2004 October
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
by Tracy Kidder  
Powells.com Staff Pick "It's won the Pulitzer and for good reason; it's beautifully written, inspired, and gives you something to think about the rest of the year." Hilary, Powells...
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The Namesake: A Novel
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Publisher Comments Jhumpa Lahiri's debut story collection, Interpreter of Maladies, took the literary world by storm when it won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000. Fans who flocked to her stories will be captivated by her best-selling first novel, now in paperback for the first...
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Blacklist (V.I. Warshawski Novels)
by Sara Paretsky
Publisher Comments Paretsky returns with her heroine V.I. Warshawski in this New York Times bestseller, deemed "a complex, disturbing thriller" by the Associated Press. This is a story of secrets and betrayals that stretch across four generations — secrets that are...
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The Plot Against America: A Novel
by Philip Roth
Powells.com Staff Pick "I have very little to add to the praise that has already been heaped on The Plot against America. That most esteemed critic, Harold Bloom, has already called it 'a wise and fascinating book.' Why do you need my opinion? Still, with a new Roth novel...
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Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books
by Aaron Lansky
Publisher Comments The great Yiddish scholar Max Weinreich was delivering a lecture in Finland when the Nazis invaded his native Poland. The lecture saved his life. He made his way to New York, where he opened his doors to new students. Many thought his work was...
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The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
by A. J. Jacobs
Publisher Comments 33,000 pages 44 million words 10 billion years of history 1 obsessed man Part memoir and part education (or lack thereof), The Know-It-All chronicles NPR contributor A.J. Jacobs's hilarious, enlightening, and seemingly impossible quest to read the...
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A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life
by Parker J. Palmer
Publisher Comments A thoughtful and heartfelt exploration of what it means to become whole from Parker Palmer, bestselling author of Let Your Life Speak and The Courage to Teach The recent and devastating duplicities in business, religion, and politics have less to do with...
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Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
by Marjane Satrapi
Publisher Comments In Persepolis, heralded by the Los Angeles Times as "one of the freshest and most original memoirs of our day," Marjane Satrapi dazzled us with her heartrending memoir-in-comic-strips about growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. Here is the...
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The Secret Goldfish: Stories
by David Means
Publisher Comments It is a less and less well-kept secret that David Means is one of our best fiction writers. In the past few years he has won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and received critical acclaim on...
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Queen of Dreams
by Chitra B Divakaruni
Publisher Comments In Queen of Dreams, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni once more spins a fresh, spellbinding story of transformation. Rakhi, a young artist and divorced mother living in Berkeley, California, is struggling to keep her footing, with her family and her world in...
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Shantaram
by Gregory David Roberts
Publisher Comments "It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured." So begins this epic, mesmerizing first novel...
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California Girl: A Novel
by T. Jefferson Parker
Publisher Comments A different world then, a different world now... California in the 1960s, and the winds of change are raging. Orange groves uprooted for tract houses, people flooding into Orange County, strange new ideas in the air about war, music, sex, and drugs,...
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Magical Thinking: True Stories
by Augusten Burroughs
Publisher Comments Praise for Augusten Burroughs "A wrenching, edifying journey...with the added benefit of being really entertaining." - The New York Times Book Review on Dry "Beneath the quick-flowing, funny-sad surface of Burroughs's prose lurks considerable complexity."...
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Life Mask
by Emma Donoghue
Publisher Comments The bestselling author of Slammerkin turns her attention to the Beau Monde of late eighteenth-century England, turning the private drama of three celebrated Londoners into a robust, full-bodied portrait of a world, and lives, on the brink of revolution...
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About Grace
by Anthony Doerr
Publisher Comments When Anthony Doerr's The Shell Collector was published in 2002, the Los Angeles Times called his stories "as close to faultless as any writer -- young or vastly experienced -- could wish for." He won the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and...
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The Fall of Baghdad
by Jon Lee Anderson
Publisher Comments For every great historical event, seemingly, at least one reporter writers an eyewitness account of such power and literary weight that it becomes joined with its subject in our minds — George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia and the Spanish Civil War...
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I, Fatty: A Novel
by Jerry Stahl
Publisher Comments "Jerry Stahl is the American hipster bard." --James Ellroy "Jerry Stahl's work fills the gap in American literature left void since the death of the late, great Terry Southern." --Jim Carroll "[Stahl's] brilliantly demented riffs beg to be read-or...
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Confessions of a Deathmaiden
by Ruth Francisco
Synopsis Francisco scales the heights of suspense with this enthralling first novel about a hospice worker determined to uncover why the young boy under her care died ominously. "Beautifully written . . . as original as it is absorbing."--Michael Connelly...
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Fruit
by Brian Francis
Publisher Comments Peter Paddington is thirteen, overweight, the subject of his classmates' ridicule, and the victim of too many bad movie-of-the-week storylines. When Peter's nipples begin speaking to him one day and inform him of their diabolical plan to expose his...
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The Exile
by Allan Folsom
Publisher Comments Night in the California desert: John Barron---the youngest cop on the LAPD's feared 5-2 squad---will get a baptism of blood and fire on a night he will never forget. Panic on the streets of LA: An international hit man no one can stop---not the...
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