Publishers Weekly articles from January 1996, page 6

Publishers Weekly archives from January 1996

Lent.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Megan McKenna, Orbis, paper, $12 (336p) ISBN 1-85075-045-9 Using the readings assigned in the Catholic Lectionary, McKenna explores the day's texts and encourages readers to take social action and responsibility. A master storyteller, she...

The Miracle Drugs: How They Work and What You Should Know About Them.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Frank Minirth, Paul Meier, & Stephen Arterburn. Thomas Nelson, paper $12.99 (288p) ISBN 0-8407-7865-6 (Evangelical Christian/Lifestyle) These authors, co-founders of the Minirth Meier New Life Clinics, have produced many self-help books for...

Religion bestsellers.(Brief Article)(Illustration)
January 8, 1996... RELIGION BESTSELLERS PAPERBACK 1. Chicken Soup for the Soul. Jack Canfield & Mark Hansen, Health Communications, $12 ISBN 1-55874-262-X (*#10) 2. 2nd Helping of Chicken Soup... Jack Canfield & Mark Hansen, eds. Health Communications,...

Alphabet soup and hot Java.(books on the internet and Web tools such as Java)
January 8, 1996... HTML, VRML, CU-SeeMe keep the Internet pot boiling IF anyone still doubted the staying power of the Internet as a hot topic for computer publishers, this fall should certainly have persuaded them. Microsoft's long-awaited Windows 95 finally...

Computer bestsellers.(includes lists for books on operating systems, applications, MacIntosh and general books)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
January 8, 1996... COMPUTER BESTSELLERS OPERATING SYSTEMS 1. Windows 95 for Dummies. Andy Rathbone. IDG, $19.95 ISBN 1-56884-240-9 2. Windows 3.11 for Dummies, 3rd Ed. Andy Rathbone. IDG, $16.95 ISBN 1-56884-370-4 3. MS Windows 95 Resource Kit....

Frontrunners: the big political books of 1996.
January 8, 1996... Never have politics and publishing proved to be such dynamic business partners as in the past few months, with the blockbuster book campaigns staged by HarperCollins for Newt Gingrich and by Random House for General Colin Powell. Both...

John Updike: a sense of religious mission. (author explores biblical themes in his new novel)
January 8, 1996... IN THE BEAUTY of the lilies Christ was born across the sea--this odd and uplifting line from "The Battle Hymn of the Republic seemed to me, as I set out, to summarize what I had to say about America." Thus muses John Updike in his memoir...

Osler's Web: Inside the Labyrinth of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Hillary Johnson. Crown, $35 (832p) ISBN 0-517-70353-X By bringing chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) out of the shadows and squarely onto the nation's health agenda, Johnson's groundbreaking, compelling report does for it what Randy Shilts's And...

Phantom Illness: Shattering the Myth of Hypochondria.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Carla Cantor with Brian A. Fallon, M.D. Houghton Mifflin, $21.95 ISBN 0-395-68988-0 Challenging the popular image of hypochondriacs as self-involved, whiny complainers, freelance journalist Cantor portrays them as severely troubled...

The Alchemy of Love and Lust: Discovering Our Sex Hormones and How They Determine Who We Love, When We Love, and How Often We Love.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Theresa L. Crenshaw. Putnam, $23.95 (384p) ISBN 0-399-14041-7 Fluctuating hormone levels and the way hormones interact create the cycles and peaks in our sexual desire, moods, emotions and ability to form relationships, according to Crenshaw,...

The Ends of the Earth: A Journey at the Dawn of the 21st Century.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Robert D. Kaplan. Random, $27.50 (400p) ISBN 0-679-43148-9 After his recent travels through troubled southeastern Europe, Kaplan (Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History) has taken on an even more ambitious itinerary--some of the most...

Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Ruth Lewin Sime. Univ. of California, $30 (512p) ISBN 0-684-82295-4 Einstein called her "our Marie Curie," and at the end of WW II, newspapers dubbed her "the Jewish mother of the atomic bomb." But Lise Meitner (1878-1968), the first woman in...

Bloomsbury Women: Distinct Figures in Life and Art.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Jan Marsh, foreword by Frances Partridge. Holt, $29.95 (160p) ISBN 0-8050-4550-3 This beautifully illustrated overview of the Bloomsbury circle focuses on its rich and diverse artistic output. Through color as well as black-and-white...

