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June 2004 Book Sense Picks -- Additional Nominated Titles

40 Watts from Nowhere : A Journey into Pirate Radio
Sue Carpenter, 0743229886, Scibner, Hardcover, 2/17/04, $23.00

A Coyote's in the House
Elmore Leonard, 006054404X, HarperEntertainment, Hardcover, 6/1/04, $15.95

A Death in Vienna
Daniel Silva, 0399151435, Putnam, Hardcover, 2/1/04, $25.95

A Fine St. Patrick's Day
Susan Wojciechowski, Tom Curry (Illus.), 0375823867, Random House Books for Young Readers, Hardcover, 1/13/04, $14.95

A Good Year
Peter Mayle, 0375405917, Knopf, Hardcover, 6/4/04, $24.00

A Road Through the Mountains
ELIZABETH McGregor, 0553803581, Bantam, Hardcover, 4/27/04, $24.00

A Secret Life: The Polish Officer, His Covert Mission, and the Price He Paid to Save His Country
Benjamin Weiser, 1891620541, Public Affairs, Hardcover, 1/1/04, $27.50

A Sock Is a Pocket for Your Toes: A Pocket Book
Elizabeth Garton Scanlon, Robin Preiss Glasser (Il, 0060295260, HarperCollins, Board Book, 3/2/04, $15.99

A Song I Knew by Heart: A Novel
Bret Lott, 0375503773, Random House, Hardcover, 4/4/04, $24.95

A Year and a Day: A Novel
Leslie Pietrzyk, 0060554657, Morrow, Hardcover, 2/4/04, $23.95

Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror
Richard A. Clarke, 0743260244, Free Press, Hardcover, 3/22/04, $27.00

Ain't She Sweet?
Susan Elizabeth Phillips, 0066211247, William Morrow, Hardcover, 2/17/04, $24.95

American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush
Kevin Phillips, 0670032646, Viking, Hardcover, 1/1/04, $25.95

An Embarrassment of Mangoes : A Caribbean Interlude
Ann Vanderhoof, 0767914023, Broadway, Hardcover, 1/1/04, $24.95

Anno's Spain
Mitsumasa Anno, 0399242384, Philomel Books, Hardcover, 2/4/04, $17.99

Babylon Rising
Jason Culp, 0739307282, Random House Audio, Audio - Tape, 10/21/03, $39.95

Belly Laughs: The Naked Truth About Pregnancy and Childbirth
Jenny McCarthy, 073820949X, Da Capo, Hardcover, 3/1/04, $18.00

Bergdorf Blondes
Plum Sykes, 1401351964, Miramax Books, Hardcover, 4/4/04, $23.95

Bitter with Baggage Seeks Same: The Life and Times of Some Chickens
Sloane Tanen, Stefan Hagen (Photog.), 1582343764, Bloomsbury, Hardcover, 11/5/03, $14.95

Bleachy-Haired Honky Bitch: Tales from a Bad Neighborhood
Hollis Gillespie, 006056198X, Regan Books, Hardcover, 3/4/04, $23.95

Boy Who Looked Like Lincoln, The
Mike Reiss, David Catrow (Illus.), 0843102713, Price Stern Sloan, Hardcover, 12/3/03, $11.99

Can You Find It? Search and Discover More Than 150 Details in 19 Works of Art
Judith Cressy, 0810932792, Abrams, Hardcover, 11/1/02, $15.95

Celebrate Cricket: 30 Years of Stories and Art
Marianne Carus (Ed.), 0812626958, Cricket Books, Hardcover, 9/1/03, $24.95

Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History
Crile, George, 0871138549, Atlantic Monthly, Hardcover, 4/3/03, $26.00

Cosmo's Moon
Devin Scillian, Mark Braught (Illus.), 1585361232, Sleeping Bear Press, Hardcover, 7/3/03, $15.95

Crane Creek
David B. McKinney, 1414057369, 1stBooks Library, Hardcover, 2/1/04, $27.95

Dante's Cure: A Journey Out of Madness
Daniel Dorman, 1590511018, Other Press, Hardcover, 4/4/04, $25.00

