Publishers Weekly articles from February 1994

Publishers Weekly archives from February 1994

Walden seeks to sublease some free-standing stores; casualties could include celebrated Brentano's store in New York City. (Walden Book Company Inc.) (Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... In a move that has surprised some observers, Waldenbooks says it is making a "commitment" to the mall business--the source of many of its problems--and is seeking to sublease many of its "unprofitable freestanding locations." Walden added in...

McCormack of SMP assails U.K. on EC rights. (Thomas J. McCormack, chairman of St. Martin's Press Inc.; European Community)
February 28, 1994... The position taken by "a small cadre of London publishers, agents and the British Publishers Association" toward European Community market rights appears to be "a breathtakingly cynical sham," according to Thomas J. McCormack, chairman of St....

Morrison's novels in boxed set. (Toni Morrison's collected works being marketed by Alfred A. Knopf Inc.) (Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... To celebrate Toni Morrison's Nobel Prize for Literature, Knopf is releasing new hardcover editions of her collected novels in a limited edition boxed set. Knopf publicity manager Barbara Jones-Diggs told P W the boxed set, with hardcover...

'WSJ' creates own BS list. (Wall Street Journal to publish weekly ratings of best-selling books, based on major chain store sales) (Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... First USA Today developed its own bestseller list (News, Nov. 1, 1993), and now the Wall Street Journal has jumped on the bestseller bandwagon. The Journal's first list appeared Feb. 23, and featured a ranking of the 15 fastest hardcover...

Paramount victories in Canada provoke local protests. (Paramount Publishing)
February 28, 1994... Two actions by the Canadian government earlier this month gave Paramount Publishing a significant share of the Canadian textbook market and, in the process, touched off a storm of protest from Canadianowned publishers over what they see as a...

Sales up, earnings down at Intervisual. (1993 earnings fall 27% at Intervisual Books Inc.) (Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... In another indication that the children's book market remains soft, Intervisual Books Inc., the country's leading producer of pop-up books, reported only a slight increase in sales for 1993, and a significant decline in net income. Sales in...

M-H cutting 175 distribution jobs. (McGraw-Hill Inc.) (Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... McGraw-Hill's purchase of the 50% stake in the Macmillan/McGraw-Hill School Publishing Co. that it did not already own has prompted the company to centralize its domestic book distribution operations for its entire educational and...

Worzalla East closes its doors. (Worzalla Publishing Co. files Chapter 11 for its Worzalla East bookbinding operations) (Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... In a revenue-saving move, Worzalla Publishing has closed the doors of its recently acquired Worzalla East-- formerly Bookbinders and filed Chapter 11 on the Eatontown, N.J., facility. The involuntary filing was ordered by the book...

New BiblioBytes service offers books through Internet.
February 28, 1994... Glen Hauman, publisher of BiblioBytes, has an answer for publishing types who think that no one wants to read a novel on a computer: "Don't be so sure." He also believes that it won't be long before publishers and authors realize the...

Electronic library planned for schoolchildren. (online computer library service, to be called Homework Helper, is being planned by Tandem Computers Inc. and Infonautics Corp.) (Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... A California computer company and a Pennsylvaniabased information products company have announced a cooperative plan to build the world's largest online electronic library for children, to be known as the Homework Helper. Tandem...

PSP meeting: facing up to electronic publishing. (Professional and Scientific Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers)
February 28, 1994... The Professional and Scientific Publishing Division of the AAP faced up squarely to electronic publishing in their annual meeting in Washington, D.C., February 10 and 11. Most of the sessions were devoted to the myriad electronic forms of...

France intensifies 'culture wars.' (takeover of the Canal Plus pay-television system by investors associated with France Telecom) (Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... Positioning itself in the race for control of Europe's stretch of the information highway, the French government has engineered a takeover of the ostensibly independent pay-TV operation Canal Plus by a consortium of private investors allied...

