To The Best of Our Knowledge

A

• Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Black Profiles in Courage: a legacy of African-American Achievement Morrow
• Marilyn J. Abraham, First We Quit Our Jobs: How One Work-Driven Couple Got on the Road to a New Life (Dell)
• Pearl Abraham, The Romance Reader Riverhead, Putnam
• Diane Ackerman, A Slender Thread (Random House)
• Diane Ackerman, The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Aminals, Timeless Worlds Random House
• Amir Aczel, Fermat's Last Theorem: Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical Problem Four Walls Eight Windows
• Noah Adams, Piano Lessons: Music, Love & True Adventures (Delta)
• John Alcock, In a Desert Garden: Love and Death Among the Insects (Norton)
• Caroline Alexander, The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (Knopf)
• Isabel Allende, Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses (Harper Flamingo/Harper Collins)
• Susan Allport, A Natural History of Parenting Harmony
• Martin Amis, Night Train (Harmony Books)
• Cleveland Amory, Ranch of Dreams Viking
• Jon Lee Anderson, Che Guevara: a revolutionary life Grove Press
• Natalie Angier, The Beauty of the Beastly (Houghton Mifflin)
• William Anthony, The Art of Napping Larson Publications
• Peter Applebome, Dixie Rising: How the South is Shaping American Values, Politics and Culture Harcourt Brace
• Raymond Arsenault, "The End of the Long Hot Summer: The Air Conditioner and Southern Culture" in Searching for the Sunbelt: Historical Perspectives on a Region ed, Raymond Mohl (University of Tennessee)
• Timothy Garton Ash, The File: A Personal History (Random House)
• Tom Athanasiou, Divided Planet: The Ecology of Rich and Poor Little, Brown
• David Attenborough, The Private Life of Plants Princeton University Press
• Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace Doubleday
• Ann Hagedorn Auerbach, Ransom: The Untold Story of International Kidnapping (Henry Holt)
• Marilou Awiakta, Selu: Seeking the Corn Mother's Wisdom Fulcrum
• William Ayers, A Kind and Just Parent: the Children of Juvenile Court Beacon

