The Miami Herald du lieu suivant : Miami, Florida • 1395

5C1 INTERNATIONAL EDITION SUNDAY JULY 27 2003 wwwheraldcom The Miami Herald PAPERBACK NONFICTION PAPERBACK FICTION HARDCOVER FICTION i HARDCOVER NONFICTION UiTH'DA VINCI CODE 6 (1) WHAT BECOMES OF THE BROKENHEARTED I luoa Hama I he memoir ot the novelist from chiklhood Arkansas to kfe as a best selling author 6 (13) THE DEVIL WEARS PR ADA Lama HaWiarasr A young woman gets a job at a fashion maganne along with the boss from hell 7 TRADING UP A curatorl mui to dues found I cenlurleb old irder at the Louvre leads in Leonardo woiw and seci el soctely TORY OF THING Id byioa REA JOHNNY ANGEL A woman sees visions of her son a teenager who recently died in a car crash on prom night From the Big Bang to the century A floated toui of trie sciences and what they ell us about the physical woi id 1 (68) SEABISCUIT Urn HiMra 2 (8) RUNNING WITH SCISSORS Aiwmtaa lurrwigka 3 (6?) IT'S NOT ABOUT THE BIKE Lanca Armalrwig witk laity Jenklet 4 (34) TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE Mrtck AJbou 5 (75) FAST FOOD NATION Erfc tckteaar 6 (26?) A CHILD CALLED "r'Dm Faliar 7 (200) THE LOST BOY Dm fabar 8 (49) NICKEL AND DIMED Urban Ekrsaraldi 9 (13) SMALL WONDER Urban Kiagaolnr 10 (2) THE LOBSTER CHRONICLES liada finaulan 1 EAST OF EDEN jLtf tod SHELTEHS 0F STONE 2 (3) ELEVENTH HOUR tkertMCeuitar 4 (2) KILLJOY Jala tanaaad 8 (7) AN ACCIDENTAL WOMAN lartan Wunky fofjlTO SIR PHILLIP WITH LOVE ISt SECIIET UFE 0F 0PCEHTEH: 9 NIGHTS IN RODANTHE Ntckolaa Iparta lO UNFIT TO PRACTICE Farri OSliaiaptMaiy A lingerie model unhappily married to a cable IV eec becomes entangled in movie business double dealing 8 (2) BARE BONES Kathy Rakclai 'orensic anthropologist lemperanre Irennan is summoned to identify a shock number of human and animal i eniams ft) LUCIA LUCIA Adriana lHglaal 150s New York the daughter ol an "bad 19! eiocer discovers the good and 1 (5) LIVING HISTORY Hillary Rodham Ctratoa A menvni hy the luruor senator from New York and fotmei first lady 2 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Walter Isaacso A biography of the scientist inventor wnlei and Revolutionary statesman 3 (1) KATE REMEMBERED A Scott larg Memories from a writer who was a close friend ot Katharine Hepburn in the last 20 years of her life 4 (3) TREASON Ann Coulter The lawyer and pundit disserts "liberal treactiery from the Cold War to the war on tei rorism 5 (1) THE KENNEDY CURSE Edward Klein A retelling of the tragedies that have befallen Itmerica's first family a (5i JtmiFitt Six children living In the Rocky Mountains are forced to flee a dangerous evil force 4 (4) WHITE DEATH CHm Cestier wlta Faulk trying torescu Kfmen Kurt Ai control the plan to Austin uncovers a world's oceans SEA 8 (9) MONEYBALL AHchaal Lauda Billy Beane manager ol the Oakland A's produces a successful team despite having one of the smallest payrolls at baseball 9 (8) BEYOND BELIEF Elalna Pagan the author of "The Gnostic Gospel" examines early Christianity through tne Gospel of Thomas 10 (9) WHO'S YOUR CADDY Rick Rallly A sportswriter recounts his experiences caddying for Jack Nicklaus David Duval and others about Die uptown While trying to choose between two suit ors a young widow realizes that her life is danger 5 (55) THE LOVELY BONES AHoa iaboU A 14 year-old girl looks down from heaven as she describes the aftermath of her murder TW KK QUO Looking back on a tumultuous past SEVEN DAYS AND SEVEN SINS: A Novel In Short Stories Pamela Ditchoff Shaye Areheart 240 pajs $23 I i contained neither fresh water or arable land (Unless of course a person wanted to cultivate a wide array of brilliantly colored tropical flowers a worthless because unprofitable proposition if ever there was one What could a person do with tropical book follows the development through the Civil War Henry railroad and the advent of the cigar industry: the late 1860s economic and political turmoil in Cuba tariffs and the American fondness for tobacco collided It was only a matter of time before someone had the bright idea of manufacturing cigars in the US city whose warm humid climate most closely duplicated that of Ogle also chronicles the arrival of rumrunners painters and writers of whom Ernest Hemingway was most famous But she writes Hemingway and his entourage were no drain on the fledgling tourism business His money through the economy: boat captain and crew cost well over a hundred each He was well aware of the hard times but did of course have his own writerly way of looking at things and his family usually arrived in November or December and stayed until late April or May Hemingway would bombard his friends with invitations to come fish and drink and then later bombard those who had declined with complaints that his visitors prevented him from Snippets is an occasional feature previewing new books This history of our southernmost point begins with an almost impossible suggestion: Duval Street without the T-shirt shops Imagine Old Town without glass-bottomed boats aloe shops or key lime pie Imagine Key West without bicycles and trolley What? Key West without scooters? Cheap silver jewelry and henna tattoos? Open-air bars blasting classic Jimmy Buffett songs? not a scene most of us can contemplate (though