Annotated lists of books receiving at least one starred review from one of four major review sources: Booklist, Kirkus, LJ and PW. The review source assigns the star.
(lists of new and notable books - lists are sortable and can be downloaded)
2001: Fiction & Nonfiction ~ 2000: Fiction & Nonfiction
Fiction 2001
- The Hiding Place
Author: Azzopardi, Trezza
Publisher: Atlantic $ 24 ISBN: 0871138158
Kirkus
Set in a Maltese immigrant community in Cardiff Wales, The Hiding Place is the story of Frankie Gauci, his wife Mary, their six daughters, and about Frankie's betrayal, gambling away his family's livelihood and eventually the family itself. A young British novelist bursts onto the international literary scene with this iridescent first novel.- Perfect Recall
Author: Beattie, Ann
Publisher: Scribner $ 24 ISBN: 0743211693
This new collection of short stories, by the recipient of the 2000 Pen/Bernard Malamud Award for lifetime achievement, features 12 new works peopled by an assortment of characters contending with contemporary American life in ways alternately moving, comic, wrenching--and always unmistakably human.Fred & Edie
Author: Dawson, Jill
Publisher: Welcome Rain $ 25 ISBN: 156649222x
Based on a true story of a love triangle that turned deadly, this is a novel of passion, murder and a spectacular public trial at a time of momentous change for women.
- A Heart of Stone
Author: Dorrestein, Renate
Publisher: Viking $ 23.95 ISBN: 067089558x
Ellen Van Bemmel lives with her parents and three siblings in an Amsterdam suburb. Her idyllic childhood is suffused with Americana, such as Coca-Cola, potato chips, and the moon landing. But when disaster strikes on her 12th birthday, Ellen's world begins to unravel, and years later, she confronts the ghosts of her childhood.- The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
Author: Erdrich, Louise
Publisher: HarperCollins $ 26 ISBN: 0060187271
From the bestselling author of Tracks comes a dramatic sequel--a story of suspect miracles, tests of faith, and the corrosive and redemptive power of secrecy. Over the years, Father Damian has seen the reservation through its most severe crises, yet he is more than a heroic priest. He has lived with and served the Objibwa people as a man of the cloth, and also as a woman. However, where does fact end and reality begin?- Paradise Park
Author: Goodman, Allegra
Publisher: Dial $ 24.95 ISBN: 0385334168
Bestselling author and National Book Award finalist Goodman follows Kaaterskill Falls with a sparkling new tale featuring one of the most endearing, exasperating, indomitable heroines in modern fiction. With an open heart, a soul on fire, and her meager possessions, Sharon Spiegelman begins a hilarious 20-year quest for enlightenment. But each time she believes she has struck spiritual gold she comes up empty when her irrepressible self shines through.- The Pickup
Author: Gordimer, Nadine
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux $ 23 ISBN: 0374232105
The Nobel Laureate's penetrating story follows a love affair that begins as a casual encounter between a rich South African and an illegal alien.- Student of Weather
Author: Hay, Elizabeth
Publisher: Counterpoint $ 24 ISBN: 158243123x
On the prairie of Dust Bowl Canada, two sisters fall down the same well, and the well is named Maurice Dove. Spanning 30 years, this brilliant first novel is a Canadian bestseller about the rivalry between Lucinda and Norma-Joyce and the stranger who changes both of their lives forever.- Niagara Falls All Over Again
Author: McCracken, Elizabeth
Publisher: Dial $ 23.95 ISBN: 0385318375
Two young men, Carter & Sharp, become the most famous comedy team of their era, conquering vaudeville, the movies, radio and television. Their 30 year partnership prevails--until Carter commits one desperate act of betrayal.
