KARLA MASS: The week's most talked about books

"NO CHOIRBOY: MURDER, VIOLENCE, AND TEENAGERS ON DEATH ROW" BY SUSAN KUKLIN

In April, 1994, Napoleon Beazley, then 17, borrowed his mother's car and drove with two other youths to Tyler, Texas. Beazley's friend, Cedric Coleman, drove, and Cedric's younger brother, Donald, went with them ...
(Published 3:51PM, July 17th, 2008)

BOOK REVIEW: Brockman weaves many plots through 'Into the Fire'
"Into the Fire," by Suzanne Brockman; Ballantine Books ($25)
(Published 8:21AM, July 23rd, 2008)

Hope on four legs: ‘Dogtown' showcases success stories at the nation's largest no-kill shelter
LOS ANGELES This crowded, sprawling city isn't exactly Michael Mountain's turf. He's used to "3,700 acres, all canyon country, surrounded by federal and state land."
(Published 1:43PM, July 16th, 2008)

BOOK REVIEW: 'America America'
"America America" by Ethan Canin; Random ($27)
(Published 1:43PM, July 16th, 2008)

BOOK REVIEW: 'How to Be Single'
"How to Be Single" by Liz Tuccillo; Atria ($24.95)
(Published 1:43PM, July 16th, 2008)

BOOK REVIEW: 'Death Angel' is not your typical romance
"Death Angel" by Linda Howard; Ballantine Books ($26)
(Published 1:43PM, July 16th, 2008)

KARLA MASS: The week's most talked about book

'JUST HOW STUPID ARE WE? FACING THE TRUTH ABOUT THE AMERICAN VOTER' BY RICK SHENKMAN


(Published 5:05PM, July 3rd, 2008)

BOOK REVIEW: When gangsters, gamblers and glamorous celebrities ruled nightlife in Havana
Cuban writer Jose Lezama Lima's description of Havana - "an unnameable feast" - fits the city's last great era like the flawless suits from Pepe Sastre fit the best-dressed mobsters of the glittering casino years.
(Published 7:33AM, July 2nd, 2008)

Outdoors library: Kids take flight with birding
Are you a born bird-watcher? Born to wield binoculars and carry the field guide with you at all times? It's one of those classic nature vs. nurture questions.
(Published 12:28PM, April 22nd, 2008)

BOOK REVIEWS: Judging Obama and Clinton by the book
All those debates. All that vetting on the campaign trail.
(Published 2:19PM, March 5th, 2008)

BOOK REVIEW: Elizabeth Crane's quirky, charming new collection
"You Must Be This Happy to Enter," by Elizabeth Crane; Akashic ($14.95).
(Published 11:11AM, March 5th, 2008)

Outdoors Library: Surf's up for women
Spiritual, historical and sprinkled with a few words you wouldn't want your kids to read, Linda Chase's "Surfing: Women of the Waves" (Gibbs Smith, $29.95, 176 pages) is a gritty eye-opener about women and surfing.
(Published 4:32PM, February 28th, 2008)

Outdoors library: Yosemite's top trails
Before heading into the backcountry, a generation or two of hikers have packed an essential piece of equipment: a trusty Wilderness Press hiking guide, second in importance only to a topo map of the area.
(Published 3:29PM, February 15th, 2008)

Benazir Bhutto's autobiography launched
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) An autobiography completed by Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto just days before she was assassinated was published Tuesday ahead of crucial parliamentary elections.
(Published 11:34AM, February 12th, 2008)

No happy endings to these gripping tales
It seems grimly ironic that a book about animals attacking people should have crossed my desk a few days before the tragic incident at the San Francisco Zoo, in which a Siberian tiger escaped its compound, killing one young man and mauling two others.
(Published 12:16PM, February 7th, 2008)

BOOK REVIEW: Abrupt ending spoils tried-and-true plot in `Not the Marrying Kind'
"Not the Marrying Kind" by Hailey North; Avon Books ($5.99, paperback)
(Published 8:34AM, December 19th, 2007)

BOOK REVIEW: `Field Guide to Knitting' - Here we go loop the loop
"Field Guide to Knitting: How to Identify, Select, and Work Virtually Every Stitch" by Jackie Pawlowski; Quirk Books ($15.95 paperback)
(Published 8:34AM, December 19th, 2007)

BOOK REVIEW: Marriage not so merry in `An Affair Before Christmas'
"An Affair Before Christmas" by Eloisa James; Avon ($7.99)
(Published 8:18AM, November 28th, 2007)

BOOK REVIEW: A girl, a grandmother, and the music of the sea
"The Eyes of the Amaryllis" by Natalie Babbitt; Square Fish ($6.99)
(Published 8:18AM, November 28th, 2007)

BOOK REVIEW: An insider takes a critical look at the Weathermen
"Flying Close to the Sun: My Life and Times as a Weatherman" by Cathy Wilkerson; Seven Stories Press ($26.95)
(Published 8:18AM, November 28th, 2007)

BOOK REVIEW: Integration creates an us-vs.-`Them' situation
"Them: A Novel" by Nathan McCall; Atria Books ($25)
(Published 8:18AM, November 28th, 2007)

BOOK REVIEW: Charles Schulz put himself, and more, into `Peanuts'
"Schulz and Peanuts" by David Michaelis; HarperCollins ($34.95)
(Published 8:18AM, November 28th, 2007)

BOOK REVIEW: `The Water Cure' violent and crude, yet captivating
"The Water Cure" by Percival Everett; Graywolf ($22)
(Published 8:18AM, November 28th, 2007)

BOOK REVIEW: An admirer of the Bard says his work was, in fact, his
"William Shakespeare: The World as Stage" by Bill Bryson; Atlas Books/Harper Collins ($19.95)
(Published 8:18AM, November 28th, 2007)

BOOK REVIEW: Pratchett gets the circulation going in `Making Money'
"Making Money" by Terry Pratchett; Harper ($25.95)
(Published 8:18AM, November 28th, 2007)

BOOK REVIEW: A whodunit with a Nordic touch
"Last Rituals: An Icelandic Novel of Secret Symbols, Medieval Witchcraft, and Modern Murder" by Yrsa Sigurdardottir; Morrow ($23.95)
(Published 9:21AM, November 28th, 2007)

BOOK REVIEW: First presidential vote full of drama, complexity
"A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign" by Edward J. Larson; Free Press ($27)
(Published 8:39AM, November 28th, 2007)

BOOK REVIEW: A second discovered gem from writer who died at Auschwitz
Oh, the flames - and the foolishness - of youth.
(Published 11:42AM, November 20th, 2007)

Influential author Vonnegut dies at 84
NEW YORK (AP) In books such as "Slaughterhouse-Five," "Cat's Cradle," and "Hocus Pocus," Kurt Vonnegut mixed the bitter and funny with a touch of the profound.
(Published 5:03AM, April 12th, 2007)