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Featured Titles 2001

 

Page Modified: April 2, 2008

May 2001

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Nonfiction

• American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood
  by Arana, Marie
  Publisher: Dial $ 23.95 ISBN: 0385319622
  Kirkus PW LJ Booklist
  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.
• The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples
  by Flannery, Tim
  Publisher: Atlantic $ 27.50 ISBN: 0871137895
  Kirkus LJ PW Booklist
  Offering a wealth of scientific details, one of the world's foremost paleontologists has undertaken a sweeping, multiple disciplinary history of the geological and ecological development of North America.
• John Adams
  by McCullough, David
  Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 35 ISBN: 0684813637
  Kirkus Booklist PW
  In his first book since Truman, one of America's most distinguished and popular biographers breathes life into history with this compelling look at the second president of the United States, John Adams. More than just a biography, this book looks at the birth of a young republic and explores the extraordinary factors that transformed 13 colonies into a united nation.
  
• The Botany of Desire
  by Pollan, Michael
  Publisher: Random $ 24.95 ISBN: 0375501290
  PW Booklist
  In this original narrative about man and nature, a bestselling author masterfully links four fundamental human desires--sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control--with the fascinating stories of four plants that embody them: the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato.
• Staying Tuned: A Life in Journalism
  by Schorr, Daniel
  Publisher:Pocket $ 26.95 ISBN: 0671020870
  Kirkus PW
  A living legend of American journalism, three-time Emmy winner Schorr affords readers a sharply written and rousing account of his matchless career as a groundbreaking print and broadcast newsman.

Fiction

• Sharpe's Trafalgar
  Author: Cornwell, Bernard
  Publisher: HarperCollins $ 25 ISBN: 0060194251
  PWLJ
  This number one international bestseller sends Richard Sharpe into a breathtaking sea chase and a savage battle off Cape Trafalgar in 1805.
  
• Staircase of a Thousand Steps
  Author: Hamilton, Masha
  Publisher: Blue Hen $ 23.95 ISBN:039914725x
  Kirkus
  In a remote desert village of storytellers and seers, the accidental revelation of long-held secrets, including a forbidden love affair, unravels a young girl's world.
  
• Kit's Law
  Author: Morrissey, Donna
  Publisher: Mariner $ 13 (trade paper) ISBN: 0618109277
  PWKirkusBooklist
  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.
  
• Empire Falls
  Author: Russo, Richard
  Publisher: Knopf $ 25.95 ISBN: 0679432477
  KirkusPWBooklist
  Richard Russo, author of The Risk Pool and Nobody's Fool, takes readers back to the small-town, blue-collar heart of the country. - Publisher marketing.
  
• Back When We Were Grownups
  Author: Tyler, Anne
  Publisher: Knopf $ 25 ISBN: 0375412530
  KirkusPW
  At 53, Rebecca Davitch--mistress of the Open Arms, a crumbling 19th-century row house in Baltimore where giving parties is the family business--suddenly asks herself whether she has turned into the wrong person. But can she really recover the woman she has left behind?
  
• John Henry Days
  Author: Whitehead, Colson
  Publisher: Doubleday $ 24.95 ISBN: 0385498195
  KirkusPW
  From the author of The Intuitionist comes a retelling of the legend of John Henry that sweeps across generations and cultures in a stunning, hilarious, and unsettling portrait of American society.
  

Mystery and Suspense

• The Wooden Leg of Inspector Anders
  Author: Browne, Marshall
  Publisher: Minotaur $ 23.95 ISBN: 0312322157
  PW
  Rome Police Inspector Anders became a national hero when he shut down an anarchist group years ago--losing a leg, and his nerve. Since then, he's compromised with corruption in the Italian state. Now sent to southern Italy to investigate the murder of a judge, he again finds himself in the world of corruption and power.
  
• Fast Women
  Author: Crusie, Jennifer
  Publisher: St Martin's $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312252617
  Kirkus
  Nell Dysart brings calamity to her job at a detective agency, but even her boss has to admit that no matter how much he hates the confusion she's brought into his life, Nell shares his passion for making things right. It's not long before they share another passion--one they can't ignore--even in the face of distractions like adultery, blackmail, arson, murder, and really bad business cards.
  
• Fury
  Author: Ford, G.M.
  Publisher: Morrow $ 24 ISBN: 0380977249
  PW
  The author of the Leo Waterman mysteries launches a crackling new series with Frank Corso, a rising New York Times journalist who must end his career due to a libel suit. Then he gets a tip about a death row killer who may be innocent, and Corso's career is back on headline track.
  
• Uncommon Clay
  Author: Maron, Margaret
  Publisher: Mysterious $ 23.95 ISBN: 089296720x
  PW
  Judge Deborah Knott of Seagrove, North Carolina, must unearth a local family's tragic past to find a vengeful killer in the eighth installment of the award-winning mystery series by Maron.
  
• The Devil Went Down to Austin
  Author: Riordan, Rick
  Publisher: Bantam $ 23.95 ISBN: 0553110977
  PW Booklist
  Garrett is a computer genius and a fool, a long-haired, wheelchair-bound Jimmy Buffet fan who's accused of killing his oldest friend. Garrett doesn't want to ask his private eye brother for help, but Navarre has never been one to take no for an answer. All too soon, he's about to ride the high tech wave in a one-way dive to betrayal and death.
  
• The Tainted Snuff Box: A Beau Brummell Mystery
  by Stevens, Rosemary
  Publisher: Berkley $ 21.95 ISBN: 0425179486
  In his second mystery, Beau Brummell, the Regency period's grand arbiter of style and taste, must prove his friend innocent of attempting to murder the Prince of Wales--and uncover the real assassin before he strikes again.

   

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