2005 August
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Featured Titles in Book Sense Picks-2005 August:
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Snow
by Orhan Pamuk  Publisher Comments From the acclaimed author of My Name is Red ("a sumptuous thriller" — John Updike; "chockful of sublimity and sin" — New York Times Book Review) comes a spellbinding tale of disparate yearnings — for love, art, power, and God — set in...
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No Country for Old Men
by Cormac McCarthy 
Powells.com Staff Pick This may not be Cormac McCarthy's best book, or even one of the best books of the year (in fact, its construction is a bit incoherent), yet I remain a sucker for the peculiar blend of melancholy and savagery that permeates all of McCarthy's work...
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True North
by Jim Harrison Publisher Comments An epic tale that pits a son against the legacy of his family's desecration of the earth, and his own father's more personal violations, Jim Harrison's True North is a beautiful and moving novel that speaks to the territory in our hearts that calls us...
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A Long Way Down: A Novel
by Nick Hornby
Powells.com Staff Pick Nick Hornby is the Dickens of our time. He's beloved by countless readers who don't otherwise care about novels. In the guise of effortless entertainment, his populist style delivers profound truths about the human condition. Both authors shaped novels...
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Little Chapel on the River: A Pub, a Town and the Search for What Matters Most
by Gwendolyn Bounds Publisher Comments Nestled along the banks of the Hudson River directly across from the United States Military Academy at West Point sits the rural town of Garrison, New York, home to Guinan's—a legendary Irish drinking hole and country store. While searching for a...
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Magic for Beginners
by Kelly Link
Powells.com Staff Pick "Magic For Beginners reads more like a book of spooky old fairy tales and fables than a contemporary short story collection. Link embraces various genres, such as fantasy and horror, lovingly takes them apart, combines their pieces, and revives them...
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The Witch of Cologne
by Tobsha Learner Publisher Comments A Time of Peril The Inquisitor, Carlos Vicente Solitario, charges a young Jewish midwife, Ruth bas Elazar Saul, with heresy. Ruth may be the daughter of the city's chief rabbi, but this is no protection against the Inquisition's accusations. A Quest for...
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Booking Passage: We Irish & Americans
by Thomas Lynch Publisher Comments So, Tom That Went and Tom that would come back! is how Nora Lynch greeted the young American Thomas Lynch in 1970, at the edge of the ocean in West Clare, outside the cottage that his great-grandfather--another Thomas Lynch--had left nearly a century...
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In Perfect Light
by Benjamin Alir Saenz Publisher Comments From award-winning poet Benjamin Alire Sáenz comes In Perfect Light, a haunting novel depicting the cruelties of cultural displacement and the resilience of those who are left in its aftermath. In Perfect Light is the story of two strong-willed...
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Evening Ferry
by Katherine Towler Publisher Comments Following on from the success of Snow Island, Katherine Towler returns to the fictional island with the second installment of this trilogy. Thirty-two year old Rachel Shattuck has not returned to Snow Island since she attended her mother's funeral. A...
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Sweetgrass
by Mary Alice Monroe Synopsis Mama June and Preston Blakely's lifelong dream has been to hold on to the tract of land left from the family's plantation. When it looks as though they might have to sell, the family struggles to keep the land and remain united....
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The Woodsman's Daughter
by Gwyn Hyman Rubio Publisher Comments Gwyn Hyman Rubio's first novel, Icy Sparks, was hailed as vivid and unforgettable (The New York Times Book Review), a combination of fire and ice that will take your breath away (Atlanta Journal-Constitution). Now, Rubio has done it again with The...
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The Death Collectors
by Jack Kerley Publisher Comments In 1972, on the day of his sentencing, renowned artist and serial killer Marsden Hexcamp is shot dead in the courtroom. Members of his Mansonesque band of followers are imprisoned or simply disappear. Fast-forward more than thirty years: A suspected...
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Queen Emma and the Vikings
by Harriet O'brien Publisher Comments A lively portrait of a tumultuous period replete with conflict and strife, political intrigue and shifting alliances, assassinations and coronations. Emma, one of England's most remarkable queens, made her mark on a nation beset by Viking raiders at the...
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The Greatest Man in Cedar Hole
by Stephanie Doyon
Publisher Comments For generations, Cedar Hole has been the armpit of Gilford County, a town full of apathetic underachievers trapped by a defunct railroad, distrust of the outside world, and their own lack of imagination. It has also been the home of the Pinkhams, a...
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Deadly Slipper: A Novel of Death in the Dordogne
by Michelle Wan Publisher Comments This literary mystery about a woman’s search for her long-missing sister takes readers to the ruggedly beautiful Dordogne region of France–and into the exotic world of orchid-hunting, where the discovery of a new species can be deadly. Almost...
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Trace Evidence
by Elizabeth Becka Publisher Comments In the bestselling tradition of Patricia Cornwell and Kathy Reichs, comes a riveting forensic thriller by a dazzling new talent in crime fiction. A gripping suspense novel that introduces forensic expert Evelyn James as she tries to decipher trace...
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Specimen Days: A Novel
by Michael Cunningham
Powells.com Staff Pick Specimen Days, a novel in three parts, showcases Michael Cunningham's capacity to evoke complex characters and expansive emotional reactions. Featuring a host of shifting but related characters — including a lizard-like alien and a precocious boy...
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Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet
by Xinran Publisher Comments It was 1994 when Xinran, a journalist and the author of The Good Women of China, received a telephone call asking her to travel four hours to meet an oddly dressed woman who had just crossed the border from Tibet into China. Xinran made the trip and met...
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