2005 December
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The Children's Blizzard (P.S.)
by David Laskin  Publisher Comments The gripping story of an epic prairie snowstorm that killed hundreds of newly arrived settlers and cast a shadow on the promise of the American frontier. January 12, 1888, began as an unseasonably warm morning across Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota,...
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War Against Truth (05 Edition)
by Roberts Publisher Comments An acclaimed journalist who has covered the Middle East for decades ? and one of the few to have interviewed Saddam Hussein ? Paul William Roberts knows Iraq better than most. This is his exposé of the politics behind the recent war ? and the brutal...
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The Coldest Winter: A Stringer in Liberated Europe
by Paula Fox 
Publisher Comments In this elegant and affecting companion to her “extraordinary” memoir, Borrowed Finery, a young writer flings herself into a Europe ravaged by the Second World War (The Boston Globe) In 1946, Paula Fox walked up the gangplank of a partly...
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Music Lust: Recommended Listening for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason
by Nic Harcourt Publisher Comments The MP3 and iPod revolution have changed forever how people listen to music, but choosing what to listen to next remains the dilemma of music lovers everywhere. As music director of KCRW in Santa Monica, CA, and DJ of the influential “Morning...
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Christmas Jars
by Jason F Wright Synopsis Where had it come from? Whose money was it? Was I to spend it? Save it? Pass it on to someone more needy? Above all else, why was I chosen? Certainly there were others, countless others more needy than I...Her reporter's intuition insisted that a...
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Guided by Voices: A Brief History: Twenty-One Years of Hunting Accidents in the Forests of Rock and Roll
by James Greer Publisher Comments Guided by Voices was one of the most popular indie-rock bands of the 1990s. Critics internationally have lauded the band’s brain trust, Robert Pollard, as a once-in-a-generation artist. Pollard has been compared by The New York Times to Mozart...
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Seasoned in the South: Recipes from Crook's Corner and from Home
by Bill Smith Publisher Comments Crook's Corner is a landmark in North Carolina and beyond. Bon Appetitcalled it andquot;a legend.andquot; Travel and Leisuredescribed it as andquot;country cookin' gone cool.andquot; A reviewer for the Washington Postsaid, andquot;I have yet to eat an...
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A Century of November (Michigan Literary Fiction Awards)
by W. D. Wetherell Publisher Comments Winner of the 2004 Michigan Literary Fiction Award for novel A haunting story of the power of death, the pain of loss, and the possibility of hope. "Gripping, damning, and transfixing." ---Entertainment Weekly " . . . possesses a time-bending gravity. . ....
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Beasts of No Nation: A Novel
by Uzodinma Iweala
Powells.com Staff Pick See Africa through the words of a gifted young writer named Uzodinma Iweala, whose debut novel, Beasts of No Nation, exposes the genocide plaguing that continent in a car-crash voice that won't let you turn away. Recommended by Dave, Powells.com...
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Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star
by Tab Hunter Publisher Comments Welcome to Hollywood, circa 1950, the end of the Golden Age. A remarkably handsome young boy, still a teenager, gets andquot;discovered by a big-time movie agent. Because when he takes his shirt off young hearts beat faster, because he is the picture of...
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A Private Hotel for Gentle Ladies
by Ellen Cooney Publisher Comments It is 1900 in a small, prosperous Massachusetts town. Charlotte Heath, a lively, independent redhead of humble beginnings, is married to the scion of the powerful Heath family. When, on her first outing after a long illness, she spies her husband, Hays...
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Goodnight Nobody: A Novel
by Jennifer Weiner Publisher Comments New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner's newest novel tells the story of a young mother's move to a postcard-perfect Connecticut town and the secrets she uncovers there. For Kate Klein, a semi-accidental mother of three, suburbia's been...
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Burning Fence: A Western Memoir of Fatherhood
by Craig Lesley Publisher Comments In Burning Fence, acclaimed novelist Craig Lesley turns his keen eye toward two difficult fathers and an alcohol-damaged Indian foster child, Craig's own "son," Wade. Abandoned by his shell-shocked father, Rudell, Craig grew up with his stepfather, Vern,...
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New and Selected Poems: Volume 2
by Mary Oliver Publisher Comments 'Mary Oliver has been writing poetry for nearly five decades, and in that time she has become America's foremost poetic voice on our experience of the physical world. This collection presents thirty-two new poems—an entire volume in itself...
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Third Girl from the Left
by Martha Southgate Publisher Comments The New York Times hailed Martha Southgate's previous novel, The Fall of Rome, as "powerful," O, the Oprah Magazine called it "quietly accomplished," and Essence lauded it as "a bracingly honest look at race, class, and self...
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The Rosary: Prayer Comes Round
by Garry Wills Publisher Comments A simple strand of beads and a crucifix, the rosary has been an aid to prayer, contemplation, and religious worship for centuries. In this superb book, Garry Wills looks at the meaning of the beads and at the mysteries, or events, in the lives of Jesus...
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The Jungle Law: A Novel
by Victoria Vinton Publisher Comments In 1892, at the age of twenty-six, Rudyard Kipling arrived in Vermont, virtually penniless with a newly pregnant wife and the germ of a story about a feral child who was raised by a pack of wolves. Having fled the literary high life in London, he hoped...
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The Mayor of Lexington Avenue
by James Sheehan Publisher Comments Murder, corruption, justice????.time is running out for Rudy Kelly. In a small Florida town near Lake Okeechobee, an innocent young man's fate hangs in the balance. Rudy Kelly, bi-racial and borderline retarded is targeted by the local police as a...
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Trail of Feathers: Searching for Philip True, a Reporter's Murder in Mexico and His Editor's Search for Justice
by Robert Rivard Publisher Comments In December 1998, San Antonio Express-News reporter Philip True vanished during a solo backcountry trek in western Mexico, home of the reclusive Huichol Indians and the Chapalagana, the Twisted Serpent Canyon, a 150-mile long gash that twists and plunges...
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A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: Stories
by Yiyun Li
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