James Riordan, Author . Barron's $12.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-7641-2205-7
One of six inaugural titles in the Survivors series being released this month, this disappointing novel centers on Tennessee-born Molly, who recounts her three years (1929–1932) riding the rails as she searched for work during the Depression....
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James Riordan, Author, Michael Douglas, Introduction by, Michael Douglas, Adapted by Hyperion Books $24.45 (573p) ISBN 978-0-7868-6026-5
Despite a nominally independent stance, Riordan (Break On Through), who consulted on Oliver Stone's 1991 rock fantasia, The Doors, has hardly a discouraging word to say about Stone's increasingly controversial films and notorious cage-rattling...
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James Riordan, Author, Stephen Lambert, Author Random House (UK) $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-09-173861-7
Snowmaiden (the offspring of a brief flirtation between Spring and Frost) has been kept hidden away for 16 years, safe from the perilous rays of Yarilo the sun god. Her absence has plunged the world into a long winter, and when her parents finally...
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James Riordan, Author, James Riordan, Retold by, Andrew Breakspeare, Illustrator Oxford University Press, USA $19.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-19-274536-1
Three compendiums cover folktales, sense and nonsense. James Riordan collects and translates Russian Folk Tales, illus. by Andrew Breakspeare, both well known (""Vasilissa""; ""The Firebird"") and lesser known (""The Animals' Revenge""), sometimes...
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James Riordan, Author, Michael Douglas, Foreword by Hyperion Books $15.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7868-8201-4
Biography of the controversial director. (Dec.)
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James Riordan, Author, Tim Warnes, Joint Author, Tim Warnes, Illustrator Little Tiger Press $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-888444-38-4
The eponymous hero is crazy for counting, but no one seems interested in helping satisfy his itch for numeracy. When he tries to count ducklings, for example, Mother Duck scolds him (""Stop bothering my babies!"") and shoos him away. He wanders into
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James Riordan, Author, Jerry Prochinichy, Author, Jerry Prochnicky, With It Books $18.99 (544p) ISBN 978-0-688-11915-7
While for the most part covering familiar territory in tedious fan-club style, this tome does present credible new material about the death of its subject, Doors singer Jim Morrison. Photos. (Oct.)
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James Riordan, Author, Jerry Prochnicky, With William Morrow & Company $20 (544p) ISBN 978-0-688-08829-3
Riordan ( The Platinum Rainbow ) and freelancer Prochnicky here present credible new evidence about the death of Doors lead singer Jim Morrison: according to sources close to his late girlfriend, Pamela Courson, Morrison's 1971 death at age 27 in...
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James Riordan, Author, Alex Ayliffe, Illustrator Peachtree Publishers $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-56145-110-4
Rummaging through the trash one night, an orange tabby named Marmaduke finds a book open to a picture of a tiger. Noting their common features, he surmises, ``We must be related,'' and thereupon sets out on this cheerily illustrated mission to find...
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James Riordan, Author, Amanda Hall, Illustrator Abbeville Press $19.95 (80p) ISBN 978-0-7892-0282-6
Amanda Hall's distinctive illustrations also brighten Stories from the Sea: An Abbeville Anthology by James Riordan: waves in watery colors decorate the bottom of every page, along with ships, mysterious sea creatures and other motifs from the nine...
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