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June 01
Selected by Eva from Richmond, Virginia
Eva won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
Lucky Man
by Michael J. Fox
"Sounds like a depressing read, right? Not so. Through it all, Fox maintains his sly sense of humor....At times, therapyspeak threatens to overtake Lucky Man....But Fox, who penned the book alone, has a savvy, smart-alecky voice of his own." Bruce Fretts, Entertainment Weekly (read more)
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Used - Hardcover
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June 02
Selected by Paulette from Durand, Michigan
Cloudsplitter
by Russell Banks
"Russell Banks's work presents without falsehood and with a tough affection the uncompromising moral voice of our time. You find the craziness of false dreams, the political inequalities, and somehow the sliver of redemption. I trust his portrait of America more than any other — the burden of it, the need for it, the hell of it." Michael Ondaatje (read more)
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Used - Trade Paper
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June 03
Selected by John from Yokohama, Japan
John won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $40.
McLibel: Burger Culture on Trial
by John Vidal
John's comments:
"McLibel casts a dark shadow over what has become the typical meal for many Americans, while still offering a ray of hope for the future by demonstrating what ordinary people can do against seemingly insurmountable odds. David beats Goliath once again. This book should be read as a combo with Fast Food Nation." (read more)
Your price $22.25
New - Hardcover
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June 04
Selected by Aparna from Chevy Chase, Maryland
Aparna won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
Desirable Daughters Signed 1st Edition
by Bharati Mukherjee
Aparna's comments:
"This story of three sisters from India, told from the viewpoint of the youngest, jumps from Calcutta to Bombay to New Jersey to Silicon Valley. Mukherjee is an expert at conveying the Indian-American immigrant experience from a woman's point of view." (read more)
Your price $9.50
Used - Hardcover
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June 05
Selected by Julie from Joliet, Illinois
Julie won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
June 06
Selected by Jennifer from Ottawa, Canada
Jennifer won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
American Gods
by Neil Gaiman
Jennifer's comments:
"Gaiman's brilliance as a storyteller shines through every dark corner of this intense, action-packed, and extraordinarily innovative novel. The premise alone got me hooked, but the story itself completely blew me away. The tension between the mythical and the modern, the Old World and the New, provides a thought-provoking basis for a close examination of religion and tradition, and the place they have in the modern world." (read more)
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June 07
Selected by Annika from Atlanta, Georgia
Annika won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
June 08
Selected by Helen from New York, New York
Helen won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
A Child's Book of True Crime
by Chloe Hooper
"Hooper's sentences are bold and truthful and cut to the heart....But it is the book's shifting structure and playful tone ? darting between innocent and knowing, sexy and unsettling ? that truly astonish....[H]er debut novel...is both delicate and deadly sharp....A Child's Book of True Crime has [a] capacity to enchant and disturb." Michael Fitzgerald, Time (read more)
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Used - Hardcover
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June 09
Selected by Thomas from Lake Oswego, Oregon
Thomas won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
The Tsar's Last Armada: The Epic Voyage to the Battle of Tsushima
by Constanti Pleshakov
Thomas's comments:
"The Tsar's Last Armada reads like a very well written historical novel, while also detailing from the Russian and European perspective one of the largest and most significant naval battles of the 20th century. Using source material from the Russian naval and military history archives rarely available to researchers, Pleshakov not only documents the history, leaders, equipment, and tactics of the Tsarist navy, but also provides a rich and intriguing historical and social context for his valuable history." (read more)
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Used - Hardcover
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June 10
Selected by Myra from Davis, California
Insect Dreams: The Half Life of Gregor Samsa
"Halfway through, after learning about everything from X-rays to risk management, I began to wonder, Is there anything Estrin doesn't know? It's only a matter of time before this new cult classic inspires a companion collection of footnotes and commentary....Indeed, if Insect Dreams weren't so perpetually funny, its philosophical ruminations and its encyclopedia of cameo appearances would be downright intimidating. In the most natural ways, Estrin manages to insinuate Gregor into the major developments of the first half of the 20th century. (Roaches can fit into the tiniest places, you know.)" Ron Charles, The Christian Science Monitor (read more)
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June 11
Selected by Ginny from Arlington, Virginia
Ginny won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $40.
June 12
Selected by Dee from Ft. Myers, Florida
Dee won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
Back When We Were Grownups (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
by Anne Tyler
Dee's comments:
"I am not familiar with the city of Baltimore, where this story takes place, nor am I 53 yet, as is Rebecca Davitch, the main character. But I am familiar with waking up in my mid forties and wondering how I got here. How did my life become this unrecognizable charade? What happened to all the dreams I had while growing up? Who am I and how did I get to be this way? Some years after her husband dies Davitch tries to rekindle an old college romance. The poignancy with which this is described gives a whole new meaning to the phrase, You can never go back." (read more)
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Used - Trade Paper
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June 13
Selected by Jeremy from Cheyenne, Wyoming
No Heroes: A Memoir of Coming Home
by Chris Offutt
Jeremy's comments:
"I thoroughly enjoyed Chris Offutt's first memoir, The Same River Twice, so I picked this one up as well. If anything, it's better: sad, entertaining, and very thoughtful about universal themes. A fine addition to the wonderful body of southern literature." (read more)
Your price $9.95
Used - Hardcover
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June 14
Selected by John from Arlington, Virginia
John won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $40.
