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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.
April 2003
Nonfiction
- White Mughuls: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century
India
Author: Dalrymple, William
Publisher: Viking Books $ 34.95 ISBN: 0670031844
Kirkus
This compelling history of Britain's rule over India relates the true story of James Kirkpatrick, a British resident in the Court of Hyderabad in India, who converted to Islam and spied on the East India Company in the midst of an affair with the great-niece of the region's prime minister.
Updated 1.26.03 - Beauty Before Comfort
Author: Glock, Allison
Publisher: Knopf $ 20 ISBN: 0375401210Kirkus
Glock captures not only the irrepressible vitality of her maternal grandmother but also the rich ambiance of small-town, working class West Virginia during the twenties, the Great Depression, and the Second World War.
Updated 2.23.03 - Positively
Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion's World Series of Poker
Author: McManus, James
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux $ 26 ISBN: 0374236488PW
Written in the tradition of The Gambler and The Biggest Game in Town, Positively Fifth Street is a high-stakes Las Vegas adventure, a penetrating study of America's card game, and a terrifying but often hilarious account of one man's effort to understand the eros and logistics of man's primary competitive instincts.
Updated 3.3.03 - Taking a History: A Doctor's Training at
Bellevue
Author: Ofri, Danielle
Publisher: Beacon $ 24 ISBN: 0807072524BooklistLJ
This gripping memoir of learning medicine in the trenches is the story of becoming a doctor by immersion at Bellevue Hospital, the oldest public hospital in the country--and perhaps the most legendary.
Updated 3.13.03 - Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Author: Roach, Mary
Publisher: Norton $ 23.95 ISBN: 0393050939KirkusPW
In her droll, intimate voice, Roach conducts an oddly compelling, often hilarious forensic exploration of the strange lives of bodies postmortem.
Updated 2.24.03 - Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded August 27,
1883
Author: Winchester, Simon
Publisher: HarperCollins $ 25.95 ISBN: 0066212855KirkusBooklistPWLJ
From the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World comes an examination of the enduring and world-changing effects of the catastrophic eruption off the coast of Java of the world's most dangerous volcano--Krakatoa.
Updated 3.31.03
Fiction
- Lost in a Good Book
Author: Fforde, Jasper
Publisher: Viking Books $ 24.95 ISBN: 0670031909KirkusLJ
Literary detective heroine Thursday Next returns in this follow-up to the acclaimed The Eyre Affair. To rescue the love of her life, Thursday must retrieve a supposedly vanquished enemy from the pages of Poe's "The Raven." Soon, Thursday finds herself the target of a series of potentially lethal coincidences.
Updated 3.13.03 - The Final Confession of Mabel
Stark
Author: Hough, Robert
Publisher: Atlantic $ 24 ISBN: 0871138700Kirkus
This finalist for the 2002 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book in Canada tells the fascinating story of the greatest female tiger trainer in history--and her one true love--spanning from golden age of the circus in the early 20th century to the 1960s.
Suggested Reading: Circus Fiction | Historical Fiction Stars
Updated 1.10.03 - Getting Over Jack Wagner
Author: Juska, Elise
Publisher: Pocket $ 12 (paper) ISBN: 0743464672Kirkus
Eliza has spent her entire life trying to find a passionate relationship and has been consistently disappointed. A child of the eighties, she assumes early in life that "rock stars" are the only answer to a "deep" boyfriend. With the help of her mother and friends, Eliza must reevaluate her aspirations for love and the very way she defines herself.
Updated 2.10.03 - The Blue Moon Circus
Author: Raleigh, Michael
Publisher: Sourcebooks $ 22 ISBN: 1402200153KirkusLJ
The coming-of-age story of an aging renegade and the boy who finds a home under the big top. Evoking the historical intrigue of Carter Beats the Devil and the ragtag characters of O Brother Where Art Thou?, author Michael Raleigh leads an oddball circus ensemble across the recently tamed, dust-blown American West.- Publisher marketing
Suggested Reading: Circus Fiction | Historical Fiction Stars
Updated 3.31.03 - Good Faith
Author: Smiley, Jane
Publisher: Knopf $ 26 ISBN: 0375412174KirkusBooklistPW
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres comes a masterly novel about some very American seductions: money, sex, and real estate. Good Faith is an extraordinary story about ordinary people caught up in the exotic 1980s version of the American Dream, as greed and financial game-playing explode on Main Street.
Suggested Reading: All Stars
Updated 2.20.03 - The Light of Day
Author: Swift, Graham
Publisher: Knopf $ 24 ISBN: 0375415491Kirkus
George Webb is a divorced ex-policeman turned private investigator, a man whose prospects seemed ruined not so long ago. Following the course of a single, dazzling day in his life, this novel illuminates not only his past but also his now all-consuming relationship with a former client.
Updated 2.23.03 - The Wife
Author: Wolitzer, Meg
Publisher: Scribner $ 23 ISBN: 0684869403Booklist
When Wolitzer published her first novel, Sleepwalking, she received extraordinary critical acclaim for her humor, grace, and intelligence. Now, in her sixth novel, she has maintained the qualities that thrill readers, and introduces a character and subject matter that are her most ambitious, provocative, and powerful to date.
Updated 3.13.03
Mystery & Suspense
- Lost Light
Author: Connelly, Michael
Publisher: Little Brown $ 25.95 ISBN: 0316154601KirkusBooklistPWLJ
The bestselling author of City of Bones and Chasing the Dime brings lone wolf Harry Bosch out of retirement and on a wild excursion into evil, seeking the truth about a cold case that still haunts the LAPD, movie studios--and Bosch himself.
Suggested Reading: All Stars
Updated 3.31.03 - Sensei
Author: Donohue, John
Publisher: Minotaur $ 23.95 ISBN: 0312288123PWBooklist
When many of America's great martial artists are murdered, college professor and martial artist Connor Burke is dragged into the investigation by the NYPD. With the help of master warrior Yamashita Sensei, Burke follows a trail of clues that leads him to confront his own fear--and the ruthless killer.
Suggested Reading: First Fiction & Mystery Debuts
Updated 3.27.03 - Murder Off Mike: A Talk
Radio Mystery
Author: Krieg, Joyce
Publisher: Minotaur $ 23.95 ISBN: 0312310269PWBooklist
The winner of the 2002 St. Martin's Press/Malice Domestic Contest for Best First Traditional Mystery introduces Shauna J. Bogart, a smart, sassy radio talk show host at Sacramento's top-rated local station who launches her own investigation into the "suicide" of a fellow shock jock.
Suggested Reading: First Fiction & Mystery Debuts
Updated 3.27.03 - The Dogs of Riga: Kurt Wallendar
Author: Mankell, Henning
Publisher: New Press $ 24.95 ISBN: 1565847873KirkusPW
Bringing the acclaimed series to a close, The Dogs of Riga takes Inspector Kurt Wallander to Riga, Latvia, to investigate the murder of two Eastern European criminals.
Updated 3.31.03
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