April 2000
In This Issue

FIRST PERSON
The April BookPage interviews:

Larry Brown enters virgin territory with Fay

An American in Paris: Le Mariage by Diane Johnson

Lori Aurelia Williams gives silenced children a voice: When Kambia Elaine Flew in from Neptune

Meet the Author: Horse Heaven by Jane Smiley


BookPage's own Magic 8-Ball answers all

FICTION

Science Fiction: Soaring on flights of fantasy

  • Darkness Descending by Harry Turtledove
  • The Grand Design by John Marco
  • Venus by Ben Bova

    Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani

    The Cabal and Other Stories by Ellen Gilchrist

    Cross Dressing by Bill Fitzhugh

    Dating Big Bird by Laura Zigman

    Half Moon Street by Anne Perry

    Horse Heaven by Jane Smiley

    Hugger Mugger by Robert B. Parker

    In the Fall by Jeffrey Lent

    Like Normal People by Karen E. Bender

    Ray in Reverse by Daniel Wallace

    CHILDREN'S BOOKS

    Easter

  • The Thornbush by Michael Laughlin
  • Hide-and-Seek Peter Cottontail by David Crossley
  • The Easter Story by Brian Wildsmith
  • The Golden Egg illustrated by Maggie Kneen

    Children's Poetry: New poetry for a new century

  • The 20th Century Children's Poetry Treasury edited by Jack Prelutsky
  • The Songs of Birds: Stories and Poems from Many Cultures illustrated by Steve Palin
  • Big Talk: Poems for Four Voices by Paul Fleischman
  • Colors by Ken Nordine and Henrik Drescher
  • Someone I Like compiled by Judith Nicholls
  • Movin': Teen Poets Take Voice edited by Dave Johnson

    Being with Henry by Martha Brooks

    Love One Another: The Story of Easter retold by Lauren Thompson

    Otis by Janie Bynum

    Poppy & Ella: 3 Stories About 2 Friends by Jef Kaminsky

    Vision of Beauty: The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker by Kathryn Lasky

    BUSINESS & FINANCE

    A wealth of books on millionaires

  • The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko
  • How to Become a Millionaire: A Straightforward Approach to Accumulating Personal Wealth by Mark L. Alch
  • Eight Steps to Seven Figures: The Investment Strategies of Everyday Millionaires and How You Can Become Wealthy Too by Charles B. Carlson
  • The Millionaire Mind by Thomas J. Stanley
  • The Prime Movers: Traits of the Great Wealth Creators by Edwin A. Locke
  • Dumb Money: Adventures of a Day Trader by Joel Anuff and Gary Wolf
  • The Fragile Middle Class: Americans in Debt by Teresa A. Sullivan, Elizabeth Warren and Jay Lawrence Westbrook

    1001 Ways to Take Initiative at Work by Bob Nelson

    AUDIO

    The Spoken Word: Harry's back and better than ever

  • Isn't She Great by Michael Korda
  • Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
  • Young Wives by Olivia Goldsmith
  • Shrub: The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush by Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose
  • The Lion's Game by Nelson DeMille
  • Above the Law by J.F. Freedman

    ROMANCE

    Love Exciting and New: April showers us with love

  • Dakota Born by Debbie Macomber
  • Where You Belong by Barbara Taylor Bradford
  • Angel Falls by Kristin Hannah
  • Safe Harbor by Antoinette Stockenberg
  • Impossible Dreams by Patricia Rice
  • Indiscretion by Jillian Hunter
  • The Observatory by Emily Grayson
    		• FEATURES

    Gift Gallery: Gifts with class that last

  • Antiques Roadshow Primer by Carol Prisant
  • The Amy Vanderbilt Complete Book of Etiquette by Nancy Tuckerman and Nancy Dunnan
  • Moments: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photographs
  • Designing with Plants by Piet Oudolf and Noel Kingsbury

