2006 May
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Featured Titles in Book Sense Picks-2006 May:
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Suite Francaise: A Novel
by Irene Nemirovsky  
Publisher Comments By the early l940s, when Ukranian-born Irène Némirovsky began working on what would become Suite Française — the first two parts of a planned five-part novel — she was already a highly successful writer living in Paris. But she was also a...
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Queen of the Oddballs: And Other True Stories from a Life Unaccording to Plan
by Hillary Carlip Publisher Comments A hilariously offbeat memoir about an adventurous young woman's escapades as she defies conventions and transforms an ordinary Los Angeles life into a star-studded, extraordinary miracle of self-discovery. Queen of the Oddballs forms a chronology of...
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The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
by Ann Fessler Publisher Comments A powerful and groundbreaking revelation of the secret history of the 1.5 million women who surrendered children for adoption in the several decades before Roe v. Wade. In this deeply moving work, Ann Fessler brings to light the lives of hundreds of...
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The Girls
by Lori Lansens Publisher Comments Meet Rose and Ruby: sisters, best friends, confidantes, and conjoined twins. Since their birth, Rose and Ruby Darlen have been known simply as "the girls." They make friends, fall in love, have jobs, love their parents, and follow their dreams. But the...
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Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam
by Mark Bowden
Publisher Comments From the best-selling author of Black Hawk Down comes a riveting, definitive chronicle of the Iran hostage crisis, America's first battle with militant Islam. On November 4, 1979, a group of radical Islamist students, inspired by the revolutionary...
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The Stolen Child: A Novel
by Keith Donohue Publisher Comments Inspired by the W.B. Yeats poem that tempts a child from home to the waters and the wild, The Stolen Child is a modern fairy tale narrated by the child Henry Day and his double. On a summer night, Henry Day runs away from home and hides in a hollow...
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Black Swan Green: A Novel
by David Mitchell
Powells.com Staff Pick A single year in the life of thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor is the focus of David Mitchell's incandescent new novel. The pedestrian village of Black Swan Green appears terribly ordinary for Jason, but the striking cast of characters he lives amongst, as...
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A Death in Belmont
by Sebastian Junger
Powells.com Staff Pick An absorbing crime story about the Boston stranglings, Junger's exceptional narrative re-examines the killings of the early '60s, with a focus on one murder not associated with Albert DeSalvo, the convicted serial killer. A disturbing story on many...
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Savannah Breeze
by Mary Kay Andrews Publisher Comments Southern belle BeBe Loudermilk has lost all her worldly possessions, thanks to a brief but disastrous relationship with the gorgeous Reddy, an "investment counselor" who turns out to be a con man. All that's left is a ramshackle 1950s motel on Tybee...
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The Traveling Death and Resurrection Show:
by Ariel Gore Publisher Comments Orphaned at age four and raised by her black-clad, rosary-mumbling, preoccupied grandmother, Frankka discovered the ability to perform the stigmata as a way to attract her grandmother's attention. Now twenty-eight, Frankka's still using this...
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Gatsby's Girl
by Caroline Preston Publisher Comments 'Just as Jay Gatsby was haunted by Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fizgerald was haunted by his own great first love — a Chicago socialite named Ginevra. Alluring, capricious, and ultimately unavailable, she would become his first muse,...
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A Season of Fire & Ice
by Lloyd Zimpel Publisher Comments From the heartlands of the 1880s Upper Midwest comes a morality tale of survival and destiny....
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Hooked: Pirates, Poaching, and the Perfect Fish
by G Bruce Knecht
Publisher Comments This modern pirate yarn has all the makings of a great true adventure tale and is also an exploration of the ways our culinary tastes have all manner of unintended consequences for the world around us. Hooked is a story about the poaching of the...
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Malinche
by Laura Esquivel Publisher Comments When Malinalli, a member of the tribe conquered by the Aztec warriors, first meets Cortes, she — like many — believes that he is the reincarnated forefather god of her tribe. Naturally, she assumes that her task is to help Cortes destroy the...
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The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets
by Eva Rice Publisher Comments Eva Rice, daughter of the famed lyricist Tim Rice, has written a captivating and wonderfully stylized novel about a group of friends in postwar Londons glamorous and daring young society. With mannered prose dripping in the charm of 1950s London, TheLost...
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Two for the Road: Our Love Affair with American Food
by Jane Stern Publisher Comments Road trip! In this rollicking memoir, Jane and Michael Stern tell what it's like to eat everywhere across the U.S.A. Driving more than three million miles, eating twelve meals a day, they discover not only the pleasure of biscuits and gravy and cherry...
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Once Upon a Day
by Lisa Tucker Publisher Comments From Lisa Tucker, the critically acclaimed author of The Song Reader, comes a wise, humorous, and deeply compassionate novel about the risks and rewards of loving when a single day can change our lives. Nineteen years ago, a famous man disappeared from...
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Bed Rest
by Sarah Bilston Publisher Comments In a charming and witty novel in the tradition of Allison Pearson and Sophie Kinsella, Sarah Bilston tells the story of a busy career woman who finds her pregnancy a breeze -- until she's ordered off her feet for complete and total bed rest. Quinn "Q...
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Beautiful Lies: A Novel
by Lisa Unger Publisher Comments If Ridley Jones had slept ten minutes later or had taken the subway instead of waiting for a cab, she would still be living the beautiful lie she used to call her life. She would still be the privileged daughter of a doting father and a loving mother...
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