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Remainder (Vintage Originals)
by Tom McCarthy Publisher Comments A man is severely injured in a mysterious accident, receives an outrageous sum in legal compensation, and has no idea what to do with it. Then, one night, an ordinary sight sets off a series of bizarre visions he can't quite place. How he goes...
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Astrid and Veronika (07 Edition)
by Olsson Powells.com Staff Pick This book is a knock-out. But what a gentle punch. In the face of their personal losses, a friendship slowly and intimately develops between two women on a quiet plot of land near a small town in Sweden. This is a truly absorbing read that is sure to...
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You Don't Love Me Yet: A Novel
by Jonathan Lethem Publisher Comments From the incomparable Jonathan Lethem, a raucous romantic farce that explores the paradoxes of love and art. Lucinda Hoekke spends eight hours a day at the Complaint Line, listening to anonymous callers air their random grievances. Most of the time...
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Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
by Bill McKibben Powells.com Staff Pick "Timely and useful. This valuable benchmark is a substantial contribution to the rethinking of unlimited economic expansion." Recommended by Ted, Powells.com...
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Stealing Buddha's Dinner
by Bich Minh Nguyen Publisher Comments A vivid, funny, and viscerally powerful memoir about childhood, assimilation, food, and growing up in the 1980s As a Vietnamese girl coming of age in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Bich Nguyen is filled with a rapacious hunger for American identity. In the pre...
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The Secret of Lost Things
by Sheridan Hay Publisher Comments A missing manuscript A young woman's voyage of discovery And the curious bookshop where it all begins... In this charming novel about the eccentricities and passions of booksellers and collectors, a captivating young Australian woman takes a job at a...
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The Spellman Files (Izzy Spellman Mysteries)
by Lisa Lutz Powells.com Staff Pick Lisa Lutz manages to combine a wicked combination of wit, charm, and substance in this debut novel that follows a wacky family of private investigators. Just when you start fantasizing about how cool it would be if your parents ran their own P.I. firm...
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The Case of the Missing Books (Mobile Library Mysteries)
by Ian Sansom Publisher Comments Israel Armstrong is a passionate soul, lured to Ireland by the promise of an exciting new career. Alas, the job that awaits him is not quite what he had in mind. Still, Israel is not one to dwell on disappointment, as he prepares to drive a mobile...
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Finn: A Novel
by Jon Clinch Publisher Comments In this masterful debut by a major new voice in fiction, Jon Clinch takes us on a journey into the history and heart of one of American literature's most brutal and mysterious figures: Huckleberry Finn's father. The result is a deeply original tour de...
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Storm Runners
by T Jefferson Parker Publisher Comments Hitting rock bottom after losing his family and ability to work after an explosion that had been set to kill him, former police officer Matt Stromsoe eventually moves on with his life and takes a job with a private security firm working as a bodyguard...
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Vinnie's Head
by Marc Lecard Publisher Comments After becoming involved in a credit-card scam with his childhood friend, Vinnie McCloskey-Schmidt, small-time Long-Island crook Johnnie LoDuco receives an unpleasant surprise during a fishing expedition when he reels in Vinnie's head, a catch that leads...
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The Echelon Vendetta
by David Stone Publisher Comments His systematic detachment compromised when a close friend dies from an apparent suicide just before his family is brutally murdered, CIA agent Micah Dalton travels from Europe to America in search of a killer whose methods have been borrowed from Native...
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If You Lived Here
by Dana Sachs Publisher Comments Unable to conceive in spite of her long-standing dream of becoming a mother, Shelly Marino embarks on an arduous adoption effort and befriends Vietnamese emigrant Mai, who struggles with her sense of identity and agrees to assist Shelly's efforts to...
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Past Perfect
by Susan Isaacs Publisher Comments Having been fired from her CIA dream job without an explanation thirteen years earlier, cable television writer Katie Schottland is enlisted for help by a former colleague who offers insight into the mystery of Katie's dismissal. By the author of Any...
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On the Wrong Track: A Holmes on the Range Mystery
by Steve Hockensmith Publisher Comments It may be 1893 and the modern world may be in full swing, but cowboy Gustav "Old Red" Amlingmeyer is an old-fashioned kind of guy: He prefers a long trail ride even when a train could get him where he's going in one-tenth the time. His brother Otto ("Big...
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Ignorance, Confidence, and Filthy Rich Friends: The Business Adventures of Mark Twain, Chronic Speculator and Entrepreneur
by Peter Krass Synopsis Mark Twain was not only a legendary author and humorist; he was also a successful businessman in a variety of ventures. He founded his own publishing house where he made a killing of $2.5 million in todays dollars by publishing General Ulysses S. Grants...
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Heart-Shaped Box: A Novel
by Joe Hill Publisher Comments A collector of obscure and macabre artifacts, from a cannibal cookbook to a used hangman's noose, unscrupulous metal band musician Judas Coyne is unable to resist purchasing a ghost over the Internet, which turns out to be the vengeful spirit of his late...
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Friends of Meager Fortune
by David Adam Richards Publisher Comments A riveting story of love, envy, and betrayal set in the dying days of the lumber industry. It’s the mid-twentieth century and the Canadian lumber industry is dying. Only men who are strong in body and spirit, men like Will Jameson, can lead the...
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Mississippi Sissy
by Kevin Sessums Publisher Comments A celebrity journalist chronicles his bullying behaviors throughout his Southern youth, his friendships with such figures as Eudora Welty, and the impact of journalist Frank Hain's murder on his career. 100,000 first printing....
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The Royal Nonesuch: Or, What Will I Do When I Grow Up?
by Glasgow Phillips Publisher Comments Glasgow Phillips published his debut novel Tuscaloosa at the tender age of twenty-four. The results were disastrous: encouraging reviews, translations, a paperback sale, a film option, and a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford. But over the next two years, as...
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