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Angels of Destruction
by Keith Donohue
Staff Pick
Keith Donohue has done it again. His second novel, Angels of Destruction, is as fascinating a story as its predecessor, The Stolen Child. But, while his first book was based on Celtic fairy myth, Angels pulls from several legends and myths....Donohue expertly blurs the line between the surreal and the real. Everyday trials and family relationships are woven together with ancient stories of angels, both light and dark. And, as in most good fantasy writing, the author's craft lies in making the reader wonder if it could all be true.
Recommended by Charlotte, Powells.com... ( read more)
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Downtown Owl
by Chuck Klosterman
Staff Pick
Chuck — unleashed! Downtown Owl thrives on Klosterman's familiar brew of sharp commentary, pop culture references, and endlessly entertaining digressions into the inane and bizarre... served here in his predictably funny (but perhaps surprisingly sweet) fictional debut. Of course it all takes place in the author's native North Dakota, in the '80s, among characters who, for example, cite Black and Blue and Goat's Head Soup as the Rolling Stones' best albums. Fans will not be disappointed.
Recommended by Kyle, Powells.com... ( read more)
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The Plague of Doves (P.S.)
by Louise Erdrich
Staff Pick
Darker than many of Louise Erdrich's other works, A Plague of Doves is the story of the unsolved murder of a North Dakota family that will haunt the reader long after the pages have ceased turning.
Recommended by Hank, Powells.com... ( read more)
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The Outlander (P.S.)
by Gil Adamson
Staff Pick
The Outlander is a rare novel. Its beautifully breathless language seduces your attention to the smallest detail. From the first sentence you find yourself running, running with a woman you've just met, for reasons unclear, from pursuers unknown. Yet you don't stop running, nor does she. She runs, in fear and confusion, across fields and up mountainsides, in her mind and through her dubious memory. The frenetic pace carries you through the story and uncovers a world of survival and isolation, brutality, freedom, and love, and introduces you to an extraordinary cast of reprobates, rugged outsiders, and a pair of unusually large, red-headed twins. So incredible is Adamson's description of this journey, I believe The Outlander will be my number one pick for years to come.
Recommended by Ann E., Powells.com... ( read more)
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Atlas Shrugged
by Ayn Rand
Publisher Comments
Ayn Rand's epochal novel, first published in 1957, has been a bestseller for more than four decades as well as an intellectual landmark. It is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world — and did. Was he a destroyer or the... ( read more)
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Loving Frank
by Nancy Horan
Publisher Comments
I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current.
So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright... ( read more)
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The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet
by Reif Larsen
Staff Pick
Twelve-year-old T.S. Spivet draws maps of train routes and water tables, maps of loneliness, the resilience of memory, even a map of his sister shucking corn. Author Reif Larsen notes, "I think I'm gently expanding the definition of the word map." And... ( read more)
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Throw Like a Girl
by Jean Thompson
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From the celebrated author of "Who Do You Love" comes this collection of 12 new stories that take dead aim at the secrets of womanhood, describing the change from youth to experience in taut, moving prose.... ( read more)
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The Time Traveler's Wife (Harvest Book)
by Audrey Niffenegger
Staff Pick
"Inspired by her grandparents' love story in which the grandmother outlived her husband by nearly three decades, Niffenegger has invented Henry and Clare, and their unique and complicated love story involving the ability to live in the past and future in... ( read more)
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