Fiction in June 2001....

-- Library Journal, 2/15/2001

CORNWELL, Bernard.
Sharpe's Trafalgar: Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805.
HarperCollins. Jun. 2001. 288p.
ISBN 0-06-019425-1. $25.
This is being billed as Cornwell's breakout novel, but his Sharpe series has already garnered quite a few readers. Here, Sharpe sails home from India -- straight into the famed battle off Cape Trafalgar.

EARLE, Steve.
Doghouse Roses.
Houghton. Jun. 2001. 288p.
ISBN 0-618-04026-9. $23.
Earle has balanced life as an alternative country music singer/songwriter and social activist with drug addiction that resulted in jail time. Once he kicked the habit, he turned to writing. This story collection is the result.

EVANOVICH, Janet.
Seven Up.
St. Martin's. Jun. 2001. 320p.
ISBN 0-312-26584-0. $24.95.
Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum and sidekick Lula get more than they bargained for when they go after a little old man who smuggled cigarettes. In the meantime, Stephanie's love life goes in two wildly different directions.

FERRE, Rosario.
Flight of the Swan.
Farrar. Jun. 2001. 256p.
ISBN 0-374-15648-4. $23.
A Russian prima ballerina is stranded in the Caribbean after the 1917 revolution. From the National Book Award finalist for House on the Lagoon.

FORD, Michael Curtis.
The Ten Thousand: A Novel of Ancient Greece.
Thomas Dunne Bks: St. Martin's. Jun. 2001. 384p.
ISBN 0-312-26946-3. $24.95.
Ford goes way back in time for his debut, which re-creates the epic Greek battle of 400 B.C.E. known as the Ten Thousand from Babylon.

GOUDGE, Eileen.
Stranger in Paradise: A Carson Springs Novel.
Viking. Jun. 2001. 384p.
ISBN 0-670-89987-9. $24.95.
Goudge launches a new trilogy set in lush Carson Springs, CA, with the story of a woman's passion for a much younger man and the havoc it wreaks.

HANNAH, Barry.
Yonder Stands Your Orphan.
Atlantic Monthly. Jun. 2001. 320p.
ISBN 0-87113-811-5. $24.
When a sleepy Southern town finds itself in the clutches of a truly evil man (who happens to resemble Conrad Twitty), only an ineffectual Christian saxophonist named Max can save the day. Hannah's first work in a decade.

KINDER, Chuck.
Honeymooners: A Cautionary Tale.
Farrar. Jun. 2001. 336p.
ISBN 0-374-17258-7. $24.
Remember the character in Michael Chabon's Wonder Boys who simply can't get a novel written? That was reputedly Kinder, and here's the book: the tale of one terrific but very messed-up short story writer.

LAWRENCE, Rae.
Jacqueline Susann's Shadow of the Dolls.
Crown. Jun. 2001. 320p.
ISBN 0-609-60585-2. $22.
Just what you've been waiting for -- a sequel to Valley of the Dolls. The author of the best-selling Satisfaction has, shall we say, fleshed out the screenplay Susann left at her death. Appropriate beach fiction: it's set in the steamy Hamptons.

LODGE, David.
Thinks....
Viking. Jun. 2001. 288p.
ISBN 0-670-89984-4. $24.95.
Artificial intelligence pundit Ralph and literary novelist Helen, recently widowed, aren't supposed to be attracted to each other -- but they are. From frequent Booker Prize nominee Lodge.

MAXTED, Anna.
Running in Heels.
HarperCollins. Jun. 2001. NAp.
ISBN 0-06-039321-1. $25.
Maxted's Getting Over It was accused of being a Bridget Jones clone, but it was more than that. Now the Cosmopolitan U.K. contributing editor expands her repertoire with this story of Natalie, who fears she's all alone when best friend Barbara marries.

PATCHETT, Ann.
Bel Canto.
HarperCollins. Jun. 2001. 304p.
ISBN 0-06-018873-1. $25.
unabridged. HarperAudio.
ISBN 0-694-52533-2. $39.95.
In this tale by the author of such critically praised works as The Magician's Assistant, a terrorist takeover at an embassy party throws together an American diva and a Japanese CEO who is one of her biggest fans.

PETERS, Elizabeth.
Lord of the Silent.
Morrow. Jun. 2001. 416p.
ISBN 0-380-97884-9. $25.
lrg. prnt. ISBN 0-06-620961-7. $25.
abridged. HarperAudio.
ISBN 0-694-52510-3. $25.
If Amelia Peabody is back, there's got to be another dead body among the tombs.

RANDALL, Alice.
The Wind Done Gone.
Houghton. Jun. 2001. 288p.
ISBN 0-618-10450-X. $23.
The daughter of a biracial marriage who went from Harvard student to Washington, DC, journalist to Nashville country songwriter, Randall has done something interesting. She has dreamed up a mulatto half-sister for Scarlett O'Hara and sent her down a path that diverges from Margaret Mitchell's famed novel while incorporating some of its most famous scenes.

ROTH, Philip.
The Dying Animal.
Houghton. Jun. 2001. 128p.
ISBN 0-618-13587-1. $22.
abridged. Houghton Audio.
ISBN 0-618-13588-X. $25.
Roth at his most erotic, which really says something. A sixtyish cultural critic who has never managed to commit -- he's still enjoying the sexual revolution -- gets all tangled up in an affair with the voluptuous young Consuela.

ROUGHAN, Howard.
The Up and Comer.
Warner. Jun. 2001. 336p.
ISBN 0-446-52666-5. $23.95.
abridged. Time Warner Audio.
ISBN 1-56821-052-1. $24.95.
Up and comer Philip Randall is about to be a down and outer; a prep school buddy has spotted him with his mistress and resorts to blackmail. Numerous foreign rights sales and a forthcoming film make this a debut to watch.

SIMONS, Paulina.
The Bronze Horseman.
Morrow. Jun. 2001. 576p.
ISBN 0-06-019926-1. $26.95.
unabridged. HarperAudio.
ISBN 0-694-52553-7. $29.95.
In 1941 Leningrad, two sisters share everything -- including a passion for Red Army officer Alexander. Simons, the author of Tully and other titles, was born and raised in St. Petersburg.

SPANBAUER, Tom.
In the City of Shy Hunters.
Grove. Jun. 2001. 560p.
ISBN 0-8021-1691-4. $26.
In this follow-up to The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon, a cult classic published ten years ago that was selected as one of the Publishing Triangle's Top 100 Gay and Lesbian Books, shy, uncertain William moves from Jackson Hole to Manhattan -- just as AIDS is becoming a full-blown epidemic.

STYRON, Alexandra.
All the Finest Girls.
Little, Brown. Jun. 2001. 288p.
ISBN 0-316-89080-4. $23.95.
From the daughter of novelist William Styron and his poet wife, Rose: the story of a girl rescued from her parents' pitched battle of a marriage by her nanny. As an adult, she completes the healing process at her nanny's funeral.

THEROUX, Paul.
Hotel Honolulu.
Houghton. May 2001. 352p.
ISBN 0-618-09501-2. $26.
Every guest at this hotel has a story, and we get to hear them all -- including that of the new manager, a down-on-his-luck kind of guy whose life is taken over by his job.