2005 February
There are 37 books in this aisle.
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The Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafon  
Powells.com Staff Pick Okay, never mind that The Shadow of the Wind starts off in a wonderfully mysterious bookstore and that there's a romantic element that is not schmaltzy, but "timeless" in the best sense of the word. What I loved was how I thought I knew where the author...
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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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A Thread of Grace: A Novel
by Mary Doria Russell
Publisher Comments Set in Italy during the dramatic finale of World War II, this new novel is the first in seven years by the bestselling author of The Sparrow and Children of God. It is September 8, 1943, and fourteen-year-old Claudette Blum is learning Italian with a...
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High Country (Anna Pigeon Mysteries)
by Nevada Barr
Synopsis In Barr's latest "New York Times" bestseller, Anna Pigeon investigates the disappearance of four employees in Yosemite National Park. Following the scent of evil, she hikes up a snowy trail to the high country. What waits for her is a nightmare of death...
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The Calligrapher
by Edward Docx
Publisher Comments A modern tale of sexual mores and city life, Edward Docx's brilliant debut is a witty novel of spurned lovers, elaborately planned seduction, plotted revenge, and surprising secrets. Jasper Jackson is a rapacious heartbreaker who is greatly overdue...
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Snobs
by Julian Fellowes
Publisher Comments "The English, of all classes as it happens, are addicted to exclusivity. Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them." The best comedies of manners are often deceptively simple, seamlessly blending...
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The Geographer's Library
by Jon Fasman
Powells.com Staff Pick The hunt for alchemical treasure through the ages threads through this literary whodunit. A small town cub reporter is drawn into the dangerous hunt and encounters murders, smugglers and mayhem. Lots of fun! Recommended by Kathi, Powell's City of Books...
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The Celestial Jukebox
by Cynthia Shearer
Publisher Comments The Celestial Jukebox is set in the invented Mississippi Delta town of Madagascar. Shearer?s rural south is dependent on the rather less attractive fruits of capitalism, including agribusiness, gambling, and the dwindling vices surrounding the retail...
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The Effects of Light
by Miranda Beverly-Whittemore
Publisher Comments Throughout their childhood, Myla and Pru Wolfe pose for a haunting series of photographs. Young, beautiful, and motherless, the sisters bond fiercely in their shared sense of loss, unquenchable thirst for knowledge, and status as favorite subjects for...
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The Narcissist's Daughter
by Craig Holden
Publisher Comments In his earlier acclaimed novels, Craig Holden created a thrilling vision of America that was at once lyrical and dark. Now, with The Narcissist's Daughter, he expands that vision in his most accomplished and controversial work to date, a drama about the...
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You Are Not the One: Stories
by Vestal Mcintyre
Publisher Comments In this debut collection of eight compulsively readable stories, Vestal McIntyre combines honesty and compassion with hilarious dialogue—bringing together the comic milieu of David Sedaris with the spot-on perceptions of Adam Haslett's You Are Not...
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Land of Echoes (Cree Black Thrillers)
by Daniel Hecht
Publisher Comments Parapsychologist Cree Black is called to a New Mexico school for gifted Navajo teens to investigate the mysterious symptoms of a student. Sixteen-year-old Tommy Keeday is wracked nightly with violent convulsions. Is the boy possessed by the spirit of an...
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Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life
by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Powells.com Staff Pick Proving that sometimes it's not the story that matters nearly so much as how you tell it, Rosenthal has organized one of the most entertaining, compulsively readable memoirs in recent memory. Go ahead, I dare you to put it down. Recommended by Dave...
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The Same Sweet Girls
by Cassandra King
Synopsis The new novel by the celebrated author of The Sunday Wife chronicles the lives of a tight-knit group of lifelong friends....
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Kafka on the Shore
by Haruki Murakami
Powells.com Staff Pick For years, my initial recommendation to Murakami virgins was The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. This sublime and mesmerizing novel has changed that. Recommended by Mike H., Powell's on...
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Dancing Naked at the Edge of Dawn
by Kris Radish
Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of The Elegant Gathering of White Snows comes a poignant, outrageous, refreshingly liberating story about one woman whose life takes an unexpected turn... Meg Fratano has just witnessed the unthinkable: her husband of...
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Sight Hound
by Pam Houston
Publisher Comments The long-awaited novel — a very special love story — from the best-selling author of Cowboys Are My Weakness. This is the story of a woman, Rae, and her dog, Dante, a wolfhound who teaches "his human" that love is stronger than fear (the...
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A Very Private Gentleman: A Novel
by Martin Booth
Publisher Comments The locals in the Italian village where he lives call him Signor Farfalla — Mr. Butterfly — for he appears to be a discreet gentleman who paints rare butterflies. But as inconspicuous as Farfalla tries to make himself, his real profession is...
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Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years
by Michael Collins
Publisher Comments When Michael Collins decides to become a surgeon, he is totally unprepared for the chaotic life of a resident at a major hospital. A natural overachiever, Collins' success, in college and medical school led to a surgical residency at one of the most...
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The Rock Orchard
by Paula Wall
Publisher Comments "Some women can touch a man and heal like Jesus. The man who sees sunrise from a Belle woman's bed will swear he's been born again." So begins Paula Wall's funny, poignant, and sexy novel, The Rock Orchard. Musette Belle could lay her hand on a baby...
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