Book Sense Picks
2003 January/February


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Dare To Repair a Do It Herself Guide To Fixing
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Dare To Repair a Do It Herself Guide To Fixing
by Julie Sussman

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< h4 align=center> This is NOT your father's home repair book < /h4> < p> And it's not your husband's, your brother's, your boyfriend's, or the guy's next door. < i> Dare to Repair< /i> is a do-it-herself book for every...
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An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy (Liberation Trilogy)
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An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy (Liberation Trilogy)
by Rick Atkinson

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In the first volume of him monumental trilogy about the liberation of Europe in the Second World War, Pulitzer Prize-winner Rick Atkinson tells the story of the war in North Africa. Beginning with the daring amphibious invasion in November 1942, An...
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Big Stone Gap
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Big Stone Gap
by Adriana Trigiani

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“FUNNY, CHARMING, AND ORIGINAL.” –FANNIE FLAGG Nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, the tiny town of Big Stone Gap is home to some of the most charming eccentrics in the state. Ave Maria Mulligan is the town’s self...
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One Step Behind
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One Step Behind
by Henning Mankell

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Discover Europe's favorite mystery writer. Sweden's Henning Mankell writes a first-rate police procedural that also serves as an indictment of contemporary society. His characters are fully drawn, full of frailties, unexpected courage, and are utterly...
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Kiln People
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Kiln People
by David Brin

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In a perilous future, disposable duplicate bodies fulfill every citizen's legal and illicit whim. Life as a 24-hour "ditto" is cheap, as Albert Morris knows. A brash investigator with a knack for trouble, he's sent plenty of clay duplicates into deadly...
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Fingersmith: A Novel
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Fingersmith: A Novel
by Sarah Waters

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In Victorian England, an orphan girl is sent to a country estate to work for-and ultimately woo-its young heiress, on behalf of a mysterious benefactor known as Gentleman....
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Tender Ties Historical #01: A Name of Her Own
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Tender Ties Historical #01: A Name of Her Own
by Jane Kirkpatrick

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Based on the life of Marie Dorion, the first mother to cross the Rocky Mountains and remain in the Northwest, A Name of Her Own is the fictionalized adventure account of a real woman's fight to settle in a new landscape, survive in a nation at war...
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Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991
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Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991
by Michael Azerrad

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 503-505) and index....
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Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden
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Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden
by Diane Ackerman

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A Box of Matches
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A Box of Matches
by Nicholson Baker

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Emmett has a wife and two children, a cat, and a duck, and he wants to know what life is about. Every day he gets up before dawn, makes a cup of coffee in the dark, lights a fire with one wooden match, and thinks. What Emmett thinks about is the subject...
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Fifth Life of the Catwoman
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Fifth Life of the Catwoman
by Kathleen Dexter

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The Catwoman is on her fifth life. She has survived witch hunts, ignorance, and poverty. And now, she seeks refuge amidst the company of fifty cats on her own private oasis, a mirage. But when a stranger named Angelo enters her isolated world, Kat is...
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The Dimwit's Dictionary: 5,000 Overused Words and Phrases and Alternatives to Them
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The Dimwit's Dictionary: 5,000 Overused Words and Phrases and Alternatives to Them
by Robert Hartwe Fiske

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This compilation of overused words and phrases is the ultimate tool for the writer who seeks to weed out common, tired language and replace it with concise writing....
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Sophie and the Rising Sun
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Sophie and the Rising Sun
by Augusta Trobaugh

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Salty Creek is a sleepy Georgia town where everyone knows everyone else's business. Strangers rarely enter their midst. When the mysterious Mr. Oto arrives in the spring of 1939, he immediately becomes the talk of the town. A quiet, unassuming Japanese...
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Samaritan
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Samaritan
by Richard Price

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After a lucrative television writing career comes to an abrupt end, ex-high school teacher Ray Mitchell returns to the New Jersey city of his birth — to rethink his life, reconnect with his teenage daughter, and to spread the wealth on the housing...
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Forever
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Forever
by Pete Hamill

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From the bestselling author of Snow in August and A Drinking Life comes this magical, epic tale of an extraordinary man who arrives in New York City in 1740 and remains... forever. From the shores of Ireland, Cormac O'Connor sets out on a fateful...
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Child of My Heart
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Child of My Heart
by Alice McDermott

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In 1998, Alice McDermott's fourth novel, Charming Billy, surprised the literary world by capturing the National Book Award. Few doubted that McDermott deserved the prize and the readership it would deliver — she'd also been nominated for...
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Samuel Johnson is Indignant
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Samuel Johnson is Indignant
by Lydia Davis

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From one of our most imaginative and inventive writers, a crystalline collection of perfectly modulated, sometimes harrowing and often hilarious investigations into the multifaceted ways in which human beings perceive each other and themselves. A couple...
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Rowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic's Edge
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Rowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic's Edge
by Jill Fredston

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Jill Fredston has traveled more than twenty thousand miles of the Arctic and sub-Arctic-backwards. With her ocean-going rowing shell and her husband, Doug Fesler, in a small boat of his own, she has disappeared every summer for years, exploring the...
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The Lake of Dead Languages
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The Lake of Dead Languages
by Carol Goodman

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If you liked Secret History [Donna Tartt] you'll enjoy this suspenseful mystery set in a private girls' school in the Adirondacks. It's eerie, atmospheric and completely spellbinding. Kathi, Powells...
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Fool's Errand: Book 1 of the Tawny Man
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Fool's Errand: Book 1 of the Tawny Man
by Robin Hobb

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Robin Hobb has emerged as one of today’s foremost fantasy authors. Now she continues the adventures of one of her most popular heroes in the first book of what promises to be her most spectacular trilogy yet. Fool’s Errand For fifteen years...
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