Life of a Poet: Rainer Maria Rilke.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Ralph Freedman. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $35 (600p) ISBN 0-374-18690-1 Freedman, emeritus professor of comparative literature at Princeton and author of a biography of Hermann Hesse, notes in this thorough and thoughtful study of Rilke that...

In Defense of Affirmative Action.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Barbara R. Bergmann. Basic, $23 (224p) ISBN 0-465-09833-9 In this brief book, American University economist Bergmann makes a partially convincing defense of affirmative action, focusing on its role in the workplace rather than in university...

Leading People: Transforming Business from the Inside Out.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Robert H. Rosen with Paul B. Brown. Viking, $24.95 (411p) ISBN 0-670-85874-9 Caring, empowerment and social responsibility are words often used in this inspiring and informally written treatise for leaders. The traditional hierarchical...

The Way We Are.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Margaret Visser, foreword by John Fraser. Faber and Faber, $23.95 (320p) ISBN 0-571-19885-6 Award-winning Toronto author Visser (Much Depends on Dinner) packs a wealth of intriguing information into this collection of witty essays. All but...

The Net of Dreams: A Family's Search for a Rightful Place.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Julie Salamon. Random, $25 (320p) ISBN 0-679-43121-7 The author's father, Alexander (Sanyi) Salamon, a Carpathian Czech doctor, was incarcerated in Dachau and survived, but he lost his first wife and their small daughter in the Holocaust. In...

Requiem Letters.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Ronald Senator. Marion Boyars (Inbook, dist.), $27.50 (272p) ISBN 0-7145-2999-0 Senator, an English composer whose works include the Pulitzer-nominated oratorio Holocaust Requiem and the musical Trotsky in New York (with Anthony Burgess),...

Tomorrow's War: The Threat of High-Technology Weapons.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... David Shukman. Harcourt Brace, $26 (288p) ISBN 0-15-100198-7 Shukman, BBC-TV's chief European correspondent, argues that the world is standing on the edge of a breakthrough in warfare unprecedented since the introduction of gunpowder. An...

Without Child: Challenging the Stigma of Childlessness,(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Laurie Lisle. Ballantine, $23 (288p) ISBN 0-345-37327-8 The "rejection of parenthood," as the author of this carefully researched study found, "is a delicate and even dangerous topic." Lisle (Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia...

Pacific Defense: Arms, Energy, and America's Future in America.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Kent E. Calder. Morrow, $25 (288p) ISBN 0-688-13738-5 Calder is director of the U.S.-Japan Relations program at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School. Here he confirms that energy shortages are becoming acute in northeast Asia because of rapid...

Speak Sunlight.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Alan Jolis. St. Martin's/Wyatt, $19.95 (192p) ISBN 0-312-14050-9 Although Maruja is grossly obese, she dances a flamenco "like a whirling dervish [and] the men holier for more. They love her size--this mass of flab and jelly moving and...

Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Peter Maass. Knopf, $25.95 (320p) ISBN 0-679-44433-5 Torture, mass murder of civilians, rape and looting are common occurrences in Washington Post staff writer Maass's intensely personal firsthand report on the war in the former Yugoslavia,...

Rain of Iron and Ice: The Very Real Threat of Comet and Asteroid Bombardment.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... John S. Lewis. Addison-Wesley, $25 (246p) ISBN 0-201-48950-3 This volume informally yet comprehensively surveys meteorites (which reach the surface of the earth) and meteors (which don't)--their origins, types, consequences and prospects for...

Breakthrough: The Race to Find the breast Cancer Gene.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Kevin Davies and Michael White. Wiley, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 0-471-12025-1 In 1970, after a 15-year search, University of California geneticist Mary-Claire King proved the existence of a gene, called BRCA1, that if damaged can predispose women...

Gender Traps: Confronting Confrontophobia, Toxic Bosses and Other Landmines at Work.
January 8, 1996... Judith Briles. McGraw-Hill, $19.95 (268p) ISBN 0-07-007895-5 In this forthright guide for working women, Briles (The Confidence Factor) pinpoints 10 major workplace problems that she calls gender traps, traces their sources and proposes...

