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Peace Like a River
by Leif Enger Powells.com Staff Pick Peace Like a River is a beautiful, uplifting tale told from the perspective of a boy growing up in the Midwest. Sweet, harsh, moving, and true, it includes faith, family, and miracles all wrapped up in adventure. Recommended by Linda, Powells.com...
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The Risk Pool
by Richard Russo Publisher Comments A wonderfully fun and perceptive novel in the traditions of Thornton Wilder and Anne Tyler, The Risk Pool is set in Mohawk, New York, where Ned Hall is doing his best to grow up, even though neither of his estranged parents can properly be called adult....
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Anna Karenina
by Leo (Pevear & Volokhonsky, translators) Tolstoy From Powells.com Anna Karenina is the Abbey Road of literature. Critics may argue about its relative importance (is it the greatest novel of all time, or merely one of the top ten), but none (besides mean Mr. Mustard Seed, of course) dispute that, with respect to its...
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Lasso the wind :away to the New West
by Timothy Egan Publisher Comments They have tried to tame it, shave it, fence it, cut it, dam it, drain it, nuke it, poison it, pave it, and subdivide it," writes Timothy Egan of the West in his new book, but "this region's hold on the American character has never seemed stronger." Lasso...
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Salt Dancers
by Ursula Hegi Publisher Comments Salt Dancers is at once a brilliant portrait of an American family, a story of the secrets families guard, and a moving account of one woman's journey back to a past filled with elusive memories and suppressed rage. Why did Julia's mother disappear one...
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Lucky
by Alice Sebold From Powells.com Once in a while a book so captures the public imagination it becomes a benchmark of the collective psyche. Last summer's The Lovely Bones is a perfect example. Something about this story narrated from heaven by a young girl learning to cope after her...
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The Romanov Prophecy
by Steve Berry Powells.com Staff Pick Come on a thriller that reveals shocking, long-hidden secrets about the fate of the Romanovs (and their Svengali, Rasputin)! What's not to love? Recommended by Martin...
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Family Matters
by Rohinton Mistry From Powells.com One of the most interesting book trends of the nineties was the emergence of a rich body of literature written in English by Indian authors and from all corners of the globe: Arundhati Roy (India), Michael Ondaatje (Canada), Salman...
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The English Patient
by Michael Ondaatje Publisher Comments With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to her...
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Bee Season
by Myla Goldberg Publisher Comments Eliza Naumann, a seemingly unremarkable nine-year-old, expects never to fit into her gifted family: her autodidact father, Saul, absorbed in his study of Jewish mysticism; her brother, Aaron, the vessel of his father's spiritual ambitions; and her...
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The Dogs of Babel
by Carolyn Parkhurst Powells.com Staff Pick Despite a few annoying detours the story's romance is actually kindled in Disneyland Parkhurst's story moves both mind and heart. What else does a novel need? If your answer is "a soulful Rhodesian Ridgeback named Lorelei," then this is the...
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Don't Know Much about the Universe: Everything You Need to Know about the Cosmos But Never Learned
by Kenneth C Davis Publisher Comments From the ancients who charted the stars, to Jules Verne and Flash Gordon, to The X-Files, Apollo 13, and Armageddon, subjects engaging the heavens and outer space have intrigued people through the ages. And yet so many of us look up at the night sky and...
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Ancient Wisdom Modern World
by Dalai Lama From Powells.com In his acceptance speech for the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize, Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, closed on a note of hope: "As we enter the final decade of this century I am optimistic that the ancient values that have sustained mankind are today reaffirming...
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Genome : the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (99 - Old Edition)
by Matt Ridley From Powells.com Matt Ridley's Genome is one of the best, and most popular, works of popular science of recent years, in line with such instant classics as Richard Rhodes's The Making of the Atomic Bomb or Brian Greene's The Elegant Universe. Ever since James Watson and...
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The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder
by David Quammen Publisher Comments In 1981 David Quammen began what might be every freelance writer's dream: a monthly column for Outside magazine in which he was given free rein to write about anything that interested him in the natural world. His column was called "Natural Acts," and...
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Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
by Steven Millhauser Publisher Comments Young Martin Dressler begins his career as an industrious helper in his fathers cigar store. In the course of his restless young manhood, he makes a swift and eventful rise to the top, accompanied by two sisters one a dreamlike shadow, the other a...
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Reason for Hope
by Jane Goodall Publisher Comments From one of the world's most renowned scientists, conservationists, and animal rights activists comes a bestselling spiritual autobiography that explores her deepest beliefs about spirituality and moral evolution. NPR sponsorship....
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The Ecology of Eden
by Evan Eisenberg Publisher Comments For thousands of years, we have dreamed of going back to a time, to a place--Eden, Arcadia, the Golden Age--to a paradise that we ourselves have never known. The Ecology of Eden is at once an inquiry into this dream and a startling new vision of...
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About a Boy
by Nick Hornby Publisher Comments When British writer Nick Hornby's first novel, High Fidelity, was published in America in 1995, it charmed critics and readers alike. Everyone fell for the humorous and hip tale of a group of London slackers looking for love, good times, and good tunes....
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God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
by Kurt Vonnegut From Powells.com Kurt Vonnegut is the real deal, a true American master. During his peak years roughly Kennedy through Reagan his imaginative, biting, hilarious, and deeply humane novels made him one of the best loved and bestselling novelists of the era...
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