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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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Double Cross The True Story of the D Day Spies
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Ben Macintyre
Elaine
, November 10, 2017
I just finished reading this book for the second time, a very unusual case for me. I found it fascinating. It is the story of a very strange small group of people who worked as double agents during WWII as British Agents who pretended to be German spies. Through an elaborate plan, they managed to convince the Germans that the D-Day invasion would happen in the south east of France (Calais) and in Norway so that the Germans would focus their armies away from Normandy. According to this book, this small group of dedicated spies, organized by MI5, who were of several different nationalities (Spanish, French, Polish, Serbian and German) were responsible for the invasion of Normandy being a success, and a major turning point in the war against the Nazis. Their very courageous efforts were responsible for saving many lives. The book reads like a thriller. I found the profiles of the central characters fascinating. All were flawed individuals who nonetheless took great risks to defeat the Nazis. A really great read.
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Norah Gaughan's Knitted Cable Sourcebook: A Breakthrough Guide to Knitting with Cables and Designing Your Own
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Norah Gaughan
Elaine
, September 22, 2017
This is the knitted cable book to end all knitted cable books - end of the game! It is no surprise that Norah Gaughan, the creator of so many wonderful and creative cable knit designs would put together a wonderful cable dictionary, along with a number of interesting projects that incorporate them. One of the really innovative things about this book is that it not only shows the front of the cable, but also the back of the cable and describes ways of making designs reversible or almost reversible. She also highlights how minor changes in a design can have major impacts on how the design looks. Another feature that is new to me is her concept of the Stockinette Stitch Equivalent System (SSE) which provides a way of comparing the gauges of stockinette stitches and cables which can be very useful. For those people hooked on Craftsy classes, this is truly a master class on cabled knitting in book form, taught by the master. It is full of inspiration and immediately useful techniques. It needs to be on every serious knitter's bookshelf, especially since cables are so hot, hot, hot these days! The book is beautifully photographed by Jared Flood, himself a very talented knitwear designer and photographer. The only downside of the book that I've seen so far is the size of the text which is very small (at least for these aging eyes). Having a copier that can enlarge is really important for me.
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The Nightingale
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Kristin Hannah
Elaine
, April 26, 2017
I was born in New York City, right after the War. Growing up, everyone knew people who had fought, were refugees, or who had lost family in the war. I had friends born in Latin America whose parents were Eastern Europeans or Germans who had managed to get out at the run-up to, or early in the war. We had neighbors who had survived the London bombings and others who were concentration camp survivors. We learned about the French occupation and Resistance; about the Vichy government and collaborators; about the deprivations throughout Europe. In a sense, there was nothing new in this story. Nonetheless, The Nightingale was so well written, it brought into really sharp focus the impact on ordinary French families in a small village in ways I had not realized before. My parents in NY spoke occasionally of ration cards, of family and friends lost in the war, but, even for a non-affluent family like mine, they didn't go hungry, they had clothes and heat. Luxuries were out, but the basics were there. And so reading about the day to day struggles really tugged at my heart. The amazing heroics of Isabelle was interesting, but those were the sorts of stories one read about or saw in the movies. The grinding day-to-day struggles, and the way Vianne reached the point of quiet desperation that led her to kill a German soldier and help hide Jewish children was far more provocative: at what point does one stop keeping your head down and stand up and fight back? Truly a story for the ages.
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The Wright Brothers
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David McCullough
Elaine
, April 04, 2017
I frankly could not put this book down. I found it so inspiring to read about the Wright Brothers' amazing ingenuity and resilience, and how, in spite of their lack of a formal education and resources, they followed their dream until they succeeded. While I found it interesting how they were able to succeed IN SPITE OF education and resources, I cannot help but wonder how much more quickly they would have succeeded if they had had both. I am a great proponent of empowering people with education and think that we should be providing more resources for scientific and engineering research, not less as is currently being proposed.
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