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Page Modified: April 2, 2008
New titles - selected on the basis of good reviews. Nonfiction, fiction and mystery titles are included on the lists
October 2002
Nonfiction
- Ninty Degrees North: The Quest for the North
Pole
Author: Fleming, Fergus
Publisher: Grove $ 26 ISBN: 0802117252
KirkusPW
The acclaimed author of Barrow's Boys and Killing Dragons relates the epic story of the men who stopped at nothing to unravel the mysteries of the North Pole. In scintillating detail he tells of the wing governments and fantastic eccentrics who, despite their heroic failures, often achieved massive celebrity as they battled to reach the top of the world. photos.
Suggested Reading: Travel Tales
Updated 7.3.02 - Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain
Cook Has Gone Before
Author: Horwitz, Tony
Publisher: Holt $ 26 ISBN: 0805065415PW
In an exhilarating tale of historic adventure, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Confederates in the Attic retraces the voyages of Captain James Cook, the Yorkshire farm boy who drew the map of the modern world.
Captain Cook Society
Suggested Reading: Travel Tales
Updated 8.28.02 - In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft
Crisis of 1692
Author: Norton, Mary Beth
Publisher: Norton $ 30 ISBN: 037540709xPWLJ
Norton, an admired historian, gives readers a unique perspective on the events at Salem, helping to understand the trials as they were understood by those who lived through the frenzy. Norton examines the crucial turning points, the accusers, the confessors, the judges, and the accused, among whom were 38 men.
Salem Witch Trials Archive
Updated 7.3.02 - Out of It: A Cultural History of Intoxication
Author: Walton, Stuart
Publisher: Harmony $ 24 ISBN: 0609610449Kirkus
In this engaging and often surprising consideration of intoxication, Walton shines a heterodox and penetrating light on the history and spectrum of psychoactive drug use, from ancient Greece and Rome to the Victorian era to modern times, from alcohol, caffeine, and tobacco to opiates, amphetamines, and hallucinogens.
Updated 8.28.02 - In Ruins
Author: Woodward, Christopher
Publisher: Pantheon $ 24 ISBN: 0375421998Kirkus
Woodward has penned a wondrous meditation--at once a travelogue, memoir, and history--on the meaning of ruins and their persistent hold on the imagination.
Suggested Reading: Travel Tales
Updated 8.28.02
Fiction
- The Torn Skirt
Author: Godfrey, Rebecca
Publisher: Perennial $ 11.95 (trade paper) ISBN: 0060094850Kirkus
Suggested Reading: First Fiction
Updated 8.27.02 - The Navigator of New York
Author: Johnston, Wayne
Publisher: Doubleday $ 27.95 ISBN: 0385507674PWKirkus
From the bestselling author of The Colony of Unrequited Dreams ("brilliant and accomplished"--Annie Proulx), comes an epic novel of one man's quest for the secret of his origins that ranges from the bustling streets of 19th-century New York to the remotest regions of the Arctic.
Suggested Reading: Historical Fiction & Civil War Stars
Updated 8.27.02 - The Miracle
Author: L'Heureux, John
Publisher: Atlantic $ 24 ISBN: 0871138573PWKirkus
L'Heureux has been acclaimed as "a master storyteller ... elegant, cunning, and wickedly funny" ( The Washington Post). Now, in a pitch-perfect, deeply satisfying work of fiction, he enters the world of an unorthodox young priest whose faith is put to the test.
Updated 8.13.02 - Cloud of Sparrows
Author: Matsuoka, Takashi
Publisher: Delacorte $ 24.95 ISBN: 0385336403PW
Set amid the violence and beauty of 19th century Japan Matsuoka takes readers beyond the epic tradition of James Clavell's Shogun and into a majestic realm of samurai and geishas, ninjas and Zen masters.
Suggested Reading: Historical Fiction
Updated 8.13.02 - I Don't Know How She
Does It: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother
Author: Pearson, Allison
Publisher: Knopf $ 23 ISBN: 0375414053PWBooklist
In a novel that is at once uproariously funny and achingly sad, Pearson captures the guilty secret lives of working women--the self-recrimination, the comic deceptions, the giddy exhaustion, and the despair.
Updated 9.7.02 - The Little Friend
Author: Tartt, Donna
Publisher: Knopf $ 26 ISBN: 0679439382KirkusBooklistPW
The hugely anticipated new novel by the author of The Secret History--"an elegant, edifying work of art" ( Entertainment Weekly). Even more transfixingly suspenseful than its predecessor, this is a dark novel of lost childhood, rich in moral paradox, as a 12-year-old Mississippi girl sets out to find her brother's murderer.
Updated 9.9.02
Mystery & Suspense
- Blood Junction
Author: Carver, Caroline
Publisher: Mysterious $ 24.95 ISBN: 0892967706PWLibrary Journal
The outstanding thriller from the winner of the Crime Writer's Association's Debut Dagger Award is set in the unforgiving landscape of the Australian outback. When journalist India Kane is framed for the murders of a friend and a cop, she resolves to find out why they died.
Suggested Reading: First Fiction
Updated 8.16.02 - Dark Matter
Author: Kerr, Philip
Publisher: Crown $ 24 ISBN: 0609609815PWBooklistLibrary Journal
As Dark Matter opens in 1696, young Christopher Ellis is sent to the Tower of London--not as a prisoner, but as assistant to Sir Isaac Newton, renowned scientist. Newton has been appointed by the King to uncover a ring of counterfeiters. Ellis lacks Sir Isaac's erudite mind, but he is quick with a pistol and proves an invaluable sidekick to the great scientist/sleuth.
Suggested Reading: Historical Fiction
Updated 8.16.02 - The Last Place
Author: Lippman, Laura
Publisher: Morrow $ 23.95 ISBN: 0380978199Kirkus
With each novel, Lippman enhances her reputation as one of the premier suspense writers alongside Janet Evanovich and Patricia Cornwell. In this latest installment, P.I. Tess Monaghan faces her darkest demons--and possibly a serial killer--when she's hired to research a series of unsolved homicides that might be overlooked cases of domestic violence.
Updated 8.13.02 - Blues in the Night
Author: Krich, Rochelle Majer
Publisher: Ballantine $ 23.95 ISBN: 0345449711
The bestselling author of Shadows of Sin debuts a thrilling new suspense series starring the intrepid Molly Blume, the crime writer for a Los Angeles tabloid.
Updated 9.30.02 - December 6
Author: Smith, Martin Cruz
Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 26 ISBN: 0684872536KirkusBooklistPW
As seen through the eyes of an American con man living in Tokyo days before the Japanese attack, December 6 is Smith at the top of his game. The #1 bestselling author of Gorky Park, Red Square, Havana Bay and Rose returns with his most audaciously original and brilliant novel yet.
Suggested Reading: Historical Fiction & World War Fiction Stars
Updated 8.13.02
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