January 2002
In This Issue

FIRST PERSON
The January BookPage interviews:

Brad Meltzer: Making millions disappear

    Meltzer dove into subjects now on everyone's mind: how people can change their identity and just disappear, and how the super-rich keep their millions hidden.

Into the dreamspace: Robert Olen Butler
    "Art does not come from the mind. It comes from the space where you dream, the unconscious."

BEHIND THE BOOK Thomas Mallon's inspiration

Nicholas Sparks: Success on the big screen

Patrick O'Leary: The power of ordinary men

Aging well: George E. Vaillant, M.D. and answers from a medical study

Meet Jayne Ann Krentz

FEATURES

SPOTLIGHT: Remembering the best of 2001

Literature: America's original, unmistakable Mark Twain

STUFF RESOLUTIONS ARE MADE OF

Self-help: 2002 is all about you!

Fitness: A healthier new you

Spirituality: Finding your own path
and making Sacred Contracts

BAKING

The Cake Mix Doctor returns!

FICTION

Wide Blue Yonder by Jean Thompson

Captain Saturday by Robert Inman

Tepper Isn't Going Out by Calvin Trillin

My Happy Life by Lydia Millet

Polar by T.R. Pearson

Basket Case by Carl Hiaasen

When the Elephants Dance by Tess Uriza Holthe

Roscoe by William Kennedy

On Green Dolphin Street by Sebastian Faulks

The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman

I'll Let You Go by Bruce Wagner

HISTORICAL FICTION

The Phoenix by Henning Boetius

BOOK CLUBS

Selections in new paperback releases

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

History -- it's kid stuff
The Prince Who Ran Away by Anne Rockwell
Johnny Appleseed by Will Moses
Mansa Musa by Kephra Burns
I Dreamed I Was a Ballerina by Anna Pavlova

They Came From the Bronx by Neil Wadman

The Good Dog by Avi

The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins by Barbara Kelsey

Table Manners by Chris Raschka & Vladimir Radunsky

NONFICTION

Memoir
Sleeping with Cats by Marge Piercy
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller

Road Trip
The Last Cowboys at the End of the World by Nick Reding

Flash of Light
Letters from the End of the World by Toyofumi Ogura

Ecology
The Future of Life by Edward O. Wilson

Science
Darwin, His Daughter, and Human Evolution by Randal Keyes

Presidential History
Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris
Theodore Roosevelt by Louis Auchincloss
Lincoln's Virtues by William Lee Miller

Natural History
Salt by Mark Kurlansky

Reform
Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy by Jean Bethke Elshtain

Drugs
Loaded by Robert Sabbag

Race & Murder
At the Hands of Persons Unknown by Philip Dray
A Death in Texas by Dina Temple-Raston

NEW & GOOD
Them: Adventures with Extremists by Jon Ronson

AUDIO
The Spoken Word: New sounds for a new year and audio inspiration

MYSTERIES
Whodunit?: The month's new mysteries

COOKING
A new style for healthy eating

BETWEEN THE WINES
A toast to travel

ROMANCE
Love, Exciting & New: The allure of romantic deception

BUSINESS & FINANCE
Formulas for financial success at every stage of life

YE OLDE CURIOSITY SHOPPE
The Devil's Details: A History of the Footnote


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