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March 20, 2005
PACIFIC NORTHWEST MAGAZINE INCLUDES ON AMERICAN SOIL IN 2005 "SPRING PICKS" LIST
SEATTLE TIMES' book editors compile "most anticipated books" of the spring and summer
PAUL SCHMID/SEATTLE TIMES
PACIFIC NORTHWEST MAGAZINE, the weekly Sunday magazine of the SEATTLE TIMES newspaper has included ON AMERICAN SOIL in its annual SPRING PICKS issue.
The cover story for the March 20 edition recommends 34 nonfiction books scheduled for release between March and August 2005. In addition to ON AMERICAN SOIL author JACK HAMANN, the newspaper's book editors highlight forthcoming books by MARGARET ATWOOD, DAVID McCULLOUGH, JANE FONDA, THOMAS FRIEDMAN, ANNA QUINDLEN, and LARRY McMURTRY, among others.
In compiling a list of 101 books, including 34 nonfiction, 31 literary fiction/poetry and 35 popular fiction, book editor MARY ANN GWINN and book critic MICHAEL UPCHURCH admitted that "As always, it's tough to winnow down the hundreds of books published each month" but described their list as "the 101 most anticipated books coming out this spring and summer."
2005 SPRING PICKS
MARCH
"Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith" by Anne Lamott (Riverhead).
"Start Smart: The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous and Broke" by Suze Orman (Penguin Press).
APRIL
"Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose: 1983-2005" by Margaret Atwood (Carroll & Graf).
"Madame Bovary's Ovaries: A Darwinian Look at Literature" by David P. Barash and Nanelle Barash (Delacorte).
"Three Nights in August" by Buzz Bissinger (Houghton Mifflin).
"Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig" by Jonathan Eig (Simon and Schuster).
"My Life So Far" by Jane Fonda (Random House).
"The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century" by Thomas Friedman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
"On American Soil: How Justice Became a Casualty of World War II" by Jack Hamann (Algonquin).
"58 Degrees North: The Mysterious Sinking of the Arctic Rose" by Hugo Kugiya (Bloomsbury).
"Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima" by Diana Preston (Walker & Co.).
"Being Perfect" by Anna Quindlen (Random House).
"Garlic and Sapphires" by Ruth Reichl (Penguin Press).
MAY
"Pioneer Square: Seattle's Oldest Neighborhood," edited by Mildred Tanner Andrews (University of Washington Press).
"Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage" by Stephanie Coontz (Viking).
"The Roof Rack Chronicles: An Honest Guide to Outdoor Recreation, Excessive Gear Consumption and Playing with Matches" by Ron Judd (Sasquatch).
"Coach: Lessons on Baseball and Life" by Michael Lewis (Norton).
"1776" by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster).
"More Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment and Reason" by Nancy Pearl (Sasquatch).
"Why Birds Sing: A Journey Into the Mystery of Bird Song" by David Rothenberg (Basic Books).
"Where Mountains Are Nameless: Passion and Politics in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge" by Jonathan Waterman (Norton).
JUNE
"Losing Moses on the Freeway: America's Broken Covenant with the Ten Commandments" by Chris Hedges (Free Press).
"The Colonel and Little Missie: Buffalo Bill and Annie Oakley and the Beginnings of Superstardom in America" by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster).
"Strawberry Days: How Internment Destroyed a Japanese-American Community" by David A. Neiwert (Palgrave Macmillan).
"The Genius Factory: The Secret History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank" by David Plotz (Random House).
"A Field Guide to Getting Lost" by Rebecca Solnit (Viking).
"Coffee: A Dark History" by Antony Wild (Norton).
JULY
"The Wreckers: A Story of Killing Seas, False Lights, and Plundered Shipwrecks" by Bella Bathurst (Houghton Mifflin).
"What It Used to Be Like: A Portrait of My Marriage to Raymond Carver" by Maryann Burk Carver (St. Martin's Press).
"Alec Guinness: The Authorized Biography" by Piers Paul Read (Simon & Schuster).
AUGUST
"Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix" by Charles R. Cross (Hyperion).
"1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus" by Charles C. Mann (Knopf).
"Eudora Welty: A Biography" by Suzanne Marks (Harcourt).
"Michelangelo's Mountain: The Quest for Perfection in the Marble Quarries of Carrara" by Eric Scigliano (Free Press).