June 1998

FIRST PERSON
The June BookPage interviews:

Real-life treasure hunters discover America's richest shipwreck. Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea by Gary Kinder

Not your average commute: riding the dragon to a fulfilling work life. The Artist's Way at Work: Riding the Dragon by Mark Bryan

The trilogy concludes but the legacy lives on. The Last Full Measure by Jeff Shaara

Meet the Author. Ghost Country by Sara Paretsky

Writing away again in Margaritaville. A Pirate Looks at Fifty by Jimmy Buffett

First time's the charm: seriously good debut novels:
Goodnight, Nebraska
by Tom McNeal
The Odd Sea
by Frederick Reiken
My Year of Meats
by Ruth Ozeki


FICTION

Cities of the Plain
by Cormac McCarthy
Where the Sea Used to Be
by Rick Bass
The Best of Friends
by Joanna Trollope
The Inn at Lake Devine
by Elinor Lipman
Quite a Year for Plums
by Bailey White
London Holiday
by Richard Peck
My Heart Laid Bare
by Joyce Carol Oates
The Everlasting Story of Nory
by Nicholson Baker
Caprice and Rondo
by Dorothy Dunnett
The Great War: American Front
by Harry Turtledove
Mendel's Dwarf
by Simon Mawer
Blessings
by Sheneska Jackson

Mystery & Suspense
Freedomland
by Richard Price
Day of Wrath
by Larry Bond
The Mango Opera
by Tom Corcoran
Sunset Limited
by James Lee Burke
A Five Year Plan
by Philip Kerr

Science Fiction & Fantasy
Newton's Cannon
by J. Gregory Keyes
A Hunger in the Soul
by Mike Resnick
O Pioneer!
by Fred Pohl

Romance
Contemporary:
The Last True Cowboy
by Kathleen Eagle
Babe in the Woods
by Pamela Bauer
Between Friends
by Sandra Kitt
Historical:
Lucky Stars
by Patricia Roy


CHILDREN'S BOOKS

Little league reads:
Ballpark
by Elisha Cooper
Take Me out to the Bat and Ball Factory
by Peggy Thomson
The Bat Boy and His Violin
by Gavin Curtis
That Sweet Diamond: Baseball Poems
by Paul B. Janeczko

A bunch of beach blanket books:
Out of the Ocean
by Debra Frasier
Our Mysterious Ocean
by Reader's Digest Young Families
The Sea
by Marie Aubinais
Crafts for Kids Who Are Wild about Oceans
by Kathy Ross
In the Deep
by Puzzle Safari
Beach Baby
by Mary Brigid Barrett
At the Beach with Dad
by Mercer Mayer
Flip-Flops
by Nancy Cote

Flix
by Tomi Ungerer
Hooray for Diffendoofer Day!
by Dr. Seuss and Jack Prelutsky
Whirligig
by Paul Fleischman


BUSINESS & FINANCE

What the Asian flu means for you:
Big Dragon: China's Future: What It Means for Business, the Economy and the Global Order
by Daniel Burstein and Arnehde Keijzer
The Ministry: How Japan's Most Powerful Institution Endangers World Markets
by Peter Hartcher
Burn Rate: How I Survived the Gold Rush Years on the Internet
by Michael Wolff
If You're Clueless about Starting Your Own Business and Want to Know More
by Seth Godin
Riding the Bull
by Paul Stiles
Big Deal: The Battle for Control of America's Leading Corporations
by Bruce Wasserstein
Pit Bull
by Martin Schwartz


NONFICTION

Art
Sotheby's: Bidding for Class
by Robert Lacey

Cooking
The Best of Gourmet 1998
Good Housekeeping Best Recipes 1998
Cooking Light Annual Recipes 1998

Culture
Do Pharmacists Sell Farms? A Trip inside the Corner Drugstore
by Vince Staten

Current Events
To End a War
by Richard Holbrooke

Health
Healing Anxiety with Herbs
by Harold H. Bloomfield

History
Forgotten Americans: Footnote Figures Who Changed American History
by Willard Sterne Randall and Nancy Nahra
The King's Midwife:
A History and Mystery of Madame du Coudray

by Nina Rattner Gelbart

Memoir
Family Man
by Calvin Trillin
Be Sweet
by Roy Blount, Jr
Simple Gifts: A Memoir of a Shaker Village
by June Sprigg
Remembering Mr. Shawn's New Yorker
by Ved Mehta
Here but Not Here: My Life with William Shawn and The New Yorker
by Lillian Ross

Science
Annals of the Former World
by John McPhee

Parenting
Mom Central: The Ultimate Family Organizer
by Stacy DeBroff and Marsha Feinberg

Sports
Bunts: Curt Flood, Camden Yards, Pete Rose and Other Reflections on Baseball
by George Will

UFOs
UFOs and Ufology: The First 50 Years
by Paul Devereux and Peter Brookesmith


AUDIO
Boy, did you say a monthful!

The Spoken Word:
Under the Tuscan Sun
by Frances Mayes
The Men of Brewster Place
by Gloria Naylor
The Eleventh Plague
by John Baldwin and John S. Marr
You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You: Politics in the Clinton Years
by Molly Ivins
Twanged
by Carol Higgins Clark
Pandora
by Anne Rice
Language Tutorials on Tape
by various authors
Pariswalks and Londonwalks
by Sonia and Alison Landes


BURNING QUESTIONS
BookPage's own Magic 8-Ball answers all

SACRED SPACE
The Kabbalah of Food
by Rabbi Nilton Bonder

YE OLDE CURIOSITY SHOPPE
Biting the Dust:
The Joys of Housework
By Margaret Horsfield
Other People's Dirt:
A Housecleaner's Adventures from Cape Cod to Kyoto
By Louise Rafkin



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