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June 01
Selected by Mona from New Hartford, New York
Mona won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $40.
June 02
Selected by Lauren from Vancouver, Washington
Lauren won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
June 03
Selected by Katrina from Galesburg, Illinois
Katrina won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
June 04
Selected by Nephele from Sherman Oaks, California
Nephele won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
Of Love and Shadows
by Isabel Allende
Nephele's comments:
"An upper-class journalist and a photographer with Marxist ties discover a horrible crime while attempting to live under the yoke of a military dictatorship. This book is as engrossing and thought-provoking as any of Allende's more well-known works." (read more)
Your price $3.95
Used - Mass Market
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June 05
Selected by Kathy from Santa Cruz, California
June 06
Selected by Alex from Poultney, Vermont
Alex won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $40.
June 07
Selected by Joyce from Washington, DC
Joyce won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
June 08
Selected by Mindy from Las Vegas, Nevada
Mindy won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
by David Sedaris
Mindy's comments:
"Bought this book yesterday, started reading, and couldn't put it down until I'd finished it. Sedaris is in classic form as he gently pokes fun at his family with quirky humor. This could be his best book ever. Brilliant!"
(read more)
Your price $5.50
Used - Hardcover
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June 09
Selected by Susan from Roanoke, Virginia
Susan won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
Fourteen: Growing Up Alone in a Crowd
by Stephen Zanichkowsky
"Incorporating voices of various brothers and sisters, [Zanichkowsky's] journey is meditative and absorbing, as he confronts the deepest fear of every child: what if Mom and Dad do not or cannot really love me...? He is effective at balancing the unhappy narrative with insights into the family's functioning as a whole, and his contested place in it." Greg Gestner, Ruminator Review (read more)
Your price $15.95
New - Trade Paper
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June 10
Selected by Wendy from Arlington, Virginia
Wendy won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
Kings of Infinite Space: A Novel
by James Hynes
"[A]n immensely witty writer....[A] thoroughly entertaining novel....[A] fast, funny ride through pretty peculiar territory....Its parallels to The Time Machine are obvious and deliberate, and Hynes pursues them with Wellsian glee." Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World (read more)
Your price $9.95
Used - Hardcover
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June 11
Selected by Beth from Sewell, New Jersey
Beth won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
The Kid Stays in the Picture
by Robert Evans
Beth's comments:
"The autobiography of film producer Robert Evans. Fascinating story for those interested in Hollywood lore. Very entertaining ! Evans describes his ups and downs in Hollywood as a producer with lots of name dropping on the way." (read more)
Your price $10.00
Used - Trade Paper
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June 12
Selected by Sarah from Brooklyn, New York
Sarah won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
Super Flat Times: Stories
by Matthew Derby
Sarah's comments:
Super Flat Times is a disquieting book, an over-familiar dystopia drawn with gruesome sensual exactness. It's the kind of read that makes you feel dirty just for being born human. It is also very very good. Derby bends the language to his will, with skin-crawling results. (read more)
Your price $21.25
New - Trade Paper
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June 13
Selected by John from Seattle, Washington
All the Beautiful Sinners
by Stephen Graham Jones
"Jones'?s first novel roars into the literary landscape like a 1970s muscle car hell-bent on nothing less than genius....A hallucinatory, beguiling ride through a world both painfully real and utterly hypnotic." The Houston Chronicle (read more)
Your price $6.95
Used - Hardcover
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June 14
Selected by Leslie from Monroe, Los Angeles
Leslie won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $40.
Madame Bovary: Provincial Lives (Penguin Classics)
by Gustave Flaubert
"What is remarkable in Madame Bovary is that its mediocre beings, with their earthbound ambitions and pedestrian problems, impress us, by virtue of the structure and the writing that create them, as beings who are out of the ordinary within their ordinary manner of being." Mario Vargas Llosa, in The Perpetual Orgy (read more)
Your price $7.50
Used - Trade Paper
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June 15
Selected by Rachel from Boston, Massachusetts
June 16
Selected by Ali from Alexandria, Virginia
Ali won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $40.
Kate Vaiden
by Reynolds Price
Ali's comments:
"The language Price uses, and the way he uses it, is incredible. The letters he writes from one character to another are full of feeling and beauty, and worthy of saving." (read more)
Your price $4.95
Used - Trade Paper
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June 17
Selected by Edmund from Oquossoc, Maine
June 18
Selected by Kris from Vestal, New York
Kris won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $40.
The Killer Inside Me (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
by Jim Thompson
Kris's comments:
"Written in 1952, this creepy/campy melodrama, reprinted by Vintage Black Lizard Press, has aged...wonderfully! A first person account of the inner workings (such as they are!) of the mind of a serial killer, this story evokes both anxiety and hilarity from the reader. It's a real keeper, if you enjoy transgenre oddities, as I most certainly do!" (read more)
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Used - Trade Paper
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June 19
Selected by John from Mount Lebanon, Pennsylvania
John won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
June 20
Selected by Jason from San Francisco, California
Jason won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
The Idiot (Vintage Classics)
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Jason's comments:
"The story of a man who has the unfortunate fate to have been afflicted with epilepsy. Regardless of the malicious and misguided treatment he receives from the society in which he habitates, the protagonist finds the will and resolve not to be thought of as simply the idiot but to win the affection of his peers and, ultimately, the object of his amourous passions. This is a wonderful and charming tale of resolve in the face of harsh and cruel injustice as effected by ignorance and willful stupidity." (read more)
Your price $10.95
Used - Trade Paper
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June 21
Selected by Martin from Bethesda, Maryland
June 22
Selected by Jane from San Francisco, California
The Gangster We Are All Looking For
by Thi Diem Thuy Le
"An unerring eye for the seemingly mundane details of everyday life guides [Lê's] story, and a sly sense of humor graces an imagination busily occupied with the possibilities of metaphor." Paul Baumann, New York Times (read more)
Your price $7.95
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June 23
Selected by Marcie from Munich, Germany
June 24
Selected by Geoff from Germantown, Maryland
Geoff won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $80.
Watership Down
by Richard Adams
"Here is the Odyssey and Iliad of rabbits, for people of all ages ? a splendidly written adventure story." Charles McGrath, The New York Times Book of the Century (read more)
Your price $8.95
Used - Trade Paper
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June 25
Selected by Susan from Roanoke, Virginia
Susan won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
June 26
Selected by Jereme from Santa Cruz, California
Persuader: A Jack Reacher Novel
by Lee Child
If you don't read Reacher, you don't know Jack. So, dive headfirst into
this taut and brutal tale of hero Jack Reacher ? a lone drifter, a
trained killer, a man of justice ? as he rights wrongs and defends the
helpless. It's author Lee Child's best action/thriller to date, and
maybe the best page-turner of 2003 (finally in paperback). Don't miss it. Mike, Powells.com
(read more)
Your price $6.95
Used - Mass Market
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June 27
Selected by Edmund from Oquossoc, Maine
Edmund won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $40.
June 28
Selected by Avinash from San Francisco, California
Avinash won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
June 29
Selected by Chris from Kenmore, New York
Chris won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
June 30
Selected by Liana from Citrus Heights, California
Liana won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
Clockwork Orange ((Rev)86 Edition)
by Anthony Burgess
Liana's comments:
"I read this book as quickly as I could because I was just enthralled with it! Though it may be cliche, this book is even better than the well known movie adaptation. The brilliance of Burgess is in the invented slang he uses, which takes a little while to decipher but which makes the story all the richer. I highly recommend this short novel." (read more)
Your price $8.00
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