December 1999
In This Issue

FIRST PERSON
The December BookPage interviews:

Anita Shreve tells the timeless tale: Fortune's Rocks.

Graeme Base blends art and music: The Worst Band in the Universe.

Elise Primavera takes a fresh look at Christmas: Auntie Clause.

Sena Jeter Naslund delivers an end-of-millennium blockbuster: Ahab's Wife.


BookPage's own Magic 8-Ball answers all

FICTION

The Green Mile by Stephen King

Lying with the Enemy by Tim Binding

Monster by Jonathan Kellerman

My Century by Günter Grass

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

'Tis the season for holiday books

  • Grandfather's Christmas Tree by Keith Strand
  • Eloise at Christmastime by Kay Thompson
  • Not Enough Beds: A Christmas Alphabet Book by Lisa Bullard
  • Pigs on the Move: Fun with Math and Travel by Amy Axelrod
  • The Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore
  • The 12 Bugs of Christmas by David A. Carter
  • Farolitos for Abuelo by Rudolfo Anaya
  • The Night of Las Posadas by Tomie dePaola
  • The Legend of the Christmas Rose by William H. Hooks
  • The First Christmas: A Christmas Bible Playbook
  • My First Christmas Board Book
  • Christmas Lights
  • New Baby's Nativity

    My Millennium Record Book

    BUSINESS & FINANCE

    E's a mystery

  • Dead Ahead: The Web Dilemma and the New Rules of Business by Laurie Windham
  • Clicking Through: A Survival Guide for Bringing Your Company Online by Jonathan Ezor
  • The E-Commerce Book: Building the E-Empire by Steffano Korper and Juanita Ellis
  • Channel Champions: How Leading Companies Build New Strategies to Serve Customers by Steven Wheeler and Evan Hirsch
  • The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story by Michael Lewis
  • The Rise of the Virtual State: Wealth and Power in the Coming Century by Richard Rosecrance
  • The Biology of Business: Decoding the Natural Laws of Enterprise edited by John H. Clippinger

    ROMANCE

    Love Exciting and New: 'Tis the season for romance

  • A Midnight Clear by Katherine Stone
  • Saving Christmas by Pamela Bauer
  • High Tide by Jude Deveraux
  • The Proposition by Judith Ivory
  • The House on Olive Street by Robyn Carr
  • Scandalous Secrets by Patricia Oliver
  • Cloud Nine by Luanne Rice
  • On Mystic Lake by Kristin Hannah
  • Night Gardening by E.L. Swann
  • What the Heart Knows by Kathleen Eagle
  • The Saving Graces by Patricia Gaffney
  • Jewels of the Sun by Nora Roberts
    		• FEATURES

    Holiday advice from The Cake Mix Doctor, Anne Byrn

    A holiday shopping checklist from Kirsten Lagatree

    Cooking: Home for the holidays

  • American Home Cooking by Cheryl Alters Jamison and Bill Jamison
  • The French Laundry Cookbook by Thomas Keller
  • Blue Moon Soup by Gary Goss

    Gift Books: For everyone on your list

  • Golf Magazine's Top 100 Courses You Can Play by Brian McCallen
  • Until Now by Anne Geddes
  • The Star Trek Encyclopedia: A Reference Guide to the Future
  • The New Yorker 75th Anniversary Cartoon Collection edited by Bob Mankoff
  • When Angels Sing by Turk Pipkin
  • The American Art Book
  • Victorian Painting
  • The American Century: Art and Culture 1900-1950
  • Sister Wendy's 1000 Masterpieces: Sister Wendy Beckett's Selection of the Greatest Paintings in Western Art by Sister Wendy Beckett
  • Chinese Natural Cures: Traditional Methods for Remedies and Preventions
  • Pilgrimage: A Chronicle of Christianity Through the Churches of Rome by June Hager
  • Holy Rome: Exploring the Eternal City: A Millennium Guide to the Christian Sights
  • Encyclopedia of World Religions
  • The Seventy Wonders of the Ancient World: The Great Monuments and How They Were Built edited by Chris Scarre
  • Women of Mythology by Kay Retzlaff
  • Illustrated Letters: Artists and Writers Correspond
  • Other Worlds: Images of the Cosmos from Earth and Space by James Trefil
  • Forces of the Wild
  • The Civil War: Unstilled Voices by Chuck Lawliss
  • Bemelmans: The Life and Art of Madeline's Creator by John Bemelmans Marciano
  • Gift of the Whale: The Inupiat Bowhead Hunt by Bill Hess
  • Austin City Limits: 25 Years of American Music
  • The Movie Book
  • Blue Dog Man by George Rodrigue
  • Genealogy Online by Elizabeth Crowe

    Millennium Roundup: Books of the century: Read all about it!

  • Century edited by Bruce Bernard
  • Life: Our Century in Pictures
  • National Geographic: Eyewitness to the 20th Century
  • Letters of the Century: America 1900-1999 edited by Lisa Grunwald and Stephen J. Adler
  • 1000 Makers of the Millennium
  • Old Farmer's Almanac
  • Norris McWhirter's Book of Millennium Records edited by Norris McWhirter
  • People of the Century: One Hundred Men and Women Who Shaped the Last One Hundred Years
  • Predictions for the Next Millennium compiled by David Kristoff and Todd W. Nickerson

    NONFICTION

    Biography

  • Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind by David Cesarani

    Crafts

  • Scrapbooking Made Easy! by Jill A. Rinner
  • A Year of Scrapbooking by Debbie Janasak and Anna Swinney

    Inspirational

  • The Best Spiritual Writing 1999 edited by Philip Zaleski

    Memoir

  • The Eyes of the Heart: A Memoir of the Lost and Found by Frederick Buechner

    Music

  • Elvis Day by Day: The Definitive Record of His Life and Music by Peter Guralnick and Ernst Jorgensen

    Poetry

  • The Great Poems of the Bible: A Reader's Companion with New Translations by James L. Kugel

    Religion

  • Mormon America: The Power and the Promise by Richard N. Ostling and Joan K. Ostling

    Travel

  • The Way of the Traveler: Making Every Trip a Journey of Self-Discovery by Joseph Dispenza

    AUDIO

    The Spoken Word: Let's hear it for the holidays

  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
  • A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
  • A Star Called Henry by Roddy Doyle
  • Personal Injuries by Scott Turow
  • Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King
  • The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
  • How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe by Thomas Cahill
  • The New New Thing by Michael Lewis
  • A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
  • A Child's Christmas in Wales and Five Poems by Dylan Thomas
  • This Year It Will Be Different by Maeve Binchy
  • The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans
  • The Greatest Gift by Stern Philip Van Doren


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