Dead Lines
Greg Bear, 0345448375, Ballantine, Hardcover, 6/1/04, $24.95

Death in Midsummer: And Other Stories
Yukio Mishima, 0811201171, New Directions, Paperback, 2/1/88, $10.95

Divining Women [CONFIRM]
Kaye Gibbons, 0399151605, Putnam, Hardcover, 4/1/04, $24.95

Don't Move: A Novel
Margaret Mazzantini, 0385510748, Nan A. Talese, Hardcover, 5/24/04, $19.95

Donuthead
Sue Stauffacher, 0375824685, Knopf Books for Young Readers, Hardcover, 10/1/03, $15.95

Dr. Ernest Drake's Dragonology: The Complete Book of Dragons
Dr. Ernest Drake, Dugald A. Steer (Ed.), 0763623296, Candlewick Press, Hardcover, 11/1/03, $18.99

Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
Lynne Russ, 1592400876, Gotham, Hardcover, 4/12/04, $17.50

Eleven Minutes : A Novel
Paulo Coelho, 0060589272, HarperCollins, Hardcover, 3/30/04, $24.95

Eliza and the Dragonfly
Susie Caldwell Rinehart, Anisa Claire Hovemann (Il, 1584690593, Dawn Pubns, Paperback, 3/4/04, $8.95

Empress Orchid: A Novel
Anchee Min, 0618068872, Houghton Mifflin, Hardcover, 2/3/04, $24.00

Falling for Rapunzel
Leah Wilcox, Lydia Monks (Illus.), 0399237941, Putnam, Hardcover, 12/1/03, $14.99

Feed
M.T. Anderson, 0763622591, Candlewick, Paperback, 1/1/03, $7.99

Finding Billy: An Internet Odyssey
Diana Thompson Dale, 0974159638, Golden Slipper Pr, Paperback, 10/1/03, $16.95

Flags of Our Fathers
James Bradley, 055338029X, Bantam, Paperback, 10/1/01, $13.95

Fortress Malta: An Island Under Siege 1940-43
James Holland, 1401351867, Miramax, Hardcover, 10/1/03, $27.95

Forty Signs of Rain
Kim Stanley Robinson, 0553803115, Spectra, Hardcover, 6/1/04, $25.00

Full Dark House
Christopher Fowler, 0553803875, Bantam, Hardcover, 6/1/04, $24.00

Geronimo's Bones : A Memoir of My Brother and Me
NASDIJJ, 0345453913, Ballantine, Hardcover, 3/30/04, $24.95

Gobble, Gobble, Slip, Slop: A Tale of a Very Greedy Cat
by Meilo So, 0375825045, Knopf Books for Young Readers, Hardcover, 3/4/04, $15.95

God Clobbers Us All
Poe Ballantine, 0971691541, Hawthorne Books & Literary Arts, Paperback, 4/15/04, $15.95

Grady's in the Silo
Una Belle Townsend, Bob Artley (Illus.), 1589800982, Pelican Pub, Paperback, 2/1/03, $15.95

Guardians of Ga' Hoole: The Siege
Kathryn Lasky, 0439405602, Scholastic, Mass Market, 5/4/04, $4.99

Hank Aaron and the Home Run That Changed America
Tom Stanton, 0060579765, Morrow, Hardcover, 3/30/04, $23.95

Happy Days
Laurent Graff, 0786712821, Carroll & Graf, Paperback, 1/9/04, $11.00

HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE, Audio Cassett
Rowling, J. K., read by Jim Dale, 0807282588, Listening Library, Audio - Tape, 1/1/01, $39.00

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
J. K. Rowling, 0807220280, Random House Audio, Audio - Tape, 6/21/03, $45.00

Have You Heard
Anderson Ferrell, 1582341893, Bloomsbury, Hardcover, 4/4/04, $23.95

Hershey Bar Sandwich
Helga Lang Lauver Rule, 1589610644, PageFree Publishing, Hardcover, 1/2/21, $32.95

