Knopf: $23) A book of comfort and faith that takes on the questions that come up after personal tragedy.Ĥ. Scott Berg (Putnam: $30) Daring aviator, loving father, isolationist and, finally, fallen hero-a dramatic American story.ģ. ECOLOGY OF FEAR by Mike Davis (Metropolitan Books: $25) Los Angeles’ precarious environmental history and some apocalyptic warnings about its future.Ģ. RAINBOW SIX by Tom Clancy (Putnam: $27.95) Ex-Navy SEAL John Clark heads an international special operations anti-terrorist strike force.ġ. WELCOME TO THE WORLD, BABY GIRL! by Fannie Flagg (Random House: $25.95) A corn-fed Midwestern girl goes bad in the big city and goes home.ġ5. entertainment attorney tumbles into a sinister plot in Rome hatched by a shadowy Vatican official.ġ4. DAY OF CONFESSION by Allan Folsom (Little, Brown: $25) An L.A. THE EVOLUTION OF JANE by Cathleen Schine (Houghton Mifflin: $24) Jane visits the Galapagos Islands and conquers an obsession over the loss of a childhood friend.ġ3. Knopf: $23) An orphaned woman, an ill child and other wounded characters find affection in unlikely places.ġ2. BIRDS OF AMERICA by Lorrie Moore (Alfred A. Knopf: $23) A dying woman relives the grand passions of her life as she slips between consciousness and unconsciousness.ġ1. Knopf: $25) The life and loves of a teahouse entertainer growing up in Tokyo during WWII.ġ0. MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA by Arthur Golden (Alfred A. TOMCAT IN LOVE by Tim O’Brien (Bantam: $26) A college professor navigates his complicated relationships with the many women in his life.ĩ. I MARRIED A COMMUNIST by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin: $26) The story of a radio actor whose private dramas become national scandal when his wife pens a tell-all memoir.Ĩ.

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