2007 August
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The World without Us
by Alan Weisman  
Powells.com Staff Pick "Let us try a creative experiment," Alan Weisman proposes on page three: If humans disappeared from earth, what would happen? To your home, for example. To our cities, farms, and oceans. To the animals that remain. Or to the billion tons of plastic we'd...
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Bad Monkeys
by Matt Ruff
Powells.com Staff Pick Bad Monkeys twists, turns, shifts, and shakes its way through the story of one Jane Charlotte, a woman who claims to be member of a clandestine organization dedicated to fighting evil known as the Final Disposition of Irredeemable Persons. A gripping...
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Loving Frank: A Novel
by Nancy Horan Publisher Comments I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright...
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The Septembers of Shiraz
by Dalia Sofer
Powells.com Staff Pick Septembers of Shiraz describes the journey, both psychological and physical, of a Jewish family whose father is imprisoned in the first years of revolutionary Iran. It is a beautifully written expose of the trauma that occurs to individuals when there...
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Here If You Need Me: A True Story
by Kate Braestrup
Powells.com Staff Pick Ten years ago, Kate Braestrup and her husband Drew were enjoying the life they shared together. They had four young children, and Drew, a Maine state trooper, would soon begin training to become a minister as well. Then early one morning Drew left for...
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On Kingdom Mountain
by Howard Mosher Publisher Comments 'Set in northern Vermont in 1930, On Kingdom Mountain recounts the life and times of Miss Jane Hubbell Kinneson. A renowned local bookwoman and bird carver, she is the sole proprietor and last resident of a remote and wild mountain situated on the U.S...
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Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant
by Jenni Ferrari-Adler
Powells.com Staff Pick Whether eating alone is something you long for or something you curse, this collection of essays about cooking and eating for one will satisfy your appetite. A virtual smorgasbord of great writing from 26 authors, including Haruki Murakami, Nora Ephron,...
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Red Rover
by Deirdre McNamer Publisher Comments A stirring novel about idealism laid waste and the haunting, redemptive bonds of friendship. Deirdre McNamer has won praise for the intelligence, beauty, precision, and sweep of her fiction. Her first novel in seven years, Red Rover tells the story...
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The Rest of Her Life: A Novel
by Laura Moriarty Publisher Comments In The Rest of Her Life, Laura Moriarty delivers a luminous, compassionate, and provocative look at how mothers and daughters with the best intentions can be blind to the harm they do to one another. Leigh is the mother of high-achieving, popular...
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Mister Pip
by Lloyd Jones Publisher Comments In a novel that is at once intense, beautiful, and fablelike, Lloyd Jones weaves a transcendent story that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the power of narrative to transform our lives. On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by...
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Up High in the Trees
by Kiara Brinkman Publisher Comments When Sebby Lane asks his mother where he came from, she points to the trees high above their heads... In this startling and brave debut novel, Kiara Brinkman introduces an extraordinary young boy, a boy Cristina Garcia has called "a Little Prince for...
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Letter from Point Clear
by Dennis Mcfarland Publisher Comments A brother and sister return to their Southern hometown to rescue their younger sister from her marriage to an evangelical preacher—only to find their expectations turned completely upside down The Owen children long ago left their gracious...
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The River Wife
by Jonis Agee Publisher Comments From acclaimed novelist Jonis Agee, whom The New York Times Book Review called “a gifted poet of that dark lushness in the heart of the American landscape,” The River Wife is a sweeping, panoramic story that ranges from the New Madrid...
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Dirty Martini (Jack Daniels Mysteries)
by J A Konrath Publisher Comments Lieutenant Jacqueline (Jack) Daniels, the insomniac Chicago cop with a train wreck of a personal life, has trouble on her hands, and it isn???t just because her boyfriend, Latham, wants to get married and she??'s not sure she??'s ready. A man in disguise...
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A Peculiar Grace
by Jeffrey Lent Publisher Comments An unforgettable tale of love, family secrets, and the hold of the past in a family of New England artists, A Peculiar Grace is the latest triumph from the author of In the Fall, hailed by The Christian Science Monitor and The New York Times as one of...
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Swim to Me
by Betsy Carter Publisher Comments It's a fresh start for Delores Walker when she boards a Greyhound bus bound for Florida. Leaving the Bronx far behind, she's headed for sunny Weeki Wachee Springs, frayed roadside attraction in danger of becoming obsolete with the opening of Walt Disney...
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The Night Birds
by Thomas Maltman Publisher Comments The summer of 1876 feels like the end of the world to fourteen-year-old Asa Senger. Locusts plague the prairie farms; his family is about to lose everything. The Dakota Indians have been banished from Minnesota, yet an aged Indian appears. His father...
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Killer Weekend
by Ridley Pearson Publisher Comments The #1 New York Times bestseller returns with a completely new setting — the magnificent natural beauty of Sun Valley, Idaho — and a heart-stopping story in which a local sheriff struggles to protect a controversial politician from the elegant...
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How to Talk to a Widower
by Jonathan Tropper Publisher Comments "Beautifully crafted." "Fantastically funny." "Compulsively readable." Jonathan Tropper has earned wild acclaim — and comparisons to Nick Hornby and Tom Perrotta — for his biting humor and insightful portrayals of families in crisis and men...
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The Island
by Victoria Hislop Publisher Comments The Petrakis family lives in the small Greek seaside village of Plaka. Just off the coast is the tiny island of Spinalonga, where the nation's leper colony once was located -- a place that has haunted four generations of Petrakis women. There's Eleni...
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