Coming in June 1998...
Staff -- Library Journal, 2/1/1998
Novelists like Gibbons, Trollope, and Vine, who are doing what they have always done well, and Kerr and Oates, who are exploring new territory. In nonfiction, two books take us to Mars--one fancifully and one in dead earnest. And note the number of books that appear not only in print and audio formats but in compact disc as well. Who says there's nothing new under the sun? FICTION BENSON, Raymond. GIBBONS, Kaye. GILSTRAP, John. KERR, Philip. KIJEWSKI, Karen. KUBAN, Karla. LEVY, Harry. OATES, Joyce Carol. O'CONNELL, Carol. RABB, Jonathan. TANENBAUM, Robert K. TROLLOPE, Joanna. VINE, Barbara.
BEATTIE, Ann.
Park City: New and Selected Stories.
Knopf. Jun. 1998. 464p. ISBN 0-679-45506-X. $25.
These 36 stories--eight never before published in book form--are classic Beattie.
The Facts of Death: The New James Bond Adventure.
Putnam. Jun. 1998. 288p. ISBN 0-399-14405-6. $23.95.
A New Age Bond? Agent 007 tangles with the reincarnation of Pythagoras in this new adventure from the director of the Ian Fleming Foundation.
On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon.
Putnam. Jun. 1998. 208p. ISBN 0-399-19408-8. $22.95.
A conflicted woman--she loves the South but hates slavery--goes North after the Civil War. Gibbons's sixth novel.
At All Costs.
Warner. Jun. 1998. 464p. ISBN 0-446-52315-1. $24.
abridged. Time Warner Audio. ISBN 1-57042-593-0. $17.95.
Over 56,000 hardcovers and 540,000 paperbacks in print; bestsellerdom for Wordstock and Ingram and in Germany, Ireland, and Great Britain, and film rights sold to Warner Bros: Gilstrap's debut, Nathan's Run (LJ 10/15/95), hasn't done badly. His next one, about a couple on the run for 13 years after being wrongly accused of killing 16 people, is already sparking interest: film rights have been sold for $1 million.
A Five-Year Plan.
Marian Wood Bk: Holt. Jun. 1998. 352p. ISBN 0-8050-5176-7. $23.
In this departure, the celebrated writer of thrillers (Esau, LJ 2/15/97) turns in a romantic caper pitting FBI agent Kate Fury against thief David Delano. Their target? A hollowed-out yacht hull that could hold lots of dough.
Stray Kat Waltz.
Putnam. Jun. 1998. 336p. ISBN 0-399-14368-8. $22.95.
In the ninth Kat Colorado thriller by the award-winning Kijewski, Kat seeks to protect a battered wife who may not be on the level.
Marchlands.
Scribner. Jun. 1998. 272p. ISBN 0-684-83166-1. $23.
This first novelist, who comes with good credentials--she's a James Michener Fellow and Pushcart Prize winner--serves up the story of a 15-year-old living on a Wyoming sheep ranch with her embittered mother and pining for the father who disappeared when she was young.
Chain of Custody.
Random. May 1998. 320p. ISBN 0-375-50128-2. $23.
It's a medical thriller. No, it's a legal thriller. No, it's both: Dr. Michael Mallone is a cardiologist now practicing law (medical malpractice suits, what else?) who finds himself in deep trouble when his estranged wife is murdered. It seems that his DNA was found at the scene of the crime.
My Heart Laid Bare.
Dutton. Jun. 1998. 420p. ISBN 0-525-94442-7. $24.95.
This historical drama opens during Colonial times, but the protagonists aren't noble forebears; they're a family of con artists.
Judas Child.
Putnam. Jun. 1998. 352p. ISBN 0-399-14380-7. $24.95.
In this latest from the much-praised O'Connell (e.g., Mallory's Oracle, LJ 4/15/94), two girls have disappeared from the local academy, mimicking a murder that took place 15 years earlier.
Overseer.
Crown. Jun. 1998. 416p. ISBN 0-609-60253-5. $25.
abridged. Random Audio. ISBN 0-375-40265-9. $24.
In this much-hyped first novel, the Pope has arranged to do away with a mad Swiss monk whose manuscript, "On Supremacy," discloses the secret of world domination. Now, in an effort to avert world catastrophe, everyone is after the manuscript and its putative owner, the Overseer. Befitting an international thriller, this work has prompted a bidding war abroad.
Reckless Endangerment.
Dutton. Jun. 1998. 352p. ISBN 0-525-94347-1. $23.95.
When Jewish-Arab tensions explode in Manhattan, Tanenbaum stalwarts Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi (Falsely Accused, Dutton, 1996) find themselves on different sides of the same case.
The Best of Friends.
Viking. Jun. 1998. 304p. ISBN 0-670-87973-8. $23.95.
Masterpiece Theatre favorite Trollope--descendant of that other Trollope, Anthony--pens the story of Gina, who turns to best friend Laurence when her marriage founders.
The Chimney Sweeper's Boy.
Harmony: Crown. Jun. 1998. 384p. ISBN 0-609-60287-X. $24.
lrg. prnt. ISBN 0-375-70293-8. $24.
abridged. Random Audio. ISBN 0-375-40330-2. $18.
