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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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Those Who Save Us
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Jenna Blum
Cathy Agin
, April 16, 2008
An excellent novel about a woman dealing with her past, only to discover that she has been living with a misconception. It's a book about guilt and the ways we deal with it, and about coming to terms with who we really are.
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Light On Snow
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Anita Shreve
Cathy Agin
, August 01, 2007
I loved this book. It is about a girl coming to grips with the reality of her family and a father coming to grips with the cards reality has dealt him. The story sucks you right in and doesn't let you get away until the end. The characters are so well-drawn, you feel like inviting them to tea. Anita Shreve has mastered the art of transforming pain into a life-changing experience, one that lets you emerge triumphant every time.
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Book Of Salt
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Monique Truong
Cathy Agin
, August 01, 2007
This is a lush and sensuous book about being different. A Vietnamese cook named Binh comes to Paris in search of himself and ends up as the cook to Gertrude Stein and her companion Alice B. Toklas. The language is beautiful and the descriptions of food are more than mouth-watering-they are like a trail of words leading us to the main character's heart.
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Middlesex
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Jeffrey Eugenides
Cathy Agin
, July 28, 2007
Every once in a great while, a fictional character comes along that will stay with you and haunt you for the rest of your life. Eugenides has created just such a character in Cal. It isn't an easy read, but is a read that has the potential to change your life. This is what literature is all about!
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Girl In Hyacinth Blue
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Susan Vreeland
Cathy Agin
, March 17, 2007
Anyone who loves art will love this book. It begins with a painting, and uses the painting as a vehicle to move back through history, introducing us to the lives of all of the people touched by the painting. Vreeland takes art out of the museums and into the heart.
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Book Borrower
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Alice Mattison
Cathy Agin
, March 17, 2007
I really enjoyed this book. It is about the friendship between two women, but mostly it is about the effect friendship and books can have on our lives, and the unbelievable consequences of minute actions.
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Instance of the Fingerpost
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Iain Pears
Cathy Agin
, March 17, 2007
This is a fascinating novel for lovers of history and suspense. Pearson takes us into the world of 17th century England with such realsim that when you lift your head up from the book, you will be shocked to see that you are in the 21st century. An Oxford schoolar is murdered, and four people write about the events surrounding his death, each seeing the course of events from his own point of view. A servant girl, unusual for her intelligance, is accused of the murder, largely because of superstition about intelligant woman and class predjudice. But as the book progresses, it becomes clear that the story is much more complicated than at first believed. A long story, a long read, and worth every minute.
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Thirteenth Tale
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Diane Setterfield
Cathy Agin
, March 06, 2007
This is a fantastic story about a famous writer with a secret past and the biographer who is chosen to record that past. It is a great story in and of itself as well as a philosphical comment on the power of books to transform our lives. I couldn't put The Thirteenth Tale down.
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