Massachusetts Book Census for the Year 2003
Each year the Massachusetts Center for the Book will report on books published by Massachusetts writers or about Commonwealth themes. Contact us to add a book published in 2003 to the list at massbook@simmons.edu.
Fiction
Ablow, Keith, Psychopath ( St. Martin's Press)
Abrahams, Peter, Their Wildest Dreams ( Ballantine Books)
Blanchard, Al, Crucial Judgment ( Koenisha Publications)
Brockmann, Suzanne, Gone Too Far ( Ballantine Books)
Cantor, Jay, Great Neck ( Alfred A. Knopf)
Carroll, James, Secret Father ( Houghton Mifflin)
Castellani, Christopher, A Kiss from Maddalena ( Algonquin Books)
Cavell, Benjamin, Rumble, Young Man, Rumble ( Alfred A. Knopf)
Connors, Rose, Temporary Sanity ( Scribner)
Cornwell, Bernard, Heretic ( HarperCollins)
Cornwell, Bernard, Sharpe's Havoc ( HarperCollins)
Craig, Philip R., Vineyard Killing ( Scribner)
Delinsky, Barbara, Flirting with Pete ( Scribner)
Duberstein, Larry, The Mt. Monadnock Blues ( The Permanent Press)
Epstein, Leslie, San Remo Drive: A Novel from Memory ( Handsel/ Other Press)
Frederick, K.C., Accomplices ( The Permanent Press)
Gutman, Amy, The Anniversary ( Little, Brown and Co.)
Hager-Cohen, Leah, Heart, You Bully, You Punk ( Viking Press)
Haigh, Jennifer, Mrs. Kimble ( William Morrow)
Harrar, George, The Spinning Man ( G.P. Putnam's Sons)
Helms, Kristie, Dish It Up Baby ( Firebrand Books)
Huntington, Geoffrey, Demon Witch ( ReganBooks)
Kirstein, Rosemary, The Lost Steersman ( Del Rey)
Klein, Daniel, Viva Las Vengeance ( St. Martin's Press/ Minotaur)
Landis, J.D., The Taking ( Ballantine Books)
Langton, Jane, The Deserter ( St. Martin's Press)
Lehane, Dennis, Shutter Island ( William Morrow)
Lightman, Alan, Reunion ( Pantheon Books)
Lipman, Elinor, The Pursuit of Alice Thrift ( Random House)
Maguire, Gregory, Mirror Mirror ( ReganBooks)
Manuel, David, A Matter of Principle ( Paraclete Press)
Martin, William, Harvard Yard ( Warner Books)
McCauley, Robert Hugh, All Enemies ( Publish America)
Medwed, Mameve, The End of an Error ( Warner Books)
Miller, Risa, Welcome to Heavenly Heights ( St. Martin's Press)
Nolta, David D., Grave Circle ( Quality Words in Print)
Page, Katherine Hall, The Body in the Lighthouse ( William Morrow)
Patterson, Richard North, Balance of Power ( Ballantine Books)
Pearl, Matthew, The Dante Club ( Random House)
Phillips, Clyde, Sacrifice ( William Morrow)
Piercy, Marge, The Third Child ( William Morrow)
Ramaya, Shona, Operation Monsoon ( Graywolf Press)
Salvatore, R.A., Immortalis ( Del Rey)
Shreve, Anita, All He Ever Wanted ( Little, Brown and Co.)
thuy, le thi diem, The Gangster we are all Looking For ( Alfred A. Knopf)
Tripp, Dawn Clifton, Moon Tide ( Random House)
Webster, Phyllis Smith, Hilltown ( Burgy Books)
Wilson, Jonathan, A Palestine Affair ( Pantheon Books)
Yoshikawa, Mako, Once Removed ( Bantam Books)
Nonfiction
Abbas, Ahmar, Grid Computing: a Practical Guide ( Charles River Media)
Abrahams, Marc, The Ig Nobel Prizes ( Dutton; Penguin Group (USA))
Abrams, Roger I., The First World Series… ( Northeastern University Press)
Ackmann, Martha, The Mercury 13 ( Random House)
Adelman, Tom, The Long Ball ( Little, Brown and Co.)