Hilda Must Be Dancing
Karma Wilson, Suzanne Watts (Illus.), 0689847882, Margaret K. McElderry, Hardcover, 3/1/04, $15.95

His Brother's Keeper : A Story from the Edge of Medicine
Jonathan Weiner, 006001007X, Ecco, Hardcover, 3/16/04, $26.95

Honey Don't: A Novel
Sandlin, Tim, 0399149988, Putnam, Hardcover, 5/3/03, $24.95

Hoot
Hiaasen, Carl, 0375921818, Knopf, Hardcover, 1/1/01, $17.00

Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns, 0739307401, Random House Audio, Audio - Tape, 7/1/03, $18.00

Hot and Sweaty Rex : A Dinosaur Mafia Mystery
ERIC GARCIA, 0375505237, Villard, Hardcover, 3/1/04, $24.95

How Many Kisses Do You Want Tonight
Varsha Bajaj, Ivan Bates (Illus.), 0316823813, Little Brown, Hardcover, 4/4/04, $15.95

How to Say It: Choice Words, Phrases, Sentences & Paragraphs for Every Situation
Rosalie Maggio, 0735202346, Prentice Hall Press, Paperback, 8/1/01, $16.00

I Was Howard Hughes : A Novel
Steven Carter, 1582343756, Bloomsbury, Paperback, 9/1/03, $14.95

I, Jack
Patricia Finney, Peter Bailey (Illus.), 0060522070, HarperCollins, Hardcover, 2/3/04, $15.99

If Kisses Were Colors
Janet Lawler, Alison Jay (Illus.), 0803726171, Dial, Hardcover, 3/3/03, $15.99

Inside The Third Reich
Albert Speer, 0684829495, S&S, Paperback, 4/1/97, $18.00

Just Like Josh Gibson
Angela Johnson, Beth Peck (Illus.), 0689826281, S&S Juvenile, Hardcover, 1/1/04, $15.95

Just One Look
Harlan Coben, 0525947914, Dutton, Hardcover, 4/1/04, $25.95

Knock, Knock! Who's There?: My First Book of Knock-Knock Jokes
Tad Hills, 0689834136, Little Simon, Hardcover, 6/1/00, $6.99

Lily Quench and the Dragon of Ashby
Natalie Jane Prior, Janine Dawson (Illus.), 0142400203, Puffin, Paperback, 2/4/04, $4.99

Liquor: A Novel
Poppy Brite, 1400050073, Three Rivers Press, Paperback, 3/16/04, $13.95

Little Quack's Hide and Seek
Lauren Thompson, Derek Anderson (Illus.), 0689857225, S&S Children's Publishing, Hardcover, 2/1/04, $14.95

Loud and Clear
Anna Quindlen, 1400061121, Random House, Hardcover, 4/6/04, $24.95

Love in the Driest Season : A Family Memoir
Neely Tucker, 0739310704, Random House Audio, Audio - Tape, 2/17/04, $25.95

Mary, Called Magdalene
Margaret George, 0142002798, Penguin, Paperback, 5/27/03, $16.00

Melodies Unheard: Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry
Anthony Hecht, 0801869560, Johns Hopkins Univ Press, Hardcover, 4/1/03, $24.95

Milkweed
Jerry Spinelli, 0375813748, Knopf, Hardcover, 9/3/03, $15.95

Mother, May I
Lynn Plourde, Amy Wummer (Illus.), 0525469885, Dutton, Hardcover, 3/4/04, $12.99

My Century
Aleksander Wat, 1590170652, New York Review of Books, Paperback, 11/9/03, $16.95

New Religions: A Guide: New Religious Movements, Sects and Alternative Spiritualities
Christopher Partridge, 0195220420, Oxford Press, Hardcover, 3/4/04, $40.00

Nine Minutes, Twenty Seconds: The Tragedy and Triu
Pomerantz, Gary, 0609606336, Crown, Hardcover, 1/1/01, $24.00

Object of Virtue: A Novel
Nicholas B.A. Nicholson, 0743257839, Touchstone, Paperback, 4/4/04, $14.00

On Paradise Drive : How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense
David Brooks, 0743227387, Simon & Schuster, Hardcover, 6/1/04, $25.00

