October, 2003

This month's roundup of New in Paperback titles include NO WAY TO TREAT A FIRST LADY, PARADISE ALLEY and THE LIVES OF THE MUSES --- all of which were national bestsellers when originally published in hardcover. We're also featuring the works of such award-winning writers as Jonathan Franzen, Tim O'Brien and Jose Saramago, who is the author of THE CAVE (a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year) and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature.

FICTION:

BAUDOLINO Umberto Eco Harvest Books ISBN: 0156029065	THE CAVE Jose Saramago Harvest Books ISBN: 0156028794
GORGEOUS LIES Martha McPhee Harvest Books ISBN: 0156028824	I HATE TO SEE THAT EVENING SUN GO DOWN: Collected Stories William Gay Free Press ISBN: 0743242920
JANE AUSTEN IN BOCA Paula Marantz Cohen St. Martin's Griffin ISBN: 0312319754 • Read a Review	JULY, JULY Tim O'Brien Penguin USA ISBN: 0142003387 • Read a Review and Excerpt
THE LAST GIRLS Lee Smith Ballantine ISBN: 0345464958 • Read a Review and Excerpt • Reading Group Guide	LAST THINGS David Searcy Plume ISBN: 0452284635
THE NANNY Melissa Nathan Avon Trade ISBN: 0060560118	NO WAY TO TREAT A FIRST LADY Christopher Buckley Random House Trade Paperbacks ISBN: 0375758755 • Read a Review
ONLY CHILD Andrew Vachss Vintage Books ISBN: 1400030986	PARADISE ALLEY Kevin Baker Perennial ISBN: 006095521X • Reading Group Guide
P.G. COUNTY Connie Briscoe One World/Ballantine ISBN: 0345444132	THE SEVEN SISTERS Margaret Drabble Harvest Books ISBN: 0156028751
SIX EASY PIECES Walter Mosley Washington Square Press ISBN: 0743442547	VERBENA Nanci Kincaid Berkley Signature ISBN: 0425191710
NONFICTION:
THE ART OF SEDUCTION Robert Greene Penguin USA ISBN: 0142001198	BACHELOR GIRL: 100 Years of Breaking the Rules --- a Social History of Living Single Betsy Israel Perennial ISBN: 038079778X
ELIZABETH TAYLOR: My Love Affair with Jewelry Elizabeth Taylor Simon & Schuster ISBN: 0743254384	GENIUS: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds Harold Bloom Warner Books ISBN: 0446691291
HOW TO BE ALONE Jonathan Franzen Picador USA ISBN: 0312422164 • Read a Review	I MAY BE WRONG BUT I DOUBT IT Charles Barkley Random House Trade Paperbacks ISBN: 0812966287
I WANT THAT! How We All Became Shoppers Thomas Hine Perennial ISBN: 0060959835	LIVE FROM NEW YORK: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live, as Told By Its Stars, Writers and Guests Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller Back Bay Books ISBN: 0316735655
THE LIVES OF THE MUSES: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired Francine Prose Perennial ISBN: 0060555254	A LONG WAY FROM HOME: Growing Up in the American Heartland in the Forties and Fifties Tom Brokaw Random House Trade Paperbacks ISBN: 0375759352 • Read a Review and Excerpt
MEASURING AMERICA: How the United States Was Shaped by the Greatest Land Sale in History Andro Linklater Plume ISBN: 0452284597	POPULATION: 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time Michael Perry Perennial ISBN: 0060958073
REDNECK NATION: How the South Really Won the War Michael Graham Warner Books ISBN: 0446690996	SKIPPING TOWARDS GOMORRAH: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America Dan Savage Plume ISBN: 0452284163
TO AMERICA: Personal Reflections of an Historian Stephen E. Ambrose Simon & Schuster ISBN: 0743252128 • Read a Review	WHY I AM A CATHOLIC Garry Wills Mariner Books ISBN: 0618380485 • Read a Review

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