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November 01
Selected by Jennifer from Los Angeles, California
Outside Valentine
by Liza Ward
"Liza Ward runs a tight, thrumming line through her narrative, punching up scenes with a sharp practiced touch and bringing wise compassion to bear on the tragic events that unfold with such dark inevitability." Sven Birkerts (read more)
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November 02
Selected by Anagha from Seattle, Washington
Anagha won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $40.
The First Crusade: A New History
"There is an underlying assumption among commentators looking at the confrontation between Islam and the West that it has been engendered by the events of September 11, 2001. Thomas Asbridge, by tracing the roots to the First Crusade in his lucid and provocative 'new history,' helps us to understand the present by explaining the past." Akbar S. Ahmed, Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies American University (read more)
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November 03
Selected by Pat from Sacramento, California
Pat won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
Vamped: A Novel
by David Sosnowski
Pat's comments:
"If Spike tried to raise a human child, he would be akin to Martin, the hero of Vamped. This isn't your Anne Rice fable, but a camp, funny, heartwarming story of a hapless guy who happens to drink blood." (read more)
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November 04
Selected by Carolyn from Portland, Oregon
Carolyn won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
November 05
Selected by Sarah from Cologne, Germany
Sarah won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
The Colour
by Rose Tremain
"In this novel that so skillfully makes use of the formulas of melodrama only to discard them and surprise us, Tremain's singular combination of the passionate and the sardonic strikes one as a marriage of, say, Emily Brontë and Paul Bowles. The Colour is smart, lumpy with sentiment, brutal and oddly funny ? a sort of carnival in hell." John Vernon, New York Times Book Review (read more)
Your price $20.00
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November 06
Selected by Anagha from Seattle, Washington
Anagha won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
His Excellency: George Washington
by Joseph J. Ellis
"His Excellency: George Washington immediately calls to mind, and deserves favorable comparison with, Edmund S. Morgan's Benjamin Franklin...when Ellis says that 'we do not need another epic [Washington biography], but rather a fresh portrait focused tightly on Washington's character,' he declares in effect that he is doing what Morgan did. It is a pleasure to report that he has succeeded." Jonathan Yardley, The Wahington Post (read more)
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November 07
Selected by Paul from St. Paul, Minnesota
The Summer Guest
by Justin Cronin
"[D]espite the fundamental, sometimes sickening decency of the narrators...it is hard not to care about how (not whether)...family arrangements will fall into place.... And it's the twists that make this novel worth finishing: a surprise bequest, a child's death, a brush with mortality on a fishing trip. With a plot so well-executed and eventful, you won't even notice when the surprises turn out to be, well, no big surprise." Anna Stein, Esquire (read more)
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November 08
Selected by Roslyn from Medfield, Massachusetts
Roslyn won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $40.
November 09
Selected by Sy from Mobile, Alabama
November 10
Selected by Larry from Chicago, Illinois
Larry won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $40.
November 11
Selected by Leslie from Monroe, Louisiana
Leslie won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
November 12
Selected by Sandra Lee from Bozeman, Montana
Sandra Lee won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
November 13
Selected by Joe from Vancouver, Washington
Joe won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
Human Capital
by Stephen Amidon
"A gripping, troubling, and incisive portrait of the way we live now, Human Capital has the ambitious sweep and narrative power of a 19th century novel. Stephen Amidon is the rare writer who can illuminate the secrets of money and love with equal authority." Tom Perrotta, author of Little Children and Joe College (read more)
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November 14
Selected by Sy from Mobile, Alabama
Sy won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
The Falls
by Joyce Carol Oates
"Oates veterans know that the surest way to survive, and even to get some pleasure from, her fictional world is to treat it as an interesting place to visit, where you wouldn't want to live. So read The Falls swiftly and don't look too closely, or too long. Then move on. Oates will." Terrence Rafferty, The New York Times Book Review (read more)
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November 15
Selected by Craig from Seattle, Washington
Craig won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
November 16
Selected by Janet from Reno, Nevada
Case Histories: A Novel
by Kate Atkinson
"I think it's her best book yet, an astonishingly complex and moving literary detective story that made me sob but also snort with laughter. It's the sort of novel you have to start rereading the minute you've finished it." Jacqueline Wilson, Guardian Summer Books (read more)
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November 17
Selected by Ellenor from Carmel, Indiana
Ellenor won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $40.