Updated 8/24/01- Kit's Law
Author: Morrissey, Donna
Publisher: Mariner $ 13 (trade paper) ISBN: 0618109277
Kit Pitman lives with her unstable mother in a cottage on the outer banks of Newfoundland. Her life is compounded by the mystery that surrounds her illegitimate birth. Morrissey depicts the way the lines between mother and daughter, although blurred, are deeply felt. Kit's Law marks the debut of a new talent.- Bonesetter's Daughter
Author: Tan, Amy
Publisher: Putnam $ 25.95 ISBN: 0399146431
Set in contemporary San Francisco and in a Chinese village where Peking Man is unearthed, The Bonesetter's Daughter is an excavation of the human spirit: the past, its deepest wounds, its most profound hopes. This is the story of LuLing Young, who searches for the name of her mother, the daughter of the famous Bonesetter from the Mouth of the Mountain. The story conjures the pain of broken dreams, the power of myths, and the strength of love that enables us to recover in memory what we have lost in grief.- Sweethearts
Author: Thon, Melanie Rae
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin $ 23 ISBN: 0395785898
Set in the wild and beautiful plains and forests of Montana, Sweet Hearts recounts the searing story of a brother and sister haunted by their family's turmoil and half-forgotten Native American heritage. It is the story of 16-year-old Flint, who has already spent eight years in detention, and the one person he loves--his little sister, Cecile.- Father of the Four Passages
Author: Yamanaka, Lois-Ann
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux $ 24 ISBN: 0374153876
Sonia Kurisu, a streetwise young mother, struggles to raise her child, Sonny Boy, as she seeks to come to terms with the three children she aborted. Set in Hawaii and Las Vegas, this haunting novel about fathers, forgiveness, spirituality, and solace is Yamanaka's most ambitious work to date.Mystery, Suspense, Thrillers and Crime Fiction
- Undercurrents
Author: Fyfield, Frances
Publisher: Viking $ 23.95 ISBN: 0670896365 Date: 2001
For 20 years, Henry Evans has been haunted by a blurred but shining memory of his lost love, Francesca Chisholm. Now this shy American has come looking for her in her hometown on the English coast. What he finds there is not what he expects.- Reflecting the Sky
Author: Rozan, S.J.
Publisher: Minotaur $24.95 ISBN: 0312244274 Date: 2001
Lydia Chin . . . is hired by Grandfather Gao, one of the most respected figures in New York City's Chinatown, for what seems to be a simple task. Lydia, along with her professional partner Bill Smith, is to fly to Hong Kong to deliver a family heirloom to the young grandson of a recently deceased colleague. They arrive in Hong Kong safely, but before they can deliver the heirloom, the grandson is kidnapped and two separate ransom demands are made. While the family of the kidnapped boy tries to freeze them out, Lydia and Bill must quickly learn their way around a place where the rules are different, the stakes are high, and the cost of failure is too dire to imagine. - from the jacket copy.
Also of interest: A Criminal Record by Keith Snyder - This CD includes tracks composed by author and musician Keith Snyder and the first chapter in S. J. Rozan's mystery, Reflecting the Sky, with an ambient score.- Shape of Snakes
Author: Walters, Minette
Publisher: Putnam $ 24.95 ISBN: 0399147330 Date: 2001
2001 Nonfiction
- Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden
by Ackerman, Diane
Publisher: HarperCollins $ 25 ISBN: 0060199865
In the mode of her bestselling A Natural History of the Senses, Ackerman's new book celebrates the sensory pleasures and wonders of natures she discovers in her garden.
Suggested Reading: Nature- American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood
by Arana, Marie
Publisher: Dial $ 23.95 ISBN: 0385319622
In the tradition of Richard Rodriguez's A Hunger of Memory comes a rich, emotionally resonant portrait of a child who must come to terms with being neither North nor South American, but a mixture of both.- God Save the Sweet Potato Queens
by Browne, Jill Conner
Publisher: Three Rivers $ 12.95 (trade paper) ISBN: 060980619x
Jill Connor Browne's southern-fried wisdom continues in this sequel to the bestselling The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love. She gives priceless advice on everything from love to love handles, plus even more death-defying recipes.- This Cold Heaven
Author: Ehrlich, Gretel
Publisher: Pantheon $ 27.50 ISBN: 0679442006
The celebrated author of A Match to the Heart and The Solace of Open Spaces now takes readers on an extraordinary journey into the heart of the land of ice. Drawings throughout.
