FALL 2001 HARDCOVERS
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ALYSON
Light, Coming Back
(Oct, $24.95) by Ann Wadsworth. An older woman faces her husband’s impending death and her own affair with a much younger woman. Advertising. Author publicity.

ARCADE
The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches
(Nov., $19.95) by Gaetan Soucy. Their father's death shatters the bizarre existence of two children and reveals the terrible truth about their lives.

ARIADNE PRESS
(dist. by Seven Hills)
What Happened to the Miracle
(Oct., $21.95) by Meri Robie. Karen realizes she has two miracles in her life: her son and her sister.

BALLANTINE
The Speed of Light (Sept., $23.95) by Elizabeth Rosner. The sorrows of the past inspire a love story for the present. Advertising. 8-city author tour.
A False Sense of Well-Being (Oct., $23.95) by Jeanne Braselton. To escape lonely marriages, some women will recklessly seek passion. Advertising. 8-city author tour.
Inside Drive: A Novel of Basketball, Life and Love (Nov., $16.95) by Justin Timberlake. The 'N Sync member tells a tale of championship basketball, movie stars and issues of race and love. Advertising. 6-city author tour.
Unknown Destination (Feb., $23.95) by Maya Rasker. A man tries to come to terms with his wife's disappearance on their daughter's sixth birthday.

BALLANTINE/ONE WORLD
Bittersweet (Jan., $23.95) by Freddie Lee Johnson III. Three brothers fight to save their marriages, proving that black men's ties to their families are strong. Author publicity.

BANKS CHANNEL BOOKS
East Liberty (Oct., $21.95) by Joseph Bathanti is a coming-of-age novel about a fatherless boy in Pittsburgh's rough Italian-American neighborhood in the 1950s and '60s. Author tour.

BANTAM
Lay That Trumpet in Our Hands (Feb., $TBA) Susan Carol McCarthy. A racially charged murder in 1951 Florida helps launch a national movement. 35,000 first printing. Ad/promo. Author publicity.

FREDERIC C. BEIL
The Sentinels (Nov., $24.95) by Derek Smith concerns the sinking of the Confederate submarine USS Hunley and its relationship to contemporary murders in Charleston, S.C.

BLUE HEN BOOKS
Insect Dreams: The Half Life of Gregor Samsa (Jan., $TBA) by Marc Estrin uses Samsa's post-transformation to view major geopolitical and social developments of the 20th century.

BRIDGE WORKS
Aria (Sept., $23.95) by Susan Segal. The survivor of a shipwreck that kills her family takes refuge with a manipulative opera diva.

CATBIRD PRESS
Living Parallel (Feb., $21) by Alexandr Kliment, trans. by Robert Wechsler. This poetic novel traces the spiritual and romantic conflicts of an architect in communist Czechoslovakia.

COUNTERPOINT
The Smallest Color (Oct., $25) by Bill Roorbach tells of brotherly love, loss and deliverance from the past.

CROWN
Sympathy for the Devil (Sept., $23) by Christopher Chambers introduces Angela Bivens, a smart and sexy FBI agent, whose work takes her from Washington, D.C.'s worst neighborhoods to the tony haunts of the city's African-American elite. Author publicity.
When the Elephants Dance (Jan., $TBA) by Tess Uriza Holthe. A family and their neighbors band together to survive the brutal Japanese occupation of the Philippines during World War II.

DELL/DELACORTE
The Thief-Taker: Memoirs of a Bow Street Runner (Oct., $23.95) by T.F. Banks inaugurates a series featuring Henry Morton, a member of England's first detective force. 30,000 first printing. Ad/promo. Author publicity.

DELL/DIAL
Still She Haunts Me (Sept., $23.95) by Katie Roiphe is inspired by the relationship between Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) and Alice Liddell, the young model for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. 35,000 first printing. Ad/promo. Author publicity.
Whitegirl (Jan., $TBA) by Kate Manning. An upscale interracial marriage begins with love and ends in violence. 25,000 first printing. Ad/promo. Author publicity.

DOUBLEDAY
Coldwater (Sept., $24.95) by Mardi McConnochie reimagines the Brontë sisters living with their father, head of a penal colony in Australia. Ad/promo.
The Crusader (Oct., $24.95) by Michael Alexander Eisner. In the year 1275, a monk seeks to exorcise the demons in a brooding aristocrat who has returned from the Crusades. Ad/promo.

