2001 November/December
There are 65 books in this aisle.
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Jayber Crow
by Wendell Berry  
Publisher Comments From the simple setting of his own barber shop, Jayber Crow, orphan, seminarian, and native of Port William, recalls his life and the life of his community as it spends itself in the middle of the twentieth century. Surrounded by his friends and...
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Death & the Penguin
by Andrey Kurkov
Publisher Comments A devastating satire - of the worlds of mafia and media, of politics and penguins - in the tradition of the master of 20th century satire, Mikhail Bulgakov. Victor is depressed: his lover has dumped him, his short stories are too short and the light has...
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Olivia Saves the Circus
by Ian Falconer
Publisher Comments Olivia remembers her trip to the circus very well. The performers were out sick, so she had to do everything. She... rode on a unicyclejumped on a trampolinejuggled five balls!tamed lionsand flew through the air. Step into the ring with Olivia, where the...
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Fury
by Salman Rushdie
From Powells.com In Greek and Roman mythology, Mother Earth had three daughters obsessed with seeking justice for unavenged crimes. Usually portrayed as winged and serpent-haired, the Furies hounded their victims until they either descended into madness or suffered...
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Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper
by Harriet Sc Chessman
Publisher Comments In this richly imagined fiction, Harriet Scott Chessman entices us into the world of Mary Cassatt's early Impressionist paintings. Chessman's gift for storytelling mingles with her extraordinary understanding of these beautiful and significant works of...
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German Boy : a Child in War (00 Edition)
by Wolfgang W. Samuel
Publisher Comments “I think German Boy has all the qualities of greatness. I love the book.” -- from the Foreword by Stephen Ambrose As the Third Reich crumbled in 1945, scores of Germans scrambled to flee the advancing Russian troops. Among them was a little...
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Portrait in Sepia
by Isabel Allende
Publisher Comments Internationally celebrated novelist Isabel Allende has written a magnificent historical novel set at the end of the nineteenth century in Chile, a marvelous family saga that takes up and continues the story begun in her highly acclaimed Daughter of...
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The Distant Land of My Father: A Novel of Shanghai
by Bo Caldwell
Publisher Comments For Anna, the narrator of Bo Caldwell's richly lyrical and vivid first novel, growing up in the magical world of Shanghai in the 1930s and 1940s creates a special bond between her and her father. He is the son of missionaries, a smuggler, and a...
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Polish Officer : a Novel (01 Edition)
by Alan Furst
Publisher Comments September 1939. As Warsaw falls to Hitler?s Wehrmacht, Captain Alexander de Milja is recruited by the intelligence service of the Polish underground. His mission: to transport the national gold reserve to safety, hidden on a refugee train to...
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Kingdom of Shadows
by Alan Furst
Powells.com Staff Pick Many Alan Furst fans ? and their numbers are growing rapidly ? are under the mistaken impression that he is English. This is due to the fact that Furst, a native New Yorker, established his initial reputation on the other side of the Atlantic. It's...
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Archers Tale :Grail Quest 1
by Bernard Cornwell
Publisher Comments At dawn on Easter morning 1343, a marauding band of French raiders arrives by boat to ambush the coastal English village of Hookton. To brave young Thomas, the only survivor, the horror of the attack is epitomized in the casual savagery of a particular...
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You Read to Me and I'll Read to You: Twentieth-Century Stories to Share
by Janet Schulman
Publisher Comments An anthology with sure-fire appeal for children who are starting to read on their own but still enjoy being read to. This brilliant collection by the editor of The 20th Century Children’s Book Treasury contains 26 selections for parents and...
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Facing the Congo : a Modern-day Journey Into the Heart of Darkness (00 Edition)
by Jeffrey Tayler
Publisher Comments On an unforgettable journey of discovery, Facing the Congo transports readers into the lush jungles and crocodile-infested waters of sub-Saharan Africa. Climbing the river on a barge teeming with merchants, deckhands, prostitutes, mothers, spiritual...
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The Night Listener
by Armistead Maupin
Publisher Comments "I'm a fabulist by trade," warns Gabriel Noone, a late-night radio storyteller, as he begins to untangle the skeins of his tumultuous life: his crumbling ten-year love affair, his disaffection from his Southern father, his longtime weakness for ignoring...
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Uncivil Seasons
by Michael Malone
Publisher Comments The polite Piedmont town of Hillston, North Carolina, wants to go on believing it is still too temperate to require homicide experts. But when the wife of a state senator is found beaten to death, the inner circle of Hillston?s ruling families arranges...
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The Good German
by Joseph Kanon
Publisher Comments Set in Berlin in 1945, a brilliant thriller about the end of one war and the beginning of another, by the bestselling author of Los Alamos. With Hitler finally defeated, Jake Geismar, former Berlin correspondent for CBS, has managed to wrangle one of...
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Borrowed Finery: A Memoir
by Paula Fox
Publisher Comments An exotic, heartbreaking memoir that should finally earn Paula Fox, a distinguished novelist and children's book writer, the audience she has for decades deserved Paula Fox has long been acclaimed as one of America's most brilliant fiction writers...
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The World Below
by Sue Miller
Publisher Comments From the author of While I Was Gone, a stunning new novel that showcases Sue Miller's singular gift for exposing the nerves that lie hidden in marriages and families, and the hopes and regrets that lie buried in the hearts of women. Maine, 1919. Georgia...
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The Center of Things
by Jenny Mcphee
Publisher Comments “Every story is a love story.”–Nora Mars, Evil Love, (1962) Nora Mars–glamour girl, star of stage and screen, B-movie goddess–has slowly aged out of mainstream popularity and quickly slipped into a coma. Known as much for...
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Lying Awake (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Mark Salzman
Powells.com Staff Pick Sister John of the Cross is a nun with special gifts; she is filled with poetry, with love for God and the Innocent Spouse, and with pain (real pain in the form of blinding headaches that give her no rest, but during which she has visions). Something...
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