Sundance Customer Picks

Read any good books lately? Tell us about one of your favorites in 30 words or less. If selected, your recommendation will be featured here in the “Customer Picks” section of the Sundance Books and Music website, posted on our Facebook page, and your 30 word description will be written out on a “shelf talker” to highlight your book in the Sundance stacks. 

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River of Smoke (Hardcover)

$28.00
ISBN-13: 9780374174231
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 9/2011
"This is the second novel in a trilogy, the first being "Sea of Poppies." These novels are set in India during the British rule and are the story of destitute Indian people who were sold as labor to work on plantations in colonies such as Mauritius. Amitav Ghosh has an extraordinary talent that brings characters and places to life in a lyrical, almost poetic style. The whole story is set among events that truly did happen. I especially like the way the language of the main characters morphs, the British speaking a mixture of English and broken Hindi and the illiterate peasants' speech being peppered with mangled french words."

Recommended by Neena Taskar

$22.50
ISBN-13: 9781592406593
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Gotham, 10/2011
"A compendium of social research exploring the myriad of ways we delude ourselves into thinking we are better at making rational decisions than we really are. Excellent writing with thought provoking ideas!" Recommended by Gary Walker

$17.95
ISBN-13: 9781400031870
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Vintage, 5/2010
"This remarkable book conjoins science and the humanities at a time when science was fluid and evolving. Men and women of science and letters were friends, collaborators, and correspondents. Holmes gives the reader Joseph Banks, Captain Cook's botanist, astronomers William and Caroline Herschel; chemist Humphrey Davy, Mungo Parks in Africa, and much more." Recomemended by Patricia Cooper-Smith

Zero History (Hardcover)

$26.95
ISBN-13: 9780399156823
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Putnam Adult, 9/2010
"Protagonist Hollis Henry (see Gibson's Spook Country) once again finds herself in the nominal employ of Machiavellian fixer Hubertus Bigend. Great read." Recommended by Alan McKay