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America America
by Ethan Canin  
Powells.com Staff Pick America America is a sweeping, epic story that more fully explores themes Canin has written about previously — class, politics, fatherhood, wealth, and power — in a seamless and beautiful multigenerational American saga. Both an important work...
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Unaccustomed Earth
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Powells.com Staff Pick Unaccustomed Earth is in many ways a deeply and authentically sad book. I would not advise reading the stories too quickly; they will each haunt you for days afterward (and, unusually in a collection like this, they are all equally strong). But Lahiri's...
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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
by Diane Ackerman
Powells.com Staff Pick Ackerman's bestselling books, including A Natural History of the Senses and An Alchemy of Mind, are illuminating windows into the human condition, and are distinguished not only by Ackerman's graceful and exuberant prose but by her inclusion of her own...
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Everything Is Illuminated
by Jonathan Safran Foer
Powells.com Staff Pick This book has been out for a few years, and maybe everyone has already read it. It's a story told in three ways: Jonathan Safran Foer is looking for someone who helped his grandfather escape the Nazis during World War II; Alex is the translator Foer...
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The Sorrows of an American
by Siri Hustvedt
Powells.com Staff Pick Siri Hustevdt's new novel shines; she is writing at the peak of her powers. The Sorrows of American is intelligent, witty, and plumbs unusual depths. It is also very difficult to put down. With this work, Hustvedt should finally be recognized as one of...
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Run: A Novel
by Ann Patchett
Powells.com Staff Pick Run, a worthy successor to Bel Canto, shows off Patchett's trademark gorgeous prose and emotional depth. Her characters are believably flawed, but ultimately good and decent human beings who you want to spend time with. Recommended by Jill, Powells...
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Iodine
by Haven Kimmel
Powells.com Staff Pick Haven Kimmel's gorgeous fourth novel is disturbing and brilliant in equal measure. Iodine is unlike any book I've ever read; woven through with psychoanalyses, dreams, hallucinations, and mythology, you are never sure which version of our narrator's...
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A Woman Trapped in a Woman's Body: Tales from a Life of Cringe
by Lauren Weedman
Powells.com Staff Pick The funniest book I've read in years, Lauren Weedman's A Woman Trapped in a Woman's Body made my face hurt with laughter. I compulsively read it out loud to whomever happened to be around, and recommended it to everyone I met. A Woman Trapped in a Woman...
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The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language
by Christine Kenneally
Powells.com Staff Pick The First Word is a fascinating search for the origins of language, which takes the reader through genetics, evolution, and the process of defining language itself. Christine Kenneally is a capable guide to answering this difficult and complex question...
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Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone
by Deborah Madison
Powells.com Staff Pick Every recipe from this cookbook has been excellent — not just good or successful, but above and beyond what I expected. If I had a kitchen fire, this is the cookbook I'd rescue. Recommended by Jill, Powells.com...
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Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust
by Nathanael West
Publisher Comments In Miss Lonelyhearts, Nathanael West's classic novel, an advice columnist for a New York City newspaper is disheartened and disillusioned by the desperate letters he receives. Eventually, he begins actually getting involved in the lives of his letter...
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The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen
Powells.com Staff Pick Alfred, the patriarch of the Lambert family, is in declining health due to Parkinson's, and Enid wants their adult children to come home for one last Christmas together. The novel focuses on Enid and Alfred's lives in suburban St. Jude, and on each of...
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Saturday
by Ian McEwan
Powells.com Staff Pick Ian McEwan's new novel is generous, contemplative, and moving — and in good company, joining classics like Mrs. Dalloway and Ulysses that take place during a single day. McEwan intricately weaves characters and themes towards an eloquent and...
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Independent People (46 Edition)
by Halldor K. Laxness
Powells.com Staff Pick "Independent People is epic and thorough, covering the sweep of generations as well as detailed hours ticking by during sleepless nights, ambling walks around the plains. It is a novel of contrasts, especially in its nuanced exploration of character...
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Runaway: Stories
by Alice Munro
Powells.com Staff Pick Munro's prose consistently shimmers with wisdom and grace, and the stories in Runaway — startling, subtle, and precise — are no exception. Recommended by Jill...
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Madness and Civilization : a History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (65 Edition)
by Michel Foucault
Powells.com Staff Pick When I was immersed in a sea of literary criticism a few years ago, Foucault, more than anyone else, caught my attention. Looking deeply at the roots of our behavior and our cultural attitudes, his examination of different kinds of power and control...
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The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss
by Claire Nouvian
Powells.com Staff Pick The Deep is one of the most beautiful and bizarre books I've ever seen. You will not be able to put it down, and none of your friends will be able to resist picking it up. Recommended by Jill, Powells.com...
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Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
by Sudhir Venkatesh
Powells.com Staff Pick Sudhir Venkatesh's work was featured prominently in Freakonomics; here his research is fleshed out and humanized, telling his remarkable and unusual story. For seven years, Venkatesh was granted unprecedented access to one of Chicago's most notorious...
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Spook Country
by William Gibson
Powells.com Staff Pick Spook Country is Gibson at the top of his game, with gorgeous detail, page-turning suspense, and fascinating characters. If you've never read this author in the past because his work was categorized as science fiction, pick up this book, which is all too...
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Working Poor : Invisible in America (04 Edition)
by David K. Shipler
Powells.com Staff Pick The Working Poor is a deeply impressive book, a thorough and balanced study of the millions of Americans living at or around the poverty line. Shipler's varied portraits and interviews are insightful and moving, and his analysis of causes and...
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