2005 October
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Featured Titles in Book Sense Picks-2005 October:
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Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
by Julie Powell  
Powells.com Staff Pick Finally, someone willing to admit just how dirty a kitchen can get! Powell's story is at once a comic tale of struggling to find one's balance in the adult world, and a witty exploration of why — and how — we cook. Gastronomes, as well as those...
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Anansi Boys: A Novel
by Neil Gaiman
Powells.com Staff Pick "Anansi Boys is Neil Gaiman's best novel yet. It may lack the epic scope of American Gods, but page for page it provides a higher level of satisfaction. This is Gaiman at his wittiest, most uninhibited; we feel the author having fun with his creations...
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Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
by Mary Roach
Powells.com Staff Pick In her remarkable debut, Stiff, Mary Roach explored what happens to the body after death, and in the process brought the corpse to glittering life. In her follow up, she stakes out similar terrain. What happens to the soul after death? And how can you...
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The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime
by Jasper Fforde
Publisher Comments It's Easter in Reading — a bad time for eggs — and no one can remember the last sunny day. Ovoid D-class nursery celebrity Humpty Stuyvesant Van Dumpty III, minor baronet, ex-convict, and former millionaire philanthropist, is found shattered to...
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Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, the Torments of Low Thread Count, the Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems
by David Rakoff
Powells.com Staff Pick "Don't Get Too Comfortable is a gratifying reading experience for the misanthrope in all of us. Rakoff has a style and wit that is appropriately cruel towards its deserving targets. If you actually enjoy foie gras, performance art, or stalking...
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A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
by Simon Winchester
Powells.com Staff Pick "If you liked Krakatoa, The Professor and the Madman, or any of Winchester's other works, you'll like this one. He explains geological ideas well, and is well on his way to being the new ambassador of geology's influence on human history. He places...
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The March: A Novel
by E. L. Doctorow Publisher Comments In 1864, after Union general William Tecumseh Sherman burned Atlanta, he marched his sixty thousand troops east through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. The army fought off Confederate forces and lived off the land, pillaging the...
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Wolf Point
by Edward Falco Publisher Comments A taut, dramatic literary thriller that examines betrayal, trust and forgiveness.<br><br><br><br>Tom "T" Walker, a 57-year-old businessman, knows better than to pick up a beautiful young woman hitchhiking with her dangerous...
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The Mercy of Thin Air: A Novel
by Ronlyn Domingue Publisher Comments In 1920s New Orleans, Raziela Nolan's magnificent love affair is interrupted by her untimely and tragic death. Immediately after, she chooses to stay between — a realm that exists after life and before whatever lies beyond it. From this remarkable...
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Japanland: A Year in Search of Wa
by Karin Muller Publisher Comments Looking to gain a competitive edge in her judo practice and maybe a fresh perspective on "meaning" in her own life, documentary filmmaker Karin Muller commits to living in Japan for a year to deepen her appreciation for such Eastern ideals as ritual and...
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Jesus Land
by Julia Scheeres
Synopsis This riveting memoir is the story of a 16-year-old girl and her adopted, black, 16-year-old brother in Indiana who are sent to a reform school in the Dominican Republic by their violent father and distant mother more involved with her church's...
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Freshwater Road
by Denise Nicholas Publisher Comments Freshwater Road is the story of one young woman?s journey into adulthood via the political and social upheavals of the civil rights movement. A young black collegian, Celeste Tyree, leaves Ann Arbor to go to Pineyville, Mississippi, in the summer of 1964...
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The Stranger House
by Reginald Hill Publisher Comments In The Stranger House, Reginald Hill takes a break from his Dalziel and Pascoe series, and delivers a stunning stand-alone novel full of suspense, romance, history, and an exploration of the sometimes twisted side of the human psyche. The tiny village of...
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X Out of Wonderland: A Saga
by David Allan Cates Publisher Comments X Out of Wonderland is a farce, modeled after Candide, that takes on the Global Free Market and just about every other aspect of contemporary life. Outrageous and poignant by turns, X is a satire with heart, and an intense and funny reading experience....
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The City of Falling Angels
by John Berendt
Powells.com Staff Pick Once again John Berendt proves he is a powerful magnet for eccentrics. With clever proficiency, Berendt depicts for readers a host of quirky characters, providing an exclusive glimpse into the Venice you won't see as a tourist. Gossipy yet wholly...
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The Town That Forgot How to Breathe
by Kenneth J Harvey
Powells.com Staff Pick A spectral novel that draws you in, and suffocates you with its incantation. Though a bit dishevelled in its conclusion, this book was one of the most memorable of 2005. I've handed several copies to my favorite customers. Recommended by Donna, Powells...
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The Point of Fracture
by Frank Turner Hollon Publisher Comments After nearly fifteen years in a childless marriage, Michael Brace and his beautiful wife, Suzanne, live separate lives in the same house. Suzanne has crippling headaches, and she's haunted by childhood memories of her father, visions of violence. Michael...
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Maybe a Miracle
by Brian Strause Publisher Comments In this disarming debut, Brian Strause has written a vastly entertaining novel about an American family transfixed by a series of mysterious events. From a comfortable suburb of Columbus, Ohio, emerges a story of rebellion, faith and hope, bridging the...
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