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Featured Titles 2002

 

Page Modified: April 2, 2008

New titles - selected on the basis of good reviews. Nonfiction, fiction and mystery titles are included on the lists.

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April 2002

Nonfiction

• Amazon Extreme: Three Men, a Raft, and the World's Most Dangerous River
  Author: Angus, Colin
  Publisher: Broadway $ 22.95 ISBN: 0767910508
  Library Journal
  Culminating in an astonishing victory that garnered major media coverage, this is the pulse-pounding story of three guys who truly went off the deep end, and one who came back to write a riveting recollection of their Amazon adventure.
• Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
  Author: Gawande, Atul
  Publisher: Metropolitan $ 24 ISBN: 0805063196
  Kirkus
  A book about medicine that reads like a thriller, Complications is "a uniquely soulful book about the science of mending bodies" (Adam Gopnik, author of From Paris to the Moon).
  
• Art Lover: A Biography of Peggy Guggenheim
  Author: Gill, Anton
  Publisher: HarperCollins $ 29.95 ISBN: 0060196971
  Kirkus Booklist Library Journal
  Insightful and comprehensive, Anton Gill's work reveals Peggy Guggenheim as never before, including new information about her relationship with her daughter. It is a book that will appeal to serious art lovers, art history buffs, and anyone who wants to read an engrossing tell-all biography of a fascinating woman.
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Fiction

• Century's Son
  Author: Boswell, Robert
  Publisher: Knopf $ 24 ISBN: 0375412379
  KirkusPWBooklist
  From one of America's most skilled, subtle, and critically acclaimed writers--a novel about an eccentric midwestern family, and the history of love and tragedy that holds it together and tears it apart.
  
• The Bondwoman's Narrative
  Author: Crafts, Hannah, edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
  Publisher: Warner $ 24.95 ISBN: 0446530085
  PW
  Possibly the first novel written by a black woman slave, this work is both a historically important literary event and a gripping autobiographical story in its own right.
  
  
• Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish
  Author: Flanagan, Richard
  Publisher: Grove $ 27.50 ISBN: 0802117112
  KirkusLibrary JournalPWBooklist
  The latest novel from internationally renowned author Flanagan. A rich tragicomic saga of art, fish, and the founding of new worlds.
  
• Everthing Is Illuminated
  Author: Foer, Jonathan Safran
  Publisher: Houghton Mifflin $ 24 ISBN: 0618173870
  KirkusLibrary JournalPWBooklist
  A writer journeys to the farmlands of eastern Europe to find Augustine, the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Passionate and marked by an indelible humanity, Everything Is Illuminated mines the black holes of history and is ultimately a story about searching for people and places that no longer exist.
  
• 13 Albatrosses
  Author: Harrington, Donald
  Publisher: Holt $ 26 ISBN: 0805068554
  KirkusLibrary Journal
  For decades Donald Harington has delighted fans with his thrilling, magical tales of Stay More, a small enclave in northern Arkansas. Now Harington expands on his fictional realm with the strange, quixotic quest of Vernon Ingledew to win the governorship of Arkansas.
  
• The Impressionist
  Author: Kunzru, Hari
  Publisher: Dutton $ 24.95 ISBN: 052594642x
  PWBooklistLibrary JournalKirkus
  Sweeping from India to England to France and Africa and played out on a teeming world canvas, The Impressionist is the unforgettable riches-to-rags story of a boy who is born a lie and must adapt--or perish.
  
• The Dive from Clausen's Pier
  Author: Packer, Ann
  Publisher: Knopf $ 24 ISBN: 0375412824
  KirkusPWBooklist
  A suspenseful, richly layered first novel that asks: How much do people owe the people they love? The Dive from Clausen's Pier will speak to all those who have ever thought about leaving when they knew they should stay or felt trapped, not only by circumstance, but by the strength of their own love.
  

