2004 January/February
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
by Azar Nafisi  
Publisher Comments Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged...
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Stitch N Bitch the Knitters Handbook
by Debbie Stoller
Publisher Comments Knitting is hot, with 4 million newcomers in the last few years joining a core group of 38,000,000 knitters nationwide. And these are primarily young, creative, connected chicks with sticks who are coming together in living rooms, knitting cafes, and...
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Doga: Yoga for Dogs
by Jennifer Brilliant
Publisher Comments Dogs have always been natural yogis, and their tranquility of mind, ability to be in the moment, and contented outlook are widely considered to be the result of their long and devoted practice of doga. Dogis Benny, Buster, and Cricket practiced in...
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The Snowflake: Winter's Secret Beauty
by Kenneth Libbrecht
Publisher Comments Snowflakes may be an everyday, common subject, but youve never seen them like this! A collection of amazing photography of snow crystals using a unique system designed to take super-detailed micro images of these miniature ice masterpieces, "The...
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Cave (02 Edition)
by Jose Saramago
Publisher Comments Cipriano Algor, an elderly potter, lives with his daughter Marta and her husband Marçal in a small village on the outskirts of The Center, an imposing complex of shops, apartments, and offices to which Cipriano delivers his pots and jugs every...
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Limbo : Blue-collar Roots, White-collar Dreams (04 Edition)
by Alfred Lubrano
Publisher Comments In Limbo, award-winning journalist Alfred Lubrano identifies and describes an overlooked cultural phenomenon: the internal conflict within individuals raised in blue-collar homes, now living white-collar lives. These people often find that the values of...
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Any Human Heart
by William Boyd
Powells.com Staff Pick One of Kathi's Top Five picks for 2004. To read more staff Top Five lists click here....
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The Sound of Paper: Starting from Scratch
by Julia Cameron
Publisher Comments In this landmark book on the creative process, the bestselling author of The Artist's Way reveals the intricate soul work artists must undertake in order to find inspiration. In The Sound of Paper, Julia Cameron delves deep into the heart of the personal...
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Dynamite Road
by Andrew Klavan
Publisher Comments Praise for Andrew Klavan's Man and Wife "Andrew Klavan may be one of the best authors of psychological suspense writing today . . . The story is so richly textured with nuance and moral dilemma, it will have readers searching out his earlier works...
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When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution
by Devra Davis
Publisher Comments In When Smoke Ran Like Water, the world-renowned epidemiologist Devra Davis confronts the public triumphs and private failures of her lifelong battle against environmental pollution. She documents the shocking toll of a public-health disaster-300,000...
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Bet Me
by Jennifer Crusie
Publisher Comments This is New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Crusie's novel about long shots, risk management, true love, and great shoes. . . . Minerva Dobbs knows how to work the odds. Calvin Morrisey always plays to win. But when they face off...
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Vintage Murakami
by Haruki Murakami
Publisher Comments Not since Yukio Mishima and Yasunari Kawabata has a Japanese writer won the international acclaim enjoyed by Haruki Murakami. His genre-busting novels, short stories and reportage, which have been translated into 35 languages, meld the surreal and the...
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Cork Boat
by John Pollack
Publisher Comments In the late 1990s John Pollack was working as a Washington speechwriter when, frustrated by the cynicism and hypocrisy on Capitol Hill, he quit his job to pursue a boyhood dream: to build a boat made entirely of wine corks and take it on an epic journey....
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The Lady and the Unicorn
by Tracy Chevalier
Publisher Comments Bewitching art experts and enthusiasts alike for centuries, the Lady and the Unicorn tapestries hang today in the Cluny Museum in Paris. In each, an elegant lady and a unicorn stand or sit on an island of grass surrounded by a rich background of...
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Seduction of Water
by Carol Goodman
Publisher Comments Iris Greenfeder, ABD (All But Dissertation), feels the “buts” are taking over her life: all but published, all but a professor, all but married. Yet the sudden impulse to write a story about her mother, Katherine Morrissey, leads to a shot at...
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Waiting for an Angel (02 Edition)
by Helon Habila
Publisher Comments Lomba is a journalist living under military rule in Lagos, Nigeria, the most dangerous city in the world. His mind is full of soul music and girls and the lyric novel he is writing. But his roommate is brutally attacked by soldiers; his first love is...
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Idyll Banter: Weekly Excursions to a Very Small Town
by Chris Bohjalian
Publisher Comments In March 1986, while living in Brooklyn, Chris Bohjalian and his wife were cab-napped on a Saturday night and taken on a forty-five-minute joy ride in which the driver ignored all traffic lights and stop signs. Around midnight he deposited the young...
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Mrs. Kimble
by Jennifer Haigh
Publisher Comments In her masterful first novel Mrs. Kimble, Jennifer Haigh delivers the riveting story of three women who marry the same man. Ken Kimble is revealed through the eyes of the women he seduces: his first wife, Birdie, who struggles to hold herself together...
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The Movies of My Life
by Alberto Fuguet
Publisher Comments Beltrán Soler is from Chile, a land in constant movement. A seismologist who knows more about the science of tectonic plate movement than about life, he is cocooned in a world of seismic data, scientific articles, and natural disasters. Beltrán...
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1968: The Year That Rocked the World
by Mark Kurlansky
Publisher Comments In this monumental new book, award-winning author Mark Kurlansky has written his most ambitious work to date: a singular and ultimately definitive look at a pivotal moment in history. With 1968, Mark Kurlansky brings to teeming life the cultural and...
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