Bookstores are slowly warming to multimedia sales.
February 28, 1994... Electronic publishing products, ranging from spokenword audiocassettes to multimedia disks, are slowly but surely making their way into bookstores. A spot check of several stores has found spoken-word audio to be an established part of most...

IBM #1 in installed multimedia players; Macintosh next. (survey indicates that CD-ROM players compatible with International Business Machines Corp. products are the most widely installed) (Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... One of the key issues holding back booksellers from moving more aggressively into the multimedia field is the question of which CD-ROM multimedia player has the greatest penetration in the marketplace. According to a survey conducted by...

Big Civil War prize to New Press book. ('Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom and the Civil War' edited by Ira Berlin, Barbara J. Fields, Steven Miller, Joseph P. Reidy and Leslie Rowland wins 1994 Lincoln Prize) (Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom and the Civil War, published by The New Press, has been chosen as the winner of the Lincoln Prize at Gettysburg College for 1994, awarded for the best book on Civil War studies. The...

Americans scarce at crowded 11th New Delhi World Book Fair. (New Delhi, India)
February 28, 1994... Despite the fact that the 11th World Book Fair in New Delhi attracted nearly 400,000 visitors, many of them hungry for Englishlanguage books, Americans were conspicuous by their absence. Harkin Chatlani, managing director of India Book...

AAP expands campus copyright compliance. (Association of American Publishers has hired Jill Braaten to promote copyright compliance on college campuses) (Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... While still carrying a big stick, the Association of American Publishers has a new "soft talker" on American university campuses. Jill Braaten was hired this month from her administrative post at the University of Minnesota to sell the...

Two minority seminars slated for March. (minorities in the book publishing industry seminars, scheduled for March 1994) (Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... Look for two seminars in March aimed at minorities interested in book publishing careers. On March 2, the Howard University Press Book Publishing Institute and the AAP will offer a free career symposium for minorities at the McGraw-Hill...

Behind the bestsellers. (includes related information on best-selling hardcover and paperback book ratings for February 28, 1994) (Column)
February 28, 1994... ON WMJ'S NEW LIST Any additional book coverage given by the media is welcome news for publishers, booksellers and readers. And new bestseller lists, such as those under the aegis of high-circulation publications like the Wall Street...

Borders' move west: bookseller to open eight stores and warehouse on West Coast this year. (1994)
February 28, 1994... During the coming year, Borders plans to open at least eight stores in the West, where it has had a small presence so far in the chain superstore wars. (Barnes & Noble, the largest superstore chain with slightly over 200 outlets, has opened...

Booksellers assess damage to business after quake. (1994 earthquake in Southern California)
February 28, 1994... Even as the devastating January 17 earthquake was being upgraded to a 6.8--increasing the strength a full one and a half times--independent booksellers in Southern California were realizing just how fortunate they were to have come through as...

A sumptuous spring: suppliers serve up more cards - and fillings of blank books. (Sidelines)
February 28, 1994... As publishers and other manufacturers of sidelines put the finishing touches on catalogues and merchandise, it's time to look at the categories and themes booksellers will be seeing more of throughout 1994. GiftWorks, the recently opened...

Memoirs issued from the medical front; two doctors and a bestselling nurse tell their stories. (Abraham Verghese, David Hilfiker, Echo Heron)
February 28, 1994... Health care these days may seem the domain of policy wonks, but forthcoming memoirs remind us of the lived experiences of doctors and nurses, and of the human dramas behind the science of medicine. In May, Simon & Schuster will publish My Own...

Fawcett, S & S, Viking explore women's health issues. (Simon and Schuster; authors Eileen Nechas and Denise Foley, Bernadine Healy, and Leslie Laurence and Beth Weinhouse)
February 28, 1994... A hundred years ago, most physicians believed that anyone who differed from the norm was "inferior" or "biologically suspect." And since the young white male was their model for this norm, many doctors tended to regard the natural state of...