DUTTON
The Captain's Wife (Sept., $23.95) by Douglas Kelley is a historical epic about a woman at sea with a ship of mutinous sailors and a sick husband, their captain, to care for. Author publicity.
Picture Maker (Jan., $24.95) by Penina Keen Spinka. A girl who can foresee the future comes of age in 14th-century America. Ad/promo.

FORGE
Itself (Dec., $26.95) by Barret Schumacher. Reed Haler looks into the future and sees something that he doesn't want to know. Advertising.

GREYCORE PRESS
(dist. by Seven Hills)
Conjuring Maud
(Oct., $23) by Philip Danze. An aging circus magician recounts his life in colonial West Africa of the late 1800s and his obsession with Maud King, a British explorer.

GROVE PRESS
Personal Velocity (Sept., $23) by Rebecca Miller. The multifaceted lives of women are explored in seven portraits. 45,000 first printing.

HARPERCOLLINS
The Savage Girl (Oct., $26) by Alex Shakar. After her fashion model sister's attempted suicide, Ursula is drawn into the strange world of consumerism and trendspotting. 50,000 first printing. Ad/promo. 6-city author tour.

HENRY HOLT
The Stars Can Wait (Feb., $21) by Jay Basu. In 1940s German-occupied Poland, a boy unearths his brother's secrets and watches his town and family disintegrate.

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN
London Bridges (Sept., $24) by Jane Stevenson. This contemporary homage to the classic English detective story centers on a treasure lost in the Blitz, now newly discovered by an unscrupulous lawyer. Advertising.

HYPERION
Carter Beats the Devil (Sept., $24.95) by Glen David Gold. In the 1920s, America is obsessed with magic, and one master illusionist's stunt involves President Harding. 150,000 first printing. $150,000 ad/promo.

KENSINGTON
Andrew and Joey (Feb., $23) by Jamie James. Asian-American Andrew and Joey, a Cajun choreographer, find their 12-year relationship tested when Joey falls in love with one of his dancers.

KNOPF
The Ash Garden (Sept., $23) by Dennis Bock. The explosion of the first atomic bomb blurs lives beyond reckoning in Japan, New York and a peaceful Canadian village. 60,000 first printing. Ad/promo. 6-city author tour.

MORROW
Blindsighted (Sept., $25) by Karin Slaughter. A rapist turned killer wreaks havoc in rural Grant County, Ga. 75,000 first printing. Ad/promo. Author publicity.
Letters from an Age of Reason (Sept., $28) by Nora Hague. Racial tensions and shifting sexual conventions sweep through Civil War-era U.S. and Victorian London. 75,000 first printing. Ad/promo. Author publicity.

THOMAS NELSON
Devil's Island (Oct., $19.99) by John Hagee. A Christian family is caught in Rome's persecutions as their lives interweave with the apostle John.

OVERLOOK PRESS
The King of Limbo and Other Stories (Nov., $25.95) by Adrianne Harun underscores the meaning in ordinary human suffering. Advertising. 5-city author tour.

PANTHEON
Sap Rising: Stories (Sept., $20) by Christine Lincoln depicts young African-Americans whose lives unfold in rural settings. Ad/promo. 12-city author tour.

PERMANENT PRESS
Jam (Jan., $25) by Alan Goldsher ventures into the daily life of musicians and the ills of the music business.

PICADOR USA
The Path of Minor Planets (Oct., $23) by Andrew Sean Greer. On a small island in the South Pacific, a group of astronomers gathers to witness the passing of a comet in 1965. Author tour.

POCKET BOOKS
Heresy: Book One
(Sept., $25) by Anselm Audley begins a fantasy saga set in the storm-wracked waterworld of Aquasilva. Author publicity.

PONCHA PRESS
Gemini
(Sept., $24.95) by Michael Burns. In rural Vermont in 1968, a new high school science teacher struggles with alcoholism.

PUTNAM
Closing Time
(Sept., $23.95) by Jim Fusilli. A novice New York City investigator and single father battles personal demons and vicious street crime.

