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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
February 2003
Nonfiction
- The Best Years of Their Lives: One
Town's Veterans and the World They Made
Author: Coyne, Kevin
Publisher: Penguin $ 25.95 ISBN: 0670871508
Library JournalBooklist
Offering a gripping look at life in wartime, Coyne presents a compelling story of World War II and what happened in its wake in one small New Jersey town.
Updated 1.25.03 - The Devil in the White City: Murder,
Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
Author: Larson, Erik
Publisher: Crown $ 25.95 ISBN: 0609608444KirkusPWBooklist
In a thrilling narrative showcasing his gifts as storyteller and researcher, Larson recounts the spellbinding tale of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition and its devious creators. A blend of Ragtime and Silence of the Lambs, The Devil in the White City is Larson at his best.
Suggested Reading: Holmes: Scarlet Mansions by Allen Eckert (novel) and Depraved: The Shocking True Story of America's First Serial Killer by Harold Schechter.
Links: Chicago World's Fair - Hypertext | Interactive Guide
Web Book | Holmes Article
Updated 2.28.03 - Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers
Author: Quart, Alissa
Publisher: Perseus $ 25 ISBN: 0738206644PW
An incisive expos focuses on the underhanded advertising initiatives that target teens and explores their disturbing consequences.
Updated 11.27.02
Fiction
- Any Human Heart: The Intimate Journals of
Logan Mountstuart
Author: Boyd, William
Publisher: Knopf $ 24.95 ISBN: 0375414932KirkusPW
From the acclaimed author of Armadillo and The Blue Afternoon comes a new novel that invokes the tumult, events, and iconic faces of our time as it tells the story of Logan Mountstuart--writer, spy, and man of the world--through his intimate journals.
Updated 11.12.02 - Wanderlust
Author: Dyer, Chris
Publisher: Penguin $ 13 (paper) ISBN: 0452283795Library Journal
Writing a low-budget travel column for a New York newspaper is a dream for young Kate Bogart, but as she soon finds, the travel fulfills her--but the distance it kills her. A saucy and lighthearted novel that will leave readers happy to be along for the ride.
Updated 12.23.02 - The
Commissariat of Enlightenment
Author: Kalfus, Ken
Publisher: Ecco $ 24.95 ISBN: 0060501367KirkusPW
Brimming with intellect, humor, sweep, and rich, inventive storytelling, The Commissariat of Enlightenment is a novel of ideas that brilliantly evokes the tragicomic world of revolutionary Russia and the birth of today's image-based society, marking Kalfus as a daring and talented writer.
Suggested Reading: First Fiction & Mystery Debuts
Updated 1.3.03 - The King in the Tree:
Three Novellas
Author: Millhauser, Steven
Publisher: Knopf $ 23 ISBN: 0375415408KirkusBooklistPW
From the author of Edwin Mullhouse and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Martin Dressier come three dazzling novellas about the many shapes of love.
Suggested Reading: All Stars
Updated 1.20.03 - The Pilots
Author: Spencer, James
Publisher: Putnam $ 24.95 ISBN: 0399149732Kirkus
Spencer flew B-24 bombers during 1944 and 1945. Decades later he began to write about it. The extraordinary result is The Pilots, a novel-in-stories about a group of young men as they evolve in unpredictable ways during the last years of the war.
Suggested Reading: World War Stars
Updated 12.16.02
Mystery & Suspense
- Death in the Family
Author: McGowan, Jill
Publisher: Ballantine $ 22.95 ISBN: 0345458486PW
In the midst of her maternity leave from the Stansfield police force, Detective Chief Inspector Judy Hill inadvertently becomes involved in the case of a baby kidnapping. At the same time DCI Lloyd, Judy's professional partner and fianc is immersed in a puzzling homicide investigation.
Updated 1.3.03 - Clean Cut
Author: Monsour, Theresa
Publisher: Putnam $ 23.95 ISBN: 0399149686Booklist
In this stunning first novel, Paris Murphy--a smart, intuitive and reckless police detective--sets out to trap a serial killer using herself as a snare.
Suggested Reading: First Fiction & Mystery Debuts
Updated 1.25.03 - The Dante Club
Author: Pearl, Matthew
Publisher: Random $ 24.95 ISBN: 0375505296KirkusBooklist
When a series of gruesome murders erupts in 1865, only Boston's literary elite realize that the style and form of the killings are derived from Dante's Inferno. Twenty-six-year-old Pearl brilliantly blends fact and fiction in this debut mystery starring Oliver Wendell Holmes and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Suggested Reading: First Fiction & Mystery Debuts
Link: The Dante Club web site
Updated 12.2.02 - Bridge of Sighs
Author: Steinhauer, Olen
Publisher: Minotaur $ 23.95 ISBN: 0312302452Kirkus
In this auspicious debut, an inexperienced homicide detective struggles amid the lawlessness of a post-World War II eastern European city.
Suggested Reading: First Fiction & Mystery Debuts
Updated 10.31.02 - The Barbed-Wire Kiss
Author: Stroby, Wallace
Publisher: Minotaur $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312300344PW
In this brooding, blistering debut set against the spare, atmospheric background of working-class New Jersey, retired police officer Harry Rane gets caught between his past and his future, between justice and vengeance.
Suggested Reading: First Fiction & Mystery Debuts
Updated 1.3.03 - Cuba Strait
Author: Stroud, Carsten
Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 25 ISBN: 0743243897Booklist
When Rick Broca comes to the rescue of a downed seaplane during a storm off the Florida Keys, the mysterious pilot, Charles Green, is thankful. When they are intercepted by a fishing boat carrying artillery, Broca knows enough to shoot now, ask questions later. This tale of political intrigue, international espionage--and even a trace of Santerian voodoo--is based on an actual international incident.
Updated 12.16.02
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