Books in the News - 12/2/12

Here's your update on what books are being discussed in our local newspapers!

At the Pioneer Press, "Lights! Camera! Read!", which is a rundown of picture books for film buffs and gamers:

• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Visual Companion by Jude Fisher
• Official Movie Guide by Brian Sibley
• Activity Book, The Movie Storybook and The World of the Hobbits
• The Art of the Hobbit
• The Art and Making of the Dark Knight Trilogy
• Harry Potter: Film Wizardry
• The Art of Assassin's Creed III
• Awakening: The Art of Halo 4

The Star Tribune features poetry, with:

• Rough, and Savage by Sun Yung Shin
• Y by Leslie Adrienne Miller
• Salt Pier by Dore Kiesselbach
• Odessa by Patricia Kirkpatrick
• The Boy Who Slept Under the Stars: A Memoir in Poetry by Roseann Lloyd

Other titles reviewed include:

• The Fiddler on Pantico Run by Joe Mozingo - nonfiction, genealogical mystery that leads back to Africa
• She Loves Me Not: New and Selected Stories by Ron Hansen - short story collection
• Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon - nonfiction about parents raising children very different from themselves
• Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1945-1956 by Anne Applebaum - a history of postwar Eastern Europe
• 38 Nooses: Lincoln, Little Crow, and the Beginning of the Frontier's End by Scott W. Berg - nonfiction about the Civil War-era conflict between the Dakota nation and the white Minnesotan settlers

Happy Reading!