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Book Sense Picks
2000 May/June


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How It All Vegan!: Irresistible Recipes for an Animal-Free Diet
How It All Vegan!: Irresistible Recipes for an Animal-Free Diet
by Tanya Barnard
Publisher Comments
Vegan food is fabulous food, full of flavor and all the nutrients you need. With fun illustrations and a cool, punky sensibility, How It All Vegan! will tempt you to join the Vegan Empire. "Written with sass, style, and a sense of humor. More than just a... (read more)

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The Rings of Saturn
The Rings of Saturn
by W. G. Sebald
Publisher Comments
"Ostensibly a record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia," as Robert McCrum in the London Observer noted, The Rings of Saturn "is also a brilliantly allusive study of England's imperial past and the nature of decline and fall, of loss and... (read more)

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How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night?
How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night?
by Jane Yolen
Publisher Comments
What if a dinosaur catches the flu? Does he whimper and whine between each "At-choo"? Does he drop dirty tissues all over the floor? Does he fling his medicine out of the door? Just like kids, little dinosaurs hate being sick. And going to the doctor... (read more)

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The Essential Rumi
The Essential Rumi
by Rumi
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"I don't mean to claim a special relationship with Rumi...but a poet of such astonishing range and depth needs many translators and interpreters. Mystical poetry tries to reveal the apple orchard within the mist of language (Rumi's image). I hope these... (read more)

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Click, Clack, Moo Cows That Type
Click, Clack, Moo Cows That Type
by Doreen Cronin and Betsy Lewin
Publisher Comments
Farmer Brown has a problem. His cows like to type. All day long he hears "Click, clack, MOO. Click, clack, MOO. Clickety, clack, MOO. But Farmer Brown's problems REALLY begin when his cows start leaving him notes.... First they demand... (read more)

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Stardust: Being a Romance Within The Realms of Faerie
Stardust: Being a Romance Within The Realms of Faerie
by Neil Gaiman
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In the sleepy English countryside of decades past, there is a town that has stood on a jut of granite for six hundred years. And immediately to the east stands a high stone wall, for which the village is named. Here in the town of Wall, Tristran Thorn... (read more)

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Cereus Blooms at Night
Cereus Blooms at Night
by Shani Mootoo
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Set on a fictional Caribbean island in the town of Paradise, Cereus Blooms at Night unveils the mystery surrounding Mala Ramchandin and the tempestuous history of her family. At the heart of this bold and seductive novel is an alleged crime committed... (read more)

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Bat 6
Bat 6
by Virginia Euwe Wolff
Publisher Comments
In a powerful book set in post-World War II Oregon, sixth graders from rival towns prepare for the 50th annual softball game. Two of the players--a Japanese American who spent the war in an internment camp and a girl whose father was killed at Pearl... (read more)

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Crazy Ladies
Crazy Ladies
by Michael Lee West
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From the author of Mad Girls in Love comes this lively multigenerational tale of six charming, unforgettable Southern women -- a novel of love and laughter, pain and redemption. Though she was born in Tennessee, Miss Gussie is no country fool. A woman... (read more)

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Wild Decembers
Wild Decembers
by Edna O'brien
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O'Brien's latest novel charts the quick and critical demise of relations between "the warring sons of warring sons" fighting over inherited land in the countryside of western Ireland.... (read more)

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3 Minutes Or Less : America's Greatest Writers on the Universal Themes of Life (00 Edition)
3 Minutes Or Less : America's Greatest Writers on the Universal Themes of Life (00 Edition)
by Pen And Faulkner Foundation
Publisher Comments
An anthology of never-before-published short essays by America's literary greats. Each October at the PEN Gala, well-known authors take the stage of the Folger Shakespeare Library's Theatre to ponder the meaning of such universal mysteries as "obsession,"... (read more)

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The Herbfarm Cookbook
The Herbfarm Cookbook
by Jerry Traunfeld
Publisher Comments
Not so long ago, parsley was the only fresh herb available to most American cooks. Today, bunches of fresh oregano and rosemary can be found in nearly every supermarket, basil and mint grow abundantly in backyards from coast to coast, and garden centers... (read more)

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Bodega Dreams : a Novel (00 Edition)
Bodega Dreams : a Novel (00 Edition)
by Ernesto Quinonez
Publisher Comments
"A new and authentic voice of the urban Latino experience." --Esmeralda Santiago, author of When I Was Puerto Rican In a stunning narrative combining the gritty rhythms of Junot Diaz with the noir  genius of Walter Mosley, Bodega... (read more)

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Tapping the Source
Tapping the Source
by Kem Nunn
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People come to Huntington Beach in search of the endless party, the ultimate high, and the perfect wave. Ike Tucker has come to look for his sister and the three men who might have murdered her. His search takes him on a dangerous journey through a world... (read more)

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Nobody's Fool
Nobody's Fool
by Richard Russo
Publisher Comments
In his slyly funny and moving new novel, the author of The Risk Pool follows the unexpected operation of grace in a deadbeat, upstate New York town--and in the lives of the unluckiest of its citizens. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Paul... (read more)

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Jim the Boy
Jim the Boy
by Tony Earley
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Both delightful and wise, Jim the Boy brilliantly captures the pleasures and fears of youth at a time when America itself was young and struggling to come into its own.... (read more)

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The World's Shortest Stories of Love and Death: Passion. Suspicion. Betrayal. Revenge. All This and More in a New Collection of Amazing Short Stories-
The World's Shortest Stories of Love and Death: Passion. Suspicion. Betrayal. Revenge. All This and More in a New Collection of Amazing Short Stories-
by Steve Hall
Publisher Comments
Building on the enormously successful World's Shortest Stories, here's an all-new collection of super-short fiction-each story a mere 55 words long! With nearly 150 contributors, including Charles Schulz and Fannie Flagg, these stories offer love... (read more)

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Oh My Baby, Little One
Oh My Baby, Little One
by Kathi Appelt
Publisher Comments
When Baby Bird says good-bye to his mama at school each morning, he feels sad. Mama Bird feels sad, too. Sometimes it's hard to be apart. But as Mama Bird says, the love they share is with them always, keeping them close until the best part of the day... (read more)

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Blue Angel
Blue Angel
by Francine Prose
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"A peerlessly accomplished performance, at once tingingly contemporary and timelessly funny." Publishers Weekly... (read more)

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The Dragon of Lonely Island
The Dragon of Lonely Island
by Rebecca Rupp
Publisher Comments
A beguiling fantasy about the vacation of a lifetime. Hannah, Zachary, and Sarah Emily are spending the summer at their Great Aunt Mehitabel's house on faraway Lonely Island. There, in a cave hidden high above the ocean, they discover a fabulous creature:... (read more)

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