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Drown
by Junot Diaz  
Powells.com Staff Pick The world in Junot Diaz's short story collection Drown is gritty, sad, and hilarious, and the pictures he paints of life in the Dominican Republic, and of Dominican immigrants in America, is rich with pathos. When Drown came out in 1996, Diaz was hailed...
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Breakfast of Champions (73 Edition)
by Kurt Vonnegut
Powells.com Staff Pick After Slaughterhouse Five came out in 1969, Kurt Vonnegut entered a long period of depression and swore he would never write another novel. Fortunately he was lying, and in 1973, out came Breakfast of Champions; or, Goodbye Blue Monday (the subtitle...
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Mindfulness in Plain English
by Henepola Gunaratana
Powells.com Staff Pick If you can't go on a walk without your cell phone; if being away from your desk causes serious e-mail anxiety; if you can't go more than a few hours without checking your messages, then you might need this book. Despite the marvels of technology, being...
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Krik? Krak! (95 Edition)
by Edwidge Danticat
Powells.com Staff Pick From the other side of the island comes Edwidge Danticat (pronounced "Dan-ti-cah"), another young writer who has been dubbed (and who resents being dubbed) the voice of her country (Haiti) and generation (early 30's, like Diaz). In 1996 she was named one...
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The Soccer War
by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Powells.com Staff Pick Ryszard Kapuscinski is one of the greatest journalists alive and one of the greatest writers, too. The titles don't always fit together easily, but what Kapuscinski does is far more than just journalism. His writing has been part of what he calls the...
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North of South: An African Journey (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Shiva Naipaul
Powells.com Staff Pick When Shiva Naipaul (younger brother of V.S. Naipaul) went to East Africa in the 1970s to investigate the inflated rhetoric of the newly independent nations — to see whether the promises of the new leaders had been kept — what he found was both...
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Holding on
by David Isay
Powells.com Staff Pick I've bought Holding On for at least five people, one of whom read a chapter each night before she went to bed. She called it a book of common prayer, which it is. It's a collection of short pieces by David Isay (of Sound Portraits Productions, www...
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