2008 February
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The Monsters of Templeton
by Lauren Groff  
Powells.com Staff Pick Read it in hardcover. Honest. You're surfing the website of an independent bookseller in Portland, Oregon -- undoubtedly, you care about books, and likely you appreciate discovering the best ones before the masses catch on. Do yourself the favor of...
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The Thing about Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead
by David Shields
Powells.com Staff Pick "I've been weirdly giddy ever since finishing the book," David Shields admits. "Somehow I find the mortality data strangely liberating." Somehow this isn't surprising. In The Thing about Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead, Shields takes readers from...
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The Invention of Everything Else: A Novel
by Samantha Hunt Publisher Comments A wondrous imagining of an unlikely friendship between the eccentric inventor Nikola Tesla and a young chambermaid in the Hotel New Yorker where Tesla lives out his last days. From the moment she first catches sight of the Hotel New Yorker's most...
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The Reserve: A Novel
by Russell Banks Publisher Comments Part love story, part murder mystery, set on the cusp of the Second World War, Russell Banks's sharp-witted and deeply engaging new novel raises dangerous questions about class, politics, art, love, and madness — and explores what happens when two...
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Rock On: An Office Power Ballad
by Dan Kennedy
Powells.com Staff Pick Cleverly written and feverishly funny, Rock On is Dan Kennedy's account of his music-biz shenanigans at Atlantic Records. Written with entertaining and self-deprecating wit, Kennedy’s off-the-wall confrontations and dealings make for irresistible...
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Sharp Teeth
by Toby Barlow
Publisher Comments An ancient race of lycanthropes has survived to the present day, and its numbers are growing as the initiated convince L.A.'s down and out to join their pack. Paying no heed to moons, full or otherwise, they change from human to canine at will — and...
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Now You See Him: A Novel
by Eli Gottlieb
Powells.com Staff Pick I read it for an hour at lunch and then finished it the same night right after dinner, when I heated up leftovers so I wouldn't have to spend time away from this book. A beautiful, lyrical, almost surgically delicate dissection of a marriage...
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Life Class
by Pat Barker Publisher Comments From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Regeneration Trilogy, an acknowledged masterpiece of modern fiction, Life Class is an exceptional new novel of artists and lovers caught in the maelstrom of the Great War. It is the spring of 1914 and a...
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The Somnambulist
by Jonathan Barnes Publisher Comments Be warned. This book has no literary merit whatsoever. Needless to say, I doubt you'll believe a word of it. Once the toast of good society in Victoria's England, the extraordinary conjurer Edward Moon no longer commands the respect or inspires the...
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Hope's Boy
by Andrew Bridge Publisher Comments In his memoir, Andrew Bridge reflects with acute perception and openness on a devestating young life. At 7-years-old, Andrew was forced into foster care after authorities declared his mother Hope unfit to raise him.& nbsp; Barely an adult herself and...
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High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed
by Michael Kodas Publisher Comments In 2004, journalist Michael Kodas joined local mountain climbers from home on an expedition to Mount Everest. He anticipated an exhilarating and arduous adventure among a group of like-minded idealists that he could report to his readers back in...
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The Age of Shiva: A Novel
by Manil Suri Publisher Comments Following his spectacular debut, The Death of Vishnu, Manil Suri returns with a mesmerizing story of modern India, richly layered with themes from Hindu mythology. The Age of Shiva is at once a powerful story of a country in turmoil and an extraordinary...
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Song Yet Sung: A Novel
by James McBride Publisher Comments From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Color of Water comes a powerful page-turner about a runaway slave and a determined slave catcher. Nowhere has the drama of American slavery played itself out with more tension than in the dripping...
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Gardens of Water
by Alan Drew Publisher Comments Powerful, emotional, and beautifully written, Alan Drew's stunning first novel brings to life two unforgettable families — one Kurdish, one American — and the sacrifice and love that bind them together. In a small town outside Istanbul...
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Firefly Lane
by Kristin Hannah Publisher Comments From the New York Times bestselling author of On Mystic Lake comes a powerful novel of love, loss, and the magic of friendship.... In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food...
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The Opposite of Love
by Julie Buxbaum Publisher Comments With perfect pitch for the humor and heartbreak of everyday life, Julie Buxbaum has fashioned a heroine who will be instantly recognizable to anyone who has loved and lost and loved again. When successful twenty-nine-year-old Manhattan attorney Emily...
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The Eye of Jade (Mei Wang Mysteries)
by Diane Wei Liang Publisher Comments "Having her own detective agency would give herthe independence she had always longed for. Itwould also give her the chance to show those peoplewho shunned her that she could be successful. Peoplewere getting rich. They owned property, money,business...
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Ice Trap
by Kitty Sewell Publisher Comments Dear Doctor Woodruff, This international bestseller is a startlingly assured first novel of deception, ambiguity, and shattering revelations. At the height of his career, a British surgeon has found success in both the hospital and at home. He and his...
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L.A. Outlaws
by T. Jefferson Parker Publisher Comments Los Angeles is gripped by the exploding celebrity of Allison Murietta, her real identity unknown, a modern-day Jesse James with the compulsion to steal beautiful things, the vanity to invite the media along, and the conscience to donate much of her...
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The Boys in the Trees
by Mary Swan Publisher Comments “This is a mesmerizing novel, that can truly claim to be filled with a ‘terrible beauty.’”—Alice Munro Newly arrived to the countryside, William Heath, his wife, and two daughters appear the picture of a devoted family....
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