2007 April
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist
by Mohsin Hamid  Publisher Comments At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As dusk deepens to night, he begins the tale that has brought them to this fateful meeting... Changez is living an immigrant's dream of America. At...
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The God of Animals: A Novel
by Aryn Kyle 
Powells.com Staff Pick Aryn Kyle's story of Alice Winston resonates with my own childhood experience growing up among the ranchers and farmers in an isolated town. I recognized a kindred spirit in this independent young girl as she gradually discovered the tears and snags of...
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The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day One)
by Patrick Rothfuss Publisher Comments I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in....
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The Book of Air and Shadows: A Novel
by Michael Gruber Publisher Comments A distinguished Shakespearean scholar found tortured to death... A lost manuscript and its secrets buried for centuries... An encrypted map that leads to incalculable wealth... The Washington Post called Michael Gruber's previous work "a...
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Ant Farm: And Other Desperate Situations
by Simon Rich Publisher Comments In Ant Farm, former Harvard Lampoon president Simon Rich finds humor in some very surprising places. Armed with a sharp eye for the absurd and an overwhelming sense of doom, Rich explores the ridiculousness of our everyday lives. The world, he concludes,...
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The Testament of Gideon Mack
by James Robertson Publisher Comments A Scottish minister who doesnt believe in God meets the devil in this beguiling American debut A good manand a good minister despite his atheismGideon Mack leads a respectable life that is shattered when he falls down a ravine and into the raging river...
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The Raw Shark Texts
by Steven Hall
Powells.com Staff Pick In The Raw Shark Texts, Steven Hall produces a novel that is both literary bravura and a thoughtful meditation of identity and loss. A stunning debut by a writer of enormous talent. Recommended by Gerry, Powells.com...
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Love in a Torn Land: Joanna of Kurdistan: The True Story of a Freedom Fighter's Escape from Iraqi Vengeance
by Jean P Sasson Publisher Comments The story of a female Kurdish freedom fighter, from the New York Times bestselling author of Princess In this gripping book, popular author Jean Sasson tells the story of Joanna Al-Askari Hussain– and, in the process, reveals the sad plight of the...
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Dog Years: A Memoir
by Mark Doty Publisher Comments A memoir of the author's relationship with a pair of beloved canine companions is a tribute to their irrepressible personalities, their life-changing impact on the author and his family, and their role in how the author came to understand loss and grief....
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Tallgrass
by Sandra Dallas Publisher Comments An essential American novel from Sandra Dallas, an unparalleled writer of our history, and our deepest emotions... During World War II, a family finds life turned upside down when the government opens a Japanese internment camp in their small...
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Shakespeare's Kitchen
by Lore Segal Publisher Comments The thirteen interrelated stories of Shakespeare's Kitchen concern the universal longing for friendship, how we achieve new intimacies for ourselves, and how slowly, inexplicably, we lose them. Featuring six never-before-published pieces, Lore Segal's...
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Sister Mine
by Tawni O'Dell
Publisher Comments Tough, former cop Shae-Lynn Penrose has spent years building a life for herself and her son in Jolly Mount, Pennsylvania, the tiny coal-mining town in which she grew up, but her life is thrown into complete disarray by the arrival of the younger sister...
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Coal Black Horse
by Robert Olmstead Publisher Comments When Robey Childs's mother has a premonition about her husband, a soldier fighting in the Civil War, she does the unthinkable. She instructs her only child to retrieve his father from the battlefield and bring him home. Just fourteen and ill-prepared for...
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Kindness Goes Unpunished: A Walt Longmire Mystery (Walt Longmire Mysteries)
by Craig Johnson Publisher Comments Walt Longmire returns for his third adventure but this time he is in the City of Brotherly Love, where no act of kindness goes unpunished. Walt has been the sheriff in Wyoming's Absaroka County for twenty-four years, where his wit and charm have...
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The Colorful Apocalypse: Journeys in Outsider Art
by Greg Bottoms Publisher Comments The Reverend Howard Finster was twenty feet tall, suspended in darkness. Or so he appeared in the documentary film that introduced a teenaged Greg Bottoms to the renowned outsider artist whose death would help inspire him, fourteen years later, to travel...
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Burning Bright
by Tracy Chevalier
Powells.com Staff Pick The author of Girl with a Pearl Earring has done it again! With her new novel, Burning Bright, Tracy Chevalier recreates William Blake's London, circa 1790. Her eye for detail and her ear for dialogue are sharp as ever. With her books, the reader can...
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The Camel Bookmobile: A Novel
by Masha Hamilton Publisher Comments When Fiona Sweeney tells her family she wants to do something that matters, they do not expect her to go to Africa to help start a traveling library. But that is where Fiona chooses to make her mark: in the arid bush of northeastern Kenya, among tiny...
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The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life
by Robert Goolrick Publisher Comments It was the 1950s, a time of calm, a time when all things were new and everything seemd possible. A few years before, a noble war had been won, and now life had returned to normal. For one little boy, however, life had become anything but andquot;normal...
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The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish
by Elise Blackwell Publisher Comments As the waters of the Mississippi rise in 1927, the moneyed powers of Louisiana must decide which Parish to flood in order to save New Orleans....
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Portrait of an Unknown Woman
by Vanora Bennett Publisher Comments The year is 1527. The great portraitist Hans Holbein, who has fled the reformation in Europe, is making his first trip to England under commission to Sir Thomas More. In the course of six years, Holbein will become a close friend to the More family and...
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