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June 01
Selected by Lindsey from Prosper, Texas
Lindsey won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $40.
June 02
Selected by K from Richmond, Virginia
June 03
Selected by Eric from Brooklyn, New York
Eric won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $40.
Reasons Why Liberals Will Win the Battle for America (04 Edition)
by Robert B. Reich
For anyone who believes that "liberal isn't a dirty word but a term of honor," this book will be as revitalizing as oxygen. For in the pages of "Reason," one of our most incisive public thinkers, and a former secretary of labor mounts a defense of classical liberalism that's also a guide for rolling back twenty years of radical conservative domination of our politics and political culture. (read more)
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June 04
Selected by Dawn from Thomasville, Alabama
Dawn won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
The Book of Shadows
by James Reese
"The Book of Shadows is as alluring and bizarre as its brilliantly realized characters, who are supported by James Reese's wonderfully arcane historical research and his true gift for the macabre. A novelist of immense talent and promise, and a story that seeps into the mind like a potion." Caleb Carr, author of The Alienist (read more)
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June 05
Selected by Denise from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Denise won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
June 06
Selected by Nicole from Portland, Oregon
Nicole won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
After the Quake: Stories
by Haruki Murakami
Spare yet richly mysterious and emotionally prismatic....Murakami magically links the mythical past, when animals spoke to humans and dreams mattered, to today's anxious world, where...people stand on ever-shifting ground and valiantly offer a hand, and their love, to one another. Donna Seaman, Booklist (starred review) (read more)
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June 07
Selected by Scott from Brooklyn, New York
Scott won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
June 08
Selected by Carrie from Delta, Canada
Carrie won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
Good Grief
by Lolly Winston
"Good Grief is one of the best first novels I have ever read, and anyone who thinks there is nothing new to read about loss, pain, love, humor, and ultimate renewal, should grab this book now. I will remember it for a very long time." Anne Rivers Siddons, author of Low Country and Islands (read more)
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June 09
Selected by Stephanie from Santa Cruz, California
Stephanie won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
The Last Time I Wore a Dress
by Daphne Scholinski
"A spirited, trenchant account of the appalling psychological and psychiatric abuse of a teenage girl. Stories like this, unfortunately, are not unusual, for teenagers of all kinds. However, I have rarely seen one told with such intelligence and verve. I am very glad that Daphne Scholinski and Jane Meredith Adams wrote this book."
Mary Gaitskill, author of Two Girls, Fat & Thin (read more)
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June 10
Selected by Mary from Cleveland, Ohio
Mary won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
Paris Trout
by Pete Dexter
Mary's comments:
"Great summer reading for people who don't believe in summer reading. This is a page turner but it's not fluff." (read more)
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June 11
Selected by Karen from Vancouver, Canada
Karen won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
June 12
Selected by Lisa from Oakland, California
Lisa won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
June 13
Selected by Olive from Las Vegas, Nevada
Olive won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
June 14
Selected by Rob from Burbank, California
Rob won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
We Need To Talk About Kevin (04 Edition)
by Shriver
"A number of fictional attempts have been made to portray what might lead a teenager to kill a number of schoolmates or teachers, Columbine style, but Shriver's is the most triumphantly accomplished by far....It's a harrowing, psychologically astute, sometimes even darkly humorous novel, with a clear-eyed, hard-won ending and a tough-minded sense of the difficult, often painful human enterprise." Publishers Weekly (read more)
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June 15
Selected by Rosette from Trenton, New Jersey
Rosette won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
June 16
Selected by Erica from Fishers, Indiana
Erica won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
Fay
by Larry Brown
"The search for love and family has seldom been portrayed with such harsh realism....But it's filled with spare, precise, musical, observantly detailed prose and hair-raising extended scenes....Fay herself is an intensely real character, and Brown tells her lurid, sorrowful story magnificently. Close to a masterpiece."
Kirkus
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June 17
Selected by Elizabeth from Alexandria, Virginia
Elizabeth won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
Status Anxiety
by Alain De Botton
"A novelist...cleverly deconstructs and demystifies that sinking feeling of material inferiority....An intelligent breath of fresh air, sans the usual ax-grinding." Kirkus Reviews (read more)
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June 18
Selected by Hilary from Richmond, Indiana
Zorro: A Novel
by Isabel Allende
With Zorro, Isabel Allende bucks the rules of literary writers by penning a red-blooded adventure novel about the legendary masked avenger. Forget Douglas Fairbanks, George Hamilton, and Antonio Banderas ? Allende's Diego de la Vega out-Zorros them all. Packed with white-knuckled duels, sweeping rescues, and pulse-pounding pirate battles, Zorro is a great novel for the wide-eyed child in you ? and Allende even adds an unreliable narrator to intrigue the adult side. The result is a terrific summer read that's a guilty pleasure without the guilt.
Rico, Powells.com (read more)
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June 19
Selected by Eric from Highland Park, New Jersey
Eric won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $40.
June 20
Selected by Leslie from Seattle, Washington
Leslie won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
Geek Love
by Katherine Dunn
"Like most great novels, this one keeps the reader marveling at the daring of the author. Geek Love may offend; it may repulse; in doing so, however, it speaks to what it means to be human." Philadelphia Inquirer
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June 21
Selected by Karen from Modesto, California
Karen won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
June 22
Selected by Gregory from Vancouver, British Columbia
Gregory won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
June 23
Selected by Paula from Boulder, Colorado
Paula won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
June 24
Selected by Pete from Turlock, California
Plum Island
by Nelson Demille
"That rare breed of suspense novel that keeps you sitting on the edge of your beach chair even while you're learning something and laughing out loud."
Ellen Feldman, Newsday (read more)
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June 25
Selected by Jennifer from Bend, Oregon
June 26
Selected by Katherine from Surrey, British Columbia
Katherine won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $60.
June 27
Selected by Nancy from North Billerica, Massachusetts
June 28
Selected by Jesse from Niagara Falls, Canada
Jesse won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $40.
The Bridge on the Drina
by Ivo Andric
Nobel Prize winner Andric's The Bridge on the Drina sheds some light on the history of the region and its simmering conflicts. Written in a style as gritty and tight as a crime novel, the book traces the history of a bridge on the Serbian border and the events that lead to its destruction during WW1. By writing the book as historical fiction, rather than straight history, Andric helps us understand more clearly why the disparate groups in the area have such animosity towards one another. Not for the faint of heart, The Bridge on the Drina is a portrait of a nation's dysfunctional childhood."
-- Clark, powells.com
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June 29
Selected by Lori from Portland, Oregon
June 30
Selected by Cindy from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Long for This World
by Michael Byers
"This story will move you to tears and make you laugh out loud. It will also probably make you lie in bed at night and think about things that should be thought about: medical ethics, the moral choices in everyday life, the meaning of friendship and love and compassion, the need for connection. Michael Byers is a master."
Elizabeth Berg, author of Talk Before Sleep (read more)
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