2004 September
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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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Cloud Atlas: A Novel
by David Mitchell
Powells.com Staff Pick "For readers who enjoy good stories wrapped around an inventive structure. Each tale is obliquely connected to another moving forward through time. And each has a totally different voice and style." Salli, Powells...
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An Unfinished Life
by Mark Spragg
Publisher Comments “One of the truest and most original new voices in American letters,” as Kent Haruf has written, Mark Spragg now tells the story of a complex, prodigal homecoming. Jean Gilkyson is floundering in a trailer house in Iowa with yet another...
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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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Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
by Susanna Clarke
Powells.com Staff Pick I know you shouldn't recommend books that you are only halfway through, but this is such a lush tapestry of a book I can't resist. Like a moist rich chocolate torte, Strange and Norrell is the sort of book you ration out to avoid finishing it too soon...
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Nine Hills to Nambonkaha: Two Years in the Heart of an African Village
by Sarah Erdman
Publisher Comments The village of Nambonkaha in the Ivory Coast is a place where electricity hasn’t yet arrived, where sorcerers still conjure magic, where the tok-tok sound of women pounding corn fills the morning air like a drumbeat. As Sarah Erdman enters the...
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Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir
by Nick Flynn
Publisher Comments "Sometimes I'd see my father, walking past my building on his way to another nowhere. I could have given him a key, offered a piece of my floor. But if I let him inside the line between us would blur, my own slow-motion car wreck would speed up...
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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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Home to Italy
by Peter Pezzelli
Publisher Comments - Will appeal to fans of Nicholas Sparks and Jeanne Ray. - Home to Italy will feature French Flaps, making it a beautiful gift or keepsake....
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Broken for You
by Stephanie Kallos
Powells.com Staff Pick A beautiful story about a pair of damaged women with a forty-two-year age difference coming to a juncture in their lives that causes them to form an ageless alliance. Like pieces of opposite jigsaw puzzles they file the pieces and make them fit. Donna...
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Triangle : Fire That Changed America (03 Edition)
by David Von Drehle
Publisher Comments On a beautiful spring day, March 25, 1911, workers were preparing to leave the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in New York's Greenwich Village when a fire started. Within minutes it consumed the building's upper three stories. Firemen who arrived at the...
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Prince of Thieves: A Novel
by Chuck Hogan
Publisher Comments The men wear masks. Their guns are drawn on the bank manager. She nervously recites the alarm code, and the tumblers within the huge vault fall. The timing and execution are brilliant. It could be the perfect heist. But as the huge sum of cash is stolen,...
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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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Millard Fillmore, Mon Amour
by John Blumenthal
Publisher Comments "A very funny book that will resuscitate the moribund posthumous career of America's justly neglected thirteenth president." - Peter Lefcourt, author of Eleven Karens "Millard Fillmore is a deliciously goofy and involving story. This Blumenthal guy is...
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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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Liberating Paris
by Linda Bloo Thomason
Publisher Comments From renowned producer and writer Linda Bloodworth Thomason, creator of the beloved hit television series Designing Women, comes Liberating Paris, an audacious, poignant, and endearing debut novel about love, memories that won't fade, and holding on to...
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