Suggested Reading: Travel Tales- Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in Boom-Time America
by Ehrenreich, Barbara
Publisher: Metropolitan $ 23 ISBN: 0805063889
Millions of Americans work for poverty-level wages. Social critic Barbara Ehrenreich joined them, moving into a trailer and working as a waitress, hotel maid, and Wal-Mart sales clerk. Nickel and Dimed reveals low-rent America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and duality.- How I Came into My Inheritance: And Other True Stories
by Gallagher, Dorothy
Publisher: Random $ 22.95 ISBN: 0375503463
Gallagher presents the true story of her own family of Russian-immigrant Jews who tried to ignore the realities of the new world in which their daughter had to make her way. This episodic family saga is told in a vivid, ironic, and completely original style, offering a complete world, as singularly American in its way as those of cowboys and Indians, Puritan preachers, and robber barons.- Seabiscuit: An American Legend
by Hillenbrand, Laura
Publisher: Random $ 24.95 ISBN: 0375502912
One of the greatest legends of the 20th century, Seabiscuit was a discarded, bottom-level runner who became a champion with the help of three men: a trainer, an owner, and a jockey. This is the spellbinding tale of how they did it.
Seabiscuit Online- Woman Who Watches over the World: A Native Memoir
by Hogan, Linda
Publisher: Norton $ 24.95 ISBN: 0393050181
Hogan, an award-winning Chickasaw poet and novelist, renders a powerful history of her family and the way in which tribal history informs her own past. Ultimately, the author sees herself and her people whole again and presents an illuminating story of personal spiritual triumph.- The Northern Lights
by Jago, Lucy
Publisher: Knopf $ 24 ISBN: 0375409807
A galvanizing, enlightening saga, The Northern Lights chronicles the life of the visionary 20th-century Norwegian scientist Kristian Birkeland, whose quest for an explanation of the aurora borealis took him across some of the most forbidding landscapes on Earth.
Suggested Reading: Nature- A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiania
by Kimmel, Haven
Publisher: Bantam $ 21.95ISBN: 0385499825
When Haven Kimmel was born in 1965, Mooreland, Indiana, was a sleepy little hamlet. Nicknamed "Zippy", she possessed big eyes and even bigger ears. In this loving memoir, Kimmel takes readers back in time to when small-town America was still in the innocent postwar period and treats readers to an appealing, and knowing, heroine.- Red Dust: A Path Through China
by Ma, Jian
Publisher: Pantheon $ 25 ISBN: 0375420592
A remarkable travelogue by a young Chinese artist whose revelatory view of life in the most remote and untouched parts of post-Mao rural China is like nothing else Western readers have ever experienced.
Suggested Reading:Travel Tales- Savage Beauty: A Biography of Edna St Vincent Millay
by Milford, Nancy
Publisher: Random $ 29.95 ISBN: 039457589X
Thirty years after the smashing success of Zelda, Milford returns with a stunning second act. Savage Beauty is the portrait of Edna St. Vincent Millay, a passionate, fearless woman who obsessed America even as she tormented herself.- Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail
by Oufkir, Malika
Publisher: Talk Miramax $ 24 ISBN: 0786867329
The adopted daughter of the king of Morocco, whose father was arrested and executed for a 1972 attempt to assassinate the king, tells the story of how she, her mother, and her five siblings endured years of imprisonment in a desert penal colony.- Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics and Culture
by Pollitt, Katha
Publisher: Modern Library $ 13.95 ISBN: 0679783431
- Comfort Me With Apples: More Adventures at the Table
by Reichl, Ruth
Publisher: Random $ 24.95 ISBN: 0375501959
Picking up where Tender at the Bone leaves off, Comfort Me with Apples recounts Reichl's transformation from chef to food writer, a process that led her through restaurants from Bangkok to Paris to Los Angeles and brought lessons in life, love, and food.- Travels with a Medieval Queen
Author: Simeti, Mary Taylor
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux $ 30 ISBN: 0374278784
This is the story of a modern journey in the footsteps of history as Simeti traces 12th-century clues to the inner life of Constance, a mother who was also a medieval queen.
Updated 11/27/01- Five Fingered Discount: A Crooked Family History
by Stapinski, Helene
Publisher: Random $ 23.95 ISBN: 0679463062
The Mafia, the Catholic Church, toxic waste, the DMV, and corrupt local officials are all part of this sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking family history, a story as polluted as the Jersey City air. Stapinski tells an extraordinary tale of her crooked family that, unlike the swag of her childhood, is her very own.- Tomorrow to Be Brave: A Memoir of the Only Woman Ever to Serve in the French Foreign Legion
by Travers, Susan
Publisher: Free Press $ 25 ISBN: 0743200012
A memoir of the only woman to ever serve in the French Foreign Legion, the unique story of Susan Travers is told against the backdrop of war-torn France.- Stuffed: The Story of a Restaurant Family
by Volk, Patricia
Publisher: Knopf $ 23 ISBN: 0375411062
Volk's family, chronicled here from the turn of the century to now, leaves readers speechless--and laughing. Being with the family is a trip to the spa, a balm to the soul, a double martini--and a hilarious yet unsparing look at how families work.2000 Fiction
2000 Nonfiction
- Blind Assassin
Author: Atwood, Margaret
Publisher: Bantam $ 26 ISBN: 0385475721
Containing a novel within a novel, The Blind Assassin is a science fiction story told by two unnamed lovers who meet in dingy backstreet rooms. Told in a style that magnificently captures the colloquialisms of the 1930s and 1940s, it unfolds layer by astonishing layer and concludes in a brilliant and wonderfully satisfying twist.
