Nonfiction in June 2001....

-- Library Journal, 2/1/2001

CARROLL, Andrew, ed.
War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from America's Wars.
Scribner. Jun. 2001. 464p.
ISBN 0-7432-0294-5. $28.
War letters you've never seen, solicited by Carroll for his Legacy Project.

DAVIS, William C.
An Honorable Defeat: The Last Days of the Confederate Government.
Harcourt. Jun. 2001. 512p.
ISBN 0-15-100564-8. $30.
Director of programs at the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies, Davis reconstructs the last days of the Civil War from a Southern perspective.

DEMEO, Albert with Joe Sharkey.
For the Sins of My Father: The Legacy of a Mafia Life.
Broadway. Jun. 2001. 256p.
ISBN 0-7679-0679-9. $24.95.
How bad it is when your father is a goodfella -- head of the Gambino family -- and you've looked up to him your whole life.

DE SAINT-EXUPERY, Consuelo.
The Tale of the Rose: The Passion That Inspired The Little Prince.
Random. Jun. 2001. 256p.
ISBN 0-375-50564-4. $23.95.
Written in 1945, just months after Antoine de Saint-Exupery died while flying a mission for the Resistance, this memoir by his wife has become an international best seller.

ETHERIDGE, Melissa with Laura Morton.
The Truth Is...My Life in Love and Music.
Villard. Jun. 2001. 288p.
ISBN 0-375-50599-7. $24.95.
Personal news from a hot rock guitarist.

LIGHTNER, Sam, Jr.
All Elevations Unknown: An Adventure in the Heart of Borneo.
Broadway. Jun. 2001. 288p.
ISBN 0-7679-0756-6. $24.95.
If you're sick of Everest: the tale of Lightner and German climbing pal Volker, who head for Borneo to climb a mountain no one is sure even exists.

QUEENAN, Joe.
Balsamic Dreams: A Short but Self-Important History of the Baby Boomer Generation.
Holt. Jun. 2001. 240p.
ISBN 0-8050-6720-5. $23.
At least when he knocks baby boomers, Queenan (Red Lobster, White Trash, and the Blue Lagoon) has the decency to be funny.

SOLOMON, Andrew.
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression.
Scribner. Jun. 2001. 480p.
ISBN 0-684-85466-X. $28.
Based on an acclaimed 1998 New Yorker piece on Solomon's struggle with depression.

YOUNG, Yolanda.
On Your Way to Beautiful.
Random. Jun. 2001. 240p.
ISBN 0-375-50493-1. $23.95.
Growing up black in Shreveport, LA. Young's column of the same name appears in Essence and 87 newspapers nationwide.