2007 January
There are 19 books in this aisle.
Featured Titles in Book Sense Picks-2007 January:
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The Echo Maker: A Novel
by Richard Powers  
Powells.com Staff Pick The Echo Maker is the story of Mark Schluter, a 27-year-old man who has a mysterious accident in his hometown in Nebraska, the site of the magnificent Sandhill Crane migration along the river. When he comes to, he has developed Capgras syndrome, a...
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The Terror: A Novel
by Dan Simmons
Powells.com Staff Pick I've long been a fan of Dan Simmons's science fiction, and I'd enjoyed some of his horror novels as well. The Terror is, however, both an unusual new direction for Simmons and one of his most impressive works to date. In this historical novel based on...
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Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
by Rob Sheffield
Powells.com Staff Pick In this incredible work on music and soul mates, Sheffield shares his story of two loves with great humor and pathos. Love Is a Mix Tape is a moving tribute to a lost friend and the power of song. Recommended by Chandler, Powells.com...
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Sacred Games: A Novel
by Vikram Chandra
Powells.com Staff Pick "Sacred Games is a mammoth book. The size of it almost put me off, but once I started Chandra's third novel I was pulled in and entrenched. The characters reveal themselves slowly within a storyline that keeps turning corners and then backtracks often in...
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Against the Day: A Novel
by Thomas Pynchon
Powells.com Staff Pick Against the Day switches as smoothly from Tom Swift-style "boys adventure" to a Gothic prairie tale in the vein of Cormac McCarthy, as it does from reverence for historical figures and events to explosive iconoclasm. Its world is filled with dirigibles...
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Sliver of Truth
by Lisa Unger Publisher Comments The highly anticipated follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Beautiful Lies. Charged with relentless intensity and kinetic action, and playing out with unnerving suspense on the streets of New York and London, Sliver of Truth delves deep into the...
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Charity Girl
by Michael Lowenthal Publisher Comments Charity Girl examines one of the darkest periods in our history, when patriotic fervor and fear led to devastating consequences. During World War I, the U.S. government went on a moral and medical campaign, quarantining and incarcerating young women who...
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Returning to Earth
by Jim Harrison Publisher Comments Hailed by The New York Times Book Review as "a master...who makes the ordinary extraordinary, the unnamable unforgettable," beloved author Jim Harrison returns with a masterpiece — a tender, profound, and magnificent novel about life, death, and...
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The Saffron Kitchen
by Yasmin Crowther Publisher Comments A passionate and timely debut about mothers and daughters, roots and exile, from the streets of Iran to the suburbs of London In what is certain to be one of the most talked-about fiction debuts of the year, Yasmin Crowther paints a magnificent portrait...
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The Blade Itself
by Marcus Sakey Publisher Comments In this widely praised and explosive debut thriller, a young Chicago professional learns that the more he has, the more he has to lose. "Taut, involving, and memorable, Marcus Sakey is an authentic, original new voice in crime fiction."--George Pelecanos....
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Red River
by Lalita Tademy
Publisher Comments They are men whose lives began in slavery, who weathered the Civil War, and who grappled with the contradictions of emancipation through the turbulent years of Reconstruction. Portraying the lives of the families who dwell in The Bottom, a poor...
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Find Me
by Carol Oconnell Publisher Comments From one of the most acclaimed crime writers in America comes her most astonishing novel: a story of love, loss, death-and discovery. Over the course of eight novels, Carol O'Connell and her protagonist, New York detective Kathy Mallory, have carved out...
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Silent in the Grave
by Deanna Raybourn Publisher Comments These ominous words, slashed from the pages of a book of Psalms, are the last threat that the darling of London society, Sir Edward Grey, receives from his killer. Before he can show them to Nicholas Brisbane, the private inquiry agent he has retained...
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Killing Johnny Fry: A Sexistential Novel
by Walter Mosley Publisher Comments This bold new novel from Walter Mosley startles in both its rawness and its honest portrayal of a man on a quest for sexual redemption in midlife. When Cordell Carmel catches his longtime girlfriend with another man, the act that he witnesses seems...
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The Black Sun
by James Twining Publisher Comments It is a secret that has been hidden for more than a half century....The clues have been scattered across the globe. Now someone has begun to piece them together — and the future of the world depends on his being stopped in time. In Maryland, a...
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Kockroach
by Tyler Knox Publisher Comments In Kockroach, a wholly original work of literary noir, Tyler Knox brilliantly turns Kafka's The Metamorphosis on its head. It is the mid-1950s, and in a fleabag hotel off Times Square, Kockroach, perfectly content with life as an insect, awakens to...
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Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality
by Pauline W Chen Publisher Comments From her first dissection of a cadaver to the first time she pronounced a patient dead, Chen combines personal experience with clinical expertise in this riveting, deeply nuanced critique of the medical profession....
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The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai
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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The Teahouse Fire
by Ellis Avery
Publisher Comments A sweeping debut novel drawn from a history shrouded in secrets about two women — one American, one Japanese — whose fates become entwined in the rapidly changing world of late-nineteenth-century Japan. When nine-year-old Aurelia Bernard...
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