2007 November
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The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot
by Naomi Wolf  
Powells.com Staff Pick The End of America should be required reading for every American. Rather than giving us a partisan 600-page tome on the crimes of the Bush administration, Naomi Wolf lays out clearly and concisely how we as a people have allowed our government to move...
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The Abstinence Teacher: A Novel
by Tom Perrotta Publisher Comments Stonewood Heights is the perfect place to raise kids. It's got the proverbial good schools, solid values and a healthy real estate market. It's the kind of place where parents are involved in their children's lives, where no opportunity for enrichment...
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The Indian Clerk
by David Leavitt Publisher Comments The brilliant new novel from one of our most respected writers—his most ambitious and accessible to date. On a January morning in 1913, G. H. Hardy—eccentric, charismatic and, at thirty-seven, already considered the greatest British...
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20th Century Ghosts
by Joe Hill
Publisher Comments Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945... Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with big ideas and...
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God of Luck
by Ruthanne Lum Mccunn Publisher Comments "With God of Luck, Ruthanne Lum McCunn has turned her descriptive and sensitive storytelling skills to the little-known coolie trade to Peru. She beautifully combines the hardships and brutality of the kidnapping of a Chinese man, conditions on the slave...
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Pigeon and a Boy (07 Edition)
by Meir Shalev Publisher Comments From the internationally acclaimed Israeli writer Meir Shalev comes a mesmerizing novel of two love stories, separated by half a century but connected by one enchanting act of devotion. During the 1948 War of Independence--a time when pigeons are still...
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I Am Legend
by Richard Matheson Publisher Comments < div> < div> < div> Robert Neville may well be the last living man on Earth . . . but he is not alone.< br> & nbsp; < /div> < div> An incurable plague has mutated every other man, woman, and child into...
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Finding Iris Chang: Friendship, Ambition, and the Loss of an Extraordinary Mind
by Paula Kamen Publisher Comments A friend and confidante reveals the private Iris Chang — the woman behind the international celebrity and bold personality — and attempts to understand Chang's terrible psychological decline. Iris Chang's mysterious suicide in 2004, at age...
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The Sound of Butterflies
by Rachael King Publisher Comments Amateur naturalist Thomas Edgar is offered the chance of a lifetime: to travel to the Amazon as part of a scientific exploration. Hoping to discover the mythical butterfly of which he has long dreamed — his Papilio sophia — he eagerly accepts...
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The Scent of Desire: Discovering Our Enigmatic Sense of Smell
by Rachel Herz Publisher Comments Shakespeare wrote that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. But if you cannot smell, does the rose lose its sweetness? The first and definitive book on the psychology of smell, The Scent of Desire traces the importance of smell in our lives...
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A Free Life
by Ha Jin Publisher Comments From Ha Jin, the widely-acclaimed, award-winning author of Waiting and War Trash, comes a novel that takes his fiction to a new setting: 1990s America. We follow the Wu family — father Nan, mother Pingping, and son Taotao — as they fully sever...
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The Melancholy Fate of Capt. Lewis
by Michael Pritchett Publisher Comments National publicity Author events Reading...
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How to Talk about Books You Haven't Read
by Pierre Bayard Publisher Comments The runaway French bestseller hailed by the New York Times as “a survivor’s guide to life in the chattering classes.” If civilized people are expected to have read all important works of literature, and thousands more books are...
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The Contractor
by Charles Holdefer Publisher Comments George Young accepts a job working for the government as a civilian interrogator in a secret holding prison, and begins to question his job and his own identity when one of his prisoners unexpectedly dies under questioning....
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The Pure in Heart (Simon Serrailler Crime Novels)
by Susan Hill Synopsis In this follow-up to "The Various Haunts of Men," Detective Chief Inspector Simon Serrailler is on vacation in Venice, trying to come to terms with the brutal murder of a young woman who had been in love with him. His trip is cut short after he is...
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The Race
by Richard North Patterson Publisher Comments Can an honest man become president? In this timely and provocative novel, a maverick candidate takes on his political enemies and the ruthless machinery of American politics. Corey Grace — a handsome and charismatic Republican senator from Ohio &...
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The Thanksgiving Table: Recipes and Ideas to Create Your Own Holiday Tradition
by Diane Morgan Publisher Comments For novices, orchestrating The Feast is no easy task. And even for old pros it's a bit of a challenge. Enter The Thanksgiving Table—offering you everything you need from foolproof cooking secrets and techniques and classic and innovative recipes, to...
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Darkness Falls
by Kyle Mills Publisher Comments An all-too-plausible eco-thriller from the best-selling author of The Second Horseman. Erin Neal has been living a secluded life in the Arizona desert since the death of his girlfriend and he isn't happy when an oil company executive comes calling. A...
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Dead Man in Paradise: Unraveling a Murder from a Time of Revolution
by J B Mackinnon Publisher Comments The award-winning story of a nephew's search for the truth behind his uncle's murder— described by CBC radio as "equal parts Ian Rankin, Jan Morris and Joan Didion." At nightfall on June 22, 1965, amid the turmoil of the Dominican revolution and U.S....
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A Monk Jumped Over a Wall
by Jay Nussbaum Publisher Comments J.J. Spencer is one of the many hungry young lawyers eager to climb the corporate ladder to the great future awaiting him. With his first annual review approaching, J.J. is confident his keen work for the top Manhattan law firm he is employed by will be...
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