
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, December 18, 1994                   TAG: 9412200007
SECTION: BOOKS                    PAGE: G-6   EDITION: METRO 
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SEASONAL RECOMMENDATIONS

For last-minute gift ideas, bibliophiles might consider these titles. All of them were reviewed favorably on this page.

1. Solitary Places. By Joan Schroeder. Putnam's. $22.95. First novel of environmental concerns set in Virginia.

2. Dixie City Jam. By James Lee Burke. Hyperion. $22.95. Detective Dave Robicheaux vs. neo-Nazis.

3. Preservation. By Peter Svenson. Faber and Faber. $21.95. Contemporary farm life on a Civil War battlefield.

4. The Dark Is Rising Sequence. By Susan Cooper. Collier Books. $19.75 (boxed set, paper). Newberry Award-winning fantasy novels for young adults.

5. The Last Day the Dogbushes Bloomed. By Lee Smith. LSU Press. $9.95 (trade paper). Popular first novel reissued.

6. Nop's Hope. By Don McCaig. Crown. $20. Border collies and the people who work with them.

7. A Whole New Life. By Reynolds Price. Atheneum. $20. Writer deals with paralyzing illness and its aftermath.

8. Case Closed. By Gerald Posner. Random House. $25. Exhaustive assassination study concludes Oswald did it.

9. A History of God. By Karen Armstrong. Ballantine. $14 (trade paper). How the Divine has been interpreted through Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

10. The Robber Bride. By Margaret Atwood. Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. $24. The author's best. Enough said.

by CNB