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Featured Titles 2003
Page Modified: April 2, 2008
New titles - selected on the basis of good reviews. Nonfiction, fiction and mystery titles are included on the lists
January 2003
Nonfiction
- The Emperor of
Scent: A Story of Obsession, Perfume, and the Last Mystery of the Senses
Author: Burr, Chandler
Publisher: Random $ 24.95 ISBN: 0375507973
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This true story profiles a scientific genius with eerie powers of smell who uses his gifts to solve one of the body's last secrets: how the nose works.
Updated 12.23.02 - Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It
Author: Dyer, Geoff
Publisher: Random $ 22 ISBN: 0375422145PW
In Dyer's deft hands, what seems like an abstract idea--the search for the essence of experience--becomes an opportunity for storytelling: for a bracing, riotous, and addictive chronicling of anticipation and expectation as he travels about the globe.
Updated 12.16.02 - Lost in America
Author: Nuland, Sherwin B.
Publisher: Random $ 24 ISBN: 0375412948KirkusBooklistPW
From the author of the National Book Award-winning How We Die comes a deeply moving account of his father's life and the shadow it cast over his own. Nuland reveals what it cost him to live with the specter of his father and to struggle for peace with the man's legacy, and with himself.
Updated 12.16.02 - Six Degrees: The Science
of a Connected Age
Author: Watts, Duncan J.
Publisher: Norton $ 27.95 ISBN: 0393041425Kirkus
Watts, one of the principal architects of network theory, sets out to explain the innovative research that he and other scientists are spearheading to create a blueprint of the connected planet.
Small World Project Site - Can anyone in the world reach anyone else through a chain of only 6 friends?
Updated 11.18.02
Fiction
- Gilligan's Wake
Author: Carson, Tom
Publisher: Picador $ 25 ISBN: 031229123xPWLJ
In this kaleidoscopic novel about the last American century, an institutionalized shadow man combines twisted histories of six characters (a skipper, a millionaire, a rich woman, an actress, a professor, and one Mary-Ann Kilroy) into a pastiche of this country's history.
Updated 12.23.02 - I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company:
A Novel of Lewis and Clark
Author: Hall, Brian
Publisher: Viking $ 25.95 ISBN: 0670031895KirkusPW
Presenting the story of Lewis and Clark in an entirely new light, Hall uses the novelist's art to produce a compulsively readable book that fills the gaps and provides a new perspective on this great American story.
Suggested Reading: Historical Fiction Stars
Links: Lewis and Clark | Lewis and Clark Trail
Updated 11.27.02 - The Time of Our Singing
Author: Powers, Richard
Publisher: Farrar $ 28 ISBN: 0374277826KirkusBooklistLJ
A magnificent, multifaceted novel about a supremely gifted--and divided--family, set against the backdrop of postwar America. The Time of Our Singing is a story of self-invention, allegiance, race, cultural ownership, the compromised power of music, and the tangled loops of time that rewrite all belonging.
Suggested Reading: Musical Fiction
Updated 11.05.02 - Only One Thing Missing
Author: Ruiz, Luis Manuel
Publisher: Grove $ 24 ISBN: 0802117309Kirkus
Ruiz's English-language debut is a page-turner that takes readers through the streets of contemporary Seville, the walkways of an unmapped urban dreamscape, and to the devil-worshiping underworld of medieval Lisbon. At once a love story, a chilling tale of the occult, and an exploration of the timeless themes of memory, obsession, and loss.
Updated 9.30.02
Mystery & Suspense
- Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon
Author: Andrews, Donna
Publisher: Minotaur $ 23.95 ISBN: 0312277318
From the author of Revenge of the Wrought-Iron Flamingos comes a laugh-aloud adventure where Meg Langslow, working the switchboard temporarily, finds that the company's practical joker really is dead--not just pretending.
Updated 12.23.02 - The Guards
Author: Bruen, Ken
Publisher: Minotaur $ 23.95 ISBN: 0312303556KirkusPWLJ
In this mesmerizing work of crime fiction, Jack Taylor, an ex-member of The Guards--Ireland's police force--is approached in a Galway bar by a dazzling woman with a strange request and a rumor about his talent for finding things.
Updated 12.23.02 - Old Flames
Author: Lawton, John
Publisher: Atlantic $ 24 ISBN: 0871138646KirkusPW
Old Flames is a riveting spy novel sparked by historical events, with a twisting, turning plot that The Sunday Times (London) declares "a strange, thoughtful, quiet, intelligent spellbinder of a book, penetrating the very heart of betrayal."
Updated 12.16.02 - Man Eater
Author: Shannon, Ray
Publisher: Putnam $ 23.95 ISBN: 0399149767KirkusPW
An Elmore Leonard-style L.A. noir is set in the movie business, featuring themost eclectic cast of dynamic, dangerous characters since Pulp Fiction.
Updated 12.02.02
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