Forecasts from the April 22 Issue

-- Publishers Weekly, 4/22/2002

Fiction

JULY
MY LEGENDARY GIRLFRIEND
Mike Gayle. Broadway, $21.95 (288p) ISBN 0-7679-0973-9

JUNE
THE BEACH HOUSE
James Patterson and Peter de Jonge. Little, Brown, $26.95 (368p) ISBN 0-316-96968-0
SEX, DEATH & OTHER DISTRACTIONS
Kensington Ladies Erotica Society. Ten Speed, $21.95 (284p) ISBN 1-58008-319-6
*THE EMPEROR OF OCEAN PARK
Stephen L. Carter. Knopf, $26.95 (672p) ISBN 0-375-41363-4
PASSING STRANGE
Sally MacLeod. Random, $23.95 (288p) ISBN 0-375-50613-6
The Healer
Dee Henderson. Multnomah, $11.99 paper (350p) ISBN 1-57673-925-2

MAY
*WITHOUT FAIL
Lee Child. Putnam, $24.95 (384p) ISBN 0-399-14861-2
LIFE IN THE DAMN TROPICS
David Unger. Syracuse Univ., $34.95 (308p) ISBN 0-8156-0737-7
GRACE NOTES
Charlotte Vale Allen. Mira, $22.95 (240p) ISBN 1-55166-906-4
WOMEN ABOUT TOWN
Laura Jacobs. Viking, $23.95 (226p) ISBN 0-670-03088-0
ACCIDENTS IN THE HOME
Tessa Hadley. Holt, $23 (256p) ISBN 0-8050-7064-8
CRITICAL CONDITION
Peter Clement. Ballantine, $22.95 (336p) ISBN 0-345-44339-X
FATAL
Michael Palmer. Bantam, $24.95 (400p) ISBN 0-553-80203-8
GOD'S FOOL
Mark Slouka. Knopf, $24 (288p) ISBN 0-375-40216-0
THE FOOD TASTER
Ugo DiFonte, "trans." by Peter Elbling. Permanent, $26 (248p) ISBN 1-57962-047-7
*DIRT MUSIC
Tim Winston. Scribner, $26 (416p) ISBN 0-7432-2802-2
CAPE RANDOM
Bernice Morgan. Shambhala, $12.95 paper (384p) ISBN 1-57062-953-6
COAL MINER'S HOLIDAY
Kiki DeLancey. Sarabande, $13.95 paper (240p) ISBN 1-889330-70-1
THE HANDYWOMAN STORIES
Lenore McComas Coberly. Ohio Univ./Swallow, $16.95 paper (155p) ISBN 0-8040-1044-7
THE END OF MARRIAGE
Nina Vida. Simon & Schuster, $24 (288p) ISBN 0-7432-1302-4
*THE SANDS OF PRIDE: A Novel of the Civil War
William R. Trotter. Carroll & Graf, $28 (768p) ISBN 0-7867-1013-6
HUMAN LANDSCAPES FROM MY COUNTRY: An Epic Novel in Verse
Nazim Hikmet, trans. from the Turkish by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk. Persea, $39.95 (480p) ISBN 0-89255-273-5
PRAYER-CUSHIONS OF THE FLESH
Robert Irwin. Overlook, $22.95 (140p) ISBN 1-58567-220-3
BIRTHDAY
Alan Sillitoe. Flamingo (Trafalgar, dist.), $28 (249p) ISBN 0-00-710781-1
MARRIED BUT STILL LOOKING
Travis Hunter. Villard/Strivers Row, $21.95 (256p) ISBN 0-375-50569-5

APR.
TRIBE
John F. McDonald. MacAdam/Cage, $22 (279p) ISBN 1-931561-06-0
YEAR ZERO
Jeff Long. S&S/Atria, $25 (400p) ISBN 0-7434-0611-7

Graphic Novels

MAY
KRAZY AND IGNATZ: 1925-1926
George Herriman. Fantagraphics, $14.95 paper (120p) ISBN 1-56097-386-2

