2006 January
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Featured Titles in Book Sense Picks-2006 January:
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Kafka on the Shore (05 Edition)
by Haruki Murakami  
Powells.com Staff Pick In Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami brings the Oedipus legend to contemporary Japan. The reader is treated to his musings on art, culture, the loss of innocence and...cats, in his patented, magic-realist way. Easily his best novel translated into...
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
by Timothy Egan
Powells.com Staff Pick A fresh, stirring look at the Dust Bowl and Depression, Timothy Egan follows the personal dramas of a handful of families, allowing their voices to reveal the environmental and human tragedies that rocked the nation. Grippingly detailed, this exciting...
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The House of Paper
by Carlos Ma Dominguez Publisher Comments Bluma Lennon, distinguished professor of Latin American literature at Cambridge, is hit by a car while crossing the street, immersed in a volume of Emily Dickinson's poems. Several months after her untimely demise, a package arrives for her from...
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Colony : Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai (06 Edition)
by John Tayman
Powells.com Staff Pick A fascinating work of history about a cruel response to a misunderstood disease, The Colony vividly recounts the saga of the leprosy colony on Molokai and the community once forcibly interred there. Tayman crafts a gripping, and at times horrifying...
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Arthur and George: A Novel
by Julian Barnes
Powells.com Staff Pick Can I already announce the best book of 2006 in January? If so, here it is! With his customary elegant prose and intricate and wry observational skill, Julian Barnes narrates the true story of the relationship between Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and George...
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The Thinker's Thesaurus: Sophisticated Alternatives to Common Words
by Peter Meltzer Publisher Comments Writers looking for more than elementary synonyms found in a standard thesaurus will find exceptional and thoughtful alternatives in this advanced thesaurus. Neither weird nor arcane, each listed synonym is carefully chosen, defined by a "clarifier," and...
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Leonardo's Swans
by Karen Essex Publisher Comments Isabella d’Este, daughter of the Duke of Ferrara, born into privilege and the political and artistic turbulence of Renaissance Italy, is a stunning black-eyed blonde and a precocious lover and collector of art. Worldly and ambitious, she has never...
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The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor--And Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car!
by Tim Harford Publisher Comments An economist's version of The Way Things Work, this engaging volume is part field guide to economics and part expose of the economic principles lurking behind daily events, explaining everything from traffic jams to high coffee prices. The Undercover...
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The Accidental: A Novel
by Ali Smith
Powells.com Staff Pick The Accidental, Ali Smith's dazzling new novel, explores the modern family in all its chaos, darkness, and love, using some of the most inventive prose seen in recent years. Smith's story is bewitching, her characters empathetic, and her craft...
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The Brooklyn Follies: A Novel
by Paul Auster
Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of Oracle Night and The Book of Illusions, an exhilarating, whirlwind tale of one man’s accidental redemption Nathan Glass has come to Brooklyn to die. Divorced, estranged from his only daughter,...
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The Life All around Me by Ellen Foster
by Kaye Gibbons
Powells.com Staff Pick In 1987, Kaye Gibbons published Ellen Foster, the remarkable story of an orphan who struggles to claim her own identity in a violent and chaotic world. The sequel — The Life All around Me by Ellen Foster — has been worth the wait. In her new...
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The People's Act of Love
by James Meek
Publisher Comments In the outer reaches of a country recently torn apart by civil war lives a small Christian sect and its enigmatic leader, Balashov. Anna Petrovna, a beautiful, restless photographer, is raising her young son by herself amid this brutal landscape...
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A Little History of the World
by E H Gombrich Publisher Comments In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the 26-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited by a publishing acquaintance to attempt a history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly, he completed the task in an intense six weeks...
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The Masque of the Black Tulip
by Lauren Willig Publisher Comments The author of The Secret History of the Pink Carnation continues the romantic adventures of Englands greatest spy with a newly arrived adversary from France, the murderous Black Tulip The Pink Carnation, historys most elusive spy and Englands only hope...
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Blindfold Game
by Dana Stabenow Publisher Comments Praise for Dana Stabenow “A cleverly executed thriller with an intriguing protagonist.” ---The San Diego Union-Tribune on A Taint in the Blood “Stabenow is a fine storyteller, but it is her passion for the Alaskan landscape...
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Gentlemen and Players: A Novel
by Joanne Harris
Powells.com Staff Pick A surprisingly dark and canny thriller from the multifaceted author of Chocolat. With a touch of Donna Tart and a pinch of Ruth Rendell, Harris unspools a tale of class and retribution in an archaic English boarding school. Perfect thrills for the...
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Life's Little Annoyances: True Tales of People Who Just Can't Take It Anymore
by Ian Urbina Publisher Comments What can you do when the world is pushing you over the edge? More than you think. For some of us, it’s the automated voice that answers the phone when we’d rather talk to a real person. For others, it’s the fact that Starbucks insists...
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The World to Come: A Novel
by Dara Horn
Powells.com Staff Pick This novel is as glittering and dreamy as the paintings of Chagall themselves. Inspired by the real-life theft of a Chagall painting, Dara Horn spins a dazzling story encompassing Russian history, Yiddish lore, art forgery and scripture into a...
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Mademoiselle Benoir
by Christine Conrad Publisher Comments Tim Reinhart enters a wondrous new world the moment he buys a farmhouse in the country of France, region of Quercy, department of Lot. Or, in his marvelous words, "From the moment I saw this property, I had a bead on it. I can't completely...
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