Author: Bloom, Amy
Publisher: Random House $ 22.95 ISBN: 0375502688
The author of Come to Me and Love Invents Us now presents a stunning new collection of short stories on the frontiers of emotion.
Updated 6/12/00
Author: Chevalier, Tracy
Publisher: Dutton $ 23.95 ISBN: 052594527x
With the precision and focus of an Old Master's painting, Girl with a Pearl Earring paints a vivid portrait of colorful 17th-century Delft, as well as the hauntingly poignant story of one young girl's rite of passage.
Suggested Reading: Vermeer Fiction list and Historical Fiction Stars.
Author: Desai, Anita
Publisher: Mariner $ 13 (trade paper) ISBN: 0618065822
Short-listed for the 1999 Booker prize.- Wild Life
Author: Gloss, Molly
Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 24 ISBN: 0684867982
A free-thinking, fiercely independent writer of women's adventure stories finds herself in a mysterious world that challenges her concept of reality, after she agrees to join a search party for a missing child who has disappeared in the Great Northwest Woods.
Updated 7/5/00.
Author: Harrison, Kathryn
Publisher: Random $ 24.95 ISBN: 0679450009
This mesmerizing novel by the author of the bestselling The Kiss is set in alluring Shanghai at the turn of the century, and it tells the story of two women whose lives intertwine - fascinating, tiny-footed Mai and Alice, her Western niece.
Suggested Reading: Historical Fiction Stars.
Updated 3/16/00.
Author: Kingsolver, Barbara
Publisher: HarperCollins $ 26 ISBN: 0060199652
In a beautiful hymn to wildness, Kingsolver celebrates the prodigal spirit of human nature and of nature itself. Over the course of one humid summer, as the urge to procreate takes over the countryside, the novel's characters find their connections to one another in the forested mountains of southern Appalachia.
Updated 10/23/00
Author: Min, Anchee
Publisher: Houghton $ 25 ISBN: 0681004076
From the bestselling author of Red Azalea comes a strikingly original, erotically charged portrayal of Madame Mao, one of the most vilified women of the 20th century.
Suggested Reading: Historical Fiction Stars
Updated 4/13/00.
Author: Smiley, Jane
Publisher: Knopf $ 26 ISBN: 037540600x
The universe of horse racing - passionate, cold-hearted, pure, corrupt - is revealed in Smiley's new novel that combines the intense feeling of her Pulitzer Prize-winning A Thousand Acres with the wit, pace, and brightness of Moo.
Random House Feature about Horse Heaven
Suggested Reading: Horse Tales.
Updated 4/12/00.
Author: Sontag, Susan
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux $ 25 ISBN: 0374175403
In a glorious, sweeping new novel by the bestselling author of The Volcano Lover, Sontag once again bases her work on a real story. In 1876, a group of Poles led by Maryna Zalewska, Poland's greatest actress, travels to California to found a "utopian" commune. In America is a big, juicy, surprising book about a woman's search for self-transformation, about the fate of idealism, and about the world of the theater.
Suggested Reading: Historical Fiction Stars.
Updated 3/13/00.
Author: Tremain, Rose
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux $ 25 ISBN: 0374199892
In the year 1629, a young English lute player named Peter Claire arrives at the Danish court where he must find the path that will realize his hopes and save his soul. Short-listed for the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award.
Suggested Reading: Historical Fiction Stars & Music and Fiction.
Updated 4/17/00.
Author: Trollope, Joanna
Publisher: Viking $ 23.95 ISBN: 0670891509
What happens when the esteemed head of a family - an English judge - announces he is leaving a 40-year marriage to marry his mistress? This provocative new novel is quintessential Trollope, combining her trademark sensitivity with a new boldness and unsentimental honesty.
