2000 November/December
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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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Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
by Gregory Maguire
Publisher Comments < P> < i> Is this new land a place where magics really happen?< /P> < P> < /i> From Gregory Maguire, the acclaimed author of < i> Wicked, < /i> comes his much& ndash; anticipated second novel, a brilliant and...
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Girl in Hyacinth Blue
by Susan Vreeland
Publisher Comments Girl in Hyacinth Blue, "the little gem of a novel [that is a] beautifully written exploration of the power of art" (Parade), is now a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie starring Glenn Close and Ellen Burstyn....
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Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
by Ross King
Publisher Comments Anyone alive in Florence on August 19, 1418, would have understood the significance of the competition announced that day concerning the city’s magnificent new cathedral, Santa Maria del Fiore, already under construction for more than a century...
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The Amber Spyglass
by Philip Pullman
From Powells.com I read Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy back-to-back-to-back. By the time I'd reached the middle of the first book, The Golden Compass, I was content to exist half in my own world and half in Philip Pullman's. It seemed appropriate, if somewhat...
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Reason for Hope
by Jane Goodall
Synopsis As a toddler she was entranced by all living things, and the child inspired by Tarzan and The Jungle Book became the woman who found herself working with Dr. Louis Leakey, making scientific breakthroughs with chimpanzees in Gombe, and becoming one of the...
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Legend of Bagger Vance a Novel of Golf &
by Steven Pressfield
Synopsis In the Depression year of 1931, on the golf links at Krewe Island off Savannah's windswept shore, two legends of the game, Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen, meet for a mesmerizing thirty-six-hole showdown. Another golfer will also compete--a troubled local...
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Roberto Insect Architect
by Nina Laden
Publisher Comments Ever since he was a wee mite (a termite, that is), Roberto has wanted to be an architect. Discouraged by his wood-eating family and friends, he decides to follow his dream to the big, bug city. There he meets a slew of not-so-creepy, crawly characters...
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Gathering Blue
by Lois Lowry
Publisher Comments In perhaps her strongest work to date, Lois Lowry once again creates a mysterious but plausible future world. It is a society ruled by savagery and deceit and that shuns and discards the weak. Left orphaned and physically flawed, young Kira faces a...
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Ali and Nino : a Love Story (00 Edition)
by Kurban Said
Publisher Comments First published in Vienna in 1937, this classic story of romance and adventure has been compared to Dr. Zhivago and Romeo and Juliet. Its mysterious author was recently the subject of a feature article in the New Yorker, which has inspired a forthcoming...
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Stranger in the Woods: A Photographic Fantasy
by Jean Stoick and Carl R. Sams II
Publisher Comments Who is this Stranger? Why did he arrive after a winter storm and what wonderful surprises does he bring? Your children will love this photographic fantasy created by two noted wildlife photographers. You'll discover this tale is beta-carotene...
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A Gesture Life
by Chang Rae Lee
Publisher Comments "A Gesture Life" is the story of a proper man, an upstanding citizen, who has come to epitomize the decorous values of his New York suburban town. Courteous, honest, hardworking, and impenetrable, Franklin Hata, a Japanese man of Korean birth, is careful...
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Hope Was Here
by Joan Bauer
Publisher Comments When 16-year-old Hope, waitress extraordinaire, moves cross-country to Wisconsin with her aunt Addie to run the Welcome Stairways Diner, Hope isn't sure she'll fit in. But she quickly finds herself involved in the small town's mayoral race, as G. T...
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Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the US City
by Mike Davis
Publisher Comments Is the capital of Latin America a small island at the mouth of the Hudson River?Will California soon hold the balance of power in Mexican national politics? Will Latinos reinvigorate the U.S. labor movement? These are some of the provocative questions...
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Ahab's Wife: Or, the Star Gazer
by Sena J. Naslund
Publisher Comments From the opening line--"Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last"--you will know that you are in the hands of a masterful storyteller and in the company of a fascinating woman hero. Inspired by a brief passage in Melville's Moby-Dick, where...
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The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip
by George Saunders
Publisher Comments Gappers will get your goat. Literally. If you don't brush them off and return them to the ocean, whence they arrive every day, these bright orange, many-eyed creatures will cover your goats, and the goats will stop giving milk. In a village called...
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A Prayer for the Dying
by Stewart O'Nan
Publisher Comments Set in Friendship, Wisconsin, just after the Civil War, A Prayer for the Dying tells of a horrible epidemic that has gripped the town in a vice of fear and Death. Jacob Hansen, Friendship's sheriff, undertaker, and pastor, is soon overwhelmed, though he...
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The Beast God Forgot to Invent
by Jim Harrison
Publisher Comments The Sunday Times of London has called Jim Harrison "a writer with immortality in him" and The Washington Times has written that "Jim Harrison ought to be considered a national treasure." In The Beast God Forgot to Invent, this American master gives us...
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Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainments
by Michael Dirda
Synopsis Since 1993 Washington Post Book World has published a monthly column by Michael Dirda called "Readings". Personal, erudite, serious, and sometimes playful, these columns cover a variety of subjects: classics in translation, intellectual history, children'...
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Prodigal Summer
by Barbara Kingsolver
From Powells.com After earning international acclaim with The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver returns in Prodigal Summer to her childhood stomping grounds of southern Appalachia, making a stop on the New York Times Bestseller list along the...
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