Fiction in November 2003…

Coming in November 2003…holiday greetings from Deveraux, Mitchard, and Perry, plus everything from a new series by Gabaldon to a new translation of Don Quixote. And nonfiction ranges widely, too; there are two memoirs recalling Ann Landers, two books tracking the connection of our earliest Presidents to slavery, and two books by Garry Wills.

AUCHINCLOSS, Louis.
The Scarlet Letters.
Houghton. Nov. 2003. 192p. ISBN 0-618-34159-5. $24.
Auchincloss re-creates Hawthorne's classic in 1950s Glenville, Long Island, NY.

BAUSCH, Richard.
The Stories of Richard Bausch: New and Selected Stories.
HarperCollins. Nov. 2003. 572p. ISBN 0-06-019649-1. $27.95.
Bausch will be taking his 42 stories on a four-city author tour.

BLANCHARD, Alice.
The Breathtaker.
Warner. Nov. 2003. 416p. ISBN 0-446-53139-1. $24.95.
A nasty twister hits Promise, OK, but Chief of Police Charlie Grover isn't fooled: several apparent victims were actually murdered. Film rights have been sold.

BROWN, Rita Mae.
Full Cry.
Ballantine. Nov. 2003. 352p. ISBN 0-345-46519-9. $24.95.
On her third ride, "Sister" Jane Arnold, Master of the Foxhounds, investigates scandal at a neighboring club—and an equally scandalous murder.

CAREY, Peter.
My Life as a Fake.
Knopf. Nov. 2003. 304p. ISBN 0-375-41498-3. $25.
Intent on discovering how John Slater wrecked her parents' marriage, Sarah Wode-Douglass travels with him to Malaysia, where she meets a dodgy Australian with a manuscript that leads to an international conspiracy. With a nine-city author tour.

CERVANTES, Miguel de.
Don Quixote.
Ecco: HarperCollins. Nov. 2003. 944p. ISBN 0-06-018870-7. $29.95.
"Unless you read Spanish, you've never read Don Quixote," boasts the publicity. Now is your chance—grab this new rendition by leading translator Edith Grossman.

COETZEE, J.M.
Elizabeth Costello.
Viking. Nov. 2003. 224p. ISBN 0-670-03130-5. $21.95.
A brilliant technique: Coetzee purports to disclose the life of a distinguished Australian through eight speeches she gave. No wonder he's won two Bookers.

CRACE, Jim.
Genesis.
Farrar. Nov. 2003. 256p. ISBN 0-374-22730-6. $23.
Admired actor Felix Dern remains completely unsullied by Hollywood but still manages to impregnate every woman he beds.

DELINSKY, Barbara.
The Passions of Chelsea Kane.
Morrow. Nov. 2003. 352p. ISBN 0-06-621457-2. $18.95.
lrg. prnt. ISBN 0-06-057026-1. $18.95.
Adopted Chelsea goes looking for her biological mother, in the process bumping into the undeniably handsome Judd Street.

DEVERAUX, Jude.
A Christmas Tale.
Atria: S. & S. Nov. 2003. 256p. ISBN 0-7434-7896-7. $18.
Audio: unabridged. S. & S. Audio. ISBN 0-7435-3349-6. $26.
CD: unabridged. S. & S. Audio. ISBN 0-7435-3350-X. $30.
It's hardly a surprise that Deveraux's latest holiday tale features a marriage-minded heroine named Holly.

GABALDON, Diana.
Lord John and the Private Matter.
Delacorte. Nov. 2003. 336p. ISBN 0-385-33747-7. $23.95.
In a new trilogy based on a character from Gabaldon's beloved "Outlander" series, Lord John Grey pursues a traitor through the back alleys of 1750s London.

HOPKINSON, Nalo.
The Salt Roads.
Warner. Nov. 2003. 304p. ISBN 0-446-53302-5. $22.95.
After debuting in 1998 with Brown Girl in the Ring (John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer), Hopkinson was a finalist for a passel of sf awards for Midnight Robber (2000). Here, three Caribbean slave women bring into being a deity who travels through time in various guises. With a ten-city author tour.

HOWARD, Linda.
Cry No More.
Ballantine. Nov. 2003. 320p. ISBN 0-345-45341-7. $25.95.
Milla Edge has a talent for finding lost children, but when she unwisely hooks up with a stranger in Mexico, she finds herself not hunter but hunted.

KELLERMAN, Jonathan.
The Conspiracy Club.
Ballantine. Nov. 2003. 416p. ISBN 0-345-45257-7. $26.95.
Audio: abridged. Random Audio. ISBN 0-7393-0461-5. $25.95.
Audio: unabridged. Random Audio. ISBN 0-7393-0464-X. $39.95.
CD: abridged. Random Audio. ISBN 0-7393-0462-3. $29.95.
Police look unkindly on staff psychologist Jeremy Carrier after his girlfriend is murdered, so when more women start dying, he knows he must investigate.

