2005 March
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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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Bleachy Haired Honky Bitch
by Hollis Gillespie
Publisher Comments < P> Drawing on her peripatetic childhood as the daughter of a travelling salesman, and her adult residence in one of Atlanta's seedier crack neighbourhoods, columnist and NPR commentator Hollis Gillespie has assembled a comic, poignant memoir...
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Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
by Anne Lamott
Powells.com Staff Pick Readers of Traveling Mercies, Lamott's previous book on spirituality, will find here the same thoughtfulness and humor we've come to love. Whether writing about battles with her son, her mother's death, the church she's found to be home, or her loathing...
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Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood
by Koren Zailckas
Publisher Comments From earliest experimentation to habitual excess to full-blown abuse, twenty-four-year-old Koren Zailckas leads us through her experience of a terrifying trend among young girls, exploring how binge drinking becomes routine, how it becomes "the usual...
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Fat Girl: A True Story
by Judith Moore
Publisher Comments A nonfiction She's Come Undone, Fat Girl is a powerfully honest and compulsively readable memoir of obsession with food, and with one's body, penned by a Guggenheim and NEA award-winning writer. For any woman who has ever had a love/hate relationship...
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The Glass Castle: A Memoir
by Jeannette Walls
Publisher Comments Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in...
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March
by Geraldine Brooks
Powells.com Staff Pick In her follow-up to Year of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks has taken historical fiction to another dimension altogether. Using America's Civil War as her frame, she plants a famous (but deeply mysterious) literary figure at its center: Mr. March, the absent...
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Aloft
by Chang-Rae Lee
Publisher Comments Set on affluent Long Island, Aloft follows the life of a suburban, upper-middle-class man during a time of family crisis. Jerry Battle's favorite diversion is to fly his small plane over the neighboring towns and villages. When his daughter and her fianc...
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Ghosts in the Garden
by Beth Kephart
Publisher Comments National Book Award nominee Beth Kephart's new book is an enchanting midlife meditation on aging, identity, and memory set against the backdrop of Chanticleer garden in Pennsylvania. On the morning of her forty-first birthday, Kephart, a mother, wife...
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Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith
by Martha Beck
Publisher Comments Leaving the Saints is an unforgettable memoir about one woman?s spiritual quest and journey toward faith. As "Mormon royalty" within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Martha Beck was raised in a home frequented by the Church's high elders &...
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Little Children
by Tom Perrotta
Powells.com Staff Pick "What really makes Little Children shine is its theme of isolation. Never before have I laughed so much and so enjoyed a book whose message was so essentially sad....I closed the covers feeling sober, alone, and delirious from the sheer rush of the...
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Before the Frost: A Linda Wallander Mystery
by Henning Mankell
Publisher Comments Linda Wallander is bored. Just graduated from the police academy, she is waiting to start work at the Ystad police station and move into her own apartment. Meantime, she is living with her father and, like fathers and daughters everywhere, they are...
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Nam-A-Rama
by Phillip Jennings
Publisher Comments Everybody knows War is Hell. Only the Few and the Proud know what fun Hell can be. Here it is, folks: "How the cow ate the cabbage" in the CLASSIFIED words of the President hisself [sic]. TOP SECRET stuff. EYES ONLY. If you want to know the real story...
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Pinkerton's Sister
by Peter Rushforth
Publisher Comments A dazzling tour de force, twenty-five years in the writing, Pinkerton's Sister will be one of the most talked about novels of 2005. It's turn of the century New York, a city bursting with new life as the old century's order makes way for the...
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Luncheonette: A Memoir
by Steven Sorrentino
Publisher Comments Steven Sorrentino had moved from West Long Branch, New Jersey, to New York City, with dreams of finding love and Broadway stardom. Venturing out of the closet and feeling free (at last!) from small-town America, Steven found his niche among the quirky...
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Most Wanted: A Novel of Suspense
by Michele Martinez
Publisher Comments Melanie Vargas is a hardworking, hotshot federal prosecutor in New York City with a rising career in the law and a marriage that's on the rocks. Having caught her husband cheating, she's struggling to work things out, if only for her baby daughter's sake....
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Fires in the Dark
by Louise Doughty
Publisher Comments Fires In the Dark reveals the highly secretive and misunderstood world of the coppersmith gypsies. In 1927, when prosperity still reigns in Central Europe, Yenko is born to two Coppersmith Gypsies. His parents, Josef and Anna, are nomads who raise their...
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Lone Star Rising: The Texas Rangers Trilogy (Texas Rangers Trilogy)
by Elmer Kelton
Publisher Comments In Lone Star Rising, Elmer Kelton ("A Texas Legend," according to Texas Governor Rick Perry), brings together the first three books of his acclaimed Texas Ranger saga. The Buckskin Line introduces Rusty Shannon, the red-haired Comanche captive rescued...
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The Keeners
by Maura Shaw
Publisher Comments The rough beauty of County Clare is seventeen-year-old Margaret Meehan’s whole world, and it is nearly perfect. Her family is well and thriving, farming Ireland’s staple crop. She expects to marry handsome Tom Riordan, raise their children...
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Drive Like Hell: A Novel
by Dallas Hudgens
Publisher Comments Luke Fulmer belongs behind the wheel of a car. Taught to drive at the age of ten by his father, Luke can do more damage with a stick and a clutch than most men can do with a bottle of whiskey and a lousy mood. He counts down the days to his sixteenth...
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