An Instance of the Fingerpost
by Iain Pears
John's comments:
"This dazzling historical mystery set in London during the Restoration is told from four perspectives, all unreliable and conflicting. It also has a great ending. If you didn't read it when it was published in 1998, read it today." (read more)
Your price $6.50
Used - Trade Paper
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June 15
Selected by Jenna from San Antonio, Texas
Jenna won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
After Long Silence
by Helen Fremont
"A story of safe but costly passage from one identity to another that takes us from Europe to America via World War II....[Fremont] has the intelligence and imagination to question her own motives. This allows her to question the memoir form, even as she deploys it so beautifully." The New York Times (read more)
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Used - Trade Paper
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June 16
Selected by Jan from Shoreline, Washington
Jan won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
The Passion of Artemisia
by Susan Vreeland
"The Passion of Artemisia is both an entertaining and thought-provoking portrait of this admirable pioneering spirit. Susan Vreeland has a natural sympathy for her subject and is adept at portraying human bonds strained by artistic demands. The novel sparkles without being shallow, portrays shadows without being melancholy, and gives us a privileged glimpse into an extraordinary woman's soul." Margartet George (read more)
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June 17
Selected by Paul from New York, New York
Paul won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
June 18
Selected by Mary from Washington, DC
Mary won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
A Widow for One Year
by John Irving
Mary's comments:
"What would happen if a teenage boy had his first love affair with a devastatingly lovely older woman, then fell for her daughter in later life? Somehow, both relationships make sense. What a good book. Humor and sadness make this one of those books you pass on to friends." (read more)
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Used - Mass Market
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June 19
Selected by Miss Gretchen from Somewhere, Virginia
Miss Gretchen won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth
by Kim Cooper
"Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth sticks to your heart and not to your shoe. The talented writers are clever without a touch of meanness, when the head of their subjects float to the clouds they remember to push the down button on the elevator. This is a wise, witty, and important book. Read it, or else!" Rod McKuen (read more)
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Used - Trade Paper
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June 20
Selected by Tracey from Burlington, Canada
Tracey won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
The Red Tent
by Anita Diamant
Tracey's Comments:
"The Red Tent is a fictitious account of Dinah, the daughter of Jacob in the Bible. Ms. Diamant has woven an incredible story, complete with female characters who make you feel warm about the relationships between women from one generation to the next." (read more)
Your price $5.95
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June 21
Selected by Rebecca from Chicago, Illinois
Rebecca won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
June 22
Selected by Teddy from Sherman Oaks, California
Teddy won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
A Wild Sheep Chase
by Haruki Murakami
"Marvelously engaging, at turns witty, dry, wicked, even loopy. Reading A Wild Sheep Chase is like spending a splendidly foul weekend with the Four Raymonds — Chandler, Carver, Massey, and Queneau." Frederick Barthelme (read more)
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June 23
Selected by Barbara from Celina, United States
Barbara won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
Ice Bound
by Jerri Nielsen
Barbara's Comments:
"Besides being the semiautobiography of a very courageous woman, Ice Bound is an absolutely spellbinding account of living at the South Pole for one year. The isolation and deprivation are incredible, the changes in the psyches of the various inhabitants are fascinating."
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June 24
Selected by Margaret from Berea, Kentucky
Margaret won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
Girl Talk
by Julianna Baggott
"What really makes this book a good read is the way Baggott allows her readers to get into her characters' feelings....She kindly allows one to care about how each character reacts to one another." USA Today (read more)
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June 25
Selected by Margaret from Westville, Illinois
Margaret won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power
by Max Boot
"This deft and colorful examination of U.S. military expeditions abroad rightly explodes the canard that America was once 'isolationist' and shifts the current debate from a question of whether to a question of how America can best employ force overseas to manage its informal empire. Brilliant and cheeky as always, Boot throws down his gantlet to critics on the left and right alike." Walter A. McDougall, author of Promised Land, Crusader State (read more)
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Used - Hardcover
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June 26
Selected by Pat from Vancouver, Washington
Pat won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
"Many letters from very young American readers of Steppenwolf, some of them blasé, some of them desperate, finally and for the first time became fully understandable to me when I read this significant novel....Whether one reads this novel as the individual story of a half-grown problem child or as the allegory of a whole country and people, one will be led by the author along the beautiful road from dislike to understanding, from disgust to love. In a problematic world and time, poetry can achieve nothing higher." Hermann Hesse
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June 27
Selected by Paul from Los Angeles, California
Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere
by Jan Morris
Paul's Comments:
"For her last book, Jan Morris chose a very odd topic. Trieste is a bit of nothing in the middle of nowhere. The joy of this book is in realizing, as she slowly unspools her story, just how apt a topic it is: the perfect capstone for her long, distinguished career." (read more)
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June 28
Selected by Jessica from Temple, Texas
Jessica won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $40.
First, Body
by Melanie Rae Thon
"The characters give themselves up early and for every reason ? money, fear, to please others ? but never for love or even for their own pleasure. Human bodies here are really never whole, flesh and soul: they are parts, pieces of lives that don't get to be lived....First, Body leaves me completely in awe." Christopher Tilghman, Ploughshares (read more)
Your price $7.00
Used - Trade Paper
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June 29
Selected by Daphne from Clemson, South Carolina
June 30
Selected by Kelly from Arlington, Virginia
Kelly won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $40.
Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
"Forget the Masterpiece Theatre version, however good it was; the novel is the perfect distillation of English class-consciousness and storytelling, deeply romantic, a love story anchored in the profligate 1930s and highlighted by the experience of World War II, filled with Waugh's particular blend of wit, savagery and pure English rage. It is a major work of art, far beyond the fashionable gloss that has come to surround it." Salon (read more)
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