Mystery & Suspense

• The Burying Field: Danny Chaisson
  Author: Abel, Kenneth
  Publisher: Putnam $ 26.95 ISBN: 0399147969
  Booklist
  Abel returns to Louisiana politics with a mystery that pits the Old South against the new, as a racist crime drags up a murder that is 30-years-old, involving a few powerful men who have an interest in keeping it secret. With compelling characters and dead-on dialogue, The Burying Field is an enthralling crime novel.
  
• You've Got Murder
  Author: Andrews, Donna
  Publisher: Berkley Prime Crime $ 21.95 ISBN: 042518191x
  From a winner of both the Anthony and Agatha awards comes the first mystery to feature a computer with a mind like Miss Marple and hardware that hides a suspiciously human heart.
  
• Murder in the Sentier
  Author: Black, Cara
  Publisher: Soho $ 24 ISBN: 1569472785
  PW
  The third Aimee Leduc investigation is set in the historic Sentier district, where once-fashionable private mansions now house the Parisian "rag" trade and nightclubs. Members of a 1960s Red gang are seeking their hidden loot, which leads to new murders. Aimee fears the killers may include her long-lost mother.
  
• City of Bones
  Author: Connelly, Michael
  Publisher: Little Brown $ 25.95 ISBN: 0316154059
  PWBooklist
  The bones of a 12-year-old boy are found scattered in a remote canyon in the Hollywood Hills. For Harry Bosch, the City of Angels becomes the City of Bones. The case awakens police and political machinations, delves into a family's dark history, and opens-up Bosch's own childhood memories.
  
• Steps to the Altar
  Author: Fowler, Earlene
  Publisher: Berkley Prime Crime $ 22.95 ISBN: 0425183491
  PW
  Ninth in the Agatha Award-winning series that's been hailed as "engrossing" ( Publishers Weekly), Steps to the Altar finds California folk art expert Benni Harper preparing for two upcoming weddings, digging up clues to a decades-old unsolved murder, and struggling with a very personal crisis of the heart.
  
• Stay
  Author: Griffith, Nicola
  Publisher: Doubleday $ 23.95 ISBN: 0385503008
  PW
  Award-winning writer Griffith reinvents literary noir with Stay, where she fashions a narrative pulled taut by its own internal tensions--between sanity and letting go, between past and present, between right and wrong--and fully demonstrates her remarkable ability to bring a unique energy and literary lyricism to the noir tradition.
  
• Code 61
  Author: Harstad, Donald
  Publisher: Doubleday $ 23.95 ISBN: 0385501188
  BooklistPW
  In Code Sixty-One, Harstad brings the offbeat, Fargo-esque style of his previous books to a stunning tale about modern-day vampires. Investigating the apparent suicide of a colleague's niece, Iowa deputy sheriff Carl Houseman comes to the chilling conclusion that the young woman was the victim of a 21st-century Dracula.
  
• The Blue Edge of Midnight
  Author: King, Jonathan
  Publisher: Doubleday $ 22.95 ISBN: 0525946438
  PW
  Featuring Max Freeman, an ex-cop from Philadelphia, The Blue Edge of Midnight marks the debut of a powerful new crime series.
  
• A Killing Sky
  Author: Straka, Andy
  Publisher: 0451205707 $ 5.99 ISBN: 0451205707
  Charlottesville, Virginia, private eye and falconer Frank Pavlicek is called by Cassidy Drummond, the daughter of a Congressman, to investigate the disappearance of her twin sister, Cartwright. Their father is known for his philandering--and Cassidy wonders if this led to Cartwright's disappearance. Despite a long list of suspects, Frank's not sure foul play is involved, putting him on a trail of family secrets and scandals.
• No Show of Remorse
  Author: Walker, David J.
  Publisher: Minotaur $ 23.95 ISBN: 0312252404
  Kirkus
  Mal Foley was a lawyer once, until he disobeyed a court order requiring him to reveal a client's role in a shootout that killed a cop. Years later, Mal wants his law license reinstated, but someone stands in serious opposition: anonymous notes turn into savage beatings and finally into murder.
  

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