2005 July
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Featured Titles in Book Sense Picks-2005 July:
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel
by Lisa See  Publisher Comments Lily is haunted by memories — of who she once was, and of a person, long gone, who defined her existence. She has nothing but time now, as she recounts the tale of Snow Flower, and asks the gods for forgiveness. In nineteenth-century China, when...
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More Book Lust (05 Edition)
by Pearl Publisher Comments The response to Nancy Pearl's surprise bestseller Book Lust was astounding: the Seattle librarian and winner of the 2004 Women's National Book Award even became the model for the now-famous Librarian Action Figure. Readers everywhere welcomed Pearl's...
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Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman
by Richard P. Feynman and Michelle Feynman Publisher Comments "I'm an explorer, OK? I like to find out!" — One of the towering figures of twentieth-century science, Richard Feynman possessed a curiosity that was the stuff of legend. Even before he won the Nobel Prize in 1965, his unorthodox and spellbinding...
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To the Power of Three (Tess Monaghan Mysteries)
by Laura Lippman Publisher Comments Laura Lippman is one of the most acclaimed authors of crime fiction writing today, the winner of every major award the genre has to offer. Now she dazzles once again with a riveting stand-alone novel that takes on the secret -- and not-so-secret -- lives...
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Freddy and Fredericka: A Novel
by Mark Helprin Publisher Comments Freddy and Fredericka will ascend the English throne only if they reacquire the American colonies and become noble spirits in an ignoble age. Helprin's latest work, an extraordinarily funny allegory of a most peculiar British royal family, is...
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Hide and Seek
by Clare Sambrook Publisher Comments Meet Harry Pickles, the fastest boy in the world (well, at least in school), big brother to Daniel (who runs like a girl but is, in his own twerpy way, a star), and the firstborn son of Mo and Pa, the best-looking parents in their Notting Hill elementary...
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Lord Byron's Novel: The Evening Land
by John Crowley Publisher Comments One of the most accomplished literary artists of our time, John Crowley has given us fiction that illuminates and astounds — from the wonder and whimsy of Little, Big to the poignancy and lyrical beauty of The Translator. Now he turns his unique...
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Oh Pure and Radiant Heart
by Lydia Millet 
Publisher Comments Acclaimed author Lydia Millet's latest novel is a black-comic tour de force depicting atomic bomb creators Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, and Leo Szilard. Despite being dead, these scientists are spotted in Santa Fe by a shy librarian named Ann. She...
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Locked Rooms (Mary Russell Novels)
by Laurie R King Publisher Comments Mary Russell and her husband Sherlock Holmes are back in Laurie R. King’s highly acclaimed New York Times bestselling mystery series. And this time the first couple of detection pair up to unlock the buried memory of a shocking crime with the power...
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I Right the Wrongs
by Dylan Schaffer Publisher Comments In this sequel to Misdemeanor Man, Dylan Schaffer returns with a mind-bending legal whodunit about small crime, big crime, and the reluctant lawyer caught in the middle. Despite his recent successes in the courtroom, Gordon Seegerman is intent on...
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The Icon
by Neil Olson Publisher Comments Matthew Spear, a young Greek-American curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, meets the lovely Ana Kessler, a sometime art dealer who has inherited an impressive collection from her mysterious grandfather. Matthew soon discovers that the jewel of the...
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As Long as the Moon Shall Rise: Reflections on the Full Moon
by Elaine Moore Anderson Publisher Comments See yonder fire! It is the moonSlow rising o're the eastern hill.It glimmers in the forest tips.And through the dewey foliage dripsIn little rivulets of light.And makes the heart in love with night." -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow For poets and painters...
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Night Swimming
by Robin Schwarz Publisher Comments Charlotte Clapp has lived in a small New Hampshire town all her life. Overweight, loveless, and recovering from her motherís death, she learns that she has only one year to live. Resolving to die with no regrets, she quits her job at the bank--but not...
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Alibi: A Novel
by Joseph Kanon Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of Los Alamos and The Good German comes a riveting tale of love, revenge, and murder set in postwar Venice. It is 1946, and a stunned Europe is beginning its slow recovery from the ravages of World War II. Adam Miller has...
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The Traveler: The First Novel of the Fourth Realm Trilogy
by John Twelve Hawks Publisher Comments A world that exists in the shadows of our own. A conflict we will never see. One woman stands between those determined to control history and those who will risk their lives for freedom. Maya is hiding in plain sight in London. The twenty-six-...
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How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets
by Garth Stein Publisher Comments "Captivating, moving and always observant, Garth Stein leads us through this deep-and often wrenching-family drama with confidence and deftness that sweep us in from the instant we meet unforgettable Evan. Whether laughing or wiping tears from our cheeks,...
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Tenney's Landing: Stories
by Catherine Tudish Publisher Comments These deeply empathic and beautifully crafted stories explore the interwoven lives and histories of the people of Tenney's Landing, a small Pennsylvania river town. Catherine Tudish has assembled an array of richly textured characters whose paths...
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Baseball . . . the Perfect Game: An All-Star Anthology of Great Players, Teams, and Moments
by Josh Leventhal Publisher Comments Red Stockings and Black Sox. Bums and Bosox. The Professor and the Spaceman. Cobb and Ruth. Matty and Satchel. The Man and Rapid Robert. Williams and Bonds. Say Hey and Sandy. Hammerin’ Hank and Slammin’ Sammy. From the heroic hits to the...
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The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks
by Susan Casey
Publisher Comments A journalist's obsession brings her to a remote island off the California coast, home to the world's most mysterious and fearsome predators — and the strange band of surfer-scientists who follow them. Susan Casey was in her living room when she...
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