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Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
by Sudhir Venkatesh  
Powells.com Staff Pick Sudhir Venkatesh's work was featured prominently in Freakonomics; here his research is fleshed out and humanized, telling his remarkable and unusual story. For seven years, Venkatesh was granted unprecedented access to one of Chicago's most notorious...
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His Illegal Self
by Peter Carey
Powells.com Staff Pick Peter Carey's latest manages to be both charming and disturbing; Dial and Che are unique and empathetic characters that will haunt you long after you put the book down. His Illegal Self also contains that rare achievement: an absolutely perfect ending....
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The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World
by Tim Harford
Powells.com Staff Pick Tim Harford's follow-up to his breakout bestseller, The Undercover Economist, is a panoramic view of the role of economics in our lives, from our jobs and marriages to our cities and even the history of human civilization. The Logic of Life sheds...
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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
by Diane Ackerman
Powells.com Staff Pick Ackerman's bestselling books, including A Natural History of the Senses and An Alchemy of Mind, are illuminating windows into the human condition, and are distinguished not only by Ackerman's graceful and exuberant prose but by her inclusion of her own...
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Run: A Novel
by Ann Patchett
Powells.com Staff Pick Run, a worthy successor to Bel Canto, shows off Patchett's trademark gorgeous prose and emotional depth. Her characters are believably flawed, but ultimately good and decent human beings who you want to spend time with. Recommended by Jill, Powells...
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Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone
by Deborah Madison
Powells.com Staff Pick Every recipe from this cookbook has been excellent — not just good or successful, but above and beyond what I expected. If I had a kitchen fire, this is the cookbook I'd rescue. Recommended by Jill, Powells.com...
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Everything Is Illuminated
by Jonathan Safran Foer
Powells.com Staff Pick This book has been out for a few years, and maybe everyone has already read it. It's a story told in three ways: Jonathan Safran Foer is looking for someone who helped his grandfather escape the Nazis during World War II; Alex is the translator Foer...
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Independent People (46 Edition)
by Halldor K. Laxness
Powells.com Staff Pick "Independent People is epic and thorough, covering the sweep of generations as well as detailed hours ticking by during sleepless nights, ambling walks around the plains. It is a novel of contrasts, especially in its nuanced exploration of character...
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The Street of Crocodiles (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Bruno Schulz
Powells.com Staff Pick "Schulz is a master of metaphor, and his lush, poetic sentences burst with sensory detail. He transforms the pedestrian — salesgirls, brooms, bolts of cloth — into fantastic apparitions, lit with significance and color....Schulz's stories...are...
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Our Lady of the Forest
by David Guterson
From Powells.com A sense of place strongly informs David Guterson's work; he has often written about the Pacific Northwest, most notably in Snow Falling on Cedars, and his natural settings help forge the events in his characters' lives. In his newest novel, Our...
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Runaway: Stories
by Alice Munro
Powells.com Staff Pick Munro's prose consistently shimmers with wisdom and grace, and the stories in Runaway — startling, subtle, and precise — are no exception. Recommended by Jill...
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Hopscotch (Pantheon Modern Writers)
by Julio Cortazar
Powells.com Staff Pick "Cortazar is an elixir; Hopscotch is precise and brilliant and disturbing as hell. A balance of absurdity and beauty, literally and in each ready sense, a tightrope walk between the window and the pavement ? this is what Hopscotch injects within the...
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Spook Country
by William Gibson
Powells.com Staff Pick Spook Country is Gibson at the top of his game, with gorgeous detail, page-turning suspense, and fascinating characters. If you've never read this author in the past because his work was categorized as science fiction, pick up this book, which is all too...
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The Konkans
by Tony D'Souza Publisher Comments Francisco D'Sai is a firstborn son of a firstborn son — all the way back to the beginning of a long line of proud Konkans. Known as the "Jews of India," the Konkans kneeled before the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama's sword and before Saint...
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Saturday
by Ian McEwan
Powells.com Staff Pick Ian McEwan's new novel is generous, contemplative, and moving — and in good company, joining classics like Mrs. Dalloway and Ulysses that take place during a single day. McEwan intricately weaves characters and themes towards an eloquent and...
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A Woman Trapped in a Woman's Body: Tales from a Life of Cringe
by Lauren Weedman
Powells.com Staff Pick The funniest book I've read in years, Lauren Weedman's A Woman Trapped in a Woman's Body made my face hurt with laughter. I compulsively read it out loud to whomever happened to be around, and recommended it to everyone I met. A Woman Trapped in a Woman...
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Falling Man: A Novel
by Don DeLillo
Powells.com Staff Pick Falling Man is Don DeLillo's exquisite, memorable take on 9/11. Somewhat more stylistically spare than his earlier books, Falling Man nonetheless feels like the book DeLillo was meant to write; themes he has addressed throughout his body of work —...
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The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language
by Christine Kenneally
Powells.com Staff Pick The First Word is a fascinating search for the origins of language, which takes the reader through genetics, evolution, and the process of defining language itself. Christine Kenneally is a capable guide to answering this difficult and complex question...
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Oryx and Crake
by Margaret Atwood From Powells.com Margaret Atwood's eleventh novel, Oryx and Crake, is one of her most remarkable. Set in a not-too-distant future, many of the experiments with genetics and biotechnology that Atwood describes (think "pigoons," pig-like creatures designed to grow human...
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The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen
Powells.com Staff Pick Alfred, the patriarch of the Lambert family, is in declining health due to Parkinson's, and Enid wants their adult children to come home for one last Christmas together. The novel focuses on Enid and Alfred's lives in suburban St. Jude, and on each of...
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