It’s May already - how time flies, alas.

Here are the titles reviewed in our web-only, freely accessible Xpress Reviews section.

Xpress Reviews for Week of May 1, 2007
** - means that it is a starred title

FICTION
Conroy, Robert. 1945. Ballantine.

**Ignatius, David. Body of Lies. Norton.

**Koontz, Dean. The Good Guy. Bantam.

**Los Angeles Noir. Akashic.

Miner, Valerie. After Eden. Univ. of Oklahoma.

Skloot, Floyd. Patient 002. Rager Media.

NONFICTION
After Sputnik: 50 Years of the Space Age. Smithsonian: HarperCollins. 2007. 256p. ed. by Martin Collins.

Bego, Mark. Billy Joel: The Biography. Thunder’s Mouth: Avalon, dist. by Publishers Group West.

Carr, Matthew. The Infernal Machine: A History of Terrorism, from the Assassination of Tsar Alexander II to Al-Qaeda. New Pr, dist. by Norton.

Cliff, Nigel. The Shakespeare Riots: Revenge, Drama and Death in Nineteenth-Century America. Random.

Cruise, Jorge. The 3-Hour Diet™ Cookbook: Lose up to 10 Pounds in the First 14 Days. Collins: HarperCollins.

**Gura, Trisha. Lying in Weight: The Hidden Epidemic of Eating Disorders in Adult Women. HarperCollins.

Kolata, Gina. Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss—and the Myths and Realities of Dieting. Farrar.

**Morwood, Mike & Penny van Oosterzee. A New Human: The Startling Discovery and Strange Story of the “Hobbits” of Flores, Indonesia. Smithsonian: HarperCollins.

AUDIO
Binchy, Maeve. Whitethorn Woods. Books on Tape.

Roby, Kimberla Lawson. Love & Lies. Sound Library: BBC Audiobooks America.