Fox: Poems 1998-2000 by Rich, Adrienne Cecile Format:  Trade Paperback Price:  $12.00 Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 2003 Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days   See all editions of this title. A Spring 2003 Book Sense 76 Poetry Top 10 Pick! "Rich gracefully maintains her status as one of the world's premier poets with her most recent collection of poems. Ever visionary, ever challenging, ever present, ever powerful, Rich's poems succeed in bringing language to fantastic heights, and the human heart to its knees." -- Hannah Cox, DIESEL: A Bookstore, Oakland, CA
	Red Suburb: Poems by Hewett, Greg Format:  Trade Paperback Price:  $14.95 Published: Coffee House Press, 2002 Inventory Status: Special Order - Subject to Availability A Spring 2003 Book Sense 76 Poetry Top 10 Pick! "This is quite a collection of poems that speak for a generation as they pine for happiness. Greg Hewett has a great voice." -- Jerry Bilek, St. Olaf College Bookstore, Northfield, MN
	Sleeping with the Dictionary (New California Poetry (Paperback), #4) by Mullen, Harryette Romell Format:  Trade Paperback Price:  $16.95 Published: University of California Press, 2002 Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days   See all editions of this title. A Spring 2003 Book Sense 76 Poetry Top 10 Pick! "In Mullen's playful poetic world, words are always puns. They point a thousand different ways at once. Here, she is sleeping with the enemy: the dictionary. The dictionary ties words down to certain definitions, and Harryette has fun in bed with it." -- Adam Munsey Tobin, Pegasus Books Downtown, Berkeley, CA
	Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way: New Poems by Bukowski, Charles Format:  Hardcover (Cloth) Price:  $27.50 Published: Ecco, 2003 Inventory Status: Special Order - Subject to Availability   See all editions of this title. A Spring 2003 Book Sense 76 Poetry Top 10 Pick! "One of the most exciting releases of the last year is this posthumous collection of poems by the 20th century's most acclaimed and reviled poet. Lurking and lingering behind his outrageous verse is a compassion for being human surpassed by no other writer, except perhaps Vonnegut ? but twice as funny, and far more honest and unsentimentalized than any living author could claim to be." -- Jesse DeClercq, The Bookshelf at the Boatworks, Tahoe City, CA
	Nine Horses: Poems by Collins, Billy Format:  Hardcover (Cloth) Price:  $21.95 Published: Random House, 2002 Inventory Status: Special Order - Subject to Availability   See all editions of this title. A Spring 2003 Book Sense 76 Poetry Top 10 Pick! "Thanks to Billy Collins for making more people more aware of and excited about poetry, due to his earlier work and due to this sparkling new collection of poems. Don't miss out on reading him!" -- Jen Reynolds, Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Cincinnati, OH
	Source: Poems by Doty, Mark Format:  Trade Paperback Price:  $13.95 Published: Harper Perennial, 2002 Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days   See all editions of this title. A Spring 2003 Book Sense 76 Poetry Top 10 Pick! "Doty's sixth book of poems takes that which is common, and maybe a bit ordinary, in our lives and makes it poetic. Doty's words bring a fresh and bright light to the world around us. Keep a volume of Source near you at all times, and dip into it often when you need a new vision of the world around you." -- Fred Powell, Main Street Books, Frostburg, MD
	The Unswept Room by Olds, Sharon Format:  Trade Paperback Price:  $16.95 Published: Knopf Publishing Group, 2002 Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days   See all editions of this title. A Spring 2003 Book Sense 76 Poetry Top 10 Pick! "A magnificent collection of poems that gets right at the marrow of life. Olds writes of family, the joys of marriage, and the experience of being a woman in such clear verse and wonderful language that each poem offers fresh insight." -- Arsen Kashkashian, Boulder Book Store, Boulder, CO
