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House of Leaves: A Novel
by Mark Z. Danielewski  
Powells.com Staff Pick "Saints be praised, this is the best book of the new millennium. A veritable tour de force. Pynchon meets Stephen King meets Robert Hughes meets Borges meets Dante. Joycian. Jungian. Mythic. Any clich used by fawning literary critics...
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The Brothers K
by David James Duncan
Powells.com Staff Pick A family drama of the highest order, in The Brothers K Duncan creates an intricate web of relationships and events that is fraught with upheaval, yet feels organic. I fell in love with every single character over the course of the novel, and by the end...
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Ball Four 20TH Anniversary Edition
by Jim Bouton
Powells.com Staff Pick Baseball Season is upon us. I-CHI-RO! I-CHI-RO! Youngsters, you really need to read Ball Four by Jim Bouton. A season in the bigs with the expansion Seattle Pilots (Milwaukee Brewers for those that don't know.) Joe Schultz, Sal "The Barber" Maglie and...
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
by Philip Gourevitch
Powells.com Staff Pick I just finished rereading We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families because after reading Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning I thought that the atrocities committed in Rwanda might make more sense to me. There are eerie...
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Libra
by Don Delillo
Powells.com Staff Pick The Kennedy assassination is front and center in Libra, Don DeLillo's fictionalized biography of Lee Harvey Oswald. There isn't a German loan word big enough to fully describe Delillo's talent. Using basically the same cast of characters that...
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Fire At Eden's Gate : Tom Mccall and the Oregon Story (94 Edition)
by Brent Walth
Powells.com Staff Pick Speaking of great Republicans, Fire at Eden's Gate, the biography of Tom McCall, is tonic to those who wonder why conservation is no longer a principle espoused by our fearless leaders on the right. Send one to the White House while you're at...
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Betrayal of Local 14 (98 Edition)
by Julius Getman
Powells.com Staff Pick The sad tale of a labor union betrayed by its International and the town that withers in the wake of this tragic and heroic struggle against a pollution happy multinational. Anything by Cormac McCarthy He is the best writer going in my opinion,...
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Trust Us, We're Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future
by Sheldon Rampton
Powells.com Staff Pick Trust Us, We're Experts! blows the lid off so-called "third party" experts, hirelings of the corporate elite's who do transnationals' bidding under the guise of independence. Every time you hear "W" say "I want to make policy based on 'sound...
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American Tabloid
by James Ellroy
Powells.com Staff Pick J. Edgar Hoover, the Ku Klux Klan, Howard Hughes, Jimmy Hoffa and dozens of I-talian "businessmen" do battle with "Martin Lucifer Coon," Jack and Bobby Kennedy, and other "Communists" in James Ellroy's latest tomes. Ellroy's tommy-gun prose and morally...
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The Cold Six Thousand
by James Ellroy
Publisher Comments In this savagely audacious novel, James Ellroy plants a pipe bomb under the America in the 1960s, lights the fuse, and watches the shrapnel fly. On November 22, 1963 three men converge in Dallas. Their job: to clean up the JFK hit’s loose ends and...
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The Devil and Sonny Liston
by Nick Tosches
Powells.com Staff Pick He beat up Floyd Patterson, the man White America considered a credit to their race. He took two dives against Ali, the man Black America considered a symbol to their race. He appeared before two separate congressional committees and was run out of...
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