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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.
August 2002
Nonfiction- Land's End: A Walk Through Provincetown
Author: Cunningham, Michael
Publisher: Crown $ 16 ISBN: 0609609076
Kirkus
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours explores one of America's oldest towns--Provincetown, on the tip of Cape Cod. Known as a summer mecca of beautiful beaches and quirky stores, the town has attracted an impressive array of artists and writers.
Suggested Reading: Travel Tales
Updated 6.30.02 - Nobody's Perfect: Selected Writings from
the New Yorker
Author: Lane, Anthony
Publisher: Knopf $ 35 ISBN: 0375414487Kirkus
Written with urgent inquiry, wry reflection, and penetrating wit, this is the much-anticipated collection of The New Yorker critic's most memorable pieces on film, literature, and culture.
Updated 7.3.02
Fiction
- Faking It
Author: Crusie, Jennifer
Publisher: St Martins $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312284683Kirkus
Matilda "Tilda" Goodnight and Davy Dempsey both want something gorgeous gold-digger Clea Lewis has. When they cross paths in Clea's bedroom, Tilda and Davy reluctantly join forces to battle with a determined femme fatale, an inept art collector, a disgruntled heir, false identities, and worst of all, real love.
Updated 6.29.02 - Woad to Wuin: Sir Apropos of Nothing,
Book 2
Author: David, Peter
Publisher: Pocket $ 24 ISBN: 0743448308PW
The second book in David's popular series finds Apropos leading a quiet existence as a tavern owner. All that changes abruptly when the sorceress Sharee re-enters his life with the forces of the warlike Lord Bellicose hard on her heels--and the medieval era's most notorious antihero suddenly finds himself once again in the middle of events he wants no part of.
Updated 7.15.02 - Burning the Ice
Author: Mixon, Laura J.
Publisher: Tor $ 25.95 ISBN: 0312869037KirkusPW
Manda CarliPablo is a colonist of an icy world whose forebears were refugees from Earth. She prefers to download her consciousness into her distant marine waldos, searching the alien world's oceans for traces of alien life, avoiding the claustrophobic caverns she shares with her fellow colonists. But when a string of disasters threatens the colony's survival, dangerous secrets begin to surface that could mean obliteration for the colony. To save her people, Manda is forced to break out of the lonely and angry shell she has sealed herself in and achieve contact with an alien species that could be the colony's salvation, or its doom. - from the author's web site. - After the Quake
Author: Murakami, Haruki
Publisher: Knopf $ 21 ISBN: 0375413901KirkusBooklistPW
In 1995, the physical and social landscape of Japan was transformed by the Kobe earthquake and the poison gas attacks in the Tokyo subways. By a world-class writer, this is a short but powerful book whose importance is emphasized by its hideous timeliness, and whose great gift is both comfort and understanding.
Updated 7.30.02 - Heaven of Mercury: A Novel
Author: Watson,Brad
Publisher: Norton $ 23.95 ISBN: 0393047571Kirkus
A dark, riotous Southern novel of sex, death, and transformation. Brad Watson's first novel has been eagerly awaited since his award-winning debut collection of short stories, Last Days of the Dog-Men. Here, he fulfills that literary promise with a humorous and jaundiced eye.
Updated 5.20.02
Mystery & Suspense
- The Torso in the Town
Author: Brett, Simon
Publisher: Berkley $ 22.95 ISBN: 0425185028Booklist
A dinner party at a Fedborough mansion with some stuffy, not very close friends is not exactly Jude's cup of tea. But the practically mummified torso of a woman found in the cellar is much more up Jude's alley.
Updated 5.9.02 - Saving Room for Dessert
Author: Constantine, K.C.
Publisher: Mysterious $ 23.95 ISBN: 0892967633KirkusBooklistPW
For former Air Force veteran and ex-mall security guard William Rayford, making the cut as Rocksburg's first African-American cop fulfilled one of his life's ambitions, even though it sometimes still gives him a case of the Steel City Blues. Rayford well knows this town's dark history of prejudice, but dealing with it is something else.
Updated 7.22.02 - Saved
Author: Morgenroth, Kate
Publisher: HarperCollins $ 23.95 ISBN: 0060192763Kirkus
When Coast Guard helicopter pilot Lieutenant Commander Ellie Somers is sent on a high-speed pursuit of a drug trafficker, a risky maneuver results in a crash that kills one of her crew. Dismissed from service, Ellie turns to a stranger who leads her into addiction, setting the stage for seduction and betrayal--and a look at how far one woman will go to get back her good name.
Updated 6.20.02 - Hard Freeze: Joe Kurtz
Author: Simmons, Dan
Publisher: Minotaur $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312278543KirkusPW
"Little Skag" Farino, the last don of a New York crime family, wants Joe Kurtz dead. Farino's sister, Angelina, has her own deadly agenda for Kurtz. Meanwhile, Kurtz learns the man responsible for his partner Samantha's death, for which Joe was convicted, is still alive. In the midst of all this, Kurtz is approached by a man who wants him to find his daughter's killer.
Updated 7.30.02 - Fatal Truth
Author: Burcell, Robin
Publisher: Avon $ 6.50 ISBN: 0061061239
A frantic phone call from a snitch threatens to destroy everything San Francisco Police Homicide Inspector Kate Gillespie has earned. When she enters a shadowy street for their clandestine meeting, Kate sees the frightened informer shot dead--by another cop. Now Kate is a target, and a trail of dirty deals, corruption, and escalating violence that reaches into her own troubled family history.
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