Aizley, Harlyn, Buying Dad ( Alyson Books)
Appy, Christian, Patriots ( Viking Press)
Basbanes, Nicholas A., A Splendor of Letters ( HarperCollins)
Battles, Matthew, Library: An Unquiet History ( W.W. Norton)
Benson, Herbert, The Breakout Principle ( Scribner)
Berliner, Nancy, Yin Yu Tang ( Tuttle Publishing)
Beyer, Richard, The Greatest Stories Never Told ( HarperResource)
Bolitho, Harold, Bereavement and Consolation ( Yale University Press)
Booker, Margaret Moore, Sea-Captains' Houses and… ( Universe)
Bose, Partha, Alexander the Great's Art of Strategy ( Gotham Books; Penguin Group (USA))
Bremer, Francis J., John Winthrop: America's Forgotten… ( Oxford University Press)
Brown, Irene Quenzler, The Hanging of Ephraim Wheeler ( Harvard UP)
Buell, Lawrence, Emerson ( Harvard UP)
Caso, Adolph, Kaso English to Italian Dictionary ( Branden Publishing Co.)
Clifford, Barry, Return to Treasure Island ( William Morrow)
Colt, George Howe, The Big House ( Scribner)
Coste, Joanne Koenig, Learning to Speak Alzheimer's ( Houghton Mifflin)
Dallek, Robert, An Unfinished Life ( Little, Brown and Co.)
DeLena, Lou, Mopping Tall ( Boson Books; C&M Online Media, Inc.)
Diamant, Anita, Pitching My Tent ( Scribner)
Doherty, Thomas, Cold War, Cool Medium ( Columbia University Press)
Eileen Costello, Perri Klass &, Quirky Kids ( Ballantine Books)
Farmer, Paul, Pathologies of Power ( University of California Press)
Fitzgerald, Deborah, Every Farm a Factory ( Yale University Press)
Fox, Stephen, Transatlantic ( HarperCollins)
Galison, Peter, Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps ( W.W. Norton)
Goodwin, tr., Rufus, Machiavelli: The Prince ( Dante University Press)
Halpern, Jake, Braving Home ( Houghton Mifflin)
Halpin, Brendan, Losing My Faculties ( Random House/Villard)
Hanauer, ed., Cathi, The Bitch in the House ( Perennial; HarperCollins)
Hilts, Philip J., Protecting America's Health ( Alfred A. Knopf)
Howard, Margo, A Life in Letters: Ann Landers' Letters ( Warner Books)
Huntley, Paula, The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo ( Penguin Putnam, Inc.)
Hutchison, William, Religious Pluralism in America ( Yale University Press)
Ingersoll, Larry, Behind the Badge ( Dogtown Books)
Johnson, Barbara, Mother Tongues ( Harvard UP)
Kennedy, Randall, Interracial Intimacies ( Pantheon Books)
Kerry, John, A Call to Service ( Viking Press)
Kidder, Tracy, Mountains Beyond Mountains ( Random House)
Koffman, Deb, Soul Support ( Storey)
Langevin, Don, How-to-Grow World Class Giant Pumpkins ( Annedawn Publishing)
Lefkowitz, Mary K., Greek Gods, Human Lives ( Yale University Press)
Lehr, Dick, Judgement Ridge ( HarperCollins)
Levenson, Thomas, Einstein in Berlin ( Bantam Books)
Levinson, Nan, Outspoken: Free Speech Stories ( University of California Press)
Lodi, Edward, Forty-One Walnut Street ( Rock Village Publishing)
M. Thelwell, S. Carmichael &, Ready for Revolution ( Scribner)
Mazur, Barry, Imagining Numbers ( FSG)
Milano, Brett, Vinyl Junkies ( St. Martin's Press)
Miller, Sue, The Story of My Father ( Alfred A. Knopf)
Moorhead, Andrea`, The Hearth ( Deerfield Academy Press)
Ohmann, Richard, Politics of Knowledge ( Wesleyan University Press)
Okrent, Daniel, Great Fortune ( Viking Press)
Philbrick, Nathaniel, Sea of Glory ( Viking Press)
Prothero, Stephen, American Jesus ( FSG)
Puleo, Stephen, Dark Tide ( Beacon Press)
Quincy, Jr., John, Quincy's Market: A Boston Landmark ( Northeastern University Press)
Riccardi, Victoria Abbott, Untangling My Chopsticks ( Broadway)
Rosenthal, Milton E., What It's Really Like to Be a Teacher… ( Scarecrow Press, Inc.)
Rotella, Carlo, Cut Time ( Houghton Mifflin)
Ryan, Bob, When Boston Won the World Series ( Running Press)
Sanghari, Darshak, Map of the Child ( Henry Holt & Co.)