Letters to a Young Contrarian
by Christopher Hitchens
"[Hitchens] is occasionally dismissive of ideologies that differ from his own (mainly religious), and he is unabashedly partisan — an emphasis on such leftist ideals as universal equality and respect for human rights pervades the text. But, overall, his advice is thankfully nonpartisan, and his passionate call to embrace dialectic thinking and contentious debate is convincing and, well, correct." Heath Madom, Library Journal (read more)
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November 18
Selected by Gayle from Bend, Oregon
Gayle won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
Hannah Coulter: A Novel
by Wendell Berry
Gayle's comments:
"Berry's novel is a masterful gaze into rural and smalltown life. So what else is new? Berry writes more than a novel. This book is, like Jayber Crow, replete with pithy ironies and straightforward truths, a delightful concoction of philosophy, character development, and Berry's signature parable/anecdotal vignettes. By book's end, not only are we changed for having read Hannah Coulter ? we are saved!" (read more)
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November 19
Selected by Seth from Forest Grove, Oregon
Seth won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
Americana
by Don DeLillo
"Don DeLillo's swift, ironic, witty cross-country American nightmare doesn't have a dull or unoriginal line." Nelson Algren, Rolling Stones
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Your price $16.00
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November 20
Selected by Ellenor from Carmel, Indiana
Ellenor won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
The Anatomy of Fascism
by Robert O Paxton
"The culmination of a lifetime's study, this work is based on a thorough analysis of just about every secondary work on fascism and includes a superb bibliographic essay that will guide students and historians for many years to come." Library Journal (read more)
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November 21
Selected by Katherine from Vista, California
Anil's Ghost
by Michael Ondaatje
Katherine's comments:
"This novel is beautifully written, and I think better than The English Patient. It weaves human experience with the recent history of the Sri Lanka." (read more)
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November 22
Selected by Tracy from San Francisco, California
Tracy won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $40.
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
by Aron Ralston
"[A] mesmerizing story told in chilling detail.... Ralston vividly describes his hallucinations...while the graphic passage of the amputation itself leaves one wincing but buoyed by the promise of his freedom with each break of a bone, cut of flesh and pull on a tendon." Rocky Mountain News (read more)
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November 23
Selected by Leslie from Monroe, Louisiana
Leslie won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
My Antonia
by Willa Cather and Kathleen Norris
"No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as My Antonia. It is the finest thing of its sort ever done in America." H. L. Mencken, Smart Set (1920) (read more)
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November 24
Selected by Ellis from La Paz, Mexico
Ellis won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
Before Their Time: A Memoir
by Robert Kotlowitz
"I am moved and haunted by this subtle and arresting book ? by its relentless and unsparing honesty, by the poignant portrait of all those young men called to serve in World War II. And, most of all, by the palpable quality of fear that runs through its every page." David Halberstam (read more)
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November 25
Selected by Brandi from Gainesville, Florida
Gilead: A Novel
by Marilynne Robinson
"Fans of Robinson's acclaimed debut Housekeeping (1981) will find that the long wait has been worth it.... Many writers try to capture life's universals of strength, struggle, joy and forgiveness — but Robinson truly succeeds in what is destined to become her second classic." Ellen Levine, Publishers Weekly (read more)
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November 26
Selected by Gary from Candler, North Carolina
What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
by Thomas Frank
"A heartland populist, Frank is hilariously funny on what makes us red-staters different from blue-staters (not), and he actually knows evangelical Christians, antiabortion activists, gun-nuts, and Bubbas. I promise y'all, this is the only way to understand why so many Americans have decided to vote against their own economic and political interests. And Frank explores the subject with scholarship, understanding, passion, and — thank you, Mark Twain — such tart humor." Molly Ivins (read more)
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November 27
Selected by Angela from Kansas City, Missouri
November 28
Selected by Cathie from Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Cathie won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $80.
November 29
Selected by Martha from Bozeman, Montana
Astonishing Splashes of Colour
by Clare Morrall
"An extraordinary, gripping novel written with no sentimentality. A wonderful piece of writing...it is astonishing that she has never been published before." Professor John Carey, Chair of the Man Booker Prize (read more)
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November 30
Selected by Clare from New Haven, Vermont
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