2005 September
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Featured Titles in Book Sense Picks-2005 September:
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The Tender Bar: A Memoir
by J. R. Moehringer  
Publisher Comments A moving, vividly told memoir full of heart, drama, and exquisite comic timing, about a boy striving to become a man, and his romance with a bar J.R. Moehringer grew up listening for a voice: It was the sound of his missing father, a disc jockey who...
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The Highest Tide: A Novel
by Jim Lynch
Powells.com Staff Pick Are you captivated by stories of rare creatures living beneath the surface of the ocean? Do you like the idea of an eccentric teenage narrator handing out startlingly detailed descriptions of these creatures and other aquatic mysteries? Are you a sucker...
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A Complicated Kindness: A Novel
by Miriam Toews
Powells.com Staff Pick Sharp and often howlingly funny — but insistently generous — A Complicated Kindness introduces sixteen-year-old Nomi Nickel, straining under the pressure of family, boys, and authority, common enough conflicts drawn here in extravagant...
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Pardonable Lies: A Maisie Dobbs Novel (Maisie Dobbs Mysteries)
by Jacqueline Winspear Publisher Comments In the third novel of this bestselling series, London investigator Maisie Dobbs faces grave danger as she returns to the site of her most painful WWI memories to resolve the mystery of a pilot's death. Agatha Christie's Miss Marple. Sue Grafton's...
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Immoral
by Brian Freeman Publisher Comments "Who is Brian Freeman? This guy can tell a story. Immoral is a page-turner of the highest caliber. It has enough twists and turns to keep you guessing until the end." —Michael Connelly, author of The Closers "Breathtakingly real and utterly...
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Tyrannosaur Canyon
by Douglas Preston Publisher Comments A moon rock missing for thirty years... Five buckets of blood-soaked sand found in a New Mexico canyon... A scientist with ambition enough to kill... A monk who will redeem the world... A dark agency with a deadly mission... The...
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If You Want Me to Stay
by Michael Parker Publisher Comments In Michael Parkerand#8217;s new novel, Joel Dunn Jr. tells the story of how he did everything he could to save his family after his mother left and his fatherand#8217;s tenuous hold on sanity unraveled. On a journey from the town of Trent, North Carolina,...
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A Sudden Country: A Novel
by Karen Fisher Publisher Comments A vivid and revelatory novel based on actual events of the 1847 Oregon migration, A Sudden Country follows two characters of remarkable complexity and strength in a journey of survival and redemption. James MacLaren, once a resourceful and ambitious...
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Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
by Barbara Ehrenreich
Powells.com Staff Pick Bait and Switch, Barbara Ehrenreich's remarkable follow-up to Nickel and Dimed, examines life in the ever-increasing population of the white-collar unemployed. Veering from the absurd (Wizard of Oz dolls) to the unsettling (Christian prayer breakfasts...
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The Painted Drum
by Louise Erdrich
Publisher Comments When a woman named Faye Travers is called upon to appraise the estate of a family in her small New Hampshire town, she isn't surprised to discover a forgotten cache of valuable Native American artifacts. After all, the family descends from an Indian...
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Little Star of Bela Lua
by Luana Monteiro Publisher Comments A luminous fish appears in an impoverished village like a sign from God and proceeds to perform questionable miracles on its foolish, desperate citizens. A guitar-strumming rhymester triumphs over her male opponents in the competitive folk art of the...
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The Widow of the South
by Robert Hicks Publisher Comments In 1894 Carrie McGavock is an old woman who has only her former slave to keep her company...and the almost 1,500 soldiers buried in her backyard. Years before, rather than let someone plow over the field where these young men had been buried, Carrie dug...
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Faithless
by Karin Slaughter Publisher Comments The victim was buried alive in the Georgia woods — then killed in a horrifying fashion. When Sara Linton and Jeffrey Tolliver stumble upon the body, both become consumed with finding out who killed the pretty, impeccably dressed young woman. And for...
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Gardenias
by Faith Sullivan Publisher Comments It's 1942, just a month after the United States entered World War II. Lark, her mother Arlene, and Aunt Betty are in a station changing trains, leaving their lives in Harvester, Minnesota behind, and waiting for the train going to Los Angeles. Young men &...
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The Myth of You and Me
by Leah Stewart
Publisher Comments When Cameron was fifteen, Sonia was her best friend — no one could come between them. Now Cameron is a twenty-nine-year-old research assistant with no meaningful ties to anyone except her aging boss, noted historian Oliver Doucet. When an...
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Hunger's Brides: A Novel of the Baroque
by Paul Anderson Publisher Comments Apocalyptic, lyrical, and erotically charged, Hunger's Brides is an epic novel of genius, obsession, and mystery surrounding the Baroque-era Mexican nun, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, who at the time of her death in 1695 was arguably the greatest writer...
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An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas
by Diane Wilson Publisher Comments The gripping true story of one woman's fight to save her town and her way of life from deadly industrial chemicals. Diane Wilson, fourth-generation shrimp-boat captain and mother of five, proves that one "ordinary" woman can force a giant chemical...
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The Art of Uncontrolled Flight
by Kim Ponders Publisher Comments A stunning literary debut about a woman – an airforce pilot – torn between duty and desire. The long shadow of a charismatic father leads Annie Shaw to decide, as far back as she can remember, to follow in his footsteps and become an air...
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The Last Days of Dogtown
by Anita Diamant Publisher Comments A magnificent storyteller with vast imaginative range, Anita Diamant gave voice to the silent women of the Old Testament in The Red Tent. Now, in her third novel, she brings to vivid life an early New England world that history has forgotten. Set on Cape...
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