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Lists of (mostly) hardcover books which received at least one starred review (indicating a work of unusual merit) from the following review sources: Booklist , Publisher's Weekly (PW), Kirkus and Library Journal (LJ).

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Overbooked specializes in providing timely information about fiction (all genres) and readable nonfiction. Overbooked has been online since 1994. Overbooked is a work in progress . . .

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Starred Reviews

All Stars 2002 - Nonfiction

September 9, 2008

Nonfiction titles which received three or more starred reviews (indicating a work of unusual merit) from the following review sources: Booklist (BL), Publisher's Weekly (PW), Kirkus, and Library Journal (LJ).

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• Double Bond: The Live of Primo Levi
  Author: Angier, Carole
  Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux $ 40 ISBN: 0374113157 Date: 2002
  Library Journal Kirkus PW Booklist
  Perhaps the most important writer to emerge from the death camps, Primo Levi is known for Survival in Auschwitz, The Reawakening, and the classic The Periodic Table. Angier has spent nearly ten years writing this meticulously researched, vivid, and moving biography.
  Updated 4.29.02
• Back Then: Two Lives in 1950's New York
  Author: Bernays, Anne & Justin Kaplan
  Publisher: Morrow $ 25.95 ISBN: 0060198559 Date: 2002
  Kirkus PW LJ
  This dual memoir by two prominent figures in American arts provides a candid, anecdotal account of two children of privilege who came of age in the transformative 1950s and faced the challenges of new careers, married life and parenting against growing sexual and social freedoms, and the shadows of McCarthyism and the Cold War.
  Suggested Reading: Memoirs
  Updated 5.3.02
• Dont' Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
  by Fuller, Alexandra
  Publisher: Random House $ 24.95 ISBN: 0375507507 Date: 2002
  Kirkus Booklist PW
  Magnificently original and affecting, Fuller's memoir of a childhood dominated by the Rhodesian civil war of 1971-1979 captures the fascinating life of a white family living in one of the most remote regions of Africa.
  Suggested Reading: Reading Group Stars | Memoir Stars | Adult Books for Teens
  Updated 11.27.01
  
• Art Lover: A Biography of Peggy Guggenheim
  Author: Gill, Anton
  Publisher: HarperCollins $ 29.95 ISBN: 0060196971 Date: 2002
  Kirkus Booklist Library Journal
  Insightful and comprehensive, Anton Gill's work reveals Peggy Guggenheim as never before, including new information about her relationship with her daughter. It is a book that will appeal to serious art lovers, art history buffs, and anyone who wants to read an engrossing tell-all biography of a fascinating woman.
  Peggy Guggenheim collection
  Updated 3.14.02
• The Natural: The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton
  Author: Klein, Joe
  Publisher: Doubleday $ 22.95 ISBN: 0385506198 Date: 2002
  Kirkus PW LJ
  This "New York Times" bestseller is the first work to cut through the gossip, scandals, media hype, and emotional turbulence that former President Bill Clinton has always engendered, to step back and analyze the eight years of his administration.
  Updated 1.31.02
• Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
  Author: Macmillan, Margaret Olwen
  Publisher: Random $ 35 ISBN: 0375508260 Date: 2002
  PW LJ Booklist
  In this landmark work of narrative history, MacMillan brings extraordinary personalities to life. The great-granddaughter of Lloyd George, she makes use of his personal papers and gives a scintillating view of those dramatic and fateful days when much of the modern world was sketched out, when countries--Iraq, Yugoslavia, Israel--were founded whose troubles haunt the world still.
  Suggested Reading: Paris Stars
  Updated 8.28.02
• Beyond the Mountains of the Damned: The War Inside Kosovo
  Author: McAllester, Matthew
  Publisher: New York Univ $ 24.95 ISBN: 0814756603 Date: 2002
  Library Journal Kirkus PW
  Emotionally gripping and elegantly written, Beyond the Mountains of the Damned looks past the headlines to explain the ongoing strife and chaos in the Balkans. - Publisher Marketing.
  Suggested Reading: Former Yugoslavia Stars
  Updated 1.31.02
• To Reach the Clouds: My High Wire Walk Between the Two Towers
  Author: Petit, Philippe
  Publisher: North Point $ 30 ISBN: 0865476519
  Kirkus PW LJ
  In 1974, 100,000 people on the ground watched 24-year-old high wire artist Petit make eight crossings between the World Trade Towers. In this visually and verbally stunning book, Petit tells for the first time the story of his walk, from conception and clandestine planning to the performance and its aftermath.
  Updated 8.28.02
• Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002
  Author: Rushdie, Salman
  Publisher: Random $ 25.95 ISBN: 0679463348 Date: 2002
  Booklist Kirkus PW
  The best of Booker Prize-winning author Rushdie's nonfiction pieces from the past decade are assembled in this collection on wide-ranging and often unexpected topics.
  Updated 9.30.02

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