Reworking the Body Politic from the Bottom Up and will be released in June. Due out in April, The Iraq Solution will cite example of Hussein s use of chemical weapons against Kurds and Iranians as proof of why he must be overthrown before he can use weapons of mass destruction again. Repeated searches near Nice failed to find any evidence of the crash, which was blamed on everything from Nazi attack to suicide. It was found in near perfect condition stuck to a piece of fabric believed to be part of his flight suit. It was identified as belonging to the author because it was inscribed with the name of his wife and his publishers.
Winter marks the high season for book awards.
A bevy of acclaimed titles from 1998 have collected honors and nominations in the past several months. Holes , Louis Sachar s novel about a boy sentenced to a Texas juvenile detention camp for a crime he didn t commit, won this year s John Newbery Medal for children s literature. The honor caps off a big winter for Holes , which won the National Book Award in the children s category in November. The Randolph Caldecott Medal, awarded annually for best illustrated children s book, this year went to Vermont s Mary Azarian for Snowflake Bentley , her story of a snowflake photographer. An Old Man, a Young Man and Life s Great Lesson , by Mitch Albom.