A picture-book symphony; how the bestselling audiotape 'Beethoven Lives Upstairs' was transformed into print. (Children's Books)
February 28, 1994... These days it's not unusual for an audiocassette to be published in conjunction with a book. But in an interesting publishing flip-flop of sorts, a popular spoken-word/music recording is about to appear in picture-book format. Beethoven Lives...

Troll announces four new imprints. (Children's Books)(Troll Associates Inc. will introduce the imprints WhistleStop, Little Rainbow, Rainbow Bridge and WestWind in 1994) (Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... On the heels of the debut of its trade hardcover imprint BridgeWater Books last fall, Troll Associates has announced the launch of four "masstrade" imprints. A combination of trade and mass market paperback books under the names WhistleStop...

Power (PC's) for the people; amidst continuing upgrades, PC users scramble to learn about new powers. (Computer books)
February 28, 1994... By this time, it is an accepted fact of life in the computer world that computing power will double about every two years. In buying power, today's dream machine will cost half as much, or the same amount of money will buy twice as much raw...

Publishers Weekly computer bestsellers: February 1994. (Illustration)
February 28, 1994... OPERATING SYSTEMS 1. DOS for Dummies, 2nd Ed. Dan Gookin. IDG, $16.95 ISBN 1-87805-875-4 2. Windows for Dummies. Andy Ruthbone. IDG, $16.95 ISBN 1087805-861-4 3. Using MS-DOS 6.2. Que Development. Que, $29.95 ISBN 1-56529-646-x...

Exploring new worlds. (Category Closeup: Science Fiction)(includes related small press directory)
February 28, 1994... Adversity doesn't affect everyone equally. Some are knocked out altogether, others suffer some injury but live to recover, and for still others it opens unforeseen opportunities. Trouble in the publishing world sometimes works in a similar...

Carol Shields: life in America, Canada and France has influenced her Booker-nominated fiction. (PW Interviews)
February 28, 1994... When her latest work is described by the seemingly innocent phrase "a novel with an appeal to women," Carol Shields seems to shudder delicately. And yet, the appraisal is contained in an overwhelmingly favorable review of Shields's The Stone...

Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.(Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... RESISTANCE: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Israel Gutman. Houghton Mifflin/ Jaffe/United States Holocaust Museum, $24.95 (270p) ISBN 0-395-60199-1 The Warsaw Ghetto uprising of 1943, following Hitler's orders to annihilate the Jewish...

Demosclerosis: The Silent Killer of American Government.(Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... DEMOSCLEROSIS: The Silent Killer of American Government Jonathan Rauch. Times, $22 (256p) ISBN 0-8129-2257-3 Declaring "We have met the special interests, and they are us," National Journal contributing editor Rauch (Kindly Inquisitors)...

Before the Shooting Begins: Searching for Democracy as the Culture Wars Rage.(Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... BEFORE THE SHOOTING BEGINS: Searching for Democracy as the Culture Wars Rage James Davison Hunter. Free Press, $22.95 (275p) ISBN 0-02-915501-0 Hunter follows up his 1991 book Culture Wars with this extended case study of the...

Six Exceptional Women: Further Memoirs.(Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... SIX EXCEPTIONAL WOMEN: Further Memoirs James Lord. Fartar, Straus & Giroux, $27.50 (384p) ISBN 0-374-26533-4 In this second volume of memoirs (the first was Picasso and Dora) from the author of the definitive biography of Giacometti,...

Into the Unknown: The X-1 Story.(Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... INTO THE UNKNOWN: The X-1 Story Louis C. Rotundo, foreword by Chuck Yeaget. Smithsonian, $29.95 (352p) ISBN 1-56098-305-1 Rotundo relates the saga of the conquest of the supposedly impenetrable "sound barrier" by an American team that...