Mystery

JUNE
*JOLIE BLON'S BOUNCE
James Lee Burke. Simon & Schuster, $25 (368p) ISBN 0-7432-0484-0

MAY
MURDER BY SUICIDE: The Ellie Quicke Mysteries
Veronica Heley. HarperCollins U.K. (Trafalgar Square, dist.), $27.50 (266p) ISBN 0-00-712293-4
DEAD CROWD: A Mystery Starring Biff Kincaid
Dan Barton. St. Martin's Minotaur/ Dunne, $23.95 (272p) ISBN 0-312-29034-9
GRAIL FOR SALE
Gerald Hammond. Severn, $25.99 (224p) ISBN 0-7278-5807-6
*CAT IN A MIDNIGHT CHOIR: A Midnight Louie Mystery
Carole Nelson Douglas. Forge, $24.95 (336p) ISBN 0-312-85797-7
OPEN AND SHUT
David Rosenfelt. Mysterious, $23.95 (244p) ISBN 0-89296-748-X
THE BLOODIED CRAVAT: A Beau Brummell Mystery
Rosemary Stevens. Berkley Prime Crime, $22.95 (304p) ISBN 0-425-18539-7

SF/Fantasy/Horror

JUNE
LIGHT MUSIC
Kathleen Ann Goonan. Eos, $25.95 (416p) ISBN 0-380-97712-5

MAY
*FIRE LOGIC
Laurie J. Marks. Tor, $25.95 (336p) ISBN 0-312-87887-7
TRANSCENDENCE: Book II of the Second DemonWars Saga
R.A. Salvatore. Del Rey, $26.95 (448p) ISBN 0-345-43041-7
MINDWORLDS
Phyllis Gotlieb. Tor, $24.95 (272p) ISBN 0-312-87876-1

Mass Market

JUNE
BEYOND SEDUCTION
Emma Holly. Jove, $6.50 (304p) ISBN 0-515-13308-6

MAY
THE SECRET LOVER
Julia London. Dell, $5.99 (384p) ISBN 0-440-23694-0
HER DEAREST SIN
Gayle Wilson. Harlequin, $4.99 (304p) ISBN 0-373-29207-4
*KISS THE BRIDE
Patricia Cabot. Sonnet, $6.99 (352p) ISBN 0-7434-1028-9

Nonfiction

JUNE
LETTERS TO A YOUNG NOVELIST
Mario Vargas Llosa, trans. from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $16 (128p) ISBN 0-374-11916-3
INHERITED RISK: Errol and Sean Flynn in Hollywood and Vietnam
Jeffrey Meyers. Simon & Schuster, $26 (384p) ISBN 0-7432-1090-5
*HAMLET'S DRESSER: A Memoir
Bob Smith. Scribner, $24 (288p) ISBN 0-684-85269-1
THE HOUSE WHERE THE HARDEST THINGS HAPPENED: A Memoir About Belonging
Kate Young Caley. Doubleday, $19.95 (176p) ISBN 0-385-50298-2
REPUBLIC OF DREAMS: Greenwich Village: The American Bohemia, 1910-1960
Ross Wetzsteon. Simon & Schuster, $35 (640p) ISBN 0-684-86995-0
IN THE CITY: Random Acts of Awareness
Colette Brooks. Norton, $23.95 (128p) ISBN 0-393-05108-0
"A FEW BLOODY NOSES": The Realities and Mythologies of the American Revolution
Robert Harvey. Overlook, $35 (456p) ISBN 1-58567-273-4
OUR FINEST DAY: D-Day June 6, 1944
Mark Bowden, intro. by Stephen Ambrose. Chronicle, $24.95 (32p) ISBN 0-8118-3050-0
TERRORS AND MARVELS: How Science and Technology Changed the Character and Outcome of World War II
Tom Shachtman. Morrow, $26.95 (368p) ISBN 0-380-97876-8
DEFYING HITLER: A Memoir
Sebastian Haffner, trans. from the German and with an introduction by Oliver Pretzel. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $24 (240p) ISBN 0-374-16157-7
THE WOMAN WHO DEFIED KINGS: The Life and Times of Dontia Gracia Nasi--a Jewish Leader During the Renaissance
Andree Aelion Brooks. Paragon House, $29.95 (576p) ISBN 1-55778-805-7
UP FROM DRAGONS: The Evolution of Human Intelligence
John Skoyles and Dorion Sagan. McGraw-Hill, $27.95 (440p) ISBN 0-07-137825-1
HUNTED: A True Story of Survival
David Fletcher. Carroll & Graf, $25 (224p) ISBN 0-7867-0998-7

