Jon Katz, Author Doubleday Books $17 (360p) ISBN 978-0-385-42112-6
Suburbia has rarely looked so perilous as in this ultimately exhilarating mystery, with its utterly believable, uniquely modern hero. After being forced out of a Wall Street firm in the wake of a major scandal, Kit Deleeuw becomes a part-time...
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Jon Katz. Atria, $26 (240p) ISBN 978-1-4767-9547-8
Bestseller Katz (Saving Simon) fills his latest book with moving essays on what he has learned from different animals. Each story combines biographies of beloved animals with guidance on how humans can better communicate with them, conveying Katz’s...
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Jon Katz. Ballantine, $25 (224p) ISBN 978-0345531193
New York Times bestselling author Katz (The Second Chance Dog) takes on a shockingly malnourished and mistreated equine in this uplifting and insightful memoir. Neglected and left all but dead by a farmer who fell on hard times, Simon the donkey had
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Jon Katz, Holt, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-9219-6
In Katz's first book for children, illustrated with lively photos, the author explains how the four dogs (which have been the subject of several bestselling titles for adults) that live on his farm in upstate New York have distinct roles and...
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Jon Katz, Author Villard Books $24.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6403-8
As a journalist and columnist on the topic of dogs, and as a lifetime dog owner, Katz manages to breathe new life into the pet-care genre. Though occasionally preachy and redundant, the manual has an empathetic tone; Katz makes clear that he hasn't...
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Jon Katz, Author Villard Books $19.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-375-50814-1
Katz, a novelist and nonfiction author (A Dog Year; Geeks), here explores the bond between dogs and their owners. Focusing on 12 people-dog relationships in Montclair, N.J., and drawing on current research into attachment theory, interviews with...
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Jon Katz, Author Villard Books $20 (242p) ISBN 978-0-679-45678-0
The fear of stagnation at age 50 drove Katz, a nonfiction writer (Virtuous Reality) and author of the Suburban Detective series (Death Row, etc.), to buy a rundown cabin he couldn't afford at the top of a mountain in New York State's rural...
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Jon Katz, Author Doubleday Books $21.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-385-47922-6
Kit DeLeeuw, the ""Suburban Detective"" whose last appearance was in The Fathers' Club (1996), still presents himself not only the primary caregiver for his suburban New Jersey family but also the last sensitive male. Thankfully, however, he also...
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Jon Katz, Author Doubleday Books $21 (0p) ISBN 978-0-385-47921-9
Katz's suburban detective, last seen in The Last Housewife, is an appealing, original sleuth, in many ways the antithesis of the hard-boiled PI. Kit DeLeeuw (pronounced De-loo), the married father of two, operates out of an office in the American...
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Jon Katz, Author . Villard $21.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-375-50297-2
The story line of Katz's latest book can be summed up very simply—two dogs die and two new ones join the family—but its charm comes from an intricate blend of witty anecdote and touching reflection. Katz (Geeks, Virtuous Reality)...
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Jon Katz, Author Bantam Books $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-07123-8
In an absorbing, well-paced debut, Katz, a former producer for CBS Morning News , instructs on the inner workings of a television news division. USB News is a major, Manhattan-based TV network where integrity, accuracy and getting the news out first
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Jon Katz, Author Villard Books $22.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-375-50298-9
While promoting his book Virtuous Reality, journalist Katz was introduced to the world of ""geeks,"" those smart, technically savvy misfits who are ostracized by their high school peers. Katz wrote in his column on the slashdot.org Web site about...
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Jon Katz, Author Random House (NY) $21 (256p) ISBN 978-0-679-44913-3
The new media, led by the Internet, is weakening the control news outlets such as newspapers and television have over the delivery of information, observes Katz, who argues that in an effort to retain their influence, the old media guard has...
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Jon Katz, Author Doubleday Books $18.95 (312p) ISBN 978-0-385-46903-6
As can be expected in a study charging that multiculturalism, feminism, Afrocentrism, etc.--``retrograde tribalism''--are dumbing America, Henry provides fodder to offend virtually every reader, even on occasion those who would ally themselves with...
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Jon Katz, Author Villard Books $24 (198p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6630-8
After a half-dozen books about the dogs and other animals that live with him on Bedlam Farm in upstate New York (Dog Days, A Good Dog, Katz on Dogs), Katz's gentle, folksy style and intuitive connection to the world around him work a familiar but...
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Jon Katz, Villard, $24 (256p) ISBN 978-0-345-50265-0
Told from the perspective of Rose, a farm dog, Katz's latest pits man and dog against the forces of nature. Rose is a dedicated sheepherder and fiercely loyal to her owner, Sam. When a brutal winter storm hits Granville Farm during lambing season,...
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Jon Katz, Author . Villard $23.95 (273p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6404-5
Not only has Katz written 16 books, he cohosts Dog Talk
on public radio, freelances for a variety of newspapers and magazines, and operates the eponymous Bedlam Farm in upstate New York—sometimes with his wife, but always with dogs and...
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Jon Katz, Author . Villard $21.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6189-1
Barking, lunging and nipping at visitors, terrorizing school buses and crashing through a window screen to pursue a cat in a neighbor's house, the hero of this absorbing, if melodramatic, memoir hardly seems a good dog. But Orson's fangs are
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Jon Katz, Author . Villard $22.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6243-0
Katz, whose books A Dog Year
and Running to the Mountain
earned him many faithful, dog-loving readers, here channels James Herriott's brand of agricultural humanism. It's a classic setup for amusing anecdotes: a 50-something "suburban...
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Jon Katz, Author, K. C. McKeown, Author Doubleday Books $19.95 (131p) ISBN 978-0-385-47389-7
A onetime Wall Streeter, Kit Deleeuw is now a station-wagon driver, Labrador walker and principal caregiver to his children. He's also the PI star of Katz's Suburban Detective series (The Family Stalker) and a living lexicon of political correctness.
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