2001 January/February
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The Westing Game
by Ellen Raskin  
Publisher Comments A Newbery Medal winneranow available in a Premium Edition. This brilliantly crafted, award-winning novel is an intriguing mystery that follows an eclectic group of characters as they struggle to be the first to solve the puzzle set forth Sam Westingas...
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Girl with a Pearl Earring
by Tracy Chevalier
Publisher Comments Tracy Chevalier transports readers to a bygone time and place in this richly imagined portrait of the young woman who inspired one of Vermeer's most celebrated paintings. History and fiction merge seamlessly in this luminous novel about artistic...
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Revolutionary Road
by Richard Yates
Publisher Comments With a new introduction by Richard Ford. From the moment of its publication in 1961, Revolutionary Road was hailed as a masterpiece of realistic fiction and as the most evocative portrayal of the opulent desolation of the American suburbs. It's the...
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Blanche on the Lam
by Barbara Neely
Synopsis Blanche White lends a refreshing African-American, female twist to the mystery tradition, as she turns from domestic worker to insightful--if reluctant--sleuth. A middle-aged housekeeper with a strong sense of humor, Blanche becomes an unlikely yet...
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The Other Side
by Jacqueline Woodson
Publisher Comments Clover has always wondered why a fence separates the black side of town from the white side. But this summer when Annie, a white girl from the other side, begins to sit on the fence, Clover grows more curious about the reason why the fence is there and...
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
by Eric Schlosser
Publisher Comments Are we what we eat? To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of postwar Amerca. Though created by a handful of mavericks, the fast food industry has triggered the homogenization of our society. Fast food has hastened...
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The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook
by Ina Garten
Publisher Comments For more than twenty years, Barefoot Contessa, the acclaimed specialty food store, has been cooking and baking extraordinary dishes for enthusiastic customers in the Hamptons. For many of those years, people have tried to get the exuberant owner, Ina...
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The Voluptuous Vegan: More Than 200 Sinfully Delicious Recipes for Meatless, Eggless, and Dairy-Free Meals
by Myra Kornfeld
Publisher Comments There are many great reasons to eat vegetarian meals -- they're low in saturated fat, high in fiber, and chock-full of nutrients. But the considerable health benefits aside, gourmets often scoff at the likes of seitan and tofu, while vegans despair of...
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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
by Loung Ung
Publisher Comments From a childhood survivor of Cambodia's brutal Pol Pot regime comes an unforgettable narrative of war crimes and desperate actions, the unnerving strength of a small girl and her family, and their triumph of spirit. Until the age of five, Lounge Ung...
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Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
by Anne Fadiman
Publisher Comments Anne Fadiman is — by her own admission — the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of Fanny Hill, whose husband buys her 19 pounds of dusty books for her birthday, and who once found herself poring over her roommate's 1974...
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The Death of Vishnu
by Manil Suri
Synopsis Suffused with Hindu mythology, this story of one apartment building becomes a metaphor for the social and religious divisions of contemporary India, and Vishnu's ascent of the staircase parallels the soul's progress through the various stages of...
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The Way of the Human Being
by Calvin Martin
Synopsis Drawing on his own experiences with native people and their stories, Martin takes up the philosophical challenge of the Native American "way of the human being", leading us to rethink our entire sense of what is real and how we know the real....
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Shadow of the Hegemon (Ender Wiggins Saga)
by Orson Scott Card
Publisher Comments The War is over, won by Ender Wiggin and his team of brilliant child-warriors. The enemy is destroyed, the human race is saved. Ender himself refuses to return to the planet, but his crew has gone home to their families, scattered across the globe. The...
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Storm Riders
by Craig Lesley
Publisher Comments Storm Riders is a story of love in the wake of violence, and trust even in the face of fear. Clark Woods is a man trying his best to raise Wade, his adopted Native American son, born with fetal alcohol syndrome. Stricken with a disease that cripples both...
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The Ogre
by Michel Tournier
Synopsis An international bestseller and winner of the Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary award, The Ogre is a masterful tale of innocence, perversion, and obsession. It follows the passage of strange, gentle Abel Tiffauges from submissive...
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Mariette in Ecstasy
by Ron Hansen
Powells.com Staff Pick While reading Mariette in Ecstasy, I was reminded of the scene in Robert Graves's classic historical novel, I, Claudius, where cunning Livia Augusta speaks frankly ? for once ? with her fascinated nephew about why she spent the previous 300-odd pages...
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In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden
by Kathleen Cambor
Publisher Comments An Elegantly Crafted Love Story Set In Post-Civil War America In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden tells of a bittersweet romance set against the backdrop of the greatest industrial disaster in American history: the construction and subsequent collapse in...
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Bone Deep in Landscape : Writing, Reading, and Place (99 Edition)
by Mary Clearman Blew
Synopsis Blew's reflections on a woman's life in the Rocky Mountain West immerse readers in the landscape of mountains and prairies and of blizzards and scorching sun. "Blew again demonstrates her artistry and strong connection to the Western terrain of her past...
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Ella in Bloom
by Shelby Hearon
Publisher Comments Shelby Hearon has been widely praised for the insight, wit, and subtlety with which her novels limn the complexities of marriage and family ("What Jane Austen is to courtship, Shelby Hearon is to marriage" --New York Newsday), and the ways in which place...
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The Yellow Star: The Legend of King Christian X of Denmark
by Carmen Agra Deedy
Synopsis Retells the story of King Christian X and the Danish resistance to the Nazis during World War II. Full-color illustrations....
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