2003 March/April
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The Secret Life of Bees
by Sue Monk Kidd  
Publisher Comments Sue Monk Kidd's ravishing debut novel has stolen the hearts of reviewers and readers alike with its strong, assured voice. Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred...
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Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
by Christopher Moore
Powells.com Staff Pick Christopher Moore's Lamb is an utterly hilarious take on the story of Jesus. Told from the perspective of Jesus' smart-ass best friend, Biff, it is irreverent without being disrespectful. Lamb, or any of Moore's books, would be perfect for someone who...
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Atonement
by Ian McEwan
Publisher Comments Ian McEwan, Booker Prize-winning author of Amsterdam, has created a symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness that provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative combined with the provocation we have come to...
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The Life Before Her Eyes
by Laura Kasischke
Publisher Comments Diana stands before the mirror preening with her best friend, Maureen. Suddenly, a classmate enters holding a gun, and Diana sees her life dance before her eyes. In a moment the future she was just imagining--a doting wife and mother at the age of forty--...
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Don't Let's Go To the Dogs Tonight : an African Childhood (01 Edition)
by Alexandra Fuller
Powells.com Staff Pick In her 2001 debut, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller recalled in vivid, often excruciating detail coming of age in Rhodesia as a long civil war raged in neighboring Mozambique and her own country slid down the violent path toward an...
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The Eyre Affair :Thursday Next #01
by Jasper Fforde
Powells.com Staff Pick The Eyre Affair took me a little time to really get into, but once Thursday Next — a literary detective from the future — enters Charlotte Bronte's novel and tries to save Jane and the story, the book is thoroughly fun, with all the digs at the...
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All Over Creation
by Ruth Ozeki
Publisher Comments The quirkily titled My Year of Meats took the literary community by storm, garnering widespread, glowing reviews, awards, and a still-growing readership for first-time author Ruth Ozeki. Newsweek declared it "a feast that leaves you hungry for whatever...
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What I Loved
by Siri Hustvedt
Powells.com Staff Pick Poignant and erotic, this sumptuous novel is Hustvedt's best yet. Donna, Powells...
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Pattern Recognition
by William Gibson
Publisher Comments Cayce Pollard is an expensive, spookily intuitive market-research consultant. In London on a job, she is offered a secret assignment: to investigate some intriguing snippets of video that have been appearing on the Internet. An entire subculture of...
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The Impressionist
by Hari Kunzru
Synopsis Sweeping from India to England to France and Africa and played out on a teeming world canvas, "The Impressionist" is the unforgettable riches-to-rags story of a boy who is born into a lie and must adapt--or perish....
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Hamlet's Dresser: A Memoir
by Bob Smith
Publisher Comments The true story of a boy whose life was saved by literature, Hamlet's Dresser is a portrait of a person made whole by art. Bob Smith's childhood was a fragile and lonely one, spent largely caring for his handicapped sister, Carolyn. But at age ten, his...
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Enemy Women
by Paulette Jiles
Publisher Comments For the Colleys of southeastern Missouri, the War between the States is a plague that threatens devastation, despite the family's avowed neutrality. For eighteen-year-old Adair Colley, it is a nightmare that tears apart her family and forces her and her...
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Claire Marvel
by John Burnham Schwartz
Publisher Comments In his enthralling new novel, John Burnham Schwartz tells a story as old as romance itself with heart-stopping freshness and immediacy. During a rainstorm a young man takes refuge beneath a girl's yellow umbrella and falls in love. The man is Julian Rose,...
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The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown
Powells.com Staff Pick Enjoy a great thriller? You will love this relentlessly paced tale. It's full of fascinating historical details about western art, the mystery of the grail, and hidden codes. You won't be able to put it down but you'll want to look up secret societies...
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Number 9 Dream (01 Edition)
by David Mitchell
Powells.com Staff Pick Against the hyperkinetic backdrop of twenty-first-century Tokyo, Eiji Miyake searches for the father who abandoned him. Dreams and fantasy, fact and fiction merge in a complex narrative that rewards the ambitious reader. David Mitchell continues to prove...
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Brides of the Bloodstone #3: Captured by Your Kiss
by Jen Holling
Publisher Comments Scotland, 1542: the ancient feud between the proud Maxwell clan and the Grahams threatens to ignite into full-blown war. The legendary Clachan Fala, the Bloodstone, can bring an end to the age-old rivalry. Headstrong Mona Graham is the only one who knows...
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War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
by Chris Hedges
Publisher Comments General George S. Patton famously said, "Compared to war all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God, I do love it so!" Though Patton was a notoriously single-minded general, it is nonetheless a sad fact that war gives meaning to many...
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Almost There: The Onward Journey of a Dublin Woman
by Nuala O'Faolain
Publisher Comments In 1996, a small Irish press approached Nuala O'Faolain, then a writer for The Irish Times, to publish a collection of her opinion columns. She offered to compose an introduction for the volume, and that undertaking blossomed into an accidental memoir of...
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Servants of the Map : Stories (02 Edition)
by Andrea Barrett
Powells.com Staff Pick "This award-winning author continues to chronicle our wonder of the world. She did it in Ship Fever (winner of the 1996 National Book Award) and The Voyage of the Narwhal, and does it again in this collection of powerful, sometimes gut-wrenching stories....
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The Songs of the Kings
by Barry Unsworth
Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-338)....
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