2000 July/August
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Blindness
by Jose Saramago  
Publisher Comments A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to...
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Year 1000 : What Life Was Like At the Turn of the First Millennium (99 Edition)
by Robert Lacey
Synopsis How did people make sense of the end of one era and the start of another?"The Year 1000" plunges readers into the past in colorful detail and provides them with a historically accurate portrait of life on the cusp of the first millennium....
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One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd
by Jim Fergus
Publisher Comments One Thousand White Women is the story of May Dodd and a colorful assembly of pioneer women who, under the auspices of the U.S. government, travel to the western prairies in 1875 to intermarry among the Cheyenne Indians. The covert and controversial...
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The Fall of a Sparrow
by Robert Hellenga
Publisher Comments Robert Hellenga, bestselling author of The Sixteen Pleasures, once again reveals his profound understanding of the strength and resilience of the human spirit in a compelling and masterful novel. Alan Woodhull ("Woody"), a classics professor at a small...
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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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The Quiet Game
by Greg Iles
Synopsis When former prosecutor Penn Cage returns to his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, he doesn't find the peace he desperately craves. He finds that his own father is being blackmailed by a corrupt ex-cop. And when Penn investigates, he uncovers a murderous...
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The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure
by Hans M Enzensberger
Publisher Comments Finally available in paperback, the international best-seller that makes math a thrilling adventure for adults and children alike. In twelve dreams, Robert, a boy who hates math, meets a Number Devil, who leads him to discover the amazing world of...
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Intuitionist (99 Edition)
by Colson Whitehead
From Powells.com Rarely does a first novel generate the kind of excitement The Intuitionist did when it was first published in 1998. This noirish mystery about the Byzantine underbelly of the Department of Elevator Inspectors (of all things) in a Gotham-like...
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Veronika Decides to Die
by Paulo Coelho
Synopsis From the celebrated author of the international bestseller "The Alchemist" comes a dazzling novel about one woman's search for meaning in a world ruled by apathy and indifference. It addresses the questions: "What am I doing here today?" and "Why do I go...
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The Granny
by Brendan Ocarroll
Synopsis Agnes Browne returns for her final, heartwarming adventure in O'Carroll's acclaimed trilogy of working-class Dublin life. The members of the family split up to make it in the world on their own until a tragedy brings the brood back together--and love...
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Tipping the Velvet
by Sarah Waters
Publisher Comments A classic picaresque, Tipping the Velvet chronicles the adventures of Nancy King, who begins life as an oyster girl in the provincial seaside town of Whitstable and whose fortunes are forever changed when she falls in love with a cross-dressing music...
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The Little Locksmith
by Katharine Hathaway
Publisher Comments The Little Locksmith, Katharine Butler Hathaway's luminous memoir of disability, faith, and transformation, is a critically acclaimed but largely forgotten literary classic brought back into print for the first time in thirty years. The Little Locksmith...
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Letters from Yellowstone
by Diane Smith
Synopsis In 1898 a group of men and one woman move through Yellowstone National Park to conduct a field study. As the members collect specimens from Mammoth Hot Springs to a camp high in the backcountry, the group shares adventures and splinters over diverging...
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Sang Spell (Jean Karl Books)
by Phyllis Reyn Naylor
Publisher Comments trapped in a world that time forgot Josh is hitchhiking his way from Massachusetts to Dallas and a new life he didn't ask for and doesn't want, when he is beaten, robbed, and abandoned beside a remote mountain road. He awakes in a strange, primitive...
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Down on Ponce
by Fred Willard
Synopsis This cracker-noir crime novel follows a crew of eccentric career criminals as they take down a powerful group of money launderers in Atlanta....
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Eureka Street: A Novel of Ireland Like No Other
by Robert M Wilson
Publisher Comments In a city blasted by years of force and fury, but momentarily stilled by a cease-fire, two unlikely friends search for that most human of needs: love. But of course, a night of lust will do. Jake Jackson and Chuckie Lurgan--one Catholic, one Protestant...
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Niccolo Rising (House of Niccolo)
by Dorothy Dunnett
Publisher Comments With the bravura storytelling and pungent authenticity of detail she brought to her acclaimed Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett, grande dame of the historical novel, presents The House of Niccolò series. The time is the 15th century, when...
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The River King
by Alice Hoffman
Synopsis A suspenseful, lyrical account of one man's search for the truth--a novel as compelling as it is daring, an exploration of forgiveness and hope, of innocence and evil--written by the master storyteller whom "The Washington Post" has called "a writer of...
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Brighten the Corner Where You Are
by Fred Chappell
Publisher Comments This story of a day in the life of Joe Robert Kirkman, a North Carolina mountain schoolteacher, sly prankster, country philosopher, and family man, won the hearts of readers and reviewers across the country....
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Hunting for Hope : a Father's Journeys (98 Edition)
by Scott Russell Sanders
Publisher Comments After an angry confrontation with his son on a hiking trip intended to restore their relationship, Scott Sanders realizes that his own despair about the ills of our age has darkened his son's world. In Hunting for Hope he discovers reasons for optimism...
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