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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.
July 2003
Nonfiction
- The Secret Life of a Schoolgirl: A Memoir
Author: Kingsland, Rosemary
Publisher: Crown $ 24.95 ISBN: 140004782X
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With the same appeal as literary memoirs like Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight and The Road from Coorain, The Secret Life of a Schoolgirl is a vivid evocation of life in foreign cultures and a keenly observed portrait of a wildly dysfunctional family.
Updated 5.19.03 - Where the Money Is: True Tales from the Bank Robbery Capital of the World
Author: Rehder, William J.
Publisher: Norton $ 24.95 ISBN: 0393051560KirkusLJ
Americans have always been fascinated by bank robbers: Jesse James, John Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde. In Where the Money Is FBI Special Agent Rehder chronicles the lives and crimes of bank robbers in today's Los Angeles who are as colorful and exciting as the legends of long ago.
Updated 5.9.03
Fiction
- Love in Idleness
Author: Craig, Amanda
Publisher: Doubleday $ 23.95 ISBN: 0385507763LJKirkus
Craig spins the ever-resonant themes of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream into a modern-day tale of love and lies, set against the magical landscape of Tuscany. It will appeal to readers of The Nanny Diaries and other pitch-perfect social satires.
Updated 6.19.03 - Fat White
Vampire Blues
Author: Fox, Andrew
Publisher: Ballantine $ 13.95 (paper) ISBN: 0345463331Booklist
If Dracula slept with A Confederacy of Dunces, this funny first novel about Jules, a feckless, overweight vampire would be the result. He's watched his neighborhood go to hell--and now, a new vampire is looking to drive him out. Jules must find a way to contend with life's hurdles--without getting a stake through the heart.
Suggested Reading: Fiction & Mystery Debuts
Updated 4.28.03 - Center
of Everything
Author: Moriarty, Laura
Publisher: Hyperion $ 22.95 ISBN: 1401300316LJ
In Moriarty's extraordinary first novel, a young girl tries to make sense of an unruly world spinning around her. Growing up with a single mother who is chronically out of work and dating a married man, ten-year old Evelyn Bucknow learns early how to fend for herself.
Suggested Reading: Fiction & Mystery Debuts
Updated 5.19.03 - Ilium
Author: Simmons, Dan
Publisher: Eos $ 25.95 ISBN: 0380978938PW
From the Hugo Award-winning author of the Hyperion Cantos comes the first book of a breathtaking new saga based on the themes of Homer's The Iliad and Shakespeare's T he Tempest--a groundbreaking work from a "magnificently original" ( Denver Post) writer.
Suggested Reading: Ancient Greece - Fiction
Updated 5.29.03
Mystery & Suspense
- The 6th Lamentation
Author: Broderick, William
Publisher: Viking $ 24.95 ISBN: 0670031917PW
When Father Anselm gives sanctuary to a suspected Nazi criminal at Lakewood Priory, he puts in motion more trouble than he ever could have imagined.
Suggested Reading: Fiction & Mystery Debuts
Updated 5.29.03 - A Blind Eye
Author: Ford, G.M.
Publisher: Avon $ 23.95 ISBN: 038097875xKirkusBooklist
The Anthony, Shamus, Dilys, and Lefty awards nominee weaves a tangled web of mystery and murder in this third impressive volume featuring his "new kick-ass hero Frank Corso" (Harlan Coben).
Updated 6.25.03 - Where
the Truth Lies
Author: Holmes, Rupert
Publisher: Random $ 24.95 SBN: 0679452206KirkusLJBooklist
" Rupert Holmes seats you gently next to an irresistible narrator only to entangle you completely in her twisted, dark, exhilarating troubles. The ensuing thriller crosses a Dickensian world of deceit and destiny with the slipping glory of 1970s New York and Los Angeles. Every character is so alive with delicious secrets that you'll never suspect Where the Truth Lies." --Matthew Pearl, author of The Dante Club
Suggested Reading: All Stars | Fiction & Mystery Debuts
Updated 6.25.03 - Maisie Dobbs
Author: Winspear, Jacqueline
Publisher: Soho $ 24 ISBN: 1569473307Library JournalPW
"Meet Maisie Dobbs, who in 1929 launches her career as a private investigator and finds herself drawn back to the Great War she thought she'd long since put behind her: an unexpected beginning for Maisie--and a rare treat for mystery fans."--Charles Todd, A Fearsome Doubt.
Suggested Reading: Fiction & Mystery Debuts
Updated 6.19.03
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