One Leaf Rides the Wind: Counting in a Japanese Garden
Celeste Davidson Mannis, Susan Kathleen Hartung (I, 0670035254, Viking Childrens Books, Hardcover, 9/1/02, $15.99

P Is for Passport: A World Alphabet
Devin Scillian, 1585361577, Sleeping Bear Press, Hardcover, 9/1/03, $19.95

Peninsula of Lies : A True Story of Mysterious Birth and Taboo Love
Edward Ball, 0743235606, Simon & Schuster, Hardcover, 3/1/04, $24.00

Play Dead
Anne Frasier, 0451411374, Onyx Books, Mass Market, 6/4/04, $6.99

Port Mungo
PATRICK MCGRATH, 1400041651, Knopf, Hardcover, 6/1/04, $24.00

Praying At the Sweetwater Motel
April Young Fritz, 0786818646, Hyperion, Hardcover, 9/1/03, $15.99

Queen of Scots : The True Life of Mary Stuart
John Guy, 0618254110, Houghton, Hardcover, 4/1/04, $28.00

Quel cirque !
Benedicte Guettier, 2203113200, Casterman, Board Book, 8/22/02, $14.53

Ready, Set, Grow!: A What's Happening to My Body? Book for Younger Girls
Lynda Madaras, Linda Davick (Illus.), 1557045658, Newmarket, Paperback, 8/1/03, $12.00

Remember Me
Hendrie, Laurie, 0805062181, Holt, Hardcover, 1/1/01, $24.00

Remember Me : A Novel
Trezza Azzopardi, 0802117678, Grove, Hardcover, 3/1/04, $23.00

Ruining It for Everybody
Jim Knipel, 1585423378, Tarcher, Paperback, 5/1/04, $9.95

Sammy Keyes and the Art of Deception
Van Draanen, Wendelin, 0375811761, Knopf, Hardcover, 4/1/03, $15.95

Sea Clocks: The Story of Longitude
Louise Borden, Erik Blegvad (Illus.), 0689842163, Margaret K. McElderry, Hardcover, 2/1/04, $18.95

Seabiscuit: An American Legend
Laura Hillenbrand, 0375417141, Bantam Books-Audio, Audio - Tape, 3/6/01, $25.95

Search of the Moon King's Daughter
Linda Holeman, 0887765920, Tundra Books, Paperback, 9/2/03, $9.95

Selected Poems (20th Century Classics)
Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, 0140186174, Penguin, Paperback, 10/1/92, $14.00

Shifting Through Neutral
Bridgett M. Davis, 0060572493, Amistad Press, Hardcover, 5/1/04, $23.95

Shooting the Sun
Max Byrd, 0553802089, Bantam, Hardcover, 12/3/03, $23.95

Sleeping Beauty
Phillip Margolin, 0060083263, HarperCollins, Hardcover, 3/23/04, $25.95

Smoking Lovely
Willie Perdomo, 1892494612, Rattapallax Press, Paperback, 10/1/03, $12.00

Solace : Rituals of Loss and Desire
Mary Sojourner, 0743229681, Scribner, Hardcover, 3/1/04, $23.00

Someone Says
Carole Lexa Schaefer, Pierr Morgan (Illus.), 0670036641, Viking, Hardcover, 9/1/03, $15.99

Standing Against the Wind
Martha Lou Perritti, 1583200290, Lifestyles Press, Hardcover, 10/1/03, $0.00

Status Anxiety
ALAIN DE BOTTON, 0375420835, Pantheon, Hardcover, 5/25/04, $24.00

Sucker Bet
James Swain, 0739303716, Random House Audio, Audio - Tape, 4/1/03, $25.00

Sunset and Sawdust
Joe R. Lansdale, 0375414533, Knopf, Hardcover, 3/16/04, $22.00

Sweet Land Stories
E.L. DOCTOROW, 1400062047, Random House, Hardcover, 5/1/04, $24.95

