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History and Criticism

The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature
by Daniel J. Levitin

Powells.com Staff Pick
A truly fascinating book with enormous scope, The World in Six Songs provides music lovers, and others, with an education in music as it influenced human and cultural evolution. Levitin presents his information in a scientific yet approachable manner and keeps what could be a very heavy topic fun and anecdotal.
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Literature

Bridge of Sighs (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Richard Russo

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Russo is a modern master of absorbing characters, brilliantly sharp dialogue, and a warm-hearted yet strangely thrilling storytelling style. The only sighs this elegiac novel produces are of wistful satisfaction.
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DVDs

The Wire: The Complete Fifth Season (Full Screen)

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In the projects. On the docks. In City Hall. In the schools. And now, in the media. The places and faces have changed, but the game remains the same. Times are tough for the detail. Mayor Carcetti has slashed the departments budget to the bone. Police are operating without overtime some without cars and radios. Angered, McNulty is off the rails again and headed down a dangerous path... (read more)

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Cooking and Food

The Spice Merchant's Daughter: Recipes and Simple Spice Blends for the American Kitchen
by Christina Arokiasamy

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Written in a clear, simple style, and peppered with personal anecdotes, The Spice Merchant's Daughter offers readers a friendly invitation to cook Southeast Asian food with confidence and pleasure. With her inspired and authentic recipes, Arokiasamy brings complex flavors and alluring spices into the modern American culinary repertoire.
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Romance

Breaking Dawn (Twilight Saga #4)
by Stephenie Meyer

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I can't remember a more highly anticipated book that doesn't begin with "Harry Potter and the...." Far from just a young adult horror book, this last volume in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga is an old-fashioned romance of the highest order, with legions... (read more)

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Literature

Fire in the Blood
by Irene Nemirovsky

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From the celebrated author of the international bestseller Suite Française, a newly discovered novel, a story of passion and long-kept secrets, set against the background of a rural French village in the years before... (read more)

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Sports and Fitness

What I Talk about When I Talk about Running
by Haruki Murakami

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Offers sparkling insights not only about the author's life, but about life itself. Recommended by Gerry, Powells.com... (read more)

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Literature

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Drawing on his own incarceration and exile, as well as on evidence from more than 200 fellow prisoners and Soviet archives, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn reveals the entire apparatus of Soviet repression — the state within the state that ruled all... (read more)

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Featured Titles

Run (P.S.)
by Ann Patchett

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Since their mother's death, Tip and Teddy Doyle have been raised by their loving, possessive, and ambitious father. As the former mayor of Boston, Bernard Doyle wants to see his sons in politics, a dream the boys have never shared. But when an argument... (read more)

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New Arrivals Top Ten for Thursday September 4, 2008

Breaking Dawn (Twilight Saga #4) by Stephenie Meyer
What I Talk about When I Talk about Running by Haruki Murakami
The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Run (P.S.) by Ann Patchett
Playing for Pizza by John Grisham
Songs without Words (Vintage Contemporaries) by Ann Packer
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
First to Kill by Andrew Peterson
The Way of the World by Ron Suskind
The Time Paradox (Artemis Fowl #06) by Eoin Colfer

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The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More
by Chris Anderson

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A fascinating and groundbreaking study of business culture in the same vein as Malcom Gladwell's famous Tipping Point. With clarity and wit Anderson proposes that for too long have we suffered under the tyranny of the lowest common denominator, and... (read more)

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Music

1000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die
by Tom Moon

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Like the kid in high school who always made mix tapes, Tom Moon has compiled an authoritative cross-section of music, from classical composers to modern electronica artists, in 1,000 Recording to Hear before You Die. Each of his selections features not only an entire album... (read more)

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Microsoft Reader eBooks

Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations... One School at a Time
by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

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Nelson Mandela once said, "Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world." Mortenson and Relin's Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time is a powerful contribution to that arsenal... (read more)

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Literature

Iodine
by Haven Kimmel

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Iodine, the fourth novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Haven Kimmel, tells the terrifying story of a young woman emerging from layers of delusion, fantasy, and... (read more)

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DVDs

Life in Cold Blood

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Reptiles and amphibians ruled the world for nearly 200 million years and today there are still over 12,500 of them. Some are huge, the deadliest creatures on earth. Some are tiny, among the strangest to be found anywhere. Together, they not only.... (read more)

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Popular Fiction

First to Kill
by Andrew Peterson

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After an undercover FBI agent disappears along with a ton of explosives, the government turns to former Marine sniper and covert CIA operative Nathan McBride to recover it, in Peterson's action-packed debut novel. Original.... (read more)

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Literary Criticism

How Fiction Works
by James Wood

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What makes a story a story? What is style? What's the connection between realism and real life? These are some of the questions James Wood answers in How Fiction Works, the first book-length essay by the preeminent critic of his generation. Ranging widely... (read more)

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