Updated 5/4/00.
Author: Zelitch, Simone
Publisher: Putnam $ 24.95 ISBN: 0399146598
Following the holocaust, Nora and her German daughter-in-law, Louisa, enter an Israeli absorption camp for immigrants to await an uncertain future. Stranded in a new land, both women are forced to face the past and the responsibility each bears for what they have lost.
Updated 8/29/00Mystery, Suspense, Thrillers and Crime Fiction
- Hot Six
Author: Evanovich, Janet
Publisher: St Martins $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312205406
In this sixth Stephanie Plum adventure, Ranger the super bounty hunter is on the lam and Stephanie has to team up with vice-cop Joe Morelli to find him. But has Ranger really broken the law? Is he a psychotically dangerous criminal? "(Evanovich) is in a class by herself when it comes to plot and humor".--Liz Smith, syndicated columnist.
- The Burning of Bridget Cleary: A True Story
by Bourke, Angela
Publisher: Viking $ 24.95 ISBN: 067089270x
When 26-year-old Bridget Cleary disappeared from her cottage in rural Ireland in 1895, the townspeople claimed she was "away with the fairies". But the real Bridget was lying in a shallow grave after being burned to death by her husband and nine of his friends and neighbors. This true story is a fascinating account of a harrowing murder that would become an international scandal.
Suggested Reading: The Cooper's Wife is Missing: The Ritual Murder of Bridget Cleary by Joan Hoff and Marion Yates.
Irish Times Feature Article
THE RECENT "WITCH-BURNING" AT CLONMEL by E .F. Benson.- The Girl in the Picture: The Story of Kim Phuc, the Photograph and the Vietnam War
by Chong, Denise
Publisher: Viking $ 23.95 ISBN: 067088040x
The world will never forget the 1972 Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of nine-year-old Kim Phuc, running naked in terror after a napalm strike in Vietnam. Chong presents the timely, sensitive story of the "napalm girl" as she struggles to reclaim her life.
CBC news story.- An Ocean to Cross: Daring the Atlantic, Claiming a New Life
by Fordred, Liz
Publisher: McGraw-Hill $ 22.95 ISBN: 0071355049
In a story of courage and triumph over adversity, Fordred tells how she and her husband, both paralyzed from accidents, realized their dreams of building a boat and sailing from Rhodesia to a new life in America.
Suggested Reading: Travel Tales- Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire
by Foreman, Amanda
Publisher: Random $ 29.95 ISBN: 0375502947
This year's Whitbread Prize-winning biography presents a rich evocation of 18th-century London, revolving around Lady Georgiana Spencer, the great-great-great-great aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales.- Five Sisters: The Langhorne Sisters of Virginia
by Fox, James
Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 30 ISBN: 0684808129
The author of the bestselling White Mischief tells the story of the beautiful Langhorne sisters who lived at the center of high and powerful society from the end of the Civil War through the Second World War. As they made their way across two continents, the five women acquired rich husbands, fame, and scandals.- Life So Far
by Friedan, Betty
Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 26 ISBN: 0684807890
With the same unsparing frankness that made The Feminine Mystique one of the most influential books of the century, Friedan looks back and reminds readers what it took and what it cost to change the world.- A Woman Unknown: Voices from a Spanish Life
by Graves, Lucia
Publisher: Counterpoint $ 25 ISBN: 1582430977
Graves, daughter of poet Robert Graves, was raised in a multi-cultural environment on the island of Majorca in post-war Spain. Her beautifully nuanced memoir, already published in England to great acclaim, is a profound meditation on how the English, Catalan, and Spanish cultures have shaped her life and thought.- Just Here Trying to Save a Few Lives: Tales of Life and Death from the ER
by Grim Pamela
Publisher: Warner $ 23.95 ISBN: 0446524239
A doctor shares her experiences in the life-and-death theater of the emergency room in this exquisitely rendered, insightful, and heartbreaking work. Dr. Grimm has worked all over the world, caring for victims of gang life in America's inner cities, victims of the war in Bosnia, poverty-stricken patients in Nigeria, and bank presidents in the United States.- Not Even My Name: From a Death March in Turkey to a New Home in America, a Young Girl's True Story of Genocide and Survival
by Halo, Thea
Publisher: Picador $ 25 ISBN: 0312262116
Not Even My Name exposes the genocide carried out during and after World War I in Turkey. It tells of the unforgettable story of Sano Halo's survival, as told to her daughter, Thea, and of their trip to Turkey in search of Sano's home 70 years after exile.- Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography
by James, P.D.
