2006 September
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The Emperor's Children
by Claire Messud  
Powells.com Staff Pick Absolutely brilliant. The best novel I've read in months, if not years, The Emperor's Children has left me powerfully moved; Claire Messud's knowledge of the human psyche is uncanny, and her characters became, in one afternoon, more important to me than...
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On Beauty: A Novel
by Zadie Smith
Publisher Comments Winner of the 2006 Orange Prize for fiction and from the celebrated author of White Teeth comes another bestselling masterwork Having hit bestseller lists from the New York Times to the San Francisco Chronicle, this wise, hilarious novel reminds us why...
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The Last Town on Earth
by Thomas Mullen Publisher Comments Set against the backdrop of one of the most virulent epidemics that America ever experienced — the 1918 flu epidemic — Thomas Mullen's powerful, sweeping first novel is a tale of morality in a time of upheaval. Deep in the mist-shrouded...
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After This: A Novel
by Alice McDermott Publisher Comments Alice McDermott’s powerful novel is a vivid portrait of an American family in the middle decades of the twentieth century. Witty, compassionate, and wry, it captures the social, political, and spiritual upheavals of those decades through the...
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The Law of Dreams
by Peter Behrens Publisher Comments The Law of Dreams tells the story of a young man's epic passage from innocence to experience during The Great Famine in Ireland of 1847. On his odyssey through Ireland and Britain, and across the Atlantic to "the Boston states," Fergus is initiated to...
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On Agate Hill
by Lee Smith
Publisher Comments A dusty box discovered in the wreckage of a North Carolina plantation house contains the remnants of an extraordinary life: an 1870s diary of a young girl, letters, poems, songs, newspaper clippings, court records, marbles, rocks, dolls, and bones. It's...
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The King's English
by Betsy Burton Synopsis Betsy Burton, owner of The King's English Bookshop in Salt Lake City, has been a bookseller for nearly thirty years, and a passionate book lover all her life. Her modestly sized, yet widely respected, shop has hosted authors such as E. L. Doctorow...
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Messenger of Truth (Maisie Dobbs Novels)
by Jacqueline Winspear Publisher Comments Maisie Dobbs investigates the mysterious death of a controversial artist—and World War I veteran—in the fourth entry in the bestselling series London, 1931. The night before an exhibition of his artwork opens at a famed Mayfair gallery, the...
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The Zero
by Jess Walter
Publisher Comments What's left of a place when you take the ground away? Answer: The Zero. Brian Remy has no idea how he got here. It's been only five days since his city was attacked, and Remy is experiencing gaps in his life — as if he were a stone skipping across...
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Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children
by John Wood Publisher Comments John Wood discovered his passion, his greatest success, and his life's work: not at business school or leading Microsoft's charge into Asia in the 1990s, but on a soul-searching trip to the Himalayas. Wood felt trapped between an all-consuming career...
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St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves: Stories
by Karen Russell
Powells.com Staff Pick I was thrilled and enamored with the pinprick subtlety of all the goodness chocked into these short stories. I read a few when they first appeared in the New Yorker, and Russell's so good that I didn't immediately catch on that some of her plot elements...
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Billy Boyle: A World War II Mystery
by James R Benn Publisher Comments "This book has got it all-an instant classic."-Lee Child, author of The Hard Way"It is a pleasure marching off to war with the spirited Billy Boyle. He is a charmer, richly imagined and vividly rendered, and he tells a finely suspenseful yarn."-Dan...
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I'm Proud of You: My Friendship with Fred Rogers
by Tim Madigan Synopsis When journalist Madigan met "Mister" Fred Rogers in 1995, his personal life was in shambles. In this story reminiscent of Mitch Albom and his phenomenal bestseller "Tuesdays with Morrie," the author details the relationship between a man struggling with...
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The Interpretation of Murder
by Jed Rubenfeld Publisher Comments In this ingenious, suspenseful historical thriller, Sigmund Freud is drawn into the mind of a sadistic killer who is savagely attacking Manhattan's wealthiest heiresses. Inspired by Sigmund Freud's only visit to America, The Interpretation of Murder...
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Dark Angels
by Karleen Koen Publisher Comments Alice Verney is a young woman intent on achieving her dreams. Having left Restoration England in the midst of a messy scandal, she has been living in Louis XIV’s Baroque, mannered France for two years. Now she is returning home to England and...
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Smonk
by Tom Franklin
Powells.com Staff Pick Bad men and even badder women, Christian deputies and horn-dog youngins, whores, blood, and rabies — and I'm saying it's hilarious? Yes! Tom Franklin's story of bad seeds and dirty deeds is sure to please all those Deadwood fans on your list...
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The Return of the Player
by Michael Tolkin Publisher Comments Published to great acclaim and adapted into a celebrated movie by Robert Altman, The Player defined the new Hollywood and became a cult classic. In The Return of the Player, film executive Griffin Mill, who got away with murder, is out to make a killing....
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The Dissident: A Novel
by Nell Freudenberger Publisher Comments From the PEN/Malamud Award-winning author of Lucky Girls comes a bold, intricately woven first novel about an enigmatic stranger who disrupts the life of one American family. Yuan Zhao, a celebrated Chinese performance artist and political dissident,...
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Small Acts of Sex and Electricity
by Lise Haines Publisher Comments Beauty and privilege, a charming, handsome husband and two promising young daughters, money, a beach house on the Pacific—Jane has everything that Mattie thinks she wants. But Jane always works to damage what she's given. Mattie knows that better...
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Angel's Rest
by Charles Davis Publisher Comments Growing up in Virginia's Allegheny Mountains, eleven-year-old Charlie York lives at the foot of an endless peak called Angel's Rest, a place his momma told him angels rested before coming down to help folks. In 1967 his town was a poor boy's paradise...
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