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Fiction and Nonfiction Titles

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Fiction

• S: A Novel from the Balkans
  Author: Drakulic, Slavenka
  Publisher: Viking $ 22.95 ISBN: 0670890979 Date: 2000
  LJ
  Set in 1992, during the height of the Bosnian war, S. reveals one of the most gruesome aspects of war - the rape and torture of civilian women by occupying forces. Through a series of flashbacks, S., a Bosnian woman, relives the unspeakable crimes she has endured and in telling her story, depicts the blackest side of human nature during wartime.
  
• Lie in the Dark
  Author: Fesperman, Dan
  Publisher: Soho Price: $ 24 ISBN: 1569471533 Date: 1999
  BooklistPW
  In a thriller that recalls the first excitement of Martin Cruz Smith's Moscow, the author Dan Fesperman brilliantly renders the fragmented society and underworld of Sarajevo at war - the freelancing gangsters, guilty bystanders, drop-in correspondents, the bureaucrats frightened for their jobs and for their very lives - and weaves through this torn cityscape on man's desperate, deadly pursuit of the wrong people in the wrongest place. (Soho publicity)
  Suggested Reading: European Crime Fiction
• The Small Boat of Great Sorrows
  Author: Fesperman, Dan
  Publisher: Knopf $ 24 ISBN: 037541472X Date: 2003
  PWKirkus
  In an electrifying tale of international intrigue, the author of Lie in the Dark follows brooding investigator Vlado Petric, who is being used as bait to bring justice to a murderer whose activities in World War II make the current generation of killers look like amateurs.
  Suggested Reading: European Crime Fiction
  Updated 7.8.03
• Avenger
  Author: Forsyth, Frederick
  Publisher: St Martins $ 26.95 ISBN: 0312319517 Date: 2003
  BooklistPWLJ
  In this heart-stopping thriller of murder, intrigue, deception, and revenge, attorney Calvin Dexter is called upon to settle an old score. But the game is changing, and this time CIA agent Kevin McBride must find a way to stop Dexter before his quest for vengeance throws the world into chaos.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars | Adult Books for Teens
  Updated 9.08.03
• Secret Sanction
  Author: Haig, Brian
  Publisher: Warner $ 24.95 ISBN: 0446527432 Date: 2001
  Kirkus
  A battalion of Serbs has been senselessly murdered in Kosovo and the Green Berets stand accused. Now, Major Sean Drummond, a top Army lawyer, is assigned to investigate this unspeakable atrocity. Teamed with a straight-laced prosecutor and a sexy defense attorney, Drummond probes a cover-up that could threaten the stability of the most powerful nation in the world.
  Suggested Reading: Legal Stars
  Updated 4/20/01
• The Question of Bruno
  Author: Hemon, Aleksandar
  Publisher: Doubleday $ 22.95 ISBN: 038549923x Date: 2000
  PWBooklistLibrary Journal
  A novella and stories linked by characters, by locations, and by interwoven substories, The Question of Bruno is set in Chicago and Sarajevo and is a book about the trauma of war and how an exile makes a new life in a new land.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars
  Updated 7/20/00.
• Hotel Sarajevo
  Author: Kersh, Jack
  Publisher: Turtle Point List Price: $ 13.95 (paperback) ISBN: 1885983212 Date: 1997
  PW
  Fourteen-year-old Alma is a daydreamer who has taken up residence with a group if teenage war orphans in the abandoned Hotel Sarajevo. She is at once a child playing with her rag doll, a sexually precocious teenager, and a young woman with highly developed self-analytical and survival skills. The text portrays adolescence in a city ravaged by war.
  
