2004 December
There are 37 books in this aisle.
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Gilead: A Novel
by Marilynne Robinson  
Powells.com Staff Pick A story about faith, love, history and growing old, this book is poignant and lovely. It is a long letter from a father who thinks he is soon to die, to his seven-year-old son. Robinson's command of language, her deep understanding of humanity, and her...
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The Birth of Venus
by Sarah Dunant
Publisher Comments Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family’s Florentine palazzo. A child of the Renaissance, with a precocious...
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Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
by Stephen Greenblatt
Publisher Comments A young man from the provinces — a man without wealth, connections, or university education — moves to London. In a remarkably short time he becomes the greatest playwright not just of his age but of all time. His works appeal to urban...
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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (P.S.)
by Laurence Bergreen
Powells.com Staff Pick Laurence Bergreen brings Magellan's groundbreaking circumnavigation of the globe to life in this excellent, highly readable history. Through exhaustive research, including many first person accounts previously unavailable in English, Bergreen weaves...
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McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories
by Michael Chabon
Publisher Comments Michael Chabon is back with a brand-new collection that reinvigorates the stay-up-all-night, edge-of-the seat, fingernail-biting, page-turning tradition of literary short stories, featuring Margaret Atwood, Stephen King, Peter Straub, David Mitchell...
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The Sweet Science
by A J Liebling
Publisher Comments A.J. Liebling's classic New Yorker pieces on the "sweet science of bruising" bring vividly to life the boxing world as it once was. It depicts the great events of boxing's American heyday: Sugar Ray Robinson's dramatic comeback, Rocky Marciano's rise to...
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The Virgin's Lover
by Philippa Gregory
Publisher Comments In the autumn of 1558, church bells across England ring out the joyous news that Elizabeth I is the new queen. One woman hears the tidings with utter dread. She is Amy Dudley, wife of Sir Robert, and she knows that Elizabeth's ambitious leap to the...
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The Coroner's Lunch
by Colin Cotterill
Publisher Comments "The Coroner's Lunchis marvelous. The setting may be unique in Western fiction, and the characters are unique to themselves. Sweet but not sappy, offbeat but not self-conscious about it, this book doesn't so much pull you in as open a door and let you...
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So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading
by Sara Nelson
Publisher Comments Sometimes subtle, sometimes striking, the interplay between our lives and our books is the subject of this unique memoir by well-known publishing correspondent and self-described readaholic Sara Nelson. From Solzhenitsyn to Laura Zigman, Catherine M. to...
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The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker
by Robert Mankoff and David Remnick
Powells.com Staff Pick Enjoy all the classic New Yorker cartoons in this gorgeous oversized hardcover. Includes two CDs containing every cartoon ever printed (68,647, to be precise)! Recommended by Bolton...
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The Encyclopedia of Guilty Pleasures: 1,001 Things You Hate to Love
by Sam Stall
Publisher Comments Sam Stall, Lou Harry, and Julia Spalding contains 1,001 things we hate to love, from Barry Manilow, The Real World, and Land of the Lost to Members Only jackets and Benny Hill....
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Heloise & Abelard
by James Burge
Publisher Comments The heart-rending love story of Abelard and Heloise was one of the most talked about relationships in the Middle Ages, and is one of the greatest love stories of all time. Peter Abelard was arguably the greatest poet, philosopher, and religious teacher...
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Hello Kitty Everywhere
by Hello Kitty
Publisher Comments Join Hello Kitty as she travels . . . everywhere! This collection of candid photographs chronicles the adventurous and imaginative Hello Kitty as she journeys from the jungle to the moon and from reality to the world of dreams. Hello Kitty surfs the...
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John James Audubon: The Making of an American
by Richard Rhodes
Powells.com Staff Pick Illuminating and engaging, this intimate sketch of a prodigious talent sheds light on Audubon's character as well as his devotion to his art. Recommended by Michal...
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Wolves Eat Dogs
by Martin Cruz Smith
Publisher Comments Arkady Renko returns for his most enigmatic and baffling case: the death of one of Russia's new billionaires, which leads him to the Zone of Exclusion -- Chernobyl, and the surrounding areas closed to the world since the nuclear disaster of 1986. In his...
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Snow in July
by Heather Barbieri
Publisher Comments "A stark and powerful portrait of a family flawed by addiction and betrayal; a family redeemed by love. Heather Barbieri writes with raw honesty and true compassion. This is a novel that stays with you well beyond the last page."-Binnie Kirshenbaum...
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Banewreaker: Volume 1 of the Sundering
by Jacqueline Carey
Publisher Comments Following the triumphant success of her Kushiel series (Kushiel's Dart, Kushiel's Chosen, Kushiel's Avatar), Jacqueline Carey now turns her hand to another startling fable, an epic tale of gods waging war in their bid to control an entire universe and...
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Welcoming Wildlife to the Garden: Creating Backyard and Balcony Habitats for Wildlife
by Catherine J Johnson
Publisher Comments Welcoming Wildlife to the Garden offers ecologically sound gardening and landscaping techniques to turn barren lawns and concrete spaces into hospitable environments for birds, insects, reptiles, amphibians, and mammals. The book takes readers through...
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Hannah Coulter: A Novel
by Wendell Berry
Publisher Comments A return to the fictional town of Port William, Hannah Coulter is the title character's lucid recollection of her long full life. "Ignorant boys, killing each other," is just about all Nathan Coulter would tell his wife about the Battle of Okinawa in...
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Lake of Sorrows
by Erin Hart
Publisher Comments Acclaimed by the critics for her luminous first novel, Haunted Ground, Erin Hart returns with a magnificent new tale of death and destiny, past and present, in an Ireland rich with tradition, myth, and mystery. American forensic pathologist Nora Gavin...
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