2005 November
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Featured Titles in Book Sense Picks-2005 November:
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Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog
by John Grogan  
Publisher Comments The heartwarming and unforgettable story of a family in the making and the wondrously neurotic dog who taught them what really matters in life. John and Jenny were just beginning their life together. They were young and in love, with a perfect little...
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Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness
by Joshua Wolf Shenk
Publisher Comments Drawing on seven years of his own research and the work of other< BR> esteemed Lincoln scholars, Shenk reveals how the sixteenth< BR> president harnessed his depression to fuel his astonishing success.< BR> Lincoln found the solace and...
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The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece
by Jonathan Harr Publisher Comments An Italian village on a hilltop near the Adriatic coast, a decaying palazzo facing the sea, and in the basement, cobwebbed and dusty, lit by a single bulb, an archive unknown to scholars. Here, a young graduate student from Rome, Francesca Cappelletti...
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River of Doubt Theodore Roosevelts Darke
by Candice Millard
Publisher Comments At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt’s harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth. The River of Doubt—it is a...
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Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar
by Edvard Radzinsky Publisher Comments Alexander II was Russia's Lincoln, and the greatest reformer tsar since Peter the Great. He was also one of the most contradictory, and fascinating, of history's supreme leaders. He freed the serfs, yet launched vicious wars. He engaged in the sexual...
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A Wedding in December: A Novel
by Anita Shreve Publisher Comments The author of the New York Times bestseller Light on Snow returns with a powerful new novel about old friends, a wedding, and a gathering that will change their lives. At an inn in the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts, seven former...
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Between Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam
by Zainab Salbi and Laurie Becklund Publisher Comments Zainab Salbi was eleven years old when her father was chosen to serve as Saddam Hussein's personal pilot, her family often forced to spend weekends with Saddam where he watched their every move. As a palace insider, Zainab offers a singular glimpse of...
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Son of a Witch: A Novel
by Gregory Maguire
Powells.com Staff Pick Son of a Witch is a pitch-perfect sequel to Wicked — as though Maguire hadn't written several other books in dramatically varied voices in the meantime. But his new novel is more meditative, symbolic, and unexpectedly relevant than its...
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The Oxford Murders
by Guillermo Martinez Synopsis On a balmy summer's day in Oxford an old lady who once helped decipher the Enigma Code is killed. After receiving a cryptic anonymous note containing only the address and the symbol of a circle, Arthur Seldom, a leading mathematician, arrives to find the...
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Two Lives
by Vikram Seth
Publisher Comments A heartrending new book -- the story of a marriage and the story of two lives -- from the author of the international bestselling novel A Suitable Boy Shanti Behari Seth was born on the eighth day of the eighth month in the eighth year of the twentieth...
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Fondling Your Muse: A Book of Infallible Advice from a Published Author to a Writerly Aspirant
by John Warner Publisher Comments "Desperation is the mother of invention, and if you think you have a future as a writer, you're nothing if not desperate." Such is the advice of John Warner in this innovative and slightly insane book. Equal parts humor and strange instruction...
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Dream Boogie (05 Edition)
by Guralnick
Powells.com Staff Pick Derived primarily from interviews that he conducted over the span of many years, Guralnick tells Cooke's story through the words of those who knew him best. The real-life characters in this book are vivid and compelling; Guralnick's talent as a...
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The Planets
by Dava Sobel
Powells.com Staff Pick Using scientific facts and cultural background, Sobel continues in her witty and knowledgeable fashion with this absorbing ode to our solar system. Lyrical, personal, and engaging. Recommended by Ann, Powells.com...
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Smartbomb: The Quest for Art, Entertainment, and Big Bucks in the Videogame Revolution
by Heather Chaplin Publisher Comments The movie business celebrates its creators: Spielberg, DeMille, Scorsese, Hitchcock. But what about the and#8220; namesand#8221; behind Doom, The Sims, Donkey Kong, Grand Theft Autoand#8212;the games that spawned a ten-billion-dollar industry whose...
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All the Fishes Come Home to Roost: An American Misfit in India
by Rachel Manija Brown Publisher Comments In the bestselling tradition of Running with Scissors and Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight - a hilarious, affecting memoir of the author's upbringing in an ashram in India. In 1980, when she was seven, the author's parents, 60s-holdover hippies, leave...
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The Amphora Project
by William Kotzwinkle Publisher Comments Over the course of thirty years, William Kotzwinkle has solidified his reputation as a versatile and enormously imaginative storyteller. After a best-selling foray into children's books with the beloved Walter the Farting Dog series, he now offers a rip...
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The Arms of God
by Lynne Hinton Publisher Comments Alice is making her daughter dinner when her mother Olivia, who left her at a day care center when she was four-years-old, appears at her door. Although Alice has managed to navigate an unforgiving foster care system to build a good life for herself, she...
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Angel and Apostle
by Deborah Noyes Publisher Comments At the end of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic novel, The Scarlet Letter, we know that Pearl, the elf-child daughter of Hester Prynne, is somewhere in Europe, comfortable, well set, a mother herself now. But it could not have been easy for her to arrive at...
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