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Spring 2001 Book List Edited by Laurele Riippa. Compiled by Lynn Andriani, Dena Croog, Robert Dahlin, Charles Hix, Julia Moberg, Karole Riippa and Bella Stander. -- 1/22/01 Trade Paperback General Fiction &Short Stories A-F | G-L | M-R | S-Z A-F ALYSON Endangered Species (Apr., $12.95) by Louis Bayard. A man attempts to make his mark on the world and uncovers the evolving nature of love and family. ANCHOR Reprints: English Passengers (Mar., $14) by Matthew Kneale; Bee Season (May, $13) by Myla Goldberg; Not a Day G s By (June, $6.99) by E. Lynn Harris. ARCADE Reprints: The Banyan Tree (Apr., $13.95) by Christopher Nolan; Destiny (Apr., $12.95) by Tim Parks; The Republic of Wine (Aug., $13.95) by Mo Yan. AVON Pride, Prejudice, and Jasmine Field (May, $14) by Melissa Nathan. Magazine columnist Jasmine Field's life is going swimmingly until she forgets her lines in a charity performance and g s weak in the knees for her obnoxious, arrogant costar. Advertising. BAKER BOOKS True Believers (June, $10.99) by Linda Dorrell. In the 1950s rural South, a woman doing charity work confronts social expectations and racism. BALLANTINE 100 One-Night Reads: A Book Lover's Guide (June, $12.95) by David C. Major and John S. Major recommends fiction and nonfiction that can be read in a single evening. Author publicity. Reprints: Gone for Soldiers: A Novel of the Mexican War (June, $15.95) by Jeff Shaara; Gertrude and Claudius (July, $12.95) by John Updike. BALLANTINE READERS CIRCLE Reprints: Horse Heaven (Mar., $14.95) by Jane Smiley; Welcome to the World,Baby Girl (Mar., $14) by Fannie Flagg; Big Stone Gap (Apr., $12.95) by Adriana Trigiani; Open House (May, $14) by Elizabeth Berg; Patty Jane's House of Curl (May, $14) by Lorna Landvik; Drowning Ruth (Aug., $14) by Christina Schwartz. BANTAM Reprints: Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates (June) by Tom Robbins; Grant (June,) by Max Byrd. BERKLEY The Hot Spots (July, $13), edited by J.H. Blair, contains erotic excerpts from the editor of The Good Parts. Reprints: Marrying the Mistress (June, $13) by Joanna Trollope; Gidget (June, $13) by Frederick Kohner; The River King (July, $14) by Alice Hoffman. BETHANY HOUSE Amazon Quest (May, $10.99) by Gilbert Morris. After her engagement is called off, Emily heads to the Amazon and meets danger. Sweet Boundless (May, $11.99) by Kristen Heitzmann. Abandoned by her husband, a young woman learns how to run the family mine. BLOOMSBURY USA Astrological Diary of God (Mar., $14.95) by Bo Fowler is a religious parody in the manner of Kurt Vonnegut. BROADMAN &HOLMAN Cast a Road Before Me (Mar., $12.99) by Brandilyn Collins weaves together love, labor conflict and spiritual warfare in a contemporary romance. CHRONICLE BOOKS S.O.S.: Chilling Tales of Adventure on the High Seas (May, $15.95), edited by Sara Nickles, is a sequel to The Campfire Collection. CINCO PUNTOS PRESS Questions and Swords: Folktales of the Zapatista Revolution (June, $22.95) by Subcomandante Marcos, trans. by Bobby Byrd, presents the strength and courage of Zapatistas fighting the Mexican government. CITY LIGHTS Points of Departure: New Stories from Mexico (June, $15.95), edited by Mónica LavÃn, assembles 17 stories by young writers, many never before published in English. Advertising. CLEIS PRESS Best Black Women's Erotica (Mar., $14.95), edited by Blanche Richardson, includes such writers as Terry McMillan and Nikki Giovanni. Reprint: Vanishing Rooms (Apr., $14.95) by Melvin Dixon. COFFEE HOUSE PRESS Circle K Cycles (Apr., $16.95) by Karen Tei Yamashita explores the history of the grandchildren of Japanese immigrants in Brazil