Schneider, Pat, Writing Alone And With Others ( Oxford University Press)
Seasholes, Nancy S., Gaining Ground ( The MIT Press)
Shand-Tucci, Douglas, The Crimson Letter ( St. Martin's Press)
Shaughnessy, Dan, Spring Training ( Houghton Mifflin)
Sherman, Casey, A Rose for Mary ( Northeastern University Press)
Shoryo, Kawada, Drifting Toward the Southeast ( Spinner Publications)
Skoyles, John, Secret Frequencies ( University of Nebraska Press)
Smith, Janna Malamud, A Potent Spell ( Houghton Mifflin)
Smith, Charles & Susan, Discover the Berkshires of MA ( Appalachian Mountain Club)
Stacey, Patricia, The Boy Who Loved Windows ( Da Capo)
Stern, Jessica, Terror in the Name of God ( Ecco)
Taubman, William, Khrushchev: the Man and his Dra ( W.W. Norton)
Tedlow, Richard S., The Watson Dynasty ( Harper Business)
Theroux, Paul, Dark Star Safari ( Houghton Mifflin)
Tilney, Nicholas L., Transplant ( Yale University Press)
Tonn, Joan C., Mary P. Follett ( Yale University Press)
Varon, Elizabeth R., Southern Lady, Yankee Spy ( Oxford University Press)
Waller, William H., Galazies and the Cosmic Frontier ( Harvard University Press)
Walls, Laura Dassow, Emerson's Life in Science ( Cornell University Press)
Waxler, Robert and Linda, Losing Jonathan ( Spinner Publications)
Winchester, Simon, Krakatoa ( HarperCollins)
__________, The Meaning of Everything ( Oxford University Press)
Yolen, Jane, Take Joy ( The Writer Press)
Poetry
Beekman, E.M., The Litter of Leaving: collected poems ( Chase Publishing)
Campbell, Mary Baine, Trouble ( Carnegie Mellon University Press)
Cole, Henri, Middle Earth ( FSG)
Daniel, David, Seven-Star Bird ( Graywolf Press)
Espada, Martín, Alabanza ( W.W. Norton)
Frazier, Jan, Jan Frazier: Greatest Hits 1990-2002 ( Pudding House Publishers)
George, Faye, Back Roads ( Rock Village Publishing)
Gizzi, Peter, Some Values of Landscape & Weather ( Wesleyan University Press)
Goldfinger, Marc, Relationships ( Ibbetson St. Press)
Halley, Anne, Rumors of the Turning Wheel ( AEIFE Press (Univ. of Mass))
Koncel, Mary A., You Can Tell the Horse Anything ( Tupelo Press)
Ladin, Jay, Alternatives to History ( Sheep Meadow Press)
Matthews, Jennifer, Fairytales and Misdemeanors ( Ibbetson St. Press)
Metras, Gary, Until There Is Nothing Left ( Ridgeway Press & The Writers Voice)
Nikolayev, Philip, Monkey Time ( Verse Press)
Oliver, Mary, Owls and Other Fantasies ( Beacon Press)
Orlowsky, Dzvinia, Except for One Obscene Brushstroke ( Carnegie Mellon University Press)
Pai, Shin Yu, Equivalence ( La Alameda Press)
Pedrick, Jean, Catgut ( Pomme Press)
Piercy, Marge, Colors Passing Through Us ( Alfred A. Knopf)
Raab, Lawrence, Visible Signs ( Penguin Books)
Richards, Peter, Nude Siren ( Verse Press)
Robards, Brooks, Sea Bound ( Summerset Press)
Salter, Mary Jo, Open Shutters ( Alfred A. Knopf)
Schwartz, Lloyd, Greatest Hits 1973-2000 ( Pudding House Publishers)
Shavel, Steve, How Small Brides Survive in Extreme… ( Verse Press)
Sheehan, Tom, This Rare Earth and Other Flights ( Lit Pot Press, Inc.)
Shippy, Peter Jay, Thieves' Latin ( University of Iowa Press)
Sleigh, Tom, Far Side of the Earth ( Houghton Mifflin)
Standing, Sue, False Horizon ( Four Way Books)
Tate, James, Lost River ( Sarabande Books)
Teig, Michael, Big Back Yard ( BOA Editions, Ltd.)