KING, Stephen.
The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla.
Scribner. Nov. 2003. 736p. ISBN 1-880418-56-8. $35.
E-Book: S. & S. ISBN 0-7432-5510-0.
Audio: unabridged. S. & S. Audio. ISBN 0-7435-3351-8. $75.
CD: unabridged. S. & S. Audio. ISBN 0-7435-3352-6. $75.
Roland, who keeps trying to reach the Dark Tower, is waylaid in the town of Calla Bryn Sturgis. With 12 full-color illustrations.

McCAFFREY, Anne & Todd McCaffrey.
Dragon's Kin: A New Novel of Pern.
Del Rey: Ballantine. Nov. 2003. 416p. ISBN 0-345-46198-3. $24.95.
McCaffrey joins forces with son Todd (a computer engineer, no less) in a new dragonrider tale that investigates the dragons' cousins, the watch-whers.

McMURTRY, Larry.
The Berrybender Narratives. Vol. 3: By Sorrow's River.
S. & S. Nov. 2003. 368p. ISBN 0-7432-3304-2. $26.
Audio: abridged. S. & S. Audio. ISBN 0-7435-2788-7. $39.95.
CD: abridged. S. & S. Audio. ISBN 0-7435-2789-5. $39.95.
As the Berrybenders make their way toward Santa Fe, Tasmin's husband (the "Sin Killer") conveniently scouts ahead, giving her the opportunity to fall in love with Pomp Charbonneau—who's promptly done in by the Spanish.

MITCHARD, Jacquelyn.
Christmas, Present.
HarperCollins. Nov. 2003. 144p. ISBN 0-06-056557-8. $14.95.
lrg. prnt. ISBN 0-06-057000-8. $14.95.
Audio: unabridged. HarperAudio. ISBN 0-06-056745-7. $18.95.
CD: unabridged. HarperAudio. ISBN 0-06-056746-5. $22.
When Laura's illness proves to be no ordinary headache, the Christmas gift she gives her family is a loving goodbye.

MULISCH, Harry.
Siegfried.
Viking. Nov. 2003. 192p. ISBN 0-670-03253-0. $22.95.
No, not Siegmund's son, Hitler's. An elderly couple who worked as servants at Hitler's Bavarian retreat confess to Dutch novelist Rudolf Herter something stranger than fiction: they raised Hitler's son by Eva Braun—and eventually killed him.

NANCE, John J.
Fire Flight.
S. & S. Nov. 2003. 320p. ISBN 0-7432-5050-8. $25.
Even as two wild fires rage in the West, several air tankers sent to tame them explode in midair. Pilot Clark Maxwell comes out of retirement to investigate.

PERRY, Anne.
A Christmas Journey.
Ballantine. Nov. 2003. 208p. ISBN 0-345-46673-X. $15.95.
If there's murder at the manor, Lady Vespasia Cumming-Gould is on the case.

RICE, Anne.
Blood Canticle: The Vampire Chronicles.
Knopf. Nov. 2003. 320p. ISBN 0-375-41200-X. $25.95.
Audio: abridged. Random Audio. ISBN 0-7393-0467-4. $25.95.
Audio: unabridged. Random Audio. ISBN 0-7393- 0631-6. $39.95.
CD: abridged. Random Audio. ISBN 0-7393-0630-8. $29.95.
Lestat is turning over a new leaf in this follow-up to Blackwood Farms; all he really wants is redemption—and the love of Rowan Mayfair.

ROBERTS, Nora & J.D. Robb.
Remember When.
Putnam. Nov. 2003. 480p. ISBN 0-399-15106-0. $25.95.
Someone's chasing Laine Tavish—and why not? She used to be Elaine O'Hara, daughter of a dangerous con man, and now she needs the help of a seductive stranger to save herself. Roberts and alter ego Robb join forces.

STEEL, Danielle.
Safe Harbor.
Delacorte. Nov. 2003. 336p. ISBN 0-385-33630-6. $26.95.
Audio: abridged. Random Audio. ISBN 0-553-75702-4. $25.95.
Audio: unabridged. Random Audio. ISBN 0-553-75704-0. $39.95.
CD: abridged. Random Audio. ISBN 0-553-75703-2. $29.95.
As fatherless Pip wanders a foggy beach near San Francisco, she encounters artist Matt Bowles. Will Matt and Pip's mother get together, or will her great expectations be dashed? Steel's 59th.

UPDIKE, John.
The Early Stories: 1953–1975.
Knopf. Nov. 2003. 880p. ISBN 1-4000-4072-8. $35.
Starting with "Ace in the Hole," a student work: 103 great stories.

WOLFF, Tobias.
Old School.
Knopf. Nov. 2003. 208p. ISBN 0-375-40146-6. $22.
A young boy tries desperately to fit in at a fancy prep school. Hard to believe that this is a first novel from Wolff (This Boy's Life). With a 12-city author tour.

YEHOSHUA, A.B.
The Liberated Bride.
Harcourt. Nov. 2003. 544p. ISBN 0-15-100653-9. $27.
When his new research assistant turns out to be a young Arab woman from Galilee, an Israeli professor rethinks issues both political and personal. From one of Israel's top writers.