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Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
by Susanna Clarke  
Powells.com Staff Pick I know you shouldn't recommend books that you are only halfway through, but this is such a lush tapestry of a book I can't resist. Like a moist rich chocolate torte, Strange and Norrell is the sort of book you ration out to avoid finishing it too soon...
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The Closers (Harry Bosch)
by Michael Connelly Publisher Comments He walked away from the job three years ago. But Harry Bosch cannot resist the call to join the elite Open/Unsolved Unit. His mission: solve murders whose investigations were flawed, stalled, or abandoned to L.A.'s tides of crime. With some people openly...
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The Ruins
by Scott Smith
Powells.com Staff Pick Twelve years after his staggering debut, Scott Smith returns with The Ruins — and it's worth the wait. The Ruins is brilliantly suspenseful, almost unbearable in places, and shares A Simple Plan's mounting intensity. Smith's premise could lend...
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Bridge of Sighs: A Novel
by Richard Russo
Powells.com Staff Pick Russo is a modern master of absorbing characters, brilliantly sharp dialogue, and a warm-hearted yet strangely thrilling storytelling style. The only sighs this elegiac novel produces are of wistful satisfaction. Recommended by Bolton, Powells.com...
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Mystic River
by Dennis Lehane
Powells.com Staff Pick Dennis Lehane's gripping, moving Mystic River blurs the line between genres; at times you can't be sure if you're reading "literature" or "crime fiction." With characters this rich and a setting so vivid that you can feel yourself inhabit it, one assumes...
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The Club Dumas
by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Publisher Comments Lucas Corso, middle-aged, tired, and cynical, is a book detective, a mercenary hired to hunt down rare editions for wealthy and unscrupulous clients. When a well-known bibliophile is found hanged, leaving behind part of the original manuscript of...
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Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders (P.S.)
by Neil Gaiman
Powells.com Staff Pick Fantasy author Gaiman is at his best in this short story collection, which contains an embarrassing riches of storytelling that is at times dark, funny, terrifying, beautiful, and always brilliant. Recommended by Bolton, Powells.com...
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The Ruins: A Novel
by Scott Smith
Powells.com Staff Pick Twelve years after his staggering debut, Scott Smith returns with The Ruins — and it's worth the wait. The Ruins is brilliantly suspenseful, almost unbearable in places, and shares A Simple Plan's mounting intensity. Smith's premise could lend...
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Anansi Boys: A Novel
by Neil Gaiman
Powells.com Staff Pick "Anansi Boys is Neil Gaiman's best novel yet. It may lack the epic scope of American Gods, but page for page it provides a higher level of satisfaction. This is Gaiman at his wittiest, most uninhibited; we feel the author having fun with his creations...
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The Abstinence Teacher: A Novel
by Tom Perrotta Publisher Comments Stonewood Heights is the perfect place to raise kids. It's got the proverbial good schools, solid values and a healthy real estate market. It's the kind of place where parents are involved in their children's lives, where no opportunity for enrichment...
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Wonder Boys
by Michael Chabon
Powells.com Staff Pick Blame the Gothic romantic deep inside me (buried alive, in a coffin), but I've long had a soft spot for the famous evening of June 16, 1816, in which Lord Byron read a book of German ghost stories to guests at his home in Lake Geneva, Switzerland, then...
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Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
by Susanna Clarke
Powells.com Staff Pick I know you shouldn't recommend books that you are only halfway through, but this is such a lush tapestry of a book I can't resist. Like a moist rich chocolate torte, Strange and Norrell is the sort of book you ration out to avoid finishing it too soon...
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When the Nines Roll Over and Other Stories
by David Benioff
Publisher Comments From the widely acclaimed author of The 25th Hour — a highly anticipated collection of cool, urbane, and skillfully crafted stories. David Benioff burst onto the literary scene with The 25th Hour, a debut praised for its "pungent, funny, urban...
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Little Children
by Tom Perrotta
Powells.com Staff Pick "What really makes Little Children shine is its theme of isolation. Never before have I laughed so much and so enjoyed a book whose message was so essentially sad....I closed the covers feeling sober, alone, and delirious from the sheer rush of the...
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Tales to Astonish: Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, and the American Comic Book Revolution
by Ronin Ro Publisher Comments Tales to Astonish tells the spectacular life and times of Jack Kirby, the legendary forefather of American comic books. In the 1960s, Kirby joined with Stan Lee to develop many of our best-known and most beloved superheroes, including the Fantastic Four,...
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20th Century Ghosts
by Joe Hill
Publisher Comments Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945... Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with big ideas and...
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Blue Angel
by Francine Prose
Powells.com Staff Pick Blame the Gothic romantic deep inside me (buried alive, in a coffin), but I've long had a soft spot for the famous evening of June 16, 1816, in which Lord Byron read a book of German ghost stories to guests at his home in Lake Geneva, Switzerland, then...
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Blow the House Down: A Novel
by Robert Baer Publisher Comments Former CIA operative Robert Baer pushes fiction to the absolute limit in this riveting and unnervingly plausible alternative history of 9/11. Veteran CIA officer Max Waller has long been obsessed with the abduction and murder of his Agency mentor...
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The Club Dumas: A Novel
by Arturo Perez-Reverte Publisher Comments Lucas Corso is a book detective, a mercenary hired to hunt down rare editions for wealthy and unscrupulous clients. When a well-known bibliophile is found hanged, leaving behind part of the original manuscript of Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers...
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The Sundance Kids: How the Mavericks Took Back Hollywood
by James Mottram Publisher Comments A formidable new generation of American filmmakers are currently in their prime: Paul Thomas Anderson, Alexander Payne, Sofia Coppola, David Fincher, Spike Jonze, Wes Anderson, to name but six. Call them The Sundance Kids. A conspicuous number of...
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