Book Sense Picks
2004 July


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Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II
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Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II
by Robert Kurson

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Readers energized by the suspense and adventure of The Perfect Storm and Into Thin Air will be captivated by this remarkable account of wreck diving and discovery. Interweaving the excitement of locating a previously undiscovered WWII German...
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Four Souls
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Four Souls
by Louise Erdrich

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A strange and compelling unkillable woman decides to leave home, and the story begins. Fleur Pillager takes her mother's name, Four Souls, for strength and walks from her Ojibwe reservation to the cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. She is seeking...
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Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife: Pride and Prejudice Continues
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Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife: Pride and Prejudice Continues
by Linda Berdoll

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What readers are saying Whoa, Darcy Some parts are hilarious and some a walk on the wild side for Austen characters. Curl up and enjoy Tells the tale I always wanted to hear...how the Darcys lived happily ever after... The only fault I found with this...
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Let Me Go
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Let Me Go
by Helga Schneider

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The extraordinary memoir, praised across Europe, of a daughter's final encounter with her mother, a former SS guard at Auschwitz. In 1941, in Berlin, Helga Schneider's mother abandoned her, her younger brother, and her father. Thirty years later —...
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Oblivion: Stories
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Oblivion: Stories
by David Foster Wallace

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One of the most prodigiously talented and original writers at work today returns with his first new fiction in five years. In the stories that make up Oblivion, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions...
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The Canal House (Harvest Reading Guides)
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The Canal House (Harvest Reading Guides)
by Mark Lee

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Photojournalist Nicky Bettencourt thinks he's seen everything until he teams up with the legendary war correspondent Daniel McFarland. To Daniel, the story is everything; people come later. But after a plane crash nearly takes his life, Daniel begins to...
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One Wheel-Many Spokes: USA by Unicycle
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One Wheel-Many Spokes: USA by Unicycle
by Lars Clausen

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This unlikely story of a man riding a unicycle across America reveals an adventurous soul in search of his country and himself. Lars Clausen tells of his record-breaking 50-state unicycle trip from the West Coast to the Statue of Liberty and back again...
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Perfect Circle
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Perfect Circle
by Sean Stewart

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All-around terrific.-Booklist (starred review) Perfectly hilarious.-Texas Monthly William Dead Kennedy is in trouble. He's thirty-two, in love with his ex-wife, has lost his job, and he's been dreaming about ghost roads again. Sometimes a guy is haunted...
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Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination
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Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination
by Helen Fielding

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At the close of the last millennium, Helen Fielding debuted the irrepressible (and blockbuster-bestselling) Bridget Jones. Now, Fielding gives us a sensational new heroine for a new era... Move over, 007, a stunning, sexy — and decidedly female &...
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Ladies Coupe
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Ladies Coupe
by Anita Nair

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Meet Akhila: forty-five and single, an income-tax clerk, and a woman who has never been allowed to live her own life - always the daughter, the sister, the aunt, the provider - until the day she gets herself a one-way ticket to the seaside town of...
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In Summer
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In Summer
by Jeremy Jackson

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Summertime. If you close your eyes you can feel the warm sun on your skin, hear the leaves rustling in the breeze, smell the freshly mown lawn just up the street. Summer is a lush territory. Summer is a realm of its own. And summer can encompass you in a...
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Skinny Dip
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Skinny Dip
by Carl Hiaasen

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Chaz Perrone might be the only marine scientist in the world who doesn’t know which way the Gulf Stream runs. He might also be the only one who went into biology just to make a killing, and now he’s found a way–doctoring water samples...
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The Preservationist
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The Preservationist
by David Maine

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Praise for David Maine and The Preservationist: "The Preservationist is funny, tender, intelligent, energetic, irreverent, and worshipful. It is an enormous juggling act of families, animals and faith, and it kept me engaged through every page. I imagine...
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The Ghost Writer
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The Ghost Writer
by John Harwood

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A tantalizing tale of suspense and family secrets that weaves Victorian ghost stories into the present – where they start to come true Timid, solitary librarian Gerard Freeman lives for just two things: his elusive pen pal Alice and a story he...
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Sabbath Creek
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Sabbath Creek
by Judson Mitcham

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In his highly anticipated second novel, Judson Mitcham, with plain but elegant language, creates an emotional impact rivaled only by his critically acclaimed debut novel, "The Sweet Everlasting (Georgia). "Sabbath Creek is the story of Lewis Pope, a...
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At Mesa's Edge: Cooking and Ranching in Colorado's North Fork Valley
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At Mesa's Edge: Cooking and Ranching in Colorado's North Fork Valley
by Eugenia Bone

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Eugenia Bone was perfectly happy with her life as a New York City food writer, but she knew that her husband, a transplanted westerner, was filled with a discontent he couldn't explain. So when he returned from a fishing trip in the Rockies one day and...
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The Persistence of Memory: A Novel
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The Persistence of Memory: A Novel
by Tony Eprile

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"I was enthralled by [Tony Eprile's] gorgeous prose, his genius for transforming pain into art, and not least, by the fiercely comic gift of his unforgettable, and unforgetting, narrator," writes Margot Livesey about this long-awaited first novel. Eprile...
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How Soccer Explains the World : an Unlikely Theory of Globalization (04 Edition)
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How Soccer Explains the World : an Unlikely Theory of Globalization (04 Edition)
by Franklin Foer

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Religious, economic, political and ethnic divisions around the world are dramatically illuminated using the world's most popular sport as a lens and metaphor. A groundbreaking work. Soccer is much more than a game, or even a way of life. In fact, it's a...
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Shoot the Moon: A Novel
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Shoot the Moon: A Novel
by Billie Letts

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With her prizewinning #1 New York Times bestseller, Where the Heart Is, and her acclaimed second novel, The Honk and Holler Opening Soon, Billie Letts joined the ranks of America's best-loved storytellers. Now she returns to the heartland to tell the...
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Cat Vs. Cat: Keeping Peace When You Have More Than One Cat
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Cat Vs. Cat: Keeping Peace When You Have More Than One Cat
by Pam Johnson Bennett

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In this companion to her successful introduction to cat behavior Think Like a Cat, Pam Johnson-Bennett, the award-winning author and feline behaviorist, shows how adding another cat to your home does not have to be the start of a kitty apocalypse...
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