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Featured Titles 2003
Page Modified: August 19, 2008
New titles - selected on the basis of good reviews. Nonfiction, fiction and mystery titles are included on these lists. Books for kids and teens (fiction and nonfiction) are also listed.
November 2003
Nonfiction
- Madness Visible
Author: Di Giovanni, Janine
Publisher: Knopf $ 24 ISBN: 0375410732
KirkusPW
From an internationally celebrated war correspondent comes a searing firsthand chronicle--told with extraordinary immediacy--of the ordeal of the Balkan people during the continuing breakup of Yugoslavia.
Updated 8.25.03 - The World: Travels 1950-2000
Author: Morris, Jan
Publisher: Norton $ 27.95 ISBN: 0393052087KirkusBooklist
Ranging from Manhattan to Venice, Oxford to the Middle East, and Paris to South Africa, the book provides Morris's eyewitness accounts of such seminal moments as the first successful ascent of Everest, the historic Eichmann trial, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the handover of Hong Kong.
Suggested Reading: Travel Tales
Updated 10.2.03 - Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Atlantic
Author: Niven, Jennifer
Publisher: Hyperion $ 24.95 ISBN: 0786868635Booklist
From the author of The Ice Master comes the remarkable true story of a young Inuit woman who survived six months alone on a desolate uninhabited Arctic island in 1921.
Updated 10.23.03 - Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery: The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
Author: Philbrick, Nathaniel
Publisher: Viking $ 27.95 ISBN: 067003231XKirkus
Like the award-winning I n the Heart of the Sea, Sea of Glory combines meticulous history with spellbinding human drama as it circles the globe from the palm-fringed beaches of the South Pacific to the treacherous waters off Antarctica and to the stunning beauty of the Pacific Northwest, and, finally, to a court-martial aboard a ship anchored off New York City.
Suggested Reading: Sea Stories
Updated 8.25.03
Fiction
- The Stories of Richard Bausch: New and Selected Stories
Author: Bausch, Richard
Publisher: HarperCollins $ 29.95 ISBN: 0060196491Kirkus
On the heels of his critically acclaimed novel Hello to the Cannibals, this definitive collection of the best of Bausch's marvelous short stories (which includes three novellas) celebrates the life's work of a great American artist.
Updated 9.08.03 - I Sailed With Magellan
Author: Dybek, Stuart
Publisher: FSG $ 24 ISBN: 0374174075KirkusBooklist
From the prizewinning writer comes a superb new work: a novel-in-stories, 11 masterful tales set in Chicago's south side and told by a single voice with remarkable narrative power.
Updated 10.23.03 - The
Gift
Author: Flusfeder, D.L.
Publisher: $ 23.95 ISBN: 0007157738
This satire about material competition is a masterly comic novel and a breakout book.
- The Salt Roads
Author: Hopkinson, Nalo
Publisher: Warner $ 22.95 ISBN: 0446533025LJKirkus
"Whirling with witchcraft and sensuality, this latest novel by Hopkinson ( Skin Folk; Midnight Robber) is a globe-spanning, time-traveling spiritual odyssey."-- Publishers Weekly.
Updated 10.08.03 - War Torn
Author: Marks, John
Publisher: Riverhead $ 25.95 ISBN: 1573222542PWLJ
From the author of the New York Times" Notable Book The Wall, this gripping thematic sequel tells the story of a love affair between an American journalist and a woman from the former Yugoslavia, during the aftermath of the Cold War.
Updated 10.30.03 - Number 10
Author: Townsend, Sue
Publisher: Soho $ 24 ISBN: 1569473498Kirkus
In Townsend's riotously funny new novel, Edward Clare, prime minister of England, has a problem. For five years, since his landslide election, he has been universally viewed as the perfect leader and representative of the working man. But then something happens that turns the public against him.
Updated 9.08.03 - The Way to Paradise
Author: Vargas Llosa, Mario
Publisher: FSG $ 25 ISBN: 0374228035KirkusLJ
The dramatic lives of two bold, independent adventurers--Paul Gauguin and his grandmother Flora Tristan, a trailblazing women's suffragist--are imagined by "one of the master storytellers of our time" ( Chicago Tribune Book World).
Updated 10.7.03
Mystery & Suspense
- Mr. Timothy
Author: Bayard, Louis
Publisher: HarperCollins $ 24.95 ISBN: 0060534214PW
In this absorbing mystery set in 1860 London, a grown-up Timothy Cratchit discovers the dead body of ten-year-old girl.
Updated 9.22.03 - Breathtaker
Author: Blanchard, Alice
Publisher: Warner $ 24.95 ISBN: 0446531391LJ
An award-winning author delivers a must-read literary thriller--a twister of a tale about a detective trying to outwit a killer (and Mother Nature) in Tornado Alley.
Updated 9.25.03 - The Con Man's Daughter
Author: Dee, Ed
Publisher: Mysterious $ 23.95 ISBN: 0892967943PWLJ
Ex NYPD detective Eddie Dunne must search his own past for clues when his 35-year-old daughter Kate is kidnapped from her suburban New York home.
Updated 10.7.03 - Pompeii
Author: Harris, Robert
Publisher: Random $ 24.95 ISBN: 0679428895KirkusBooklist
Ancient Rome is the setting for the superb new novel from Robert Harris, author of the number one bestsellers Fatherland, Enigma and Archangel. - Publisher Marketing.
Updated 10.23.03 - Murder
of a Barbie and Ken
Author:Swanson, Denise
Publisher: Signet $ 5.99 ISBN: 0451210727
After joining Scumble River's social club, school psychologist Skye Denison and her boyfriend, Simon Reid, the town coroner, find themselves faced with the double homicide of Barbie and Ken Addison - a wealthy couple who seemed to have it all.
Books for Kids, Teens & Readers of All Ages
Age and grade designations are approximate, parental judgement should be used.- Witch Hunt: Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials
Author: Aronson, Marc
Publisher: Atheneum $ 18.95 ISBN: 0689848641Kirkus
An acclaimed writer sifts through the facts, myths, half-truths, misinterpretations, and theories around the Salem witch trials to present readers with a vivid, nonfiction narrative of one of the most compelling mysteries in American history.
Grades: 7+ Category: Nonfiction | History
Updated 10.30.03 - Breath
Author: Napoli, Donna Jo
Publisher: Atheneum $ 16.95 ISBN: 0689861745Kirkus
In this re-imagining of the Pied Piper tale, a boy afflicted with cystic fibrosis in the Middle Ages is an outcast. When the townsfolk of Hameln are affected by a grain mold, he survives an outbreak of madness, followed by a plague of rats.
Grades: 8-12 Category: Fiction | Fantasy | Historical Fiction
Updated 10.30.03 - Mortal Engines
Author: Reeve, Philip
Publisher: HarperCollins $ 16.99 ISBN: 0060082070PW
In a stunning literary debut, Philip Reeve has created an unforgettable adventure story set in a dark and utterly original world fueled by Municipal Darwinism -- and betrayal.
- Publisher Marketing.
Grades: 7+ Category: Fiction | Speculative Fiction | Action & Adventure
Updated 10.30.03
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