Nonfiction in May 2001....

-- Library Journal, 1/1/2001

ACZEL, Amir D.
The Riddle of the Compass: The Invention That Changed the World.
Harcourt. May 2001. 240p.
ISBN 0-15-100506-0. $22.
From the author who explained Fermat's Last Theorem.

ALBERT, Alexa.
Tricks of the Trade: A Brothel and Its Business.
Random. May 2001. 304p.
ISBN 0-375-50331-5. $24.95.
Nevada's licensed brothels from a public-health perspective; a six-year study by a Harvard medical student.

ARANA, Marie.
American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood.
Dial: Random. May 2001. 320p.
ISBN 0-385-31962-2. $23.95.
Arana, the editor of the Washington Post Book World, on what it is like to be poised between two worlds: that of her well-bred Peruvian father and her musician mother, straight out of Wyoming.

BLAIS, Madeleine.
Uphill Walkers: A Memoir of a Family.
Atlantic Monthly. May 2001. 256p.
ISBN 0-87113-792-5. $24.
Journalist Blais relates how she and her siblings bonded to survive a tough childhood after their father died young.

BLODGET, Henry.
The Internet Revolution.
Random. May 2001. 224p.
ISBN 0-679-46311-9. $22.95.
How the Internet helps our economy, from Merrill Lynch's senior Internet analyst.

BOWLES, Hamish.
Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years.
Bulfinch. May 2001. 206p.
ISBN 0-8212-2745-9. $50.
From Vogue's European editor-at-large, curator of a new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute showcasing all those gowns.

BREATHNACH, Sarah Ban.
Mrs. Sharp's Traditions: Reviving Victorian Family Celebrations of Comfort and Joy.
Scribner. May 2001. 224p.
ISBN 0-7432-1076-X. $30.
Breathnach overhauls her first book, which kicked off her Simple Abundance empire (a consulting firm, a press, etc.).

BROKAW, Tom.
An Album of Memories: Personal Histories from World War II.
Random. May 2001. 208p.
ISBN 0-375-50581-4. $29.95.
More thoughts on "the greatest generation," in scrapbook form.

BUCKLEY, Gail.
American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military, from the Revolution to Desert Storm.
Random. May 2001. 432p.
ISBN 0-375-50279-3. $29.95.
An overview of black military history, from Crispus Attucks to Colin Powell, by Lena Horne's daughter.

CAPUZZO, Michael.
Close to Shore: A True Story of Terror in an Age of Innocence.
Broadway: Random. May 2001. 368p.
ISBN 0-7679-0413-3. $24.95.
abridged. BDD Audio.
ISBN 0-553-52769-X. $25.95.
abridged. BDD Audio.
ISBN 0-553-71203-9. $29.95.
Jaws? No, just an account of the first major shark attack in America, launched along the New Jersey shore by a marauding great white in 1916.

CHEEVER, Susan.
As Good As I Could Be: A Memoir About Raising Wonderful Children in an Imperfect World.
S. & S. May 2001. 192p.
ISBN 0-684-86341-3. $23.
The author of Home Before Dark on raising good kids despite divorce, alcoholism, debt....

EHRENREICH, Barbara.
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in Boom-Time America.
Metropolitan: Holt. May 2001. 256p.
ISBN 0-8050-6388-9. $23.
Cultural critic Ehrenreich discovered prosperity's dark side while working menial jobs throughout America.

ELLISON, Ralph with Robert O'Meally, ed.
Living with Music: Ralph Ellison's Jazz Writings.
Random. May 2001. 286p.
ISBN 0-679-64034-7. $19.95.
Ellison's elegant essays on jazz, many of them never before collected.

FLANNERY, Tim.
The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples.
Atlantic Monthly. May 2001. 368p.
ISBN 0-87113-789-5. $27.50.
Sixty-five million years of North America's natural history -- from an Aussie scientist, no less! With a 21-city author tour.