Dogmatic Wisdom: How the Culture Wars Divert Education and Distract America.(Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... DOGMATIC WISDOM: How the Culture Wars Divert Education and Distract America Russell Jacoby. Doubleday, $22.95 (256p) ISBN 0-385-42516-3 In a slashing if not wholly original polemic, UCLA historian Jacoby (The Last Intellectuals) charges...

On Writers and Writing.(Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... ON WRITERS AND WRITING John Gardner, edited by Stewart O'Nan, introduction by Charles Johnson. Addison-Wesley, $25 (336p) ISBN 0-201-62672-1 Popular novelist, critic, teacher and classics scholar, Gardner, who died in a motorcycle...

A Dance Between the Flames: Berlin Between the Wars.
February 28, 1994... A DANCE BETWEEN THE FLAMES: Berlin Between the Wars Anton Gill. Carroll & Graf, $23 (320p) ISBN 0-7867-0063-7 This fast-paced, wonderfully evocative chronicle of interwar Berlin opens with the Communist revolution of 1918, which nearly...

The Bauhaus: Masters and Students by Themselves.(Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... THE BAUHAUS: Masters and Students by Themselves Edited by Frank Whitford. Overlook, $85 (328p) ISBN 0-87951-507-4 Founded in 1919 in Weimar Germany amidst unparalleled economic and political chaos, the Bauhaus design school broke down...

An Adirondack Passage: The Cruise of the Canoe 'Sairy Gamp.'(Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... AN ADIRONDACK PASSAGE: The Cruise of the Canoe Sairy Gamp Christine Jerome. HarperCollins, $20 (224p) ISBN 0-06-016435-2 George Washington Sears was an outdoorsman, a contributor to Forest and Stream under the pen name Nessmuk. In July...

New Orleans: Behind the Masks of America's Most Exotic City.(Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... NEW ORLEANS: Behind the Masks of America's Most Exotic City Carol Flake. Grove/Atlantic, $22 (288p) ISBN 0-8021-1406-7 Beneath the surface wildness of New Orleans's Mardi Gras persona lies an urban alchemy that, for over a century, has...

The People Speak: Navajo Folk Art.(Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... THE PEOPLE SPEAK: Navajo Folk Art Chuck and Jan Rosenak, photographs by Lynn Lown. Northland, $35 until March 15, then $40 (163p) ISBN 087358-565-8 The 42 contemporary Navajo folk artists surveyed here reinterpret communal traditions and...

The Next Great Thing: The Sun, the Stirling Engine, and the Drive to Change the World.(Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... THE NEXT GREAT THING: 7 The Sun, the Stirllng Engine, and the Drive to Change the World Mark Shelton. Norton, $25 (288p) ISBN 0-393-03619-7 Sunpower Inc., founded in 1970 by William J. Beale, is a bootstrap engineering research company...

Paul Revere's Ride.(Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... PAUL REVERE'M RIDE David Hackett Fischer. Oxford Univ., $25 (432p) 0-19-508847-6 Fischer, a history professor at Brandeis University, attributes the scholarly neglect of Paul Revere (1735-1818) to a combination of the historian's...

Friends, Lovers, and Soul Mates: A Guide to Better Relationships Between Black Men and Women.(Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... FRIENDS, LOVERS, AND SOUL MATES: A Guide to Better Relationships Between Black Men and Women Derek S. Hopson and Darlene Powell Hopson. Simon & Schuster, $19 (224p) ISBN 0-671-76837-9 Drawing on their own eight-year marriage, the...

The Misunderstood Economy: What Counts and How to Count It.(Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... THE MISUNDERSTOOD ECONOMY: What Counts and How to Count It Robert Eisner. Harvard Business School, $22.95 (224p) ISBN 0-87584443-X In this lucid study, Eisner addresses major econometric issues and poses iconoclastic questions about how...

Looking at the Sun.(Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... LOOKING AT THE SUN James Fallows. Pantheon, $25 (528p) ISBN 0-679-42251-X Suggesting that the U.S. does not yet comprehend the ramifications of the new form of capitalism developed in Japan, Fallows, a reporter on Asia for the Atlantic...

