2006 March
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Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
by James L. Swanson  Publisher Comments Combining magnificent historical research with a thrilling story, Manhunt describes the hourandndash;byandndash;hour details of the twelve days after Abraham Lincoln's assassination when various factions within the U.S. government andndash; and even some...
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The Tenth Circle
by Jodi Picoult Publisher Comments Jodi Picoult, the New York Times bestselling author of Vanishing Acts, offers her most powerful chronicle yet of an American family with a story that probes the unbreakable bond between parent and child -- and the dangerous repercussions of trying to...
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The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth
by Tim Flannery 
Powells.com Staff Pick Not only is paleontologist Flannery's urgent call to arms about global climate change fascinating and terrifying, it is also the most accessible book on the topic around. Flannery writes beautifully, clearly examining every angle of the debate...
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In the Company of the Courtesan: A Novel
by Sarah Dunant
Powells.com Staff Pick Within the pages of this book you will find passion and cruelty, loyalty and betrayal. Follow the storyteller, a dwarf who accompanies the courtesan in her flight from a ravaged Rome, on his journey from refugee to merchant prince (or high-class pimp...
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I Am Not Myself These Days: A Memoir (P.S.)
by Josh Kilmer Purcell
Publisher Comments I Am Not Myself These Days follows a glittering journey through Manhattan's dark underbelly — a shocking and surreal world where alter egos reign and subsist (barely) on dark wit and chemicals...a tragic romantic comedy where one begins by rooting...
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The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell
by Mark Kurlansky
Powells.com Staff Pick Mark Kurlansky is King of the microhistory. Much like his previous books Cod and Salt, The Big Oyster goes way beyond the usual scope of food history, this time detailing the oyster's broader influence on the development of New York. A fascinating...
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Labyrinth: A Novel
by Kate Mosse Publisher Comments In this extraordinary thriller, rich in the atmospheres of medieval and contemporary France, the lives of two women born centuries apart are linked by a common destiny. July 2005. In the Pyrenees mountains near Carcassonne, Alice, a volunteer at an...
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Intuition: A Novel
by Allegra Goodman
Powells.com Staff Pick Allegra Goodman is well known for her skillful, nuanced, and irreverent prose from such novels as Kaaterskill Falls and Paradise Park. Although the prose is just as strong in Intuition, the story and characters are so engrossing it's hard to slow down...
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Prayers for the Assassin: A Novel
by Robert Ferrigno Publisher Comments Seattle, 2040. The Space Needle lies crumpled. Veiled women hurry through the busy streets. Alcohol is outlawed, replaced by Jihad Cola, and mosques dot the skyline. New York and Washington, D.C., are nuclear wastelands. Phoenix is abandoned, Chicago the...
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The Fallen: A Novel
by T. Jefferson Parker Publisher Comments My life was ordinary until three years ago when I was thrown out of a downtown hotel window. My name is Robbie Brownlaw, and I am a homicide detective for the city of San Diego. I am twenty-nine years old. I now have synesthesia, a neurological condition...
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The Brief History of the Dead: A Novel
by Kevin Brockmeier
Powells.com Staff Pick Imagine life after death. Imagine that the dead have a tenuous hold on something like "life" only because you, the living, remember them. Then, narrow in on one woman's story of Arctic survival and on the dead who live only because she remembers them...
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The House of Scorta
by Laurent Gaude Publisher Comments An epic tale of love, lies, and a family’ s disgrace in the unforgiving south of Italy. After receiving stunning critical acclaim and France’ s most prestigious literary award, the Goncourt Prize, Laurent Gaudé ’ s The House of...
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Kill Me (Dr. Alan Gregory Novels)
by Stephen White Synopsis In this "thinking person's thriller" (Jeffery Deaver), bestselling author Stephen White throws out everything readers think they know about twists, turns, and surprises as he introduces the Death Angels....
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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. When it came to men, Charlotte Belle strictly ascribed to the law of catch and release. As soon as she could get a man out...
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Beautiful Madness: One Man's Journey Through Other People's Gardens
by James Dodson Publisher Comments During an amazing year of living botanically, James Dodson went behind the scenes of the world's two most important garden shows (the Philadelphia Flower Show and the Chelsea Garden Show in New York City); spent time with the Botticelli of Bulbs...
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Halfway House
by Katharine Noel Publisher Comments One day, Angie Voorster — diligent student, all-star swimmer, and Ivy League-bound high school senior — dives to the bottom of a pool and stays there. In that moment, everything the Voorster family believes they know about one another changes....
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The Fugitive Wife
by Peter C Brown Publisher Comments A sweeping narrative, set in gold-prospecting Alaska, where ambition, adventure, and romance collide--and the usual rules are forgotten. The year is 1900. Fleeing from a stormy marriage, Essie, a Midwestern farm girl, joins up with prospectors bound for...
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And She Was
by Cindy Dyson Publisher Comments There are places that can remake you -- slippery, gray places. Places that hold their secrets in the fog and whisper them on the wind. And when Brandy, a floundering, trashy, Latin-spewing cocktail waitress, finds herself drifting across the line between...
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Plum Wine (Wi Library Amer Fiction)
by Angela Davis-gardner Publisher Comments Barbara Jefferson, a young American teaching in Tokyo in the 1960s, is set on a life-changing quest when her Japanese surrogate mother, Michi, dies, leaving her a tansu of homemade plum wines wrapped in rice paper. Within the...
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Falling through the Earth: A Memoir
by Danielle Trussoni Publisher Comments A daughter's unforgettable memoir of her wild and haunted father, a man whose war never really ended. From her father, Danielle Trussoni learned rock and roll, how to avoid the cops, and never to shy away from a fight. Growing up, she was fascinated...
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