Coming in May 1998...
Staff -- Library Journal, 1/1/1998
Big-name novelists from Coonts, Grafton, and Higgins to Plain, Quick, and Steel, plus fun works like Palin's take on the Hemingway legend. Hemingway reappears in nonfiction in his granddaughter's memoir, and the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy brings forth several studies. FICTION BERG, Elizabeth. BROWN, Rita Mae & Sneaky Pie Brown. BUCHANAN, Edna. CARROLL, Susan. COLLINS, Stephen. COONTS, Stephen. DUNNETT, Dorothy. GRAFTON, Sue. HIGGINS, Jack. HOGAN, Linda. HORNBY, Nick. IRVING, John. JACKSON, Sheneska. McCAFFREY, Anne. McCAIG, Donald. McCRUMB, Sharyn. MARGOLIN, Phillip. MODESITT, L.E., Jr. PALIN, Michael. PECK, Dale. PLAIN, Belva. PRICE, Reynolds. QUICK, Amanda. ROBBINS, Harold. SANDFORD, John. SHATNER, William. SHREVE, Anita. STACKPOLE, Michael. STEEL, Danielle. STONE, Robert. VARGAS LLOSA, Mario. TYLER, Anne.
BARNARD, Robert
No Place of Safety.
Scribner. May 1998. 208p. ISBN 0-684-84503-2. $22.
Mystery surrounds teens at a homeless shelter; from an eight-time Edgar Award nominee.
What We Keep.
Random. May 1998. 288p. ISBN 0-375-50099-5. $23.
A woman reunites with a mother she hasn't seen for 35 years.
Murder on the Prowl.
Bantam. May 1998. 363p. ISBN 0-553-09970-1. $23.95.
False obituaries prefigure murder in Brown's latest feline mystery.
Pulse.
Avon. May 1998. 336p. ISBN 0-380-97331-6. $23.
A businessman given a new heart is drawn into his donor's mysterious death. Sounds like Michael Connelly's Bloodwork (Prepub Alert, LJ 11/1/97).
The Bride Finder.Fawcett Columbine: Ballantine. May 1998. 449p. ISBN 0-449-14927-7. $17.95.
In 18th-century Cornwall, a new bride has real worries about her mysterious husband. From top romancer Carroll.
Double Exposure.Morrow. May 1998. 256p. ISBN 0-688-15893-5. $24.
Actor Collins follows up his best-selling debut, Eye Contact, with this broadcast thriller featuring TV critic Joe MacBride, whose new neighbor means trouble in more ways than one.
Fortunes of War.
St. Martin's. May 1998. 368p. ISBN 0-312-18583-9. $24.95.
Japanese nationalists launch World War III. You can't miss the $300,000 marketing campaign.
Caprice and Rondo.
Knopf. May 1998. 592p. ISBN 0-679-45477-2. $27.50.
Dunnett's first hardcover since the phenomenal rediscovery of the "Lymond" series in paperback, this novel continues the "House of Niccolò" series, set in 15th-century Europe.
N Is for Noose.
Marian Wood Bk: Holt. May 1998. 304p. ISBN 0-8050-3650-4. $25.
Kinsey Millhone gets metaphysical. A Mystery Guild main selection.
Flight of Eagles.
Putnam. May 1998. 336p. ISBN 0-399-14376-9. $24.95.
More "Eagles": brothers on opposite sides in World War II. A BOMC main selection.
Power.
Norton. May 1998. 192p. ISBN 0-393-04636-2. $23.
Native or American? One girl's crisis.
About a Boy.
Riverhead: Putnam. May 1998. 288p. ISBN 1-57322-087-6. $22.95.
From the cult author of High Fidelity; a man who doesn't love children falls for a beautiful mom.
A Widow for One Year.
Random. May 1998. 608p. ISBN 0-375-50137-1. $27.95.
Three takes on a complex woman: as a child of grieving parents, a renowned--but definitely unmarried--author, and a widow about to fall in love.
