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Family Honor
Robert B. Parker '54
Putnam, 1999
Robert B. Parker launched a new mystery series with the publication of
Family Honor, his first novel to feature a woman in the lead role.
Actress Helen Hunt asked Parker to create a woman detective that she could
play. Family Honor introduces Sunny Randall, a wisecracking divorced
P.I., hired by a wealthy Boston family to find their runaway teenage daughter.
New York's 50 Best Places to Have Brunch
Ann Volkwein & Jason Oliver Nixon '92
City & Company, 1999
This assignment—go off with a notebook and an appetite and return with
an annotated list of the best places to brunch in New York City—might
seem daunting. But Nixon was well suited to the task. A former producer
at the TV Food Network, Nixon is editor-in-chief of both Hamptons
and Ocean Drive's Palm Beach magazines. Moreover, he and his
co-author have lived in nearly every neighborhood in Manhattan. The result
is a guidebook for visitors as well as for any New Yorker, "from an Alphabet
City hipster to an Upper East Side family and everything in between," according
to the introduction.
From East Germans to Germans?: The New Postcommunist Elites
Jennifer Yoder (government, international studies)
Duke University Press, 1999
In 1990, Germany's transplantation of democracy into the former East Germany
was unique even within the tide of democratization that was sweeping Eastern
Europe. Yoder fills what one political scientist called "a serious gap
in the transition literature" by focusing on the adjustments of the political
beliefs and behaviors of the East Germans and on the shifts required in
their culture and identity. Based on her field research in East Germany,
Yoder rejects the notion that the country had an easy, ready-made route
to democratic capitalism.
Cover Story
Gerry Boyle '78
Berkley, January 2000
Jack McMorrow, former New York Times reporter turned Maine freelance
knockabout, returns to Manhattan in Cover Story. McMorrow's fall
from grace, perhaps not unexpected to readers of Boyle's five previous
McMorrow mysteries, is faced dead-on in this book about the murder of
the mayor of New York. Fans who thought they knew McMorrow may be in for
more surprises than just learning who murdered the mayor.
Across the Taiwan Strait: Mainland China, Taiwan and the 1995-1996 Crisis
Suisheng Zhao (government), editor
Routledge, 1999
Is the burgeoning economic interaction between China and Taiwan a sign
of a political thaw, or is it just a distraction that keeps the world from
seeing a growing political estrangement? Suisheng Zhao (government) edited
this collection of essays on the conflict between China and Taiwan and their
chances of reconciliation. |
