2007 June
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
by Barbara Kingsolver and Camille Kingsolver and Steven L. Hopp  
Powells.com Staff Pick After 25 years in the Arizona desert, in 2004, Kentucky-bred Barbara Kingsolver moved back to the Appalachians, to a Virginia farm just hours from her childhood home. Family called. "Returning," she explains in Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, "would allow my...
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A Thousand Splendid Suns: A Novel
by Khaled Hosseini
Powells.com Staff Pick Never mind the sophomore slump — this book devours that cliché. As well as illuminating the rich history and familial culture behind war-torn Afghanistan, A Thousand Splendid Suns is filled with authentic relationships and characters that are...
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The Last Chinese Chef
by Nicole Mones Publisher Comments The Last Chinese Chef is the transporting story of how the sensual, romantic elements of haute Chinese cuisine become the perfect ingredients to lift the troubled soul of a grieving American woman. For food writer Maggie McElroy, it's been a year of...
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Divisadero
by Michael Ondaatje
Powells.com Staff Pick Reading Ondaatje's new book, Divisadero, is like listening to great music. You are caught up in the moment, the elegiac writing, and propelled into a different reality. The crescendo brings it altogether, the passion, the years of hurt and pain, and the...
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Five Skies: A Novel
by Ron Carlson Publisher Comments Award-winning short story writer Ron Carlson delivers a stirring novel about three men confronting their pasts and their purpose. Beloved story writer Ron Carlson's first novel in thirty years, Five Skies is the story of three men gathered high in...
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Soon I Will Be Invincible
by Austin Grossman
Powells.com Staff Pick You don't have to have action figures on your desk to appreciate Austin Grossman's novel Soon I Will Be Invincible. Sure, superheroes and supervillains clash on a galactic scale, but it's not all about fighting for Truth and Justice. The reader gets an...
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Falling Man: A Novel
by Don DeLillo
Powells.com Staff Pick Falling Man is Don DeLillo's exquisite, memorable take on 9/11. Somewhat more stylistically spare than his earlier books, Falling Man nonetheless feels like the book DeLillo was meant to write; themes he has addressed throughout his body of work —...
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Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Story
by Leonie Swann Publisher Comments A witty philosophical murder mystery with a charming twist: the crack detectives are sheep determined to discover who killed their beloved shepherd. On a hillside near the cozy Irish village of Glennkill, the members of the flock gather around their...
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The Gravedigger's Daughter
by Joyce Carol Oates Publisher Comments In 1936 the Schwarts, an immigrant family desperate to escape Nazi Germany, settle in a small town in upstate New York, where the father, a former high school teacher, is demeaned by the only job he can get: gravedigger and cemetery caretaker. After...
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The Shadow Catcher
by Marianne Wiggins
Publisher Comments The Shadow Catcher dramatically inhabits the space where past and present intersect, seamlessly interweaving narratives from two different eras: the first fraught passion between turn-of-the-twentieth-century icon Edward Curtis (1868-1952) and his muse...
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The Blood of Flowers: A Novel
by Anita Amirrezvani
Publisher Comments In 17th-century Persia, a 14-year-old woman believes she will be married within the year. But when her beloved father dies, she and her mother find themselves alone and without a dowry. With nowhere else to go, they are forced to sell the brilliant...
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Bad Luck and Trouble: A Jack Reacher Novel
by Lee Child Publisher Comments From a helicopter high above the empty California desert, a man is sent free-falling into the night... In Chicago, a woman learns that an elite team of ex–army investigators is being hunted down one by one... And on the streets of Portland...
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Austenland
by Shannon Hale
Publisher Comments Jane Hayes is a seemingly normal young New Yorker, but she has a secret. Her obsession with Mr. Darcy, as played by Colin Firth in the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, is ruining her love life: no real man can compare. But when a wealthy relative...
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Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe's America
by Andrew Ferguson
Publisher Comments Before he grew up and became one of Washington's most respected reporters and editors, Andrew Ferguson was, of all things, a Lincoln buff — with the photos hung on his bedroom wall to prove it. Decades later, Ferguson's latent buffdom is reignited...
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What You Have Left (07 Edition)
by Allison Publisher Comments What You Have Left is an unforgettable story of love, loss, and, most of all, longing. In 1976, on the day of his wife's funeral, Wylie Greer drops off his five-year-old daughter, Holly, at his father-in-law's dairy farm on the outskirts of Columbia...
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The Religion
by Tim Willocks Publisher Comments This is what we dream of: to be so swept away, so poleaxed by a book that the breath is sucked right out of us. Brace yourselves. May 1565. Suleiman the Magnificent, emperor of the Ottomans, has declared a jihad against the Knights of Saint John the...
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Life's a Beach
by Claire Cook Publisher Comments By the bestselling author of Must Love Dogs, the story of two grown-up sisters who fight like cats andd dogs — but call each other at least twice a day. When Must Love Dogs was published, the Chicago Tribune called it "pitch-perfect" and the...
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Landsman
by Peter Charle Melman Publisher Comments A stirring, evocative and unforgettable epic novel of the Civil War in the tradition of Cold Mountain and Widow of the South.In the summr of 1853, in Lafayette Co. Louisiana, eleven year old Elias Abrams loses his mother to yellow fever. Greif-stricken...
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From the Palmer Raids to the PATRIOT Act: A History of the Fight for Free Speech in America
by Christopher M. Finan Publisher Comments After Upton Sinclair, famed author of The Jungle, was arrested for reading the First Amendment on Liberty Hill in 1923, The Nation commented: "When we contemplate the antics of the chief of police of Los Angeles, we are deterred from characterizing...
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Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood at FDR's Polio Haven
by Susan Richar Shreve Publisher Comments 'Just after her eleventh birthday in 1950 and at the height of the frightening childhood polio epidemic, Susan Richards Shreve was sent to the sanitarium at Warm Springs, Georgia. It was a place famously founded by FDR, "a perfect setting in time...
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