2005 April
There are 37 books in this aisle.
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Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro  
Powells.com Staff Pick Ishiguro takes a meditative look at childhood, loss of innocence, and human deception and the drive for survival. This is a haunting narrative that is joyous and sad at once — reminiscent of Philip K. Dick, but with a very literary and poignant eye...
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A Question of Blood: An Inspector Rebus Novel
by Ian Rankin
Publisher Comments Praise for Resurrection Men: "Rankin has found a way to infuse the police-procedural with the new exuberance of rock 'n' roll...
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Saturday
by Ian McEwan
Powells.com Staff Pick Ian McEwan's new novel is generous, contemplative, and moving — and in good company, joining classics like Mrs. Dalloway and Ulysses that take place during a single day. McEwan intricately weaves characters and themes towards an eloquent and...
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Towelhead: A Novel
by Alicia Erian Publisher Comments The year is 1991. When Jasira's mother finds out what has been going on between her boyfriend and her thirteen-year-old daughter, she has to make a choice — and chooses to send Jasira off to Houston, Texas, to live with her father. A remote...
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
by Jonathan Safran Foer
Powells.com Staff Pick I absolutely loved Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close a most precious and delightful novel by Jonathan Safran Foer. Oskar Schell made me laugh, smile, and just feel good. He is a charmer who's won my heart through the tears and the joy...
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The Third Translation: A Novel
by Matt Bondurant Publisher Comments A literary page-turner that plunges the reader headlong into a modern quest to solve one of the last remaining riddles of ancient Egypt. An ancient mystery, a hidden language, and the secrets of a bizarre Egyptian sect collide in modern-day London in...
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With No One as Witness (Thomas Lynley and Barbara Havers Novels)
by Elizabeth George Publisher Comments Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley takes on the case of his career. When it comes to spellbinding suspense and page-turning excitement, New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George always delivers. As the Wall Street Journal raves, "Ms. George...
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Gods in Alabama
by Joshilyn Jackson Publisher Comments When Arlene Fleet headed off to college in Chicago, she made three promises to God: She would never again lie, she would stop fornicating with every boy who crossed her path, and she'd never, ever go back to her tiny hometown of Possett, Alabama (the...
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Lost in the Forest
by Sue Miller Publisher Comments From one of America's best-loved novelists — an unforgettable tale of a family breaking apart and coming together again, set in the vineyards of Northern California. Eva, a divorced and happily remarried mother of three, runs a small bookstore...
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A Hundred and One Days
by Asne Seierstad Publisher Comments From January until April 2003 — for one hundred and one days — Åsne Seierstad worked as a reporter in Bagdad for Scandinavian, German, and Dutch media. Through her articles and live television coverage she reported on the events in Iraq before,...
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Small Island
by Andrea Levy
Publisher Comments Hortense Joseph arrives in London from Jamaica in 1948 with her life in her suitcase, her heart broken, her resolve intact. Her husband, Gilbert Joseph, returns from the war expecting to be received as a hero, but finds his status as a black man in...
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A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America
by Stacy Schiff Publisher Comments In this dazzling work of history, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author follows Benjamin Franklin to France for the crowning achievement of his career. "In December of 1776 a small boat delivered an old man to France." So begins an enthralling narrative...
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You Can't Get There from Here: A Year on the Fringes of a Shrinking World
by Gayle Forman Publisher Comments Globalization is really about people, about what happens when your culture shows up in my living room or when my way of life is tossed into your lap. It's the Somali restaurant in downtown Minneapolis. . . . It is challenging identities, creating new art...
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Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story
by Kurt Eichenwald
Powells.com Staff Pick Intricately detailed yet compulsively readable, Conspiracy of Fools is the best account yet of the Enron debacle. Eichenwald makes you feel like you are there — in the boardroom, on the cell phone — while the deals get brokered and the walls...
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Beautiful Inez
by Bart Schneider Publisher Comments From critically acclaimed novelist Bart Schneider comes a captivating tale of romantic love and sexual adventure, social change and family upheavals, set against the vibrant backdrop of San Francisco in the 1960s. Inez Roseman has a brilliant career as a...
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Job Hopper: The Checkered Career of a Down-Market Dilettante
by Halliday Ayun Publisher Comments If it's true that the average worker will hold an average of seven jobs over the course of a lifetime, Ayun Halliday is anything but average. In her brief thirty-something years, Halliday has managed to rack up an impressive array of short lived stints...
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The Painted Kiss
by Elizabeth Hickey Publisher Comments In her passionate and atmospheric debut novel, The Painted Kiss, Elizabeth Hickey reimagines the relationship between Gustav Klimt and the woman whose name he uttered with his dying breath. Vienna in 1886 was a city of elegant cafés, grand opera...
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War by Candlelight: Stories
by Daniel Alarcon Publisher Comments Something is happening around the globe: mass movements of peoples, dislocations of language and culture in the wake of war and economic crises — simply put, our world is changing. In this exquisite collection, Daniel Alarcón takes the reader...
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The Hatbox Letters
by Beth Powning Publisher Comments Praise for The Hatbox Letters "Powning brilliantly illuminates grief in all its shape-shifting pain, and in so doing, expands her characters' lives, and ours...a deeply beautiful book...an extraordinary achievement." - The Globe and Mail "Tender and lush....
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Raw Nerves
by Saralee Perel Publisher Comments Cape Cod's prominent psychiatrist, Dr. Sophie Green, has problems. She's a phobic worrier, a hypochondriac and a binge eater who quells her conflicts with leftovers. Her husband, Dan, is her polar opposite. He is of sound mind and svelte body. Now for...
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