B

• Ellyn Bache, The Activist's Daughter (Spinsters Ink)
• Alfred Bader, Adventures of a Chemist Collector Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Hans Christian von Baeyer, Maxwell's Demon: Why Warmth Disperses and Time Passes (Random House)
• Beryl Bainbridge, The Birthday Boys Carrol and Graf
• Beryl Bainbridge new introduction for Robert Falcon Scott, Scott's Last Journals Carrol and Graf
• Sally Banes, Dancing Women: Female Bodies on Stage (Routledge)
• Russell Banks, Cloudsplitter: A Novel (Harper Flamingo)
• Nigel Barley, Grave Matters: a lively history of death around the world Henry Holt
• Neal Barnard, Foods That Fight Pain: Revolutionary New Strategies for Maximum Pain Relief Harmony
• Connie Barlow, Green Space, Green Time Copernicus Books
• Nevada Barr, Blind Descent (Putnam)
• Andrea Barrett, The Voyage of the Narwhal (Norton)
• John Barrow, The Artful Universe Oxford
• John M. Barry, Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America Simon and Schuster
• Nicholas Basbanes, A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes and The Eternal Passion for Books Henry Holt
• Charles Baxter, Burning Down the House: essays on fiction Graywolf Press
• Jack Beatty, The World According to Peter Drucker Free Press
• Tom Beaudoin, Virtual Faith: The Irreverent Spiritual Quest of Generation X (Jossey-Bass)
• Jasper Becker, Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine Free Press
• Gavin de Becker, The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us From Violence Little Brown
• Michael Behe, Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution Free Press
• Richard Bell, Simone Weil's Philosophy of Culture Cambridge
• Beryl Lieff Benderly, In Her Own Right: The Institute of Medicine's Guide to Women's Health Issues National Academy Press
• Jeff Benedict and Don Yaeger, Pros and Cons: The Criminals Who Play in the NFL (Warner)
• Medea Benjamin, Don't Be Afraid, Gringo! Institute for Food and Policy Development
• Scott Berg, Lindbergh Putnam
• William Berger, Wagner Without Fear: Learning to Love -- and Even Enjoy -- Opera's Most Demanding Genius (Vintage)
• Jacob B. Berkson, A Canary's Tale (P.O. Box 2041 Hagerstown, MD 21742)
• David Berlinski, A Tour of the Calculus Pantheon
• Anne Bernays & Justin Kaplan, The Language of Names Simon & Schuster
• Peter Bernstein, Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk Wiley
• Wendell Berry, A Timbered Choir: The Collected Sabbath Poems, 1979-1997 (Counterpoint)
• Michael Berube, Life As We Know It: A Father, A Family, and an Exceptional Child Pantheon
• Steven Biel, Down with the Old Canoe: A Cultureal History of the Titanic Disaster Norton
• Peter Biskind, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (Simon & Schuster)
• Julia Blackburn, Daisy Bates in the Desert: Life Among the Aborigines Vintage
• Michael Blake, Marching To Valhalla: A Novel of Custer's Last Days (Villard)
• Brad Blanton, Radical Honesty Dell Trade Paperback
• Jacqueline Blix and David Heitmiller, Getting a Life: Real Lives Transformed by Your Money or Your Life (Viking)
• Chana Bloch, Mrs. Dumpty (Wisconsin)
• Claire Bloom, Leaving A Doll's House Little Brown
• Michael Bloomberg and Matthew Winkler, Bloomberg by Bloomberg Wiley
• Deborah Blum, Sex on the Brain: The Biological Difference Between Men and Women Viking - also heard in our Human Origins - Violence program
• Robert Bly, The Sibling Society Addison Wesley
• David Bodanis, The Secret Family Simon & Schuster
• Chris Bohjalian, Midwives Vintage
• Sylvia Boorstein, That's Funny: You Don't Look Buddhist Harper San Francisco
• Marcus J. Borg, The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion to a More Authentic Contemporary Faith Harper Collins
• Alfred B. Bortz, To the Young Scientist: Reflections on Doing and Living Science (Watts)
• Ruth Bottigheimer, The Bible for Children Yale
• Svetlana Boym, Common Places: Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia
• Hilary Bradt, Guide to Madagascar (Bradt Publications)
• Rick Bragg, All Over But the Shoutin' Pantheon
• Rick Bragg also heard in "Is Washington Obsolete?
• Taylor Branch, Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65 (Simon and Schuster)
• Leo Braudy, The Frenzy of Renown: fame and its history Oxford
• Stephen Braun, Buzz: The Science and Lore of Alcohol and Caffeine Oxford
• C. Brooks Brenneis, Recovered Memories of Trauma: Transferring the Present to the Past International Universities Press, Inc.
• Jonathan Brent, Annals of Communism (25 Volumes) (Yale)
• John Brewer, The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Joel Brinkley, Defining Vision: The Battle for the Future of Television Harcourt Brace
• William J. Broad, The Universe Below: Discovering the Secrets of the Deep Sea Simon and Schuster
• Virginia Warner Brodine, Seed of the Fire: A Novel (International Publishers)
• Hugh Brody, Maps and Dreams: Indians and the British Columbia Frontier (Jill Norman and Hobhouse, London 1981)
• Po Bronson, The First $20 Million is Always the Hardest: A Silicon Valley Novel Random House
• Mildred Brown with Chloe Ann Rounsely, True Selves: Understanding Transexualism Jossey-Bass Publishers
• Jane Brox, Here and Nowhere Else Beacon
• Joan Jacobs Brumberg, The Body Project: an intimate history of American girls Random House
• Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods (Broadway)
• Stephen Buchmann and Gary Paul Nabhan, The Forgotten Pollinators Island Press
• Art Buchwald, I'll Always Have Paris: A Memoir Putnam
• Christopher Buckley and John Tierney, God is My Broker Random House
• Christopher Buckley, Wry Martinis Random House
• William F. Buckley, Nearer, My God: an autobiography of faith Doubleday
• Stephen Budiansky, The Nature of Horses Free Press
• Stephen Budiansky, Nature's Keepers: The New Science of Nature Management Free Press
• Carmel Budiardjo, Surviving Indonesia's Gulag Cassell
• Dan Buettner, MayaQuest: The Interactive Expedition Onion Press
• Richard Bushman, The Refinement of America Knopf
• Robert Olen Butler, The Deep Green Sea (Henry Holt)
• A.S. Byatt, Babel Tower Random House
• Richard Byrne, The Thinking Ape: Evolutionary Origins of Intelligence Oxford