• War Torn
  Author: Marks, John
  Publisher: Riverhead $ 25.95 ISBN: 1573222542 Date: 2003
  PWLJ
  From the author of the New York Times Notable Book The Wall, this gripping thematic sequel tells the story of a love affair between an American journalist and a woman from the former Yugoslavia, during the aftermath of the Cold War.
  Updated 10.30.03
• April Fool's Day
  Author: Novakovich, Josip
  Publisher: HarperCollins $ 23.95 ISBN: 0060583975 Date: 2004
  Kirkus
  "In this harrowing and hilarious novel, Josip Novakovich's wry Croatian Candide is our sympathetic guide through the recent history of the Balkans, and through the pleasures and sorrows of an ordinary and extraordinary life."--Francine Prose.
  Updated 7.26.04
• The Fixer: A Story from Sarajevo
  Author: Sacco, Joe
  Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly $ 24.95 ISBN: 1896597602 Date: 2004
  PW
  When bombs are falling and western journalism is the only game left in town, local "fixers" sell war correspondents the human tragedy and moral outrage that makes news editors back home happy. American Book Award winner Sacco goes behind the scene of war correspondence to reveal the anatomy of the big scoop.
  Suggested Reading: Graphic Novel Stars
  Updated 11.24.03
• Pretty Birds
  Author: Simon, Scott
  Publisher: Random $ 24.95 ISBN: 1400063108 Date: 2005
  KirkusPW
  This mortal chess game of guile and manipulation plays out against the backdrop of beautiful, war-torn Sarajevo as two high school friends--one Muslim, one Christian--struggle to survive the Serbs' ethnic cleansing.
  Suggested Reading: Debuts | Child Soldiers
  Updated 4.19.05
• The Pepperdogs
  Author: West, Francis J. (Bing)
  Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 25 ISBN: 0743235894 Date: 2003
  Kirkus
  On the eve of leaving his Reservist unit in Kosovo, a marine is kidnapped by renegade Serbs. Known as a razor-sharp storyteller and elite Pentagon insider, West unleashes this blistering technothriller about honor, duty, and patriotic sacrifice.
  Updated 11.12.02

Nonfiction

• Hearts Grown Brutal: Sagas of Sarajevo
  by Cohen, Roger
  Publisher: Random House ISBN: 0679452435 $27.95 Date: 1998
  PWKirkusLJ
  Through the sagas of four families caught in the chaos of Yugoslavia and the Bosnian war of 1991-95, Roger Cohen tells the story of a state and its struggles.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars
  
• Madness Visible
  Author: Di Giovanni, Janine
  Publisher: Knopf $ 24 ISBN: 0375410732 Date: 2003
  KirkusPW
  From an internationally celebrated war correspondent comes a searing firsthand chronicle--told with extraordinary immediacy--of the ordeal of the Balkan people during the continuing breakup of Yugoslavia.
  Suggested Reading: Travel Tales
  Updated 8.25.03
• Hello To All That: A Memoir of War, Zoloft, and Peace
  Author: Falk, John
  Publisher: Henry Holt $ 25 ISBN: 0805072187 Date: 2005
  KirkusLJ
  Here is the riveting tale of a man's lifelong battle to defeat his greatest enemy and to connect, cure himself, and finally live. A victim of prodigious depression, John Falk discovered Zoloft and set out to salvage himself--by becoming a correspondent in bloody Sarajevo.
  Updated 11.22.04
• The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo
  Author: Koff, Clea
  Publisher: Random $ 24.95 ISBN: 1400060648 Date: 2004
  Published ten years after the genocide in Rwanda, The Bone Woman is a riveting account by a forensic anthropologist sent on missions by the UN War Crimes Tribunal. As she recounts the details of her work, the hellish working conditions, the bureaucracy, and the heartbreak of survivors, Koff imbues her story with a sense of hope, humanity, and justice.
  Updated 8.13.04
• My War Gone By, I Miss It So
  by Lloyd, Anthony
  Publisher: Atlantic Monthly $ 25 ISBN: 0871137690 Date: 2000
  BooklistPWKirkusLibrary Journal
  An extraordinary, personal look at modern war by a young correspondent who saw its horrors first hand in Bosnia.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars
• Beyond the Mountains of the Damned: The War Inside Kosovo
  Author: McAllester, Matthew
  Publisher: New York Univ $ 24.95 ISBN: 0814756603 Date: 2002
  Library JournalKirkusPW
  Emotionally gripping and elegantly written, Beyond the Mountains of the Damned looks past the headlines to explain the ongoing strife and chaos in the Balkans. - Publisher Marketing.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars
  Updated 1.31.02
• The Key to My Neighbor's House: Searching for Justice in Bosnia and Rwanda
  by Neuffer, Elizabeth
  Publisher: Picador $ 27 ISBN: 0312261268 Date: 2001
  Kirkus
  From her unique vantage as a reporter directly covering the reality of genocide in Bosnia and Rwanda, award-winning journalist Neuffer tells the compelling story of two parallel journeys toward justice in each country.
  Suggested Reading: Travel Tales

 

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