2002 July/August
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Choke: A Novel
by Chuck Palahniuk  
Publisher Comments Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times. Needing to pay elder care for his mother, Victor has devised an ingenious scam: he pretends to choke on pieces of food while dining in upscale restaurants. He then allows...
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The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake
by Breece Dj Pancake
Powells.com Staff Pick "I give you my word of honor that he is merely the best writer, the most sincere writer I've ever read. What I suspect is that it hurt too much, was no fun at all to be that good." — Kurt Vonnegut At the age of 26, Breece D'J Pancake took his...
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The Lovely Bones
by Alice Sebold
Publisher Comments When we first meet Susie Salmon, she is already in heaven. As she looks down from this strange new place, she tells us, in the fresh and spirited voice of a fourteen-year-old girl, a tale that is both haunting and full of hope. In the weeks following...
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Ghost World
by Daniel Clowes
Publisher Comments Ghost World avoids all the clichés of the gen-X genre, presenting a melancholy, affecting portrait of two teen-age girls, best friends whose intertwined lives afford them a certain sanity, while the threat of separation brings home the tenuousnes of...
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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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Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman
by Alice Steinbach
Publisher Comments "In many ways, I was an independent woman," writes Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Alice Steinbach. "For years I'd made my own choices, paid my own bills, shoveled my own snow." But somehow she had become dependent in quite another way. "I had fallen...
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Perma Red
by Debra Magpie Earling
Publisher Comments Louise White Elk dreams of both belonging and escape, and of discovering love and freedom on her own terms. But she is a red-haired, tough, and beautiful temptation, and at least three men, each more dangerous than the other, want to control and possess...
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Caricature
by Daniel Clowes
Synopsis A collection of tales populated by misanthropic loners, including the title story in which a county fair caricaturist develops a relationship with an unstable girl who may or may not be the teenage daughter of a famous artist....
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Staircase of a Thousand Steps
by Masha Hamilton
Publisher Comments Staircase of a Thousand Steps lifts the veil from a mystical land where jasmine and dung mix and where men and women embrace the inconceivable. In a Middle Eastern village that traces its history back to Abraham, the men gather nightly beneath a tree...
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The God File
by Frank Turner Hollon
Publisher Comments Gabriel Black finds himself sentenced to prison for life without the possibility of parole for a murder he did not commit. In a twisted expression of honor, he takes responsibility for the action of a woman he loves and pays for it with his freedom....
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Folly
by Laurie R King
Synopsis Making its paperback debut is a bestselling, chilling tale of a woman who begins an ambitious and desperate undertaking which may transform her life . . . .or end it....
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Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
by Nirad C Chaudhuri
Publisher Comments Beautifully evoking the sights and sounds, rituals and routines of town and countryside, Nirad Chaudhuri's memoir begins with his childhood in turn-of-the-century Bengal. He then leads the reader through the labyrinth of Calcutta, charting the course of...
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The Wilder Shores of Love
by Lesley Blanch
Publisher Comments For the four women included in this classic volume of biography, the wilder shores of love lay east of their native Europe—in Arabia, for Victorian Isabel Arundell, who married the defiantly unorthodox social outlaw and adventurer Burton of Arabia;...
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How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
by Toby Young
Publisher Comments In 1995 high-flying British journalist Toby Young left London for New York to become a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Other Brits had taken Manhattan-Alistair Cooke then, Anna Wintour now-so why couldn't he? But things didn't quite go according to...
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The Go-Between
by L P Hartley
Publisher Comments Summering with a fellow schoolboy on a great English estate, Leo, the hero of L. P. Hartley's finest novel, encounters a world of unimagined luxury. But when his friend's beautiful older sister enlists him as the unwitting messenger in her illicit love...
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Running with Scissors: A Memoir
by Augusten Burroughs
Powells.com Staff Pick "Burroughs has a way of writing reminiscent of David Sedaris. His mock-naivete is a little shocking, a little naughty. He confesses to things that most people just don't admit to in polite conversation. But the twinkle in the eye is there, the nudge in...
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Meet John Trow
by Tom Dyja
Publisher Comments Steven Armour, though only forty, is already fighting off a midlife crisis — his once-brilliant career fizzling, his marriage going stale, his inner life taking strange, disorienting turns. Then, on an impulse, Steven joins a group of Civil War...
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The Emperor of Ocean Park
by Stephen L. Carter
Powells.com Staff Pick An exceptional legal thriller. When law professor Talcott Garland's father dies mysteriously he inherits "the arrangements." He doesn't know what these are but it seems that someone wants them badly enough to commit murder for them. Talcott is...
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Rush Home Road
by Lori Lansens
Publisher Comments When Addy Shadd was a young girl living in Rusholme, she was taught the history of her town, which was settled by fugitive slaves in the 1800s. It was told to her like a storybook legend — and although Addy is forced to leave her beloved home as a...
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Drake's Fortune: The Fabulous True Story of the World's Greatest Confidence Artist
by Richard Rayner
Synopsis Relying on a wealth of research, much of it either previously undiscovered or unavailable, Rayner (whose father was a con man) follows every twist and turn of Oscar Hartzell's amazing career during the 1930s, and discovers a classic saga of the American...
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