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March 01
Selected by Kate from Oud-Heverlee, Belgium
Kate won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
by Claire Tomalin
Kate's comments:
"Tomalin steeps herself in the fascinating time and place of her subject and produces a biography of enormous lucidity and balance. Her remarkably deft writing is an unalloyed pleasure to read." (read more)
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March 02
Selected by William from Bemidji, Minnesota
William won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
March 03
Selected by Judith from Burbank, California
March 04
Selected by Estelle from Huntington, New York
Estelle won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $40.
March 05
Selected by Freya from Sarasota, Florida
Freya won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
The Birth of Venus
by Sarah Dunant
Freya's comments:
"Sarah Dunant's masterful new novel tells the tale of Alessandra, a fifteen-year-old girl longing to be a painter in Florence in the time of the de Medicis. This novel contains the most compelling and surprising prologue I've read in a long, long time. Once you've read it, you won't be able to put this book down!" (read more)
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March 06
Selected by Rita from Santa Fe, New Mexico
Girl in the Flammable Skirt : Stories (98 Edition)
by Aimee Bender
"Once in a while, a writer comes along who makes you grateful for the very existence of language. It's not a gratitude sparked by awe-inspiring virtuosity, but one that issues from the infectious, if inexplicable, pleasure that radiates from the pages themselves...If her debut collection of short stories, The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, offers any indication, Aimee Bender promises to be just that kind of writer ? irresistible." The San Francisco (read more)
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March 07
Selected by Marci from Helena, Montana
Interesting Women: Stories
by Andrea Lee
"Ever since I read Andrea Lee's early essays and short stories in The New Yorker, I have been touched by her deep fidelity to her subjects, and Lee's attraction to and interest in interesting women finds, in this collection, a final home. Andrea Lee is not a regionalist, unless one can define the world as her region. But writing well, and with conviction, is her domain." Hilton Als (read more)
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March 08
Selected by Adam from Ames, Iowa
March 09
Selected by David from Cleveland, Ohio
Nine Stories
by J. D. Salinger
"J.D. Salinger's writing is original, first rate, serious and beautiful. Here are nine of his stories, and one further reason that they are so interesting, and so powerful seen all together, is that they are paradoxes. From the outside, they are often very funny; inside, they are about heartbreak, and convey it; they can do this because they are pure." Eudora Welty, New York Times Book Review, 4/5/1953 (read more)
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March 10
Selected by Bill from Bemidji, Minnesota
Bill won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $100.
March 11
Selected by Steve from Las Vegas, Nevada
Steve won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
The Coming of the Third Reich
by Richard J. Evans
Steve's comments:
"Evans, professor of history at Cambridge, wanted to write a narrative history of the Nazi period that didn't oversimplify or get bogged down in academic jargon, and he succeeded. There's a lot of detail from recent scholarship that will be new to the general reader. I agree with Ian Kershaw author of Hitler that Evans's work is the most comprehensive overview of the politics and culture of Germany during the Third Reich."
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March 12
Selected by Danielle from Geneva, New York
Danielle won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
Bastard Out of Carolina
by Dorothy Allison
"For anyone who has ever felt the contempt of a self-righteous world, this book will resonate within you like a gospel choir. For anyone who hasn't, this book will be an education." Barbara Kingsolver (read more)
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March 13
Selected by Maria from Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Maria won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
"Anne Frank's diary is too tenderly intimate a book to be frozen with the label 'classic,' and yet no lesser designation serves. For little Anne Frank, spirited, moody, witty, self-doubting, succeeded in communication in virtually perfect, or classic, form the drama of puberty. But her book is not a classic to be left on the library shelf. It is a warm and stirring confession, to be read over and over for insight and enjoyment." Meyer Levin, New York Times Book Review (read more)
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March 14
Selected by Randy from New York, New York
Dancer From the Dance (78 Edition)
by Andrew Holleran
Randy's comments:
"Just when gay people are on the verge of becoming respectable ? and no doubt dull as Donna Reed ? maybe it's time to reread this classic novel set in the decadent gay subculture of the seventies." (read more)
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March 15
Selected by Kelly from Loveland, Colorado
Kelly won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $40.
