2004 November
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The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror
by Christopher Moore  
Powells.com Staff Pick Please, Santa, come back from the dead! World-class satirist Christopher Moore is here just in time for the holidays. Recommended by Kyle...
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ADA Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic
by Jennifer Niven
Publisher Comments Now in paperback, the gripping and inspiring tale of a woman's survival alone in the Arctic. In 1921, four men and one woman ventured deep into the Arctic. Two years later, only one returned. When 23-year-old Inuit Ada Blackjack signed on as a...
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The Amateur Marriage
by Anne Tyler
From Powells.com The Amateur Marriage opens on December 7, 1941, as Pauline impulsively leaps from a streetcar, catapulting her into the Baltimore store of Michael Anton's mother, and into Michael's heart. Michael enlists, and on his return they marry, with...
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Second Space: New Poems
by Czeslaw Milosz
Publisher Comments Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz's most recent collection Second Space marks a new stage in one of the great poetic pilgrimages of our time. Few poets have inhabited the land of old age as long or energetically as Milosz, for whom this territory holds both...
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Shanghai Diary 2ND Edition a Young Girls Journey
by Ursula Bacon
Publisher Comments Against the backdrop of looming world war and Hitler's "Final Solution," 11-year-old Ursula Bacon and her family made the terrifying 8,000-mile voyage to Shanghai with its promise of freedom. Instead they found overcrowded ghettos filled with desperately...
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Kiss Them Goodbye
by Stella Cameron
Publisher Comments Just weeks after inheriting Rosebank, a once-magnificent plantation on the banks of Bayou Teche, David Patin was killed in a mysterious fire, leaving his daughter, Vivian, almost bankrupt. With few options remaining, Vivian Patin decides to restore the...
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A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World
by Nicholas A. Basbanes
Publisher Comments In A Splendor of Letters, Nicholas A. Basbanes continues the lively, richly anecdotal exploration of book people, places, and culture he began in 1995 with A Gentle Madness (a finalist that year for the National Book Critics Circle Award) and expanded in...
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Cutty, One Rock: Low Characters and Strange Places, Gently Explained
by August Kleinzahler
Publisher Comments Cutty, One Rock takes the reader on a wild journey by airplane, bus, ferry, and foot from childhood to early manhood in the company of a New Jersey family in equal measures cultivated and deranged. We witness scenes of passionate, even violent intensity...
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Gilgamesh: A New English Version
by Stephen Mitchell
Publisher Comments A literary event — a brilliant new rendering of the oldest epic in the world by esteemed translator and bestselling author Stephen Mitchell. Although Gilgamesh is considered one of the masterpieces of world literature, and although there have...
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The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists
by Gideon Defoe
Publisher Comments Not since Moby-Dick...No, not since Treasure Island...Actually, not since Jonah and the Whale has there been a sea saga to rival The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists, featuring the greatest sea-faring hero of all time, the immortal Pirate Captain,...
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How to Be Lost
by Amanda Eyre Ward
Publisher Comments From the author of the celebrated Sleep Toward Heaven comes a novel of love and secrets. To their neighbors in suburban Holt, New York, the Winters family has it all: a grand home, a trio of radiant daughters, and a sense that they are safe in their...
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Banishing Verona: A Novel
by Margot Livesey
Publisher Comments A couple begins an intense affair, only to be separated abruptly — and perhaps irrevocably — in this surprising, suspenseful love story. Zeke is twenty-nine, a man who looks like a Raphael angel and who earns his living as a painter and...
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Men and Cartoons: Stories
by Jonathan Lethem
Powells.com Staff Pick Like all Lethem's work, these stories are imaginative, intelligent, witty, and, at just the right moments, deeply moving. Recommended by Farley...
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Cheat and Charmer
by Elizabeth Frank
Publisher Comments Twenty-five years in the making, a first novel that has already been compared to The Sun Also Rises and The Last Tycoon, Cheat and Charmer is certain to be one of the most admired literary debuts of the season. Written by Pulitzer Prize?winning...
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Queenan Country: A Reluctant Anglophile's Pilgrimage to the Mother Country
by Joe Queenan
Publisher Comments In this hilarious romp through England, one of America's preeminent humorists seeks the answer to an eternal question: What makes the Brits tick? One semitropical Fourth of July, Joe Queenan's English wife suggested that the family might like a...
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Going Postal: A Novel of Discworld
by Terry Pratchett
Publisher Comments Arch-swindler Moist Van Lipwig never believed his confidence crimes were hanging offenses — until he found himself with a noose tightly around his neck, dropping through a trapdoor, and falling into...a government job? By all rights, Moist...
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Popular Music from Vittula
by Mikael Niemi
Publisher Comments "A blissfully eccentric, fiction-enhanced memoir. . . . His prose buzzes with wonder, fearlessness and ecstatic ignorance: the sensations of youth. Each chapter is an epic in miniature."-Hugo Lindgren, The New York Times Magazine "Haunting and glorious ....
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West of Then: A Mother, a Daughter, and a Journey Past Paradise
by Tara Bray Smith
Publisher Comments A dazzling, devastating memoir about one woman's search for her wayward mother, whose past is inextricably linked with the bittersweet history of their home, Hawaii. At the center of West of Then is Karen Morgan -- island flower, fifth generation haole...
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The Darling
by Russell Banks
Publisher Comments Russell Banks has exhibited an astonishingly imaginative range throughout his distinguished career as a novelist, and his uniquely realistic American voice, on display in such modern classics as Rule of the Bone and Continental Drift, continues to shine...
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In the Land of Second Chances
by George Shaffner
Publisher Comments Meet Wilma Porter, the plucky and kindhearted owner of the only bed and breakfast in Ebb, Nebraska. Wilma knows everybody in town and everybody is in a bit of trouble. No one more so than Calvin Millet, though. His wife has up and left him and their...
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