    Remembering the Holocaust

  • I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years 1941-1945 by Victor Klemperer
  • Witness: Voices from the Holocaust edited by Joshua M. Greene and Shiva Kumar
  • Motherland: A Daughter's Journey to Reclaim the Past by Fern Schumer Chapman
  • Half-Jew: A Daughter's Search for Her Family's Buried Past by Susan Jacoby
  • The Holocaust Chronicle: A History in Words and Pictures
  • My Secret Camera: Life in the Lodz Ghetto by Mendel Grossman and Frank Dabba Smith

    Play Ball! Primers on the nation's pastime

  • Baseball Dynasties: The Greatest Teams of All Time by Rob Neyer and Eddie Epstein
  • Baseball: 100 Classic Moments in the History of the Game by Joseph Wallace, Neil Hamilton, and Marty Appel
  • Past Time: Baseball as History by Jules Tygiel
  • Keep Your Eye on the Ball: Curveballs, Knuckleballs, and Fallacies of Baseball, Revised and Updated by Robert G. Watts and A. Terry Bahill
  • Baseball Days: Recollections of America's Favorite Pastime by Garret Mathews
  • The Quotable Baseball Fanatic edited by Louis D. Rubin Jr.
  • Batter Up! The Ultimate Baseball Scorekeeper by Benjamin Eli Smith
  • The Man in the Dugout: Baseball's Top Managers and How They Got That Way by Leonard Koppett
  • Shakespeare on Baseball: Such Time-Beguiling Sport by William Shakespeare and David Goodnough
  • The Money Pitch: Baseball Free Agency and Salary Arbitration by Roger I. Abrams
  • Off Season (Writing Baseball) by Eliot Asinof
  • 52-Week Baseball Training by Gene Coleman
  • Baseball Chronology by David Nemec

    National Poetry Month

  • American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volumes 1 and 2
  • The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry
  • The Vintage Book of African American Poetry
  • Mayflies: New Poems and Translations by Richard Wilbur
  • Men in the Off Hours by Anne Carson
  • The Ledge by Michael Collier
  • A Working Girl Can't Win by Deborah Garrison
  • Learning Human by Les A. Murray
  • Making the Skeleton Dance by Patricia Garfunkel
  • New Addresses by Kenneth Koch

    Another entry in Oprah's empire

  • The Uncommon Wisdom of Oprah Winfrey edited by Bill Adler
  • Andre Talks Hair! by Andre Walker
  • Make the Connection: Ten Steps to a Better Body -- And a Better Life by Bob Greene and Oprah Winfrey
  • Masters of Enterprise by H.W. Brands

    Shakespeare from stage to page

  • Shakespeare's Language by Frank Kermode
  • Shakespeare in the Movies: From the Silent Era to Shakespeare in Love by Douglas C. Bode
  • Fandex Family Field Guides: Shakespeare

    NONFICTION

    The Custom of the Sea: A Shocking True Tale of Shipwreck, Murder, and the Last Taboo by Neil Hanson

    The Sagas of the Icelanders

    Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit

    Biography
    No News at Throat Lake by Lawrence Donegan

    Patrick O'Brian: A Life Revealed by Dean King

    Civil Rights
    Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Cafe Society and An Early Cry For Civil Rights by David Margolick

    Cooking
    The Carbohydrate Addict's Cookbook by Drs. Richard and Rachel Heller

    The Minimalist Cooks at Home by Mark Bittman

    Defense
    Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War by Frances FitzGerald

    Diet
    Fight Fat After Forty by Pamela Peeke, M.D.

    Grieving
    In Lieu of Flowers: A Conversation for the Living by Nancy Cobb

    Nature
    The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder by David Quammen

    Politics
    The Last Campaign: How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election by Zachary Karabell

    Reference
    Women in Scripture edited by Carol Meyers

    Science
    The Lying Stones of Marrakech by Stephen Jay Gould

    Sports
    ESPN: The Uncensored History by Michael Freeman


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