Publishers Weekly
: Wood's (The Napping House) first foray into graphic novels is a visual stunner. Sumo and Duffy Pugg are called out of class by their father, who insists they immediately go off with their long-lost, oddly named cousin, Mr. Come-and-Go, to visit their (also unknown to them) Aunt Lulu on Kocalaha, the island where their absent mother was born. Blunt, bald and broad as a refrigerator, Come-and-Go does not inspire confidence in Sumo, the l...More
Publishers Weekly: Starred Review. In this small-format entry, a happy hybrid of traditional tale and quirky cartoon, McDonald (Judy Moody) and Floca (Lightship) recast a story from 1940 to tickle a contemporary fancy. Humble seamstress Anabel's dream of sewing a princess's ball gown is finally about to come true—until a Hinky-Pink, a mysterious, seemingly invisible creature begins robbing her of sleep night after night. The characters clearl...More
Publishers Weekly
: A veteran of exploring wealthy family dynamics, Steel now flirts with the thriller, introducing two familiar fixtures, the serial killer and the strong single female attorney determined to get him convicted. Unfortunately, her focus quickly shifts away from New York ADA Alexa Hamilton and her conflict with rapist-murderer Luke Quentin to Alexa's 17-year-old daughter, Savannah, and her relationship with her father, Tom Beaumont, who broke Alex...More
President Obama made a last-minute personal appeal to Dems to pass landmark health care legislation as the House passed a key hurdle on its way to debating a bill to expand coverage to millions of the uninsured.
Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was so conflicted over what to tell fellow soldiers about fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan that a local Islamic leader said Saturday he was deeply troubled by it.
Leaders of the vibrant Muslim community here express outrage at the shooting rampage being laid to one of their members, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who had become a regular attendee at the local mosque.
A memorial to honor a Sept. 11 victim from a Connecticut town has been halted by the unexpected conflict arising from his father's insistence it say his son was murdered by "Muslim terrorists."
Authorities say Anthony Sowell killed women and then left them in his home fitting a profile shared by Jeffrey Dahmer: serial killers who hunt from home.
More than two years after pledges to boost mental-health care, the promises have fallen short at U.S. military hospitals, say psychiatrists, Army officials, and wounded soldiers and their kin.
The engineer accused of fatally shooting one employee and wounding five at the firm where he once worked crumbled under the stress of divorce, bankruptcy and unemployment, his attorney says.
President Barack Obama said that the training designed to keep U.S. forces safe abroad prevented further deaths and ended a shooting rampage at Fort Hood.
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