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Titles 2000
December 2000
Nonfiction
- London Monster: A Sanguinary Tale
by Bondeson, Jan
Publisher: UPA $ 29.95 ISBN: 0812235762
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A century before Jack the Ripper, another predator held sway on the
streets--the London Monster. Bondeson, the author of A Cabinet of
Medical Curiosities, now writes a lively and detailed account of
the psychopath who violently slashed over 50 women during a two-year
crime spree in the 1780s.
- Why Angels Fall: A Journey Through Orthodox Europe from Byzantiun
to Kosovo
by Clark, Victoria
Publisher: St Martins $ 29.95 ISBN: 0312233965
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- Van Gogh and Gaugin: The Search for Sacredart
by Silverman, Deborah
Publisher: Farrar Straus and Giroux $ 60 ISBN: 0374282439
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A leading scholar offers fresh insight into one of the key moments of
modern art history: the fall of 1888 when Vincent van Gogh and Paul
Gauguin lived and worked together in Provence. In a yellow house at
Arles they changed the course of modern art.
- The Twilight Years: Paris in the 1930's
by Wiser, William
Publisher: Carroll & Graff $ 26 ISBN: 0786707860
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This lavishly illustrated social history of Paris as it went through
the 1930s looks at the how throughout that decade the city continued
to revel in Montparnasse and Montmartre, retained its allure as a magnet
city to celebrated expatriates, and how the fall of Paris came with
Nazi occupation in 1940.
Fiction
- Provinces of Night
Author: Gay, William
Publisher: Doubleday $ 23.95 ISBN: 0385499272
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In this much-awaited second novel, the author of The Long Home
tells a sweeping tale of 1950s backwoods Tennessee, earning his comparisons
to the South's greatest writers, from Cormac McCarthy to Larry Brown.
- Ghosts and Grisly Things
Author: Campbell,
Ramsey
Publisher: Tor $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312867581
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Ghosts and Grisly Things is a chilling collection of the best
of Ramsey Campbell's recent short fiction, most of it never before available
in the United States in any form.
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- The Last Hot Time
Author: Ford, John M.
Publisher: Tor $ 22.95 ISBN: 0312855451
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By turns brutal and delicate, murderous and metaphysical, The Last
Hot Time is a fantasy novel unlike any other, a brilliant dance
of genres and storylines leading to a thoroughly unusual conclusion.
This is the first new novel in seven years from a multiple winner of
the World Fantasy Award.
- A Desert in Bohemia
Author: Paton Walsh, Jill
Publisher: St Martins $ 23.95 ISBN: 0312262639
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In this beautifully crafted novel, Jill Paton Walsh creates the intersecting
worlds of families and friends in a fictional small town in Eastern
Europe. Beginning in 1945 with a young girl whose home is destroyed
by war, the novel traces the effects of the Communist party on the lives
of ordinary people.
- Robbers
Author: Cook, Christopher
Publisher: Carroll & Graf $ 24.95 ISBN: 0786707763
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This brilliant and tough debut novel follows Eddie and Ray Bob, one
a sociopath and the other a talented blues guitarist, and the Texas
Ranger who pursues them. As the two losers wind their way across Texas,
robbing and killing with no long-range plans, readers will be able to
smell the magnolias and taste the dust.
- Authorized Personnel Only
Author: D'Amato, Barbara
Publisher: Forge $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312865643
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While Chicago cop Suze Figueroa spends her work day tracking down an
elusive serial killer, she has no idea that a much more personal danger
lives under her own roof, eating her food, handling her gun, and watching
her loved ones. Strips of yellow tape may keep curious bystanders away
from crime scenes, but nothing so simple can protect Suze and her family
from the menace that has invaded the safety of their home.
- The Squire's Tale
Author: Frazer, Margaret
Publisher: Berkley $ 21.95 ISBN: 0425176789
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In this latest installment of Frazer's "superbly researched series"
( Publishers Weekly), Dame Frevisse finds herself in the midst
of a noble family with not-so-noble secrets. Drawn from the nunnery
into a web of conflicting loyalties, she must see that justice is done
after honest loves and dishonest lusts spawn anger, greed, and murder.
- P.E.A.C.E
Author: Holmes, Guy
Publisher: Simon & Schuster $23 ISBN: 0684870797
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The police procedural meets "1984". In this sharply drawn, prophetic
literary thriller, an anti-crime video surveillance system turns New
York City into the base for an astonishing conspiracy that reaches to
the highest levels of government.
- Ice Harvest
by Phillips, Scott
ISBN: 0345440188 $ 19.95
Lawyer Charlie Arglist is looking to say goodbye to Wichita by revisiting
the landscape of his used-up life. Yet before the sun rises, before
he can leave town with a suitcase of stolen money, Charlie's ultimate
scam explodes, uncovering a world full of twists that offers no mercy
and allows few survivors.
- The Floating Lady Murder
by Stashower, Daniel
ISBN: 0380800578 $ 5.99
Before achieving his own fame, young Harry Houdini must be content to
work for Keller, the "Dean of American Magicians". During the first
performance of Keller's most astonishing illusion, his levitating assistant
plummets to her death. Further investigation reveals she actually died
by drowning. Harry, his wife, Bess, and brother, Dash, must solve this
deadly conundrum.
- Death of a Pooh-Bah
by Sturges, Karen
ISBN: 0553581317 $ 5.99
The second volume in Karen Sturges's acclaimed musical mystery series
features the return of sleuth Phoebe Mullins and a medley of malice
and murder at an amateur theatre company's production of Gilbert and
Sullivan's Mikado.
- Godchild
by Zandri, Vincent
ISBN: 0440226228 $ 6.99
P.I. Jack "Keeper" Marconi had lost everything -- his wife, reputation,
and almost his life. Now he's managed to rebuild his world and everything
is falling into place. Until he sees the black Buick that killed his
wife, and he's offered an investigation job he can't refuse. Now Keeper
is south of the border, trying to save a woman whose story could ruin
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