1999 September
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Interpreter of Maladies
by Jhumpa Lahiri  
Powells.com Staff Pick I don't read a lot of lit, because, honestly, I get bored easily; and even though I had a million little things nagging at me to put down this book, I couldn't. So I suppose that's about the best gauge of how good it is. The characters are so real, so...
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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 Poisonwood Bible
by Barbara Kingsolver
From Powells.com Very rarely does a novel have as significant an impact as has The Poisonwood Bible. Though it has received a great deal of critical recognition – it was, after all, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize – what has really distinguished...
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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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Kindred
by Octavia E Butler
Publisher Comments Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. With more than 100,000 copies in print, Kindred is a classic...
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My Year of Meats
by Ruth L. Ozeki
Publisher Comments Jane, a struggling filmmaker, is producing a piece sponsored by the American meat exporting business, while Akiko's child-craving husband is pressuring her to put some meat on her bones--literally....
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Plainsong
by Kent Haruf
Publisher Comments A heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set on the High Plains east of Denver.<BR>In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high school teacher is confronted with raising his two boys alone after their mother retreats...
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Mallory's Oracle (Kathleen Mallory Novels)
by Carol Oconnell
Publisher Comments Kathleen Mallory was saved from the streets of New York and taken in by a police sargeant when she was ten. Fifteen years later, she too is part of the NYPD and about to embark on the case of her life--finding her father's murderer. "There may not be...
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Sleeping Where I Fall (98 Edition)
by Peter Coyote
Publisher Comments In this intelligent memoir, actor Peter Coyote relives his 15-year ride through a fascinating period in American history. illustrations....
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The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole (Modern Library Exploration)
by Roland Huntford
Publisher Comments The definitive account of the contest between Britain's Robert Scott and Norway's Raoul Amundsen for the most coveted prize in the age of modern exploration: Antarctica. "One of the great debunking biographies."--"The New York Times Book Review."...
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Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 2, 1927-1934
by Walter Benjamin
Publisher Comments In the frenzied final years of the Weimar Republic, amid economic collapse and mourning political catastrophe, Walter Benjamin emerged as the most original practicing literary critic and public intellectual in the German-speaking world. Volume 2 of...
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Ramona's World (Ramona Quimby)
by Beverly Cleary
Publisher Comments To the delight of Ramona Quimby readers everywhere, Newbery Medal-winning author Beverly Cleary has just made Ramona's world a little bit bigger. As she starts the fourth grade, Ramona believes that this year will be "the best year of her life, so far...
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Polkabats and Octopus Slacks
by Calef Brown
Publisher Comments 'When Daniel Pinkwater performed Calef Brown's poetry on NPR, the response was tremendous. Pinkwater's animated personality and his appreciation for the delightfully silly make him the perfect voice to bring alive the inventive story-poems of...
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That's Mr. Faggot to You: Alec Baldwin Doesn't Love Me and Other Trials from My Queer Life
by Michael Thomas Ford
Publisher Comments Michael Thomas Ford wants to be Wynonna Judd. "Yes, it's true. I want to have big jouncing breasts and masses of thick red hair. I want full, pouty lips that curl up in an Elvis sneer. I want to caress my guitar while thousands of lesbians squeal in...
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Yellow Jack
by Josh Russell
Publisher Comments Hailed by reviewers as an electrifying debut (Baltimore Sun) and perhaps the best evocation of New Orleans ever to appear in print (Richmond Times-Dispatch), Yellow Jack has given Southern literature its own intoxicating hybrid of Caleb Carr, Flannery O...
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The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community
by Ray Oldenburg
Publisher Comments The Great Good Place argues that "third places" - where people can gather, put aside the concerns of work and home, and hang out simply for the pleasures of good company and lively conversation - are the heart of a community's social vitality and the...
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Lost in Translation
by Nicole Mones
Publisher Comments A novel of searing intelligence and startling originality, "Lost in Translation heralds the debut of a unique new voice on the literary landscape. Nicole Mones creates an unforgettable story of love and desire, of family ties and human conflict, and of...
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Homestead
by Rosina Lippi
Publisher Comments Each life has its place, and every variation ripples the surface of the tiny Alpine village called Rosenau. Be it a mysteriously misaddressed love letter or a girl's careless delivery of two helpless relatives into Nazi hands, the town's balance is ever...
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Wake Up, World!
by Beatrice Hollyer
Publisher Comments Shakeel rides to school in an autorickshaw. Sasha builds houses in the snow. Cidinha helps her mother crack nuts to trade at the market. All around the world children are waking up, going to school, helping their families, and playing with their friends....
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Faults
by Terri De La Pena
Publisher Comments Chapter Three December 31: Morning Toni A monotonous hum wakes me, but I'm afraid to open my eyes to verify my surroundings. I lie still. Am I on the train? Did I simply dream I came home? I am stationary, not rocking with the ceaseless motion of the...
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