March 1998


FIRST PERSON
The March BookPage interviews:

Politics, Molly Ivins style: You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You

Halberstam rediscovers our nation's peaceful warriors. David Halberstam's The Children

Meet the Author: Anne Rice and a special excerpt from Pandora


FICTION

Read any good movies lately? A Hollywood insider offers a look at books hitting the big screen:

  • Good Will Hunting: A Screenplay
  • The Apostle
  • Jackie Brown
  • L.A. Confidential: The Screenplay
  • The Encyclopedia of Novels into Film
  • Great Expectations
  • Oscar and Lucinda
  • Spice World: The Movie -- The Official Book of the Film

    Blind Descent
    by Nevada Barr
    Cloudsplitter
    by Russell Banks
    Empire of the Ants
    by Bernard Werber
    The Hunt Club
    by Bret Lott
    Jack Maggs
    by Peter Carey
    Spending
    by Mary Gordon

    Mystery & Suspense
    An Instance of the Fingerpost
    by Iain Pears
    Blood Work
    by Michael Connelly
    Fear Nothing
    by Dean Koontz

    Romance
    Contemporary:
    Tell Me Lies
    by Jennifer Crusie
    Westerns:
    Fortune's Fancy
    by Anne Avery
    Shotgun Groom
    by Sandra Chastain
    Sweetwater
    by Dorothy Garlock


    CHILDREN'S BOOKS

    Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom
    collected and edited by Leonard S. Marcus
    Wow! It's Great Being A Duck!
    by Joan Rankin
    Nana Upstairs & Nana Downstairs
    by Tomie dePaola

    Easy as 1-2-3: Making math fun
    Math Power: How to Help Your Child Love Math, Even If You Don't
    by Patricia Clark Kenschaft
    Tic-Tac-Toe: Three in a Row
    by Judith Bauer Stamper
    Monster Math: School Time
    by Grace Maccarone
    The Fattest, Tallest,
    Biggest Snowman Ever

    by Bettina Ling
    A Fair Bear Share
    by Stuart J. Murphy
    A Pair of Protoceratops
    by Bernard Most
    A Trio of Triceratops
    by Bernard Most


    BUSINESS & FINANCE

    Change is good . . . really
    Driving Change: How the Best Companies Are Preparing for the 21st Century
    by Jerry Yoram Wind and Jeremy Main
    Champions of Change: How CEOs and Their Companies Are Mastering the Skills of Radical Change
    by David A. Nadler
    The Open Book Experience: Lessons from Over 100 Companies Who Successfully Transformed Themselves
    by John Case
    Louis Rukeyser's Book of Lists: The Best, the Worst, and the Funniest from the Worlds of Business, Finance and Politics
    by Louis Rukeyser


  • NONFICTION

    Contemplating Buddhism's recent popularity:
    Pilgrim
    by Richard Gere
    The Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk
    by Palden Gyatso
    Kundun: A Biography of the Dalai Lama
    by Mary Craig
    The Roaring Stream: A New Zen Reader
    edited by Nelson Foster and Jack Shoemaker
    Buddhist Texts Through the Ages
    edited by Edward Conze and others
    Awakening the Buddha Within: Eight Steps to Enlightenment
    by Lama Surya Das
    The Compass of Zen
    by Seung Sahn
    Being Bodies: Buddhist Women on the Paradox of Embodiment
    edited by Lenore Friedman and Susan Moon
    The Accidental Buddhist: Mindfulness, Enlightenment, and Sitting Still
    by Dinty W. Moore

    Aging
    Are You Old Enough to Read This Book? Reflections on Midlife
    edited by Deborah H. Deford
    Successful Aging
    by Dr. John W. Rowe, M. D.

    Cooking
    Desperation Dinners: Homecooked Meals for Frantic Families in 20 Minutes Flat
    by Beverly Mills and Alicia Ross

    Current Events
    Cyberville: Clicks, Culture, and the Creation of an Online Town
    by Stacy Horn
    The People vs. Big Tobacco: How the States Took on the Cigarette Giants
    by Carrick Mollenkamp, et al.

    Gardening
    Heat-Zone Gardening
    by Dr. H. Marc Cathey
    Garden Projects
    by Southern Living

    History
    Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
    by Tony Horwitz
    Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65
    by Taylor Branch
    Red Blood & Black Ink: Journalism in the Old West
    by David Dary

    Spirituality
    For the Love of God: Handbook for the Spirit
    by Richard Carlson and Benjamin Shield


    AUDIO -- The Spoken Word

    A March of mysteries
    A Certain Justice
    by P.D. James
    Survival of the Fittest
    by Jonathan Kellerman
    Mayday
    by Nelson DeMille and Thomas Block
    Another City, Not My Own
    by Dominick Dunne
    Animal Husbandry
    by Laura Zigman

    Sukey's favorite!
    The Irish in America edited by Michael Coffey, text by Terry Golway


    Burning Questions
    BookPage's own Magic 8-Ball
    answers all

    Ye Olde Curiosity Shoppe
    Encyclopedia of Mummies
    by Bob Brier

    Reader's Guide
    Publishers picks for What's Hot & What's New



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