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Featured Titles in Book Sense Picks - 2008 March
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World Made by Hand
by James Howard Kunstler
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In the best-seller The Long Emergency, James Howard Kunstler explored how the terminal decline of oil production had the potential to put industrial civilization out of business. With World Made By Hand Kunstler makes an imaginative leap into the future,... ( read more)
Your price: $24.00
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A Person of Interest
by Susan Choi
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From an acclaimed novelist, an emotionally complex and riveting story of suspicion, innocence, and regret.
When a mail bomb explodes in the campus office next door, Lee, an Asian American math professor at a second-tier university in the Midwest... ( read more)
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Your price: $10.98
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Mudbound: A Novel
by Hillary Jordan
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A gripping and exquisitely rendered story of forbidden love, betrayal, and murder, set against the brutality of the Jim Crow South. When Henry McAllan moves his city-bred wife, Laura, to a cotton farm in the Mississippi Delta in 1946, she finds herself... ( read more)
Your price: $22.95
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A Fraction of the Whole: A Novel
by Steve Toltz
Powells.com Staff Pick
A Fraction of the Whole is brilliant. Hysterically funny, yet profound. Themes of philosophy and literature, life and love, madness and creativity abound. I thoroughly enjoyed every page of Steve Toltz's debut novel. Perfectly absorbing with richly... ( read more)
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Dreamers of the Day
by Mary Doria Russell
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“I suppose I ought to warn you at the outset that my present circumstances are puzzling, even to me. Nevertheless, I am sure of this much: My little story has become your history. You won’t really understand your times until you understand... ( read more)
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The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus
by Joshua Kendall
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The extraordinary true story of Peter Mark Roget and his legendary Thesaurus, Peter Mark Roget — polymath, eccentric, synonym aficionado — was a complicated man. He was an eminent scholar who absorbed himself in his work, yet he also possessed... ( read more)
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Dog Man: An Uncommon Life on a Faraway Mountain
by Martha Sherrill
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How one man's consuming passion for dogs saved a legendary breed from extinction and led him to a difficult, more soulful way of life in the wilds of Japan's remote snow country As Dog Man opens, Martha Sherrill brings us to a world that Americans know... ( read more)
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We Disappear (P.S.)
by Scott Heim
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The body of a teenage boy is discovered in a Kansas field. The murder haunts Donna — a recent widow battling cancer — calling forth troubling details from long-suppressed memories of her past. Hoping to discover more about "disappeared" people,... ( read more)
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An Incomplete Revenge (Maisie Dobbs Mysteries)
by Jacqueline Winspear
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In her fifth outing, Maisie Dobbs, the extraordinary Psychologist and Investigator, delves into a strange series of crimes in a small rural community.
With the country in the grip of economic malaise, and worried about her business, Maisie Dobbs is... ( read more)
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An Irish Country Village
by Patrick Taylor
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Patrick Taylor first charmed readers with An Irish Country Doctor, a warm and enchanting novel in the tradition of James Herriot and Jan Karon. Now Taylor returns to the colorful Northern Ireland community of Ballybucklebo, where there’s always... ( read more)
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The Secret Adventures of Charlotte Bronte
by Laura Joh Rowland
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Upon learning that she has been falsely accused of plagiarism, the normally mild-mannered Charlotte Bront sets off for London to clear her name. Throughout her adventure, Charlotte lures readers into a fast-paced and vividly imagined romp through... ( read more)
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The Girl Who Stopped Swimming
by Joshilyn Jackson
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Laurel Gray Hawthorne needs to make things pretty, whether she's helping her mother make sure the literal family skeleton stays in the closet or turning scraps of fabric into nationally acclaimed art quilts. Her estranged sister Thalia, an impoverished... ( read more)
Your price: $23.99
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Friend of the Devil
by Peter Robinson
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Chief Inspector Alan Banks and Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot must work together to solve two chilling crimes in a stunning new novel by New York Times bestselling author Peter Robinson.
One morning in March, on the edge of a cliff overlooking the... ( read more)
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Resistance
by Owen Sheers
Powells.com Staff Pick
A great read that combines the plot of a thriller (Normandy invasion fails; Hitler successfully invades England) with the subtle language of poetry. You are propelled through this story by characters that make you care about a time that never was and a... ( read more)
Your price: $23.95
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Fear and Yoga in New Jersey
by Debra Galant
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In this follow-up to the critically acclaimed "Rattled," a stressed-out yoga teacher and her family sample a smorgasbord of spirituality in a comic search for meaning in their lives.... ( read more)
Your price: $23.95
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Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land
by Amy Irvine
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Trespass is the story of one woman's struggle to gain footing in inhospitable territory. A wilderness activist and apostate Mormon, Amy Irvine sought respite in the desert outback of southern Utah's red-rock country after her father's suicide, only to... ( read more)
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Curse of the Spellmans
by Lisa Lutz
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THEY'RE BAAAAACK.
Their first caper, The Spellman Files, was a New York Times bestseller and earned comparisons to the books of Carl Hiaasen and Janet Evanovich. Now the Spellmans, a highly functioning yet supremely dysfunctional family of private... ( read more)
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The Cure for Modern Life
by Lisa Tucker
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From Lisa Tucker, the critically acclaimed author of Once Upon a Day and The Song Reader, comes an extraordinary novel about the way we live now: the choices we make and the decisions we let life make for us. Matthew and Amelia were once in love and... ( read more)
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The Soul Thief: A Novel
by Charles Baxter
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Here is an extraordinary new novel from one of our most admired and acclaimed writers, a creator of stunning, never predictable, glimmering fiction, full of mischief and insight (Los Angeles Times). During Nathaniel Mason's first few months as a graduate... ( read more)
Your price: $20.00
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The Philosopher's Apprentice: A Novel
by James Morrow
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A brilliant philosopher with a talent for self-destruction, Mason Ambrose has torpedoed a promising academic career and now faces a dead-end future. Before joining the ranks of the unemployed, however, he's approached by a representative of billionaire... ( read more)
Your price: $25.95
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