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The Lacuna
by Barbara Kingsolver
Staff Pick
Waiting for a new Kingsolver novel has been like waiting for a favorite restaurant to reopen after renovations, only it's been nine years of anticipation. With the grand depth of The Poisonwood Bible, The Lacuna tells of historical and intercultural intrigue, amidst relationships that unfold slowly, drawing out their flavors. Kingsolver's research rewards us with accurate representations of exciting historical figures. Her themes of social change have a timeless relevance. It's a pleasure to be immersed once again in the kaleidoscope of Barbara Kingsolver's imagination and skill.
Recommended by Andrea, Powell's City of Books... ( read more)
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Pictorial Webster's: A Visual Dictionary of Curiosities
by John M. Carrera
Staff Pick
This "visual dictionary of curiosities" is charming, quirky, and endlessly entertaining. (It's also very hard to put down.) Fascinating images reproduced from wood engravings illustrate words from albatross and abracadabra to zibeth and zodiac."
Recommended by Tessa, Powells.com... ( read more)
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The Wild Things
by Dave Eggers
Staff Pick
Not content to reinforce the foundation of Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, Eggers instead architects entirely new additions. Young Max's psyche is fully formed, and the Wild Things themselves are given wonderfully eclectic personalities, ensuring each new chapter is greeted with a sweet sense of anticipation.
Recommended by Nathan W., Powells.com... ( read more)
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The Year of the Flood
by Margaret Atwood
Staff Pick
A companion novel to Atwood's magnificent Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood conveys a very different perspective of the coming dystopian catastrophe. Darkly funny, incredibly believable, and surprisingly hopeful, Atwood's new novel is one of her very best.
Recommended by Jill Owens, Powells.com... ( read more)
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Scorch Atlas
by Blake Butler
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In this striking novel-in-stories, a series of strange apocalypses have hit America. Entire neighborhoods drown in mud, glass rains from the sky, birds speak gibberish, and parents of young children disappear. Millions starve while others grow coats of... ( read more)
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Last Night in Twisted River Signed Edition
by John Irving
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In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from... ( read more)
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Push
by Sapphire
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Push: Based on the Novel by Sapphire, directed by Lee Daniels and written by Damien Paul GRAND JURY PRIZE and AUDIENCE AWARD winner at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival Relentless, remorseless, and inspirational, this horrific, hope-filled story (Newsday... ( read more)
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog
by Muriel Barbery
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The enthralling international bestseller. We are in the center of Paris, in an elegant apartment building inhabited by bourgeois families. Renée, the concierge, is witness to the lavish but vacuous lives of her numerous employers. Outwardly she... ( read more)
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Oryx and Crake
by Margaret Atwood
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A stunning and provocative new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The Blind Assassin, winner of the Booker Prize Margaret Atwood’s new novel is so utterly compelling, so prescient, so relevant, so terrifyingly-all-too-likely-to-be... ( read more)
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The Anxiety of Everyday Objects
by Aurelie Sheehan
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This book is the aspiring artist's chick lit. Follow the travails of Winona Bartlett, a wannabe filmmaker who works as a secretary by day. Anyone who has been a non-filmmaking filmmaker or something similar will find this book engaging and witty. A... ( read more)
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The Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Okay, never mind that The Shadow of the Wind starts off in a wonderfully mysterious bookstore and that there's a romantic element that is not schmaltzy, but "timeless" in the best sense of the word. What I loved was how I thought I knew where the author... ( read more)
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Literature
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Small Press | Yesterday, 12:28pm
By Kevin Sampsell
When I took over the small press section at Powell's about eight years ago, I was immediately won over by a colorful little paperback book by local...
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Guests | November 6, 2009
By Ben Thompson
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face, forever." —George Orwell, 1984 While fighting Nazis in the...
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Guests | November 5, 2009
By Ben Thompson
"One word of truth will outweigh the whole world" When you're in a Stalin-era Soviet Gulag, merely managing to haul your ass out of bed, trudge...
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Original Essays | October 28, 2009
By Rachel Sherman
In my novel Living Room, I write about the pain of mothering — about mothers who do not know how to be mothers. I finished my edits on the...
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Review-a-Day | October 28, 2009
By Review-a-Day
Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving Reviewed by Floyd Skloot Boston Globe John Irving's career as a novelist began in 1968, with the...
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