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Featured Titles 2001
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New titles - selected on the basis of good reviews. Nonfiction, fiction and mystery titles are included on the lists.
November 2001
Nonfiction
- Diamond: A Journey to the Heart of an Obsession
by Hart, Matthew
Publisher: Walker $ 26 ISBN: 0802713688
Kirkus
Booklist
From the smugglers' paradise of the South African mines to the glittering store windows of Tiffany's, Hart follows the diamond trail, encountering characters as memorable as the stones they seek. - The Birds of Heaven: Travels with Cranes
by Matthiessen, Peter
Publisher: FSG/North Point $ 27 ISBN: 0374199442
Publishers Weekly
Booklist
Library Journal
Sacred to many cultures and considered a bellwether by environmentalists, cranes have an important place in this world, here a leading naturalist and writer travels the globe in search of this prized--and vanishing--bird. - Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Reflections on Death, Rebirth,
and a Hunger for a Faith
by Terkel, Studs
Publisher: New Press $ 25.95 ISBN: 1565846923
Booklist
PW
Library Journal
At the age of 88, Pulitzer Prize winner Studs Terkel has turned to the ultimate human experience, that of death and the possibility of life afterward. Death is the one experience we all share but cannot know. In his powerful new book, Will the Circle Be Unbroken?, a wide range of people address that final experience and its impact on the present in which we live.
Fiction
- The Complete Works of Isaac Babel
Author: Babel, Isaac
Publisher: Norton $ 39.95 ISBN: 0393048462BooklistLJKirkusPublisher Weekly
Often revolving around the tortured dilemmas faced by Jews within the ruthless Soviet state, Babel's terse, violent fiction has left its mark on generations of readers and writers. This single-volume edition of all his work will stand as Babel's final, most enduring legacy. - The Royal Physician's
Visit
Author: Enquist, Per Olov
Publisher: Overlook $ 26.95 ISBN: 1585671967KirkusBooklist
Set in Denmark in the 1760s, The Royal Physician's Visit magnificently recasts the dramatic era of Danish history when Johann Friedrich Struensee, a German doctor from Altona, student of Enlightenment philosophers Diderot and Voltaire, and court physician to mad young King Christian, stepped through the aperture history had opened for him and became for two years the holder of absolute power in Denmark. - The Feast of the Goat
Author: Llosa, Mario Vargas
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux $ 25 ISBN: 0374154767PWBooklistKirkusLibrary Journal
A tyrant's last days are the focus of this magisterial, long-awaited novel, as Mario Vargas Llosa recounts the end of a regime in the Dominican Republic and the terrible birth of a democracy. - For Ruenna
Author: Nunez, Sigrid
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux $ 22 ISBN: 0374254303PW
In this haunting novel, a friendship springs up between a writer and a retired army nurse who seeks her out decades after their childhood in the same housing project. For Rouenna is an unforgettable work about truth, memory, and unexpected heroism by one of the most gifted writers of her generation.
Mystery & Suspense
- Whispers in the Dark: Marti
Macalister
Author: Bland, Eleanor Taylor
Publisher: Minotaur $ 23.95 ISBN: 0312203799BooklistPW
Homicide detective Marti MacAlister, and her partner, Matthew Jessenovik, are assigned a most unusual case--all they have of their victim is an arm. Meanwhile, Marti's troubled best friend Sharon is lured to the Bahamas by a man who makes Sharon's friends and family uneasy. - A Romantic Way to Die: Dan
Rhodes
Author: Crider, Bill
Publisher: Minotaur $ 22.95 ISBN: 031220907xKirkus
Sheriff Dan Rhodes has his hands full when a romance writers' convention--and murder--come to Blackin County. - Overkill
Author: McBride, Susan
Publisher: Mayhaven $ 14.95 (trade paper) ISBN 1-878044-87-7:
The second Maggie Ryan mystery. In it, Maggie and John Phillips investigate a vicious shooting on a school bus. - The Falls
Author: Rankin, Ian
Publisher: Minotaur $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312206100KirkusBooklistPW
A student is missing, a coffin is found, and John Rebus must match wits with a fiendishly clever killer as ancient and modern evils are brought together in contemporary Scotland. - Strawman's Hammock:
Featuring Detective Barrett Raines
Author: Wimberley, Darryl
Publisher: Minotaur $ 23.95 ISBN: 0312271875BooklistPublishers Weekly
Set in Florida, Barrett faces a horrible crime with a solution that continually changes shape. Politics, illegal immigrants and the body of a young woman are part of the elusive puzzle. - adapted from the jacket copy.
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