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February 01
Selected by Joan from Winnipeg, Manitoba
Joan won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $40.
Eva's Cousin
by Sibylle Knauss
"Sibylle Knauss's hallucinatory novel shows how people might sleepwalk into complicity in the worst crimes of the twentieth century. It extends the scope of human understanding in a deeply disturbing way. I was hugely impressed by it." Jill Paton Walsh, author of Knowledge of Angels (read more)
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New - Trade Paper
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February 02
Selected by Caitlyn from Colorado Springs, Colorado
Caitlyn won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
February 03
Selected by Alison from New Orleans, Louisiana
Alison won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
February 04
Selected by Sue from Vancouver, Canada
Sue won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
February 05
Selected by Rod from Oakland, California
Rod won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
The Known World
by Edward P Jones
Rod's comments:
"Jones makes a complete universe of 19th-century Manchester County, Virginia. It's a world where all of its inhabitants are enslaved by the very institution of slavery. Jones gives a rich humanity to these black and white slaveowners, their henchmen, and their slaves and you recognize them as whole flawed people just trying to make the best of their lives in a cruel, immoral culture." (read more)
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Used - Hardcover
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February 06
Selected by Josh from Newport, Rhode Island
February 07
Selected by Marty from Los Angeles, California
Marty won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $40.
February 08
Selected by Liz from Silver Spring, Maryland
Liz won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
Anna May Wong: From Laundryman's Daughter to Hollywood Legend
Liz's comments:
"This gorgeous star of the 1930s was limited to playing Asian femme fatales despite being a native Californian. The film censorship of the time forbade romance between Asian and white actors, limiting the talented Wong. Her private life was conflicted as well as she was judged too Western for Asian men and too Oriental for Caucasians. She was denied playing the lead in The Good Earth, with the role going to a white actress! This super biography explores her long career and struggle with finding happiness." (read more)
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February 09
Selected by Anneline from Cuernavaca, Mexico
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"One Hundred Years of Solitude is the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race....Mr. García Márquez has done nothing less than to create in the reader a sense of all that is profound, meaningful, and meaningless in life." William Kennedy, New York Times Book Review (read more)
Your price $3.95
Used - Trade Paper
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February 10
Selected by Bonnie from Muskegon, Michigan
February 11
Selected by Mimi from Berlin, Germany
Armadillo
by William Boyd
"The storytelling talents that marked Mr. Boyd's earlier books are fully in evidence in this entertaining novel." The New York Times (read more)
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Used - Trade Paper
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February 12
Selected by Vaidya from Brooklyn, New York
Vaidya won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $80.
Globalization and Its Discontents
by Joseph E Stiglitz
Vaidya's comments:
"Stiglitz reminds us throughout this book that the point of economic policies is to better peoples lives. It's toward this goal that he grades the decisions of the IMF and other global financial institutions. In his analysis, the IMF has done globalization and the world which it is meant to serve a huge disservice by ignoring the masses whose poverty and hunger continues." (read more)
Your price $5.50
Used - Trade Paper
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February 13
Selected by Marilyn from St. Louis, Missouri
Charlotte's Web (Trophy Newbery)
by E B White
Marilyn's commments:
"One of the best things about becoming a parent is getting to go back and reread all the books you loved as a child. Charlotte's Web was my favorite then, and, to my surprise, it's still my favorite." (read more)
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February 14
Selected by Joe from Vancouver, Washington
Joe won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $40.
February 15
Selected by Sandra from Chatham, Canada
Absolute Friends
by John le Carré
"Le Carré relates all this with his accustomed skill....History can decide whether le Carré is right or wrong...but no one can deny that for the world's leading spy novelist...to take on the White House with such ferocity is a political event of note." Patrick Anderson, The Washington Post Book World (read more)
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Used - Hardcover
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February 16
Selected by Sam from St. Catharines, Ontario
Sam won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $40.
February 17
Selected by Laura from Owego, New York
The Bookshop
by Penelope Fitzgerald
Laura's comments:
"This book is ideal for the existentialist reader. A woman with the best intentions uses all she has in the world to open a bookshop in a small town with smaller inhabitants. She is trying to entice and educate the unwilling. Even the smallest of actions have reactions, cumulative effects and repercussions...A great book." (read more)
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February 18
Selected by Linda from Simi Valley, California
Linda won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $40.
February 19
Selected by Tracy from San Mateo, California
Tracy won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
February 20
Selected by Jo from Wasilla, Alaska
Jo won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
February 21
Selected by Mark from Billings, Montana
Prisoners of War
by Steve Yarbrough
Mark's comments:
"Steve Yarbrough's writing is so fine, his characters so well developed, and the overall effect he achieves so powerful, it's time he received the wide readership he deserves. And this is his best yet."
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Used - Hardcover
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February 22
Selected by Susan from Bainbridge Island, Washington
Susan won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $40.
February 23
Selected by Murray from Portland, Maine
The Magician's Assistant
by Ann Patchett
"[T]he kindliness of The Magician's Assistant is beguiling, and Patchett is an adroit, graceful writer who knows enough tricks to keep her story entertaining....The real appeal...lies in the small, accumulating ways in which Sabine and the Fetters family assist one another out of isolation and sorrow. By the end, they have all been somewhat transformed — yes, by the magic of love." Suzanne Berne, New York Times Book Review (read more)
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Used - Trade Paper
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February 24
Selected by June from Nashville, Tennessee
June won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $40.
February 25
Selected by Richard from Victoria, British Columbia
Richard won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
February 26
Selected by John from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
John won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
Art Held Hostage: The Battle Over the Barnes Collection
John's comments:
"Six billion dollars in art held in a suburban Philadelphia museum; never seen by most people; no endownment to protect them; the largest collection of Cezannes in the world; incompetent trustees; infighting; lawyers sucking fees from the foundation like it was a soda ? you couldn't make up this story. But, sadly, it is true. Free the chains from these paintings now!" (read more)
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February 27
Selected by Joe from Vancouver, Washington
Joe won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
The Epicure's Lament
by Kate Christensen
"What a wonderfully monstrous voice Kate Christensen has created in Hugo Whittier, trust-fund misanthrope, chain-smoking foodie, confirmed cad. His narration is as rich and textured as his Lobster Newburg, which I can almost taste. May we all simmer in the dark with such humor and gusto." Sam Lipsyte, author of The Subject Steve (read more)
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Used - Hardcover
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February 28
Selected by Scott from Cookstown, Canada
Scott won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
February 29
Selected by Michelle from Portland, Oregon
Michelle won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
Prague
by Arthur Phillips
"[A] story of devastating emotional accuracy, striking intelligence, and irrepressible wit....This is one of the most sophisticated and profound novels I've read in years, a witty, humane tale of a generation stumbling in a dim glow that could be dawn or twilight." Ron Charles, The Christian Science Monitor (read more)
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