2006 August
There are 19 books in this aisle.
Featured Titles in Book Sense Picks-2006 August:
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The Yacoubian Building
by Alaa Al Aswany  Publisher Comments This controversial bestselling novel in the Arab world reveals the political corruption, sexual repression, religious extremism, and modern hopes of Egypt today. All manner of flawed and fragile humanity reside in the Yacoubian Building, a once...
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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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I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
by Nora Ephron Publisher Comments With her disarming, intimate, completely accessible voice, and dry sense of humor, Nora Ephron shares with us her ups and downs in I Feel Bad About My Neck, a candid, hilarious look at women who are getting older and dealing with the tribulations of...
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special topics in calamity physics
by Marisha Pessl
Powells.com Staff Pick Suspenseful, dark, and extremely funny, Marisha Pessl's debut novel is an impressive feat indeed. Blue van Meer is one of the most intelligent and awkward teenage protagonists in recent years, and her story — which manages to be both a murder...
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Three Days to Never
by Tim Powers
Powells.com Staff Pick Who else but Tim Powers could weave Albert Einstein, Charlie Chaplin, time travel and Israeli spies into a book? Three Days to Never is an engaging story — fast-paced, believable, and eerie — and makes a great summer read. Take this book to the...
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Happy Hour at Casa Dracula
by Marta Acosta Publisher Comments Latina Ivy League grad Milagro de Los Santos can't find her place in the world or a man to go with it. Then one night, at a book party for her pretentious ex-boyfriend, she meets an oddly attractive man. After she is bitten while kissing him, she falls...
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The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters: A Novel
by Gordon Dahlquist
Publisher Comments It begins with a simple note. Roger Bascombe wishes to inform Celeste Temple that their engagement is forthwith terminated. But, Celeste, for all her lack of worldly experience, is determined to find out why her fiancé should have thrown her over so...
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Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead
by Alan DeNiro
Publisher Comments These stories skitter sideways across literary and genre fiction categories, using the toolbox of genres like science fiction and fantasy to grapple with issues of identity, family, gender, and politics. DeNiro is frequently funny, surreal, or slapstick,...
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Talk Talk
by T. C. Boyle
Powells.com Staff Pick Admittedly, I am a huge T.C. Boyle fan... borderline rabid, if you were to ask my friends. So, of course, I started in on Talk, Talk the second I got home from work the day of its release. I was up until three a.m. that night, delighting in that good ol'...
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James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
by Julie Phillips Publisher Comments James Tiptree, Jr. burst onto the science fiction scene in the 1970s with a series of hardedged, provocative short stories. Hailed as a brilliant masculine writer with a deep sympathy for his famale character, he penned such classics as Houston, Houston,...
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Brief Encounters with Che Guevara: Stories
by Ben Fountain Publisher Comments The well-intentioned protagonists of Brief Encounters with Che Guevara are caught — to both disastrous and hilarious effect — in the maelstrom of political and social upheaval surrounding them. In Near-Extinct Birds of the Central Cordillera...
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Sacco and Vanzetti Must Die!
by Mark Binelli Publisher Comments The Nic Sacco and Bart Vanzetti of Sacco and Vanzetti Must Die! are not exactly the infamous anarchists controversially sentenced to death by the United States government. Instead, in this hilarious first novel, they are silent film stars, slapstick...
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The Judas Field: A Novel of the Civil War
by Howard Bahr Publisher Comments In this epic novel of violence and redemption by the author of The Black Flower, a Civil War veteran travels back over old battlefields toward a reckoning with the past. It's been twenty years since Cass Wakefield returned from the Civil War to his...
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Second Burial for a Black Prince
by Andrew Nugent Publisher Comments Sergeant Molly Power is on duty when the call comes in. A young African man has been attacked and left for dead in the countryside. His leg was amputated, but he managed to get to the house of a farmer, although he'll die in the hospital later that night...
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Microthrills: True Stories from a Life of Small Highs
by Wendy Spero Publisher Comments Raised in Manhattan by her tiny sex-therapist mother and her two eccentric grandparents, Wendy Spero has always sought excitement in microthrills, the small, strange highs that give her life meaning. Her story begins in the one-bedroom, Upper East Side...
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The Assassins Gallery
by David L Robbins Publisher Comments New Year’s Eve, 1945. The assassin steps out of the Atlantic Ocean in the middle of a raging nor’easter. Cool and efficient, she’s a weapon of war superbly trained in the ancient arts of subterfuge and murder. And even though she’...
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The Prisoner of Guantanamo
by Dan Fesperman Publisher Comments Dan Fesperman's award-winning novels have transported readers to the heart of some of the world's most volatile places: Yugoslavia during the Balkan Wars in Lie in the Dark and The Small Boat of Great Sorrows ("A new standard for war-based thrillers"...
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My Half of the Sky
by Mcburney-lin Jana Synopsis Jana McBurney-Lin's debut novel My Half of the Sky introduces Li Hui, a modern young Chinese woman of marriageable age who has recently graduated from Xiamen University. Her goal is to realize Mao's words: Women hold up half of the sky. Li Hui struggles...
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Resurrection
by Tucker Malarkey Publisher Comments Set in Cairo during the tumultuous aftermath of World War II, Tucker Malarkey's Resurrection draws on the actual events surrounding the findings of the lost gospels at Nag Hammadi, Egypt. Suppressed by the Church Fathers, who elected to include only four...
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