Blessings.
S. & S. May 1998. 320p. ISBN 0-684-85035-4. $23.
Jackson's breakout title? Four women struggle with childbirth issues.
Freedom's Challenge.
Ace: Putnam. May 1998. 304p. ISBN 0-399-14397-1. $23.95.
There's more to the "Freedom" series: deportees battle their evil overlords.
Jacob's Ladder.
Norton. Apr. 1998. 448p. ISBN 0-393-04629-X. $25.95.
Blacks and whites on a Virginia plantation during the Civil War. Looking for another Cold Mountain?
The Ballad of Frankie Silver.
Dutton. May 1998. 304p. ISBN 0-525-93969-5. $23.95.
Whether 18-year-old Frankie Silver really murdered her husband in 1832 has bearing on a case today. A Mystery Guild main selection.
The Undertaker's Widow.
Doubleday. May 1998. 336p. ISBN 0-385-48054-7. $24.95.
abridged. BDD Audio. ISBN 0-553-47740-4. $24.95.
It looks as if a congresswoman has done in her husband.
The White Order.
Tor. May 1998. 384p. ISBN 0-312-86645-3. $24.95.
More in the "Recluse" saga: young Cerryl may become a master magician.
Hemingway's Chair.
St. Martin's. May 1998. 288p. ISBN 0-312-18593-6. $22.95.
There's life after Monty Python: Palin writes his first novel, whose protagonist is a postman obsessed with Hemingway and combating a technocrazed new boss.
Now It's Time To Say Good-bye.
Farrar. May 1998. 680p. ISBN 0-374-22271-1. $25.
Racial tensions in tiny Galatea, Kansas, as seen by two New York City escapees. From the author of Martin and John.
Legacy of Silence.Delacorte. May 1998. 384p. ISBN 0-385-31689-5. $24.95.
Two sisters--one adopted--flee 1939 Berlin when Nazis kill their parents and endure a "legacy of silence."
Roxanna Slade.
Scribner. May 1998. 304p. ISBN 0-684-83292-5. $25.
A North Carolina woman born in 1900 reflects on her past.
With This Ring.
Bantam. May 1998. 368p. ISBN 0-553-10083-1. $23.95.
abridged. BDD Audio. ISBN 0-553-47928-8. $16.99.
In Regency England, a woman who writes Gothics hunts for a mystical set of rings against all advice.
The Predators.
Forge: Tor. May 1998. 352p. ISBN 0-312-85294-0. $24.95.
Robbins's final work tracks a power broker from Hell's Kitchen to the world of global finance.
Secret Prey.
Putnam. May 1998. 336p. ISBN 0-399-14382-3. $24.95.
abridged. Putnam Berkley Audio. ISBN 0-399-14402-1. $24.95.
From predator to "prey": an executive is offed while hunting. A BOMC main selection.
Star Trek®: Spectre.
Pocket. May 1998. 384p. ISBN 0-671-00878-1. $23.
abridged. S. & S. Audio. ISBN 0-671-57998-3. $18.
Kirk in a mirror universe where he serves the cause of evil.
The Pilot's Wife.
Little, Brown. May 1998. 320p. ISBN 0-316-78908-9. $23.95.
Surprises about a husband killed in a plane crash.
Star Wars®: I, Jedi.
Bantam. May 1998. 480p. ISBN 0-553-10820-4. $23.95.
abridged. BDD Audio. ISBN 0-553-47948-2. $16.99.
From an award-winning game and computer designer and New York Times best-selling author: a Jedi's life.
The Long Road Home.
Delacorte. May 1998. 408p. ISBN 0-385-31958-8. $25.95.
lrg. prnt. ISBN 0-385-31992-4. $29.95.
unabridged. BDD Audio. ISBN 0553-50211-5. $39.95
abridged. BDD Audio. ISBN 0-553-47914-8. $29.95
abridged CD. ISBN 0553-45570-2. $29.95
Pure Steel: a young woman finds peace as a nun until she falls for a priest.
