2007 February
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The Double Bind
by Chris Bohjalian  
Publisher Comments Throughout his career, Chris Bohjalian has earned a reputation for writing novels that examine some of the most important issues of our time. With Midwives, he explored the literal and metaphoric place of birth in our culture. In The Buffalo Soldier, he...
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Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful in the Business of Flowers
by Amy Stewart
Powells.com Staff Pick The magic of a great writer is that she can elevate any topic to fascinating status. In Flower Confidential, Amy Stewart uses equal parts journalism and florid writing to illuminate the machinal underpinnings of the flower industry. From the grail-like...
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American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
by Matthew Polly
Powells.com Staff Pick In his adventurous and highly comical journey to martial arts' ancient home, China's Shaolin Temple, Matthew Polly tests his fortitude and manhood, picking up a great deal about Chinese culture along the way. Filled with peculiar characters, crazy moves,...
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Skylight Confessions: A Novel
by Alice Hoffman Publisher Comments The marriage of Arlyn Singer and John Moody, opposites who are drawn to each other despite a mutual lack of understanding, has a profound and lasting impact on them, their children, and their grandchildren, in a poignant novel of three generations of a...
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Mistress of the Art of Death: A Novel
by Ariana Franklin
Publisher Comments Sent to medieval Cambridge in order to exonerate a group of Jewish prisoners with financial ties to King Henry I, University of Salerno medical examiner Adelia and a group of companions struggle to avoid being accused of witchcraft and discover that the...
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Lost City Radio: A Novel
by Daniel Alarcon Publisher Comments A powerful and searing novel of three lives fractured by a civil war. For ten years, Norma has been the voice of consolation for a people broken by violence. She hosts Lost City Radio, the most popular program in their nameless South American country,...
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The Dead Fathers Club
by Matt Haig Publisher Comments A ghost story with a twist — a suspenseful and poignantly funny update of the Hamlet story. Eleven-year-old Philip Noble has a big problem: His dad, who was killed in a car accident, appears as a bloodstained ghost at his own funeral and...
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The Bastard of Istanbul
by Elif Shafak Publisher Comments From one of Turkey's most acclaimed and outspoken writers, a novel about the tangled histories of two families. In her second novel written in English, Elif Shafak confronts her country's violent past in a vivid and colorful tale set in both Turkey and...
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Travels in the Scriptorium
by Paul Auster Publisher Comments A man pieces together clues to his past — and the identity of his captors — in this fantastic, labyrinthine novel. An old man awakens, disoriented, in an unfamiliar chamber. With no memory of who he is or how he has arrived there, he pores...
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In the Country of Men
by Hisham Matar Publisher Comments Libya, 1979. Nine-year-old Suleiman's days are circumscribed by the narrow rituals of childhood: outings to the ruins surrounding Tripoli, games with friends played under the burning sun, exotic gifts from his father's constant business trips abroad. But...
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The Knitting Circle
by Ann Hood Publisher Comments In the spirit of How to Make an American Quilt and The Joy Luck Club, a novel about friendship and redemption. After the sudden loss of her only child, Stella, Mary Baxter joins a knitting circle in Providence, Rhode Island, as a way to fill the...
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Fruit of the Lemon : a Novel (07 Edition)
by Andrea Levy Publisher Comments From Andrea Levy, author of Small Island and winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year and the Best of the Best Orange Prize, comes a story of one woman and two islands. Faith Jackson knows little about her parents' lives before they moved to England....
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The Sunday List of Dreams
by Kris Radish
Powells.com Staff Pick Using her "Sunday List of Dreams," Connie Nixon sets out for the Big Apple to make amends with her long-lost daughter, and ends up changing her entire life along the way. She shows us all how it is never too late to fulfill your heart's desire and...
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Devotion
by Howard Norman Publisher Comments Like many of Howard Norman's celebrated novels, Devotion begins with an announcement that a crime has taken place. In blunt, police-blotter language, we learn that on August 19, 1985, David Kozel and his father-in-law engaged in "assault by mutual...
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Deep Storm
by Lincoln Child Publisher Comments Twelve-thousand feet beneath the Atlantic Ocean... Scientists are excavating the most extraordinary undersea discovery ever made. But is it the greatest archaeological find in history — or the most terrifying? Former naval doctor Peter Crane...
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Ask Again Later
by Jill A Davis Publisher Comments Taking a much-needed break from her career and love life when her mother is diagnosed with a highly treatable form of cancer, lawyer Emily is disillusioned by her mother's dramatic attention-seeking behaviors, remembers the father who left when she was...
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The Lady in the Palazzo: At Home in Umbria
by Marlena De Blasi Publisher Comments A transplanted American chef and food writer continues her story of her life in Italy, describing her and her husband's move to Orvieto, the largest city in Umbria, as they search for and find the perfect home, which turns out to be the former ballroom...
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Flesh and Bone (Body Farm Novels)
by Jefferson Bass Publisher Comments Dr. Bill Brockton, the founder of the world-famous Body Farm, is hard at work on a troubling new case. A young man's battered body has been found in nearby Chattanooga, and it's up to the talented Dr. Brockton to assemble the pieces of the forensic...
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Halsey's Typhoon: The True Story of a Fighting Admiral, an Epic Storm, and an Untold Rescue
by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin Publisher Comments In December 1944, Admiral William Bull Halsey was America's most popular and colorful naval hero. While supporting General Douglas MacArthur's famous I Shall Return invasion of the Philippines, he unwittingly sailed his undefeated Pacific Fleet into the...
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The Buzzword Dictionary: 1,000 Phrases Translated from Pompous to English
by John Walston Publisher Comments Pompous jargon pervades English these days, from corporate speak to silly legalisms. This lighthearted look at how English is being mangled reveals the underlying meaning, as well as the attitudes behind the meaning, of more than 1,000 buzzwords...
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