2003 May/June
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Three Junes
by Julia Glass  
Publisher Comments An astonishing first novel that traces the lives of a Scottish family over a decade as they confront the joys and longings, fulfillments and betrayals of love in all its guises. In June of 1989 Paul McLeod, a newspaper publisher and recent widower...
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Everything Is Illuminated
by Jonathan Safran Foer
Powells.com Staff Pick This book has been out for a few years, and maybe everyone has already read it. It's a story told in three ways: Jonathan Safran Foer is looking for someone who helped his grandfather escape the Nazis during World War II; Alex is the translator Foer...
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Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
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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Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
by Anthony Swofford
Powells.com Staff Pick Excruciatingly direct and exceedingly well written, Anthony Swofford's memoir of Marine Corps life during the 1991 Gulf War is one of the most articulate, unflinching portrayals of military service the public has ever seen. "The individual soldier has...
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
by Marjane Satrapi
Publisher Comments Originally published to wide critical acclaim in France, where it elicited comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Maus, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black...
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The Solace of Leaving Early
by Haven Kimmel
Publisher Comments In her rich and nuanced debut novel, Haven Kimmel brings to life two irresistible people at odds with their small-town lives and with each other. Langston Braverman does not come home to Haddington, Indiana, because she is searching for a simpler...
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Unless
by Carol Shields
Publisher Comments Reta Winters, 44-year-old successful author of lightsummertime fiction, has always considered herself happy, even blessed. That is, until her oldest daughter Norah mysteriously drops out of college to become a panhandler on a Toronto street corner...
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Things You Get for Free
by Michael Mcgirr
Publisher Comments Things You Get for Free is a travelogue rich with charm and wisdom and sparkling with its author's singular wit. As a priest, Michael McGirr decides to take his charming and inimitable mum on the honeymoon she and her late husband never got around to...
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The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
Publisher Comments An epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, that takes us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the atrocities of the present. The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and...
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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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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
by Simon Winchester
Powells.com Staff Pick Krakatoa is the eloquent narrative of the cataclysmic destruction in 1883 of the volcanic island of the same name. Killing nearly 40,000 people (mostly from the resultant tsunamis), this violent eruption was "the most violent explosion ever...
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Shutter Island
by Dennis Lehane
Powells.com Staff Pick When it's too darn hot, open Shutter Island for a thoroughly chilling experience. Lehane describes the book as gothic noir. I'd say it was that, plus intelligent and riveting. Two policemen investigate a disappearance on a remote island psychiatric...
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Pagan Babies: And Other Catholic Memories
by Gina Cascone
Publisher Comments As a child, Gina Cascone would hide under her bed, in the closet, and run away from her parents, hoping somehow to escape her worst fear. But she couldn't hide from the awful truth... She had to go to Catholic school. Do nuns have legs? Is Original Sin...
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By the Lake
by John Mcgahern
Publisher Comments With this magnificently assured new novel, John McGahern reminds us why he has been called the Irish Chekhov, as he guides readers into a village in rural Ireland and deftly, compassionately traces its natural rhythms and the inner lives of its people...
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A Million Little Pieces
by James Frey
Publisher Comments Intense, unpredictable, and instantly engaging, A Million Little Pieces is a story of drug and alcohol abuse and rehabilitation as it has never been told before. Recounted in visceral, kinetic prose, and crafted with a forthrightness that rejects piety...
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The Bobby Gold Stories
by Anthony Bourdain
Publisher Comments Bestselling author Tony Bourdain is back with a new novel, his first fiction since the groundbreaking success of Kitchen Confidential. Bobby Gold is a loveable criminal. After doing ten years in the clinker, he's out and ready for work. With not even an...
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Getting Mother's Body
by Suzan-Lori Parks
Publisher Comments Billy Beede, the teenage daughter of the fast-running, no-account, and six-years-dead Willa Mae, comes home one day to find a fateful letter waiting for her: Willa Mae’s burial spot in LaJunta, Arizona, is about to be plowed up to make way for a...
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In the Shadow of Memory (American Lives)
by Floyd Skloot
Publisher Comments In December 1988, Floyd Skloot was stricken by a virus that targeted his brain. The resulting damage left him totally disabled and utterly changed. In the Shadow of Memory is a candid memoir of living with a brain and a mind that have suddenly been...
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
by Azar Nafisi
Publisher Comments We all have dreams — things we fantasize about doing and generally never get around to. This is the story of Azar Nafisi?s dream and of the nightmare that made it come true. For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered seven young...
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The Book of Dead Birds
by Gayle Brandeis
Publisher Comments Winner of Barbara Kingsolver's Bellwether Prize, an award in support of a literature of social responsibility, The Book of Dead Birds is an intimate portrait of a young woman at a defining moment in her life, who stands at the intersection of two...
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