High Stakes: Inside the New Las Vegas.(Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... HIGH STAKES: A Inside the New Las Vegas Gary Provost. Dutton/Talley, $23.95 (320p) ISBN 0-525-93650-5 Las Vegas altering itself into a Disneyland of "family entertainment" is the subject of this sinarmy book by the author of Without...

Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls.(Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... REVIVING OPHELIA: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls Mary Pipher. Grosset/Putnam, $24.95 (304p) ISBN 0-399-13944-3 From her work as a psychotherapist for adolescent females, Pipher here posits and persuasively argues her thesis that...

The Soviet Tragedy: A History of Socialism in Russia, 1917-1991.(Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... THE SOVIET TRAGEDY: A History of Socialism in Russia 1917-1991 Martin Malia. Free Press, $24.95 (216p) ISBN 0-02-919795-3 This shrewd analysis of the failure of the Soviet experiment dismantles the view that the Soviet regime originated...

Reeling and Writhing.(Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... REELING & WRITHING Candida Lawrence. MacMurray & Beck (P.O. Box 4527, Aspen, Colo., 81612), $22.95 ISBN 1-878448-60-9 Presenting a merciless dissection of her marriage of 30 years ago to a scholarly but domineering, jealous and...

Under a Hoodoo Moon: The Life of Dr. John the Night Tripper.(Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... UNDER A HOODOO MOON: The Life of Dr. John the Night Tripper Mac "Dr. John" Rebennack and Jack Rumreel. St. Martin's, $19.95 (288p) ISBN 0-312-10567-3 As much a tribute to Rebennack's native New Orleans and its vibrant music scene as it...

In the Cities and Jungles of Brazil.(Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... IN THE CITIES AND JUNGLES OF BRAZIL Paul Rambali. Holt, $23 (272p) ISBN 0-8050-3079-4 In Rio, we're told here, a hired gun will kill a child for $70; the price for an adult is $250. Between 1984 and 1989, nearly 1400 minors met violent...

James Baldwin: A Biography.(Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... JAMES BALDWIN: A Biography David Leeming. Knopf, $25 (464p) ISBN 0-394-57708-6 James Baldwin (1924-1987), whose novels and essays aimed to liberate white America from the hypocrisy that made oppression and racism possible, was obsessed...

The Collapse of Chaos: Discovering Simplicity in a Complex World.(Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... THE COLLAPSE OF CHAOS: Discovering Simplicity in a Complex World Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart. Viking, $23.95 ISBN 0-670-84983-9 One step onto this ontological escalator with British biologist Cohen and British mathematician Stewart (Does God...

Loud Hawk: The United States Versus the American Indian Movement.(Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... LOUD HAWK: The United States Versus the American Indian Movement Kenneth S. Stern. Univ. of Oklahoma, $24.95 (384p) ISBN 0-8061-2587-X This is the shocking story of a criminal case that began in Portland, Ore., in 1975 and ended in 1988...

One Art: Selected Letters.(Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... ONE ART: Selected Letters Elizabeth Bishop, edited and introduced by Robert Giroux. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $30 (725p) ISBN 0-374-22640-7 This selection of poet Elizabeth Bishop's (1911-1979) letters is, as Giroux observes, a virtual...

Angels of Death: Goering's Luftwaffe.(Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... ANGELS OF DEATH: Goering's Luftwaffe Edwin P. Hoyt. Forge, $22.95 (304p) ISBN 0-312-85668-7 Hoyt's telling biography of Luftwaffe commander Hermann Goering (1893-1947) brings into clearer focus the methods by which this flamboyant Nazi...

Minor Heresies, Major Departures: A China Mission Boyhood.(Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... MINOR HERESIES, MAJOR DEPARTURES: A China Mission Boyhoed John Espey. Univ. of California, $25 (357p) ISBN 0-520-08250-8 Looking back on his childhood in Shanghai during the early 1900s as the son of American missionaries, Espey, a...