A woman writing the biography of her famous father is startled to learn that he took his name from a child who died in infancy, a discovery that leads her down a crooked path to murder.
BARNARD, Neal, M.D.
Foods That Fight Pain.
Harmony: Crown. Jun. 1998. 352p. ISBN 0-609-60098-2. $25.
When he's done with the 12-city publication tour and the 23- to 30-city postpublication tour, Barnard (Eat Right, Live Longer, LJ 9/1/95) will undoubtedly find his advice on pain relief coming in handy.
BLOUNT, Roy, Jr, .
Be Sweet: A Conditional Love Story.
Knopf. Jun. 1998. 320p. ISBN 0-679-40054-0. $24.
Funny man Blount (First Hubby, LJ 6/15/90) offers a bittersweet memoir that asks why he became a humorist and recalls the mother who bade him "be sweet."
BRYSON, Bill.
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail.
Broadway: Bantam. May 1997. 288p. ISBN 0-7679-0251-3. $25.
abridged. BDD Audio. ISBN 0-533-52506-9. $25.
CD. ISBN 0-553-45592-3. $29.95.
The noted nature/ecology writer celebrates the Appalachian Trail on its 75th anniversary. There's a 22-city author tour; let's hope he's not walking.
BUFFETT, Jimmy.
The Pirate at Fifty.
Random. Jun. 1998. ISBN 0-679-43527-1. $23.
lrg. prnt. ISBN 0-375-70288-1. $23.
abridged. Random Audio. ISBN 0-679-45157-9. $24.
CD. ISBN 0-679-46061-6. $27.50.
The popular singer/songwriter turned best-selling author (Tales from Margaritaville, Harcourt, 1989) lets us take a peek into his private journals.
CROWLEY, Monica.
Nixon in Winter.
Random. Jun. 1998. ISBN 0-679-45695-3. $30.
Nixon's foreign policy assistant from 1990 until his death in 1994 reflects on the postpresidential years.
GOLDEN, Stephanie.
Slaying the Mermaid: Women and the Culture of Sacrifice.
Harmony: Crown. Jun. 1998. 384p. ISBN 0-517-70812-4. $25.
For women who want to stop being self-sacrificing like the Little Mermaid. The author is not just another pop psych guru: her The Women Outside (Univ. of California, 1992) is a major study on homelessness.
HANCOCK, Graham & Robert Bauval.
Mars Mystery: The Secret Connection Linking Earth's Ancient Civilization and the Red Planet.
Crown. Jun. 1998. 320p. ISBN 0-609-60086-9. $26.
The authors, who gave us best-selling New Age works like The Message of the Sphinx (Crown, 1996), return to argue that ancient civilizations on Earth were linked to Mars.
JAKES, T.D.
The Lady, Her Lover and Her Lord.
Putnam. Jun. 1998. 240p. ISBN 0-399-14414-5. $19.95.
More from best-selling inspirational writer Jakes (Woman, Thou Art Loosed!), pastor of one of the country's fastest-growing churches. Here he argues that God wants women to stop being sweet and submissive and everything else that men want them to be.
KINDER, Gary.
Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea.
Atlantic Monthly. Jun. 1998. 496p. ISBN 0-87113-464-0. $27.50.
abridged. Random Audio. ISBN 0-375-40346-9. $24.
Move over, Titanic. Kinder reports on the largest treasure ever recovered from the ocean floor, over ten tons of gold carried by S.S. Central America when it foundered off the Carolina coast in 1857. Kinder was aboard the research vessel that first located the downed ship.
McCOURT, Malachy.
A Monk Swimming.
Hyperion, dist. by Little, Brown. Jun. 1998. 320p. ISBN 0-7868-6398-6. $23.95.
Yes, it's Frank's brother, and he's here with a story of running wild in 1960s Manhattan as an actor, talk-show host, concrete inspector, and, eventually, tavern owner. The title comes from his youthful misunderstanding of the phrase amongst women in the Hail Mary.
POLLACK, William.
Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood.
Random. May 1998. ISBN 0-375-50131-2. $24.
abridged. Random Audio. ISBN 0-375-40291-8. $18.
The codirector of the Center for Men at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School hopes to do for boys what Mary Pipher's Reviving Ophelia did for girls.
SECREST, Meryle.
Stephen Sondheim: A Life.
Knopf. Jun. 1998. 448p. ISBN 0-679-44817-9. $30.
From the biographer of Frank Lloyd Wright and Leonard Bernstein.
SHIRLEY, Donna with Danelle Morton.
Managing Martians.
Broadway: Bantam. Jun. 1998. 320p. ISBN 0-7679-0240-8. $25.
No, this is not a book about aliens landing. It's about our efforts to reach Mars, written by the aerospace engineer who headed the team that created the Sojourner Mars rover.
SHUBENTSOV, Yefim & Barbara Gordon.
Cure Your Cravings.
Putnam. Jun. 1998. 256p. ISBN 0-399-14398-X. $21.95.
Shubentsov, whose Brookline, Massachusetts, clinic helped best-selling author Gordon (I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can) kick the tobacco habit, reveals how Bioenergy can help you quit, too.
SUSKIND, Ron.
A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League.
Broadway: Bantam. May 1998. 384p. ISBN 0-7679-0125-8. $25.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter on a young man who made it from an inner-city school to Brown University.
