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When You Are Engulfed in Flames
by David Sedaris Powells.com Staff Pick Always a delight, never a disappointment, David Sedaris has come out with his finest offering yet. He has a deft touch, moving between sarcasm and sadness or, in this collection, between redneck babysitters and quitting smoking. Recommended by Beth...
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Diaz Powells.com Staff Pick Innovative and educational, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is a captivating novel about a family marked by fuku (curse) and circumstance. Díaz's story is reminiscent of Steinbeck's East of Eden except that it's set in modern-day...
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.)
by Barbara Kingsolver and Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver Powells.com Staff Pick After 25 years in the Arizona desert, in 2004, Kentucky-bred Barbara Kingsolver moved back to the Appalachians, to a Virginia farm just hours from her childhood home. Family called. "Returning," she explains in Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, "would allow my...
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The Good Thief: A Novel
by Hannah Tinti Publisher Comments Richly imagined, gothically spooky, and replete with the ingenious storytelling ability of a born novelist, The Good Thief introduces one of the most appealing young heroes in contemporary fiction and ratifies Hannah Tinti as one of our most exciting new...
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Anathem
by Neal Stephenson Powells.com Staff Pick As a novelist of ideas, Neal Stephenson is known for writing books that are thematically dense. Anathem is no exception. In a world where mathematical philosophers live isolated like monks, the appearance of an orbiting alien spaceship which has a...
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Home: A Novel
by Marilynne Robinson Powells.com Staff Pick Set in the same time and place as Gilead, Marilynne Robinson’s new masterpiece is at once profoundly sad and hopeful. Home explores identity, fate, family, and love. The whole time reading the book, I had this Robert Frost quote in my head: "Home is...
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Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3
by Annie Proulx Publisher Comments Returning to the territory of "Brokeback Mountain" (in her first volume of Wyoming Stories) and "Bad Dirt" (her second), National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx delivers a stunning and visceral new collection. In Fine Just the Way It...
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Run (P.S.)
by Ann Patchett Publisher Comments 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...
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The Gargoyle
by Andrew Davidson Powells.com Staff Pick Like Diana Gabaldon, Andrew Davidson immerses you in a different reality and takes you on a roller-coaster ride. This is an unusual story about the power of love to transcend physical limitations and to transform ugliness into beauty. It's all in the...
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Things That Pass for Love
by Allison Amend Publisher Comments "Allison Amend is a gifted storyteller, whose view of contemporary life is often wonderfully acute, original, and surprising."-Alison Lurie, author of Foreign Affairs: a Novel Allison Amend's writing is both thoughtful and entertaining, with a strong...
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Then We Came to the End: A Novel
by Joshua Ferris Powells.com Staff Pick Then We Came to the End tells the story of an ad agency in decline, circa 2001. "We had a toy client, a car client, a long-distance carrier and a pet store," readers are told. We. Ferris uses the first person plural to present the agency's collective...
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The 19th Wife
by David Ebershoff Publisher Comments Faith, I tell them, is a mystery, elusive to many, and never easy to explain. Sweeping and lyrical, spellbinding and unforgettable, David Ebershoff’s The 19th Wife combines epic historical fiction with a modern murder mystery to create a brilliant...
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Fire in the Blood (Vintage International)
by Irene Nemirovsky Powells.com Staff Pick We are lucky to have another novel from Irene Némirovsky. Although the book is short, the emotional impact is lasting. Fire in the Blood is a luminescent novel of love and loss. Recommended by Beth, Powells.com...
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Man in the Dark
by Paul Auster Publisher Comments A new novel with a dark political twist from "one of America's greats" (Time Out Chicago). Man In the Dark is Paul Auster's brilliant, devastating novel about the many realities we inhabit as wars flame all around us. Seventy-two-year-old August...
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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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Goldengrove: A Novel
by Francine Prose Publisher Comments At the center of Francine Prose's profoundly moving new novel is a young girl facing the consequences of sudden loss after the death of her sister. As her parents drift toward their own risky consolations, thirteen-year-old Nico is left alone to grope...
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Hannah's Dream
by Diane Hammond Publisher Comments An elephant never forgets...but can she dream? For forty-one years, Samson Brown has been caring for Hannah, the lone elephant at the down-at-the-heels Max L. Biedelman Zoo. Having vowed not to retire until an equally loving and devoted caretaker is...
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Supreme Courtship
by Christopher Buckley Publisher Comments President of the United States Donald Vanderdamp is having a hell of a time getting his nominees appointed to the Supreme Court. After one nominee is rejected for insufficiently appreciating To Kill A Mockingbird, the president chooses someone so beloved...
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When Will There Be Good News?
by Kate Atkinson Publisher Comments On a hot summer day, Joanna Mason's family slowly wanders home along a country lane. A moment later, Joanna's life is changed forever... On a dark night thirty years later, ex-detective Jackson Brodie finds himself on a train that is both crowded and...
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The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel
by Alexander Mccall Smith Publisher Comments In the fabulous new installment in the best-selling adventures of Isabel Dalhousie, Isabel is asked to help a doctor who has been disgraced by allegations of scientific fraud concerning a newly marketed drug. Our ever-curious moral philosopher finds her...
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