Damascus Gate.
Houghton. May 1998. 532p. ISBN 0-395-66569-8. $26.
An expatriate American journalist investigates religious obsession in Jerusalem.
The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto.
Farrar. May 1998. 400p. ISBN 0-374-22327-0. $25.
Eroticism fills Don Rigoberto's notebooks as he longs for his second wife, estranged after her affair with his son.
A Patchwork Planet.
Knopf. May 1998. 288p. ISBN 0-375-40256-X. $24.
lrg. prnt. ISBN 0-375-70290-3. $24.
abridged. Random Audio. ISBN 0-375-40308-6. $24.
A young man who has always been troubled is on the verge of getting it all together--or losing everything.
BALDRIGE, Letitia.
In the Kennedy Style.
Madison Pr. Bk: Doubleday. May 1998. 144p. ISBN 0-385-48964-1. $29.95.
Jackie Kennedy's social secretary on the White House social whirl.
BERAN, Michael Knox.
The Last Patrician: Bobby Kennedy and the End of the American Aristocracy.
St. Martin's. May 1998. 288p. ISBN 0-312-18625-8. $23.95.
An RFK specialist rethinks his legacy.
CHERNOW, Ron.
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
ISBN 0-679-43808-4. $30.
More financial biography from the author of National Book Award winner The House of Morgan.
DIMITRIUS, Jo-Ellan.
Reading People: How You See the World and How the World Sees You.
Random. May 1998. 256p. ISBN 0-375-50146-0. $23.
A leading jury consultant--she's served the likes of John DuPont and O.J.--on sizing up strangers.
DOWLING, Colette.
Maxing Out: Why Women Sabotage Their Financial Independence.
Little, Brown. May 1998. 288p. ISBN 0-316-19120-5. $23.95.
The author of The Cinderella Complex uses her own life to show women that they need to control their money.
EISENBERG, Evan.
The Ecology of Eden.
Knopf. May 1998. 592p. ISBN 0-394-57750-7. $30.
Ecology seen in light of our myths about Eden. The top Knopf publicist calls this the most important it will publish in 1998.
FEILER, Bruce.
Dreaming Out Loud: Garth Brooks, Wynonna Judd, Wade Hayes, and the Changing Face of Nashville.
Avon. May 1998. 352p. ISBN 0-380-97578-5. $24.
Telling the inside story of Nashville through the careers of three stars.
FOWLES, John.
Wormholes.
Holt. May 1998. 362p. ISBN 0-8050-5867-2. $25.
Essays from a major novelist.
GALINDO, Rudy with Eric Marcus.
Icebreaker: The Autobiography of Rudy Galindo.
Pocket. May 1998. 272p. ISBN 0-671-00391-7. $14.
Spanish. ISBN 0-671-02014-5. $14.
From tragedy to triumph with the 1996 National Figure Skating Champion
GIBSON, Ian.
The Shameful Life of Salvador Dali.
Norton. May 1998. 736p. ISBN 0-393-04624-9. $45.
From a Lorca biographer; with illustrations.
HARRER, Heinrich.
Return to Tibet: Tibet After the Chinese Occupation.
Tarcher: Putnam. May 1998. 224p. ISBN 0-87477-925-1. pap. $12.95.
Made famous by the recent film based on his Seven Years in Tibet, Harrer here revisits the country he was forced to flee.
HEMINGWAY, Lorian.
Walk on Water.
S. & S. May 1998. 288p. ISBN 0-684-82255-5. $23.
Papa's granddaughter on family, alcoholism, and her love of fishing.
HOUSTON, Cissy with Jonathan Singer.
How Sweet the Sound: My Life with God and Gospel.
Doubleday. May 1998. 256p. ISBN 0-385-49010-0. $22.95.
Whitney's mama on her life.
KENNEDY, Maxwell, ed. Make Gentle the Life of This World: The Vision of Bobby Kennedy.
