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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by Malcolm Gladwell  
Powells.com Staff Pick Somewhere along the way to guru-dom, Malcolm Gladwell got tagged as a business writer. Fair enough — The Tipping Point speaks more powerfully to the principles of succesful marketing than any pedestrian semester in the classroom. But while raves...
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The Glass Castle: a Memoir
by Jeannette Walls Publisher Comments Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in...
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The Red Tent
by Anita Diamant
Publisher Comments Her name is Dinah. In the Bible, her life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the more familiar chapters of the Book of Genesis that are about her father, Jacob, and his dozen sons. Told in Dinah's voice, this novel reveals the...
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Tell No One
by Harlan Coben
Publisher Comments Dr. David Beck has relived the horror of what happened eight years ago: the last night he saw his wife alive. When a message appears on his computer, a phrase only he and his dead wife know, Beck is taunted by the impossible--that somewhere, somehow...
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The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth about Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage
by Cathi Hanauer
Powells.com Staff Pick Great essays like these give you an opportunity to look at the world through another person's eyes and re-examine your own experiences. The 26 included here take you on a journey through the a myriad women's lives. I laughed, I cried, I felt better about...
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I Capture the Castle
by Dodie Smith
Powells.com Staff Pick An utter delight. This enchanting tale has long been a favorite of mine. It has just been reissued to coincide with the soon to be released movie version. Set in 1930s England, this story of young love beguiles with moated castles, moonlight...
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The Secret Life of Bees
by Sue Monk Kidd
Publisher Comments Sue Monk Kidd's ravishing debut novel has stolen the hearts of reviewers and readers alike with its strong, assured voice. Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred...
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The Motel Life: A Novel (P.S.)
by Willy Vlautin
Powells.com Staff Pick Vlautin is a natural. He's managed to craft a debut novel that is funny, sad, uplifting, and honest, in a voice that seems effortless and yet leaves room for both the imagination of the reader and the growth of the writer. Vlautin is the kind of author...
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The Tender Bar: A Memoir
by J R Moehringer
Publisher Comments Torn between the feminine comfort of his mother and the masculine camaraderie he finds in a series of bars and taverns, Moehringer details his difficult but loving upbringing....
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Motherless Brooklyn
by Jonathan Lethem
Powells.com Staff Pick The narrator, Lionel Essrog, known as The Human Freakshow, suffers with Tourette's syndrome and though you might not want to know him in real life, he's got to be one of the most brilliant characters ever created. His quirky rants put me off at first...
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Half Magic (Edward Eager's Tales of Magic)
by Edward Eager
Powells.com Staff Pick The four children of Half Magic have been reading E. Nesbit's magical story The Enchanted Castle, when they find something magical of their own — at least, partly magical. The ensuing misadventures are highly entertaining. Half Magic was a childhood...
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Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
by Gregory Maguire
Publisher Comments When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale, we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? And what is the...
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Holidays on Ice
by David Sedaris
Publisher Comments A new holiday classic from the author of the bestselling Naked and Barrel Fever! Holidays On Ice collects six of David Sedaris's most profound Christmas stories into one slender volume perfect for use as a last-minute coaster or ice scraper. This...
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Birds of America
by Lorrie Moore
Powells.com Staff Pick Okay, so I'm late in discovering Ms. Moore's stories. But now that I have, I shall read them until I've read them all. This collection of her short stories is sure to please all but the most surly reader. These lives of ordinary folk in...
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Snow
by Orhan Pamuk Publisher Comments From the acclaimed author of My Name is Red ("a sumptuous thriller" — John Updike; "chockful of sublimity and sin" — New York Times Book Review) comes a spellbinding tale of disparate yearnings — for love, art, power, and God — set in...
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Plainsong (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Kent Haruf
Powells.com Staff Pick This National Book Award finalist is recommended for those who seek the pure beauty of raw human interaction, humility, and grace. Plainsong is the story of human beings struggling to come together as a family. In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high...
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Cryptonomicon
by Neal Stephenson
Publisher Comments With this extraordinary first volume in what promises to be an epoch-making masterpiece, Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrypting with dazzling virtuosity the forces that shaped this century....
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We Need to Talk about Kevin
by Lionel Shriver
Publisher Comments “ This is heavy material, but Ms. Shriver tackles it with admirable panache.”...
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
by Eric Schlosser
Powells.com Staff Pick "What we eat has changed more in the last forty years than in the last forty thousand," Schlosser observes, yet most Americans know very little about how that food is made, where, by whom, and at what cost. Fast Food Nation traces the industry's...
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The Eyre Affair :Thursday Next #01
by Jasper Fforde
Powells.com Staff Pick The Eyre Affair took me a little time to really get into, but once Thursday Next — a literary detective from the future — enters Charlotte Bronte's novel and tries to save Jane and the story, the book is thoroughly fun, with all the digs at the...
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