A Mother's Mission: The Sue Molhan Story.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Suzanne Molhan with Jack Kavanagh. Diamond, $21.95 (200p) ISBN 0-912083-86-7 Molhan's only son, Stephen, aged 20, was shot to death in Providence, R.I., in 1983, presumably for his jewelry, whose total value was about $25. That event was the...

The Trials of Maria Barbella: The True Story of a 19th Century Crime of Passion.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Idanna Pucci. Four Walls Eight Windows, $22 (300p) ISBN 1-56858-061-4 In 1895, Maria Barbella, a 22-year-old Italian immigrant who worked in a New York City sweatshop, was convicted of killing her abusive lover, Domenico Cataldo, because he...

Miss Rhythm: The Autobiography of Ruth Brown, Rhythm and Blues Legend.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Ruth Brown with Andrew Yule. Donald I. Fine/Dutton, $23.95 (384p) ISBN 1-55611-486-9 Born in 1928, Brown was one of the top female rhythm-and-blues singers by the 1950s, recording for Atlantic Records, a company that made a fortune from her...

Casting Her Own Shadow: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Shaping of Postwar Liberalism.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Allida M. Black. Columbia Univ., $29.95 (300p) ISBN 0-231-10404-9 This vital study reconstructs Eleanor Roosevelt's role as a major power broker from 1945 until her death in 1962. Chagrined at her acquiescence to FDR's policy of interning...

Chekhov's Plays: An Opening into Eternity.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Richard Gilman. Yale Univ., $30 ISBN 0-300-06461-6. In a highly impressive if occasionally meandering series of essays, Yale drama professor Gilman (The Making of Modern Drama) presents an extended look at the dramatic methods employed by...

Women World Leaders: Fifteen Great Politicians Tell Their Stories.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Laura A. Liswood. HarperCollins, $26 (288p) ISBN 0-04-440904-4 The author, a lawyer and international advocate of women's rights, interviewed 15 current and former presidents and prime ministers: Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan; Mary Robinson,...

Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Richard Brookhiser. Free Press, $23 (224p) ISBN 0-684-82291-1 A slaveowner who had no children of his own, George Washington, the "father of our country," parented wife Martha's two children and treated his staff during the Revolutionary War...

Guilty as Sin.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Tami Hoag. Bantam, $21.95 (480p) ISBN 0-553-09959-0 In Night Sins (1994), Hoag's first thriller after a successful run of paperback romances, Minnesota state cop Megan O'Malley tried to solve the kidnapping of eight-year-old Josh Kirkwood in...

The Woman Who Walked On Water.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Lily Tuck. Riverhead, $21 (256p) ISBN 1-57322-021-3 Again Tuck (Interviewing Matisse: or The Woman Who Died Standing Up) has taken stylistic risks and emerged triumphant. Her stark prose and allegory-inside-allegory narrative tug the reader,...

Between Sisters.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Nina Vida. Crown, $23 (288p) ISBN 0-517-70071-9 With powerful prose, Vida (Goodbye, Saigon) charts the legacy of abuse perpetrated by a truly monstrous man against his wife and two daughters. In the book's first section, set in Southern...

Cold Shoulder.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Lynda La Plante. Random, $24 (400p) ISBN 0-679-44103-4 Admirers of La Plante's Edgar Award-winning TV miniseries, Prime Suspect, and of her earlier crime-thriller fiction (Bella Mafia), will want to give this novel anything but the cold...

Dreamhouse.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Alison Habens. Picador USA, $23 (336p) ISBN 0-312-14086-X This clever first novel mutates elements from Lewis Carroll's Alice books into a hip, highly charged, ultramodern coming-of-age tale. Celia (an anagram for Alice) lives uneasily with...

The Serpent Garden.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Judit Merkle Riley. Viking, $24.95 (480p) ISBN 0-670-86661-X A touch of the supernatural adds spice to Riley's fourth novel, a historical romance filled with high-level political chicanery set in 16th-century France and Tudor England. Susanna...

Shadow of Ashland.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Terence M. Green. Forge, $19.95 (224p) ISBN 0-312-85958-9 This poignant if murky parable about love--old and new, lost and found--from a Canadian SF writer (Barking Dogs, 1988) is wonderfully imagined and poetically told. Days before she dies...

