Nonfiction in June 2003…
by Barbara Hoffert -- Library Journal, 2/15/2003
Old standbys like Brown, Patterson, and Scottoline. But this month look for exciting new authors. Crave thrillers? Try Bahal and Bell. Want a literary read? Turn to Byers, Parkhurst, and Wood. Novelists Allende and Weldon also have something to say in nonfiction.ALLENDE, Isabel.
My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile/Mi
Pais Inventado: Un Paseo Nostálgico Por Chile.
HarperCollins. Jun. 2003.
224p. English. ISBN 0-06-054564-X. $23.95.
Spanish. ISBN 0-06-054565-8.
$23.95.
Audio: unabridged. HarperAudio. ISBN 0-06-055926-8. $25.95.
CD:
unabridged. HarperAudio. ISBN 0-06-055927-6. $29.95.
Popular novelist Allende
considers homeland and exile from the perspective of two events: the
assassination of her uncle, Salvador Allende Gossens, and September 11.
BATTLES, Matthew.
Library: An Unquiet History.
Norton. Jun. 2003.
256p. ISBN 0-393-02029-0. $24.95.
A history of everyone's favorite topic from
rare books specialist Battles, who works at Harvard's Houghton Library.
CARPENTER, Teresa.
The Miss Stone Affair: America's First Hostage
Crisis.
S. & S. Jun. 2003. 352p. ISBN 0-7432-0051-1. $25.
A
Pulitzer Prize winner on the taking of an U.S. missionary in 1901
Macedonia.
HALL, Stephen S.
Merchants of Immortality: Chasing the Dream of Human Life
Extension.
Houghton. Jun. 2003. 384p. ISBN 0-618-09524-1. $25.
Hall
considers whether medical research will push back death and wipe out little
inconveniences like aging.
LEWIS, Michael.
The Art of Winning an Unfair Game.
Norton. Jun.
2003. 288p. ISBN 0-393-05765-8. $23.95.
How the Oakland Athletics stay on top
in baseball without a lot of dough: Norton's biggest book this season.
LOUISE, Regina.
Somebody's Someone: A Memoir.
Warner. Jun. 2003.
384p. ISBN 0-446-52910-9. $23.95.
Abandoned at birth, Louise drifted through
30 foster homes, always looking to be "somebody's someone." This first of a
two-part series is exciting everyone at Warner.
ROSE, Tricia.
Longing To Tell: Black Women Talk About Sexuality and
Intimacy.
Farrar. Jun. 2003. 400p. ISBN 0-374-19061-5. $25.
American
studies professor Rose wants black women to stop hiding, start talking, and
dispel all the misconceptions about their deepest feelings.
ROTELLA, Mark.
Stolen Figs: And Other Adventures in Calabria.
North
Point: Farrar. Jun. 2003. 272p. ISBN 0-86547-627-6. $25.
In this yummy
travelog cum memoir, PW editor Rotella revisits Calabria, home of his forebears.
A wonderful book, breathes the publicist.
SALISBURY, Gay & Laney Salisbury.
The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story
of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic.
Norton. Jun. 2003. 256p.
ISBN 0-393-01962-4. $24.95.
Cousins Gay and Laney--a former associate
publisher of Basic Books and a journalist--join forces to tell the stirring
story of how a few heroic dogs and their drivers delivered lifesaving serum to
Nome, AK, over 700 very frigid miles.
SATRAPI, Marjane.
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood.
Pantheon.
Jun. 2003. 168p. ISBN 0-375-42230-7. $17.95.
Satrapi uses black-and-white
comic strips to evoke her Iranian childhood. "We've never seen such buzz,"
affirms the publicist happily.
SUMMER, Lauralee.
Learning Joy from Dogs Without Collars.
S. &
S. Jun. 2003. 352p. ISBN 0-7432-0102-7. $24.
There was a real media blitz
back in 1994 when Summer was accepted at Harvard after years of homelessness.
WELDON, Fay.
Auto da Fay: A Memoir.
Grove. Jun. 2003. 384p. ISBN
0-8021-1750-3. $25.
Weldon relates how a tough little girl from New Zealand
sailed into the Swinging Sixties and emerged a famed author.
