Michael Scott, Author Northeastern University Press $35 (320p) ISBN 978-1-55553-146-1
In a biography for serious Callas (1923-1977) students, Scott ( The Great Caruso ) traces the career of the controversial diva from her teenage appearances as a budding prima donna through the triumphs of the early 1950s to later years when Callas's
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Michael Scott, Author Alfred A. Knopf $24.95 (322p) ISBN 978-0-394-53681-1
Important less for its new biographical details than for the balance and thoroughness of its coverage, this is a comprehensive critical account of Enrico Caruso's amazing career, from his first engagements at 22 in 1895 until his tragic death at 48...
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Michael Scott, Photographer, Michael Scott, Author Hyperion Books for Children $5.99 (12p) ISBN 978-0-7868-1919-5
Photographs of multicultural babies by Michael Scott pose for this interpretation of Five Little Pumpkins. Picket fences and night skies serve as background for the quintet of adorable toddlers, decked out in squash-hued romper suits.
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Morgan Llywelyn, Author, Michael Scott, Author Baen Books $22 (416p) ISBN 978-0-671-87652-4
Llywelyn (The Last Prince of Ireland) and Scott (Tales of the Bard) have set this entrancing novel, their first collaboration, in a semimedieval, far-future fantasy world. This concocted realm serves them exceptionally well as they layer shades of...
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Morgan Llywelyn, Author, Michael Scott, Author Tor Books $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-86627-3
In this sturdy historical fantasy novel, Llywelyn, best known as a fictional chronicler of Irish history (1916, etc.), and U.K. anthologist Scott turn their attention to the legendary Roman hero Horatius (he of the last stand at the bridge). The...
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Adrienne Barbeau, Author, Michael Scott, Author . St. Martin's/Dunne $23.95 (321p) ISBN 978-0-312-36722-0
Actress Barbeau and bestseller Scott (The Alchemyst
) give a novel twist to one of the hoariest clichés of vampire lore in this compulsively readable dark fantasy. Secret vampires in the film industry have concocted vampire myths and...
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Michael Scott, Author . Warner $9.95 (112p) ISBN 978-0-446-67800-1
Based in County Dublin, Scott has authored over 80 books, including Irish Folk and Fairy Tales, and so has had ample opportunity to gather the material for this pocket-sized book. Set in a Celt-like font and separated by runes, the book's wisdom
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Michael Scott, Author . Delacorte $16.99 (375p) ISBN 978-0-385-73357-1
Twin 15-year-old siblings Sophie and Josh Newman take summer jobs in San Francisco across the street from one another: she at a coffee shop, he at a bookstore owned by Nick and Perry Fleming. In the vey first chapter, armed goons garbed in black...
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Michael Scott, Author Holiday House $14.95 (159p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1092-7
Scott gets some interesting mileage out of casting the teenage protagonists of this mildly innovative, futuristic story as established authorities rather than upstarts or rebels. Twins BJ and Liz O'Connor are the founders and owners of the Gemini...
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Michael Scott and Colette Freedman. Tor, $24.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2852-6
Scott (The Alchemyst) and Freedman blend magic, folklore, mystery, and history in this zippy fantastical thriller. Sarah Miller is a discontented 22-year-old Londoner in a dead-end job who lives with and supports her widowed mother. When she comes...
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Michael Scott and Colette Freedman, read by Kate Reading. Macmillan Audio, unabridged, nine CDs, 11 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-4272-1348-8
In Scott and Freedman’s fantastical thriller, when Londoner Sarah Miller helps a mugging victim, she finds herself face to face with one of the Keepers—guardians of powerful and deadly artifacts know as the 13 Hallows. The Keeper gives her Hallow (a
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Michael Scott. Elliot & Thompson (IPG, dist.), $29.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-908739-68-1
Scott, a former commander of the British Army in Scotland, does an excellent job of conveying the details of a variety of military campaigns, spanning several centuries and continents, in an accessible way, in his accounts of men unjustly blamed,...
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Michael Scott. Princeton Univ, $29.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-691-15081-9
Classicist and ancient history scholar Scott (From Democrats to Kings) examines the center of the ancient Greek world, Delphi, which held an important yet fragile cultural position for centuries. Remembered today primarily for its oracle, Delphi was
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