2006 November
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The World to Come
by Dara Horn  Publisher Comments "Nothing short of amazing."—Entertainment Weekly A million-dollar painting by Marc Chagall is stolen from a museum. The unlikely thief is Benjamin Ziskind, a thirty-year-old quiz-show writer. As Benjamin and his twin sister try to evade the police...
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Thunderstruck
by Erik Larson 
Powells.com Staff Pick In this remarkable follow-up to his hit thriller Devil in the White City, Erik Larson applies his considerable skill to craft a story of invention and murder. A tightly written page-turner. Recommended by Michal, Powells.com...
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir
by Bill Bryson
Powells.com Staff Pick I grew up in Minnesota, just north of Iowa where Bill Bryson's memoir is set. I laughed out loud at his descriptions of bundling up the children to face the Midwestern winters and other passages. He also beautifully captures the innocence and security...
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Restless: A Novel
by William Boyd
Publisher Comments It is Paris, 1939. At the funeral of her beloved younger brother, twenty-eight year old Eva Delectorskaya notices a stranger. Lucas Romer is a patrician looking Englishman with a secretive air and a persuasive manner. He also has a mysterious connection...
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Big-Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses
by Stacy Mitchell Publisher Comments Large retail chains have become the most powerful corporations in America and are rapidly transforming our economy, communities, and landscape. In this deft and revealing book, Stacy Mitchell illustrates how mega-retailers are fueling many of our most...
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The Sharing Knife: Beguilement, Volume 1
by Lois McMaster Bujold
Powells.com Staff Pick Fawn and Dag are an unlikely pair but the chemistry between them is unmistakable! With The Sharing Knife Lois McMaster Bujold starts us on a new series — same great writing and boundless imagination but with a good dose of romance thrown in. I raced...
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Saffron and Brimstone: Strange Stories
by Elizabeth Hand Publisher Comments Widely praised and widely read, Elizabeth Hand is regarded as one of America's leading literary fantasists. This new collection (an expansion of the limited-release Bibliomancy, which won the World Fantasy Award in 2005) showcases a wildly inventive...
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--And How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
by Steven Johnson Publisher Comments A historical chronicle of Victorian London's worst cholera outbreak traces the day-by-day efforts of Dr. John Snow, who put his own life on the line in his efforts to prove his previously dismissed contagion theory about how the epidemic was spreading...
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Lisey's Story: A Novel
by Stephen King
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An Alphabetical Life: Living It Up in the World of Books
by Wendy Werris Publisher Comments Traces the author's thirty-six-year journey of self-discovery and literary enlightenment, a time marked by her temporary job at a 1970s Hollywood bookstore; an array of colleagues, lovers, and prestigious authors; and her relationship with her Jackie...
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Death Angel
by Martha Powers Publisher Comments Kate and Richard Warner have a quiet, routine life until the one afternoon that changes them forever. Within a few short hours, they are thrust into the black hole of every parent's worst nightmare. Suddenly they are at the center of attention of their...
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Truck: A Love Story
by Michael Perry Publisher Comments The author of Population: 485 returns, delivering a truckload of humor, heart, and...gardening tips? Think Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, complete with stock cars, sexy vegetables, and a laugh track. "All I wanted to do was fix my old...
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Rain Village
by Carolyn Turgeon Publisher Comments Young Tessa is a diminutive girl, far too small for farm work, and the object of ridicule by both her own family and the other children in their isolated Midwestern community. Her father seems to believe in nothing beyond his crops, certainly not...
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Before I Go
by Riley Weston Publisher Comments Before I Go is a touching story of family, love and the will of the human spirit. It centers on the relationship of Annie, an ice skating coach who gave up on her dream long ago, and young Olympic hopeful, Madison Henry. What makes this team different...
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The Lay of the Land: A Novel
by Richard Ford
Powells.com Staff Pick Richard Ford's anti-hero Frank Bascombe has returned, middle-aged, possibly wiser, more cynical, and heading into a Thanksgiving season without his wife, but with other family members that he might not want to see. Ford is a great writer; in The Lay of...
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Blind Submission: A Novel
by Debra Ginsberg Publisher Comments Books can be a dangerous business... Angel Robinson loves books, loves reading, loves anything to do with the written word. But when Blue Moon Books, the Bay Area bookstore where she has worked since college, is squeezed out of business, Angel is...
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Stripped
by Brian Freeman Publisher Comments In this stunning follow-up to Brian Freeman’s remarkable debut novel, Immoral, Detective Jonathan Stride discovers that there are only two ways to go in Las Vegas. You can hit the jackpot. Or you can get Stripped... They looked...
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Fleeing Fundamentalism: A Minister's Wife Examines Faith
by Carlene Cross Publisher Comments At a time when the distance between church and state is narrowing and the teaching of intelligent design is being proposed for our classrooms, it is startling and provocative to hear the reasoned voice of a dissident from inside the church. For Carlene...
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The Ghost at the Table (Shannon Ravenel Books)
by Suzanne Berne Publisher Comments Strikingly different since childhood and leading very dissimilar lives now, sisters Frances and Cynthia have nevertheless managed to remain andquot;devotedandquot;and#8212;so long as they stay on opposite coasts. But with the reappearance of their...
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The Museum of Lost Wonder: A Graphic Guide to Reawakening the Human Imagination
by Jeff Hoke Publisher Comments The Museum of Lost Wonder is a book with a mission, simply stated: To illuminate life's mysteries. The execution is nearly indescribable. Think McSweeney's production values and design pyrotechnics. Think traditional esoteric symbols in a childhood...
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