Warren, Rosanna, Departure ( W.W. Norton)
Withiam, Scott, Arson & Prophets ( Ashland Poetry Press)
Woodward, Jon, Mister Goodbye Easter Island ( Alice James Books)
Wright, Franz, Walking to Martha's Vineyard ( Alfred A. Knopf)
Yolen, Jane, Radiation Sonnets ( Algonquin Books)
Children's/Young Adult Literature
Alter, Anna, Francine's Day ( Greenwillow Books)
Anderson, M.T., Strange Mr. Satie ( Viking Children's Books)
Atkins, Jeannine, Wings and Rockets ( Farrar Straus Giroux)
Bailey, Mary Bryant, Jeoffry's Halloween ( Farrar Straus Giroux)
Baker, Leslie, The Animal ABC ( Henry Holt Books for Young Readers)
__________, You Bad Dog ( Dutton Children's Books)
Bluthenthal, Diana Cain, I'm Not Invited? ( Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
Brett, Jan, On Noah's Ark ( G.P. Putnam's Sons)
Brown, Marc, Arthur Plays the Blues ( Little, Brown and Co.)
Burchard, Peter, Frederick Douglass ( Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
Butler, Amy, Virginia Bound ( Clarion Books)
Carle, Eric, Where are you Going, to See my Friend ( Scholastic, Inc.)
Cote, Nancy, It Feels Like Snow ( Boyds Mills Press)
Dillon, Jana, Sasha's Matrioshka Dolls ( Farrar Straus Giroux)
Downer, Ann, Hatching Magic ( Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
Duble, Kathi Benner, Pilot Mom ( Charlesbridge Publishing)
Dyer, Brooke, Lullaby Moons & a Silver Spoon ( Little, Brown and Co.)
Dyer, Jane, illus., Babies on the Go ( Harcourt, Inc.)
Emberley, Ed, Thanks Mom! ( Little, Brown and Co.)
Ering, Timothy Basil, The Story of Frog Belly Rat Bone ( Candlewick Press)
Failing, Barbara Larmon, Lasso Lou and Cowboy McCoy ( Dial Books for Young Readers)
Gantos, Jack, Jack Adrift: 4th Grade Without a Clue ( Farrar Straus Giroux)
Gerstein, Mordicai, Sparrow Jack ( Farrar Straus Giroux)
Goodman, Susan E., Brave Kids: Robert Henry Hendershot ( Aladdin Paperbacks)
Gormley, Beatrice, Laura Bush: America's First Lady ( Aladdin Paperbacks)
Haber, Melissa Glen, Hercules Amsterdam ( Dutton Children's Books)
Harper, Jamie, Don't Grown-Ups Ever Have Fun? ( Little, Brown and Co.)
Harrar, George, Not as Crazy as I Seem ( Houghton Mifflin)
__________, The Trouble with Jeremy Chance ( Milkweed Editions)
Harris, Robie H., Growing Up Stories: Go! Go! Maria ( Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing)
__________, I Am Not Going to School Today ( Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing)
Heidi Stemple, Jane Yolen and, Roanoke: The Lost Colony ( Simon & Schuster)
Hobbie, Holly, Toot & Puddle: Charming Opal ( Little, Brown and Co.)
Hoffman, Alice, Green Angel ( Scholastic, Inc.)
Holland, Robert, The Black Queen ( Frost Hollow Publishers)
Hurst, Carol Otis, The Wrong One ( Walter Lorraine Books)
Jango-Cohen, Judith, FireTrucks ( Lerner Publishing Group)
Johnson, D.B., Henry Climbs a Mountain ( Houghton Mifflin)
Kinerk, Robert, Clorinda ( Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Koller, Jackie French, Horace the Horrible ( Marshall Cavendish Children's Books)
__________, The Keepers: A Wizard Named Nell ( Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing)
__________, The Keepers: Wizard's Apprentice ( Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing)
Kosceilniak, Bruce, Johann Gutenberg and the Amazing… ( Houghton Mifflin)
Kraft, Erik P., Lenny & Mel's Summer Vacation ( Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing)
Krensky, Stephen, Milestones Books: Nellie Bly ( Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing)
Krosoczka, Jarrett J., Annie Was Warned ( Knopf Random House)
__________, Bubble Bath Pirates ( Viking Children's Books)
Landry, Leo, Oh, Baby! ( Little, Brown and Co.)