	Open House by Fennelly, Beth Ann Format:  Trade Paperback Price:  $14.95 Published: Zoo Press, 2002 Inventory Status: Out of Print   See all editions of this title. A Spring 2003 Book Sense 76 Poetry Top 10 Pick! "This collection became one of our biggest sellers last year following a series of masterful readings by the author. The poems spring off the page themselves, so funny, warm, wise, and alive with motion. The experiments in style here are not tricks, but paths to surprising depths. Read Beth Ann Fennelly now and beat the rush." -- Jamie Kornegay, Square Books, Oxford, MS
	Blue Hour: Poems by Forche, Carolyn Format:  Hardcover (Cloth) Price:  $24.95 Published: HarperCollins Publishers, 2003 Inventory Status: Special Order - Subject to Availability   See all editions of this title. A Spring 2003 Book Sense 76 Poetry Top 10 Pick! "With the exception of Adrienne Rich, Forch? may be the only living American poet who has dedicated her craft to the preservation of your conscience. These poems detail the urgencies of a century -- the moral, lyrical, and passionate complications that language and memory make for us. Be thoughtful, bring your slow and steady consideration to these pages." -- Melissa Mytinger, Cody's Books, Berkeley, CA
	What Do We Know: Poems and Prose Poems by Oliver, Mary Format:  Trade Paperback Price:  $16.00 Published: Da Capo Press, 2003 Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days   See all editions of this title. A Spring 2003 Book Sense 76 Poetry Top 10 Pick! "Oliver again turns her luminous eye to the natural world, invoking its mysteries, its darkness and beauty. These are poems of wonder and praise for the sea, the seasons, the mockingbird, the clam -- and for the human spirit that watches and listens." -- Diana Sabot, The Galaxy Bookshop, Hardwick, VT
Browse Sample Pages	Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Fraser, Antonia Format:  Trade Paperback Price:  $17.95 Published: Anchor Books, 2002 Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days   See all editions of this title. A Spring 2003 Book Sense 76 History Top 10 Pick! "This carefully researched, 450-page biography draws from a wide variety of sources, including mostly letters, and is woven together seamlessly in a narrative that kept me as rapt as any fiction could. Fraser is a fine writer of histories, and, since the death of Barbara Tuchman, she is my very favorite." -- Blanchette W. Bailey, Baileywick Books, New Milford, CT
	The Cat from Hue: A Vietnam War Story by Laurence, John Format:  Trade Paperback Price:  $20.00 Published: PublicAffairs, 2003 Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days   See all editions of this title. A Spring 2003 Book Sense 76 History Top 10 Pick! "Laurence recounts the horrors of the battlefield and the drunken cynicism of his fellow reporters with absorbing detail and a refreshing lack of ego. The homefront is intertwined through a side story of the mongrel cat he brought back to the states from Vietnam. A rare and wonderful work." -- Mark Benno, Canterbury Booksellers, Madison, WI
	Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad That Crossed an Ocean by Standiford, Les Format:  Hardcover (Cloth) Price:  $24.00 Published: Crown Publishing Group (NY), 2002 Inventory Status: Special Order - Subject to Availability   See all editions of this title. A Spring 2003 Book Sense 76 History Top 10 Pick! "Flagler invested his riches in a fantastic dream: to build fabulous hotels and a railroad down the coast of Florida, all the way to Key West. The story of the men and women who aided in this dream and the harsh landscape they had to overcome is fascinating." ??Barbara Hoagland, The King's English Bookshop, Salt Lake City, UT Also a Random House Audio (CD, 0553756842)
	An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy (Liberation Trilogy) by Atkinson, Rick Format:  Hardcover (Cloth) Price:  $35.00 Published: Henry Holt & Company, 2002 Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days   See all editions of this title. A Spring 2003 Book Sense 76 History Top 10 Pick! "A detailed history of the American army in its first battle on the shores of North Africa. It is not a part of World War II history that is often told, and the author makes the misjudgments made by Eisenhower, Marshall, and their subordinates, very vivid." -- Pat Kehde, The Raven Bookstore, Lawrence, KS Also an S&S Audio (0743527151)
	Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before by Horwitz, Tony Format:  Hardcover (Cloth) Price:  $26.00 Published: Henry Holt & Company, 2002 Inventory Status: Special Order - Subject to Availability   See all editions of this title. A Spring 2003 Book Sense 76 History Top 10 Pick! "Horwitz provides a fresh look at the at best forgotten, at worst maligned, explorer Captain James Cook. In tracing Cook's voyages around the Pacific and his return home to Yorkshire and London, Horwitz not only educates you about a great man, but entertains you every page of the way." -- Barry Johnson, Books at Stonehenge, Raleigh, NC Also a HarperAudio (069452350X)
	Salt: A World History by Kurlansky, Mark Format:  Trade Paperback Price:  $16.00 Published: Penguin Books, 2003 Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days   See all editions of this title. A Spring 2003 Book Sense 76 History Top 10 Pick! "Leave it to Kurlansky to take an ordinary item like salt and make it utterly fascinating. Who knew how much of our world was shaped by the need for salt? Wars were fought over it, and civilizations rose and fell because of it. True to form, Kurlansky's book is accessible, far-reaching, and all but un-put-downable." -- Peggy Hailey, BookPeople, Austin, TX
	The Measure of All Things by Alder, Ken Format:  Hardcover (Cloth) Price:  $27.00 Published: Free Pr, 2002 Inventory Status: Special Order - Subject to Availability   See all editions of this title. A Spring 2003 Book Sense 76 History Top 10 Pick! "In 1792, two quixotic French astronomers head out from Paris to forge the exact measure of the meter. Too bad one of them made a mistake in his calculations and covered it up, his guilty knowledge driving him crazy. His partner sealed all evidence of the error in a vault at the Paris Observatory, until Alder now reveals this fascinating bit of science and history." -- Barbara Peters, Poisoned Pen, Scottsdale, AZ
	Jefferson's Great Gamble: The Remarkable Story of Jefferson, Napoleon and the Men Behind the Louisiana Purchase by Cerami, Charles A. Format:  Hardcover (Cloth) Price:  $22.95 Published: Sourcebooks, 2003 Inventory Status: Out of Print   See all editions of this title. A Spring 2003 Book Sense 76 History Top 10 Pick! "Fine writing makes one of American history's most important events even more fascinating. With a cast of characters such as Jefferson, Madison, and Napoleon, it's a grand drama." -- Shirley Frank, Edmonds Bookshop, Edmonds, WA
	Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling by King, Ross Format:  Hardcover (Cloth) Price:  $28.00 Published: Walker & Company, 2003 Inventory Status: Special Order - Subject to Availability   See all editions of this title. A Spring 2003 Book Sense 76 History Top 10 Pick! "The intersecting worlds of art, war, religion, politics, and personality of 16th century Rome come alive in King's compulsively readable account of Michelangelo's painting of the Sistine Chapel. It's a marvelously detailed portrait of a gifted artist, a changing world, and an astounding work of art." -- Dale Szczeblowski, Concord Bookshop, Concord, MA Also an Audio Partners Audio (1572703059)
Browse Sample Pages	The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Illinois) by Larson, Erik Format:  Hardcover (Cloth) Price:  $26.95 Published: Crown Publishing Group (NY), 2003 Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days   See all editions of this title. A Spring 2003 Book Sense 76 History Top 10 Pick! "Larsen tells the parallel stories of two men racing to meet their destinies: one creating the 1893 Chicago World's Fair against incredible odds, and one becoming America's first real serial killer. The otherworldly beauty and utopian vision of the fair make a stark contrast to the harsh realities of life just a few blocks away where on dark, dirty streets young women were disappearing by the dozens. A completely fascinating read." -- Michele Sulka, Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Cincinnati, OH Also a Random House Audio (CD, 0739302086)