we might like to after being bombarded by yet another chorus of Margarita-ville while strolling down Duval) Maureen Ogle however has researched the setting for us in Key West: History of an Island of Dreams (Florida $2595) Her history opens in 1819 with John Whitehead gazing at an uninhabited island (well if you count turtles deer and flamingos that is) in the Gulf as the ship he was on drifted to a halt the captain wanted to buy some fresh fish from the men who worked the waters nearby Perhaps he knew that an hour of easy work would yield a nice stash of turtle to sell in Mobile although that seems unlikely he could just as easily have picked up some in Nassau In any case stop he And that layover gave Whitehead time to realize that there was opportunity on the island a mere 90 miles from Cuba Two years later Whitehead and his partner John Simonton found the island's owner imagine the owner of all Key West and offered him $2000 Juan Pablo Salas who had earned the property by helping Spanish governor no doubt believing gotten the better part of the deal After all Key West seemed an unlikely choice for either investment or settlement especially compared to what was available elsewhere in the United States Little more than a coral and limestone reef the island Sin on the street where you live BY HANNAH SAMPSON hsampsonheraldcom What can anyone really know about the neighbors who surround them? You could maybe say with certainty that the lady who lives on the corner is a gardener who prefers purple that the gentleman across the street likes the Beach Boys on a Sunday afternoon that the haggard couple next door has an infant But if you could peer through walls and know the real thoughts of those neighbors what would you see? Angela Mayfair wants to tell you The 12-year-old superkid (with powers of the extrasensory sort) introduces Seven Days and Seven Sins by describing her Lansing neighborhood and the apparent ease with which her neighbors face life She warns: know What follows is a captivating behind-the-scenes tour of the 12 homes on Lantern Hill Lane The inhabitants are for the most part worthy subjects Some are wildly eccentric others outwardly unremarkable but vividly portrayed Only a few are predictable cliches We meet Arnie and Faye a dwarf and his beautiful emotional wreck of a wife Grace Van Houghton who finds the world more comfortable from the position of a dog and Cora Ladinsky who is apparently possessed by a gang of magical orchids No character is constant from chapter to chapter but often one will make a cameo appearance in story (a disbelieving neighbor sees Grace take the trash out on all fours bag in teeth) The novel Pamela Ditchoff second unfolds as a series of short stories each drawing inspiration from the nursery rhyme about the days of the week and the seven deadly sins (Anyone who saw Seven will be relieved that Ditchoff treats the evils with far more subtlety than that criminal mastermind) Lust takes the form of George Simon who is supposed to be watching his elderly father but instead ogles next-door neighbor Opal Palacio described as Willendorf Venus come to Opal in turn represents hard-working child who joins a faith-based weight-loss group to some of her 230 pounds is set in home the subject in question is her bulimic boyfriend Unfortunately Ditchoff portrayal of his disease as well as a story about a woman struggling against a heroin addiction make up some of the weakest elements The vices are one-dimensional and predictably linked to family issues Angela finally gets her own chapter as the Sunday child who fair and wise and good and There Angela delivers a sort of preamble to the Millennium Extrasensory Evolution Kid Constitutioa use words carefully know what to reveal and what to keep secret We hear the words you meant to say We are patient and mild I can see through walls You believe me Walk with me down the street and show Reading words it is difficult not to draw comparisons between her and Susie Salmon the omniscient albeit dead young narrator of Alice heartbreaking The Lovely Bones voice is wise solemn and pure Angela tends to be a little preachy She does not haunt us just reminds us that we should look beyond the surface to see people for who they really are Not a bad message especially because the souls on Lantern Hill Lane are worth getting to know And the stories might just inspire you to think twice about your own fascination with orchids Hannah Sampson is a Herald staff writer I UNDER THE BANNER OF HEAVEN A Story of Violent Faith Jon Krakauer Doubleday 400 pages $26 The alarming link between faith violence I HUMtHUD I BY ANNE BARTLETT abartlettheraldcom Faith is by its very nature irrational If you believe in the virgin birth of Jesus or in the angel Gabriel bringing the Koran to Mohammed in Mecca or in the angel Moroni revealing the Book of Mormon to Joseph Smith in Palmyra NY you believe something that be proven in any conventional way So what if you sincerely believe God is telling you to kill people? In every religion some people cross the fine line between belief and fanaticism Violence committed in the name of God is as old as the pharaohs and as new as Osama bin Laden and David Koresh Jon new book Under the Banner of Heaven explores