Harcourt. May 1998. 192p. ISBN 0-15-100356-4. $20.
Quotes from RFK's journal amassed by his youngest son.
KOLLS, Rebecca.Rebecca's Garden: Four Seasons To Grown On.
Avon. May 1998. 256p. ISBN 0-380-97575-0. $27.50.
Gardening fun with the host of the internationally syndicated TV show Rebecca's Garden. A magazine premiers as well.
LEMONICK, Michael D.
Other Worlds: The Search for Life in the Universe.
S. & S. May 1998. 352p. ISBN 0-684-83294-1. $25.
An award-winning senior science writer at Time on the search for extraterrestrial life.
LUFT, Lorna.
Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir; Living with the Legacy of Judy Garland.
Pocket. May 1998. 352p. ISBN 0-671-01899-X. $25.
What it's like to be Judy Garland's "other daughter."
McKAY, Jim.
The Real McKay: My Wide World of Sports.
Dutton. May 1998. 304p. ISBN 0-525-94418-4. $24.95.
McKay recalls 50 years in sports broadcasting.
McPHEE, John.
Annals of the Former World.
Farrar. May 1998. 624p. ISBN 0-374-10520-0. $35.
McPhee's complete geology chronicles, begun in 1978.
MAIER, Thomas.
Dr. Spock: An American Life.
Harcourt. May 1998. 488p. ISBN 0-15-100203-7. $30.
A biography coinciding with the good doctor's 95th birthday.
MARTIN, Judith.
Miss Manners' Basic TrainingTM: The Right Thing To Say.
Crown. May 1998. 192p. ISBN 0-609-60051-6. $15.
...And not to say, such as, "It's all for the best," when grandma dies.
NELSON, Miriam E.
with Sarah Wernick. Strong Women Stay Slim.
Bantam. May 1998. ISBN 0-553-10931-6. $24.95.
From the best-selling authors of Strong Women Stay Young: strength training to lose weight.
REEVE, Christopher.
Still Christopher Reeve: A Life.
Random. May 1998. 394p. ISBN 0-679-45235-4. $25.
lrg. prnt. ISBN 0-375-70234-2. $25.
Life before and after the fall; to be launched with the national broadcast of a fundraising gala to benefit the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation.
ROBERTS, Cokie.
We Are Our Mothers' Daughters.
Morrow. May 1998. 128p. ISBN 0-688-15198-1. $19.95.
The coanchor of ABC's This Week on women's issues for the 21st century.
ROMBAUER, Irma S.
The Joy of Cooking: A Facsimile of the First Edition (1931).
Scribner. May 1998. 416p. ISBN 0-684-83358-1. $25.
Latest revision got you down? Then here's the original.
SERRANO, Richard.
One of Ours: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing.
Norton. Apr. 1998. 288p. ISBN 0-393-02743-0. $25.
From a Pulitzer Prize-winning Los Angeles Times reporter.
SHEEHY, Gail.
Passages for Men: Getting Your Life's Worth Out of Every Stage.
Random. May 1998. 224p. ISBN 0-679-45273-7. $23.
From postcareer careers to the male sexual life cycle.
SOMERS, Suzanne.
After the Fall: How I Picked Myself Up, Dusted Myself Off, and Started All Over Again.Crown. May 1998. 320p. ISBN 0-609-60312-4. $23.
abridged. Random Audio. ISBN 0-375-40333-7. $18.
Dealing with TV fame.
STRIEBER, Whitley.
Confirmation: The Hard Evidence of Aliens Among Us.
St. Martin's. May 1998. 256p. ISBN 0-312-18557-X. $23.95.
From a best-selling author in this genre.
WILL, George F.
Bunts: Curt Flood, Camden Yards, Pete Rose, & Other Reflections on Baseball.
Scribner. May 1998. 288p. ISBN 0-684-83820-6. $24.
The nationally syndicated columnist revisits baseball.
