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February 01
Selected by Cathy from Sammamish, Washington
The March: A Novel
by E. L. Doctorow
In the last years of the Civil War, Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman marched 60,000 Union troops through Georgia and the Carolinas, cutting a 60-mile wide swath of pillage and destruction. That event comes back in this magisterial novel. (read more)
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February 02
Selected by Dennis from Seattle, Washington
Dennis won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $40.
February 03
Selected by Elizabeth from Stevensville, Michigan
Elizabeth won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
Elizabeth's comments:
"This is a beautiful memoir written from the perspective of a grieving widow. We follow her through the next year and its a candidly honest and insightful account." (read more)
Your price $3.95
Used - Hardcover
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February 04
Selected by Laura from Brooklyn, New York
Laura won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
The Road Home
by Jim Harrison
Epic in scope, stretching from the close of the nineteenth century to the present day, The Road Home is a stunning and trenchant novel, written with the humor, humanity, and inimitable evocation of the American spirit that have delighted Jim Harrison's legion of fans. (read more)
Your price $8.50
Used - Trade Paper
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February 05
Selected by Anne from Arlington, Virginia
Anne won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
February 06
Selected by Susan from Providence, Rhode Island
February 07
Selected by Kelly from Corvallis, Oregon
Kelly won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $40.
February 08
Selected by Linda from Council, Idaho
Linda won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
Ordinary Wolves
by Seth Kantner
In the tradition of Jack London, Seth Kantner presents an Alaska far removed from majestic clichés of exotic travelogues and picture postcards. Kantner's vivid and poetic prose lets readers experience Cutuk Hawcly's life on the Alaskan plains through the character's own words ? feeling the pliers pinch of cold and hunkering in an igloo in blinding blizzards. (read more)
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February 09
Selected by Brian from Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
Brian won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $40.
Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival
by Dean King
Brian's comments:
"The Commerce, a merchant ship from Middletown, Connecticut wrecked off the Western Sahara coast in 1815....It is believed that the Captain's book concerning his adventure, entitled Sufferings in Africa contributed to the abolition movement in the United States. Abraham Lincoln was to recall it as an important part of his childhood reading. Kings book will also make quite an impact on the reader as he accurately traces the captor/captee route through the brutal Saharan desert. Ideas about human suffering/bondage, the human soul, and human frienships as well as a glimpse of mother nature in western Africa make this book...very meaningful....A must buy title!" (read more)
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February 10
Selected by Petra from Lake Charles, Louisiana
Petra won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
The Optimists
From the celebrated author of Ingenious Pain and Oxygen, this is a masterfully rendered novel that explores the perilously thin line between self-delusion and optimism. (read more)
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February 11
Selected by Irene from San Francisco, California
Irene won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
Luncheonette: A Memoir
by Steven Sorrentino
"[A] winsome memoir, likely to be compared to the work of David Sedaris....This loving, humorous portrait, resplendent with colorful diner characters and witty malapropisms, is highly recommended." Library Journal (read more)
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February 12
Selected by Jackie from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Jackie won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
My Sister's Keeper
by Jodi Picoult
My Sister's Keeper examines what it means to be a good parent, a good sister, a good person. Is it morally correct to do whatever it takes to save a child's life, even if that means infringing upon the rights of another? Is it worth trying to discover who you really are, if that quest makes you like yourself less? Should you follow your own heart, or let others lead you? Once again, in My Sister's Keeper, Jodi Picoult tackles a controversial real-life subject with grace, wisdom, and sensitivity. (read more)
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February 13
Selected by Terry from Waterloo, Canada
Terry won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota
by Chuck Klosterman
Terry's comments:
"Klosterman takes us on a breathless journey from childhood to adulthood, to a heavy metal soudtrack. He bounces between his youth as a farm kid in North Dakota in the 1980s and the pop culture influences and effects of headbangers like KISS, Motley Crue, and Judas Priest. Who knew how important heavy metal was? I didnt before I read this book." (read more)
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February 14
Selected by Lynette from Jackson, Mississippi
Lynette won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
Four Spirits
by Sena Jeter Naslund
Lynette's comments:
"As we approach the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., I cannot think of a better book to read that puts the reader back in time, either bringing back memories of those turbulent and emotional years, or igniting curiousity to learn more in those too young and unfortuately often complacent." (read more)
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February 15
Selected by Basil from Los Angeles, California
Basil won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
February 16
Selected by Cathy from Bellevue, Washington
The Highest Tide: A Novel
by Jim Lynch
"Are you captivated by stories of rare creatures living beneath the surface of the ocean? Do you like the idea of an eccentric teenage narrator handing out startlingly detailed descriptions of these creatures and other aquatic mysteries? Are you a sucker for coming-of-age tales that take place in small coastal towns? Then, read this amazing book."
