2003 September/October
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True Story of Hansel and Gretel (03 Edition)
by Louise Murphy  
Publisher Comments In the last months of the Nazi occupation of Poland, two children are left by their father and stepmother to find safety in a dense forest. Because their real names will reveal their Jewishness, they are renamed "Hansel" and "Gretel." They wander in the...
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In Me Own Words: The Autobiography of Bigfoot
by Graham Roumieu
Publisher Comments Roumieu, whose illustrations have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Progressive, reveals the hairy hominids's brave struggles with eating disorders, casual cannibalism, and philosophical quandaries ("Me once...
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Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
by Tony Horwitz
Powells.com Staff Pick In a highly entertaining adventure, Tony Horwitz rides the wake of Captain James Cook, recreating the history of his pioneering voyages, the stories of his island landings, and the lasting impact his contact had on the indigenous populations...
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Off to the Side
by Jim Harrison
Publisher Comments Selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, 'Off to the Side' is the tale of one of America's most beloved writers, Jim Harrison....
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Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
by David Von Drehle
Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-325) and index....
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The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth about Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage
by Cathi Hanauer
Powells.com Staff Pick Great essays like these give you an opportunity to look at the world through another person's eyes and re-examine your own experiences. The 26 included here take you on a journey through the a myriad women's lives. I laughed, I cried, I felt better about...
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Across the Nightingale Floor: Tales of the Otori, Book One
by Lian Hearn
Powells.com Staff Pick The first in a trilogy, Across the Nightingale Floor is being compared with the likes of the Pullman Trilogy, Harry Potter, and Lord of the Rings — and rightly so. It is easily the best fantasy novel I've read in quite a while. The story line...
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The Last Girls
by Lee Smith
Synopsis Revered for her powerful female characters, Smith tells a brilliant story of how college pals who grew up in an era when they were still called "girls" have negotiated life as "women." A "New York Times" bestseller in hardcover....
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Mountains beyond Mountains
by Tracy Kidder
Powells.com Staff Pick Beautifully told, and entirely inspiring, Mountains Beyond Mountains is an exceptional look at the heroic life of Dr. Paul Farmer. Providing health care for hundreds of thousands in a remote, impoverished region of Haiti, Farmer's incomparable dedication...
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Mailman
by J Robert Lennon
Publisher Comments This extraordinary novel is a blackly comic epic, a twisted voyage through small-town America, which tells the story of a brilliant, neurotic man desperately in search of love. Albert Lippincott is a resident of Nestor, New York—mailman...
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The Crimson Petal and the White
by Michel Faber
Powells.com Staff Pick This entertaining and morally persuasive portrait of 19th-century London society, from the lowliest of the low to the haughtiest of the high, has been widely hailed as "Dickensian." A better term would be "hyper-Dickensian." Faber's filthy guttersnipes...
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How to Breathe Underwater: Stories
by Julie Orringer
Powells.com Staff Pick One of Dave's Top Five picks for 2004. To read more staff Top Five lists click here....
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Almost French Love & a New Life in Paris
by Sarah Turnbull
Publisher Comments The charming true story of a spirited young woman who finds adventure--and the love of her life--in Paris. "This isn't like me. I'm not the sort of girl who crosses continents to meet up with a man she hardly knows. Paris hadn't even been part of my...
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Plot Thickens : 8 Ways To Bring Fiction To Life (02 Edition)
by Noah Lukeman
Publisher Comments As a literary agent, Noah Lukeman hears thousands of book pitches a year. Often the stories sound great in concept, but never live up to their potential on the page. Lukeman shows beginning and advanced writers how to implement the fundamentals of...
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Grass for His Pillow: Tales of the Otori, Book 2
by Lian Hearn
Publisher Comments Book II of the internationally bestselling phenomenon Tales of the Otori trilogy, Grass for His Pillow returns us to a mythical, medieval Japan, in a story of clashing powers, divided loyalties, and passionate love played out on a dazzling landscape....
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Moon's Crossing
by Barbara Croft
Publisher Comments A stunning, cinematic debut novel set at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, Moon's Crossing explores a unique time in American history, when the romantic heritage of the nineteenth century merged with the industrial temperament of the modern age. Jim Moon...
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Last Train To Paradise
by Les Standiford
Publisher Comments Last Train to Paradise is acclaimed novelist Les Standiford’s fast-paced and gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key West Railroad—one of the greatest engineering feats ever undertaken...
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Deafening
by Frances Itani
Publisher Comments Elegantly written and profoundly moving, Deafening sent an uncommon roar through the literary world when it made its way into the hands of its first readers at this past year's Frankfurt Book Fair, and was immediately snapped up by twelve eminent...
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The Namesake
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Publisher Comments Jhumpa Lahiri's debut story collection, Interpreter of Maladies, took the literary world by storm when it won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000. Fans who flocked to her stories will be captivated by her best-selling first novel, now in paperback for the first...
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Beans: Four Principles for Running a Business in Good Times
by Leslie Yerkes
Publisher Comments Though fictionalized, this book is based on a true story of Monorail Espresso, a legend in its own time in Seattle. This coffee company prospered by intentionally staying small in the cut-throat coffee capital of the country. People are yearning to...
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