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Featured Titles 2001
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July 2001
Nonfiction
- Casino Moscow: A Tale of Greed and Adventure on Capilalism's
Wildest Frontier
by Brzezinski, Matthew
Publisher: Free $ 25 ISBN: 0684869764
PW
Kirkus
A wickedly funny odyssey through newly capitalist Russia--a tale of greed, gangsterism, and good intentions gone awry--is offered by a journalist with a ringside seat who was there for the ride. - Justice: Crimes, Trials, and Punishments
by Dunne, Dominick
Publisher: Crown $ 24 ISBN: 0609608738
PW
Kirkus
In this fascinating collection, the world's most accomplished chronicler of the crimes of the wealthy writes on some of the most notorious trials of our times, including the explosive Martha Moxley murder case, the trials of O.J. Simpson and Claus von Bulow, and Dunne's heartrending report of the trial of his daughter's killer. - The Secret Life of Dust: From the Cosmos to the Kitchen Counter,
the Big Consequences of Little Things
by Holmes, Hannah
Publisher: Wiley $ 22.95 ISBN: 0471377430
Kirkus
A mesmerizing expedition around the dusty world--from exploding stars, to dinosaur beds, the Gobi Desert, Antarctic glaciers, and finally the living-room coffee table. Along the way is a delightful cast of characters--the scientists who study dust. - Dr. Johnson's London: Coffee-House and Climbing Boys, Medicine,
Toothpaste and Gin, Poverty and Press-Gangs, Freakshows and Female Education
by Picard, Liza
Publisher: St Martins $ 27.50 ISBN: 0312276656
Kirkus
A fascinating portrait of life in 18th-century London, the city of Hogarth, Fielding, and Dr. Johnson, is presented by the author of Restoration London. "At last, a riveting history book with no wars, few dates, and minimal references to the King".-- Sunday Express(London).
Fiction
- Mirabilis
Author: Cokal, Susann
Publisher: Blue Hen $ 25.95 ISBN: 0399147535LJ
Villeneuve, France, Anno Domini 1372. The village is under siege and people are starving when Bonne Mirabilis, wet nurse to the wealthiest and most enigmatic woman in town, realizes that she alone has the bounty with which to feed the hungry. With a masterly sense of history and the visceral spirit of The Decameron, newcomer Susan Cokal combines the outrageous and wondrous story of Bonne, a woman born God's bastard, on her way to sainthood with a troop of ascetics, mystics, lovers and jesters who keep her milk flowing. - From the book jacket. - Second Thyme Around
Author: Fforde, Katie
Publisher: St Martins $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312273045LJ
British bestseller Fford serves up a delicious romantic comedy about cherished friends, despised ex-husbands and life's greatest joys--sex and cooking. - American Gods
Author: Gaiman, Neil
Publisher: Avon $ 26 ISBN: 0380973650Kirkus
A master of inventive fiction pens the story of an ex-con who is offered a job as a bodyguard for Mr. Wednesday, a trickster and a rogue. Shadow soon learns that his role in the man's schemes are far more dangerous and dark than he could have ever imagined.
- Juno and Juliet
Author: Gough, Julian
Publisher: Doubleday $ 23.95 ISBN: 0385501722PWLJBooklist
Written by the fresh, new Irish voice of Julian Gough, Juno & Juliet is an intelligent and lighthearted tale of two beautiful sisters who experience university life in Galway and the radiance of newfound love. - Bread Alone
Author: Hendricks, Judith Ryan
Publisher: Morrow $ 25 ISBN: 0060188952
A mouth-watering novel from new author Hendricks rises to the occasion as a woman devastated by divorce finds redemption working at a small-town bakery. - The Justus Girls
Author: Lambright, Slim
Publisher: HarperCollins $ 24 ISBN: 0060184760
In her debut novel, Lambright spins an engaging tale about four African-American pre-teens who band together to form the Justus Girlz, a crack drill team in the 1960s. Decades later, the sudden death of one reunites the others to investigate what happened to their fallen friend. - A Theory of Relativity
Author: Mitchard, Jacquelyn
Publisher: HarperCollins $ 26 ISBN: 0066210232PWLJ
In this striking novel by the author of The Deep End of the Ocean, Mitchard tells the story of an ordinary family pushed to the edge over the guardianship of a baby girl. The legal tug-of-war ultimately becomes a crucible in which the limitations of family love will be repeatedly tested and the frontiers of the human heart pushed to unimagined limits. - The Music of the Spheres
Author: Redfern, Elizabeth
Publisher: Putnam $ 24.95 ISBN: 0399147632Kirkus
In the London of 1795, intrigue and death walk the dark streets. England is at war with its neighbor and nemesis, France, and espionage is rampant. It is the job of Jonathan Absey at the Home Office to catch the spies, but his mind is elsewhere, his dreams haunted by the unsolved murder of his fifteen-year-old daughter in these same streets. - From the book jacket.
Mystery & Suspense
- Open Season
Author: Box, C.J.
Publisher: Putnam $ 23.95 ISBN: 0399147489KirkusBooklist
Joe Pickett is the new game warden in Twelve Sleep, Wyoming, a town where nearly everyone hunts and the game warden -- especially one like Joe who won't take bribes or look the other way---is far from popular. When he finds a local hunting outfitter dead, splayed out on the woodpile behind his state-owned home, he takes it personally. - Publisher marketing. - Tell No One
Author: Coban, Harlan
Publisher: Dell $ 22.95 ISBN: 0385335555LJ
She was his great love, the woman he'd adored since they were children. But a few months into their marriage, Elizabeth Beck was abducted, then found dead, the brutalized victim of a serial killer. Now, eight years later, Beck receives a mysterious e-mail suggesting that Elizabeth may still be alive. - Pipe Dream
Author: Jones, Solomon
Publisher: Villard $ 13.95 (trade paper) ISBN: 0375756604BooklistKirkus
Debut novelist Jones plumbs the depths of the drug world as four addicts are pursued for a murder they didn't commit. The story winds through the streets of Philadelphia as the four struggle to escape not only from the police but from the hungers that have all but swallowed them whole. - Firewall
Author: McNab, Andy
Publisher: Pocket $ 24.95 ISBN: 0743406265
Drawing on his experiences as a member of Britain's legendary Special Air Service, McNab's newest novel explodes with high-stakes action as hero Nick Stone, strapped for cash, makes the mistake of messing with the Russian mafia. - Diamond Eye
Author: Rosenfeld, Arthur
Publisher: Forge $ 23.95 ISBN: 0312878710Booklist
From the author of A Cure for Gravity comes a quirky new novel of a search by U.S. Postal Inspector Max Diamond for snuff films, exploited children, drug cartels, and Grandma's cabbage rolls.
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