one small part of this blood-soaked spectrum: the dark side of Mormonism This quint-essentially American religion is the fastest growing faith in the world today and it has always had a terrifying substratum of murder pedophilia and incest That ugly legacy is vehemently rejected by the modern Church of Latter Day Saints which works hard to stamp out its vestiges But through his effective mix of journalism and history Krakauer shows that it remains a hardy strain reading and discussion with like-minded friends he came to believe that the most extreme ideas taught by the early Mormon fathers were revealed truth He has changed his mind somewhat in prison but he still is completely convinced that God told him to commit the minders Dan and Ron are criminal zealots But as the book demonstrates they have any number of predecessors among the pioneer Mormons Most notable were the men who committed the infamous Mountain Meadows Massacre in 1857 killing 120 non-Mormons in a wagon train However Krakauer also introduces us to a positive contrast: Deloy Bateman from Colorado City Utah Bateman a high school science teacher was an upstanding fundamentalist with two wives and 17 kids A clash with the leader (with 45 wives 65 children) began the intellectual journey that led to his break with the sect Bateman is inspirational but one individual and Krakauer offers no overall solution to the problem of what he calls There probably one Instead Krakauer explains and he alarms And we need to be alarmed Anne Bartlett is The Miami-Dade politics and government editor The lifestyle includes between mature men and young teenage girls pedophile rape disguised as religion Krakauer devotes one chapter to Elizabeth Smart the 14-year-old whose kidnapping and rescue galvanized public attention This was indisputably a case of crazed Mormon fundamentalism Kidnapper Brian Mitchell believed that God had given Elizabeth to him as his polygamous wife And Elizabeth from a mainstream Mormon family was brainwashed into believing it The centerpiece of the book is the tale of Dan and Ron Lafferty the Utah brothers who cut the throats of their sister-in-law and her baby daughter in 1984 because they believed it was will Brenda Lafferty 24 had encouraged wife to leave him when Ron announced that God wanted him to practice plural marriage According to Ron God subsequently told him that Brenda and 15-month-old Erica had to die Dan killed the baby He also claims to have killed Brenda but unclear whether he or Ron did it Ron is on Death Row likely to be executed next year Dan got a life sentence and fascinating interview with him is woven through the book The killer turns out to be an interesting thoughtful guy Too thoughtful Through intense MnrciSfrnc OF HEAVEN Mt a iWA A 4 tMH 6 I mr kl a A 45 The book is something of a new direction for Krakauer whose bestsellers Into the Wild and Into Thin Air were essentially adventure stories But they were also stories of obsession and the schismatics known as Mormon fundamentalists are nothing if not obsessive They believe that God has ordered them to practice polygamy whatever the legal or psychic cost Krakauer estimates that more than 30000 polygamists live in areas of southern Utah British Columbia and northern Mexico i mmk i GUMSHOE TAKES LITTLEANALYZING WAY Stephen White Read by Dick Hill Six hours Abridged Brilliance Audio $2495 The two best-known psychologist crime-solvers are Jonathan Alex Delaware and Stephen Dr Alan Gregory Kellerman surrounds his grounded gumshoe with colorful characters For Way Dr Gregory get much support beyond a wisecracking detective buddy Not only is Gregory boring his wife an assistant state attor ney is drab The only real color in life is his neighbor woodworker Peter Arvin who serves as this first murder victim The stunning murder throws Gregory for a loop and is further complicated by the fact that widow is one of the crime former lovers not long before another murder takes place seemingly the work of the same killer Though the author tries mightily to earn sympathy for victim Arvin as Gregory unravels the mystery your attention wanders By the time Gregory is led to the killers most of what went before is who-cares-ice-cold THE PROTECTOR David MonelLRead by Corbin Bemsen Six hours Abridged Time Warner Audiobooks $2598 David The Protector is a nice exception in the Kevlar-vested actionadventure genre While we learn a whole lot about the hero Cavanaugh we know enough to care about him Cavanaugh no first name needed is a former Delta Force operator now working for Global Protective Services His specialty is weapons but he is no paid assassin Taking just one more job before a long-overdue stretch Cavanaugh heads to a Newark NJ warehouse district to interview a prospective client Cavanaugh is under fire the minute he meets Daniel Prescott Plenty of people want Prescott dead We get plenty of high-tech weapons and bodies in The Protector But we also get a twisting turning plot that baffles even our hero and his wife Jamie this welcome co-star Corbin Bemsen reading David Morrell writing The Protector is an exciting dash of drama that rises above the smoke and firepower of other actionadventure fiction Paul Lomartire reviewed these tapes for The Palm Beach Post a.