MAY
*MONARCH: The Life and Reign of Elizabeth II
Robert Lacey. Free Press, $27.50 (416p) ISBN 0-7432-3559-2
YET A STRANGER: Why Black Americans Still Don't Feel at Home
Deborah Mathis. Warner, $23.95 (272p) ISBN 0-446-52636-3
CONSCIOUSNESS AND LANGUAGE
John R. Searle. Cambridge Univ., $64.95 (280p) ISBN 0-521-59237-2; paper $15.95 -59744-7
HITLER'S JEWISH SOLDIERS: The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military
Bryan Mark Rigg. Univ. of Kansas, $29.95 (496p) ISBN 0-7006-1178-9
INTO TIBET: The CIA's Secret Expedition to Lhasa
Thomas Laird. Grove, $26 (400p) ISBN 0-8021-1714-7
THE EINSTEIN FILE: J. Edgar Hoover's Secret War Against the World's Most Famous Scientist
Fred Jerome. St. Martin's, $27.95^{sg to check} (272p) ISBN 0-312-28856-5
*WEALTH AND DEMOCRACY: A Political History of the American Rich
Kevin Phillips. Broadway, $29.95 (496p) ISBN 0-7679-0533-4
MY FATHER'S WAR: A Memoir
Julia Collins. Four Walls Eight Windows, $24.95 (256p) ISBN-1-56858-224-2
TRAIL OF FEATHERS: In Search of the Birdmen of Peru
Tahir Shah. Arcade, $25.95 (273p) ISBN 1-55970-613-9
THE PACT: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream
Sampson Davis, George Jenkins and Rameck Hunt, with Lisa Frazier Page. Riverhead, $24.95 (288p) ISBN 1-57322-216-X
UP FROM HERE: Reclaiming the Male Spirit: A Guide to Transforming Emotions into Power and Freedom
Iyanla Vanzant. Harper San Francisco, $16.95 (208p) ISBN 0-06-251759-7
THE LAST AMERICAN MAN
Elizabeth Gilbert. Viking, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 0-670-03086-4
HARMFUL TO MINORS: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex
Judith Levine. Univ. of Minnesota, $25.95 (304p) ISBN 0-8166-4006-8
SMALL PIECES LOOSELY JOINED: A Unified Theory of the Web
David Weinberger. Perseus, $25 (256p) ISBN 0-7382-0543-5
THE BAD & THE BEAUTIFUL: Hollywood in the Fifties
Sam Kashner and Jennifer MacNair. Norton, $26.95 (352p) ISBN 0-393-04321-5
WHAT JUST HAPPENED?: Bitter Hollywood Tales from the Front Line
Art Linson. Bloomsbury, $24.95 (208p) ISBN 1-58234-240-7
FIRE LOVER: A True Story
Joseph Wambaugh. Morrow, $25.95 (352p) ISBN 0-06-009527-X
FIVE MINUTES AFTER MIDNIGHT IN BHOPAL: The Epic Story of the World's Deadliest Industrial Disaster
Dominique Lapierre and Javier Moro, trans. from the French by Kathryn Spink. Warner, $25.95 (396p) ISBN 0-446-53088-3
CAN'T BE SATISFIED: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters
Robert Gordon. Little, Brown, $25.95 (416p) ISBN 0-316-32849-9
*DEEP IN A DREAM: The Long Night of Chet Baker
James Gavin. Knopf, $26.95 (416p) ISBN 0-679-44287-1
AMERICAN PIE: Slices of Life (and Pie) from America's Back Roads
Pascale Le Draoulec. HarperCollins, $23.95 (368p) ISBN 0-06-019736-6
EATING IN THE DARK: America's Experiment with Genetically Engineered Food
Kathleen Hart. Pantheon, $25 (352p) ISBN 0-375-42070-3
CANCER SCHMANCER
Fran Drescher. Warner, $22.95 (236p) ISBN 0-446-53019-0
*ELVIS IN JERUSALEM: Post-Zionism and the Americanization of Israel
Tom Segev. Holt/Metropolitan, $23 (192p) ISBN 0-8050-7020-6