FRASER, Laura.
An Italian Affair.
Pantheon. May 2001. 240p.
ISBN 0-375-42065-7. $22.
After a failed marriage, journalist Fraser (Salon.com, Vogue) heads for Italy -- and a transatlantic romance with a French aesthetics professor.

GALLENKAMP, Charles with the American Museum of Natural History.
Dragon Hunter: Roy Chapman Andrew and the Central Asiatic Expeditions.
Viking. May 2001. 432p.
ISBN 0-670-89093-6. $29.95.
Billed as a real-life Indiana Jones, Andrew led a massive fossil-hunting expedition to Mongolia in the 1920s that is the stuff of legend.

GASTON, Marilyn Hughes, M.D. & Gayle K. Porter.
Prime Time: The African American Woman's Complete Guide to Midlife Health and Wellness.
One World: Ballantine. May 2001. 352p.
ISBN 0-345-43215-0. $25.95.
A medical doctor and a psychologist team to address the escalating health problems facing black women today.

GOTTMAN, John M. & Joan DeClaire.
The Relationship Cure: A 5 Step Guide for Building Better Connections with Family, Friends, and Lovers.
Crown. May 2001. 304p.
ISBN 0-609-60809-6. $23.
From the author of The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: advice on fixing any damaged relationship.

GUTTENPLAN, D.D.
The Holocaust on Trial.
Norton. May 2001. 304p.
ISBN 0-393-02044-5. $23.95.
Here, a contributing editor to the Nation covers the trial of Deborah Lipstadt, sued for libel when she took British historian David Irving to task for denying the Holocaust.

HIMANEN, Pekka & others.
The Hacker Ethic: The Open-Source Movement and the Spirit of the New Economy.
Random. May 2001. 288p.
ISBN 0-375-50566-0. $24.95.
A hacker manifesto emphasizing playfulness over profit, written by key figures in the open source movement.

KRUGER, Kobie.
The Wilderness Family: At Home with Africa's Wildlife.
Ballantine. May 2001. 432p.
ISBN 0-345-44428-4. $26.95.
A best seller in South Africa, Kruger's account of life as a game warden's wife (complete with pet lion) is slated for publication in six countries this year.

LEON-PORTILLA, Miguel & Earl Shorris, eds.
In the Language of Kings: An Anthology of Mesoamerican Literature -- Pre-Columbian to the Present.
Norton. May 2001. 704p.
ISBN 0-393-02010-X. $39.95.
Billed as the first comprehensive anthology of this literature in any language.

LEWIS, Charles & others.
The Cheating of America: How Tax Avoidance and Evasion by the Super Rich Are Costing the Country Billions -- and What You Can Do About It.
Morrow. May 2001. 304p.
ISBN 0-380-97682-X. $25.
After The Buying of the President: Lewis, a former ABC investigative reporter, and coauthor Bill Allison show that many of the rich aren't paying taxes -- or getting audited.

LISCHER, Richard.
Open Secrets: A Spiritual Journey Through a Country Church.
Doubleday. May 2001. 288p.
ISBN 0-385-50217-6. $22.95.
A liberal young Lutheran pastor and his conservative first parish.

MAYLE, Peter.
French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew.
Knopf. May 2001. 256p.
ISBN 0-375-40590-9. $24.
lrg. prnt. ISBN 0-375-43119-5. $24.
unabridged. Random Audio.
ISBN 0-375-41885-7. $26.95.
unabridged. Random Audio.
ISBN 0-375-41886-5. $31.95.
Mayle leaves Provence to find good food all over France.

MENAND, Louis.
The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America.
Farrar. May 2001. 448p.
ISBN 0-374-19963-9. $25.
Menand examines the short-lived but profoundly influential Metaphysical Club, founded in 1872 by Oliver Wendell Holmes, William James, and Charles Sanders Peirce.