as they move back to Japan. Reprint: Bird at My Window (May, $14.95) by Rosa Guy. CRANE HILL The Ghosts of America's East Coast (May, $12.95) by Jackie Behrend contains 34 chilling stories from every state along the sea. DALKEY ARCHIVE The Hesperides Tree (July, $13.95) by Nicholas Mosley considers the importance of myth and coincidence in our lives. Reprint: The Hive (July, $12.95) by Camilo José Cela. DTP/DELTA Reprint: The Running Mate (Apr., $13.95) by J Klein. DUCKWORTH/DUCK EDITIONS (dist. by IPM) Layer Cake (Apr., $15.95) by J.J. Connolly. A young gangster tries to escape the underworld of crime. Never Trust a Rabbit: Stories with a Twist (Apr., $15.95) by Jeremy Dyson is by one of the writer/actors from Comedy Central's League of Gentlemen. ECCO Reprint: Blonde: A Novel (May, $15) by Joyce Carol Oates. 75,000 first printing. EDGEWORK PRESS The Girl Who Went and Saw and Came Back (Mar., $16.95) by Kim Chernin. This experimental novel concerns the mysteries of identity and spiritual experiences. Author tour. EXACT CHANGE Reprint: The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen (July, $17.95) by Baron Munchausen and Rudolphe Erich Raspe. FC2 (dist. by Northwestern Univ. Press) Girl Beside Him (Mar., $13.95) by Cris Mazza. Will his desires turn a wildlife biologist into a sex killer? High Drama in Fabulous Toledo (Apr., $12.95) by Lily James. Kidnapped by inept criminals, a woman prefers captivity to her own predictable life. FIREFLY BOOKS Grey Owl: Three Complete Works (June, $19.95) by Grey Owl. The author is an English aristocrat who emigrated to North America to live with native peoples. FORGE Saints (Mar., $17.95) by Orson Scott Card. A woman leaves life in England for Mormonism in Utah. Advertising. The Wandering Arm (May, $12.95) by Sharan Newman. Seeking the stolen mummified arm of a saint, an Englishwoman comes to terms with her Jewish heritage. Reprints: Cheyenne Raiders (June, $17.95) by Robert Jordan; A Century of Great Western Stories (July, $15.95), edited by John Jakes. G-L GRAYWOLF PRESS Celebrities in Disgrace (June, $14) by Elizabeth Searle. Stories explore the glittery underworld of hopefuls desperate for fame. Advertising. Author tour. GROVE PRESS Reprints: The Toughest Indian in the World (Apr., $12) by Sherman Alexie; Asleep (Aug., $11) by Banana Yoshimoto. HARCOURT/HARVEST Soulcatcher (Mar., $12) by Charles Johnson offers 12 stories about slavery in America. Reprints: The Blue Bedspread (Apr., $13) by Raj Kamal Jha; Scandalmonger (June, $14) by William Safire; The Lost Legends of New Jersey (July, $13) by Frederick Reiken. HARPERENTERTAINMENT The Spy Who Came Out of the Closet: An Original Jane Bond Parody (June, $13) by Mabel Maney. The name is Bond, Jane Bond, and she must double for her twin brother on the urban battlefield--and in the bedroom. 20,000 first printing. HAWORTH PRESS Rebel Yell: Stories by Contemporary Southern Gay Authors (Apr.; $14.95, cloth $34.95), edited by Jay Quinn, is a new collection. HERODIAS Reprint: The Double View (Aug., $13) by Chandler Brossard. HILL STREET PRESS Making Our Way: A Southern Lesbian &Gay Reader (June, $16.95), edited by Amanda C. Gable, includes 45 selections that span nearly 200 years. 