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Hawks, Tony. Playing the Moldavans at Tennis. St. Martin's/ Thomas Dunne, $23.95 (0-312-28010-6). The author tracked down all 11 members of the Moldavan national soccer team and beat them at [...]

Feiler, Bruce. Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land through the Five Books of Moses. Morrow, $25 (0-380-97775-3). Determined to connect more deeply with his religious roots, Feiler joined an [...]

Fleming, Fergus. Killing Dragons: The Conquest of the Alps. Grove/Atlantic, $26 (0-87113-778-X). In the gold rush of mountaineering books, Fleming found an unclaimed topic hiding in plain sight: the Alps. [...]

Have airport delays lessened? Hardly. Is it any easier to hear the words 'mechanical difficulties' from the gate agent? Not on your life. But, indisputably, the amount of high-quality travel [...]

Cordingly, David. Women Sailors and Sailors' Women. Random, $24.95 (0-375-50041-3). A distinguished nautical historian provides an absolutely fascinating glimpse into the lives of the intrepid women who went to sea [...]

The Unsavvy Traveler: Women's Comic Tales of Catastrophe. Ed. by Rosemary Caperton and others. Nov. 2001. 306p. Seal, paper, $15.95 (1-58005-058-1). 910.4. Everyone loves a good travel story, and this [...]

La Capria, Raffaele. Capri and No Longer Capri. Tr. by Elizabeth A. Petroff and Richard J. Pioli. Oct. 2001. 176p. Thunder's Mouth/Nation, $22.95 (1-56025-348-7). 914.5. In a book originally published [...]

* Morris, Jan. Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere. Oct. 2001. 208p. Simon & Schuster, $23 (0-7432-0128-0). 914.5. The highly regarded Welsh biographer and travel writer insists that this is [...]

It is with great pleasure that we name the Knopf CityMap Guides as the best travel series of the year 2001. The CityMap Guides are beautiful little books that no [...]

To help librarians sort through the continuing proliferation of travel guides, we present our latest semiannual roundup of recommended guides that have appeared over the past six months. Fodor Guides [...]

Wilkie, Curtis. Dixie. Oct. 2001. 352p. Scribner, $26 (0-684-87285-4). 917.762. Wilkie, a noted journalist, grew up in Mississippi and launched his career there. His book is a series of essays [...]

Willson, Quentin. Cars: A Celebration. Sept. 2001. 576p. illus. index. DK, $50 (0-7894-8155-3). 629.222. Oh, the hours that car lovers will pore over the bold, dramatic pages of this large-format [...]

Krames, Jeffrey A. The Jack Welch Lexicon of Leadership: Over 250 Concepts, Strategies and Initiatives of the Legendary Leader. Sept. 2001. 224p. index. McGraw-Hill, $19.95 (0-07-138140-6). 658. As CEO, Jack [...]

Koestenbaum, Peter and Block, Peter. Freedom and Accountability at Work: Applying Philosophical Insight to the Real World. Sept. 2001. 448p. illus. index. Jossey-Bass, $29.95 (0-7879-5594-9). 174 Koestenbaum is a philosophy [...]

Rule, Ann. Every Breath You Take: A True Story of Obsession, Revenge and Murder. Oct. 2001. 480p. Free Press, $25 (0-7432-0296-1). 364.1. Well-told true-crime stories, a category that Rule's book [...]

Three volumes inaugurate the publication of the complete transcription of recently declassified presidential recordings. These first volumes (The Presidential Recordings: John F. Kennedy, Volumes 1-3: The Great Crises, Norton, $165 [...]

The answer is The Tale of the Genji, written in eleventh-century Japan by Lady Murasaki. This long, complex tale was last translated into English a quarter of a century ago. [...]

Robert Penn Warren's classic novel of southern politics, All the King's Men, won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize. A new edition (Harcourt, paper, $30 [0-15-100610-5]) restores deletions from the original edition [...]

In advance of the release later this year of The Fellowship of the Ring, the first of the three The Lord of the Rings films, Houghton Mifflin, Tolkien's official U.S. [...]

For the first time, an unabridged edition of Jack Kerouac's Books of Dreams, a record of his dream life, is being published (City Lights, paper, $17.95 [0-87286-380-8]) in the format [...]

Ackroyd, Peter. London: The Biography. Oct. 2001. 832p. illus. index. Doubleday/ Nan A. Talese, $45 (0-385-49770-9). 942.1. Yes, an 800-page history of London! Granted, it will take a persevering reader [...]

The North American Branch of the International Association of Crime Writers has announced that Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin [BKL Je 1 & 15 00] is the winner of the [...]

Two new books from ALA Editions are the work of individuals with whom Booklist has close ties. Literacy & Libraries: Learning from Case Studies (paper, $40 [0-8389-3516-8]) is edited by [...]

Evans, Nicholas. The Smoke Jumper. 2001. 432p. Delacorte, $26.95 (0-385-33403-6). Here is another instance of a publisher rushing a book into print without distributing advance galleys, thus leaving the library [...]

Bellow, Saul. Collected Stories. Nov. 2001. 442p. Viking, $30 (0-670-89486-9). Bellow, in his short stories as well as his novels, understands deep and nuanced character development, pays lavish attention to [...]

Allende, Isabel. Portrait in Sepia. Tr. by Margaret Sayers Peden. Nov. 2001. 320p. HarperCollins, $26 (0-06-621161-1). This is a sequel to the author's best-selling and critically applauded Daughter of Fortune [...]

