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From Beirut to Jerusalem: Updated with a New Chapter
by Thomas L Friedman  
Publisher Comments Winner of the 1989 National Book Award for nonfiction, this extraordinary bestseller is still the most incisive, thought-provoking book ever written about the Middle East. Thomas L. Friedman, twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting,...
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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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Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America
by Stephen G Bloom
Powells.com Staff Pick "You have got to read this book. The clash of cultures portrayed in this small town in Iowa is illuminating and riveting. When Orthodox Jews move into Postville and open a kosher slaughterhouse, local (and non-Jewish) Iowans figure this is just...
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Divisadero
by Michael Ondaatje
Powells.com Staff Pick Reading Ondaatje's new book, Divisadero, is like listening to great music. You are caught up in the moment, the elegiac writing, and propelled into a different reality. The crescendo brings it altogether, the passion, the years of hurt and pain, and the...
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Now You See Him: A Novel
by Eli Gottlieb
Powells.com Staff Pick I read it for an hour at lunch and then finished it the same night right after dinner, when I heated up leftovers so I wouldn't have to spend time away from this book. A beautiful, lyrical, almost surgically delicate dissection of a marriage...
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The Faithful Spy
by Alex Berenson
Powells.com Staff Pick I just got through reading The Faithful Spy by Alex Berenson. I started reading it on my lunch, forced myself to work for a few hours, and then hustled home to continue. Kids ate leftovers; dishes went undone; pleasant dinner conversation was cut short...
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Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews: A History
by James Carroll
Powells.com Staff Pick "An impressive dissection of anti-semitism by an ex-Roman Catholic priest. His starting point is the placing of crosses at Auschwitz and the ensuing controversy over the canonization of Edith Stein. As a Jew, I have understood the presence of anti...
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Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
by David Remnick
Publisher Comments In the tradition of John Reed's classic Ten Days That Shook the World, this bestselling account of the collapse of the Soviet Union combines the global vision of the best historical scholarship with the immediacy of eyewitness journalism. "A moving...
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The Second Objective: A Novel
by Mark Frost
Powells.com Staff Pick The best kind of thriller — started at one in the afternoon and finished by bedtime — thoroughly enjoyed every minute. Recommended by Miriam, Powells...
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Book Business: Publishing: Past, Present, and Future
by Jason Epstein
Publisher Comments Jason Epstein has led arguably the most creative career in book publishing during the past half-century. He founded Anchor Books and launched the quality paperback revolution, cofounded the New York Review of Books, and created of the Library of America,...
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Resistance
by Owen Sheers
Powells.com Staff Pick A great read that combines the plot of a thriller (Normandy invasion fails; Hitler successfully invades England) with the subtle language of poetry. You are propelled through this story by characters that make you care about a time that never was and a...
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We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families
by Philip Gourevitch
Powells.com Staff Pick "I urge everyone to read this book. The cover shows a picture of serenity, a scene from the beach of Lake Kivu in Rwanda. The landscape is devoid of human beings and an empty chair sits on the sand. The title in red stands out starkly from this backdrop....
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The Road to Kosovo: A Balkan Diary
by Greg Campbell
Powells.com Staff Pick "I am currently making my way through this one for the same reason that I picked up Thomas Friedman's book [From Beirut to Jerusalem] ten years ago – I'm bewildered by the complexity of the situation and need to better understand the history of the...
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A Small Death in Lisbon
by Robert Wilson
Powells.com Staff Pick "Don't pick this book up at night. This is a great leisurely, Sunday afternoon kind of book. Sit down and expect to stay seated for the four hours or so it takes you to race through this thriller. The crime is set in contemporary Lisbon, but the...
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The Septembers of Shiraz
by Dalia Sofer
Powells.com Staff Pick Septembers of Shiraz describes the journey, both psychological and physical, of a Jewish family whose father is imprisoned in the first years of revolutionary Iran. It is a beautifully written expose of the trauma that occurs to individuals when there...
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The Road to Kosovo: A Balkan Travel Diary
by Greg Campbell
Publisher Comments This first-person, on-the-road travel adventure takes us through one of the most dangerous and hate-filled regions on earth—the former republics of Yugoslavia—and into a land still reeling from months of brutal combat. Told in a fast-paced...
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China Wakes: The Struggle For the Soul of a Rising Power
by Nicholas D Kristof
Publisher Comments "When China wakes, it will shake the world", Napoleon Bonaparte once remarked. That moment is now at hand. And in this book Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, the Pulitzer Prize winning Beijing correspondents of The New York Times, bring to life the...
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The Ha-Ha
by Dave King
Powells.com Staff Pick Enter the luminous, silent world of The Ha-Ha. Through the power of language, Dave King takes you into the mind of the main character, a man who cannot speak or write, but who is filled with unspoken words. King illustrates how relationships are built on...
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Constantine's Sword (01 Edition)
by James Carroll
Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [696]-719) and index....
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
by Philip Gourevitch
Publisher Comments An unforgettable firsthand account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity, this remarkable book chronicles what has happened in Rwanda and neighboring states since 1994....
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