Swollen
Melissa Lion, 0385746423, Wendy Lamb Books, Hardcover, 8/10/04, $15.95

Sylvia's Farm : The Journal of an Improbable Shepard
Sylvia Jorrin, 1582344019, Bloomsbury, Hardcover, 5/7/04, $23.95

Symptomatic
Danzy Senna, 1573222755, Riverhead, Hardcover, 5/4/04, $22.95

The Amulet of Samarkand: Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book 1
Jonathan Stroud, 0786852550, Disney Press, Paperback, 6/4/04, $7.99

The Anybodies
N. E. Bode, 0060557354, HarperCollins, Hardcover, 5/25/04, $15.99

The Art of Mending : A Novel
Elizabeth Berg, 1400061598, Random House, Hardcover, 4/1/04, $24.95

The Avengers
Rich Cohen, 0375705295, Vintage, Paperback, 10/1/01, $13.00

The Confession
Olen Steinhauer, 0312303289, Minotaur, Hardcover, 3/1/04, $24.95

The Cultural Guide to Jewish Europe
Jacques and Jacqueline Levy-Willard Foundation (Eds.), 2020612119, Editions Du Seuil, Paperback, 3/4/04, $35.00

The Doctor's Wife
Elizabeth Brundage, 0670033162, Viking, Hardcover, 6/21/04, $24.95

The Edmund Fitzgerald: The Song of the Bell
Kathy-Jo Wargin, Gijsbert Van Frankenhuyzen (Illus, 1585361267, Sleeping Bear Press, Hardcover, 9/3/03, $17.95

The Elves and the Shoemaker
The Brothers Grimm, Jim Lamarche (Illus.), 0811834778, Chronicle, Hardcover, 10/1/03, $16.95

The Errant Knight
Ann Tompert, Doug Keith (Illus.), 097019076X, Illumination Arts, Hardcover, 8/1/03, $15.95

The Fairy Godmother
Mercedes Lackey, 0373802021, Luna, Hardcover, 1/4/04, $24.95

The Five People You Meet In Heaven
Mitch Albom, 1401397514, Hyperion Audiobooks, Audio - Tape, 9/23/03, $25.95

The Garden
Elsie V. Aidinoff, 0060556056, HarperTempest, Hardcover, 4/4/04, $16.99

The Good Wife Strikes Back
Elizabeth Buchan, 0670032808, Viking, Hardcover, 1/1/04, $24.95

The Great Divide: The Rocky Mountains in the American Mind
Gary Ferguson, 0393050726, Norton, Hardcover, 6/1/04, $24.95

The Hollywood Dodo: A Novel
Geoff Nicholson, 0743257790, S&S, Hardcover, 6/2/04, $23.00

The Ideal Bride
Stephanie Laurens, 0060505737, Morrow, Hardcover, 3/4/04, $22.95

The Intelligencer : A Novel
Leslie Silbert, 0743432924, Atria, Hardcover, 2/1/04, $24.00

The Key to the Golden Firebird
Maureen Johnson, 0060541385, HarperCollins, Hardcover, 6/4/04, $15.99

The Last Chance Texaco
Brent Hartinger, 0060509120, HarperTempest, Hardcover, 2/17/04, $15.99

The Last Odd Day : A Novel
Lynne Hinton, 0060563389, Harper San Francisco, Hardcover, 6/1/04, $21.95

The Lives of Shadows: An Illustrated Novel
Barbara Hodgson, 0811839265, Chronicle, Hardcover, 4/4/04, $24.95

The Longest Night
Gregg Keizer, 0399151702, Putnam, Hardcover, 8/1/04, $24.95

The Maze
Panos Karnezis, 0374204802, FSG, Hardcover, 3/15/04, $24.00

The Namesake
Jhumpa Lahiri, 0739306952, Random House Audio, Audio - Tape, 9/16/03, $34.95

The Ocean Was Salt
Loretta Cobb, 1931982260, Livingston Press, Paperback, 3/4/04, $14.95

The Oracle Betrayed
Catherine Fisher, 0060571586, Greenwillow, Hardcover, 3/4/04, $17.89

The Poems of Marianne Moore
Grace Schulman (Ed.), 0670031984, Viking, Hardcover, 10/3/03, $40.00

