2006 October
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The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel
by Diane Setterfield  Publisher Comments When Margaret Lea opened the door to the past, what she confronted was her destiny. All children mythologize their birth... So begins the prologue of reclusive author Vida Winter's collection of stories, which are as famous for the mystery of the...
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One Good Turn: A Novel
by Kate Atkinson 
Powells.com Staff Pick It's hard to believe Kate Atkinson could follow up Case Histories with such a superb — may I suggest even superior? — novel: sly and witty, honest and humane, and, finally, complex and suspenseful. One could not ask for more than the whole...
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Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
by Hampton Sides Publisher Comments Praise for Blood and Thunder “Kit Carson’s role in the conquest of the Navajo during and after the Civil War remains one of the most dramatic and significant episodes in the history of the American West. Hampton Sides portrays Carson in the...
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Baby Jack
by Frank Schaeffer Publisher Comments Todd Ogden, an acclaimed painter with work in museums around the world and a seemingly successful thirty-year marriage to the Brahmin Sarah, is living and painting in his two-hundred-year-old Massachusetts farmhouse when his youngest child, Jack, chooses...
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When Madeline Was Young
by Jane Hamilton Publisher Comments When Aaron Maciver's beautiful young wife, Madeline, suffers brain damage in a bike accident, she is left with the intellectual powers of a seven-year-old. In the years that follow, Aaron and his second wife care for Madeline with deep tenderness and...
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Mary: A Novel
by Janis Cooke Newman Publisher Comments An engrossing novel about Mary Todd Lincoln — one of history's most misunderstood and enigmatic women. Writing from Bellevue asylum — where the shrieks of the other inmates keep her awake at night — a famous widow can finally share...
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Things to Bring, S#!t to Do: A Life in Lists
by Karen Rizzo Publisher Comments The emotional highs and lows, the romantic escapades and the financial setbacks, the moments of comedy, anxiety, and personal tragedy—they’re all brought vividly to life in Things to Bring, S#!t to Do, the first memoir told entirely in lists...
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Thirteen Moons: A Novel
by Charles Frazier
Powells.com Staff Pick Thirteen Moons is an elegant epic, a moving love story, and an engrossing adventure. Recommended by Tessa, Powells.com...
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The Righteous Men
by Sam Bourne Publisher Comments The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth... A teenage computer prodigy is mortally strangled in Mumbai. A far-right extremist is killed in a remote cabin in the Pacific Northwest. A wealthy businessman is...
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Awake in the Dark
by Shira Nayman Publisher Comments Bold and deeply affecting, Awake in the Dark is a provocative and haunting work of fiction about who we are and how we are formed by history. These luminous stories portray the contemporary lives of the children of Holocaust victims and perpetrators as...
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Coronado: Stories
by Dennis Lehane Publisher Comments From Dennis Lehane, the award-winning author of Mystic River, Shutter Island, and the Kenzie-Gennaro series, comes a striking collection of five short stories and a play. A small southern town gives birth to a dangerous man with a broken heart and a...
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Goodnight, Texas
by William Cobb Publisher Comments In this lithely told and atmospheric story, a fishing village on the Gulf Coast loses its bearings as its shrimping industry begins to fail. The town of Goodnight by the Sea lies on a peninsula between two bays, Red Moon and Humosa, and for years its...
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Roadshow: Landscape with Drums: A Concert Tour by Motorcycle
by Neil Peart Publisher Comments To celebrate their 30th anniversary, the band Rush embarked on their R30 world tour in the summer of 2004, playing 57 shows for more than half a million fans. Drummer Neil Peart traveled between shows on motorcycle, logging 21,000 miles through 19...
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Easter Rising: An Irish American Coming Up from Under
by Michael P Macdonald
Publisher Comments A powerfully redemptive story of escape from the Irish American ghetto. Michael Patrick MacDonald's All Souls: A Family Story from Southie told the story of the loss of four of his siblings to the violence, poverty, and gangsterism of Boston's Irish...
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Perfect, Once Removed: When Baseball Was All the World to Me
by Phillip Hoose Publisher Comments In the winter of 1956, Phillip Hoose was a gawky, uncoordinated 9-year-old boy just moved to a new town—Speedway, Indiana—and trying to fit into a new school and circle of friends. Baseball was his passion, even though he was terrible at it...
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Sharp Objects: A Novel
by Gillian Flynn Publisher Comments WICKED above her hipbone, GIRL across her heart Words are like a road map to reporter Camille Preaker's troubled past. Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, Camille's first assignment from the second-rate daily paper where she works brings her...
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Magic Study
by Maria V. Snyder Publisher Comments With her greatest enemy dead, and on her way to be reunited with the family she'd been stolen from long ago, Yelena should be pleased. But though she has gained her freedom, she can't help feeling isolated in Sitia. Her Ixian background has changed her...
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Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette
by Sena Jeter Naslund
Publisher Comments "Like everyone, I am born naked." With this opening line of Naslund's compelling new novel, a very human Marie Antoinette invites readers to live her story as she herself experiences it. From the lush gardens of Versailles to the lights and gaiety of...
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The Meaning of Night: A Confession
by Michael Cox
Powells.com Staff Pick Imagine Charles Dickens making Nicholas Nickleby into an avenging murderer and you have the basic idea of The Meaning of Night. Cox is an engaging writer — we want to know how Edward, the main character, came to be the man he is. It is a page-turner...
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Forgetfulness: A Novel
by Ward Just Publisher Comments From one of our most critically acclaimed authors comes a masterly story of terrorism and revenge and one mans attempts to extricate himself from his past. Thomas Railles, an American expatriate and former odd-jobber for the CIA, is a respected...
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