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Featured Titles 2001

 

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June 2001

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Nonfiction

• The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession, and the Everlasting Dead
  by Pringle, Heather
  Publisher: Hyperion $ 23.95 ISBN: 078685512
  PWBooklist
  An acclaimed journalist unravels the mysteries of mummies by following the scientists who devote their lives to studying them. The World Congress on Mummy Studies brings together mummy experts from all over the world and airs their latest findings.
• The Tale of the Rose: The Passion That Inspired the Little Prince
  by Saint-Exupery, Consuelo De
  Publisher: Random $ 23.95 ISBN: 0375505644
  Kirkus
  The newly discovered memoir of the passionate romance that inspired The Little Prince has been a huge bestseller and international sensation translated into 17 languages. The Tale of the Rose is Consuelo de Saint-Exupery's love letter she could never send to her husband, written on Long Island in 1945 when the pain of his death was still fresh in her heart.
• Sorcerer's Apprentice
  by Shah, Tahir
  Publisher: Arcade $ 25.95 ISBN: 1559705809
  KirkusBooklist
  As a child, Tahir Shah learned the secrets of illusion from an Indian magician. This is the story of his apprenticeship to one of India's master conjurors and his initiation into the brotherhood of godmen. Learning to unmask and practice illusion, he seeks out the subcontinents sadhus, sages, sorcerers, hypnotists, and humbugs. His quest exposes a side of India that most writers never imagine exists.
  Suggested Reading: Travel Tales
  
• 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
  Kirkus LJ
  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.
• In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo
  by Wrong, Michela
  Publisher: HarperCollins $ 26 ISBN: 0060188804
  PW
  In the Congo, a country rich with diamonds, gold, copper, uranium, oil, and timber, the average worker was reduced to a living income of $120 a year under the rule of Mobutu. This is a brilliant journalistic account set amid the heart of the apocalypse--a nation plunged back to the Iron Age, whose citizens miraculously continue to survive.

Fiction

• The Ten Thousand: A Novel of Ancient Greece
  Author: Ford, Michael Curtis
  Publisher: Thomas Dunne (St Martins) $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312269463
  LJ
  In the spring of 400 B.C., ten thousand battered Greek soldiers stagger out of the frozen mountains of Armenia into a small Hellenic trading post on the eastern Black Sea. Their stunning tale of survival is the source of this epic debut in the tradition of Gates of Fire.
  Suggested Reading: Historical Fiction Stars
  
• Clerical Errors
  Author: Isler, Alan
  Publisher: Scribner $ 24 ISBN: 0743210603
  LJKirkusPW
  From the award winning author of The Prince of West End Avenue comes an irreverent tale of a formerly Jewish--and now decidedly errant--Catholic priest.
  
• Honeymooners: A Cautionary Tale
  Author: Kinder, Chuck
  Publisher: Farrar Straus $ 24 ISBN: 0374172587
  KirkusPWLJ
  Kinder's book is a rueful, comi-tragic juggernaut of two couples who have spent the best years of their lives raising bad judgment to an art.
  
• Come Up and See Me Sometime: Stories
  Author: Krouse, Erika
  Publisher: Scribner $ 22 ISBN: 0743202449
  KirkusPW
  Each of the 13 stories in this collection is underscored by the brassy spirit of Mae West. Come Up and See Me Sometime is a thought-provoking rant, surprising readers with mirror images of the fears, foibles, and facades of their own lives.
  
• The Wind Done Gone
  Author: Randall, Alice
  Publisher: Houghton Mifflin $ 23 ISBN: 061810450x
  Kirkus
  In a brilliant act of literary invention, Randall revisits the world of Gone With the Wind from an African-American point of view as Scarlett's mulatto half-sister--beautiful and brown--gets to tell "her" story.
  

Mystery and Suspense

• Six Pound Walleye
  Author: Gunn, Elizabeth
  Publisher: Walker $ 23.95 ISBN: 0802733565
  Kirkus PW
  Jake Hines is back on the case, only this time there are two cases that may--or may not--be connected when a child is shot in his front yard at the same time a brawl breaks out at the high school.
  
• The Hunting Wind
  Author: Hamilton, Steve
  Publisher: Minotaur $ 23.95 ISBN: 0312268947
  BooklistPW
  It's April in Paradise, a small town in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Alex McKnight is contacted by an old baseball minor league teammate--Randy Wilkins--who is on a quest to find Maria, his old true love. The only problem: Randy walked away from her in 1971 and hasn't seen or heard from her since.
  
• Fearless Jones
  Author: Mosley, Walter
  Publisher: Little Brown $ 24.95 ISBN: 0316592382
  Kirkus PW
  Mosley returns to mysteries at last with his most engaging hero since Easy Rawlins. When Paris Minton meets a beautiful new woman, before he knows it he has been beaten up, slept with, shot at, robbed, and his bookstore burned to the ground. He's in so much trouble he has no choice but to get his friend, Fearless Jones, out of jail to help him.
  
• Lord of the Silent
  Author: Peters, Elizabeth
  Publisher: Morrow $ 25 ISBN: 0380978849
  PW
  In the newest "Amelia Peabody Mystery", the intrepid Egyptologist risks life, limb, and her second-best hat in 1915 Cairo. Amelia and her handsome archeologist husband defy German submarines and warring Senussi to embark on another season of exploration and crime solving.
  
• The Children's War
  Author: Stroyar, J.N.
  Publisher: Pocket $ 29.95 ISBN: 0743407393
  Kirkus
  In a searingly authentic vision of what could have been, The Children's War is an epic modern-day thriller of a Europe ruled by Nazis and of the men and women determined to defeat them. "Great historical detail, fascinating premise, and nonstop suspense".--Nelson DeMille.
  Suggested Reading: World War Fiction
  
• Grift Sense: Tony Valentine
  Author: Swain, James
  Publisher: Pocket $ 23.95 ISBN: 0743406222
  Kirkus
  With a knack for sly sucker punches in the tradition of Elmore Leonard, Swain makes the scene with a comic, crackerjack debut mystery set in Las Vegas, the first in a series starring ex-cop Tony Valentine.

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