April 2002
In This Issue

FIRST PERSON
The April BookPage interviews:

Jean Auel: Her stone age family returns

    After 12 years of waiting, fans will be rewarded April 30 with book 5 in the Earth's Children series

Maya Angelou: Memoirs last chapter
    "By the time Dr. King was killed, I came to understand a lot of things. I learned I could handle myself. I learned a lot about my own inner strength.

Nora Roberts' date with destiny

A very British tale from Hari Kunzru

Douglas Florian's playful poems for children


FEATURES

SPOTLIGHT: A suprising pair of celebrity memoirs -- Michael and Rosie

Appreciating the year-round joys of Poetry

Music: Hoagy, Lil and all that jazz

Baseball: Stronger than ever

Decorating: Personal touches that count

Christianity: Time-tested truths


FICTION

A Caress of Twilight by Laurell K. Hamilton

Spies by Michael Frayn

A Cup of Light by Nicole Mones

Sea Glass by Anita Shreve

The Master of Rain by Tom Bradby

The True Sources of the Nile by Sarah Stone

Wild Ginger by Anchee Min

The Dive from Clausen's Pier by Ann Packer

SCIENCE FICTION

One More for the Road by Ray Bradbury

BOOK CLUBS

Selections in new paperback releases



BookPage's own Magic 8-Ball answers all

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

Poetry Power: Verses, riddles and rhymes

Ella Fitzgerald by Andrea Davis Pinkney

A Pig Named Perrier by Elizabeth Spurr

Goldie Locks Has Chicken Pox by Erin Dealey

All Your Own Teeth by Adrienne Geoghegan

Hush by Jacqueline Woodson

Harriet Spies Again by Helen Ericson

This Land Was Made for You and Me by Elizabeth Partridge

Frida by Jonah Winter

NONFICTION

Memoir
No Heroes by Chris Offutt

Biography
Art Lover by Anton Gill
Sakharov by Richard Lourie

History
American Scoundrel by Thomas Keneally

Baseball
Baseball as America by National Geographic

Correspondence
Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda by Jackson R. Bryer

Religion
The Soul's Religion by Thomas Moore

Masculine Soul
Wild at Heart Field Manual by John Eldredge

Immigration
The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutierrez by Jimmy Breslin

Fishing
The Fish's Eye by Ian Frazier

Nature
Consider the Eel by Richard Schweid

Humor
Soar Above the Madness by Miriam Drennan & Joel Anderson


AUDIO
The Spoken Word: Selections for Spring

MYSTERIES
Whodunit?: The month's new mysteries

COOKING
Good and good for you

BETWEEN THE WINES
Discovering the secrets of village life in Sicily

ROMANCE
April showers of women's fiction

OVERBOOKED
Baby-boom collectors join the hunt for a flatsigned treasure

BUSINESS & FINANCE
Warning: Business books for bold readers only
Good business: A scientist who can't keep secrets



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