MULVANEY, Jay.
Jackie: The Clothes of Camelot.
St. Martin's. May 2001. 208p.
ISBN 0-312-28197-8. $35.
The author of Kennedy Weddings joins the excitement surrounding the Met exhibit (see Bowles, discussed above).

O'NEAL, Shaquille.
Shaq Talks Back.
St. Martin's. May 2001. 288p.
ISBN 0-312-27845-4. $23.95.
Inside and outside the NBA.

PARENT, Marc.
Believing It All: What My Children Taught Me About Trout Fishing, Jelly, Toast, and Life.
Little, Brown. May 2001. 256p.
ISBN 0-316-69015-5. $21.95.
Parent on parenting, via storytelling devices; an Oprah expert shares his skills.

PHILPOTT, Tom.
Forgotten Soldier.
Norton. May 2001. 480p.
ISBN 0-393-02012-6. $26.95.
The story of Jim Thompson, who after his capture in Vietnam in 1963 became the longest-held POW in U.S. history.

QUINN, Gary.
May the Angels Be with You: A Psychic Shows You How To Connect with Your Spirit Guides and Find Your True Purpose.
Harmony, dist. by Crown. May 2001. 160p.
ISBN 0-609-60804-5. $17.95.
A spiritual counselor to the stars explains how angels can transform us.

RAKOFF, David.
Fraud.
Doubleday. May 2001. 268p.
ISBN 0-385-50084-X. $21.95.
abridged. BDD Audio.
ISBN 0-533-71442-2. $25.
A biting first collection from American Life alum Rakoff.

ROBERTS, Monty.
Horse Sense for People.
Viking. May 2001. 256p.
ISBN 0-670-89975-5. $23.95.
Roberts does for people what he did for horses in The Man Who Listens to Horses; he shows that gentleness works best.

SIDES, Hampton.
Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission.
Doubleday. May 2001. 336p.
ISBN 0-385-49564-1. $24.95.
abridged. BDD Audio.
ISBN 0-553-52814-9. $25.95.
abridged. BDD Audio.
ISBN 0-553-71439-2. $29.95.
How members of the U.S. Army Sixth Ranger Battalion tried to rescue survivors of the Bataan Death March.

STANTON, Doug.
In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors.
Holt. May 2001. 320p.
ISBN 0-8050-6632-2. $25.
An account of the July 1945 torpedoing of the USS Indianapolis by the Japanese and the survivors' four-day struggle to stay alive.

TANNEN, Deborah.
I Only Say This Because I Love You: Talking in Families.
Random. May 2001. 240p.
ISBN 0-679-45601-5. $25.
Conversation stopper Tannen helps family members separate message from metamessage.

WALKER, Kent with Mark Schone.
Son of a Grifter.
Morrow. May 2001. 288p.
ISBN 0-06-018865-0. $25.
abridged. HarperAudio.
ISBN 0-694-52536-7. $25.95.
Tales of family life from the elder son of Sante Kimes, convicted with her younger son for killing a New York socialite. First serial to Talk, and look for not one but two TV movies.

WEIR, Alison.
Henry VIII: The King and His Court.
Ballantine. May 2001. 608p.
ISBN 0-345-43659-8. $28.
Having tackled Eleanor of Aquitaine, Elizabeth I, and Henry's six wives, Weir is ready for the king himself.

WELLSTONE, Sen. Paul David.
The Conscience of a Liberal: A Short Progressive's Tall Agenda.
Random. May 2001. 256p.
ISBN 0-679-46294-5. $23.95.
Wellstone (D-MN) on being a liberal in America's increasingly right-of-center political life.

WILLCOX, Bradley J., M.D. & others.
The Okinawa Way: How the World's Longest-Lived People Achieve Everlasting Health -- and How You Can Too!
Clarkson Potter, dist. by Crown. May 2001. 352p.
ISBN 0-609-60747-2. $24.95.
The results of a 25-year medical study.