1.   Because this is Black History Month, the list below concentrates on the historical and includes only selected nonfiction works.

2.   Experts at local bookstores and libraries provided armloads of suggested fiction and nonfiction works for all ages and ethnicities.

3.   Experts at local bookstores and libraries helped us in our search, providing armloads of suggested fiction and nonfiction works for all ages and ethnicities.

4.   Nor were there any surprises among other nonfiction works that had best-seller potential.

5.   The field is so wide and varied that accounts of childhood physical and sexual abuse play a major part in nonfiction works dealing with broader subjects.

6.   Carole Klein, a biographer and author of other nonfiction works, died Monday after being struck by a car.

7.   Darnton notes several nonfiction works about Neanderthals have been published in recent months.