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Cloud Atlas: A Novel
by David Mitchell  
Powells.com Staff Pick "For readers who enjoy good stories wrapped around an inventive structure. Each tale is obliquely connected to another moving forward through time. And each has a totally different voice and style." Salli, Powells...
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Bad Monkeys
by Matt Ruff
Powells.com Staff Pick Bad Monkeys twists, turns, shifts, and shakes its way through the story of one Jane Charlotte, a woman who claims to be member of a clandestine organization dedicated to fighting evil known as the Final Disposition of Irredeemable Persons. A gripping...
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Powells.com Staff Pick "What makes this book fascinating is the way that Levitt uses advanced economic techniques — the kind that would knock me unconscious quicker than chloroform if I had to read them in a textbook — and applies them to seemingly unexplainable...
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Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls
by Matt Ruff
Powells.com Staff Pick Seattle author Matt Ruff presents one of the most inventive and addictive novels of recent memory. Protagonist Andrew Gage suffers from multiple personality disorder. When he meets a young woman suffering from the same affliction, the fragile coexistence...
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Ghostwritten (Vintage International)
by David Mitchell
Publisher Comments David Mitchell's electrifying debut novel takes readers on a mesmerizing trek across a world of human experience through a series of ingeniously linked narratives. Oblivious to the bizarre ways in which their lives intersect, nine characters —...
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Tokyo Doesn't Love Us Anymore
by Ray Loriga
Powells.com Staff Pick In the near future, a nameless drug dealer begins to sample his own product: a drug that erases memories. The chaos that ensues makes riveting, if frequently disorienting, reading. A mindbending novel of the highest order, Tokyo Doesn't Love Us Anymore...
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Abuse Your Illusions: The Disinformation Guide to Media Mirages and Establishment Lies
by Russ Kick
Powells.com Staff Pick These essays, from some of the most potent radicals writing today, serve to fill the massive informational void that American corporate media chooses to ignore. Abuse Your Illusions is an essential addition to post-9/11 discourse. Gerry, Powells....
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The Wolves in the Walls
by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean
Powells.com Staff Pick This rather spooky story centers on Lucy, a girl who believes there are wolves in the walls of her home — and she's right! The ways she and her family deal with a houseful of wolves make for a captivatingly strange and winning tale. Recommended by...
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Number 9 Dream (01 Edition)
by David Mitchell
Powells.com Staff Pick Against the hyperkinetic backdrop of twenty-first-century Tokyo, Eiji Miyake searches for the father who abandoned him. Dreams and fantasy, fact and fiction merge in a complex narrative that rewards the ambitious reader. David Mitchell continues to prove...
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Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984
by Simon Reynolds Publisher Comments Rip It Up and Start Again is the first book-length exploration of the wildly adventurous music created in the years after punk. Renowned music journalist Simon Reynolds celebrates the futurist spirit of such bands as Joy Division, Gang of Four, Talking...
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Hip: The History
by John Leland
Powells.com Staff Pick "When all is said and done, Hip: The History is not concerned with passing fads. The transient notions of hip that have passed through history still leave their cultural fingerprints on society today....While it's impossible to say what will be hip in...
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The View from the Seventh Layer
by Kevin Brockmeier
Powells.com Staff Pick Brockmeier's prose is at once fanciful and meditative. This new collection of stories confirms his stature as one of America's most audacious fabulists. Recommended by Gerry, Powells.com...
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Tricked
by Alex Robinson
Powells.com Staff Pick "Happily for members of the Alex Robinson cult their patience has been rewarded. Tricked avoids the sophomore slump by a considerable margin with Robinson taking his formula of intense, character-driven narratives and bold illustration to a new level...
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Altered Carbon
by Richard K. Morgan
Powells.com Staff Pick This debut novel effortlessly blends the techno-fetish of William Gibson, the hardboiled detective narrative of Dashiell Hammett and the rapid-fire heroic bloodshed of the films of John Woo. If you enjoy such cyberpunk classics as Snow Crash and...
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Coraline
by Neil Gaiman
Powells.com Staff Pick Those of you who are tired of waiting for a new Harry Potter novel might do well to pick up this little gem. Young Coraline finds a secret passage that leads her to a living nightmare. This book is scary, but not too scary, a little creepy, and...
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Sputnik Sweetheart
by Haruki Murakami
Publisher Comments Haruki Murakami, the internationally bestselling author of Norwegian Wood and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, plunges us into an urbane Japan of jazz bars, coffee shops, Jack Kerouac, and the Beatles to tell this story of a tangled triangle of uniquely...
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Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
by Hunter S. Thompson
Powells.com Staff Pick I never thought that old Dr. Gonzo would ever be relevant again. Leave it to a conservative administration to prove me wrong. In this collection of pre- and post-9-11 writings, Kingdom of Fear shows that Thompson can still be witty, provocative and...
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Sayonara, Gangsters (04 Edition)
by Genichiro Takahashi
Powells.com Staff Pick "There is a scene in the beginning of Sayonara, Gangsters describing a string of presidential assassinations. One president is killed by an explosive piece of bubble gum that takes his head clean off of his shoulders. By the time I finished Sayonara...
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Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader
by Lester Bangs
Powells.com Staff Pick "Simply put, Lester Bangs is the Charles Bukowski of rock criticism. He may have been deranged and obnoxious, but he was honest. Main Lines, Blood Feasts and Bad Taste provides a wealth of previously uncollected material sure to amuse, annoy, and...
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Speaking with the Angel
by Nick Hornby
Publisher Comments Eleven completely new stories, narrated by 11 completely fabulous characters, written by 11 of the most celebrated voices in fiction today. Bestselling author Nick Hornby has brought together a star-studded group of writers to create this one-of-a-kind...
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