Lonesome Standard Time.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Dana Andrew Jennings. Harcourt Brace, $19 (176p) ISBN 0-15-100188-X Though apparently intended as an elegiac ode to a rural Northeast town ravaged by the by-products of a toxic waste dump, Jennings's latest novel (after Women of Granite) is...

Burning Your Boats: The Complete Short Stories.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Angela Carter. Holt/Macrae, $30 (432p) ISBN 0-8050-4462-0 The late Angela Carter, better known as a novelist (Wise Children), wrote stories throughout her all-too-brief career, and they are all here, handsomely and perceptively introduced by...

What Matters Most.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Cynthia Victor. Dutton, $23.95 (320p) ISBN 0-525-94033-2 Breezy dialogue, well-developed dramatic tension and, of course, the eventual triumph of true love blend nicely in Victor's (Only You) new novel of romantic suspense. Lainey Wolfe and...

A Bitter Peace.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Michael Peterson. Pocket, $24 (416p) ISBN 0-671-72695-1 Diplomat Bradley Marshall, who--as depicted in Peterson's A Time of War (1990)--tried in the late 1960s to end the conflict in Vietnam, returns for another go. Now it's 1972, and...

The Secret of the Bulls.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Jose Raul Bernardo. Simon & Schuster, $22 (320p) ISBN 0-684-81817-5 Steamy sex scenes, lush prose, genial spirits and exotic locale (Cuba, mostly Havana, between 1911 and 1938) lend commercial appeal to this unabashedly sentimental first...

Valentine.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Tom Savage. Little, Brown, $20.95 (336p) ISBN 0-316-77164-3 Though laden with gimmicks (murders that take place on St. Valentine's Day; a killer who slays by means of the ancient elements of fire, earth, wind and water), Savage's second...

Shadow of the Moon.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Douglas C. Jones. Holt, $25 (608p) ISBN 0-8050-3654-7 Several Golden Spur Awards for Best Western Historical Novel, as well as the Owen Wister Award for Lifetime Contribution and Achievement in Western American Lettres, have come Jones's way...

Hearing Voices.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... A. N. Wilson. Norton, $22.50 (224p) ISBN 0-393-03875-0 Required reading for those who've read the three previous volumes of The Lampitt Papers books, this novel may hold less interest for others new to the series. Yet Wilson's always...

Purgatory Road.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Bob Reiss. Simon & Schuster, $22 (240p) ISBN 0-684-81119-7 The icy wastes of Antarctica provide the forbidding setting for this environmentally aware thriller from Reiss (The Last Crusade). When the international agreement to preserve the...

The 37th Mandala.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Marc Laidlaw. St. Martin's, $22.95 (384p) ISBN 0-312-13021-X Attempts to achieve a genuine sense of awe are rare in contemporary horror. So Laidlaw (The Orchid Eater) is to be complimented for making the effort in his new novel, even though...

The Judas Glass.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Michael Cadnum. Carroll & Graf, $22.95 (320p) ISBN 0-7867-0239-7 Cadnum (Skyscraper) rings an original variation on the vampire theme with this haunting evocation of the sensual world lost beneath the routines of daily life. Narrator Richard...

A Heart So White.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Javier Marias, translated by Margaret Jull Costa. Harvill (HarperCollins World, dist.), $24 (280p) ISBN 1-86046-003-8 Spanish novelist Marias (All Souls), winner of the Barcelona Prize, weaves an ironic tale of love and betrayal in which the...

Tell Me a Tale: A Novel of the Old South.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... James McEachin. Presidio/Lyford, $18.95 (256p) ISBN 0-89141-584-X Years after the Civil War, Moses, a 17-year-old former slave, journeys back to the isolated North Carolina town where he had been born to arrogant white plantation owner Archie...

Mount Dragon.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. Forge, $22.95 (352p) ISBN 0-312-86042-0 The writing team that scared the willies out of readers with Relic returns with a second, equally gripping novel of technoterror. A genetically engineered mutation of...