H.L. and Lyda: Growing up in the H.L. Hunt and Lyda Bunker Hunt Family as Remembered by Their Eldest Daughter.(Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... H.L. AND LYDA: Growing up in the H. L. Hunt and Lyda Banker Hunt Family as Remembered by Their Eldest Daughter Margaret Hunt Hill with Jane and Burr Boyar. August House, $24.95 ISBN 0-87843-337-X Hill's memoir of her mother, Lyda,...

The Clay Art of Adrian Saxe.(Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... THE CLAY ART OF ADRIAN SAXE Martha Drexler Lynn, contributed by Jim Collins, Los Angeles County Museum of Art/Thames and Hudson, $29.95 (160p) ISBN 0-500-09238-9 Saxe's postmodern ceramics are witty, evocative, sometimes outrageous. The...

Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field.
February 28, 1994... UNSPOKEN HUNGER: Stories from the Field Terry Tempest Willlares. Pantheon, $21 (160p) ISBN 0-679-43244-2 Naturalist-in-residence at the Utah Museum of Natural History and author of Refuge, Williams here explores the connection between...

Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty.(Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... LOST RIGHTS: The Destruction of American Liberty. James Bovard. St. Martin's, $24.95 (398p) ISBN 0-312-10351-4 A critic of governmental hypocrisy in his exposes The Fair Trade Fraud and The Farm Fiasco, Bovard overextends himself in this...

Forging American Communism: The Life of William Z. Foster.(Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... FORGING AMERICAN COMMUNISM: The Life of William Z. Foster Edward P. Johanningsmeier. Princeton Univ. $29.95 (421p) ISBN 0-691-03331-5 Chairman of the U.S. Communist Party and three-time presidential candidate, Foster (1881-1961) is often...

Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-45, and the American Cover-up.(Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... FACTORIES OF DEATH: Japanese Biological Warfare 1932-45 and the American Cover-up Sheldon H. Harris. Routledge, $25 (297p) ISBN 0-415-09105-5 Harris, professor emeritus of history at California State University, here presents evidence...

The History of the Ginger Man.(Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... THE HISTORY OF THE GINGER MAN J. P. Donleavy. Houghton Mifflin/ Lawrence, $27.50 ISBN 0-395-51595-5 From the author of The Ginger Man comes a history of that novel from its inception to its British publication in 1956. And, like The...

Jack's Life: A Biography of Jack Nicholson.(Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... JACK'S LIFE: A Biography of Jack Nicholson Patrick McGilligan. Norton, $25 (320p) ISBN 0-393-03482-8 Born in New York City in 1937, Nicholson grew up in New Jersey under the "elaborate charade" that his grandmother was his mother and his...

The End of Bureaucracy and the Rise of Intelligent Organization.(Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... THE END OF BUREAUCRACY & THE RISE OF INTELLIGENT ORGANIZATION Gifford and Elizabeth Pinchot. Berrett-Koehler (PGW, dist.), $24.95 (392p) ISBN 1-881052-34-6 The Pinchots (Intrapreneuring) here tackle the numbing influence of...

The House That Roone Built: The Inside Story of ABC News.(Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... THE HOUSE THAT ROONE BUILT: The Inside Story of ABC News Marc Gunther. Little, Brown, $23.95 (376p) ISBN 0-316-$3151-1 As head of ABC Sports, Roone Atledge created successful spectacles like Wide World of Sports and Monday Night Football....

Municipal Bondage.(Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... MUNICIPAL BONDAGE Henry Alford. Random, $18 (192p) ISBN 0-679-41509-2 Freelance writer Alford here gathers a mixed bag of his humor pieces-- some of them original, others reprinted from Mademoiselle, the New York Observer and other...