RANDOM HOUSE
I Cannot Tell a Lie, Exactly: And Other Stories
(Sept., $21.95) by Mary Ladd Gavell is by the managing editor of Psychiatry magazine, who died in 1967 at the age of 47.
10th Grade (Jan., $23.95) by Joe Weisberg. Social cliques, hormonal urges and mathematics throw obstacles into Jeremy's young life.

RIVERHEAD
Snapshots
(Sept., $23.95) by William Norris peels back layers of suburban affluence to reveal a family's secrets.
The Good Men: A Novel of Heresy (Jan., $24.95) by Charmaine Craig. This novel about religious persecution is based on actual testimony by a young woman tried for heresy during the French Inquisition in 1320. Ad/promo. Author tour.

ST. MARTIN'S PRESS
The Christmas Shoes
(Nov., $16.95) by Donna VanLiere is based on the song of the same name released by the group Newsong. 150,000 first printing. Ad/promo. Publicity.
Leaving (Jan., $24.95) by Richard Dry follows an African-American family through three generations.
Queenmaker (Jan., $24.95) by India Edghill retells the biblical story of King David and Queen Michal from the female point of view.

ST. MARTIN'S/MINOTAUR
Blood
(Sept., $24.95) by Patricia Traxler shows how desire can evolve to jealousy, obsession and then murderous rage.

ST. MARTIN'S/THOMAS DUNNE
Leaving Disneyland
(Oct., $23.95) by Alexander Parsons. An aging black con struggles to make parole after serving 16 years of a 20-year murder sentence.
Leaving Patrick (Nov., $24.95) by Prue Leith. A woman discovers that having the perfect man does not guarantee happiness.

SIMON & SCHUSTER
Sharkman Six
(Oct., $24) by Owen West focuses on the challenges of modern war with U.S. forces in Somalia. 75,000 first printing. Ad/promo. 6-city author tour.

SOHO PRESS
Saturn's Return to New York
(Sept., $23) by Sara Gran. A bright girl has a defining moment in the big city. $20,000 ad/promo.

SUNSTONE PRESS
Boy's Pond
(Dec., $26.95) by Warren J. Stucki springs from the author's own experiences in southern Utah as 126 nuclear detonations occur at the Yucca Flats test site during the 1950s.
Crisis Game: A Novel of the Cold War (Jan., $24.95) by Craig Eisendrath. A war game played in the U.S. government shows the tenuous distinction between fiction and reality.

SYRACUSE UNIV. PRESS
My Suburban Shtetl: A Novel About Life in a Twentieth-Century Jewish American Village
(Oct., $22.95) by Robert Rand. A boy grows up in the insular community of Skokie, Ill., in the 1960s and '70s.

UNIV. PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI
Too Close to Call
(Sept., $25) by Michael Kelsay. A rowdy ne'er-do-well comes of age via the Southern rite of politics.

VIKING
Bitten
(Oct., $24.95) by Kelley Armstrong. To her horror, a young woman learns that her fiancé is a werewolf and now she, too, is one.
The Secret Life of Bees (Jan., $23.95) by Sue Monk Kidd. Fleeing racial unrest, a girl and her guardian are taken in by a trio of black, beekeeping sisters in South Carolina.
The Eyre Affair (Feb., $24.95) by Jasper Fforde is a comic fantasy set in England where an arch criminal kidnaps characters from works of literature and holds them for ransom.

VILLARD
Happy Birthday to Me
(Feb., $21.95) by Merrill Markoe. By her 36th birthday, Jenna had hoped to figure out men.

WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS
The Book of Fred
(Sept., $24) by Abby Bardi. A girl raised in a fundamentalist sect begins to question all she's been taught. Author publicity.
The Third Witch (Oct., $25) by Rebecca Reisert revisits Macbeth as seen through the eyes of a young girl seeking vengeance. 5-city author tour.

WELCOME RAIN
Edinburgh (Oct., $25) by Alexander Chee concerns a gay Korean-American boy coming of age.

WHITE PINE PRESS
Empire Settings
(Oct., $21.95) by David Schmahmann. Apartheid in South Africa affects various members of a family when the white son falls in love with a black domestic servant. $75,000 ad/promo.

ZOLAND BOOKS
The Rag & Bone Shop
(Sept., $25) by Jeff Rackham returns to Charles Dickens's real affair with 18-year-old actress Ellen Ternan.