MEDIA: The Lovely Bones
Can killing off the protagonist in Chapter One actually make for an interesting story? Author Alice Sebold throws convention to the wind and creates a stunning tale.

MEDIA Bike for Life
On top of addressing worthwhile topics, the two authors also included several interesting mini-feature stories about truly great cyclists who have all kicked the crap out of Old Man Time.

FEB. 3rd MEDIA Dancing with Cats
The most disturbing book I've yet to lay eyes on.

JANUARY 12th: MEDIA: Be by Common
Common Sense has never painted inside the lines when it comes to his rap and musical sense. This latest album continues to travel new roads and new styles.

JANUARY 3rd: MEDIA Le Tour Companion
The Tour is as essential to the history of France as the Eiffel Tower or Euro Disney. Well, maybe not Euro Disney. Roll captures the true essence of the great race.

NOVEMBER 30th: MEDIA REVIEW Why Do Men Have Nipples?
True, this book never broaches life’s biggest questions, but it does explain why you begin to grow hair on your ears as you get older, why your breath smells like ass each morning, and what would happen if you actually stuck someone in the heart with a needle, as depicted in Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction.

NOVEMBER 11th: MEDIA The Secret Life of Lobsters
It's a story of politics, the American Dream, twisted biology and, yes, love. Lobster love.

NOVEMBER 4th MEDIA: Heavy Metal Australopithecus
Mountain paved the way for the likes of Black Sabbath and Judas Priest. This bargain-priced "best of" disc is a worthy introduction.

SEPTEMBER 23rd: MEDIA The Hot Spot
What if the greatest jazz musician of the 20th century teamed on an album with the world’s greatest blues musicians? Here’s your answer.

SEPTEMBER 9th: MEDIA Faces
A glimpse inside the heads of 20 professional thrill seekers.

SEPTEMBER 2nd: MEDIA White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan
Get Behind Me Satan poses a challenge for Detroits The White Stripes; namely, how do you create a worthy follow-up to an album that could do no wrong.

JULY 29th: MEDIA Confederates in the Attic
Confederates is the rare book that appeals to just about anyone capable of humming the ABCs. At its core, the book revolves around Horwitz’s childhood obsession with the Civil War. Now an accomplished author, Horwitz travels from battlefield site to battlefield site in modern-day America, unearthing the forgotten civil war history of each locale and exploring the repercussions of the war in those same places today

JULY 19th: MEDIA The Complete Bike Book
With a name like Complete Bike Book, you’d expect to find a veritable encyclopedia of cycling techniques, disciplines and equipment between the covers. Indeed, that’s pretty much what you get with journalist Chris Sidwells’ new book.

June 28th: MEDIA Leonard Zinn's Latest Mechanical Masterpiece
Long-time VeloNews writer Lennard Zinn has taken his comprehensive bicycle bible and brought it up to date for 2006.