Coming in June 1998...
Staff -- Library Journal, 2/15/1998
Thrillers by Bearden, Brown, Huston, and Jaco that draw directly on the professional experience of their authors. Brown and Huston have military backgrounds, Bearden once worked for the CIA, and Jaco, who has won numerous awards in journalism, is perhaps best known for his CNN reports on SCUD attacks in Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War. In nonfiction, everyone's gone fly-fishing. FICTION BASS, Rick. BEARDEN, Milt. BLUME, Judy. BROWN, Dale. BURKE, James Lee. COBEN, Harlan. EAGLE, Kathleen. HUSTON, James W. JACO, Charles. L'AMOUR, Louis. LITTLE, Benilde. LUMLEY, Brian. PARETSKY, Sarah. PERRY, Thomas. REEVES-STEVENS, Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens. SHAARA, Jeff. TREMAIN, Rose. TURTLEDOVE, Harry.
BARKER, Clive.
Galilee.
HarperCollins. Jun. 1998. 432p. ISBN 0-06-017947-3. $25.
Two affluent families in a dark, erotic saga.
Where the Sea Used To Be.
Houghton. Jun. 1998. 320p. ISBN 0-395-77015-7. $25.
Astonishingly, Bass-the author of 11 noteworthy titles--is only now debuting his first novel, the story of an oil-hungry magnate and his contentious daughter.
The Black Tulip.
Random. Jun. 1998. 336p. ISBN 0-679-44791-1. $24.
In this debut, Bearden draws on his experience as the CIA officer in charge of the covert war in Afghanistan to craft a thriller about a former CIA officer in Afghanistan who must hook up with a KGB colonel.
Summer Sisters.
Delacorte. Jun. 1998. 288p. ISBN 0-385-32405-7. $21.95.
Blume goes adult again in this story of golden-girl Caitlin and working-class Vix, who share a summer on Martha's Vineyard.
The Tin Man.
Bantam. Jun. 1998 384p. ISBN 0-553-11106-X. $24.95.
abridged. BDD Audio. ISBN 0-553-52499-2. $24.95.
CD. ISBN 0-553-45581-8. $29.95.
Brown technohero Patrick McLanahan vs. the Aryan Brigade.
Sunset Limited.
Doubleday. Jun. 1998. 320p. ISBN 0-385-48842-4. $24.95.
Burke switches publishers and moves from straightforward mystery in this story of the 40-year-old murder of a prominent labor leader, a case being reopened by his daughter.
One False Move.
Delacorte. Jun. 1998. 320p. ISBN 0-385-32369-7. $21.95.
Edgar and Shamus Award winner Coben breaks into hardcover with a new Myron Bolitar mystery. Here, Bolitar must protect the star of a women's basketball team.
The Last True Cowboy.
Avon. Jun. 1998. 400p. ISBN 0-380-97522-X. $20.
In this RITA winner's new romance, Julia Weston is drawn to a loner she has asked to help save a herd of mustang. It seems he has a way of talking (or is it whispering?) to horses.
Balance of Power.
Morrow. Jun. 1998. 416p. ISBN 0-688-15917-6. $25.
In this much-touted debut, Congress threatens to take military action on its own when pirates hijack a merchant ship. Film rights have been optioned by Jerry (Top Gun) Bruckheimer.
Dead Air.
Ballantine. Jun. 1998. 304p. ISBN 0-345-42128-0. $24.
Someone is secretly selling chemical and biological weapons to Saddam Hussein, and it's up to big-time TV war correspondent Peter Dees to make the story headlines.
Monument Rock.
Bantam. Jun. 1998. 252p. ISBN 0-553-10833-6. $16.95.
abridged. BDD Audio. ISBN 0-553-47959-8. $9.99.
More L'Amour--several newly discovered pieces yet to appear in print.
The Itch.
S. & S. Jun. 1998. 288p. ISBN 0-684-83834-6. $23.
Remember Little's sassy Good Hair, a BlackboardTM best seller? In this follow-up, lucky Abra, who has been given everything by her struggling single mom, suddenly finds that life isn't always so easy.
Maze of Worlds.
Tor. Jun. 1998. 384p. ISBN 0-312-86604-6. $25.95.
In this sequel to The House of Doors, a group of dedicated humans must again struggle through the House's lethal four-dimensional maze to save Earth from a group of aliens.
Ghost Country.
Delacorte. Jun. 1998. 336p. ISBN 0-385-29933-8. $24.95.
V.I. Warshawski's creator hops from mystery to mainstream in a novel centered on a Chicago wall, said to weep the Virgin Mary's blood, that draws disparate troubled souls.
The Face-Changers.
Random. Jun. 1998. 400p. ISBN 0-679-45303-2. $24.
abridged. Random Audio. ISBN 0-375-40293-4. $18.
In the latest Jane Whitefield book from the ever-more-popular Perry (see, e.g., Shadow Woman, LJ 5/1/97), Whitefield finds that the Face-Changers are using her name and techniques not to save people but destroy them.
Icefire.
Pocket. Jun. 1998. 384p. ISBN 0-671-01402-1. $23.
The famed Star Trek novelists conjure up a huge tidal wave that results when the Chinese melt the Antarctic ice cap in a bid to control the world.
The Last Full Measure.
