2004 June
There are 34 books in this aisle.
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We Need to Talk about Kevin
by Lionel Shriver  
Publisher Comments “ This is heavy material, but Ms. Shriver tackles it with admirable panache.”...
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Used: $7.95 Hardcover List Price $24.95
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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
by David Sedaris
Powells.com Staff Pick One of these days I'll find the time to construct an actual review of Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, but until I do let these words stand as my pledge: You will not regret purchasing this book. Further: You're unlikely to find more pure...
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Used: $9.50 Hardcover List Price $23.95
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Truth and Beauty: A Friendship
by Ann Patchett
Powells.com Staff Pick Patchett's eloquent prose gives a vivid portrait of the friendship that she and Lucy Grealy shared. I applaud Patchett's honesty and her refusal to gloss over the difficulties of their friendship. When I found out that Lucy Grealy had died, I was stunned...
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Eventide
by Kent Haruf
From Powells.com National Book Award nominee Kent Haruf returns with the successor to his acclaimed, bestselling, and, one must add, truly beloved novel Plainsong. Eventide brings back several characters from the earlier book — the McPheron brothers...
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Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story
by Timothy B. Tyson
Powells.com Staff Pick "We cannot address the place we find ourselves because we will not acknowledge the road that brought us here." No law can ever change the hearts of men. Timothy B. Tyson chronicles the painful legacies of racism in Oxford, North Carolina, in 1970. The...
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Used: $5.75 Hardcover List Price $21.95
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Like a Charm: A Novel in Voices
by Karin Slaughter
Publisher Comments Desire leaves a man destroyed ... A young girl's curiosity reveals secrets better left hidden ... Jealousy drives a woman mad ... An obsession with numbers precipitates a deadly revenge ... Ambition leads to a curious exchange ... An uncanny likeness...
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You Remind Me of Me: A Novel
by Dan Chaon
Powells.com Staff Pick The gift of this novel is the aftershocks it effects. While enduring the jolts of its dark and stormy plot you roll with the punches, but when the commotion ceases you add it to your list of survival stories. Donna, Powells...
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The Book Club Cookbook
by Judy Gelman
Publisher Comments Featuring recipes and food-related discussion ideas for one hundred popular book club selections, The Book Club Cookbook guides readers in selecting and preparing culinary masterpieces that tie in just right with the literary masterpieces their club is...
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Birds of a Feather
by Jacqueline Winspear
Publisher Comments Praise for Maisie Dobbs: "Maisie Dobbs is a quirky literary creation. If you cross-pollinated Vera Brittain's classic World War I memoir, Testament of Youth, with Dorothy Sayers's Harriet Vane mysteries and a dash of the old PBS series Upstairs...
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The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations
by James Surowiecki
Powells.com Staff Pick Using anecdotes and statistics from such diverse sources as pre-election polls, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, traffic patterns, and jelly bean jars, The Wisdom of Crowds persuasively demonstrates that groups of people are usually smarter than their...
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The Laments: A Novel
by George Hagen
Publisher Comments Meet the Laments — the affably dysfunctional globetrotting family at the center of George Hagen?s exuberant debut novel. Howard is an engineer who dreams of irrigating the Sahara and lives by the motto "Laments move!" His wife Julia is a fiery...
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Murder in the Bastille (Aimée Leduc Investigation)
by Cara Black
Publisher Comments "Cara Black books are good companions, and Murder in the Bastilleespecially so. Fine characters, good suspense, but, best of all, they are transcendentally, seductively, irresistibly French. If you can't go, these will do fine. Or, better, go and bring...
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Something Borrowed
by Emily Giffin
Publisher Comments Everyone is raving about Emily Giffin and Something Borrowed! "Emily Giffin brings a fresh, new voice to women's fiction. Something Borrowed is a deftly written and convincing tale of a friendship gone comically---and at times poignantly---awry." - Meg...
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The Book of Dead Birds
by Gayle Brandeis
Publisher Comments Ava Sing Lo has been accidentally killing her mother's birds since she was a little girl. Now in her twenties, Ava leaves her native San Diego for the Salton Sea, where she volunteers to help environmental activists save thousands of birds poisoned by...
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The Work of Wolves
by Kent Meyers
Publisher Comments When fourteen-year-old Carson Fielding bought his first horse from Magnus Yarborough, it became clear that the teenager was a better judge of horses than the rich landowner was of humans. Years later, Carson, now a skilled and respected horse trainer...
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The Hamilton Case
by Michelle De Kretser
Publisher Comments Having come of age on the island nation of Ceylon, Sam Obeysekere is a lawyer whose life is guided by the British culture that dominates his homeland. Educated at Oxford, with a dazzling career in his sights, Sam is more English than the English. Only...
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Crazy Woman Creek: Women Rewrite the American West
by Linda M Hasselstrom
Publisher Comments Crazy Woman Creek is a collection of prose and poetry about real women in the West and their connection to a larger whole. Long troubled by the misguided images of skinny cowgirls on prancing palominos, the editors embarked on a mission to set the record...
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Ursula, Under (Shannon Ravenel Books)
by Ingrid Hill
Publisher Comments In Michigan's upper peninsula, a dangerous rescue effort draws the ears and eyes of the entire country. A two-and-a-half-year-old girl has fallen down a mine shaftand#8212;andquot;the only sound is an astonished tiny intake of breath from Ursula as she...
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Out of the Deep I Cry
by Julia Spencer-Fleming
Publisher Comments Award winning author Julia Spencer-Fleming does it again in this third mystery featuring Rev. Clare Fergusson and Sheriff Russ Van Alstyne in the small town of Millers Kill, N.Y. As the small town's gossip increasingly speculates about the Rev.'s...
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The Italian Boy: A Tale of Murder and Body Snatching in 1830s London
by Sarah Wise
Powells.com Staff Pick The story of the "Italian boy" murder case was fodder for many of the lurid body-snatching tales that later emerged from the pens of Edgar Allen Poe, Mary Shelley, and Bram Stoker. This absorbing narrative evokes Fagin and Bill Sykes, the charred alleys,...
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