Publisher: Knopf $ 25 ISBN: 037541066x
Taking to heart Dr. Johnson's advice that, at the age of 77, it was "time to be in earnest, " the acclaimed mystery writer decided to keep a diary. The result is this frank and wonderfully engaging memoir.- Cherry
by Karr, Mary
Publisher: Viking $ 24.95 ISBN: 0670892742
In the long-awaited sequel to The Liar's Club, Karr picks up the trail of her hardscrabble Texas childhood and dashes off into her teen years with customary sass, only to run up against the paralyzing self-doubt of a girl in bloom. The book's soaring close proves that from even the smokiest beginnings a solid self can form, one capable of facing down all manners of monsters.- The Happy Bottom Riding Club: the Life and Times of Pancho Barnes
by Kessler, Lauren
Publisher: Random $ 24.95 ISBN: 037550124x
In a biography written with authority and affection, Kessler presents the true life story of Pancho Barnes--the woman who outflew Amelia Earhart, outsmarted Howard Hughes, outdrank the Mexican army, and outmaneuvered the U.S. government.- Seeing Mary Plain: A Life of Mary McCarthy
by Kiernan, Frances
Publisher: Norton $ 35 ISBN: 0393038017
At last, a biography rich in delicious gossip, ironic judgment, and eloquent testimony of Mary McCarthy, one of the most controversial American intellectuals of this century.- Blackbird: A Childhood Lost
by Lauck, Jennifer
Publisher: Pocket $ 23.95 ISBN: 0671042556
Lauck's heartbreaking and inspiring memoir--debuting to advance critical acclaim--tells how an ordinary child growing up under the blue skies of Carson City, Nevada, in the early 1970s lost her childhood after her world became unhinged by family tragedy.
Information and Excerpt- Flux: Women on Sex, Work, Kids, Love, and Life in a Half-Changed World
by Orenstein, Peggy
Publisher: Doubleday $ 25 ISBN: 0385498861
In much the way that SchoolGirls reveals how girls grew up in the 1990s, Flux shows how adult women navigate between unprecedented choices and ongoing conflicts in their attempts to create a satisfying life.- The Boxer Rebellion: China's War on Foreigners, Summer 1900
by Preston, Diana
Publisher: Walker & Co. $ 28 ISBN: 0802713610
The author of A First Rate Tragedy now presents a panoramic chronicle of the Boxer uprising and the ensuing siege of the foreign ministries in Peking and Tientsin during the summer of 1900, an event whose repercussions have echoed throughout the intervening 100 years.- Lying
by Slater, Lauren
Publisher: Random House $ 21.95 ISBN: 0375501126
"The beauty of Lauren Slater's prose is shocking", said Newsday about Welcome to My Country. And now, in this unusual memoir, Slater - diagnosed with a strange illness afflicting her memory - brilliantly explores a mind under siege, telling her personal story of seizures, diagnoses, misdiagnosis and cures.- Living with Cannibals and Other Women's Adventures
by Slung, Michele
Publisher: National Geographic $ 22 ISBN: 0792276868
Slung showcases the inspiring, pulse-pounding stories of adventurous women from the 19th century to the present. These accounts have been culled from the National Geographic Society's vast 111-year-old collection of first-person narratives by women explorers.
Suggested Reading: Travel Tales.- First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
by Ung, Luong
Publisher: harperCollins $ 23 ISBN: 0060193328
From a childhood survivor of the brutal Pol Pot regime comes an unforgettable narrative of tragedy and spiritual triumph.- Eleanor of Aquitane
by Weir, Alison
Publisher: Ballantine $ 28 ISBN: 0345405404
In this new biography, popular British historian Alison Weir vividly captures the life and times of one of the most remarkable women of the Middle Ages.- Leap
by Williams, Terry Tempest
Publisher: Pantheon $ 25 ISBN: 0679432922
In her first book-length work since Refuge, Williams explores the landscape of Hieronymus Bosch's enigmatic 15th century Flemish masterpiece, The Garden of Delights.
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