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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.
December 2001
Nonfiction
- Travels with a Medieval
Queen
Author: Simeti, Mary Taylor
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux $ 30 ISBN: 0374278784
PW
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.
Fiction
- The Phoenix
Author: Boetius, Henning
Publisher: Talese $ 24.95 ISBN: 0385501838PW
Boetius, the author of several novels and literary mysteries--and himself the son of the only living survivor of the Hindenburg's crew--has combined a love story, an exploration of the science of the dirigible, and a frightening re-creation of one of the most memorable events in recent history.
Hindenburg information and photos - Fender Benders
Author: Fitzhugh, Bill
Publisher: Morrow $ 24 ISBN: 0380977575
From the author of Pest Control and Cross Dressing--sold to Warner Bros. and Universal Studios respectively--comes a hilarious tale of greed, love, and mayhem set against Nashville's wild and woolly country scene. - The Way of the Coyote
Author: Kelton, Elmer
Publisher: Forge $ 23.95 ISBN: 0312873182Publishers WeeklyBooklist
The Civil War has ended and Union soldiers and federal officials have taken control of Texas as Rusty Shannon rides to his home on the Colorado River. This is the third novel in Elmer Kelton's brilliant series about the Texas Rangers, and in Rusty Shelton, he has created one of the most memorable characters in modern western fiction.
Suggested Reading: Western Stars - Three to See the King
Author: Mills, Magnus
Publisher: Picador $ 20 ISBN: 0312283555Kirkus
A novel rich in comic menace is offered by the author of the international bestseller The Restraint of Beasts. As a man leaves his isolated home made of tin, he joins a pilgrimage of others seeking the messiah of a new building material.
Mystery & Suspense
- Agatha Raisin
and the Love from Hell
Author: Beaton, M.C.
Publisher: Minotaur $ 22.95 ISBN: 0312207662Booklist
Recently married to James Lacey, amateur sleuth Agatha Raisin quickly finds that marriage is not all it's cracked up to be. The newlyweds are living in separate cottages and each suspects the other of having an affair. When James turns up missing, a blood stain the only evidence, Agatha is determined to find her husband. - The Slaying of the Shrew
Author: Hawke, Simon
Publisher: Forge $ 23.95 ISBN: 031287894xBooklist
Shakespeare and Smythe join the ranks of Wolfe and Goodwin, Holmes and Watson, and, at times, Abbott and Costello, as this light-hearted pair of amateur detectives stumble in and out of danger and use their wits to survive both the conspiracies at hand and the cutthroat business of the Elizabethan theater. - Retribution
Author: Kaminsky, Stuart M.
Publisher: Forge $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312874529
In a sequel to Vengeance, P.I. Lew Fonesca knows that Melanie is in way over her head when she becomes involved with a reclusive bestselling author and several valuable manuscripts disappear. If he doesn't act fast, not only could a few reputations get tarnished--the bodies might start piling up. - The Richmond Diary
Author: Rawlinson, Peter
Publisher: Minotaur $ 23.95 ISBN: 0312275536Publishers Weekly
When Francis Richmond dies, he leaves behind a diary detailing the questionable involvement between a high-level government official and a millionaire industrialist. The resulting chain reaction leads to one man's suicide and a dirty court battle. - Deadly Grace
Author: Smith, Taylor
Publisher: Mira $ 22.95 ISBN: 1551668297
In this fast-paced and explosive political thriller, Federal agent Alex Cruz pieces together the incredible story of a wartime heist of Nazi gold that somehow went missing, never to be recovered.
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