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Book Sense Picks
2006 March


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Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
by James L. Swanson
Publisher Comments
Combining magnificent historical research with a thrilling story, Manhunt describes the hourandndash;byandndash;hour details of the twelve days after Abraham Lincoln's assassination when various factions within the U.S. government andndash; and even some... (read more)

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Falling through the Earth: A Memoir
Falling through the Earth: A Memoir
by Danielle Trussoni
Publisher Comments
 One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year From her charismatic father, Danielle Trussoni learned how to rock and roll, outrun the police, and never shy away from a fight. Spending hour upon hour trailing him around the... (read more)

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Kill Me (Dr. Alan Gregory Novels)
Kill Me (Dr. Alan Gregory Novels)
by Stephen White
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THIS ONE IS DIFFERENT. New York Times bestselling author Stephen White has written a new breed of thriller. Throw out everything you think you know about twists, turns, and surprises. Get ready for the next big thing. Get ready to meet the Death Angels... (read more)

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The Rock Orchard
The Rock Orchard
by Paula Wall
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Some women can touch a man and heal like Jesus. The man who sees sunrise from a Belle woman's bed will swear he's been born again. When it came to men, Charlotte Belle strictly ascribed to the law of catch and release. As soon as she could get a man out... (read more)

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Beautiful Madness: One Man's Journey Through Other People's Gardens
Beautiful Madness: One Man's Journey Through Other People's Gardens
by James Dodson
Publisher Comments
During an amazing year of living botanically, James Dodson went behind the scenes of the world's two most important garden shows (the Philadelphia Flower Show and the Chelsea Garden Show in New York City); spent time with the Botticelli of Bulbs... (read more)

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Intuition: A Novel
Intuition: A Novel
by Allegra Goodman
Staff Pick
Allegra Goodman is well known for her skillful, nuanced, and irreverent prose from such novels as Kaaterskill Falls and Paradise Park. Although the prose is just as strong in Intuition, the story and characters are so engrossing it's hard to slow down... (read more)

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Labyrinth: A Novel
Labyrinth: A Novel
by Kate Mosse
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July 2005. In the Pyrenees mountains near Carcassonne, Alice, a volunteer at an archaeological dig, stumbles into a cave and makes a startling discovery-two crumbling skeletons, strange writings on the walls, and the pattern of a labyrinth. Eight hundred... (read more)

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The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth
The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth
by Tim Flannery
Staff Pick
Not only is paleontologist Flannery's urgent call to arms about global climate change fascinating and terrifying, it is also the most accessible book on the topic around. Flannery writes beautifully, clearly examining every angle of the debate... (read more)

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In the Company of the Courtesan: A Novel
In the Company of the Courtesan: A Novel
by Sarah Dunant
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My lady, Fiammetta Bianchini, was plucking her eyebrows and biting color into her lips when the unthinkable happened and the Holy Roman Emperor's army blew a hole in the wall of God's eternal city, letting in a flood of half-starved, half-crazed troops... (read more)

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The Fallen: A Novel
The Fallen: A Novel
by T. Jefferson Parker
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My life was ordinary until three years ago when I was thrown out of a downtown hotel window. My name is Robbie Brownlaw, and I am a homicide detective for the city of San Diego. I am twenty-nine years old. I now have synesthesia, a neurological condition... (read more)

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Prayers for the Assassin: A Novel
Prayers for the Assassin: A Novel
by Robert Ferrigno
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Enormous in scope and vividly imagined, this sensational thriller set in a futuristic Islamic America delivers a powerful page-turning read filled with riveting characters, violence, betrayal, and intrigue.... (read more)

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Halfway House
Halfway House
by Katharine Noel
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One day, Angie Voorster — diligent student, all-star swimmer, and Ivy League-bound high school senior — dives to the bottom of a pool and stays there. In that moment, everything the Voorster family believes they know about one another changes.... (read more)

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The Brief History of the Dead: A Novel
The Brief History of the Dead: A Novel
by Kevin Brockmeier
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"Remember me when I'm gone" just took on a whole new meaning. The City is inhabited by the recently departed, who reside there only as long as they remain in the memories of the living. Among the current residents of this afterlife are Luka Sims, who... (read more)

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The Tenth Circle
The Tenth Circle
by Jodi Picoult
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Jodi Picoult, the New York Times bestselling author of Vanishing Acts, offers her most powerful chronicle yet of an American family with a story that probes the unbreakable bond between parent and child -- and the dangerous repercussions of trying to... (read more)

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The Fugitive Wife
The Fugitive Wife
by Peter C Brown
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Fleeing from a stormy marriage, Essie, a Midwestern farm girl, joins up with prospectors bound for Nome. Feisty and resourceful, Essie soon makes money caring for horses and delivering mail to the miners' beach diggings. Soon, too, Essie is drawn to Nate... (read more)

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And She Was
And She Was
by Cindy Dyson
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There are places that can remake you -- slippery, gray places. Places that hold their secrets in the fog and whisper them on the wind. And when Brandy, a floundering, trashy, Latin-spewing cocktail waitress, finds herself drifting across the line between... (read more)

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I Am Not Myself These Days: A Memoir (P.S.)
I Am Not Myself These Days: A Memoir (P.S.)
by Josh Kilmer-purcell
Publisher Comments
I Am Not Myself These Days follows a glittering journey through Manhattan's dark underbelly — a shocking and surreal world where alter egos reign and subsist (barely) on dark wit and chemicals...a tragic romantic comedy where one begins by rooting... (read more)

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Plum Wine (Wi Library Amer Fiction)
Plum Wine (Wi Library Amer Fiction)
by Angela Davis-gardner
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In Davis-Gardner's Plum Wine, love and secrets unfold amidst rice-paper scrolls, raku bowls, and the tenacious legacy of war in 1960s Japan.... (read more)

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The House of Scorta
The House of Scorta
by Laurent Gaude
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Spanning five generations in a small village in Southern Italy, Gaud's novel is laced with infamous crimes, forsaken loves and lifelong secrets. The epic saga opens in 1870; while their lineage seems doomed to struggle, the Scortas are blessed with an... (read more)

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