2008 May
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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
by Mary Roach  
Powells.com Staff Pick Following her usual template, Mary Roach finds a subject in the scientific community that is equal parts fascinating and scandalous, and writes an extensively researched and thoroughly amusing book about it. Beyond the initial titillation stemming from a...
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The Girl with No Shadow
by Joanne Harris
Publisher Comments Be careful what you wish for... Hailed as an "irresistible confection" (Entertainment Weekly), "as sweet, rich and utterly satisfying as a fine truffle" (Wall Street Journal), and "an amazement of riches" (New York Times), Chocolat won the hearts of...
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Sale: $19.25 Hardcover List Price $27.50
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A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World
by Tony Horwitz
Powells.com Staff Pick With the same sly humor and neighborly curiosity he brought to Confederates in the Attic and Blue Latitudes, in A Voyage Long and Strange Tony Horwitz roams the New World, surveying the destinations of history's foremost explorers: Leif Eiriksson...
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Sale: $21.00 Hardcover List Price $25.95
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The Plague of Doves
by Louise Erdrich Publisher Comments Louise Erdrich's mesmerizing new novel, her first in almost three years, centers on a compelling mystery. The unsolved murder of a farm family haunts the small, white, off-reservation town of Pluto, North Dakota. The vengeance exacted for this crime and...
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Sale: $16.76 Hardcover List Price $23.95
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The Gift of Rain
by Tan Twan Eng
Powells.com Staff Pick I loved The Gift of Rain and will recommend it to all my bookselling friends. It's a beautiful work of historical fiction, but its themes also make it timely and relevant — a look at the excruciating choices that war inflicts on civilians. A small...
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Skeletons at the Feast
by Chris Bohjalian Publisher Comments In January 1945, in the waning months of World War II, a small group of people begin the longest journey of their lives: an attempt to cross the remnants of the Third Reich, from Warsaw to the Rhine if necessary, to reach the British and American lines....
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The Legend of Colton H. Bryant
by Alexandra Fuller Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of Donat Letas Go to the Dogs Tonight and Scribbling the Cat, the unforgettable true story of a boy who comes of age in the oil-fields and open plains of Wyoming; a heartrending story of the human spirit that lays bare where...
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The Host
by Stephenie Meyer Publisher Comments The author of the Twilight series of #1 bestsellers delivers her brilliant first novel for adults: a gripping story of love and betrayal in a future with the fate of humanity at stake. Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded...
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The House at Riverton
by Kate Morton Publisher Comments The House at Riverton is a gorgeous debut novel set in England between the wars. It is the story of an aristocratic family, a house, a mysterious death and a way of life that vanished forever, told in flashback by a woman who witnessed it all and kept a...
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So Brave, Young, and Handsome
by Leif Enger Publisher Comments A stunning successor to his best selling novel Peace Like a River, Leif Enger’s new work is a rugged and nimble story about an aging train robber on a quest to reconcile the claims of love and judgment on his life, and the failed writer who goes...
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Things I Want My Daughters to Know
by Elizabeth Noble Publisher Comments How do you cope in a world without your mother? When Barbara realizes time is running out, she writes letters to her four daughters, aware that they'll be facing the trials and triumphs of life without her at their side. But how can she leave them when...
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After Hours at the Almost Home
by Tara Yellen Synopsis Restaurant workers at a neighborhood bar and grill on the busiest night of the year continue to mix it up long after hours and well beyond what's good for them, risking hearts and hopes--and the life of a tender young girl....
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The White Tiger
by Aravind Adiga
Powells.com Staff Pick A remarkable first novel ingeniously written in the form of a letter to the Chinese premier soon to visit India, Adiga's dark yet witty debut brings to Western readers the tense drama of a developing country and a character caught up in corruption and...
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Peace
by Richard Bausch Publisher Comments From the prize-winning novelist and world-renowned short story writer, recipient of the PEN/Malamud Award and the Academy Award from the Academy of Arts and Letters, a powerful novel about war, trust, and salvation that begs to be read in a single...
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Child 44: A Novel
by Tom Rob Smith Publisher Comments How do you solve an impossible crime? It is a society that is, officially, a haven for its citizens. Superior to the decadent West, Stalin's Soviet Union strives to be a paradise for its workers, providing for all of their needs: education, health...
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The Romanov Bride
by Robert Alexander Publisher Comments The last in the bestselling trilogy athe drama of a grand duchess and the peasant who determines her fate As the Russia of Nicholas and Alexandra rushes toward catastrophe, the Grand Duchess Elisavyeta is ensconced in the lavish and magnificent Romanov...
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The Outlander
by Gil Adamson Publisher Comments In 1903 a mysterious young woman flees alone across the West, one heart-pounding step ahead of the law. At nineteen, Mary Boulton has just become a widow — and her husband's killer. As bloodhounds track her frantic race toward the mountains, she is...
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The Story of a Marriage
by Andrew Sean Greer Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of The Confessions of Max Tivoli, a love story full of secrets and astonishments set in 1950s San Francisco. "We think we know the ones we love." So Pearlie Cook begins her indirect and devastating exploration of the mystery...
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The Conversion
by Joseph Olshan Publisher Comments Russell Todaro, a young American translator, moves to Paris to take stock of his life and goals only to further lose himself in the surprising twists fate has in store for him. One night, two men waving guns and knives break and enter their Paris hotel...
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Online Sale: $16.10 Hardcover List Price $23.00
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The God of War
by Marisa Silver Publisher Comments The year is 1978. Ares Ramirez, age 12, lives with his mother, Laurel, and his younger brother Malcolm in a trailer at the edge of the Salton Sea, an unintentionally man-made body of water in the middle of the Southern California desert. It is a desolate,...
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