2005 January
There are 38 books in this aisle.
 Used: $8.95 Trade Paper List Price $12.95 
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Enslaved by Ducks
by Bob Tarte  
Publisher Comments The book that Entertainment Weekly called "hilarious," Publishers Weekly declared "a true pleasure," Booklist called "heartwarming," and the Dallas Morning News praised as "rich and funny" is now available in paperback. When Bob Tarte bought a house...
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Used: $7.95 Hardcover List Price $25.00
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Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2
by Annie Proulx
Publisher Comments The stories in Annie Proulx's new collection are peopled by characters who struggle with circumstances beyond their control in a kind of rural noir half-light. Trouble comes at them from unexpected angles, and they will themselves through it, hardheaded...
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by Jared Diamond
Powells.com Staff Pick Diamond crafts a careful and thorough account of the environmental and cultural fragility of civilizations, from present-day Montana to the toppled statues of Easter Island. Collapse is both a fascinating study of humanity's ecological relationships and...
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Out
by Natsuo Kirino
Powells.com Staff Pick I ventured into Out having gone on a detective murder mystery kick — the great Raymond Chandler, the invincible Dorothy L. Sayers... So it was no surprise that I next turned to Japan's queen of crime writing. Out is a can't-stop-reading, classy...
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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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Feast: Food to Celebrate Life
by Nigella Lawson
Publisher Comments The domestic goddess dishes up her favorite foods for entertaining year-round with family and friends. Nigella Lawson, Gourmet magazine's "It Girl," New York Times "Dining In" columnist, and bestselling cookbook author, is celebrating life — and...
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The Lady and the Unicorn
by Tracy Chevalier
Publisher Comments A tour de force of history and imagination, The Lady and the Unicorn is Tracy Chevaliers answer to the mystery behind one of the art worlds great masterpiecesa set of bewitching medieval tapestries that hangs today in the Cluny Museum in Paris. They...
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Downtown: My Manhattan
by Pete Hamill
Publisher Comments A rich historical and personal portrait of Manhattan from the bestselling writer who is for many the living embodiment of the city. Manhattan, the keystone of New York City, is a place of ghosts and buried memory. One can still see remnants of the...
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Too Beautiful for You: Tales of Improper Behavior
by Rod Liddle
Publisher Comments An ambitious fiction debut filled with lust, longing, and moral depravity. The tales in Too Beautiful for You, Rod Liddle's dazzling debut, sweep readers into the lives of characters whose sexual frustrations and deviant desires lead them to the very...
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Hedwig and Berti
by Frieda Arkin
Publisher Comments Thirty-five years after publication of her first novel, The Dorp (followed by other works on cooking and gardening), Frieda Arkin returns to the world of fiction to give us another darkly humorous novel, Hedwig and Berti. Hedwig and Berti is a saga...
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Call for the Dead
by John Le Carré
Powells.com Staff Pick Call for the Dead reads like the best of British crime drama with a mesmerizing ability to keep you up all night desperately turning the pages. Le Carré's stunning prose darts from wicked humor to mournful empathy in the blink of an eye. Le Carr...
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The Ha-Ha
by Dave King
Powells.com Staff Pick Enter the luminous, silent world of The Ha-Ha. Through the power of language, Dave King takes you into the mind of the main character, a man who cannot speak or write, but who is filled with unspoken words. King illustrates how relationships are built on...
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Entombed
by Linda Fairstein
Publisher Comments From New York Times bestselling author and famed former Manhattan prosecutor Linda Fairstein comes a chilling new Alexandra Cooper novel, Entombed, in which Alex matches wits with the master of detective fiction himself-Edgar Allan Poe... Workers...
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Welcome to the Fallen Paradise
by Dayne Sherman
Publisher Comments Baxter Parish, Louisiana, is a bloody place where family tradition is stronger than law and pride is more valuable than life. Twenty-seven-year-old Jesse Tadlock returns home to Mount Olive after a peaceful, if not dull, nine-year Army hitch to claim his...
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Blue Plate Special
by Frances Norris
Publisher Comments Thirty-three-year-old Julia Daniel doesn't really feel at home anywhere. Her life in L.A. is lonely, and her career as a food stylist for a struggling gourmet magazine falls well short of her desire to be a photographer. Although she liked growing up in...
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Little Book of Snowflakes
by Kenneth Libbrecht
Publisher Comments "Snowflakes, like people, are all different and beautiful, but they can be a nuisance when they lose their identity in a mob." The Little Book of Snowflakes presents these evanescent formations in their breathtaking individuality, pinpointing their...
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Baker Towers: A Novel
by Jennifer Haigh
Publisher Comments A stunning follow-up to her bestselling debut, Mrs. Kimble, Jennifer Haigh returns with Baker Towers, a compelling story of love and loss in a western Pennsylvania mining town in the years after World War II. Bakerton is a company town built on coal,...
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Altars of Power and Grace: Create the Life You Desire
by Robin Mastro
Synopsis You Desire, by Robin and Michael Mastro, is the first book by this internationally known scholar/architect/design team. With over 35 years of combined experience in the field of Vastu Shastra, the Indian science of environmental harmony that predates and...
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Meritocracy: A Love Story
by Jeffrey Lewis
Synopsis A tragic coming of age story as a group of recent Yale graduates deal with the repercussions of the Vietnam War....
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The Memory of Running
by Ron McLarty
Publisher Comments Once in a great while, a story comes along that has everything: plot, setting, and, most important of all, the kind of characters that sweep readers up and take them on a thrilling, unforgettable ride. Well, get ready for Ron McLartys The Memory of...
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