2002 November/December
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
by Sijie Dai  
Publisher Comments Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress is an enchanting tale that captures the magic of reading and the wonder of romantic awakening. An immediate international bestseller, it tells the story of two hapless city boys exiled to a remote mountain village...
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Shoes Outside the Door: Desire, Devotion, and Excess at San Francisco Zen Center
by Michael Downing
Synopsis "Not simply a narrative history: it raises the larger question of what constitutes the Americanization of Zen."...
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Chasing Rumi: A Fable about Finding the Heart's True Desire
by Roger Housden
Publisher Comments Stirred by the potent poetry of Sufi mystic Rumi, a restless young man embarks on a life altering pilgrimage. This enchanting story, set in the late 1940s, takes us from the hills and piazzas of Florence to the green-domed mosques of Konya, Turkey. Upon...
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Erasure
by Percival L. Everett
Publisher Comments Percival Everett's most recent novel, the academic satire Glyph, was hailed by the New York Times as "both a treatise and a romp." His new novel combines a touching story of a man coming to terms with his family heritage and a satiric indictment of race...
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The Little Friend
by Donna Tartt
Publisher Comments The hugely anticipated new novel by the author of The Secret History—a best-seller nationwide and around the world, and one of the most astonishing debuts in recent times—The Little Friend is even more transfixing and resonant. In a small...
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Avoidance
by Michael Lowenthal
Publisher Comments Jeremy struggles to write his dissertation on the Amish and the laws of expulsion. How does someone, excluded entirely from the only community they have ever known, live the rest of their life? After extensive interviews with Beulah—a young woman...
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The Future Homemakers of America
by Laurie Graham
Synopsis In the tradition of "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, " this moving novel, filled with warmth, wit, and wisdom, is about a group of women who discover--over the course of 40 turbulent years--the nature of true friendship....
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The Lost Garden
by Helen Humphreys
Publisher Comments Leaving London to grow food for the war effort, Gwen discovers a mysterious lost garden and the story of a love that becomes her own. This word-perfect, heartbreaking novel is set in early 1941 in Britain when the war seems endless and, perhaps, hopeless....
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Measuring America: How an Untamed Wilderness Shaped the United States and Fulfilled the Promise of Democracy
by Andro Linklater
Publisher Comments Measuring America is the fascinating, provocative, and eye-opening story of why America has ended up with its unique system of weights and measures—the American Customary System, unlike any other in the world—and how this has profoundly...
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Niagara Falls All Over Again
by Elizabeth McCracken
Powells.com Staff Pick Elizabeth McCracken's second novel follows the adventures of comedy duo Carter and Sharp from the last days of vaudeville through World War II-era films and the early days of television. Mose Sharp describes his three-decade collaboration with Rocky...
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My Losing Season
by Pat Conroy
Publisher Comments PAT CONROY—AMERICA’S MOST BELOVED STORYTELLER—IS BACK! “I was born to be a point guard, but not a very good one. . . .There was a time in my life when I walked through the world known to myself and others as an athlete. It was...
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The Dark Bride
by Laura Restrepo
Publisher Comments Already an international bestseller, Laura Restrepo's transcendent new novel is now available in the United States. One of the most provocative writers to emerge from the rich Latin American literary scene, Laura Restrepo is an author whose sensuous mix...
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Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers
by David Edmonds and John Eidinow
Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-327) and index....
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Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper
by Harriet Scott Chessman
Publisher Comments Set in the lively Parisian art world of the 1880s, this novel imagines a poignant time in the lives of the American impressionist Mary Cassatt and her sister, Lydia. Lydia narrates the story as she poses for five of her sister?s paintings. Ill with...
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The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break
by Steven Sherrill
Powells.com Staff Pick The Minotaur, M, a fantastical and once fearsome beast from Greek mythology is now reduced to a mundane existence in the gritty South. M dreams in concussions of memory; he 'dreams himself a zygote....in the dry trough of his birth canal the Minotaur...
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Edgewater Angels
by Sandro Meallet
Publisher Comments Set in the projects of Los Angeles, California, Edgewater Angels chronicles the adolescence of Sunny Toomer, a streetwise young man endlessly sandwiched between the right and wrong thing to do. In a neighborhood where an absentminded stare might be...
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Innocents
by Cathy Coote
Publisher Comments Written when Cathy Coote was nineteen, Innocents is a taut, wickedly clever descent into the anatomy of an obsession, the debut of a precociously assured and provocative young literary voice. Forcing someone vulnerable and naive into a sexual...
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Hello to the Cannibals
by Richard Bausch
Publisher Comments "My heart stopped peacefully, its beating grew slow and weak, and then just -- stopped. I died young. There is, really, only a little to tell." And so ended, in 1900, the short but remarkable life of explorer and writer Mary Henrietta Kingsley, most of...
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The Pharmacist's Mate: A Tale of Birth, Death, Guitars, and Goldfish
by Amy Fusselman
Publisher Comments This book is only sort of about electrical engineering on boats. In fact, it does not really involve engineering at all, though it does involve boats. This is Ms. Fusselman's first book, and while it involves the Navy and WWII, it is at its core a truly...
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The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired
by Francine Prose
From Powells.com In the fascinating Lives of the Muses National Book Award finalist Francine Prose deftly and entertainingly dissects the artist-muse relationship by shifting focus to the women who inspired the genius and obsession of famous men. Many think of...
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