10-city editor tour. HOUGHTON/MARINER Love and Modern Medicine (Apr., $13) by Perri Klass collects stories by a five-time O. Henry Award winner. Ad/promo. Author tour. Reprints: Becoming Madame Mao (Apr., $13) by Anchee Min; The Contract Surgeon (May, $12) by Dan O'Brien; Wild Decembers (May, $13) by Edna O'Brien. HYPERION Reprint: World of Pies (June, $11.95) by Karen Stolz. INTERLINK The Orphan Girl and Other Stories: West African Folk Tales (Mar., $15) by Buchi Offodile demonstrates the roots of the storytelling tradition. KENSINGTON Grace and Favor (July) by Caroline Upcher. Two sisters who only meet in adulthood unlock their late father's secrets. Girlfriends (Aug.) by Patrick Sanchez is a comic novel about three dissimilar 20-something women who are pals. Reprint: Casting the First Stone (July, $13) by Kimberla Lawson Roby. KENSINGTON/BRAVA Tempting (Mar., $15) by Susan Johnson. Trapped in a loveless marriage, a princess falls for an American marquis. Seductive (Apr., $12) by Thea Devine. Protecting a fortune in Russian jewels, spy Nicholas Massey must deal with his uncle's alluring widow. KENSINGTON/DAFINA Every Bitter Thing Sweet (Aug., $14) by Roslyn Carrington. The younger generation of characters from A Thirst for Rain seek self-knowledge and good relationships with their parents. LITTLE, BROWN/BACK BAY Reprints: Jim the Boy (Apr., $12.95) by Tony Earley; Swimming Sweet Arrow (Aug., $12.95) by Maureen Gibbon. LOUISIANA STATE UNIV. PRESS Miss Undine's Living Room (Apr., $15.95) by James Wilcox. A candidate for superintendent of streets in Tula Springs, La., is thwarted when her uncle is suspected of murder. Advertising. M-R MCBOOKS PRESS Seven Men of Gascony (Apr., $16.95) by R.F. Delderfield. Comrades and her s meet their destiny at Waterloo. Too Few for Drums (Apr., $14.95) by R.F. Delderfield. Nine soldiers and one woman look for a path back to the British army from behind the French lines in the Napoleonic Wars. The Wicked Trade (Apr., $16.95) by Jan Needle is the second in the Sea Officer William Bentley series. MANIC D PRESS Depending on the Light (Apr., $13.95) by Thea Hillman. Thirty-three humorous and sexy stories define contemporary young urban lesbian life. Advertising. Author tour. MARLOWE Sail Away: Stories of Voyages by Ship and Sea (June, $16.95), edited by Lena Lencek and Gideon Bosker, tells what happens when the human soul encounters the ocean. 25,000 first printing. MODERN LIBRARY Life Stories: Profiles from TheNew Yorker and Wonderful Town: New York Stories from TheNew Yorker(May, $14.95 each), edited by David Remnick, anthologize pieces from the magazine. MOYER BELL Fairy Tale (Apr., $12.95) by Alice Thomas Ellis climbs the mysterious and magical mountains of Wales. Sweet Baby James (June, $10.95) by Robert Leuci. A cop in this Washington, D.C., thriller walks a fine line between right and wrong. MULTNOMAH Prince Ishbane's Letters (June, $14.99) by Randy Alcorn. Positive and negative forces war over the fate of four friends. NAIAD PRESS Frosting on the Cake (May, $11.95) by Karin Kallmaker contains 13 stories with a focus on lesbian romance. NBM PUBLISHING Remembrance of Things Past: Combray (June, $13.95) by Marcel Proust is a graphic novel of the classic adapted by Stephane Heuet. A ComicLit book. NEW AMERICAN LIBRARY Cosmic Banditos (Mar., $12) by A.C. Weisbecker chronicles the adventures of a group of pot-smoking banditos in hiding. Moments of Truth (Apr., $12) by Tony Wainwright and Mike Celizic tells a moving story of how people endure when the going gets rough. Reprints: Cheaters (May, $12.95) by Eric Jerome Dickey; The Train Now Departing (June, $12) by Martha Grimes. NEW DIRECTIONS Love in Vain: Selected Stories of Federigo Tozzi (May, $14.95) is his first collection available in the U.S. Reprint: Loitering with Intent (June, $13.95) by Muriel Spark. NORTHWESTERN UNIV. PRESS The Hermitage (Apr., $14.95) by Marie Bronsard is a farewell soliloquy to a lover long gone. A Small-Town Marriage (June, $15.95) by La Marchesa Columbi. A young woman trapped in a provincial town dreams of being rescued by love. W.W. NORTON Reprints: The Sleep-Over Artist (May, $13) by