Announcing March 2006 Featured Titles

Every month, we sift through new arrivals, advance copies, book reviews, and most importantly, staff recommendations to create a list of Featured Titles. These titles (usually about 30) are 20% off for the entire month. In addition, we add 30 or 40 more Booksense selections--recommendations from independent booksellers nationwide.

The list changes every month, giving you a variety and depth of discounted titles beyond the bestsellers.

Here are a few highlights from the March 2006 Featured Titles...

Fiction & Mystery

Afterlands, by Steven Heighton, Houghton Mifflin, $25.00 on sale at $20.00.
If you drop by Full Circle, ask Roxanne why you must read this book. Based on one of the most remarkable events in polar exploration, Afterlands is the story of a small society of castaways--including a white and a black American, five Germans, and two Inuit families--trying to survive a six-month winter ordeal after the Arctic explorer USS Polaris was cast adrift off the coast of Greenland in 1871.

Other Featured Fiction: National Book Award Winner Europe Central, by William Vollman, now in paperback; The World to Come by Dara Horn, Dope by Sara Gran, and Tent by Margaret Atwood.

Death in the Garden, by Elizabeth Ironside, Felony & Mayhem, paperback, $14.95 on sale at $11.96.
Causing a stir among mystery lovers at Full Circle, Death in the Garden is what the Washington Post calls "the real deal: a mystery that resurrects the upper-crust of England between the wars." This is the first novel by Ironside to be published in the United States. (It was published in Great Britain in 1995 and was short-listed that year for the Golden Dagger Award, England's equivalent of the Edgar.)

More Mysteries: Old Wine Shades: A Richard Jury Mystery by Martha Grimes, Capitol Murder by William Bernhardt, and Malpractice in Maggody by Joan Hess.

On Domesticity

Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety, by Judith Warner, Riverhead, paperback, $15.00 on sale at $12.00.
Judith Warner examines the frenzied world of American mothers. The pressure to have the perfect child. The panic as each developmental benchmark approaches. She shares her own story as she takes a hard look at the world of modern motherhood.


VoiceMale: What Husbands Really Think About Their Marriages, Their Wives, Sex, Housework, and Commitment, by Neil Chethik, Simon & Schuster, $23.00 on sale at $18.40.
To balance the scales, we offer a rare look at the world of America's husbands. Chethik challenges modern stereotypes and gets to the truth of what men think of the myriad of issues that married couples face: commitment, money, careers, children, in-laws, and more.



We Still Believe (in Memoirs)

Despite the James Frey debacle, we still believe in this ever-expanding (in theme and volume) genre. We've included several of our current favorites this month.

Mr. China, by Tim Clissold, paperback, Collins, $14.95 on sale at $11.96.
Mr. China tells the story of a young man who goes to China with the misguided notion that he will help bring the Chinese into the modern world, only to be schooled by the most resourceful and creative operators he would ever meet.

More Memoirs: The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, Money by Liz Perle, Strong West Wind by Gail Caldwell, She Got Up Off the Couch by Haven Kimmel.


Notable Children's and YoungAdult Titles

Caldecott Medal Winner: Hello, Goodbye Window, by Norton Juster, illustrated by Chris Raschka, Michael Di Capua Books, $15.95 on sale at $12.76.
In this sunny portrait of familial love (from the author of The Phantom Tollbooth), a little girl tells us about her everyday experiences visiting her grandparents' house. Raschka's award-winning style resembles the spontaneous drawings of children, perfectly mirroring the guileless young narrator's exuberant voice.




Newbery Medal Winner: Criss Cross, by Lynne R. Perkins, Greenwillow, $16.99 on sale at $13.59.
Lynne R. Perkins uses poems, prose, haiku, and question-and-answer formats to tell this gentle story about a group of childhood friends facing the crossroads of life and how they wish to live it. Set in the 1970s, Criss Cross is a book both young teens and adults will enjoy.




The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, by Kate DiCamillo, illustrated by Bagram Ibatoalline, Candlewick, $18.99 on sale at $15.19.
Kate DiCamillo won the Newbery Medal last year with The Tale of Despereaux and there is at least one reader who thinks she has another chance with this newest title about a little china rabbit named Edward who literally falls into the ocean while on an ocean voyage with his cherished family and so begins Edward's "miraculous journey."





Elsewhere, by Gabrielle Zevin, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $16.00 on sale at $12.80.
Elsewhere is where fifteen-year-old Liz Hall ends up, after she has died. It is a place so like Earth, yet completely different. Here Liz will age backward from the day of her death until she becomes a baby again and returns to Earth. Morgan promises this is a great read that transcends religious views.





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