The Best Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Caroline Kennedy
Little, Brown
$21.95 / $17.56

Caroline Kennedy shares her mother's favorite poems and the words behind her strong belief in the power of literature. The poems presented span the centuries and include works by such renowned authors as Rudyard Kipling, William Shakespeare, Homer, W. B. Yeats, Emily Dickinson, e. e. cummings, and Robert Frost. The book also includes a poem written by Jacqueline Kennedy.

The Best American Essays 2001
Kathleen Norris and Robert Atwan
Houghton-Mifflin, pb
$13.00 / $10.40

Culling from the country's finest periodicals- the New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, American Scholar- guest editor Norris (Dakota: A Spiritual Geography) has assembled 26 pieces of outstanding grace and beauty.

The Best Spiritual Writing 2001
edited by Philip Zaleski
HarperCollins, pb
$16.00 / $12.80

Philip Zaleski, senior editor of Parabola magazine and religion professor at Smith College, has brought together a collection of wise and lyrical writing about art, intimacy, prayer, love, and faith, including works by such luminaries as Wendell Berry, Thomas Moore, Terry Tempest Williams and Simon Winchester along with new writers you will read here for the first time. Representing a wide spectrum of religious traditions, these authors speak from the soul about both the profound and the everyday aspects of spirituality in our lives.

The Best American Short Stories 2001
edited by Barbara Kingsolver
Houghton Mifflin, pb
$13.00 / $10.40

Kingsolver's selections for the Best American Short Stories 2001 showcase a wide variety of new voices and masters such as Alice Munro, Rick Moody, Dorothy West and John Updike. "Reading these stories was both a distraction from and an anchor to the complexities of my life-my pleasure, my companionship, my salvation. I hope they will be yours." -- Barbara Kingsolver

The Best American Mystery Stories 2001
edited by Lawrence Block and Otto Penzler
Houghton Mifflin, pb
$13.00 / $10.40

Best-selling author Lawrence Block is one of the mystery genre's most prolific authors, with more than fifty books to his name. Block's selections for The Best American Mystery Stories 2001 include stories by such luminaries as Joyce Carol Oates, T. Jefferson Parker, Russell Banks, and Peter Robinson.