Ballantine. Jun. 1998. 512p. ISBN 0-345-40491-2. $25.
Shaara here finishes the Civil War trilogy begun by his father, Michael, with The Killer Angels, a Pulitzer Prize winner that sold over two million copies.
The Way I Found Her.
Farrar. Jun. 1998. 368p. ISBN 0-374-28666-3. $25.
In this latest from Tremain, whose best-selling Restoration was made into an Oscar-winning film, 13-year-old Lewis Little is awed by the grande Russian dame whose romances his mother translates and is determined to find her when she disappears.
The Great War: American Front; An Alternate History of the War To End All Wars.
Del Rey: Ballantine. Jun. 1998. 464p. ISBN 0-345-40615-X. $25.
A master of alternative history pits the United States against the Confederate States during World War I.
ANTHONY, Carl Sferrazza.
Florence Harding: The First Lady, the Jazz Age, and the Death of America's Most Scandalous President.
Morrow. Jun. 1998. 544p. ISBN 0-688-07794-3. $30.
A noted biographer of First Ladies on Florence Harding, who was not so bland as one might expect.
ARNOT, Robert, M.D.
Dr. Bob Arnot's Breast Cancer Prevention Diet.
Little, Brown. Jun. 1998. 256p. ISBN 0-316-05114-4. $23.95.
From the chief medical correspondent of NBC News.
ATKINS, Linda.
Jamaica and Me: The Story of an Unusual Friendship.
Random. Jun. 1998. 224p. ISBN 0-375-50073-1. $23.
A psychoanalyst who survived polio as a child tries to save one little corner of the world by befriending a troubled black girl.
DODSON, James.
Faithful Travelers: A Father, His Daughter, a Fly-Fishing Journey of the Heart.
Bantam. Jun. 1998. 304p. ISBN 0-553-10644-9. $22.95.
abridged. BDD Audio. ISBN 0-553-47851-6. $22.95.
Yet another take on fly-fishing, this time from the author of the best-selling Final Rounds.
LEWIS, John with Michael D'Orso.
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement.
S. & S. Jun. 1998. 352p. ISBN 0-684-81065-4. $25.
From a sharecropper's farm through the Civil Rights Movement to the U.S. Congress.
McKIBBEN, Bill.
Maybe One: An Environmental and Personal Argument for Single-Child Families.
S. & S. Jun. 1998. 256p. ISBN 0-684-85281-0. $23.
A noted environmental writer on dealing with the population crisis one child at a time.
MEYERS, Jeffrey.
Gary Cooper: An American Hero.
Morrow. Jun. 1998. 288p. ISBN 0-688-15494-8. $26.
From the biographer of Bogie, D.H. Lawrence, and more: a tempestuous Cooper.
MICHAELS, Lisa.
Split: A Counterculture Childhood.
Houghton. Jun. 1998. 288p. ISBN 0-395-83739-1. $23.
Memoirs are proliferating, but this one on surviving the Sixties was among the few excerpted in a recent New York Times Magazine piece on the genre.
MIDDLEBROOK, Diane Wood.
Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton.
Houghton. Jun. 1998. 320p. ISBN 0-395-65489-0. $25.
The award-winning biographer of Anne Sexton writes about jazz singer Tipton, a woman who passed as a man and even married five women.
MILLER, Dennis.
Ranting Again.
Doubleday. Jun. 1998. 224p. ISBN 0-385-48852-1. $21.95.
More rants to follow up Miller's New York Times best seller, The Rants.
MONTAIGNE, Fen.
Reeling in Russia: An American Angler in Russia.
Thomas Dunne: St. Martin's. Jun. 1998. 320p. ISBN 0-312-18595-2. $24.95.
How the former Moscow bureau chief for the Philadelphia Inquirer relaxed.
O'DONNELL, Helen.
A Common Good: The Friendship of Robert F. Kennedy and Kenneth P. O'Donnell.
Morrow. Jun. 1998. 352p. ISBN 0-688-14861-1. $24.50.
The daughter of JFK's chief of staff recalls her father's relationship with presidential brother Bobby.
ROSS, Lillian.
Here but Not Here: A Love Story.
Random. Jun. 1998. 288p. ISBN 0-375-50119-3. $25.
New Yorker writer Ross on her intimate relationship with the magazine's famed editor, William Shawn.
SPOCK, Benjamin, M.D. & Steven J. Parker, M.D.
Dr. Spock's Baby and Childcare. 7th rev. ed.
Pocket. Jun. 1998. 912p. ISBN 0-671-53763-6. pap. $18.
Revising and expanding a classic.
TRILLIN, Calvin.
Family Man.
Farrar. Jun. 1998. 176p. ISBN 0-374-15324-8. $20.
The humorist on family life.
WICKWIRE, Jim with Dorothy Bullitt.
Addicted to Danger: Affirming Life in the Face of Death; A Memoir.
Pocket. Jun. 1998. 320p. ISBN 0-671-01990-2. $24.
More mountain-climbing, this time from the first American to scale K2.
WOLFF, Michael.
Burn Rate: How I Survived the Gold Rush Years on the Internet.
S. & S. Jun. 1998. 288p. ISBN 0-684-84881-3. $24.
A journalist founds his own Internet company and survives to tell the story.
