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The Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafon  
Powells.com Staff Pick Okay, never mind that The Shadow of the Wind starts off in a wonderfully mysterious bookstore and that there's a romantic element that is not schmaltzy, but "timeless" in the best sense of the word. What I loved was how I thought I knew where the author...
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His Dark Materials Boxed Set: The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass
by Philip Pullman
Powells.com Staff Pick "A 'big' story in an enchanting package. It may look like kid's fantasy but this trilogy is so much more. You'll love the way Pullman uses a cast of witches, rebellious angels, shape changing daemons in a setting that moves between parallel worlds to...
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Lyra's Oxford
by Philip Pullman
Powells.com Staff Pick I reread Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy every year or so and was thrilled with this short story, the latest installment in the saga of Lyra Belacqua. Enhanced with maps and illustrations, it’s a wonderful story and a collectible gem...
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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
by Alexander McCall Smith
Powells.com Staff Pick A 'cozy' set in Africa. This is the first in a wonderful new mystery series set in Botswana. Using deceptively simple language that nonetheless sings with the rhythms of Africa, the author introduces us to the indomitable lady detective, Precious...
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Shutter Island
by Dennis Lehane
Powells.com Staff Pick When it's too darn hot, open Shutter Island for a thoroughly chilling experience. Lehane describes the book as gothic noir. I'd say it was that, plus intelligent and riveting. Two policemen investigate a disappearance on a remote island psychiatric...
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One Step Behind
by Henning Mankell
Powells.com Staff Pick Discover Europe's favorite mystery writer. Sweden's Henning Mankell writes a first-rate police procedural that also serves as an indictment of contemporary society. His characters are fully drawn, full of frailties, unexpected courage, and are utterly...
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The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
by J. Maarten Troost
Powells.com Staff Pick When Troost followed his wife to a small island nation he expected Bali Hai. Instead he found an isolated, polluted, boiling hot hellhole. His wonderful tale is both hilarious and thrilling. This original adventure offers enjoyment and also allows...
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Dragon Bones (03 Edition)
by Lisa See
Powells.com Staff Pick This is a first-rate mystery set in the beautiful Three Gorges area of China. The story moves at high speed through murder, smuggling, ancient myth, and fanatical cults. Lisa See creates a moving look at a natural wonder soon to disappear forever behind...
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Stalin's Ghost: An Arkady Renko Novel
by Martin Cruz Smith
Powells.com Staff Pick Arkady Renko, intrepid Moscow investigator, was first introduced to readers in the incomparable Gorky Park. This latest adventure perfectly captures Putin's Russia, ultra-modern and ultra-corrupt, yet haunted by the sorrows and ghosts of its Stalinist...
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A Field of Darkness: A Novel
by Cornelia Read
Powells.com Staff Pick Heroine Madeline Dare is a descendant of the rarefied world of East Coast old money. She also cracks wise and shoots from the hip, literally. At once a first-rate mystery, this well-told tale is also a brilliant and witty portrait of class resentments in...
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I Capture the Castle
by Dodie Smith
Powells.com Staff Pick An utter delight. This enchanting tale has long been a favorite of mine. It has just been reissued to coincide with the soon to be released movie version. Set in 1930s England, this story of young love beguiles with moated castles, moonlight...
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The Vanished Man (Lincoln Rhyme Novels)
by Jeffery Deaver
Powells.com Staff Pick Imagine a killer who's a cross between Hannibal Lecter and David Copperfield!?! Yes, really. I didn't discover Deaver until I read The Vanished Man, his latest. Now I'm a major fan. It's a top-notch thriller — and you'll never again watch a magic...
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Mirror Mirror: A Novel
by Gregory Maguire
Powells.com Staff Pick Maguire's latest retelling of a classic fairy tale is Snow White set in Renaissance Italy and features Lucrezia Borgia as the wicked stepmother. Intriguing, surreal, exotic, and sensual, the author's style is mature, assured, and utterly engaging. This...
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Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII
by David Starkey
Powells.com Staff Pick Adultery, betrayal, scandal, murder, and tragedy abound in this elegantly written history of the wives of the Tudor King. The author makes the story fresh and offers new insights into the role played by each very different woman. Kathi, Powells...
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Any Human Heart
by William Boyd
Powells.com Staff Pick One of Kathi's Top Five picks for 2004. To read more staff Top Five lists click here....
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Love Among the Ruins
by Robert Clark
Publisher Comments A beautifully written story of love, idealism, and our recent history. Amid the crises of the summer of 1968, two teenagers become lovers. Emily is a good Catholic girl, for whom an incarnate God means joy and contentment in the life of the body...
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The Lake of Dead Languages
by Carol Goodman
Powells.com Staff Pick If you liked Secret History [Donna Tartt] you'll enjoy this suspenseful mystery set in a private girls' school in the Adirondacks. It's eerie, atmospheric and completely spellbinding. Kathi, Powells...
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A Cup of Light
by Nicole Mones
Powells.com Staff Pick When Lia Frank travels to China to evaluate a cache of rare antique porcelain she enters an exotic world full of danger, mystery, and romance. I was so entranced by the story I actually went to see a real "chicken cup" at the Metropolitan Museum in New...
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Portrait in Sepia
by Isabel Allende
Powells.com Staff Pick Another installment in the chronicle of Chilean lives that Allende started with House of the Spirits, this book starts where Daughter of Fortune left off. It movingly tells of love and war and life and death. The problems and powers of human memory and...
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Little America (02 Edition)
by Henry Bromell
Publisher Comments In this suspenseful and atmospheric spy novel in the tradition of Graham Greene and John le Carre, Henry Bromell unfolds a labyrinthine tale of intrigue and moral ambiguity. In 1958, at the height of the Cold War, CIA agent Mack Hooper arrived in...
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