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Every year, the booksellers at Powell’s submit their Top Fives: their five favorite books that were released in 2023. It’s a list that, when put together, shows just how varied and interesting the book tastes of Powell’s booksellers are. I highly recommend digging into the recommendations — we would never lead you astray — but today...
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Starter Pack: Where to Begin with Ursula K. Le Guin
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Fanny at Chez Panisse A Childs Restaurant Adventures with 46 Recipes
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Alice Waters
Wisco
, April 18, 2013
Fanny, the daughter of Alice Waters, is a girl who experiences a kitchen, a business, and a community from the inside out. In the beginning, Fanny safely surveys the kitchen activity from her place inside a huge pot sitting on the kitchen counter. As she grows, she learns how to help, how to cook, and how to get things done. There are recipes and role models. This is an excellent cookbook for people of all ages. It is lovely and luscious!
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40 Years of Chez Panisse: The Power of Gathering
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Waters, Alice
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, November 28, 2011
This is an astonishing record of how one woman's passion, creativity, and inspiration can give rise to a movement. It's an adventure story documented with menus, invitations, and candid pictures over decades and continents. Book-ended with Calvin Trillin's Foreward and Michael Pollan's Afterward, the story of Alice Waters and the people she gathered to create food and community is fascinating.
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Driftless
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David Rhodes
Wisco
, September 05, 2011
After two critically acclaimed books, a catastrophic motorcycle accident, and a twenty-five year interval of constant writing without publishing, David Rhodes makes a brilliant comeback with Driftless, a book about real characters in Words, a mythical town in rural Wisconsin. There's intrigue, danger, and death, along with wisdom, church socials, second chances, family, friendship, and community. These are interesting, complicated people I'd like to know.
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The Cardturner: A Novel about Imperfect Partners and Infinite Possibilities
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Louis Sachar
Wisco
, August 09, 2011
When I picked up The Cardturner because of Louis Sacher and Holes, I didn't expect to become involved in figuring out bridge hands, but that's what happened. I found myself thinking about trump, bidding, and complicated communications focused on bridge, the card game, as well as the human dynamics of playing favorites, bidding for attention, and communicating when there's a rich uncle involved. This book is a great introduction to the thinking game of contract bridge. It's also about how people maneuver. The Cardturner delivers on many levels.
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Nativity
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Julie Vivas
Wisco
, December 22, 2006
This is my favorite Christmas book. I have been buying copies for almost 20 years. I've lost count of how many I've given away. Mary wears house slippers, the Angel Gabriel wears work boots, and Joseph shoves a cumbersome Mary up onto the donkey. A baby emerges. Illustrations such as these, juxtaposed with the King James text, call up discussion and exploration among children and adults. I prefer the riskier cover of the early version, but I will gladly share this edition for years to come. This is a beautiful book that shocks and makes people think. Reading it aloud to a group of adults is generally astonishing.
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