2004 May
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The Devil's Highway
by Luis Alberto Urrea  
Powells.com Staff Pick In May 2001, in an area called the Devil's Highway, twenty-six illegal immigrants struggled across the desert border into the U.S. Most of them died in their effort. Using this tragedy to illustrate the fate of many immigrants, Urrea sheds light on...
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In Praise of Slowness: How a Worldwide Movement Is Challenging the Cult of Speed
by Carl Honore
Publisher Comments We live in the age of speed. The world around us moves faster than ever before. We strain to be more efficient, to cram more into each minute, each hour, each day. Since the Industrial Revolution shifted the world into high gear, the cult of speed has...
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Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books
by Paul Collins
Publisher Comments Paul Collins and his family abandoned the hills of San Francisco to move to the Welsh countryside — to move, in fact, to the village of Hay-on-Wye, the "Town of Books" that boasts fifteen hundred inhabitants — and forty bookstores. Taking...
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The Jane Austen Book Club
by Karen Joy Fowler
Publisher Comments Nothing ever moves in a straight line in Karen Joy Fowler's fiction, and in her latest, the complex dance of modern love has never been so devious or so much fun. Six Californians join to discuss Jane Austen's novels. Over the six months they meet...
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The Confusion: The Baroque Cycle, # 2
by Neal Stephenson
Powells.com Staff Pick The Confusion was my favorite tome of the Baroque Cycle. Who wouldn't love a 17th-century story that features powerful women, preeminent Natural Philosophers, Louis XIV, and of course, The King of the Vagabonds? April, Powells...
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Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier
by Alexandra Fuller
Powells.com Staff Pick In Scribbling the Cat, Fuller forsakes the oblique approach of her bestselling debut, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, and tackles the Rhodesian War head-on. Visiting her parents in Zambia, she meets a veteran of the all-white Rhodesian Light Infantry...
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Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America
by Steve Almond
Powells.com Staff Pick Here's a great recipe: Take one often-obsessed-upon food item, one aptly named author, and an enormous amount of writing talent. Mix them all together and you have Candyfreak. A great book that melts in your mind, not in your hand. Danielle, Powells...
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Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autism
by Dawn Prince Hughes
Publisher Comments "This is a book about autism. Specifically, it is about my autism, which is both like and unlike other people's autism. But just as much, it is a story about how I emerged from the darkness of it into the beauty of it." In this elegant and thought...
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My Sister's Keeper (04 Edition)
by Jodi Picoult
Publisher Comments New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her keen insights into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she tells the emotionally riveting story of a family torn apart by conflicting needs and a passionate love that...
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Cottage for Sale (Must Be Moved): A Woman Moves a House to Make a Home
by Whouley Kate
Synopsis Memoir of a single woman who moved a one-room cottage twenty-five miles and attached it to her three-room house, to make more room for her life and her work. Along the way the way she received help and support from a group of eccentric friends, an army...
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Past Due
by William Lashner
Publisher Comments Chapter Eight They say Philly is a city of neighborhoods, but it's really a city of neighborhood taps. There they sit, one on every corner, with the same hanging sign, the same glass block windows, the same softball trophies, the same loyalty among their...
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The Good Patient
by Kristin W Duisberg
Publisher Comments Darien is a young woman who seems to have everything: a successful job, an adoring husband, and a bright future. She also has a tendency towards violent, self-destructive outbursts when she's alone. When her private life spirals out of control, her...
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An Egg on Three Sticks
by Jackie M Fischer
Publisher Comments Finally Abby is thirteen. A real teenager who only wants to pierce her ears, have a boyfriend, and run her own life. But when her mother suffers a nervous breakdown, Abby faces a life far different from what she hoped for. Set in the Bay Area in the '70s,...
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My Famous Evening: Nova Scotia Sojourns, Diaries, and Preoccupations (National Geographic Directions)
by Howard Norman
Synopsis An evocative portrait of the landscape and eccentric characters who have shaped his literary work by the critically acclaimed author of The Bird Artist and The Northern Lights captures the the world of Nova Scotia in a collection of folklore, poetry...
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Cursed by a Happy Childhood: Tales of Growing Up, Then and Now
by Carl Lennertz
Publisher Comments Cursed by a Happy Childhood is a warm, funny, bighearted collection of one dad’s reminiscences about the kinds of lessons we all learn--sometimes the hard way, often without even realizing it--on the road to becoming a grown-up. The book began as a...
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Antonio's Wife
by Jacqueline Dejohn
Publisher Comments "An excellent novel, brimming with passion, verve and wit."...
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Not Even Wrong: Adventures in Autism
by Paul Collins
Publisher Comments When Paul Collins's son Morgan was two years old, he could read, spell, and perform multiplication tables in his head...but not answer to his own name. A casual conversation-or any social interaction that the rest of us take for granted-will, for Morgan,...
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In the Land of Temple Caves: From St. Emilion to Paris's St Sulpice
by Frederick Turner
Publisher Comments In September 2001, following moments when civilization seemed to have unraveled, Frederick Turner undertook a quest for confirmation that Art does matter, that it is the preeminent human expression of the Life Force; that it is as undeniably necessary as...
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Dark Nights of the Soul: A Guide to Finding Your Way Through Life's Ordeals
by Thomas Moore
Publisher Comments Every human journey is filled with emotional tunnels: the loss of a loved one or the end of a relationship, aging and illness, career disappointments, or just an ongoing sense of dissatisfaction with life. Society tends to view these "dark nights" in...
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Useful Girl
by Marcus Stevens
Publisher Comments On the plains of Montana, Wyoming, and the Dakotas, two paths unexpectedly cross: that of a 17-year-old girl running away from home and that of a young Cheyenne girl running for her life....
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