2001 July/August
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The Skull Mantra
by Eliot Pattison  
Publisher Comments The corpse is missing its head and is dressed in American clothes. Found by a Tibetan prison work gang on a windy cliff, the grisly remains clearly belong to someone too important for Chinese authorities to bury and forget. So the case is handed to...
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White Teeth (Vintage International)
by Zadie Smith
Publisher Comments Zadie Smith?s dazzling debut caught critics grasping for comparisons and deciding on everyone from Charles Dickens to Salman Rushdie to John Irving and Martin Amis. But the truth is that Zadie Smith?s voice is remarkably, fluently, and altogether...
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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
by Anthony Bourdain
Publisher Comments When Chef Anthony Bourdain wrote "Don't Eat Before You Read This" in The New Yorker, he spared no one's appetite, revealing what goes on behind the kitchen door. In Kitchen Confidential, he expanded that appetizer into a deliciously funny, delectable...
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Plain Truth
by Jodi Picoult
Publisher Comments A shocking murder shatters the picturesque calm of Pennsylvania's Amish country -- and tests the heart and soul of the lawyer who steps in to defend the young woman at the center of the storm.... Plain Truth The discovery of a dead infant in an Amish...
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich
Publisher Comments Our sharpest and most original social critic goes "undercover" as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity. Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join...
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
by Michael Pollan
Publisher Comments Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers’ genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan...
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Food Revolution : How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and the World (01 Edition)
by John Robbins
Publisher Comments How your diet can help save your life and our world. A topical manifesto for the post foot-and-mouth era - devastating in its accuracy. The sequel to the groundbreaking, 'Diet For a New America'....
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Tell No One
by Harlan Coben
Publisher Comments For Dr. David Beck, the loss was shattering. And every day for the past eight years, he has relived the horror of what happened. The gleaming lake. The pale moonlight. The piercing screams. The night his wife was taken. The last night he saw her alive...
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Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses
by Bruce Feiler
Publisher Comments One part adventure story, one part archaeological detective work, one part spiritual exploration, Walking the Biblevividly recounts an inspiring personal odyssey -- by foot, jeep, rowboat, and camel -- through the greatest stories ever told. Feeling a...
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The Last Time They Met
by Anita Shreve
Synopsis In a new novel about love and forgiveness by the bestselling author of "The Pilot's Wife" and "Fortune's Rocks", a man and a woman sustain a lifelong passionate relationship even though they have been together only three times....
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The Muse Asylum
by David Czuchlewski
Publisher Comments The lives of three recent Princeton graduates ? Jake Burnett, a reporter for a small Manhattan weekly; Andrew Wallace, a troubled genius convinced of worldwide conspiracies and cover-ups; and Lara Knowles, ex-girlfriend to both ? weave together in a...
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Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina, and Richard Farina
by David Hajdu
Publisher Comments The story of how four young bohemians on the make - Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Mimi Baez, and Richard Farina - converged in Greenwich Village, fell into love, and invented a sound and a style that are one of the most lasting legacies of the 1960s When Bob...
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This Is Not a Novel
by David Markson
Publisher Comments This Is Not a Novel is a "novel" like no other, with the possible exception of the author's own Reader's Block, which Anne Beattie hailed as "a work of genius." This Is Not a Novel is a highly inventive work that drifts "genre-less" somewhere in...
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Clementine in the Kitchen
by Samuel Chamberlain
Publisher Comments The Chamberlain family spent a dozen blissful years in pre World War II France, with their beloved cook, Clementine, learning the gustatory pleasures of snail hunting in their backyard and bottling their own wine. When war rumblings sent them scurrying...
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The Lost Legends of New Jersey
by F Reiken
Publisher Comments From the critically acclaimed author of The Odd Sea, a poignant and magical coming-of-age story that "deftly explores the mysteries of love and loss" (Time) It's the early 1980s and the suburban streets of New Jersey are filled with Bruce Springsteen-era...
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An Italian Affair
by Laura Fraser
Publisher Comments When Laura Fraser's husband leaves her for his high school sweetheart, she takes off, on impulse, for Italy, hoping to leave some of her sadness behind. There, on the island of Ischia, she meets M., an aesthetics professor from Paris with an oversized...
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Balsamic Dreams
by Joe Queenan
Publisher Comments The author of the bestselling Red Lobster, White Trash, and the Blue Lagoon takes aim at the boomer generation in a hilarious work of social commentary. It's become fashionable to vilify baby boomers. Professional iconoclast and baby boomer Joe Queenan...
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Fearless Jones
by Walter Mosley
Publisher Comments Paris Minton is minding his own business — a small used bookstore of which he is the proud proprietor — when a beautiful woman named Elana Love walks in and asks a few questions. Within the next twenty-four hours, Paris has been beaten up, made...
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Bel Canto
by Ann Patchett
Powells.com Staff Pick The government of a small South American country holds a birthday party for the head of Japan's leading electronics manufacturer, hoping to attract its business. Mr. Hosokawa, they know, can't resist the opportunity of a private performance by the world...
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Shark River
by Randy Wayne White
Publisher Comments The past comes disconcertingly alive for Doc Ford, in a series that continues to grow in popularity and acclaim. Randy Wayne White's Ten Thousand Islands was "one of the most satisfying thrillers in recent memory" wrote the Chicago Tribune, and the...
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