Search Results: "David Roll"


BOOK REVIEW

ROLL by Darcy Miller
Released: May 23, 2017

"A fresh take on a familiar challenge: a friend who develops a teen body and interests more quickly."
Rising sixth-graders Ren and Sutton bond through training Birmingham Roller pigeons. Read full book review >

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BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR
Released: Jan. 4, 2013

"A compelling portrait of a World War II hero whose victories took place far from the battlefield."
Examination of Franklin Roosevelt adviser Harry Hopkins (1890-1946) and his largely behind-the-scenes role in the outcome of World War II. Read full book review >

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DAVID by Mary Hoffman
BIOGRAPHY
Released: Oct. 11, 2011

"Nonfiction masquerading as a novel and failing as either sort of narrative. (character list, historical note, glossary) (Historical fiction. 13 & up)"
The author of the Stravaganaza series reveals the muse behind Michelangelo's David. Read full book review >

BOOK REVIEW

Roll Call by Gwen Mansfield
FICTION & LITERATURE
Released: Feb. 26, 2015

"An exhilarating ride full of sheer drops and whiplash curves."
The author of Experiment Station Road (2011) returns with a YA novel about resistance fighters standing against a military government in what's left of a future America.Read full book review >

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DAVID BOWIE by Paul Trynka
BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR
Released: July 18, 2011

"Bowie nerds will love it, and music nerds will admire it; regular nerds and most others will think it's about 150 pages too long."
Everything you always wanted to know about the Thin White Duke. Everything. Read full book review >

BOOK REVIEW

DAVID COPPERFIELD by Charles Dickens
CHILDREN'S
Released: Oct. 1, 1995

"Marks's storytelling skills are further demonstrated by the different sizes of the pictures, their distribution, and layout—on the whole, they evocatively conjure this hearty tale, and will send readers off to the original. (Picture book. 8-12)"
A more or less self-contained excerpt from the novel, in a creative abridgement done by Dickens for one of his public readings (Anthea Bell's afterword provides notes about these performances and the texts Dickens prepared for them). Read full book review >

BOOK REVIEW

NON-FICTION
Released: Jan. 1, 1994

"In any case, Graham's life was so downbeat (he died in 1991 in a helicopter crash following a decade of new personal declines) that one wonders why we need another bio to supplement his own: for rock completists only. (Sixteen pages of b&w photographs—not seen.)"
A balanced, if redundant, account of the life and times of rock promoter Bill Graham, by English-born investigative journalist Glatt. Read full book review >

BOOK REVIEW

BAWK & ROLL by Tammi Sauer
CHILDREN'S
Released: April 1, 2012

"This flock rocks. (Picture book. 4-7)"
The further adventures of Elvis Poultry, rooster rock star (Chicken Dance, 2009). Read full book review >

BOOK REVIEW

RAINDROPS ROLL by April Pulley Sayre
CHILDREN'S
Released: Jan. 6, 2015

"Wonder-full in every way. (further resources) (Informational picture book. 3-8)"
With lyrical words and striking images, a poet, photographer and veteran natural history writer celebrates rain. Read full book review >

BOOK REVIEW

DAVID BOWIE by Dylan Jones
BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR
Released: Oct. 3, 2017

"A dishy but overstuffed and overly praiseful portrait."
A sweeping, gossipy biography of the chameleonic pop star in the form of an oral history, with input from dozens of collaborators, lovers, and admirers. Read full book review >

BOOK REVIEW

Psyaint David by Wayne  Lanter
Released: May 22, 2016

"An unusual and artistically ambitious—but convoluted—account of a New York City gripped by fear."
A thriller chronicles a metropolis' descent into moral chaos. Read full book review >

BOOK REVIEW

DAVID ROBINSON by Glen Macnow
BIOGRAPHY
Released: Dec. 1, 1994

"This guy's no sorry role model. (Biography. 9-15)"
A well-paced sport-celebrity profile of David Robinson, superstar center for basketball's San Antonio Spurs. Read full book review >
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