2008 January
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People of the Book: A Novel
by Geraldine Brooks  
Powells.com Staff Pick Give me a mystery (one that is structured around an antiquarian book, no less!), a historical setting, and an exquisite writer like Geraldine Brooks, and I am suddenly avoiding daily rituals like sleep and food. Nothing could deter me from turning the...
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Helping Me Help Myself: One Skeptic, Ten Self-Help Gurus, and a Year on the Brink of the Comfort Zone
by Beth Lisick
Publisher Comments Grappling with her lifelong phobia of anything slick, cheesy, or remotely claiming to provide self-empowerment, Beth Lisick wakes up on New Year's Day 2006 with an unprecedented feeling. She is finally able to admit to herself that she's grown tired of...
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The Senator's Wife: A Novel
by Sue Miller Publisher Comments Once again Sue Miller takes us deep into the private lives of women with this mesmerizing portrait of two marriages exposed in all their shame and imperfection, and in their obdurate, unyielding love. The author of the iconic The Good Mother and the best-...
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Homecoming
by Bernhard Schlink Publisher Comments The first novel by Bernhard Schlink since his international best seller The Reader, Homecoming is the story of one man's odyssey and another man's pursuit. A child of World War II, Peter Debauer grew up with his mother and scant memories of his...
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Blasphemy
by Douglas J. Preston Publisher Comments The world's biggest supercollider, locked in an Arizona mountain, was built to reveal the secrets of the very moment of creation: the Big Bang itself. The Torus is the most expensive machine ever created by humankind, run by the world's most powerful...
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The Painter of Battles: A Novel
by Arturo Perez-Reverte Publisher Comments Acclaimed author Arturo Pérez-Reverte has earned a distinguished reputation as a master of the literary thriller with his international bestsellers The Club Dumas and The Queen of the South. Now, in this haunting new work, Pérez-Reverte has written his...
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The Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy
by Robert Leleux Publisher Comments In the Dear John letter Daddy left for Mother and me, on a Saturday afternoon in early June 1996, on the inlaid Florentine table in the front entry of our house, which we found that night upon returning from a day spent in the crème-colored light of...
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Beginner's Greek: A Novel
by James Collins Publisher Comments When Peter Russell finally meets the woman of his dreams he falls as madly in love as you can on a flight from New York to LA. Her name is Holly. She's achingly pretty with strawberry-blonde hair, and reads Thomas Mann for pleasure. She gives Peter her...
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The Middle Place
by Kelly Corrigan Publisher Comments "The thing you need to know about me is that I am George Corrigan's daughter, his only daughter." So begins this beautifully written memoir, in which Kelly Corrigan intertwines her own story with that of her larger-than-life, Irish-American, born...
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A Golden Age: A Novel
by Tahmima Anam Publisher Comments As young widow Rehana Haque awakes one March morning, she might be forgiven for feeling happy. Today she will throw a party for her son and daughter. In the garden of the house she has built, her roses are blooming, her children are almost grown, and...
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Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home
by Kim Sunée Publisher Comments Already hailed as "brave, emotional, and gorgeously written" by Frances Mayes and "like a piece of dark chocolate — bittersweet, satisfying, and finished all too soon" by Laura Fraser, author of An Italian Affair, this is a unique memoir about the...
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Her Last Death: A Memoir
by Susanna Sonnenberg Publisher Comments Her Last Death begins as the phone rings early one morning in the Montana house where Susanna Sonnenberg lives with her husband and two young sons. Her aunt is calling to tell Susanna her mother is in a coma after a car accident. She might not live. Any...
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The Venetian Betrayal: A Novel
by Steve Berry Publisher Comments In 323 B.C.E, having conquered Persia, Alexander the Great set his sights on Arabia, then suddenly succumbed to a strange fever. Locating his final resting place — unknown to this day — remains a tantalizing goal for both archaeologists and...
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Every Last Cuckoo
by Kate Maloy Publisher Comments At age seventy-five, Sarah Lucas imagined the rest of her days would be spent living peacefully in her rural Vermont home in the familiar, steadfast company of her husband. But when Charles succumbs to an injury he suffered in the woods, she is left...
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Silent in the Sanctuary: A Lady Julia Grey Mystery
by Deanna Raybourn Publisher Comments fresh from a six-month sojourn in Italy, Lady Julia returns home to Sussex to find her father's estate crowded with family and friends— but dark deeds are afoot at the deconsecrated abbey, and a murderer roams the ancient cloisters. Much to her...
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The Collaborator of Bethlehem (Omar Yussef Mysteries)
by Matt Rees Synopsis Rees presents a riveting first novel in a new mystery series set in the heartof the Middle East....
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River
by Lowen Clausen Publisher Comments From a remote corner of a vanishing American landscape, a bereaved father begins a journey down the river that has been all but inseparable from his life. At the river’s origin the shallow stream courses through the ranch where he was born...
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They Did It with Love
by Kate Morgenroth Publisher Comments Secrets lurk under the smooth surface of a wealthy Connecticut neighborhood, until a murder reveals all. Sofie and her husband have left Manhattan in search of a more tranquil life in the suburbs. But when a member of Sofie's new neighborhood book...
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The Jewel Trader of Pegu
by Jeffrey Hantover
Publisher Comments A melancholy young Jewish gem merchant, Abraham, born in Venice, has lived his life behind the ghetto walls of that damp, oppressive city. He has lost a wife and the son whose difficult birth killed her. Now there is nothing left for him there. In...
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Firefly Rain
by Richard Dansky Publisher Comments A riveting supernatural mystery like you've never read before. The prodigal son leaves the big city to return to his dearly departed parent's house in North Carolina only to find, now that he's home, that something is trying to make damn sure he...
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