March 16
Selected by Forrest from Tempe, Arizona
Forrest won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
"With this book the author maps a course from the underground world into the light. Invisible Man belongs on the shelf with the classical efforts man has made to chart the river Lethe from its mouth to its source." The New York Times Book Review, Wright Morris (read more)
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March 17
Selected by Michelle from Silverthorne, Colorado
Michelle won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
March 18
Selected by Sharon from Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Sharon won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
Dating Dead Men
by Harley Jane Kozak
Sharon's comments:
"Wollie Shelley has a lot on her plate at the moment. The greeting card designer is trying desperately to get her own store franchise, is doing research on dating for an author, for which she has to date 40 men in 60 days, and just to top it off, her mentally ill brother just called saying he witnessed a murder. This is a terrific new character from a wonderful writer! I couldn't stop reading until the end and am eagerly awaiting the next installment in Wollie's life." (read more)
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March 19
Selected by Muriel from Brisbane, Australia
March 20
Selected by Mary from Reno, Nevada
Cottonwood
by Scott Phillips
"Brilliantly written, maliciously fun, and full of many surprises, 'Cottonwood' is historical fiction at its finest." Michael Connelly, author of Lost Light (read more)
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March 21
Selected by David from Denver, Colorado
David won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $40.
Electroboy: A Memoir of Mania
by Andy Behrman
David's comments:
"Electroboy, which I just read in paperback is an amazing chronicle of one man's battle with mental illness, specifically manic depression, and overcoming it. It's an amazing triumph. The author takes you along for a ride but you really do get a sense of what it's like to be mentally ill. I've read so many memoirs on mental illness, but this one really captured my heart. And it's its a frightening adventure, too. Just heard that it's being made into a film with Tobey Maguire this summer." (read more)
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March 22
Selected by Marg from Calgary, Canada
Marg won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
Mr. Paradise
by Elmore Leonard
"I've gone on record suggesting that the next time the members of the Swedish Academy think about giving the Nobel Prize for literature to an American, they take a look at Elmore Leonard. Mr. Paradise...doesn't give me any reason to change my mind." Frank Wilson, Philadelphia Inquirer (read more)
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March 23
Selected by Arkaan from Edmonton, Canada
Arkaan won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
March 24
Selected by Sue from Vancouver, Canada
Sue won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
The Fiery Cross
by Diana Gabaldon
"Outstanding...don?t even think about starting The Fiery Cross unless you have at least a weekend at your disposal... each and every [page] abounds with Ms. Gabaldon's sexy combination of humor, wild adventure and, underlying it all, the redemptive power of love... you?ll love every minute." The Dallas Morning News (read more)
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March 25
Selected by Bill from Cranston, Rhode Island
Five Days in London: May 1940 (Yale Nota Bene)
by John Lukacs
Bill's comments:
"John Lukacs convincingly reveals Churchill as the man who saved Western civilization, and shows how close run a thing it was. The book focuses on five crucial days during which Churchill took on the challenge, and Hitler paused just long enough to lose the advantage of momentum. At a point when the US ambassador and many powerful people in Britain were convinced that Britain could not resist an invasion, Churchill resolved to stand. With remarkable diplomatic skill, Churchill persuaded the entire cabinet to fight to the end. I couldn't put this book down." (read more)
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March 26
Selected by Rigzin from Kathmandu, Nepal
Rigzin won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $40.
A House for Mr. Biswas
by V S Naipaul
"Conceived and executed within the great tradition of the humanistic novel, A House for Mr. Biswas is the subtle and comprehensible an analysis of the colonial situation as anything in imaginative literature." Francis Wyndham (read more)
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March 27
Selected by Tracy from San Francisco, California
Tracy won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood
by Oliver Sacks
"In Uncle Tungsten, Oliver Sacks weaves together the wonders of chemistry and his boyhood experiences with grace, ease, and just the right comedic touch. The result is a rich, unique, and compelling glimpse into the development of an enormously fertile and creative mind." Brian Greene (read more)
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March 28
Selected by Wanda from Southern Pines, United States
Wanda won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
A Death in Vienna
by Daniel Silva
"Silva writes le Carre-style spy novels in which the action...retains knife-edge-sharp suspense....Scrupulously avoiding the whiplash that comes from too much action...this finely wrought thriller reads like an exquisitely suspenseful chess game." Connie Fletcher, Booklist (read more)
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March 29
Selected by Denise from Tulsa, Oklahoma
Denise won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
March 30
Selected by January from Chicago, Illinois
March 31
Selected by Margaret from Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania
Margaret won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $40.
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