C

• Thomas Cahill, The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels (Doubleday)
• Tim Cahill, Pass the Butterworms: Remote Journeys Oddly Rendered Villard
• Lucy Calkins with Lydia Bellino, Raising Lifelong Learners: A Parent's Guide (Addison Wesley) <
• David Canon and Kenneth Mayer, A Dysfunctional Congress: The Individual Roots of an Institutional Dilemma to be published in 1999
• Mariana Caplan, Untouched: The Need for Genuine Affection in an Impersonal World (Hohm Press)
• Mark Carnes,(ed.) Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies (Henry Holt)
• Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Vintage)
• Caleb Carr, The Angel of Darkness Random House
• Ciaran Carson, Last Night's Fun: In and Out with Time with Irish Music (First North Point Press)
• John Casti, Would-Be Worlds: How Simulation is Changing the Frontiers of Science John Wiley and Sons, Inc
• Susan Cayleff, Babe: The Life and Legend of Babe Didrikson Zaharias University of Illinois Press
• Benjamin H. Cheever, essay in Men on Divorce: The Other Side of the Story, edited by Penny Kaganoff and Susan Spano (Harcourt Brace)
• Ron Chernow, The Death of the Banker - due out in July 1997 Vintage
• Ron Chernow, Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller (Random House)
• Kelly Cherry, Death and Transfiguration Louisiana
• Daniel Chirot, Modern Tyrants: The Power and Prevalence of Evil in Our Age Princeton University Press
• Claire S. Chow, Leaving Deep Water: The Lives of Asian American Women at the Crossroads of Two Cultures (Dutton)
• CIA Wives, Spies, Black Ties and Mango Pies Community Communications Corporation
• William Clark The New Healers (Oxford)
• Donald Clarke, All or Nothing at All: A Life of Frank Sinatra (Fromm International)
• Claude Andrew Clegg, An Original Man: The Life and Times of Elijuah Muhammad St. Martin's Press
• Stanley Cloud and Lynne Olson, Murrow's Boys: Pioneers on the Front Lines of Broadcast Journalism Houghton Mifflin
• Jonathan Cole, About Face (MIT)
• K. C. Cole, The Universe and the Teacup: The Mathematics of Truth and Beauty (Harcourt Brace)
• Leonard Cole, The Eleventh Plague: the Politics of Biological and Chemical Warfare W.H. Freeman
• Jonathan Coleman, Long Way to Go: Black & White in America Atlantic
• Robert Coles, The Moral Intelligence of Children: How to Raise a Moral Child Random House
• Peter Conn, Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography Cambridge
• Richard Conniff, Every Creeping Thing: True Tales of Faintly Repulsive Wildlife (Henry Holt)
• Jill Ker Conway, Written by Herself: Volume II Vintage
• Susan Cooper, Dreams and Wishes - essays on writing for children McElderry Books
• Jim Crace, Quarantine (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• Vicki Croke, The Modern Ark: The Story of Zoos North Point Press
• Gary Cross, Kids' Stuff: Toys and the Changing World of American Childhood Harvard
• Gary Cross, Kid's Stuff: Toys and the Changing Worlds of American Childhood (Harvard University)
• Ken Croswell, Planet Quest: The Epic Discovery of Alien Solar Systems Free Press
• Jim Crotty, How to Talk American Mariner Books
• Stanley Crouch, Always in Pursuit: Fresh American Perspectives, 1995-1997 (Pantheon) Mr. Crouch also heard in Jazz Legends
• Mikhaly Csikszentmihalyi, Finding Flow: the psychology of engagement with everyday life Basic Books
• Clive Cussler, The Sea Hunters: True Adventures with Famous Shipwrecks Simon and Schuster
• Linda Katherine Cutting, Memory Slips: a memoir of music and healing Harper Collins