Leonard Bernstein.(Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... LEONARD BERNSTEIN Humphrey Burton. Doubleday, $25 (608p) ISBN 0-385-42345-4 Flamboyant composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein ( 1918-1990), who was America's ambassador to the world of serious music for most of his jampacked life, has long...

Other People's Marriages.(Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... OTHER PEOPLE'S MARRIAGES Rosie Thomas. Morrow, $21 (320p) ISBN 0-688-12962-5 Bestselling author Thomas (The White Dove) traces an insightful and touching tale of love found and sustained in her latest novel of contemporary domestic...

That Year of Our War.(Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... THAT YEAR OF OUR WAR Gloria Goldreich. Little, Brown, $22.95 (368p) ISBN 0-316-31943-0 Goldreich's (Years of Dreams) deeply moving novel views events of the last year of WW II through the eyes of a 15-year-old American girl, narrator...

Julip.(Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... JULIP Jim Harrison. Houghton Mifflin/ Lawrence, $21.95 (275p) ISBN 0-395-48885-0 Three novellas that are rambunctious, spirited chases through rough emotional territory comprise the latest offedring by this protean writer. Typically,...

The Day After Tomorrow.(Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW Allan Folsom. Little, Brown, $24.95 (560p) ISBN 0-316-28829-2 Touted as a blockbuster, this assured debut thriller delivers in full--and then some. A young American doctor haunted by his father's murder stumbles...

The Serpent's Gift.(Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... THE SERPENT'S GIFT Helen Elaine Lee. Atheneum, $21 (392p) ISBN 0-689-12193-8 In her impressive debut novel, Lee uses strong, vivid language and fine dialogue to chronicle the lives of members of two Midwestern African American families...

The Forest House.(Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... THE FOREST HOUSE Marion Zimmer Bradley. Viking, $21.95 (476p) ISBN 0-670-84454-3 The prolific Bradley's latest historical fiction is set in Britain during the first century, A.D., the time of Roman rule. A prologue and an epilogue by...

Stalking Horse.(Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... STALKING HORSE Bill Shoemaker. Fawcett Columbine, $21.95 (320p) ISBN 0-449-90595-0 Sure to invite comparison to Dick Francis, former jockey Shoemaker, with four Kentucky Derbies among his 8833 racing wins, proves even faster out of the...

Thunder.(Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... THUNDER James Grady. Warnet, $21.95 (400p) ISBN 0-446-51765-8 Though Grady's 11th novel features the sort of spy-vs.-spy trickery that sparked his exciting debut, Six Days of the Condor, this byzantine tale of a CIA agent on the run never...

Senator.(Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... SENATOR Richard Bowker. Morrow, $20 (388p) ISBN 0-688-12454-2 If Bowker (Replica) hasn't combined The Last Hurrah and ALl the King's Men, he's come pretty close. Narrator James O'Connor, a young Republican Senator in heavily Democratic...

These Same Long Bones.(Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... THESE SAME LONG BONES Gwendolyn M. Parker. Houghton Miffiin, $21.95 (272p) ISBN 0-39567172-8 In this somber debut, Parker considers community loyalty, racism and the grieving process. The three-part narrative, incorporating flashbacks...

Confusion.(Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... CONFUSION Elizabeth Jane Howard. Pocket, $22 (416p) ISBN 0-671-70911-9 Lush, sprawling escapist fiction of the first order, the third installment of the Cazalet Chronicle opens in the spring of 1942 and continues the saga begun in The...

Two Stories of Prague.(Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... TWO STORIES OF PRAGUE J Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Angela Estherhammer. Univ. Press of New England, $17.95 (160p) ISBN 087451-661-7 These two tales, here translated into English for the first time, reveal a little-known aspect of...

Paradise.(Brief Article)
February 28, 1994... PARADISE Abdulrazak Gurnah. New Press, $19.95 (256p) ISBN 1-56584-162-X Gurnah's powerful, ironically titled story evokes the Edenic natural beauty of a continent on the verge of full-scale imperialist takeover by the European powers....