2004 March/April
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Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy
by Carlos Eire  
Publisher Comments "Have mercy on me, Lord, I am Cuban." In 1962, Carlos Eire was one of 14,000 children airlifted out of Cuba -- exiled from his family, his country, and his own childhood by the revolution. The memories of Carlos's life in Havana, cut short when he was...
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What I Loved (03 Edition)
by Siri Hustvedt
Powells.com Staff Pick Poignant and erotic, this sumptuous novel is Hustvedt's best yet. Donna, Powells...
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Pattern Recognition
by William Gibson
Publisher Comments In a post-9/11 world, the present is as unpredictable as any future... Paid to predict the hottest trends, Cayce Pollard is in London to evaluate the redesign of a famous corporate logo when she's offered a different assignment: find the creator of...
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Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls
by Matt Ruff
Powells.com Staff Pick Seattle author Matt Ruff presents one of the most inventive and addictive novels of recent memory. Protagonist Andrew Gage suffers from multiple personality disorder. When he meets a young woman suffering from the same affliction, the fragile coexistence...
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The Dante Club: A Novel
by Matthew Pearl
Publisher Comments Words can bleed. In 1865 Boston, the literary geniuses of the Dante Club — poets and Harvard professors Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell, along with publisher J. T. Fields — are finishing...
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The Guards
by Ken Bruen
Publisher Comments Still stinging from his unceremonious ouster from the Garda Siochana-The Guards, Ireland's police force-and staring at the world through the smoky bottom of his beer mug, Jack Taylor is stuck in Galway with nothing to look forward to. In his sober...
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Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants
by Robert Sullivan
Powells.com Staff Pick Do not attempt this at home! Last time we heard from Sullivan, he was braving the polluted Meadowlands in a canoe. Now, in Rats, he shares his year of nights in a lower Manhattan alley, watching rats in their natural habitat to learn what he can...
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The Beautiful: Collected Poems
by Michelle Tea
Publisher Comments "Tea writes with a raw-hearted, wry but wide-eyed ebullience, rendering dyke bohemia with intense, gritty, glittering romanticism."-The San Francisco Bay Guardian Before penning her contemporary classic Valencia, Tea wrote wonderfully honest narrative...
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The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession
by Mark Obmascik
Powells.com Staff Pick Who knew that bird watching could be so astonishingly competitive? Obmascik's The Big Year follows three birding fanatics, giving us a highly amusing look at the race to hold the record of spotting the most bird species within North America in one year....
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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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Holy Fools
by Joanne Harris
Publisher Comments “ Rapturous ... A dark, seductive exploration of passion and repression that plumbs the depths of the human psyche.”...
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Love in the Driest Season: A Family Memoir
by Neeley Tucker
Publisher Comments Foreign correspondent Neely Tucker and his wife, Vita, arrived in Zimbabwe in 1997. After witnessing firsthand the devastating consequences of AIDS on the population, especially the children, the couple started volunteering at an orphanage that was...
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Baking Illustrated: The Practical Kitchen Companion for the Home Baker
by Cook's Illustrated
Powells.com Staff Pick "This book was not created for aspiring food scientists. It was written for budding food snobs — like me....[N]ow that it's rhubarb season, I'll be able to confidently assess my fellow pie makers' strawberry-rhubarb pies as 'really more fruit soup...
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Good Books Lately
by Ellen Moore
Publisher Comments The inside scoop on book groups--from the nation's leading experts!As book group members across the country have discovered, Ellen Moore and Kira Stevens know everything there is to know about book groups, and then some. The founders of the country's...
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With
by Donald Harington
Publisher Comments Impossible to categorize, With is a sensual, irresistible tale, full of unexpected twists and turns. What starts out as a suspenseful recounting of child abduction evolves into the story of eight-year-old Robin Kerr growing up in the wilds of the Ozarks,...
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Inamorata
by Joseph Gangemi
Publisher Comments In the tradition of Carter Beats the Devil and The Alienist — a historical page-turner and the debut of a spectacular young talent. It is 1920s Philadelphia, a time when the feverish popular obsession with the paranormal is confronted by the...
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Inside Hitler's Bunker: The Last Days of the Third Reich
by Joachim Fest
Publisher Comments There is nothing in recent history that comes close to the cataclysmic events of the spring of 1945. Never before has the defeat of a nation been accompanied by such monumental loss of life, such utter destruction. Author Joachim Fest shows that the...
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Anything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You: Stories
by Laurie Lynn Drummond
Publisher Comments Every night when I go home after shift, I run my hands lightly over my body as I undress. The tips of my fingers catch the new scratches on my hands and arms, tiny red vines, an unreadable map. The burn from the teeth of the cuffs, I remember it catching...
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Aloft
by Chang Rae Lee
Publisher Comments Set on affluent Long Island, Aloft follows the life of a suburban, upper-middle-class man during a time of family crisis. Jerry Battle's favorite diversion is to fly his small plane over the neighboring towns and villages. When his daughter and her fianc...
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Dearest Dorothy, Are We There Yet? (Dearest Dorothy)
by Charlene Baumbich
Publisher Comments For the legions of readers who enjoy books that celebrate lifes simple pleasures, eighty-seven-year-old Dorothy Jean Wetstra and her beloved farming town of Partonville, Illinois, will become instant favorites. In this hilarious, touching series...
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