2002 May/June
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Riders
by Tim Winton  
Publisher Comments After traveling through Europe for two years, Scully and his wife Jennifer wind up in Ireland, and on a mystical whim of Jennifer's, buy an old farmhouse which stands in the shadow of a castle. While Scully spends weeks alone renovating the old house...
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Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing
by Margaret Atwood
Publisher Comments What is the role of the Writer? Prophet? High Priest of Art? Court Jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and writing career, Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors which writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain-...
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Noonday Demon
by Andrew Solomon
Publisher Comments The Noonday Demon examines depression in personal, cultural, and scientific terms. Drawing on his own struggles with the illness and interviews with fellow sufferers, doctors and scientists, policy makers and politicians, drug designers and philosophers,...
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Cloudstreet
by Tim Winton
Publisher Comments Hailed as a classic, Tim Winton's masterful family saga is both a paean to working-class Australians and an unflinching examination of the human heart's capacity for sorrow, joy, and endless gradations in between. An award-winning work, Cloudstreet...
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Complications
by Atul Gawande
Publisher Comments In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge. Complications lays bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is —...
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Rural Studio
by Andrea Oppenheimer Dean
Synopsis For almost ten years, Samuel Mockbee, a recent MacArthur Grant recipient, and his architecture students at Auburn University have been designing and building striking houses and community buildings for impoverished residents of Alabama's Hale County...
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The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint
by Brady Udall
Publisher Comments If I could tell you only one thing about my life it would be this: when I was seven years old the mailman ran over my head. As formative events go, nothing else comes close. With these words Edgar Mint, half-Apache and mostly orphaned, makes his...
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Love Is the Killer App
by Tim Sanders
Publisher Comments Are you wondering what the next killer app will be? Do you want to know how you can maintain and add to your value during these rapidly changing times? Are you wondering how the word love can even be used in the context of business? Instead of wondering,...
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Unless
by Carol Shields
Publisher Comments I'm not interested, the way some people are, in being sad. I've had a look, and there's nothing down that road. Well now! What about the ripping sound behind my eyes, the starchy tearing of fabric, end to end; what about the need I have to curl up my...
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Riot and Remembrance: The Tulsa Race War and Its Legacy
by James S Hirsch
Publisher Comments A best-selling author investigates the causes of the twentieth century's deadliest race riot and how its legacy has scarred and shaped a community over the past eight decades. On a warm night in May 1921, thousands of whites, many deputized by the local...
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The Years of Rice and Salt
by Kim S Robinson
Publisher Comments With the incomparable vision and breathtaking detail that brought his now-classic Mars trilogy to vivid life, bestselling author KIM STANLEY ROBINSON boldly imagines an alternate history of the last seven hundred years. In his grandest work yet, the...
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The Company
by Robert Littell
Synopsis With a sharp eye for the pathos and absurdity of the Cold War, Robert Littell crafted his first novel, the now legendary spy thriller The Defection of A.J. Lewinter. Christopher Lehmann-Haupt of The New York Times called it "a perfect little gem, the...
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The Final Season: Fathers, Sons, and One Last Season in a Classic American Ballpark (Honoring a Detroit Legend)
by Tom Stanton
Publisher Comments Maybe your dad took you to ball games at Fenway, Wrigley, or Ebbets. Maybe the two of you watched broadcasts from Yankee Stadium or Candlestick Park, or listened as Red Barber or Vin Scully called the plays on radio. Or maybe he coached your team or just...
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Not by Accident: Reconstructing a Careless Life
by Samantha Dunn
Publisher Comments A nearly fatal riding accident forces a young woman to examine just what it is inside herself-and other people-that invites carelessness and injury. "God touches us with a feather to get our attention. Then, if we don't listen, he starts throwing bricks."...
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The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature
by Neal Pollack
From Powells.com I don't know who decided to call this twiggy little volume of nebbishy rubbish a "Great Deal." It's neither great — hah, that's a laugh — nor is it a deal. In fact, spending money on Neal Pollack's pompous reminiscences and...
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In the Forest
by Edna Obrien
Publisher Comments IN THE FOREST returns to the countryside of western Ireland, the vivid backdrop of Edna O'Brien's previous novel, WILD DECEMBERS. Murder is again the story's climax, but the killer's motives are deeply buried in his psychoses rather than triggered by...
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Lost Nation
by Jeffrey Lent
Synopsis Bestselling author Lent retruns with "Lost Nation." Set in the early 19th century, the story opens with a man known only as Blood guiding an oxcart of rum toward a land where the luckless--or outlawed--have made a fresh start....
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Summer in Baden-Baden
by Leonid Tsypkin
Synopsis Fyodor Dostoyevsky first met Anna Grigor'yevna Snitkina in St. Petersburg in 1866. Within four weeks he had dictated his novel The Gambler to her and two weeks later he asked her to be his wife. In April 1867 the couple went on a journey that lasted more...
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Blue Bear
by Lynn Schooler
Powells.com Staff Pick Nature writing at its best. Lynn Schooler, an Alaskan nature guide and photographer, tells the story of his friendship with renowned Japanese photographer Michio Hoshino. This friendship and their quest to photograph the almost mythical blue...
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
by Laura Hillenbrand
From Powells.com Occasionally a sporting hero comes along and takes a nation by storm, breaking records and physically achieving the seemingly impossible. Olympic athletes winning gold medals can bring out feverish national pride, a sporting representation of Us...
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