__________, The Snow Ghosts ( Houghton Mifflin)
Lasky, Kathryn, A Voice of Her Own ( Candlewick Press)
__________, Before I Was Your Mother ( Harcourt)
__________, The Man Who Made Time Travel ( Farrar Straus Giroux)
Lester, Julius, Shining ( Harcourt, Silver Whistle)
Levin, Betty, Shoddy Cove ( Greenwillow Books)
Love, Judy, illus., First Year Letters ( Charlesbridge Publishing)
Lowry, Lois, The Silent Boy ( Walter Lorraine Books)
M. Robbins, H. Art and, WoodsWalk ( Storey)
Mack, Todd, Princess Penelope ( Scholastic, Inc.)
MacLachlan, Patricia & Emily, Painting the Wind ( Joanna Cotler Books)
Maurer, Richard, The Wright Sister ( Roaring Brook)
Meddaugh, Susan, Harry on the Rocks ( Walter Lorraine Books)
Muten, Burleigh, Goddesses: a World of Myth and Magic ( Barefoot Books)
Newman, Leslea, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs! ( Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
O'Connor, Barbara, Fame and Glory in Freedom, Georgia ( Farrar Straus Giroux)
__________, Leonardo Da Vinci ( Lerner Publishing Group)
Oppenheim, Shulamith Levey, Rescuing Einstein's Compass ( Crocodile Books, USA (Imprint))
P. Alderman, B. McGrath and, Soccer Counts! ( Charlesbridge Publishing)
Pallotta, Jerry, Count to a Million ( Scholastic, Inc.)
__________, Hershey's kisses Multiplication and Division ( Scholastic, Inc.)
__________, How to Draw Icky Bugs ( Scholastic, Inc.)
__________, Icky Bug Numbers ( Scholastic, Inc.)
__________, Icky Bug Shapes ( Scholastic, Inc.)
__________, One Hundred Ways to Get to 100 ( Scholastic, Inc.)
Otis, Rebecca & Carol O. Hurst, A Killing in Plymouth Colony ( Walter Lorraine /Houghton Mifflin)
Reynolds, Peter H., The Dot ( Candlewick Press)
Robert Harris, Jane Yolen and, Atalanta and the Arcadian Beast ( HarperCollins)
Rodanas, Kristina, The Blind Hunter ( Marshall Cavendish Children's Books)
Sandler, Martin W., America's Great Disasters ( HarperCollins)
Schertle, Alice, Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear ( HarperCollins)
__________, The Skeleton in the Closet ( HarperCollins)
__________, When the Moon Is High ( HarperCollins)
Shapiro, Karen Jo, Because I Could Not Stop My Bike ( Charlesbridge Publishing)
Smalls, Irene, Don't Say Ain't ( Charlesbridge Publishing)
Sobol, Richard, Adelina's Whales ( Dutton Children's Books)
Sper, Emily, The Passover Seder ( Scholastic, Inc.)
Steinberg, Laya, Thesauras Rex ( Barefoot Books)
Stewart, Melissa, Life in a Lake ( Lerner Publishing Group)
__________, Life in a Wetland ( Lerner Publishing Group)
Strohmeier, Lenice U., Mingo ( Marshall Cavendish Children's Books)
Sturges, Philemon, I Love Planes! ( HarperCollins)
Tang, Greg, Math Appeal ( Scholastic, Inc.)
__________, Mathterpieces ( Scholastic, Inc.)
Tashjian, Janet, Fault Line ( Henry Holt Books for Young Readers)
Twomey, Cathleen, Beachmont Letters ( Boyds Mills Press)
Vogel, Carole G., The Restless Sea ( Franklin Watts/ Scholastic Library)
Weller, Francis Ward, The Day the Animals Came ( Philomel)
Winthrop, Elizabeth, Dancing Granny ( Marshall Cavendish Children's Books)
Wittlinger, Ellen, Zig Zag ( Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing)
Yolen, Jane, Hoptoad ( Harcourt)
__________, How Do Dinosaurs Get Well Soon? ( Scholastic, Inc.)
__________, Least Things ( Boyds Mills Press)
__________, Mightier than the Sword ( Harcourt, Inc.)
__________, My Brothers' Flying Machine ( Little, Brown and Co.)
__________, Sword of the Rightful King ( Harcourt, Inc.)
__________, The Flying Witch ( HarperCollins)
__________, The Sea King ( Crocodile Books, USA Imprint)
Ziefert , Harriet , 31 Uses for a Mom ( G.P. Putnam's Sons )