A Parchment of Leaves: A Novel
by
Silas House
Algonquin Books, 01/01/2002
On his way to find work in the Redbud Camp, Saul Sullivan encounters a Cherokee girl who is said to possess a beauty that brings death to the men who ...
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Literary Fiction
Bear Snores On
by
Karma Wilson
Margaret K. McElderry Books, 01/01/2002
One by one, a whole host of different animals and birds find their way out of the cold and into Bear's cave to warm up. But even after the tea has ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Chasing the Dime
by
Michael Connelly
Columbia Marketing Ltd, 01/01/2002
Pierce has just been thrown out by his girlfriend and moved into a new apartment, and the company he founded is headed into the most critical phase of...
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Thrillers
Every Breath You Take: A True Story of Obsession, Revenge, and Murder
by
Ann Rule
Free Press, 01/01/2002
"If anything ever happens to me…find Ann Rule and ask her to write my story."
In perhaps the first true-crime book written at the victim's ...
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True Crime
The Siege: A Novel
by
Helen Dunmore
Grove Press, 01/09/2002
Called "elegantly, starkly beautiful" by The New York Times Book Review,
The Siege is Helen Dunmore's masterpiece. Her canvas is monumental - the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Shopaholic Takes Manhattan
by
Sophie Kinsella
Dial Press, 01/29/2002
With her shopping excesses (somewhat) in check and her career as a TV financial guru thriving, Becky Bloomwood's biggest problem seems to be tearing ...
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Romance
Enemy Women: A Novel
by
Paulette Jiles
William Morrow, 02/05/2002
For eighteen-year-old Adair Colley, it is a nightmare that tears apart her family and forces her and her sisters to flee. The treachery of a fellow ...
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Historical Fiction
Epitaph for a Spy: A Spy Thriller (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
by
Eric Ambler
Knopf, 02/05/2002
But in St. Gatien, on the eve of World War II, everyone is suspect–the American brother and sister, the expatriate Brits, and the German ...
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Thrillers
The Winds of War
by
Herman Wouk
Turtleback Books, 02/05/2002
Wouk's spellbinding narrative captures the tide of global events, as well as all the drama, romance, heroism, and tragedy of World War II, as it ...
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Historical Fiction
A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
by
Samantha Power
Basic Books, 02/19/2002
In her award-winning interrogation of the last century of American history, Samantha Power -- a former Balkan war correspondent and founding executive...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Regarding the Pain of Others
by
Susan Sontag
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 02/19/2002
Considered one of the greatest critics of her generation, Susan Sontag followed up her monumental
On Photography with an extended study of human ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Crow Lake
by
Mary Lawson
Knopf Canada, 02/26/2002
Tragic, funny and unforgettable, this deceptively simple masterpiece about the perils of hero worship leapt to the top of the bestseller lists only ...
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Literary Fiction
Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (California Studies in Food and Culture)
by
Marion Nestle
University of California Press, 03/04/2002
We all witness, in advertising and on supermarket shelves, the fierce competition for our food dollars. In this engrossing exposé, Marion Nestle ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by
Maya Angelou
Random House, 03/05/2002
Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of...
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Biography/Memoir
Crispin: The Cross of Lead
by
Avi
Hyperion, 04/29/2002
The 2003 Newbery Award Winner and New York Times Best-seller. "Avi's latest novel is superb combination of mystery, historical fiction, and a coming-...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Angels: A Novel
by
Denis Johnson
Harper, 04/30/2002
Driven by restless souls, bad booze, and desperate needs, Jamie and Bill bounce from bus stations to cheap hotels as they ply the strange, fascinating...
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Literary Fiction
Perfect Match
by
Jodi Picoult
Atria Books, 04/30/2002
What does it mean to be a good mother?
How far would you go in the name of love—and justice?
In the course of her everyday work, ...
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Thrillers
Wish You Were Here
by
Stewart O'Nan
Grove Press, 05/01/2002
Award-winning writer Stewart O'Nan has been acclaimed by critics as one of today's most accomplished novelists and hailed by The New York Times as "a ...
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Hominids: Neanderthal Parallax
by
Robert J. Sawyer
Tor Books, 05/03/2002
What they do have in common is imaginative originality, great stories, and unique scientific extrapolation. His latest is no exception.
Hominids ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Reliability Engineering Handbook
by
Dimitri B. Kececioglu
DEStech Publications, Inc., 05/15/2002
Illustrated by numerous worked examples Coverage provided in Volume 1 includes the following: Provides the important objectives of Reliability ...
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Other
Postcards from No Man's Land
by
Aidan Chambers
Dutton for Young Readers, 05/27/2002
Seventeen-year-old Jacob Todd is about to discover himself. Jacob's plan is to go to Amsterdam to honor his grandfather who died during World War II. ...
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Nantucket Nights: A Novel
by
Elin Hilderbrand
St. Martin's Press, 06/03/2002
For 20 years, Kayla, Antoinette and Val have performed their own special summer ritual. Once a year, the old friends put aside their daily, separate ...
