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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by Malcolm Gladwell  
Powells.com Staff Pick Somewhere along the way to guru-dom, Malcolm Gladwell got tagged as a business writer. Fair enough — The Tipping Point speaks more powerfully to the principles of succesful marketing than any pedestrian semester in the classroom. But while raves...
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
by Michael Chabon
Powells.com Staff Pick The story of two young comic book artists in 1940s New York City, Jewish boys, one of whom fled the German steamroller heading toward his home in Czechoslovakia in a coffin, Chabon's third and best novel is utterly original, a generous fictional addition...
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When the Emperor Was Divine
by Julie Otsuka
Powells.com Staff Pick A breathtaking debut. Also a painter, Otsuka creates complex scenes and well-rounded characters with astonishing efficiency. Line by line her minimalist strokes disguise the massive canvas on which she's working: the internment of more than 120,000...
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Perennial Classics)
by Milan Kundera
Publisher Comments Plot Summary Tereza and Tomas, Tomas and Sabina, Sabina and Franz, Franz and Marie-Claude--four people, four relationships. Milan Kundera's masterful novel, "The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), tells the interlocking stories of these four...
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
by Eric Schlosser
Powells.com Staff Pick "What we eat has changed more in the last forty years than in the last forty thousand," Schlosser observes, yet most Americans know very little about how that food is made, where, by whom, and at what cost. Fast Food Nation traces the industry's...
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Bel Canto: A Novel
by Ann Patchett
Powells.com Staff Pick The government of a small South American country holds a birthday party for the head of Japan's leading electronics manufacturer, hoping to attract its business. Mr. Hosokawa, they know, can't resist the opportunity of a private performance by the world...
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
by Alexandra Fuller
Powells.com Staff Pick In her 2001 debut, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller recalled in vivid, often excruciating detail coming of age in Rhodesia as a long civil war raged in neighboring Mozambique and her own country slid down the violent path toward an...
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Underworld
by Don DeLillo
Publisher Comments Our lives, our half century. Nick Shay and Klara Sax knew each other once, intimately, and they meet again in the American desert. He is trying to outdistance the crucial events of his early life, haunted by the hard logic of loss and by the echo of a...
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Dixie City Jam
by James Lee Burke
Publisher Comments For years, Det. Dave Robicheaux of the New Iberia Sheriff's office kept the secret of the watery resting place of the Nazi submarine. Now decades later, when a powerful Jewish activist and a neo-Nazi psychopath named Will Buchalter both want to find the...
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Anil's Ghost
by Michael Ondaatje
Publisher Comments With his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient, Booker Prize-winning author Michael Ondaatje gives us a work displaying all the richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth that we have come to know as...
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The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup
by Susan Orlean
Publisher Comments Now in paperback comes the wonderfully entertaining, bestselling collection of the "New Yorker" writer's brightest profiles. "A voyeur's delight: expertly framed windows into the cosmology of the human experience . . . (these profiles) reintroduce...
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Franny and Zooey
by J D Salinger
Powells.com Staff Pick I named my yellow Lab "Zooey" and believe me, I don't make those kinds of decisions hastily. It was either Zooey or Pooh, and, well, I wondered what kind of looks I might get from strangers, shouting "Pooh!" at my dog in the park. Would people know that...
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John Henry Days
by Colson Whitehead
Powells.com Staff Pick In the highly anticipated follow-up to his critically revered The Intuitionist, Whitehead asks plenty of his readers. Repeatedly, new characters appear only to withdraw five pages later; J.'s visit to Talcott plods forward only bit by bit, tunneling...
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High Fidelity
by Nick Hornby
Powells.com Staff Pick In the nineties, while Americans were looking to cloying John Gray to explain the differences between men and women, the Brits were having a much better time learning about the foibles of gender from two of their best satirists. Taken together...
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Safety of Objects
by A M Homes
Publisher Comments Published to overwhelming critical acclaim, this remarkable collection of short stories established A.M. Homes as one of the most provacative and daring writers of her generation.Here you'll find the cult classic."A Real Doll," the tale of a teenage boy...
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A Star Called Henry (Last Roundup #01)
by Roddy Doyle
From Powells.com Roddy Doyle writes like nobody?s business. Each of his titles, from The Commitments (Doyle?s debut) to The Woman Who Walked Into Doors, has earned both critical and popular acclaim. Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, his funny, pitch-perfect...
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Hound Health Handbook: The Definitive Guide to Keeping Your Dog Happy, Healthy & Active
by Betsy Brevitz D.V.M
Powells.com Staff Pick Everything you need to know to keep your dog healthy, your mind at ease, and your wallet full. From puppies to seniors, it's all here: fleas and allergies, vaccines and behavioral problems, emergencies and basic first aid. I'll be giving Hound Health...
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Paradise Park
by Allegra Goodman
Publisher Comments Allegra Goodman has delighted readers with her critically acclaimed collections Total Immersion and The Family Markowitz, and her celebrated first novel, Kaaterskill Falls, which was a national bestseller and a National Book Award finalist. Abandoned by...
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The Sweet Hereafter
by Russell Banks
Publisher Comments In The Sweet Hereafter, Russell Banks tells a story that begins with a school bus accident. Using four different narrators, Banks creates a small-town morality play that addresses one of life's most agonizing questions: when the worst thing happens, who...
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Insiders Guide To Portland Oregon 4TH Edition
by Rachel Dresbeck
Publisher Comments For more than twenty years, the Insiders' Guide® series has remained the essential source for in-depth travel and relocation information. Each guide is written by locals and true insiders and offers a personal, practical perspective that readers...
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