August 2001
In This Issue
FIRST PERSON
The AUGUST BookPage interviews:
Cover story: Simon Winchester
Behind the book: Karen Essex revives the real Kleopatra
Meet the author: Clive Cussler
Stephen Ambrose
Michael Lewis
Michael Parker
Warren Adler
Thomas Davenport & John Beck on the Attention Economy
FEATURES
SPOTLIGHT: Setting sail with Walter Cronkite
Back to School: Books to help your child
New voices enliven the rich short story tradition
FICTION
About the Author by John Colapinto
The Child of the Holy Grail by Rosalind Miles
Dark Hollow by John Connolly
Fatal Voyage by Kathy Reichs
The Grand Complication by Allen Kurzweil
Niagra Falls All Over Again by Elizabeth McCracken
The Shape of Snakes by Minette Walters
The Southern Woman by Elizabeth Spencer
The Broken Places by Susan Perabo
Too Many Men by Lily Brett
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail by Bobbie Ann Mason
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Back to school already?? The School Story
and A Fine, Fine School
Horses & Ponies
Mississippi
All creatures, in books both great and small
TEEN PAGE TURNERS
The Prayer of Jabez for Kids
We Were There Too!
Artemis Fowl
Horse Sense
BookPage's own Magic 8-Ball answers all
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BOOK CLUB
Paperback recommendations
EBOOKS
Now featuring reviews of eBooks, exclusive to BookPage online:
Three guides to e-book success
Pilikia is My Business by Mark Troy
In the Face of Death by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
NONFICTION
Nature
Barefoot-Hearted by Kathleen Meyer
Eye of the Whale by Dick Russell
Biography
Boswell's Presumptuous Task by Adam Sisman
Richard Wright by Hazel Rowley
Indira by Katherine Frank
Milking the Moon by Eugene Walter as told to Katherine Clark
Memoir
A Thousand Goodbyes by Jim Huber
Even Dogs Go Home to Die by Linda St. John
Mosaic by Diane Armstrong
Science
The Secret Life of Dust by Hannah Holmes
The Riddle of the Compass by Amir D. Aczel
Sports
Venus Envy by L. Jon Wertheim
The Baseball Timeline by Burt Solomon
Reference
Don't forget to take one of these back to school
Space Cadets
The Giant Leap by Adrian Berry
Escapism
Houdini's Box by Adam Phillips
Minutiae
Timeline by T.M. Shine
Ye Olde Curiosity Shoppe
Paint by Number by William L. Bird, Jr.
AUDIO
The Spoken Word: Car-friendly Listening
MYSTERIES
Whodunit?: Unraveling the gender mystery
SCIENCE FICTION
Appearances can be deceiving
COOKING
Serving up summer's glories
OVERBOOKED
Meddling with the classics by Margaret Langstaff
ROMANCE
Love, Exciting & New: Why we keep the books we do
BUSINESS & FINANCE
Creating the innovative bathtub
Good Business: Wireless Nation by James B. Murray Jr.
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