March 2002
In This Issue

FIRST PERSON
The March BookPage interviews:

Whitney Otto: A modern floating world

    "[Your 20s are] kind of exhilarating love years, even as they can also be the heartbreak years. You may not have wisdom but love is huge."

Chris Bohjalian: An all-American family
    "By design, The Buffalo Soldier is about multigenerational love. I hope it illuminates the fact that friendship can transcend age."

Oh baby! New York nannies dish the dirt

MEET Anne Perry

Roger Ebert gives two thumbs-up for great films

Sounding off on voice power: Renee Grant-Williams

Techno-thriller master Joe Weber returns

From Elizabeth Jeffett: love and murder, Texas style

FEATURES

SPOTLIGHT: Into battle with Hal and Mel -- We Were Soldiers Once

St. Patrick's Day: The reading o' the green

Travel abroad AND travel on the cheap(er)

Marriage: The state of the union

Gardening: The forgiving garden AND
Easy does it: Annuals for Every Purpose

FICTION

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Crow Lake by Mary Lawson

Demons by John Shirley

The Fall of Light by Niall Williams

Henderson's Spear by Ronald Wright

Number9Dream by David Mitchell

Ordinary Life by Elizabeth Berg

Red Poppies by Alai

Song of the Water Saints by Nelly Rosario

The Wheat Field by Steve Thayer

SCIENCE FICTION

The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson

BOOK CLUBS

Selections in new paperback releases

E-BOOKS
Now featuring reviews of eBooks, exclusive to BookPage online:

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

Taking kids straight to the plate: baseball books

Girl power: Writing women into history

The Dancing Deer and the Foolish Hunter by Elisa Kleven

Gauchada by C. Drew Lamm

Houdini by Clinton Cox

Mrs. McCool and the Giant Cuhullin by Jessica Souhami

Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! by Candace Fleming

The Orphan Singer by Emily Arnold McCully

Pearl's Passover by Jane Breskin Zalben

Whatever Wanda Wanted by Jude Wisdom

NONFICTION

Childhood
The Life and Times of the Last Kid Picked by David Benjamin

Media
The News About the News by Leonard Downie Jr. & Robert G. Kaiser

Animals
A Dog Year by Jon Katz
The Healing Power of Pets by Dr. Marty Becker
Stud: Adventures in Breeding by Kevin Conley

History
The Floating Brothel by Sian Rees

Mutiny
Batavia's Graveyard by Mike Dash

Horizons
The Snow Geese by William Fiennes

Memoir
I'll Know It When I See It by Alice Carey
The Mountain of the Women by Liam Clancy

Illness
Losing My Mind by Thomas DeBaggio

Sports
Knight by Bob Knight with Bob Hammel

AUDIO
The Spoken Word: Audios for March

MYSTERIES
Whodunit?: The month's new mysteries

COOKING
Delicious reasons to spend more time in the kitchen

GIFT GALLERY
Lights, camera: reaction!

ROMANCE
March forecast: unseasonably hot and steamy

BUSINESS & FINANCE
Make the connection: your job depends on it
Good business: unweaving a tangled Web


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