April 1999
In This Issue
FIRST PERSON
The April BookPage interviews:
Lamb in Love: The tale of a smitten postal employee by Carrie Brown.
East of the Mountains: Go on on man's final pilgrimage with David Guterson.
Meet the Author: A New Song by Jan Karon
FEATURES
Out of the ballpark: bats and stats
Summer of '98: When Homers Fell, Records Flew and Baseball Reclaimed America by Mike Lupica
Celebrating 70: Mark McGwire's Historic Season
The Sporting News Selects Baseball's Greatest Players: A Celebration of the 20th Century's Best by Ron Smith
The Real 100 Best Baseball Players of All Time . . . and Why! by Ken Shouler
Autobiography of Baseball by Joseph Wallace
Mickey Mantle, the Yankee Years: The Photographs of Ozzie Sweet by Larry Canale
Reflections of the Game -- Lives in Baseball: The Photographs of Ronald C. Modra
All-Time Baseball Sourcebook
Home Plate Cookbook: Recipes from Baseball Greats -- Just Great for Your Home Plate by Gary Saunders
Celebrating National Poetry Month
Three Centuries of American Poetry: 1623-1923 edited by Robert D. Richardson
Handwriting by Michael Ondaatje
The Mercy by Philip Levine
Vita Nova by Louise Gluck
On the Bus with Rosa Parks by Rita Dove
Gift Gallery
Sitting Ducks by Michael Bedard
The Tulip: The Story of a Flower That Has Made Men Mad by Anna Pavord
Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad by Jacqueline Tobin
Coral Seas by Roger Steene
FICTION
Love, Exciting and New: Fall in love again
Biting the Moon by Martha Grimes
Kissed a Sad Goodbye by Deborah Crombie
Suspicion of Betrayal by Barbara Parker
Blood Mud by K.C. Constantine
The Color of Night by David Lindsey
Castro's Curveball by Tim Wendel
Cat on the Scent by Rita Mae Brown and Sneaky Pie Brown
The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard
The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie
Into the Darkness: A Novel of the World at War by Harry Turtledove
A New Song by Jan Karon
A Prayer for the Dying by Stewart O'Nan
For the Relief of Unbearable Urges by Nathan Englander
ROMANCE
Love, Exciting and New: Fall in love again
Night Gardening by E.L. Swann
I Thee Wed by Amanda Quick
Bartered Bride by Vicki Hinze
Duplicity by author
Cowboy: A Love Story by Sara Davidson
BURNING QUESTIONS
BookPage's own Magic 8-Ball answers all
CURIOSITY SHOPPE
Dixie Before Disney: 100 Years of Roadside Fun by Tim Hollis
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NONFICTION
Get in the swing of it
The Majors by John Feinstein
The Making of the Masters: Clifford Roberts, Augusta National, and Golf's Most Prestigious Tournament by David Owen
Getting the facts on fat
The Skinny on Fat: Our Obsession with Weight Control by Shawna Vogel
I Wish I Were Thin, I Wish I Were Fat: The Real Reasons We Overeat and What We Can Do About It by Michelle Joy Levine
A tribute to Eudora Welty on her 90th birthday
Eudora Welty: Complete Novels edited by Richard Ford and Michael Kreyling
Eudora Welty: Stories, Essays, & Memoir edited by Richard Ford and Michael Kreyling
Eudora Welty: Writers' Reflections upon First Reading Welty edited by Perl Amelia McHaney
Biography
Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle by Daniel Stashower
History
The Earth Shall Weep: A History of Native America by James Wilson
Ross MacDonald: A Biography by Tom Nolan
Letters
Winston and Clementine: The Personal Letters of the Churchills edited by Mary Soames
Memoir
A Good Enough Daughter: A Memoir by Alix Kates Shulman
Military
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden
Nature
Into the Porcupine Cave and Other Odysseys: Adventures of an Occasional Naturalist by William W. Warner
Science
Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life by Stephen Jay Gould
Travel
Bella Tuscany: The Sweet Life in Italy by Frances Mayes
AUDIO
The Spoken Word: From the serious to the satirical
Little Green Men by Christopher Buckley
Single and Single by John Le Carre
Billy Straight by Jonathan Kellerman
Found Money by James Grippando
Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley by Peter Guralnick
Crazy Horse by Larry McMurtry
Marcel Proust by Edmund White
BUSINESS & FINANCE
Books for grown-up "baby boomers"
Don't Stop the Career Clock: Rejecting the Myths of Aging for a New Way to Work in the 21st Century by Helen Harkness
If You're Clueless About Financial Planning and Want to Know More by Seth Godin and John Parmelee
The Late-Start Investor: The Better-Late-Than-Never Guide to Realizing Your Retirement Dreams by John F. Wasik
Work at Home Wisdom: A Collection of Quips, Tips, and Inspirations to Balance Work, Family, and Home by David H. Bangs, Jr., and Andi Axman
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
The Poetry Petting Zoo: Kids love poetry, too
I Heard a Little Baa by Elizabeth MacLeod
Farmer Brown Goes Round and Round by Teri Sloat
A Child's Treasury of Nursery Rhymes by Kady McDonald Denton
I Call It Sky by Will C. Howell
Isn't My Name Magical: Sister and Brother Poems by James Berry
Cool Melons -- Turn to Frogs: The Life and Poems of Issa
The Other Side: Shorter Poems by Angela Johnson
The Bookworm's Feast: A Potluck of Poems
The Mouse of Amherst by Elizabeth Spires
Laura Ingalls Wilder's Fairy Poems
Hopscotch Love: A Family Treasury of Love Poems by Nikki Grimes
Exploding Ants: Amazing Facts About How Animals Adapt by Joanne Settel, Ph.D.
The First Easter by Nancy Skarmeas illustrated by Leslie L. Benson
At Her Majesty's Request by Walter Dean Myers
My Dear Noel: The Story of a Letter from Beatrix Potter by Jane Johnson
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