2006 February
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Featured Titles in Book Sense Picks-2006 February:
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Washington's Crossing (Pivotal Moments in American History)
by David Hacke Fischer  Publisher Comments Six months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A powerful British force had routed the Americans at New York, occupied three colonies, and advanced within sight of Philadelphia. Yet, as David Hackett Fischer...
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The Night Journal
by Elizabeth Crook Publisher Comments A brilliantly imagined, lavish, and transporting novel of a young womanas search for the truth about her familyas mythic past Meg Mabry has spent her life with her back turned to her legendary family legacy. In the 1890s her great-grandmother Hannah Bass...
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A Family Daughter: A Novel
by Maile Meloy Publisher Comments From the award-winning author of Half in Love and Liars and Saints, a riveting story of love, sex, secrets, guilt, and forgiveness. Maile Meloy's debut novel, Liars and Saints, captured the hearts of readers and critics alike. Now Meloy returns with...
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White Ghost Girls
by Alice Greenway 
Publisher Comments Summer 1967. The turmoil of the Maoist revolution is spilling over into Hong Kong and causing unrest as war rages in neighboring Vietnam. White Ghost Girls is the story of Frankie and Kate, two American sisters living in a foreign land in a chaotic time....
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Carved in Bone (Body Farm Novels)
by Jefferson Bass
Publisher Comments On the campus of the University of Tennessee lies a patch of ground unlike any in the world. The "Body Farm" is a place where human corpses are left to the elements, and every manner of decay is fully explored -- for the sake of science and the cause of...
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Frangipani
by Celestine Hitiura Vaite
Publisher Comments An international literary sensation. First published in Australia, Frangipani has already been licensed in Canada, Holland, Italy, Spain, the UK, and the US. The debut of an entrancing new storyteller, Vaite seasons her tale with charming bits of...
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A Strong West Wind
by Gail Caldwell Publisher Comments In this exquisitely rendered memoir set on the high plains of Texas, Pulitzer Prize winner Gail Caldwell transforms into art what it is like to come of age in a particular time and place. A Strong West Wind begins in the 1950s in the wilds of the Texas...
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Love and Other Impossible Pursuits: A Novel
by Ayelet Waldman Publisher Comments With wry candor and tender humor, acclaimed novelist Ayelet Waldman has crafted a strikingly beautiful novel for our time, tackling the absurdities of modern life and reminding us why we love some people no matter what. For Emilia Greenleaf, life is...
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The Space between Us
by Thrity Umrigar Publisher Comments Each morning, Bhima, a domestic servant in contemporary Bombay, leaves her own small shanty in the slums to tend to another woman's house. In Sera Dubash's home, Bhima scrubs the floors of a house in which she remains an outsider. She cleans furniture...
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The Kindness of Strangers
by Katrina Kittle Publisher Comments On a quiet street in the suburban Midwest, a popular, seemingly stable family keeps a terrible, dark secret behind closed doors -- a secret that will have life-changing consequences for all who know them Sarah Laden, a young widow and mother of two...
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Holmes on the Range: A Mystery
by Steve Hockensmith Publisher Comments Because 1893 is a tough year in Montana, any job is a good job. When Big Red and Old Red Amlingmeyer sign on as ranch hands at the secretive Bar VR cattle spread, they're not expecting much more than hard work, bad pay, and a comfortable campfire around...
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The Thrall's Tale
by Judith Lindbergh Publisher Comments Set in Viking Greenland in AD 985, this dramatic historical novel focuses on the intertwined lives of three women straddling the pagan past and Christian future A vividly imagined chronicle of love, hatred, and revenge at a time when the Vikings were...
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The Ghost Orchid
by Carol Goodman Publisher Comments In her enthralling novels of literary suspense, Carol Goodman writes stories that resonate with emotion set in lush landscapes that entice the senses. Now, with The Ghost Orchid, a narrative that seamlessly weaves together the past and the present...
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Rattled
by Debra Galant Publisher Comments Set in the fictional subdivision of Galapagoes Estates,” Rattled is a very funny look at what happens when soccer moms, animal rights activists, dishonest real estate developers and, of course, rattlesnakes get together and fight for...
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Strivers Row
by Kevin Baker Publisher Comments Summer, 1943. Harlem is a never-ending carnival. Soldiers and sailors, hustlers and glamour girls fill its streets, looking for excitement. Every night, dance halls like the Savoy Ballroom are filled with frenzied jitterbuggers, and the best jazz...
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She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana
by Haven Kimmel Publisher Comments The # 1 New York Times bestseller A Girl Named Zippy was a rare and welcome treat: a memoir of a happy childhood. Spunky, strong-willed, and too smart for her own good, Zippy Jarvis brought readers delight and joy. In She Got Up Off the Couch, Haven...
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Everything I'm Cracked Up to Be: A Rock & Roll Fairy Tale
by Jen Trynin Publisher Comments PRAISE FOR EVERYTHING I'M CRACKED UP TO BE "With humor and heart, Jen Trynin's Everything I'm Cracked Up to Be perfectly captures the utter surreality of the here-today-gone-tomorrow swirling vortex that is The Music Business, while also revealing the...
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Pursuit (Inspector Espinosa Mysteries)
by Luiz Alfredo Garcia-roza Publisher Comments When his daughter disappears and a patient emerges as the prime suspect, a troubled psychiatrist comes to Espinosa for help, in the fifth novel in the beguiling Brazilian crime series A hospital psychiatrist feels he’s...
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Whale Season
by N M Kelby Publisher Comments One Christmas Eve, Whale Harbor is visited by a man who thinks he’s Jesus and claims to be looking for a game of poker. But, as usual, things are not quite what they seem. Having some version of the Lord in town for his birthday creates a strange...
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