Thomas Beller; Freud's Megalomania (Aug., $12) by Israel Rosenfield. PETER OWEN (dist. by Dufour Editions) Modern Greek Writing: An Anthology in English Translation (June, $39.95), edited by David Ricks, gathers prose and verse from 1821 to the present. PENGUIN The Irish Wine Trilogy (July, $13) by Dick Wimmer. Three comic novels follow the fortunes of a brilliant Irish painter and his friends. Author publicity. Reprints: The Gates of the Alamo (Mar., $14) by Stephen Harrington; In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (May, $14) by Nathaniel Philbrick; Ravelstein (May, $13) by Saul Bellow; Welcome to My Planet: Where English Is Sometimes Spoken (June, $13) by Shannon Olson. PERENNIAL Reprint: More Than You Know: A Novel (Apr., $13) by Beth Gutcheon. 50,000 first printing;The Angel on the Roof: The Stories of Russell Banks (May, $15) by Russell Banks. 40,000 first printing. PERENNIAL CLASSICS Old Yeller (May, $8) by Fred Gipson. 30,000 first printing; Sounder (May, $8) by William H. Armstrong. 25,000 first printing; Watership Down (May) by Richard Adams. 30,000 first printing. PERSEA BOOKS Fishing for Chickens: Short Stories About Rural Youth (July; $8.95, cloth $19.95), edited by Jim Heynen, collects 14 works by both famous and new writers. PLUME Bad Heir Day (Mar., $14) by Wendy Holden. After her handsome boyfriend decamps, Anna takes a job as nanny with the family from hell. Reprints: Le Mariage (Apr., $13) by Diane Johnson; Chang and Eng (May, $13) by Darin Strauss; In the Name of Salomé (June, $13) by Julia Alvarez. POCKET BOOKS Stone of Light Volume III: Paneb the Ardent (Mar.) and ...Volume IV: The Place of Truth (Aug., $16 each) by Christian Jacq are set in the mountainous desert of Upper Egypt where men guard precious secrets of the pharaohs; the fourth volume completes the series. Reprints: No News at Throat Lake: In Search of Ireland (Mar., $13.95) by Lawrence Donegan; Plain Truth (Apr., $12.95) by Jodi Picoult; Double Standards/Tender Triumph Omnibus (Aug., $14) by Judith McNaught. PUBLIC AFFAIRS Reprint: The Special Prisoner (May, $14) by Jim Lehrer. PUSHCART PRESS Reprint: The Pushcart Prize XXV: Best of the Small Presses, 2001 Edition (June, $15), edited by Bill Henderson. QUARTET (dist. by Interlink) Open House (Mar.) by Nabil Saleh. Politicians maneuver as spies in 1940s Beirut. REGANbOOKS Reprint: Getting Over It: A Novel (May, $14) by Anna Maxted. 50,000 first printing. RIVERHEAD Reprint: Innocence (May, $12) by Jane Mendelsohn. ROBERTS RINEHART Reprint: Terrible Beauty (June, $16.95) by Peter King. ROXBURY PARK Hozho: Walking in Beauty--Native American Stories of Inspiration, Humor, and Life (Apr., $16.95), edited by Paula Gunn Allen and Carolyn Dunn Anderson, includes work by LeAnne Howe, Julian Lang and others. S-Z ST. MARTIN'S/GRIFFIN The Cassandra Compact: A Covert One Novel (May, $15.95) by Robert Ludlum and Philip Shelby. A stolen smallpox virus can lead to a weapon of unimaginable destruction. Reprint: Carp Fishing on Valium (May, $11.95) by Graham Parker. ST. MARTIN'S/THOMAS DUNNE Reprint: The Marines of Autumn (May, $13.95) by James Brady. SCRIBNER Show &Tell (May, $12) by Nelson George. A mysterious woman inducts a New York TV producer into a realm of sexual adventure. Advertising. 