2001 September/October
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The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood  
Powells.com Staff Pick Ever since The Edible Woman was first published in 1969, novelist and poet Margaret Atwood has regularly reaffirmed her position at the head of the table. Atwood possesses extraordinary literary gifts. When she simultaneously taps her world-class...
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Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods
by Julia Butterfl Hill
Publisher Comments On December 18, 1999, Julia Butterfly Hill's feet touched the ground for the first time in over two years, as she descended from "Luna," a thousandyear-old redwood in Humboldt County, California. Hill had climbed 180 feet up into the tree high on a...
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American Gods
by Neil Gaiman
Publisher Comments Shadow is a man with a past. But now he wants nothing more than to live a quiet life with his wife and stay out of trouble. Until he learns that she's been killed in a terrible accident.Flying home for the funeral, as a violent storm rocks the plane, a...
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Trip to the Stars
by Nicholas Christopher
Powells.com Staff Pick "Here is a book to heal a troubled mind. With magical poetic storytelling, this book captures the journey from child to adult through recognition and human awareness." Annabelle, Powells...
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The Noonday Demon
by Andrew Solomon
Publisher Comments With uncommon humanity, candor, wit, and erudition, award-winning author Andrew Solomon takes the reader on a journey of incomparable range and resonance into the most pervasive of family secrets. His contribution to our understanding not only of mental...
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The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times
by Pema Chodron
Publisher Comments In The Places That Scare You, Pema Chö drö n continues the teachings of When Things Fall Apart, showing how at the core of the most painful experiences lie the seeds of spiritual awakening. Here she presents key teachings on recognizing and...
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Love That Dog
by Sharon Creech
Publisher Comments "I guess it does look like a poem when you see it typed up like that."Jack hates poetry. Only girls write it and every time he tries to, his brain feels empty. But his teacher, Ms. Stretchberry, won't stop giving her class poetry assignments -- and Jack...
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The Dance: Moving to the Rhythms of Your True Self
by Oria Mountain Dream
Publisher Comments Welcome to The Dance,the wise and practical book that expands on Oriah Mountain Dreamer's new moving prose poem. In this compelling book the acclaimed author of The Invitationchallenges readers to live with passion, energy, and honesty. The key, says...
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Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
by Billy Collins
Publisher Comments "High, most encouraging tidings"--that is how Billy Collins, the widely read and widely acclaimed poet, describes the music in his poem about the gospel singing group The Sensational Nightingales. The same phrase applies, just as joyfully, to...
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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
by Simon Winchester
Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-310)....
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Fix-It and Forget-It Cookbook: Feasting with Your Slow Cooker
by Dawn J Ranck
Publisher Comments Who's hungry? EVERYONE. Who has time to cook? NO ONE. Dig out the slow cooker. Add a second and a third if you wish. Fill one with main-dish fixins and the others with go-alongs. Do it in the morning or between work and after-school events. Come home to...
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Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St Vincent Millay
by Nancy Milford
Publisher Comments Thirty years after the smashing success of Zelda, Nancy Milford returns with a stunning second act. Savage Beauty is the portrait of a passionate, fearless woman who obsessed American ever as she tormented herself. If F. Scott Fitzgerald was the hero...
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Wild Life (00 Edition)
by Molly Gloss
Powells.com Staff Pick At the turn of the century, in the primeval forest of the Pacific Northwest, a fiery feminist becomes lost. Struggling to survive, night after terrifying night, she is finally rescued by... Bigfoot!? Huh? No, really — this incredible story works...
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The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen
From Powells.com Jonathan Franzen has an impressive resumé. After being named one of the best writers under forty by both the New Yorker and Granta, his third novel went on to win the National Book Award and garner praise from writers as diverse as Don...
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Eva Moves the Furniture
by Margot Livesey
Publisher Comments From a highly acclaimed author, the enchanting story of a motherless young woman torn between real life and the otherwordly companions only she can see. On the morning of Eva McEwen?s birth, six magpies congregate in the apple tree outside the window...
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Power of the Dog, the a Novel
by Thomas Savage
Publisher Comments This new edition of The Power of the Dog marks the return of one of the most powerful and distinctive voices in the literature of the American West. Set in 1920s Montana, this compelling domestic drama tells the story of two brothers?and of the woman...
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Slammerkin
by Emma Donoghue
From Powells.com In Shaw's celebrated play Pygmalion, professor Higgins claims that in the intricacies of the British class system, speech is everything. For Mary Saunders, the heroine of Emma Donoghue's excellent third novel Slammerkin, it's clothes. As a girl, the...
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Love Among the Ruins
by Robert Clark
Publisher Comments A beautifully written story of love, idealism, and our recent history. Amid the crises of the summer of 1968, two teenagers become lovers. Emily is a good Catholic girl, for whom an incarnate God means joy and contentment in the life of the body...
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A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You: Stories
by Amy Bloom
Publisher Comments Amy Bloom was nominated for a National Book Award for her first collection, Come to Me, and her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, Story, Antaeus, and other magazines, and in The Best American Short Stories and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. In...
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Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France's Greatest Treasure
by Don Kladstrup
Publisher Comments In 1940, France fell to the Nazis and almost immediately the German army began a campaign of pillaging one of the assets the French hold most dear: their wine. Like others in the French Resistance, winemakers mobilized to oppose their occupiers, but the...
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