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May 01
Selected by Marjorie from San Francisco, California
Marjorie won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $40.
1984 (Signet Classics)
by George Orwell
"This classic tale evokes a grim reality of life in a totalitarian society. Orwell's bleak vision is an absolute must for anybody worried about increased monitoring and surveillance in the technological era." epic.org (read more)
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May 02
Selected by Desi from Tualatin, Oregon
Desi won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
May 03
Selected by Samir from St. Catharines, Canada
Samir won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
The Question of Bruno
by Aleksandar Hemon
Set in Sarajevo and Chicago, the linked stories and novella in this debut collection describe characters trying to rebuild their lives, either in the war-ruined city they grew up in, or in Chicago where they live as refugees. The story "Islands" from this collection was included in Best American Short Stories 1999. A New York Times Notable Book for the year 2000. (read more)
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May 04
Selected by Lorien from Berkeley, California
Lorien won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live
by Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller
"Live from New York is described as 'an uncensored history of Saturday Night Live' and that is exactly what you get: no mincing of words, no glancing blows....See the hatred that Jim Belushi still bears for Bob Woodward for writing about his brother. Feel the love that the original cast had for Gilda Radner. Learn about the reverence with which the later members of the cast look up to Lorne Michaels. Experience the one thing that seems to unite the entire cast, old and young, past and present: an overriding hatred of Chevy Chase." Erik Beck, Powells.com
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May 05
Selected by Daphne from Geneva, New York
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May 06
Selected by Marlene from Lakewood, Colorado
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May 07
Selected by Judith from San Francisco, California
Judith won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
Getting Mother's Body
by Suzan-Lori Parks
Judith's comments:
This is an attention grabbing story told in various voices of the African American characters in rural 1963 Texas. It's a fun book, well written, with issues for an active book group discussion. (read more)
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May 08
Selected by Kathryn from Powell, Ohio
Kathryn won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
Hold the Enlightenment
by Tim Cahill
"Cahill has done the hard part for us. Now, all we have to do to experience exotic corners of the earth is read Hold the Enlightenment from the comfort of our fluffy sofas. Thanks, Big Guy." Fort Worth Star-Telegram
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May 09
Selected by Lisa from Oakland, California
Lisa won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
May 10
Selected by Sherri from Durham, North Carolina
May 11
Selected by Rosemary from Norman, Oklahoma
Rosemary won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $40.
May 12
Selected by Nicole from Madison, Wisconsin
Nicole won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
The Men Who Stare at Goats
by Jon Ronson
"It is [Ronson's] acute grip on the nuance of this idea that makes his book...a narcotic road trip through the wackier reaches of Bush's war effort...an unmissable account of some of the insanity that has lately been done in our names." The Observer (read more)
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May 13
Selected by Kim from Beaverton, Oregon
Kim won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
Dear Zoe: A Novel
by Philip Beard
Kim's comments:
This was an amazing first book by Mr. Beard. I am looking forward to what he writes in the future. The story follows Tess and her family. They are coping with losing 4-year old Zoe on September 11, 2001. Her accidental death on a day when so many others died creates even more grief for Tess. Once I started this book, I was unable to put it down. (read more)
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May 14
Selected by Maggie from Mariposa, California
Maggie won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life
by Steven Johnson
This pop science book suggests that to understand one's own mind, one should first understand one's own brain. Author Steven Johnson explains how the most recent theories in neuroscience have an impact on the way we think about thinking. He does more than simply put forward this idea: he actually puts it into practice by undergoing a series of neurological tests and connecting the results of these tests to how he was thinking and feeling at the time. (read more)
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May 15
Selected by Lisa from Oakland, California
Lisa won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide
by Douglas Adams
An omnibus edition of the five novels in the Hitchhiker series, plus the short story Young Zaphod Plays It Safe. 'Lively, sharply satirical, brilliantly written....Ranks with the best set pieces in Mark Twain,' said The Atlantic. (read more)
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May 16
Selected by Alice from Seattle, Washington
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May 17
Selected by Sharai from Portland, Oregon
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May 18
Selected by Tasha from Randolph, New Hampshire
May 19
Selected by Stu from Las Vegas, Nevada
Stu won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $40.
Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague
by Geraldine Brooks
When London was stricken by the bubonic plague in the years 1665-1666, the houses of plague victims were sealed and guarded, locking in the well with the ill, allowing no access to food, water or human comfort. Samuel Pepys observed in his journal the terrible treatment meted out to plague victims by the terrified Londoners: "makin us cruel as dogs one to another." It was quite extraordinary
then that the small village of Eyam, Derbyshire, encouraged by the young Rector William Mompesson, voluntarily quarantined themselves in their own "wide green prison." Eyam is now famously known as Plague Village.
Geraldine Brooks, a former war correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Washington Post, and bestselling author of the nonfiction Nine Parts of Desire, visited Eyam in the 1990s and the tale of the village's self sacrifice took root in her imagination. Inspired by the story, Brooks has crafted the riveting novel Year of Wonders set in 1666. Georgie, Powells.com (read more)
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May 20
Selected by Shannon from Mariposa, California
Shannon won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
Autobiography of a Face
by Lucy Grealy
"A beautifully composed [memoir]... Autobiography of a Face is also a moving meditation on ugliness and beauty, of particular significance in a culture obsessed with the outward self." Joyce Carol Oates, New York Times Book Review
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May 21
Selected by Jackie from Marshfield, Missouri
Jackie won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
Wild Justice
by Phillip Margolin
"Breathtaking....Pages will turn fast enough to make the perfect breeze for chilling beachside escapists." Publisher's Weekly (starred review) (read more)
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May 22
Selected by Dan from Irvine, CA
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May 23
Selected by Karen from Sidney, Illinois
Nights at the Circus
by Angela Carter
"Nights at the Circus is good, clean fun -- well, good fun anyway. Its raunchy moments are steaming, bizarre, at times unsettling, but there is definitely an appreciation here for love, sentiment, and entertainment."
Raymond Mungo, San Francisco Chronicle (read more)
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May 24
Selected by Adeline from Tyler, Texas
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May 25
Selected by Eric from Los Angeles, California
Eric won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
Dark Voyage: A Novel
by Alan Furst
"[A] master of understatement, in both language and action....Furst's Dark Voyage is just that, a voyage into a dark, shadowed world where enough lies construct a truth that almost but never quite emerges into the light." Randy Michael Signor, Chicago Sun-Times (read more)
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May 26
Selected by Christiana from Beaverton, Oregon
Christiana won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
May 27
Selected by Kelly from Charlotte, North Carolina
Kelly won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Pulitzer Prize-winning story of Calliope Stephanides and three generations of the Greek-American family who travel from a tiny village. Calliope is not like other girls and must uncover a guilty family secret and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction. (read more)
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May 28
Selected by Malik from St. Catharines, Canada
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May 29
Selected by Linda from Chester, New Hampshire
Linda won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
My Name is Red
by Orhan Pamuk
"Pamuk takes the reader into the strange and beautiful world of Islamic art, in which Western notions no longer make sense....In this world of forgeries, where some might be in danger of losing their faith in literature, Pamuk is the real thing, and this book might well be one of the few recent works of fiction that will be remembered at the end of this century." Avkar Altinel, The Observer (UK)
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May 30
Selected by James from Perry, Michigan
James won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
"What makes this book fascinating is the way that Levitt uses advanced economic techniques ? the kind that would knock me unconscious quicker than chloroform if I had to read them in a textbook ? and applies them to seemingly unexplainable phenomena to produce a new discipline: the answers to questions once thought unanswerable. The answers make for a highly addictive reading experience, free of the jargon and pie charts that would send most readers running for cover." Gerry Donaghy, Powells.com
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May 31
Selected by Haesung from Anaheim, California
Three Junes
by Julia Glass
"Three Junes has the rich pleasures of a ninteenth-century novel and the rush of New-York life of the last ten years. I'm amazed it's a first novel ? it is a mature, captivating work of fiction." John Casey [author of The Half Life of Happiness] (read more)
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