Good Sons.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... K. C. Constantine. Mysterious, $21.95 (320p) ISBN 0-89396-544-4 While last year's Cranks and Shadows saw the retirement of Mario Balzic, Rocksburg, Pennsylvania's top cop, Constantine here passes the series baton to Detective Sergeant...

In the Presence of the Enemy.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Elizabeth George. Bantam, $21.95 (560p) ISBN 0-553-09265-0 After seven outings (the last was Playing for the Ashes), upper-crust Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his stubby, working-class sergeant, Barbara Havers, have formed a...

The Sword of General Englund.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Donald Honig. Scribner, $20 (288p). ISBN 0-684-80321-6 The murder of a famous general stuns the U.S. Army in this first-rate puzzler set at a remote Dakota post in 1876. When General Alfred Englund is stabbed to death in his office and an...

I Survived Caracas Traffic: Stories from the Me Decades.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Richard Grayson. Avisson Press (307 Taliaferro Rd., Greensboro, N.C. 27408; 910-288-6989), $21 (144p) ISBN 1-888105-04-6 Social tropes and individual types from the "Me Decades" (here, really just the late 1970s and early '80s) run through...

Great Stories of the American West II.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Edited by Martin H. Greenberg. Fine, $22.50 (304p) ISBN 1-55611-481-8 An unexpected novella by Ed Gorman that deftly blends the crime and western genres anchors this adequate follow-up to Greenberg's 1994 anthology Great Stories of the...

Meadowlark.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Sheila Simonson. St. Martin's/Dunne, $21.95 (256p) ISBN 0-312-14013-4 Opening Larkspur Books after relocating from California to the quaint coastal Washington town of Kayport, Lark Dodge, seen last in Mudlark, is pressed by Bianca Fiedler...

Murder Among the Angels.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Stefanie Matteson. Berkley/Prime Crime, $19.95 (256p) ISBN 0-425-15149-2 While considering a face-lift, septuagenarian actress Charlotte Graham, seen last in Murder on High, is swept up in a complex murder case in this intriguing look at a...

Death and Faxes.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Leslie O'Kane. St. Martin's/Dunne, $21.95 (240p) ISBN 0-312-13960-8 This witty, sometimes cynical, debut introduces Molly Masters, a greeting card designer who returns to her hometown in upstate New York while her engineer husband is sent on...

Bowker's Bonfire.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Tony Caxton. St. Martin's/Dunne, $21.95 (272p) ISBN 0-312-13936-5 Caxton (Murder in a Quiet Place) sets Detective Inspector Dennis Bowker, his own version of Dirty Harry, loose on the sleepy town of Bedlow-on-Thames--and it's not a pretty...

Bloody Waters.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Carolina Garcia-Aguilera. Putnam, $19.95 (256p) ISBN 0-399-14157-X Although Garcia-Aguilera, like her sleuth, Guadalupe ("Lupe") Solano, has worked as a Miami PI, her first effort has more melodrama than mystery. Lucia and Jose Moreno were...

The Gospel Makers.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Anthea Fraser. St. Martin's/Dunne, $20.95 (208p) ISBN 0-312-13979-9 Shillingham, England's Detective Chief Inspector David Webb confronts two seemingly unrelated problems in this 11th in the series (after Three, Three the Rivals). When he is...

As She Rides By.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... David M Pierce. St. Martin's, $20.95 (224p) ISBN 0-312-13924-1 Thrills and yuks in seamless tandem can often be found in good crime writing, but Pierce and his terminally smart-mouthed L.A. detective, Vic Daniel (Write Me a Letter), don't get...

The Second John McPhee Reader.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... John McPhee, selected by David Remnick and Patricia Strachan. FSG, $14 (388p) ISBN 0-374-52463-7; cloth $27.50 -25686-1 McPhee is a hands-on writer Working for a farmer, he sells produce off trucks and vans in New York City's Greenmarket...

Soulfires: Young Black Men on Love and Violence.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Edited by Daniel J. Wideman and Rohan B. Preston. Penguin, $13.95 (448p) ISBN 0-14-024215-5 Seeing that it has contributions from some 30 black men--Michael Eric Dyson, Peter J. Harris, Brother Yao (Hoke Glover), Marc Nesbitt, Kevin Powell...

