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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.
May 2002
Nonfiction
- Double Bond: The Live of Primo
Levi
Author: Angier, Carole
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux $ 40 ISBN: 0374113157
Library JournalKirkusPWBooklist
Perhaps the most important writer to emerge from the death camps, Primo Levi is known for Survival in Auschwitz, The Reawakening, and the classic The Periodic Table. Angier has spent nearly ten years writing this meticulously researched, vivid, and moving biography.
Updated 4.1.02 - Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet
Baker
Author: Gavin, James Publisher: Knopf $ 26.95 ISBN:0679442871PW
The wild ride of the most romanticized icon in jazz, thrillingly recounted in this first major biography. Gavin narrates the harrowing spiral of dependency down which Baker tumbled, dragging with him those who dared to get close. Deep in a Dream is a revelation of a musician whose singular artistry and personal aura have never lost their power to fascinate and seduce.
Suggested Reading: Looking for Chet Baker: An Evan Horne Mystery by Bill Moody
Updated 4.18.02 - Sea Shall Embrace Them:
The Tragic Story of the Steamship Artic
Author: Shaw, David W.
Publisher: Free $ 25 ISBN: 0743222172
PW
This stirring narrative is the riveting tale of the sinking of the steamship Arctic --a story of extraordinary bravery and appalling cowardice that took nearly 400 lives and the American merchant marine business down with it.
Suggested Reading: Sea Stories
Updated 2.18.02
Fiction
- Summertime
Author: Barker, Raffaella
Publisher: Random $ 24.95 ISBN: 0375503870Library Journal
In this delicious romantic comedy, a charming heroine offers hilarious and touching commentary on relationships, divorce, fashion, pets, and children as she copes with her chaotic family and fractured love life in rural England.
Updated 4/1/02 - The City of Your
Final Destination
Author: Cameron, Peter
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux $ 24 ISBN: 0374281971PWKirkus
Omar Razaghi posts a letter on September 13, 1995, that will change the course of his life forever. A novel about the random nature of love and the ways in which we confront or avoid life's choices, The City of Your Final Destination is a touching comic fourth novel from Peter Cameron.
Updated 2/18/02 - Confessing a Murder
Author: Drayson, Nicholas
Publisher: Norton $ 23.95 ISBN: 0393051293Kirkus
In this debut novel by an Australian naturalist, murder, a vanished tropical island, and a thwarted love affair are all clues to the origin of Charles Darwin's famous theory.
Updated 2/28/02 - Mr. Potter
Author: Kincaid, Jamaica
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux $18 ISBN: 0374214948PWBooklistLibrary Journal
Jamaica Kincaid's first obsession, the island of Antigua, comes vibrantly to life under the gaze of Mr. Potter, an illiterate taxi chauffeur. In her most ambitious work to date, Kincaid breathes life into a figure unlike any in contemporary fiction, an individual consciousness emerging out of an unexamined life.
Updated 4//1/02
Mystery & Suspense
- Without Fail
Author: Child, Lee
Publisher: Putnam $ 24.95 ISBN: 0399148612KirkusPWLJ
Assassins have the new vice president in their sights, until Jack Reacher picks up their trail. For only Reacher has the head and the heart to corner his prey and bring them to justice--without fail.
Updated 5/4/02 - The Patient's Eyes
Author: Pirie, David
Publisher: Minotaur $ 23.95 ISBN: 0312290950Booklist 
PW
This compelling new Victorian mystery reveals the untold story behind the creation of the world's most celebrated detective: Sherlock Holmes.
Updated 5/4/02
- Learning to Fly
Author: Henry, April
Publisher: Minotaur $ 23.95 ISBN: 0312290527BooklistLJ
The chaotic scene of a huge chain-reaction car accident leaves Free Meeker in possession of a bag of money and a dead hitchhiker in the passenger seat. But when the owner of the money realizes that it didn't burn up in the fire, things get complicated.
Updated 5/4/02 - Streets on Fire: Jack Liffey
Author: Shannon, John
Publisher: Carrol & Graf $ 24 ISBN: 0786710187Booklist
Walk L.A.'s mean streets in private-eye Jack Liffey's shoes as he searches for the missing son of a man involved with white supremacists, black separatists, and skinheads.
Updated 3/26/02
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