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Romance
Perma Red
by
Debra Magpie Earling
Blue Hen Publishing, 06/10/2002
On the Flathead Indian Reservation, summer is ending, and Louise White Elk is determined to forge her own path. Raised by her Grandmother Magpie after...
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Literary Fiction
Geek Love: A Novel
by
Katherine Dunn
Vintage, 06/11/2002
Their offspring include Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of Genghis Khan ... Iphy and Elly, the ...
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Literary Fiction
The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000
by
Martin Amis
Knopf, 07/16/2002
Above all, Amis is concerned with literature, and with the deadly cliches—not only of the pen, but of the mind and the heart.
He tilts with ...
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Essays
Lake in the Clouds
by
Sara Donati
Bantam Books, 07/30/2002
Now Donati takes on a new and often overlooked chapter in our nation's past--and in the life of the spirited Bonners--as their oldest daughter, the ...
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Historical Fiction
After the Quake: Stories
by
Haruki Murakami
Knopf, 08/13/2002
The six stories in Haruki Murakami’s mesmerizing collection are set at the time of the catastrophic 1995 Kobe earthquake, when Japan became ...
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The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge
by
Vernor Vinge
Orbis Books, 08/17/2002
Now, for the first time, this illustrious author gathers all his short fiction into a single volume. This collection is truly the definitive Vinge, ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Four-Story Mistake
by
Elizabeth Enright
Henry Holt and Company, 09/01/2002
Meet the Melendys! Mona, the eldest, is thirteen. She has decided to become an actress and can recite poetry at the drop of a hat. Rush is twelve and ...
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Literary Fiction
The Chili Queen: A Novel
by
Sandra Dallas
St. Martin's Press, 09/05/2002
Emma's brother is seeing her off to Nalgitas to marry a man she has never met. And Emma seems like a lost soul to Addie-someone who needs Addie's ...
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Historical Fiction
Charles Darwin: The Power of Place
by
Janet Browne
Knopf, 09/10/2002
In 1858, Charles Darwin was forty-nine years old, a gentleman scientist living quietly at Down House in the Kent countryside. He was not yet a focus ...
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Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work & in Life, One Conversation at a Time
by
Susan Scott
Penguin Books, 09/16/2002
The master teacher of positive change through powerful communication, Susan Scott wants you to succeed. To do that, she explains, you must transform ...
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Advice
Nowhere Man
by
Aleksandar Hemon
Nan A. Talese, 09/17/2002
This is what we know about Jozef Pronek: He is a young man from Sarajevo who left to visit the United States in 1992, just in time to watch war break ...
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The Piano Tuner
by
Daniel Mason
Knopf, 09/17/2002
In October 1886, Edgar Drake receives a strange request from the British War Office: he must leave his wife and his quiet life in London to travel to ...
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Historical Fiction
In the Image: A Novel
by
Dara Horn
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/23/2002
An extraordinary first novel illuminated by spiritual exploration, one that remembers "a language, a literature, a held hand, an entire world lived ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
A Fearsome Doubt: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery
by
Charles Todd
Bantam Books, 10/01/2002
In 1912 Ian Rutledge watched as a man was condemned to hang for the murders of elderly women. Rutledge helped gather the evidence that sent Ben Shaw ...
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Mysteries
Fingersmith
by
Sarah Waters
Riverhead Books, 10/01/2002
ue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raised her with unusual tenderness, as if Sue were her ...
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Historical Fiction
The Lords of Discipline: A Novel
by
Pat Conroy
The Dial Press, 10/01/2002
In this powerful, mesmerizing, and acclaimed bestseller, Pat Conroy sweeps us into the turbulent world of four young men—friends, cadets, and ...
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Literary Fiction
The Water Is Wide: A Memoir
by
Pat Conroy
Dial Press, 10/01/2002
The island is nearly deserted, haunting, beautiful. Across a slip of ocean lies South Carolina. But for the handful of families on Yamacraw Island, ...
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Biography/Memoir
An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy
by
Rick Atkinson
Henry Holt and Company, 10/02/2002
The liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is an epic story of courage and calamity, of miscalculation and enduring triumph. An ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Little Friend
by
Donna Tartt
Knopf, 10/22/2002
The hugely anticipated new novel by the author of
The Secret History—a best-seller nationwide and around the world, and one of the most ...
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Thrillers
Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)
by
Charles Dickens
Penguin Classics, 12/31/2002
Charles Dickens's
Great Expectations charts the course of orphan Pip Pirrip's life as it is transformed by a vast, mysterious inheritance. A ...
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Literary Fiction
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Penguin Classics)
by
Herman Melville
Penguin Classics, 12/31/2002
Moby-Dick still stands as an indisputable literary classic. It is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature ...
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Literary Fiction
Pride and Prejudice
by
Jane Austen
Penguin Books, 12/31/2002
Few have failed to be charmed by the witty and independent spirit of Elizabeth Bennet in Austen's beloved classic
Pride and Prejudice. When Elizabeth ...
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Historical Fiction