Children's

LET'S GO HOME: The Wonderful Things About a House
Cynthia Rylant, illus. by Wendy Anderson Halperin. S&S, $16 (32p) ISBN 0-689-82326-6 (May)
SUMMER SUN RISIN'
W. Nikola-Lisa, illus. by Don Tate. Lee & Low, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 1-58430-034-5 (May)
THE FIRST THING MY MAMA TOLD ME
Susan Marie Swanson, illus. by Christine Davenier. Harcourt, $16 (40p) ISBN 0-15-201075-0 (May)
SONG OF THE CIRCUS
Lois Duncan, illus. by Meg Cundiff. Philomel, $15.99 (32p) ISBN 0-399-23397-0 (Apr.)
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BABIES AND COOKIES
Mary Hanson, illus. by Debbie Tilley. Harcourt/Silver Whistle, $16 (32p) ISBN 0-15-202406-9 (May)
WHAT ABOUT ME?
Ed Young. Philomel, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 0-399-23624-4 (June)
STARS IN THE DARKNESS
Barbara Joosse, illus. by R. Gregory Christie. Chronicle, $14.95 ISBN 0-8118-2168-4 (May)
SIGNS FOR SALE
Michele Benoit Slawson, illus. by Bagram Ibatoulline. Viking, $15.99 (40p) ISBN 0-670-03568-8 (May)
THE TEDDY BEAR
David McPhail. Holt, $15.95 ISBN 0-8050-6414-1 (May)
JACK OUTWITS THE GIANTS
Paul Brett Johnson. S&S/McElderry, $16 (32p) ISBN 0-689-83902-2 (June)
NAVAJO LONG WALK: The Tragic Story of a Proud People's Forced March from Their Homeland
Joseph Bruchac, illus. by Shonto Begay. National Geographic (S&S, dist.), $18.95 (48p) ISBN 0-7922-7058-4 (Apr.)
*PATROL: An American Soldier in Vietnam
Walter Dean Myers, illus. by Ann Grifalconi. HarperCollins, $16.95 ISBN 0-06-028363-7 (May)
JOURNEY AROUND NEW YORK FROM A TO Z
Martha and Heather Zschock. Commonwealth Editions (252-726-3187), $17.95 (32p) ISBN 1-889833-32-0 (May)

OH NO, NOAH!
Johanna Hurwitz. North-South/SeaStar, $14.95 (129p) ISBN 1-58717-133-3 (May)
HANDBOOK FOR BOYS: A Novel
Walter Dean Myers. HarperCollins/ Amistad, $15.95 (192p) ISBN 0-06-029146-X (May)
THE NIGHT I DISAPPEARED
Julie Reece Deaver. S&S/Simon Pulse, $5.99 paper (256p) ISBN 0-7434-3979-1 (May)
ONE NIGHT
Marsha Qualey. Dial, $16.99 (176p) ISBN 0-8037-2602-3 (May)
*BIG MOUTH & UGLY GIRL
Joyce Carol Oates. HarperCollins, $16.95 (272p) ISBN 0-06-623756-4 (May)
*STONER & SPAZ
Ron Koertge. Candlewick, $15.99 (176p) ISBN 0-7636-1608-7 (May)