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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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Vancouver Is A Garden
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Donna Mcclement
Catherine
, August 03, 2007
I originally bought this book at a used-books sale to cut up for my collages solely because I fell in love with Donna McClement's charming watercolours of local flowers and sketches of familiar landmarks/buildings in Vancouver. I'm so glad now that I read it through first. The words are simple, young children will have no difficulties reading this little volume . . . but they are a wonderful tribute to the many pretty places in Vancouver. One favourite of mine in particular is the pages that feature a sketch of the Vancouver Art Gallery. That was where my first crush/boyfriend took me on our 'first date'. I have very fond memories of that place, and this book has held that moment for me. I'm glad now that I didn't cut this book up. Highly recommended!
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Ready To Use Gibson Girl Illustrations
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Charles Dana Gibson
Catherine
, April 19, 2007
Romantically nostalgic illustrations . . . can be used for colouring projects, crafts, etc . . . Also, just a lovely 'picture book' to look at, the drawings are sure to transport you to another elegant time in the distant past.
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April Lady
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Georgette Heyer
Catherine
, April 19, 2007
Not sure which book the publisher's comment was referring to, but . . .. April Lady is a little domestic and social adventure set in Regency England. Nell Cardross, wife of Earl Cardross, is madly in love with him but feels that he married her because she comes of a good -- though impoverished -- family. Cardross is in love with her as well but because Nell secretly helps her brother pay his debts and tells him that she spends her money on expensive gowns and trinkets, he begins to think that she married him only for his fortune. Nell's mother very much complicates the matter by warning her daughter that this is only a marriage of convenience and so Nell keeps her husband at arm's length. Cardross's half-sister Letty and Nell's brother Dysart contribute admirably to the romantic confusion and the misunderstanding dances along for many months but in a wonderfully suspenseful way, there is a happy hard-earned ending.
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How the Scots Invented the Modern World The True Story of How Western Europes Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything in It
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Arthur Herman
Catherine
, October 30, 2006
The title may be a bit of an exaggeration, and some parts of the book fairly glow with unfounded praise, but on the whole, it was an enjoyable read. The author does a capital job of explaining how much of our modern ways of thinking, technology, engineering, architecture, etc . . . are either by and large an achievement of the Scots initially or greatly influenced by them. It was a truly thought-provoking book with ne'er a dull moment, which is always a wonderful thing to find in a non-fiction history book.
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Secret History Of The Pink Carnation
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Lauren Willig
Catherine
, October 16, 2006
Who could resist two tales told in one lengthy book? A Regency heroine looking for her one true love, and a modern day American girl writing a dissertation about flower-named spies looking for true love as well. If you think this book is just a fluffy romance, then you haven't read it. It's not all substance, but it's not all fluff either, and this book is most certainly not one of those boring tomes that you will snore over and your history professor will lecture about. This is the type of book that you will hide under your incriminatingly blank Analytic Geometry notebooks, and worth getting called to the principal's office for.
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Abundance A Novel Of Marie Antoinette
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Sena Jeter Naslund
Catherine
, October 16, 2006
I have always been very inquisitive about the life, times and people who had contact with Marie Antoinette and the great queen herself, this book answers all my questions --and even those I didn't know I had-- wonderfully. It adeptly narrates a very factual, breathless account of what Marie Antoinette really did and what truly happened to and around France's last queen. How can one fail to be fascinated by history when it is written so masterfully? This book is a rare gem, and a true classic-to-be.
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The Importance of Being Earnest
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Joan Greenwood
Catherine
, August 17, 2006
An uproarious and romantic story of mistaken identity set in Victorian times, this British film adaptation brings all the wit and brilliance of Oscar Wilde's timeless play to life on the screen. A real gem, and a movie that the whole family will enjoy.
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