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Featured Titles 2002
Page Modified: August 19, 2008
New titles - selected on the basis of good reviews. Nonfiction, fiction and mystery titles are included on the lists.
February 2002
Nonfiction
- Breaking Clean
Author: Blunt, Judy
Publisher: Knopf $ 24 ISBN: 0375401318
Kirkus
PW
An astonishing literary debut: the true story of a remarkable woman's life in the contemporary American West, where the lessons she learned carried her through blizzards, devastating prairie fires, and extreme isolation. - I'll Know It When I See
It: A Daughter's Search for a Home in Ireland
Author: Carey, Alice
Publisher: Clarkson $ 22 ISBN: 060960984x
Kirkus
PW
By turns bittersweet and laugh-aloud funny, I'll Know It When I See It tells an Irish-American woman's story of restoring a cottage in Ireland and reclaiming her roots. - Batavia's Graveyard: The
True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny
Author: Dash, Mike
Publisher: Crown $ 25 ISBN: 0609607669
Booklist
As richly textured as his acclaimed Tulipomania, Mike Dash's Batavia's Graveyard is the true saga of a mad 17th-century heretic who led history's bloodiest mutiny off the coast of Australia.
- Beyond the
Mountains of the Damned: The War Inside Kosovo
Author: McAllester, Matthew
Publisher: New York Univ $ 24.95 ISBN: 0814756603
Library Journal
Kirkus
PW
A reporter's riveting story of two families torn by war in the Balkans.
Excerpt, photos and audio clip (requires Real Audio).
Fiction
- Servant of the Map: Stories
Author: Barrett, Andrea
Publisher: Norton $ 24.95 ISBN: 0393043487KirkusLibrary JournalPW
Ranging across two centuries, and from the western Himalaya to an Adirondack village, these wonderfully imagined stories and novellas travel the territories of yearning and awakening, of loss and unexpected discovery. - The Broken Lands: A Novel of Arctic
Disaster
Author: Edric, Robert
Publisher: St Martins $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312288891Booklist
In this enthralling, richly inventive novel, Edric re-creates what may have happened to the doomed Franklin expedition which set sail in 1845. - from the jacket copy.
The Franklin Expedition
Bibliography of major literary treatments of the Franklin expedition compiled by Russell A. Potter - A Multitude of Sins
Author: Ford, Richard
Publisher: Knopf $ 25 ISBN: 0375412123PWBooklistLibrary Journal
With this masterful new book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author evokes with unflinching candor our failures to achieve what we consider to be most important: to be faithful, patient, honest, passionate, and loving toward those we care for. - Wavemaker 2
Author: Hughes, Mary-Beth
Publisher: Atlantic $ 24 ISBN: 0871138352BooklistLibrary Journal
An exhilarating debut, Wavemaker II is a heart-stopping story of what happens when one man takes a fall for another, leaving his family in disarray. Combining poetic intensity with a gritty realism, Mary-Beth Hughes has delivered a masterpiece of page-turning suspense.
- Burning Marguerite
Author: Inness-Brown, Elizabeth
Publisher: Knopf $ 23 ISBN: 0375411968PW
Waking to the chill of a snow-cloaked morning, carpenter James Jack finds his 94-year-old "Tante, " Marguerite Deo, lying dead outside his cabin. As he confronts the mystery of her death, an emotionally intricate and unexpected tale unfolds in a narrative that moves from the present back to a windswept New England island at the turn of the century, and to New Orleans during the Depression and World War II. - Billie's Kiss
Author: Knox, Elizabeth
Publisher: Ballantine $ 24 ISBN: 0345450523KirkusBooklist
In the tradition of Drowning Ruth and The Dress Lodger comes a beautifully written, darkly romantic mystery set in the stark landscape of the Scottish islands at the beginning of the 20th century.
Mystery & Suspense
- Hunting Season
Author: Barr, Nevada
Publisher: Putnam $ 24.95 ISBN: 0399148469KirkusBooklist
Tightly plotted and beautifully written, Hunting Season offers solid evidence that mankind can be as unpredictable and dangerous as the great outdoors. When Park Ranger Anna Pigeon answers a call to historic Mt. Locust on Mississippi's Natchez Trace Parkway, the last thing she expects to encounter is murder. But the man Anna finds in the stand's old bedroom is no tourist in distress. He's nearly naked, and very dead, his body bearing marks consistent with an S&M ritual gone awry.
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- Hearse Case Scenario
Author: Cockey, Tim
Publisher: Hyperion $ 23.95 ISBN: 0786867116
Hitch is up to his ears in murders, and the latest clues point to a Baltimore nightclub. Following his nose, Hitch uncovers a host of nefarious goings-on as well as some downright strange characters, including a felonious artist, a Miles Davis wanna-be, an Ida Lupino look-alike, and one very irritated dance instructor.
Suggested Reading: Six Feet Under (Fiction and Nonfiction about Undertakers and Undertaking - Tishomingo Blues
Author: Leonard, Elmore
Publisher: Morrow $ 25.95 ISBN: 0060008725BooklistPWLJ
Girls love Dennis Lenahan, he's cool and he's a daredevil. Dennis is performing in a Tunica, Mississippi casino, when he witnesses a murder and the local Dixie Mafia warns him, "You talk, you're dead." Along comes Robert Taylor, a black gangsta from Detroit. Robert has his own agenda for taking on the Cornbread Cosa Nostra and wants Dennis to come in with him. Readers will wonder: is Dennis hooked up with the bad guys or the really bad guys? - Tropical Heat
Author: Miller, John
Publisher: Forge $ 23.95 ISBN: 0765301652PW
When an army officer is found dead in the small Virginia town of Hopewell, it sets in motion a sequence of events that will forever change the life of Sheriff A.G. Farrell. - Angel Fire
Author: Miscione, Lisa
Publisher: Minotaur $23.95 ISBN: 0312283040LJ
Memories of her mother's brutal murder 15 years ago plague a reclusive true crime writer on the trail of a serial killer--a compelling debut novel of a talented new writer. - Winter and Night
Author: Rozan, S. J.
Publisher: Minotaur $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312245556KirkusBooklist
From the award-winning author of Reflecting the Sky comes an explosive, breakout novel about the corrosive power of secrets and corruption in a small town.
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