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Fiction

• Elvis in the Morning
  Author: Buckley, William F.
  Publisher: Harcourt $ 25 ISBN: 0151006431 Date: 2001
  Orson is a young boy whose mother works at a U.S. Army base in Germany in the 1950s--and this is where he meets Elvis Presley and begins a lifelong friendship. Each man is an emblem of his time, and as social conventions crumble, barriers fall and a cultural landscape changes forever.
  
• Tender
  Author: Childress, Mark
  Publisher: Harmony $ 19.95 ISBN: 0517576031Date: 1990
  The novel of the greatest rock 'n' roll start the world has even seen, the one and only king of rock 'n' roll. So intimate and powerful a story, it has to be fiction. This is one of America's quintessential myths, brought to life through the talent of a superb literary novelist.
  
• Cat in a Jeweled Jumpsuit
  Author: Douglas, Carole Nelson
  Publisher: Forge $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312868170 Date: 1999
  Midnight Louie, the hugely popular jet-black feline sleuth who thinks he's Sam Spade with hairballs, returns for an eleventh outing in Carole Nelson Douglas's acclaimed cozy-noir series. This time his human partner, Temple Barr, learns that the remodeling of the Crystal Phoenix Hotel is being held up by a ghost: the workmen swear it's Elvis. The opening of Las Vegas's first Elvis-themed attraction might explain this unscheduled appearance. But what of the death threats against the Priscilla Presley-esque daughter of Crawford Buchanan, Temple's professional enemy? And who is the late-night caller to Temple's former suitor, radio counselor Matt Devine, who sounds remarkably like the King of Rock 'n' Roll? When a dead Elvis is found, the question is not only whodunit, and why, but who the dead man really is. Could the King himself have been hiding behind the guise of his own imitators, and is he really dead again, or for the first time ... or not at all? - Publisher Marketing.
  
• That's All Right, Mama
  Author: Duff, Gerald
  Publisher: Baskerville $ 21 ISBN: 1880909332 Date: 1995
  PW
  The fictional biography of Elvis Presley's identical twin brother follows Jesse Garon Presley from his childhood in Tupelo with Mama to doubling for the ailing King on stage.
  
• Murder Boogies with Elvis
  Author: George, Anne
  Publisher: Morrow $ 23 ISBN: 0060198702 Date: 2001
  The latest from Agatha Award winner George, this tale finds Mary Alice and Patricia Anne strapping on some orthopedic, blue suede shoes to catch a cruel killer.
  
• Misery Loves Maggody: Arly Hanks
  Author: Hess, Joan
  Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 22 ISBN: 0684845628 Date: 1998
  LJ
  Off-beat sleuth Arly Hanks returns in this newest installment to the Maggody series. On a trip to Memphis with a stop in a bustling Mississippi riverboat casino town, Arly's mother is admitted to the hospital. Arly rushes to her side and is drawn into a murder mystery.
  
• Graced Land
  Author: Kalpakian, Laura
  Publisher: Grove $ 18.95 ISBN: 0802114741 Date: 1992
  Joyce Jackson's life is dedicated to the memory of Elvis, but the state of California wants to prove she is a welfare cheat. But from Joyce, caseworker Emily Shaw learns the power of music, memory, and the imagination. The author of Beggars and Choosers, Kalpakian's writing is magical with sexual energy, spiritual largesse, and musical genius.
  
• Kill Me Tender: A Murder Mystery Featuring Elvis Presley
  Author: Klein, Daniel
  Publisher: Minotaur $ 22.95 ISBN: 031226187x Date: 2000
  PW
  The King is back! With fan club presidents dying mysteriously, Elvis himself steps in to find their killer. Additional titles in the series incude: Blue Suede Clues, Viva Las Vengeance and Such Vicious Minds.
  Suggested Reading: Historical Mystery Stars
  Updated 5/26/00
• The Elvis and Marilyn Affair
  Author: Levinson, Robert S.
  Publisher: Forge List Price: $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312869681 Date: 1999
  Booklist
  When soap actress Stevie Marriner becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a once-famous movie director, the key is untangling the truth in a rumor that Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe had a torrid love affair. And someone has the letters to prove it!
  
• Elvis and Nixon
  Author: Lowry, Jonathan
  Publisher: Crown $ 22.95 ISBN: 0609608185 Date: 2001
  Kirkus
  Equal parts documentary, myth, and hallucination, Elvis and Nixon is a fictional two-week road trip through one of the most bizarre and untethered eras in America's history, presided over by two of its greatest icons.
  Suggested Reading: Alternative History Stars
  Updated 1/18/01
• Another Song About the King
  Author: Stern, Kathryn
  Publisher: Random $ 23.95 ISBN: 0375502823 Date: 2000
  A mother's desperate desire to be somebody, fueled by a date she once had with Elvis, provokes an intense competition with her daughter.
  
• The Year the Music Changed
  Author: Thomas, Diane
  Publisher: Toby $ 22.95 ISBN: 1592641229 Date: 2005
  LJ
  A lonely 14-year-old fires off a fan letter to an unknown 20-year-old country singer named Elvis Presley, launching an intimate, touching correspondence that chronicles Achsa and Elvis' coming of age as artists and individuals.
  Updated 5.4.05
• Elvissey
  Author: Womack, Jack
  Publisher: Tor $ 10 ISBN: 0312852029 Date: 1993
  A savagely brilliant novel of apocalypse, redemption, and rock 'n' roll by the acclaimed author of Ambient, Terraplane, and Heathern. Elvissey is the story of a troubled couple who voyage across time on a desperate mission--to kidnap the young Elvis Presley and make him a demigod in a decadent urban future.
  

Nonfiction

• Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley
  Author: Guralnick, Peter
  Publisher: Little Brown $ 30 ISBN: 0316332208 Date: 1994
  PW
  Drawing frequently on Elvis' own words and on the recollections of those closest to him, the book offers anemotional, complex portrait of young Elvis Presley with a depth and dimension that for the first time allow his extraordinary accomplishments to ring true.
  - Publisher Marketing.
  
• Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley
  Author: Guralnick, Peter
  Publisher: Little Brown $ 27.95 ISBN: 0316332224 Date: 1999
  Booklist Kirkus LJ PW
  At last, the full, true, and mesmerizing story of Elvis Presley's last two decades--the long-awaited second volume of Peter Guralnick's "masterpiece of biographical art" ("New York Times Book Review").
  
• Elvis Presley 1956
  Author: Israel, Marvin
  Publisher: Abrams $ 17.95 ISBN: 0810908999 Date: 1998
  Booklist
  Israel's dramatic, never-before-published photographs portray a young Elvis Presley during a pivotal year in his career, capturing his magnetic sensuality, physical grace, and innate sense of style.
  
• Elvis Presley
  Author: Mason, Bobbie Ann
  Publisher: Viking $ 19.95 ISBN: 0670031747 Date: 2002
  Published to coincide with Presley's January 8th birthday, the American cultural icon is portrayed by the bestselling author of Shiloh and Other Stories and In Country.
  
• Elvis By the Presleys
  Author: Presley, Priscilla & Lisa Marie
  Publisher: Crown $ 24.95 ISBN: 0307237419 Date: 2005
  For the first time, the inside story of legendary entertainer Elvis Presley's life as a husband, father, son, cousin, friend, spiritual seeker -- Priscilla and Lisa Marie Presley, and other family members, come together to memorialize our greatest star in this stunningly illustrated companion to a major television special and longer-form documentary. - Publisher Marketing.
  
  

 

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