The Great Irish Famine.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Edited by Cathal Poirteir. RTE/Mercier (Dufour, dist.), $18.95 (283p) ISBN 1-85635-111-4 There is no single event in Irish history that produces more emotion, speculation and controversy than the Great Famine of 1845-1851. Analyses of the...

Cult Rapture.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Adam Parfrey. Feral House, $14.95 (371p) ISBN 0-922915-22-9 Reading this incendiary, offensive and fascinating collection from underground freelancer Parfrey (Apocalypse Culture) is like looking at pornography: it's a cheap thrill but a...

They Forged the Signature of God.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Viriato Sencion, translated by Asa Zata. Curbstone, $14.95 (250p) ISBN 1-880684-33-0 It's almost impossible to discuss Dominican author Sencion's They Forged the Signature of God without first discussing the controversy surrounding it....

The Black Woman's Guide to Financial Independence.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Cheryl D, Broussard. Penguin, $15.95 ISBN 0-14-025283-5 Broussard, co-owner of a money management firm in Oakland, Calif., believes that black women must learn to handle their finances more effectively to succeed in today's world. Originally...

The Language of Animals.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Stephen Hart, foreword by Frans B.M. de Waal. Holt, $9.95 (128p) ISBN 0-8050-3840-X; $22.50 -3839-6 Hart, a biologist, zoological researcher and science journalist, takes a cautious stance on animal language, summing up the wide range of...

Portrait of American Jews: The Last Half of the 20th Century.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Samuel C. Heilman. Univ, of Washington, $17.95 ISBN 0-295-97471-0; cloth $30 -97471-0 Basing his book on the lecture series he gave at the University of Washington, sociologist Heilman rehashes the problems of assimilation as it relates to...

Dat's Love.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Leonora Brito. Seren (Dufour, dist.), $15.95, (125p) ISBN 1-85411-136-1 Combine an unexpected setting (the Caribbean community in Wales) with some truly fresh writing, and you get a debut collection that is sometimes funny and always highly...

By Force of Arms.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... James L. Nelson. Pocket, $12 ISBN 0-671-51924-7 The American Revolution has been well covered in fiction, but almost entirely as a land war--much as the War of 1812 has been treated virtually only as a naval war. By Force of Arms is the first...

Mondo James Dean.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Edited by Richard Peabody and Lucinda Ebersole. St. Martin's, $13.95 ISBN 0-312-14121-1 A continuation of the Mondo series that earlier featured Mondo Elvis,... Barbie and...Marilyn, this anthology of 23 poems, essays and short fiction...

Never Too Late for Love.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Warren Adler. Homestead (Box 193, Moose, Wyo. 83012), $14.95 (288p) ISBN 0-943972-45-0; cloth $22.95 -44-2 In these 15 stories (six of which are reprinted from The Sunset Gang), the author of The War of the Roses portrays love and sex in a...

Suddenly.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Candace Camp. Mira, $5.99 (408p) ISBN 1-55166-035-0 Not even Camp's ingenious wit is enough to redeem her latest romance, in which the devilishly handsome Earl of Dure is in search of a wife, any wife, for a marriage of convenience. The...

Devotion.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Katherine Sutcliffe. Jove, $5.99 (384p) ISBN 0-515-11801-X Sutcliffe's latest (a spin-off of Miracle) is an exemplary romance--perfect in every way. Behind it all is a Beauty-and-the-Beast plot: Desperate to escape her zealous, puritanical...

Scandal.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Joanna Elm. Forge, $6.99 ISBN 0-812-54471-4 When Kitty Fitzgerald decided to become the South Florida correspondent for the TV tabloid show Inside Copy, she thought the move from New York to Boca Raton might mean a better life for her son...

Night Lace.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Emma Merritt. Zebra, $5.50 (320p) ISBN 0-8217-5251-0 A plague in California leads intern Beth Balfour to the Scottish Highlands in pursuit of legends about a similar 12th-century plague cured by a mysterious warlock armed with the elusive...

Midnight Rider.(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Kat Martin. St. Martin's, $5.99 (372p) ISBN 0-312-95774-2 Martin's latest (after Devil's Prize) explores the aftermath of the Mexican-American War and its effect on California circa 1850. The nebulous laws aimed at settling land disputes...