David H., Powells.com (read more)
Your price $9.95
Used - Hardcover
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February 17
Selected by Laura from Los Angeles, California
Laura won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $40.
The Genius Factory: The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank
by David Plotz
Starting in 1980, millionaire inventor Robert Graham recruited Nobel Prize winners and other accomplished men as donors to his genius sperm bank, in hopes of breeding a cadre of brilliant scientists and leaders. The Nobel sperm bank fathered more than 200 children before it closed in 1999. David Plotz recounts the history of the bank, and also tells the remarkable stories of the bank's children and donors. (read more)
Your price $4.50
Used - Hardcover
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February 18
Selected by Gene from Chicago, Illinois
Gene won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
Kafka on the Shore
by Haruki Murakami
"For years, my initial recommendation to Murakami virgins was The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. This sublime and mesmerizing novel has changed that."
Mike H., Powell's on Hawthorne (read more)
Your price $16.50
Used - Hardcover
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February 19
Selected by Erica from Los Angeles, California
The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq
by George Packer
Packer's intimate first-person narrative navigates his journey through the landscapes of America and Iraq while tracing his own evolving views, bringing to the page the full range of ideas and emotions stirred up by America's most controversial foreign-policy venture since Vietnam. (read more)
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February 20
Selected by Donna from Hopkinton, Massachussetts
Donna won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $40.
February 21
Selected by Myra from Honolulu, Hawaii
The City of Falling Angels
by John Berendt
It was seven years ago that Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil achieved a record-breaking four-year run on the New York Times bestseller list. John Berendt's inimitable brand of nonfiction brought the dark mystique of Savannah so startlingly to life for millions of people that tourism to Savannah increased by 46 percent. It is Berendt and only Berendt who can capture Venice ? a city of masks, a city of riddles, where the narrow, meandering passageways form a giant maze, confounding all who have not grown up wandering into its depths. (read more)
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February 22
Selected by Ray from Huntsville, Alabama
Ray won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $40.
The Way We Die Now
by Charles Ray Willeford
Ray's comments:
"This was my first Willeford read and I was so taken with his style and mood setting, that I went back and read all the Hoke Moseley books." (read more)
Your price $15.00
New - Trade Paper
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February 23
Selected by Aleck from Hammond, Indiana
Aleck won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
February 24
Selected by Laura from Austin, Texas
Laura won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
Prep: A Novel
by Curtis Sittenfeld
A perceptive, achingly funny first novel featuring a middle-class Midwestern teenager trying to fit in at an elite East Coast boarding school, Prep is also a brilliant dissection of class, race, and gender in a hothouse of adolescent angst and ambition. (read more)
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February 25
Selected by Christopher from Wilton, Connecticut
Christopher won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $20.
February 26
Selected by Sharon from Albuquerque, New Mexico
A Thread of Grace
by Mary Doria Russell
"[A]n emotionally wrenching experience. Russell has succeeded in vividly and memorably evoking the hardships, dangers, sufferings and sorrows of wartime life in Nazi-occupied Italy in a somber, profoundly moving book that engages the heights and depths of human experience."
Los Angeles Times (read more)
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February 27
Selected by J. from Fremont, California
February 28
Selected by Hattie from Chattanooga, Tennessee
Hattie won a Powells.com gift certificate worth $60.
The Poet of Tolstoy Park Signed Edition
by Sonny Brewer
Hattie's comments:
"Henry Stuart has been told by his doctor that he is going to die soon. Henry, a thinker, is not afraid of dying. He chooses to live life to the fullest. He leaves Idaho and goes to Alabama. He has never visited Alabama. He is not afraid because in his backpack he carries his old friend, Tolstoy." (read more)
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