2006 June
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Featured Titles in Book Sense Picks-2006 June:
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The Whistling Season
by Ivan Doig  Publisher Comments "Can't cook but doesn't bite." So begins the newspaper ad offering the services of an A-1 housekeeper, sound morals, exceptional disposition that draws the hungry attention of widower Oliver Milliron in the fall of 1909. And so begins the unforgettable...
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The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
by Amy Hempel 
Powells.com Staff Pick I read The Collected Stories in order, over the course of a single week. My long overdue introduction to Amy Hempel — it was a very good week, indeed. By the time I finished I'd penciled five names onto the back of the last page: friends who'll soon...
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The Secret River
by Kate Grenville Publisher Comments The Orange Prize-winning author Kate Grenville recalls her family's history in an astounding novel about the pioneers of New South Wales. Already a best seller in Australia, The Secret River is the story of Grenville's ancestors, who wrested a new life...
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Water for Elephants
by Sara Gruen Publisher Comments An atmospheric, gritty, and compelling novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932, by the bestselling author of Riding Lessons. When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a...
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Let Me Finish
by Roger Angell
Powells.com Staff Pick This wonderful collection of personal anecdotes by the New Yorker magazine writer and baseball chronicler comes together into a vivid portrait of a life well lived. Angell is witty and urbane. He deftly balances the deeply felt with a delightful, light...
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The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood
by Sy Montgomery
Powells.com Staff Pick Montgomery's charmingly funny and moving book portrays the indelible relationship that develops with a sick piglet she nurtures into a thriving 750-pound pig. This heartwarming and unforgettable tale about the extraordinary rapport between a human and an...
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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
by Alison Bechdel
Powells.com Staff Pick Alison Bechdel, creator of the Dykes to Watch Out For comic strip, uses the cartoon form to tell the story of her coming out and the discovery of her father's sexual orientation. The title refers to the funeral home where she grew up, and her parents...
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Widdershins
by Charles de Lint
Powells.com Staff Pick To say that Charles de Lint "returns to form" here would suggest that he left his form to begin with. Widdershins is top-notch de Lint, as fine an urban fantasy as he's ever written, and guaranteed to please his many die-hard fans... as well as earn him...
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The Whole World Over
by Julia Glass Publisher Comments From the author of the beloved novel Three Junes comes a rich and commanding story about the accidents, both grand and small, that determine our choices in love and marriage. Greenie Duquette, openhearted yet stubborn, devotes most of her passionate...
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Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee
by Charles J. Shields
Publisher Comments The colorful life of the remarkable woman who created To Kill a Mockingbird — the classic that became a touchstone for generations of Americans To Kill a Mockingbird, the twentieth-century's most widely read American novel, has sold thirty million...
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Love in the Present Tense
by Catherine Ryan Hyde Publisher Comments For five years Pearl has managed to keep the past from catching up to her and her bright, frail five-year-old son. Life has given her every reason to mistrust people, but circumstances force her to trust her neighbor Mitch with watching Leonard while she...
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The Pale Blue Eye: A Novel
by Louis Bayard Publisher Comments From the critically acclaimed author of Mr. Timothy comes an ingenious tale of murder and revenge, featuring a retired New York City detective and a young cadet named Edgar Allan Poe. At West Point Academy in 1830, the calm of an October evening is...
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Song of the Crow
by Layne Maheu Publisher Comments From the moment that he looks down on the ancient gray head of Noah, who is swinging his stone axe, the narrating crow in this unique and remarkable epic knows that these creators called Man are trouble. He senses, too, that the natural order of things...
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Crows Over the Wheatfield
by Adam Braver Publisher Comments Driving home at dusk, Claire Andrews, an art history professor at a prestigious New England university, accidentally strikes and kills a boy who darts into the path of her car. She is immediately cleared of blame but is nonetheless left psychologically...
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Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
by Nathaniel Philbrick Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea — winner of the National Book Award — the startling story of the Plymouth Colony. From the perilous ocean crossing to the shared bounty of the first Thanksgiving, the Pilgrim settlement...
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Back to Wando Passo
by David Payne Publisher Comments David Payne has been hailed as "the most gifted American novelist of his generation," (Boston Globe) and has been likened to "Pat Conroy or perhaps a Southern John Irving," (Winston-Salem Journal). Now, in his new novel, Payne introduces us to Ransom...
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The King of Lies
by John Hart Publisher Comments “A STRIKING NEW TALENT.” —ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY Jackson Workman Pickens—known to most as “Work”—mindlessly holds together his disintegrating life: a failing law practice left to him when his father...
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Stuart: A Life Backwards
by Alexander Masters Publisher Comments In this extraordinary book, Alexander Masters has created a moving portrait of a troubled man, an unlikely friendship, and a desperate world few ever see. A gripping who-done-it journey back in time, it begins with Masters meeting a drunken Stuart lying...
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The Haiku Apprentice: Memoirs of Writing Poetry in Japan
by Abigail Friedman Publisher Comments The problem came to a head one day as I was driving through Tokyo. While waiting for the light to change, I saw the following public service announcement on the side of a bus:Omoiyari hitonikurumani konomachini (Sympathy / toward people, toward cars...
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