The Priestly Sins : A Novel
Andrew M. Greeley, 076531052X, Forge, Hardcover, 4/1/04, $24.95

The Realm of Possibility
David Levithan, 0375828451, Knopf Books for Young Readers, Hardcover, 8/4/04, $15.95

The Return of the Solar Cat Book
Jim Augustyn, Hildy Paige Burns (Illus.), 0972994904, Chelsea Green, Paperback, 11/1/03, $14.95

The Shop On Blossom Street
Debbie Macomber, 0778320448, Mira Books, Hardcover, 5/1/04, $19.95

The Soul of Battle : From Ancient Times to the Present Day, How Three Great Liberators VanquishedTyranny
Victor Davis Hanson, 0385720599, Anchor, Paperback, 4/1/01, $16.00

The Speckled People: Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood
Hugo Hamilton, 0007149980, Fourth Estate, Hardcover, 4/29/03, $24.95

The Tears of the Salamander
Peter Dickinson, 0385730985, Wendy Lamb, Hardcover, 8/12/03, $16.95

The Upright Man
Michael Marshall, 0515136387, Jove Pubns, Mass Market, 3/4/04, $6.99

The War on Choice : The Right-Wing Attack on Women's Rights and How to Fight Back
GLORIA FELDT, 0553382926, Bantam, Paperback, 4/1/04, $12.00

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel
Haruki Murakami, 0679775439, Vintage, Paperback, 9/1/98, $15.00

The Woman I Kept to Myself: Poems
Julia Alvarez, 1565124065, Algonquin Books, Hardcover, 4/1/40, $18.95

There Are Jews in My House : Stories
Lara Vapnyar, 0375422501, Pantheon, Hardcover, 12/1/03, $17.95

Three Weeks With My Brother
Nicholas Sparks, Micah Sparks, 0446532444, Warner, Hardcover, 4/4/04, $22.00

Toot & Puddle: Charming Opal
Holly Hobbie, 0316366331, Little, Brown, Hardcover, 9/3/03, $15.95

Voyage to the End of the Room
Tibor Fischer, 158243297X, Counterpoint, Hardcover, 1/1/04, $23.00

Walter the Farting Dog
Kotzwinkle, William and Glenn Murray; illustrated, 1583940537, North Atlantic Books, Hardcover, 1/1/01, $15.00

Waterborne
Bruce Murkoff, 1400040388, Knopf, Hardcover, 2/1/04, $25.00

We Need to Talk About Kevin: A Novel
Lionel Shriver, 1582432678, Counterpoint, Hardcover, 4/1/03, $25.00

What Happened to Henry
Sharon Pywell, 0399151680, Putnam, Hardcover, 7/12/04, $19.95

What Happy People Know: How the New Science of Happiness Can Change Your Life for the Better
Dan Baker, Cameron Stauth, 0312321597, St. Martin's Griffin, Paperback, 1/19/04, $12.95

Where No Gods Came
Sheila O'Connor, 0472113658, Univ. of Michigan Pr., Hardcover, 10/3/03, $24.00

Wilco: Learning How to Die
Greg Kot, 0767915585, Broadway, Paperback, 6/15/04, $14.00

Windfalls : A Novel
Jean Hegland, 0743470079, Atria, Hardcover, 4/20/04, $25.00

Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and the Battl
Kladstrup, Don, 0767904478, Broadway, Hardcover, 1/1/01, $24.00

Wolf Tracks on the Welcome Mat
Paul Zarzyski, 1886312214, OreanaBooks, Hardcover, 10/1/04, $20.00

Wonderful Words: Poems About Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening
Lee Bennett Hopkins (Ed.), Karen Barbour (Illus.), 0689835884, S&S, Hardcover, 3/1/04, $16.95

You Are Here
Katharine Harmon, 1568984308, Princeton Architectural Press, Paperback, 11/1/03, $19.95

Young Naturalist's Handbook: Insect-lo-pedia
Matthew Reinhart, 0786805595, Hyperion, Hardcover, 11/1/03, $15.99


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