9-city author tour. Her Infinite Variety: Stories of Shakespeare and the Women He Loved (June, $12) by Pamela Rafael Berkman links tales about both real and fictional women in the Bard's life. Author tour. Reprints: Fay (Apr., $14) by Larry Brown; Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man (July, $13) by Joseph Heller; For the Love of Money (Aug., $14) by Omar Tyree. SERIF (dist. by Interlink) Fat Skeletons (Mar., $11.95) by Ursule Molinaro. A woman translates a novel alarmingly similar to her own Prague childhood. War Child (Mar., $14.95) by Stephen Gray. A mother and son are stranded in a South African village during WWII. SERPENT'S TAIL (dist. by Consortium) Our Lady of the Assassins (July, $12.99) by Fernando Vallejo protests the violence destroying Colombia. Under the Frangipani (Aug., $15) by Mia Couto is set amid Mozambique's civil war. SEVEN STORIES PRESS The Free Thinkers: Two Novellas (Apr., $14.95) by Layle Silbert is peopled with immigrants from the Ukraine. SHERIDAN HOUSE Reprints: An Eye of the Fleet (Apr., $14.95) by Richard Woodman; My First Two Thousand Years: The Autobiography of the Wandering Jew (July, $20) by George Sylvester Viereck and Paul Eldridge. SOHO PRESS Reprints: The Gravity of Sunlight (June, $13) by Rosa Shand; The Long Firm (June, $25) by Jake Arnott; Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years (Aug., $14) by Sue Townsend. TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIV. PRESS Reprint: Fast Copy (Apr., $16.95) by Dan Jenkins. THREE RIVERS PRESS The Naughty Bits: A Sexy Romp Through the History of Literature (May, $14), edited by Jack Murnighan, draws from the print and Web magazine Nerve. THUNDER'S MOUTH PRESS Chelsea Horror Hotel (May, $13.95) by Dee Dee Ramone explores scoring drugs and dealing with demons. TYNDALE HOUSE A Dangerous Silence (Apr., $11.99) by Catherine Palmer. Government agents look for an old Indian burial ground on a family farm. UNIV. OF MISSOURI PRESS No Visible Means of Support (Mar., $17.95) by Dabney Stuart collects stories that look at the loss of love. UNIV. OF NEBRASKA PRESS Piano Music for Four Hands (Apr.; $15, cloth $45) by Roger Grenier. Three French generations from WWI to the 1960s. UNIV. OF NEVADA PRESS Flight and Other Stories (Mar., $15) by Jose Skinner examines the Hispanic-American experience in the West. VILLARD/STRIVERS ROW The Hearts of Men (May, $13.95) by Travis Hunter introduces three African-American men at very different stages in their lives. Author tour. Shades of Jade (June, $13.95) by Gloria Mallette. Marissa is dating four married men, and one of their wives seems to want her dead. Author tour. VINTAGE Reprints: Anil's Ghost (Apr., $13) by Michael Ondaatje; The Human Stain (May, $14) by Philip Roth; White Teeth (June, $14) by Zadie Smith; In the Fall (July, $14) by Jeffrey Lent; Trans-Sister Radio (Aug., $14) by Chris Bohjalian. WARNER Between the Sheets: A Collection of Erotic Bedtime Stories (Aug., $12.95), edited by Penthouse magazine, is designed to arouse the imagination. Reprint: The Putt at the End of the World (June, $13.95) by Lee K. Abbott et al. WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS Reprints: Address Unknown (Apr., $8.95) by Kressmann Taylor; Music &Silence (May, $13.95) by Rose Tremain; God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (June, $10.95) by Kurt Vonnegut. MARKUS WIENER Land of Enchanters: Egyptian Short Stories from the Earliest Times to the Present Day (Apr., $18.95) by Bernard Lewis and Stanley Burstein spans many centuries. Author tour. WORD When Heaven Weeps (May, $12.99) by Ted Dekker. A lost young woman finds a love that won't let her go. The Note (May, $12.99) by Angela Hunt. After a plane crash, the last words of an anonymous passenger roil a reporter's world. Reprint: The Visitation (May, $12.99) by Frank Peretti. A-F | G-L | M-R | S-Z Launch the 2001 Spring Book List Index |
Spring 2001 Book List - Trade Paperback General Fiction &Short Stories
Jan 22, 2001
A version of this article appeared in the 01/22/2001 issue of Publishers Weekly under the headline:
