2000 September/October
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The Gun Seller
by Hugh Laurie  
Powells.com Staff Pick The Gun Seller reminds me of a well-made gin and tonic — crisp, hip, and refreshing, with a droll twist of lime. Recommended by Carrie, Powells...
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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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Olivia (00 Edition)
by Ian Falconer
Publisher Comments Have fun with Olivia... dressing up singing songs building sand castles napping (maybe) dancing painting on walls and -- whew! -- going to sleep at last....
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The Last Life
by Claire Messud
Publisher Comments Narrated by a fifteen-year-old girl with a ruthless regard for truth, The Last Life is a beautifully told novel of lies and ghosts, love and honor. Set in colonial Algeria, and in the south of France and New England, it is the tale of the LaBasse family,...
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Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind
by Ann Ross
Publisher Comments Miss Julia, a recently bereaved and newly wealthy widow, is only slightly bemused when one Hazel Marie Puckett appears at her door with a youngster in tow and unceremoniously announces that the child is the bastard son of Miss Julia's late husband...
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Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora
by Sheree R. Thomas
Synopsis For the first time, 40 short stories from past and present black science fiction and fantasy writers have been collected in a one-of-a-kind anthology. Authors include Steven Barnes, Octavia E. Butler, Samuel R. Delany, Tananarive Due, and Walter Mosley....
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Where Rivers Change Direction
by Mark Spragg
Publisher Comments The acclaimed new voice of the heartland, Mark Spragg has written a poetic and uncompromising memoir of his boyhood spent on the oldest dude ranch in Wyoming....
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You Can't Win
by Jack Black
Publisher Comments A legendary American cult classic, a best seller in 1926 when first published, and reprinted five times, this is the true story of criminal convict and hobo Jack Black....
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A Star Called Henry (Last Roundup #01)
by Roddy Doyle
From Powells.com Roddy Doyle writes like nobody?s business. Each of his titles, from The Commitments (Doyle?s debut) to The Woman Who Walked Into Doors, has earned both critical and popular acclaim. Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, his funny, pitch-perfect...
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Pure
by Rebbecca Ray
Publisher Comments A sensational and accomplished novel that made its young author one of the most talked about in Britain last year, Pure is about fourteen -- the age when you know everything, except when you don't know anything. It's about first love and the end of...
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Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece
by Ashley Kahn
Publisher Comments Jazz musicians call it The Bible. Critics call it the one jazz album every fan must own. Forty-one years since its recording in 1959, it has sold millions worldwide and sits near the top of any list of most important records of the century. How did two...
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All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
by Michael P Macdonald
Publisher Comments Michael Patrick MacDonald grew up in "the best place in the world" — the Old Colony projects of South Boston — where 85 percent of the residents collect welfare in an area with the highest concentration of impoverished whites in the U.S. In All...
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Bowling Alone: Civic Disengagement in America
by Robert D Putnam
Publisher Comments Once we bowled in leagues, usually after work; but no longer. This seemingly small phenomenon symbolizes a significant social change that Robert Putnam has identified and describes in this brilliant volume, Bowling Alone. Drawing on vast new data from...
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Always We Begin Again: The Benedictine Way of Living
by John Mcquiston
Synopsis When an attorney with a busy commercial practice went searching for a italy balanced life, he found the blueprint for it in the sixth-century text of St. Benedict's Rule. McQuiston interprets and restates the ancient system of spiritual living, enabling...
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A Good House
by Bonnie Burnard
Publisher Comments A Good House begins in 1949 in Stonebrook, Ontario, home to the Chamers family. The postwar boom and hope for the future color every facet of life: The possibilities seem limitless for Bill, his wife, Sylvia, and their three children. In the fifty...
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A Woman's Path: Best Women's Spiritual Travel Writing
by Lucy Mccauley
Synopsis Anne Lamott, Linda Ellerbee, Jan Morris, Sue Bender and others reflect on the great and subtle ways that travel awakens us. While many of these stories occur on the road, others lead the reader on an inward journey, equally ambitious and equally...
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The Giggler Treatment
by Roddy Doyle
Publisher Comments Imagine a wonderfully rude, children's version of It's a Wonderful Life. At the beginning of the tale we have a good man, a caring man, heading for his job as a cookie-taster...but also heading for a terrible fate (he's about to step in something smelly)....
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The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood
Publisher Comments Margaret Atwood takes the art of storytelling to new heights in a dazzling new novel that unfolds layer by astonishing layer and concludes in a brilliant and wonderfully satisfying twist. For the past twenty-five years, Margaret Atwood has written works...
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The Obituary Writer
by Porter Shreve
Publisher Comments Gordie Hatch is twenty-two, charmingly naive, and certain that his first job as a writer for the St. Louis Independent's obituary page will be a stepping stone to a crackerjack career in journalism. The year is 1989, and Gordie watches helplessly while...
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Waiting: The True Confessions of a Waitress
by Debra Ginsberg
Publisher Comments Many people can tell horror stories about their teenage or college stints waiting tables. For Debra Ginsberg, struggling writer and single mother, waitressing has been a means of survival — and she has the scars to prove it. In Waiting: The True...
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