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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.
July 2002
Nonfiction
- The Lost Fleet: The Discovery of a Sunken
Armada from the Golden Age of Piracy
Author: Clifford, Barry
Publisher: Morrow $ 27.95 ISBN: 0060198184
Kirkus
In 1678, most of the French Fleet in the Caribbean sank on the killer reef of Lad Aves island, devastating the French naval power and sparking a new age of piracy. A renowned explorer interweaves the legend of this maritime disaster with the story of his expedition to the wrecks.
Suggested Reading: Sea Stories
Updated 6.30.02 - Forty-Seven Roses
Author: Sheridan, Peter
Publisher: Viking $ 24.95 ISBN: 0670031003Kirkus
A family secret, a sacrifice for love, a dying mother, a search for the truth: the ingredients of 47 Roses suggest a compelling novel. But for Peter Sheridan, these are not the elements of fiction--they are the ingredients of his own life.
Updated 6.30.02
Fiction
- Inflating a Dog: The Story
of Ella's Lunch Launch
Author: Kraft, Eric
Publisher: Picador $ 25 ISBN: 0312288042KirkusBooklist
Ella Leroy dreams of escaping the dreary routine of her 1950s wife-and-mom life. Without telling her husband, she enlists her son Peter and his locally-notorious girlfriend Patti in a scheme: to buy a run-down clamboat and reinvent it as an elegant cruising vessel for summer people in the beach town of Babbington, Long Island.
Updated 6/29/02 - Fragrant Harbor
Author: Lanchester, John
Publisher: Putnam $ 25.95 ISBN: 0399148663PWKirkusBooklist
Fragrant Harbor takes the reader from the intrigue and double-dealing of the 1930s through the savagery of the Japanese occupation to contemporary Hong Kong. The result is a novel that proves Lanchester is a versatile and talented contemporary novelist.
Updated 7/18/02 - Peter Loon
Author: Reid, Van
Publisher: Penguin $ 24.95 ISBN: 067003052xLibrary JournalKirkus
Readers have been clamoring for a new Van Reid novel with the easy, innocent charm and page-turning exploits of Cordelia Underwood, Mollie Peer, and Daniel Plainway. Their wait is over. Set a century earlier, just after the American Revolution, Peter Loon brings us more of the irresistibly etched characters, intriguing adventures, and wonderful storytelling that we've come to expect. - Publisher Marketing.
Updated 6/10/02 - Lovely Bones
Author: Sebold, Alice
Publisher: Little Brown $ 21.95 ISBN: 031666343BooklistLibrary JournalPW
In the hands of a brilliant new novelist, and through the eyes of her winning new heroine, this tale of family, memory, love, and living is told by 14-year-old Susie Salmon, who is already in heaven. In the sweet, untroubled voice of a precocious teenage girl, Susie relates the awful events of her death and builds out of her family's grief the most hopeful and joyful of stories.
Updated 6/29/02
Mystery & Suspense
- Sleepyhead
Author: Billingham, Mark
Publisher: Morrow $ 24.95 ISBN: 0066212995Booklist
Alison Willetts can't move or communicate, but she's aware. Her survival of a deliberately induced stroke convinces police her attacker made an error. But Detective Tom Thorne discovers that Alison is the psychopath's masterpiece; the three women he killed before her were mistakes. Thorne must find a criminal whose agenda is terrifyingly unique.
Updated 5/9/02 - Black River
Author: Ford, G. M.
Publisher: Morrow $ 23.95 ISBN: 0380978741KirkusPW
Reporter Frank Corso, the only writer allowed to observe the high profile trial of a thug charged with 63 counts of murder, finds out that his close friend, photographer Meg Dougherty, is in the ICU after a run-in with a couple of hoods. It doesn't take long for Frank to realize there's a mysterious connection between the story Meg was chasing down and the courtroom spectacle he's witnessing.
Updated 6/30/02 - Bad Boy Brawly Brown: Easy
Rawlins
Author: Mosley, Walter
Publisher: Little Brown $ 24.95 ISBN: 0316073016Kirkus
PW
Easy Rawlins is out of the investigation business and as far away from crime as a black man can be in 1960s Los Angeles. But living around desperate men means life gets complicated sometimes. When an old friend gets in enough trouble to ask for Easy's help, he finds he can't refuse.
Updated 6/29/02
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