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Featured Titles 2001
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August 2001
Nonfiction
- Ava's Man
by Bragg, Rick
Publisher: Knopf $ 25 ISBN: 0375410627
KirkusBooklistPW
No one writes about the South like Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Bragg ( All Over But the Shoutin). Once again, he lends his voice to the working people of the Deep South, and tells the story of a memorable figure in a singular time--a man on a lost stretch of dirt road along the Alabama/Georgia border. - The Aztec Treasure House
by Connell, Evan S.
Publisher: Counterpoint $ 28 ISBN: 1582431620
PW
Connell offers stories of the Anazasi, the "old ones" of the Southwestern desert, of the grand explorers Marco Polo, Coumbus, Magellan, and Ibn Batuta, and of heretics, fanatics, scientists, cranks and geniuses. - Eye of the Whale
by Russell, Dick
Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 35 ISBN: 0684866080
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Kirkus
In the 1980s, naturalist Dick Russell led the crusade to save the Atlantic striped bass. Now he focuses his energies on the gray whale in this brilliant mosaic of man's complex relationship with the natural world. - Milking the Moon
by Walter, Eugene
Publisher: Crown $ 25 ISBN: 0609605941
Kirkus
This sumptuous oral biography of the late Eugene Walker, the most well-known man you've never heard of: part actor, editor, author, gourmet chef, and all Southerner--not to mention the personal acquaintance of many of the 20th century's cultural giants. - The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth
of Modern Geology
by Winchester, Simon
Publisher: HarperCollins $ 25 ISBN: 0060193611
Kirkus
PWLJ
From the author of the bestselling The Professor and the Madman comes the fascinating story of William Smith, a 19th-century engineer who is obsessed with creating the world's first geological map and ultimately becomes the father of modern geology.
Fiction
- How to Be Good
Author: Hornby, Nick
Publisher: Riverhead $ 23.95 ISBN: 1573221937KirkusPW
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In a humorous yet uncompromising look at what it takes to have the courage of one's convictions, Hornby reinvents himself as Katie--the consummate liberal, urban mom--whose world is being turned on its ear by the outrageous spiritual transformation of her husband, David. - The Grand Complication
Author: Kurzweil, Allen
Publisher: Hyperion $ 24.95 ISBN: 0786866039KirkusPWBooklist
The anticipated new novel from the author of A Case of Curiosities, Kurzweil returns with another work narrated by Alexander Short, a reference librarian who takes on an unusual research assignment when he feels his passions--both professional and personal--waning.
- Niagara Falls All Over Again
Author: McCracken, Elizabeth
Publisher: Dial $ 23.95 ISBN: 0385318375PWKirkus
Two young men, Carter & Sharp, become the most famous comedy team of their era, conquering vaudeville, the movies, radio and television. Their 30 year partnership prevails--until Carter commits one desperate act of betrayal. - The Huntsman
Author: Terrell, Whitney
Publisher: Viking $ 25.95 ISBN: 0670894656KirkusPW
When a young debutant's body washes up in the Missouri River, her death--and the ensuing investigation--forces the Kansas City's inhabitants to examine their own buried history. This debut novel is authored by a writer-in-residence at Rockhurst University.
Mystery & Suspense
- Hard Road
by D'Amato, Barbara
ISBN: 0743200950 $23Booklist
Cat Marsala knows she's not in Kansas any more when she attends Chicago's centennial Oz festival and witnesses a harrowing scuffle that yields, once the confusion clears, the brutally stabbed corpse of the chief security guard. -
Murder Boogies with Elvis
by George, Anne
ISBN: 0060198702 $ 23
From Agatha Award winner George - this tale finds Mary Alice and Patricia Anne strapping on some orthopedic, blue suede shoes to catch a cruel killer. - The Surgeon
Author: Gerritsen, Tess
Publisher: Ballantine $ 24.95 ISBN: 0345447832Kirkus
Murdering women in the most obscene way imaginable, a sadistic killer--called "The Surgeon"--terrorizes Boston. A victim of a similar crime, Dr. Catherine Cordell, has created a careful facade that is about to crack as the unknown killer cuts ever closer. "Deep, dark, and very disturbing".--Tami Hoag. - Dead Sleep
Author: Iles, Greg
Publisher: Putnam $ 19.95 ISBN: 0399147357PW
A woman is drawn into the hunt for her twin sister's killer in this electrifying new thriller from the bestselling author of The Quiet Game. Jordan Glass, a photojournalist on a well-earned vacation in Hong Kong, stumbles upon a picture of her sister in repose--a painting which depicts her not in sleep, but in death. - Paradise Lost
by Jance, J.A.
ISBN: 038097729X $ 25
Jance returns to the red-streaked desert of Cochise Country Arizona where Sheriff Joanna Brady and her daughter encounter a terrifying ordeal during a Girl Scout camp out. - Black Water Transit
Author: Stroud, Carsten
Publisher: Norton $ 24.95 ISBN: 0385335784KirkusPW
Acclaimed nationally bestselling author Stroud pens a novel of suspense that draws on the NYPD and that city's meanest streets. A tough, gritty look at what happens when a pretty good guy takes on the really bad ones. -
Naked Came the Phoenix
by Talley, Marcia (ed)
ISBN: 0312251947 $24.95
Thirteen of today's hottest female crime novelists--including Nevada Barr, J.D. Robb, Nancy Pickard, Lisa Scottoline, Perri O'Shaughnessy, and Faye Kellerman--join forces to write one thrilling mystery set at the posh Phoenix Health Spa in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains. - Foreign Body
by Taylor, Kathleen
ISBN: 0380812053 $ 6.99
Tory Bauer is now co-owner of the only caf in Delphi, South Dakota. When a young Swedish member of a traveling international chorale dies in one of the booths, leaving a suicide note claiming the Reverend Clay Deibert drove her to it, Tory knows that Clay, her cousin, is clean. But when a dead body winds up in Clay's closet, Tory realizes clearing his name will be harder than she thought.
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