2003 July/August
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The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
by Steven Pressfield  
Powells.com Staff Pick Someone finally tells it like it is — you can write that book, you can paint that picture, you can live your dreams. But first you've got to shatter the Resistance that's got you stymied, and that takes (you won't want to hear this) work....
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War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
by Chris Hedges
Powells.com Staff Pick "War is seductive," Hedges tells readers in this powerful and intelligent book. Throughout our history, it has appealed to the human mind by providing a false sense of purpose and the opportunity to rise above everyday life. Using examples from his...
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You Shall Know Our Velocity!
by Dave Eggers
From Powells.com After the death of a close friend, Will and Hand, thoroughly American products of the late twentieth century, decide to travel around the world to distribute — as quickly and frenetically as possible — a whole lot of money. As they maniacally...
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She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders
by Jennifer Finney Boylan
Publisher Comments The exuberant memoir of a man named James who became a woman named Jenny. She's Not There is the story of a person changing genders, the story of a person bearing and finally revealing a complex secret; above all, it is a love story. By turns funny and...
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Bangkok 8
by John Burdett
Powells.com Staff Pick Karma and crime collide in the exotic, erotic environs of a city that's both sensual and spiritual. As spicy and satisfying as a rich Thai meal. B. J., Powells...
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In Buddha's Kitchen: Cooking and Being Cooked at a Meditation Center
by Kimberley Snow
Publisher Comments Kimberley Snow offers an outrageously funny and honest account of her adventures as head cook at a Tibetan Buddhist retreat center. With her earthy sensibility and sharp sense of humor, the author shows this world in a light devoid of preciousness–...
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Confederacy of Silence
by Richard Rubin
Publisher Comments When Richard Rubin, fresh out of the Ivy League, accepts a job at a daily newspaper in the old Delta town of Greenwood, Mississippi, he is thrust into a place as different from his hometown of New York as any in the country. Yet to his surprise, he is...
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Oryx and Crake
by Margaret Atwood
From Powells.com Margaret Atwood's eleventh novel, Oryx and Crake, is one of her most remarkable. Set in a not-too-distant future, many of the experiments with genetics and biotechnology that Atwood describes (think "pigoons," pig-like creatures designed to grow human...
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The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People
by Jonathan Schell
Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 389-414) and index....
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An Obsession with Butterflies: Our Long Love Affair with a Singular Insect
by Sharman Apt Russell
Publisher Comments A delightful look at the science of butterflies — and our obsession with them — by an acclaimed nature writer. Sharman Apt Russell again blends her lush voice and keen scientific eye in this marvelous book about butterflies. From Hindu...
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Easter Island
by Jennifer Vanderbes
Publisher Comments It is 1913. Elsa Pendleton travels from England to Easter Island with her husband, an anthropologist sent by the Royal Geographical Society to study the colossal moai statues, and her younger sister. What begins as familial duty for Elsa becomes a grand...
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Hell at the Breech
by Tom Franklin
Publisher Comments In 1897, in the rural southwestern area of Alabama known as Mitcham Beat, an aspiring politician is mysteriously murdered. Seeking retribution, his outraged friends -- mostly poor cotton farmers -- form a secret society, Hell-at-the-Breech, to punish the...
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Fox Evil
by Minette Walters
Publisher Comments Minette Walters's ninth novel, Fox Evil, set in the seemingly bucolic English countryside, establishes a blistering new standard for contemporary suspense. When elderly Ailsa Lockyer-Fox is found dead in her garden, dressed only in nightclothes and...
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The Pursuit of Alice Thrift
by Elinor Lipman
Publisher Comments Poor Alice Thrift is book-smart but people-hopeless. She's a surgical intern at a Boston hospital, on probation despite honors from Harvard Medical School. When Ray Russo, social-climbing purveyor of carnival fudge, decides to pursue her romantically...
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My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile
by Isabel Allende
Synopsis Allende evokes the magnificent landscapes of her country, a charming, idiosyncratic Chilean people with a violent history and indomitable spirit, and the politics, religion, myth, and magic of her homeland that she carries with her even today....
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Hey Nostradamus!
by Douglas Coupland
Publisher Comments A powerful, surprising, and deeply moving book.In 1988, a catastrophic episode of teen violence changes a suburban community forever. Hey Nostradamus! is Douglas Coupland's keenly observant exploration of this tragic landscape.With unflinching candor and...
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Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
by Michael Lewis
Publisher Comments The Oakland Athletics have a secret: a winning baseball team is made, not bought. "I wrote this book because I fell in love with a story. The story concerned a small group of undervalued professional baseball players and executives, many of whom had...
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The Middle of the Night
by Daniel Stolar
Publisher Comments A preternaturally wise and expansive collection of stories of love and loss, desire and longing, from a startling new voice in American fiction A commanding performance of profound emotional resonance, The Middle of the Night examines the crucial moments...
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Distant Music
by Lee Langley
Publisher Comments On the island of Madeira in 1429, a peasant girl of fifteen meets a boy?a Jewish outsider?off a ship. Esperança is restless, trapped in a world she finds too narrow. Emmanuel teaches her to read. A desire for terra incognita draws them together, but...
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Reunion
by Alan Lightman
Publisher Comments The New York Times has called Alan Lightman “highly original and imaginative.” Each of his novels is a new exploration of that imagination, utterly unlike the others. Einstein’s Dreams, an international best-seller, was a whimsical and...
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