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.

Maybe it won't matter if somebody slips a kid a copy of "The Young Birder's Guide to Birds of Eastern North America" (Houghton Mifflin, $14.95, 254 pages), which publishes April 30. And even though Ohio birder/author Bill Thompson III skews this one toward the eastern half of the continent, the book offers an excellent introduction to one of the most popular activities on the planet.
1:56 AM Thursday, May 1, 2008

BOOK REVIEWS: Judging Obama and Clinton by the book
All those debates. All that vetting on the campaign trail.
1:24 AM Friday, Mar 21, 2008

BOOK REVIEW: Elizabeth Crane's quirky, charming new collection
"You Must Be This Happy to Enter," by Elizabeth Crane; Akashic ($14.95).
1:24 AM Friday, Mar 21, 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.
1:24 AM Thursday, Mar 13, 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.
1:12 AM Thursday, Feb 28, 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.
1:10 AM Thursday, Feb 28, 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.
1:24 AM Friday, Feb 22, 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)
1:16 AM Friday, Jan 4, 2008

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)
1:16 AM Friday, Jan 4, 2008

BOOK REVIEW: Marriage not so merry in `An Affair Before Christmas'
"An Affair Before Christmas" by Eloisa James; Avon ($7.99)
12:55 AM Friday, Dec 14, 2007

BOOK REVIEW: A girl, a grandmother, and the music of the sea
12:55 AM Friday, Dec 14, 2007

BOOK REVIEW: An insider takes a critical look at the Weathermen
12:55 AM Friday, Dec 14, 2007

BOOK REVIEW: Integration creates an us-vs.-`Them' situation
12:55 AM Friday, Dec 14, 2007

BOOK REVIEW: Charles Schulz put himself, and more, into `Peanuts'
12:56 AM Friday, Dec 14, 2007

BOOK REVIEW: `The Water Cure' violent and crude, yet captivating
12:55 AM Friday, Dec 14, 2007

BOOK REVIEW: An admirer of the Bard says his work was, in fact, his
12:55 AM Friday, Dec 14, 2007

BOOK REVIEW: Pratchett gets the circulation going in `Making Money'
12:55 AM Friday, Dec 14, 2007

BOOK REVIEW: A whodunit with a Nordic touch
12:55 AM Friday, Dec 14, 2007

BOOK REVIEW: First presidential vote full of drama, complexity
12:55 AM Friday, Dec 14, 2007

BOOK REVIEW: A second discovered gem from writer who died at Auschwitz
2:04 AM Thursday, Dec 6, 2007

Influential author Vonnegut dies at 84
1:14 AM Friday, Apr 27, 2007