2002 March/April
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by Malcolm Gladwell  
Powells.com Staff Pick Somewhere along the way to guru-dom, Malcolm Gladwell got tagged as a business writer. Fair enough — The Tipping Point speaks more powerfully to the principles of succesful marketing than any pedestrian semester in the classroom. But while raves...
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Tell No One
by Harlan Coben
Publisher Comments For Dr. David Beck, the loss was shattering. 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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Letters to a Young Contrarian
by Christopher Hitchens
Publisher Comments "Art of Mentoring" seriesIn the book that he was born to write, provocateur and best-selling author Christopher Hitchens inspires future generations of radicals, gadflies, mavericks, rebels, angry young (wo)men, and dissidents. Who better to speak to...
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Palestine
by Joe Sacco
Publisher Comments A single volume collection of the landmark novel by Joe Sacco....
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The Birds of Heaven: Travels with Cranes
by Peter Matthiessen
Publisher Comments Cranes are ubiquitous in the earliest legends of the world's peoples, where they often figure as sentinels of heaven and omens of longevity and good fortune. For their great beauty and imposing size — they are the largest of all flying birds on...
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The Apprentice Lover
by Jay Parini
Publisher Comments A poet and biographer, Jay Parini is also a novelist whose fiction has been acclaimed as "dazzli/ng," (Los Angeles Times) "achingly beautiful," (Washington Post) and "a subtle masterpiece" (John Bayley in the Times Literary Supplement). In his new novel,...
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Breaking Clean
by Judy Blunt
Synopsis An astonishing literary debut: the true story of a remarkable woman's life in the contemporary American West, where the lessons she learned carried her through blizzards, devastating prairie fires, and extreme isolation....
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Lucky Us: A Novel
by Joan Silber
Publisher Comments Early praise for Lucky Us Joan Silber has written a novel both contemporary and timeless about love, its unexpected possibilities and limitations, and about the role of fate in all our lives. Her richly imagined characters and lovely prose make every...
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Observatory Mansions
by Edward Carey
Publisher Comments Once the Orme family’s magnificent ancestral estate, Observatory Mansions is now a crumbling apartment complex, home to an eccentric group of misfits. One of them is Francis Orme, who earns his livelihood as a living statue. When not practicing...
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In Sunlight in a Beautiful Garden
by Kathleen Cambor
Publisher Comments In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Gardenis the story of a bittersweet romance set against the backdrop of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania, flood -- a tragedy that cost some 2,200 lives when the South Fork Dam burst on Memorial Day weekend, 1889. The dam was the...
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The Gardens of Kyoto
by Kate Walbert
Publisher Comments I had a cousin, Randall, killed on Iwo Jima. Have I told you? So begins Kate Walbert's beautiful and heartbreaking novel about a young woman, Ellen, coming of age in the long shadow of World War II. Forty years later she relates the events of this period,...
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The Diagnosis
by Alan Lightman
Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of Einstein’s Dreams comes this harrowing tale of one man's struggle to cope in a wired world, even as his own biological wiring short-circuits. As Boston’s Red Line shuttles Bill Chalmers to work one summer...
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Otherwise: Three Novels
by John Crowley
Publisher Comments The DeepIn a twilight land, two warring powers -- the Reds and the Blacks -- play out an ancient game of murder and betrayal. Then a Visitor from beyond the sky arrives to play a part in this dark and bloody pageant. From the moment he is found by two...
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Kissing the Virgin's Mouth
by Donna Gershten
Publisher Comments Chapter One "I thank the dark Virgin, morena like me..." There are many who will tell you that the dark-skinned girls, las morenitas, have got no chance. But when I was a girl, I noted the Virgen de Guadalupe, her with the important job of taking care of...
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Deep in the Shade of Paradise
by John Dufresne
Synopsis Welcome to Shiver-De-Freeze, a boot-shaped precinct deep in the Louisiana swamp, famous for its healing waters and curious fauna. With his signature tragic-comic voice and cast of unforgettable and lively characters, DuFresne explores love, death...
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Absolute Zero
by Chuck Logan
Publisher Comments On one of the coldest nights in Minnesota history, the difference between life and death is literally the blink of an eye for Phil Broker, until recently St. Paul's most successful undercover cop. That blink will convey the urgent warning of a comatose...
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Miracle at St. Anna
by James Mcbride
Publisher Comments James McBride's powerful memoir, The Color of Water, was a publishing phenomenon, spending more than two years on the New York Times bestsellers list and becoming required reading in high schools and colleges across the country. Now, in his long-awaited...
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Fruitflesh
by Gayle Brandeis
Publisher Comments If you want to tap into your most authentic source of creativity -- if you hunger to express yourself, to free the stories that swirl within you -- thenFruitflesh was writtenfor you. Structured around the growing cycle -- seeds, roots, trunk, branches...
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Esther Stories
by Peter Orner
Publisher Comments Peter Orner explores the impact of life's essential moments, those brief but far-reaching occasions that haunt his characters. The discovery of a crime, a theatrical performance in a small town, or the recollection of a cruel wartime decision are...
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The Good Men: A Novel of Heresy
by Charmaine Craig
Publisher Comments Charmaine Craig was studying medieval history at Harvard when she first encountered the startling testimony of Grazida Lizier, a young woman tried by the Inquisition in 1320. Even after she was accepted into the MFA program at the University of...
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