattle-area events next week.http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/books/371157_book18.html?source=rss Widow turned chaplain becomes award-winning memoirist- (Found July 23, 2008 ) Kate Braestrup's powerful memoir about her changed life after her husband's death was one of last year's most-praised. She discusses it twice this weekend in Seattle.http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/books/371137_booktwo18.html?source=rss Books: 'Rules of Deception'- (Found July 23, 2008 ) "Rules of Deception" is the rare book that begins in by-the-numbers fashion, promising not much, but furiously picking up steam as it goes.http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/books/370873_staybook18.html?source=rss Books: 'Palace Council'- (Found July 23, 2008 ) This book is couched as a paranoid thriller with serious historical ramifications. That's not an impossible combination (think of "The Manchurian Candidate"), but it's an awkward one for author Stephen L. Carter.http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/books/370819_staybook17.html?source=rss |