2006 April
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Featured Titles in Book Sense Picks-2006 April:
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The Glass Castle: a Memoir
by Jeannette Walls  Publisher Comments Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in...
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The Bright Forever
by Lee Martin Publisher Comments On an evening like any other, nine-year-old Katie Mackey, daughter of the most affluent family in a small town on the plains of Indiana, sets out on her bicycle to return some library books. This simple act is at the heart of The Bright Forever, a...
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A Dirty Job
by Christopher Moore 
Powells.com Staff Pick Do you need an introduction to Christopher Moore? His latest, A Dirty Job, has demons, hell hounds, and, of course, Death. Charlie Asher is one of those sweet, loveable guys — you know, the kind of guy who has heard the "let's be friends" speech...
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Apex Hides the Hurt: A Novel
by Colson Whitehead
Powells.com Staff Pick Fans of the extended junketeering riffs in John Henry Days, rejoice: Colson Whitehead is back with a short, satirical novel about a city — and a man — looking for a fresh start. Gone are the extended digressions and extravagant stylistic...
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Fantasyland: A Season on Baseball's Lunatic Fringe
by Sam Walker Publisher Comments A Wall Street Journal writer spends a season in a fantasy baseball league to explore the inner workings and contagious passions of one of the country's most popular pursuits. Every spring, millions of Americans prepare to take part in one of the...
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To Hell with All That: Loving and Loathing Our Inner Housewife
by Caitlin Flanagan
Powells.com Staff Pick Caitlin Flanagan is stirring the pot once again with her provocative take on modern motherhood. Drawn from articles written for the New Yorker and Atlantic Monthly, Flanagan's musings range from the irony of a white wedding to the odd rise in sexless...
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The Lightning Keeper
by Starling Lawrence Publisher Comments The Lightning Keeper is a sweeping epic novel of ambition, love, and enterprise in America. It is the story of an unlikely Romeo and Juliet romance at the dawn of the electric age, with the nation balancing on the brink of world war and a scientific...
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Saving the World: A Novel
by Julia Alvarez Publisher Comments Julia Alvarez's resplendent new novel takes us into the worlds of two women swept up in campaigns against the scourges of their day. Alma Huebner, a Latin American novelist transplanted to the United States, is writing another of her bestselling family...
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The Secret Supper: A Novel
by Javier Sierra
Publisher Comments The most-talked-about international bestseller of the year! Tightly paced and atmospheric, The Secret Supper is a dazzling historical thriller with a unique vision of both Leonardo da Vinci's genius and his masterpiece — which you will never...
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How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life
by Mameve Medwed Publisher Comments What do a chamber pot, a famous poet, a family feud, and a long-ago suitor all have in common? In this delicious laugh-out-loud new novel of love and loss, rivalry and reconciliation, treasure and trash, by acclaimed author Mameve Medwed (Mail, The End...
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L'America
by Martha McPhee Publisher Comments In the brilliant Greek sunshine of a small Aegean island, Beth and Cesare meet-and thus begins a transformative love affair that spans two continents, two decades, and two lifetimes. Cesare is a cosseted Italian boy, raised in a prosperous town where his...
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Murder in Montmartre
by Cara Black Publisher Comments Praise for the Aime Leduc series: "If you've always wanted to visit Paris, skip the air fare and read Cara Black . . . instead."-Val McDermid "Fine characters, good suspense, but, best of all, they are transcendentally, seductively, irresistibly French...
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The Mercy Room
by Gilles Rozier Synopsis Set in a small town in occupied France during World War II, "The Mercy Room" is a brilliant exploration of sexual obsession and human frailty in a country gripped by war....
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The Madonnas of Leningrad
by Debra Dean
Publisher Comments One of the most talked about books of the year... Bit by bit, the ravages of age are eroding Marina's grip on the everyday. And while the elderly Russian woman cannot hold on to fresh memories — the details of her grown children's lives, the...
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Year in Japan
by Kate Williamson Publisher Comments The Land of the Rising Sun is shining brightly across the American cultural landscape. Recent films such as Lost in Translation and Memoirs of a Geisha seem to have made everyone an expert on Japan, even if they've never been there. But the only way for...
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Secret Girl
by Molly Bruce Jacobs Publisher Comments For decades, a well-to-do Baltimore family guarded a secret too painful to reveal, much less speak of among themselves. For one daughter, that secret would haunt her for years but ultimately compel her to take surprising risks and reap unbelievable...
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In a Paris Moment
by Meredith Mullins Publisher Comments This unique collection of black-and-white photographs and stories captures the heart of Paris, revealing the beauty, humor, rhythms, and characters that are so much a part of the city. It's an intimate look at the hidden patterns of everyday scenes and...
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Birds in Fall
by Brad Kessler Publisher Comments One fall night off the coast of a remote island in Nova Scotia, an airplane plummets to the sea as an innkeeper watches from the shore. Miles away in New York City, ornithologist Ana Gathreaux works in a darkened room full of sparrows, testing their...
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