Featured Titles New titles - selected on the basis of good reviews. Nonfiction, fiction and mystery titles are included on the lists

October 2002

Nonfiction

• Ninty Degrees North: The Quest for the North Pole
  Author: Fleming, Fergus
  Publisher: Grove $ 26 ISBN: 0802117252
  KirkusPW
  The acclaimed author of Barrow's Boys and Killing Dragons relates the epic story of the men who stopped at nothing to unravel the mysteries of the North Pole. In scintillating detail he tells of the wing governments and fantastic eccentrics who, despite their heroic failures, often achieved massive celebrity as they battled to reach the top of the world. photos.
  Suggested Reading: Travel Tales
  Updated 7.3.02
• Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
  Author: Horwitz, Tony
  Publisher: Holt $ 26 ISBN: 0805065415
  PW
  In an exhilarating tale of historic adventure, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Confederates in the Attic retraces the voyages of Captain James Cook, the Yorkshire farm boy who drew the map of the modern world.
  Captain Cook Society
  Suggested Reading: Travel Tales
  Updated 8.28.02
• In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692
  Author: Norton, Mary Beth
  Publisher: Norton $ 30 ISBN: 037540709x
  PWLJ
  Norton, an admired historian, gives readers a unique perspective on the events at Salem, helping to understand the trials as they were understood by those who lived through the frenzy. Norton examines the crucial turning points, the accusers, the confessors, the judges, and the accused, among whom were 38 men.
  Salem Witch Trials Archive
  Updated 7.3.02
• Out of It: A Cultural History of Intoxication
  Author: Walton, Stuart
  Publisher: Harmony $ 24 ISBN: 0609610449
  Kirkus
  In this engaging and often surprising consideration of intoxication, Walton shines a heterodox and penetrating light on the history and spectrum of psychoactive drug use, from ancient Greece and Rome to the Victorian era to modern times, from alcohol, caffeine, and tobacco to opiates, amphetamines, and hallucinogens.
  Updated 8.28.02
• In Ruins
  Author: Woodward, Christopher
  Publisher: Pantheon $ 24 ISBN: 0375421998
  Kirkus
  Woodward has penned a wondrous meditation--at once a travelogue, memoir, and history--on the meaning of ruins and their persistent hold on the imagination.
  Suggested Reading: Travel Tales
  Updated 8.28.02

Fiction

• The Torn Skirt
  Author: Godfrey, Rebecca
  Publisher: Perennial $ 11.95 (trade paper) ISBN: 0060094850
  Kirkus
  Suggested Reading: First Fiction
  Updated 8.27.02
• The Navigator of New York
  Author: Johnston, Wayne
  Publisher: Doubleday $ 27.95 ISBN: 0385507674
  PWKirkus
  From the bestselling author of The Colony of Unrequited Dreams ("brilliant and accomplished"--Annie Proulx), comes an epic novel of one man's quest for the secret of his origins that ranges from the bustling streets of 19th-century New York to the remotest regions of the Arctic.
  Suggested Reading: Historical Fiction & Civil War Stars
  Updated 8.27.02
• The Miracle
  Author: L'Heureux, John
  Publisher: Atlantic $ 24 ISBN: 0871138573
  PWKirkus
  L'Heureux has been acclaimed as "a master storyteller ... elegant, cunning, and wickedly funny" ( The Washington Post). Now, in a pitch-perfect, deeply satisfying work of fiction, he enters the world of an unorthodox young priest whose faith is put to the test.
  Updated 8.13.02
• Cloud of Sparrows
  Author: Matsuoka, Takashi
  Publisher: Delacorte $ 24.95 ISBN: 0385336403
  PW
  Set amid the violence and beauty of 19th century Japan Matsuoka takes readers beyond the epic tradition of James Clavell's Shogun and into a majestic realm of samurai and geishas, ninjas and Zen masters.
  Suggested Reading: Historical Fiction
  Updated 8.13.02
• I Don't Know How She Does It: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother
  Author: Pearson, Allison
  Publisher: Knopf $ 23 ISBN: 0375414053
  PWBooklist
  In a novel that is at once uproariously funny and achingly sad, Pearson captures the guilty secret lives of working women--the self-recrimination, the comic deceptions, the giddy exhaustion, and the despair.
  Updated 9.7.02
• The Little Friend
  Author: Tartt, Donna
  Publisher: Knopf $ 26 ISBN: 0679439382
  KirkusBooklistPW
  The hugely anticipated new novel by the author of The Secret History--"an elegant, edifying work of art" ( Entertainment Weekly). Even more transfixingly suspenseful than its predecessor, this is a dark novel of lost childhood, rich in moral paradox, as a 12-year-old Mississippi girl sets out to find her brother's murderer.
  Updated 9.9.02

Mystery & Suspense

• Blood Junction
  Author: Carver, Caroline
  Publisher: Mysterious $ 24.95 ISBN: 0892967706
  PWLibrary Journal
  The outstanding thriller from the winner of the Crime Writer's Association's Debut Dagger Award is set in the unforgiving landscape of the Australian outback. When journalist India Kane is framed for the murders of a friend and a cop, she resolves to find out why they died.
  Suggested Reading: First Fiction
  Updated 8.16.02
• Dark Matter
  Author: Kerr, Philip
  Publisher: Crown $ 24 ISBN: 0609609815
  PWBooklistLibrary Journal
  As Dark Matter opens in 1696, young Christopher Ellis is sent to the Tower of London--not as a prisoner, but as assistant to Sir Isaac Newton, renowned scientist. Newton has been appointed by the King to uncover a ring of counterfeiters. Ellis lacks Sir Isaac's erudite mind, but he is quick with a pistol and proves an invaluable sidekick to the great scientist/sleuth.
  Suggested Reading: Historical Fiction
  Updated 8.16.02
• The Last Place
  Author: Lippman, Laura
  Publisher: Morrow $ 23.95 ISBN: 0380978199
  Kirkus
  With each novel, Lippman enhances her reputation as one of the premier suspense writers alongside Janet Evanovich and Patricia Cornwell. In this latest installment, P.I. Tess Monaghan faces her darkest demons--and possibly a serial killer--when she's hired to research a series of unsolved homicides that might be overlooked cases of domestic violence.
  Updated 8.13.02
• Blues in the Night
  Author: Krich, Rochelle Majer
  Publisher: Ballantine $ 23.95 ISBN: 0345449711
  The bestselling author of Shadows of Sin debuts a thrilling new suspense series starring the intrepid Molly Blume, the crime writer for a Los Angeles tabloid.
  Updated 9.30.02
• December 6
  Author: Smith, Martin Cruz
  Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 26 ISBN: 0684872536
  KirkusBooklistPW
  As seen through the eyes of an American con man living in Tokyo days before the Japanese attack, December 6 is Smith at the top of his game. The #1 bestselling author of Gorky Park, Red Square, Havana Bay and Rose returns with his most audaciously original and brilliant novel yet.
  Suggested Reading: Historical Fiction & World War Fiction Stars
  Updated 8.13.02