Carey, Peter. 30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account. Sept. 2001. 250p. Bloomsbury; dist. by St. Martin's, $16.95 (1-58234-166-4). 919.44. Carey, an Australian novelist of international renown, has lived [...]

McAlexander, Hubert H. Peter Taylor: A Writer's Life. Sept. 2001. 325p. illus. index. Louisiana State Univ., $34.95 (0-80712706-X). 813. Taylor, considered one of the premier American short story writers of [...]

Schama, Simon. A History of Britain, Volume II: The Wars of the British, 1603-1776. Oct. 2001. 416p. illus. index. Hyperion/Talk Miramax, $40 (0-7868-6752-3). 941. The phrase 'TV tie-in' too often [...]

Fraser, Antonia. Marie Antoinette: The Journey. Sept. 2001. 544p. illus. index. Doubleday/Nan A. Talese, $35 (0-385-48948-X). 944 Did Marie Antoinette, the notorious and ill-fated queen of France, actually respond to [...]

Bachrach, Judy. Tina and Harry Come to America: Tina Brown, Harry Evans, and the Uses of Power. 2001. 370p. index. Free Press, $27.50 (0-684-83763-3). 070.5. Stirring controversy aplenty, the author's [...]

Cabrera Infante, Guillermo. Guilty of Dancing the Chachacha. Tr. by the author. July 2001.112p. Welcome Rain, $22.95 (1-56649-187-8). Cuban author Cabrera Infante is one of the most imaginative writers in [...]

Hall, Coryne. Little Mother of Russia: A Biography of the Empress Marie Feodorovna (1847-1928). July 2001. 402p. illus, index. Holmes & Meier, $37.95 (0-8419-1421-4). 947.08. Hall has answered the need [...]

Walter, Eugene and Clark, Katherine. Milking the Moon: A Southerner's Story of Life on This Planet. Aug. 2001. 304p. Crown, $24 (0-609-60594-1). 818. The late Eugene Walter (who died in [...]

* Vargas Llosa, Mario. The Feast of the Goat. Tr. by Edith Grossman. Nov. 2001. 432p. Farrar, $25 (0-374-15476-7). True to the maxim that Latin American fiction reflects Latin Americans' [...]

Clayton, Tim and Craig, Phil. Diana: Story of a Princess. 2001. 402p. illus, index. Pocket, $27 (0-7434-2205-8). Less sensational than most treatments of the life of the late princess of [...]

Dershowitz, Alan M. Supreme Injustice: How the High Court Hijacked Election 2000. 2001. 275p. index. Oxford, $25 (0-19514827-4). This legal expert and best-selling author weighs in with his two-cents' worth [...]

Finstad, Suzanne. Natasha: The Biography of Natalie Wood. 2001. 454p. illus, index. Crown/Harmony, $25 (0-609-60359-0). A Hollywood legend is revivified in this responsible [...]

Wills, Garry. Venice: Lion City: The Religion of Empire. Sept. 2001. 420p. illus, index. Simon & Schuster, $35 (0-684-87190-4). 945. During his distinguished career, historian Wills has nimbly stepped from [...]

The Society of American Historians has awarded its 2001 prizes, which carry not only monetary rewards but are considered quite prestigious in the field of historical writing. The Francis Parkman […]

McCartney, Paul. Blackbird Singing: Poems and Lyrics, 1965-99. 2001. 185p. index. Norton, $22.95 (0-393-02049-5). 821. Now you can read along with Paul, not just sing […]

Points of Departure: New Stories from Mexico. Ed. by Monica Lavin. June 2001. 180p. City Lights, paper, $15.95 (0-87286-381-6). Mexico is the source of some of the most imaginative short [...]

Kirn, Walter. Up in the Air. July 2001. 256p. Doubleday, $23.95 (0-385-49710-5). The third novel by the literary editor for GQ ushers the reader into an alternative universe called Airworld, [...]

Hannah, Barry. Yonder Stands Your Orphan. July 2001. 288p. Grove/Atlantic, $24 (0-87113-811-5). It has often been said, even in the pages of Booklist, that Hannah is a stunningly talented short [...]

Maney, Mabel. Kiss the Girls and Make Them Spy. 2001. 288p. HarperEntertainment, paper, $13 (0-380-80310-0). This delightfully diversionary romp through the British spy world of the 1960s features Jane Bond, [...]

* Rushdie, Salman. Fury. Sept. 2001. 259p. Random, $24.95 (0-679-46333-X). A new novel by Rushdie makes news. The news about this one is that it is as good as the [...]

Some interesting reprints have come into our offices, the publication of which librarians may wish to consider as either replacement copies or for collection enhancement: The Choices We Made. Ed. [...]

Librarians building a comprehensive collection of materials on the subject of free speech will be interested in considering for purchase the 2001 edition of The First Amendment and the Media [...]

Fein, Ellen and Schneider, Sherrie. The Rules for Marriage: Time-Tested Secrets for Making Your Marriage Work. 2001. 195p. Warner, $16.95 (0-446-52696-7). 306.81. The authors follow their immensely popular The Rules [...]

Simons, Paullina. The Bronze Horseman. June 2001. 656p. Morrow, $26.95 (0-06-019926-1). The Soviet Union suffered immensely at the hands of Germany during World War II, and no Russian city suffered [...]