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The Knitting Circle
by Ann Hood  Publisher Comments After the sudden loss of her only child, Mary Baxter joins a knitting circle as a way to fill the empty hours and lonely days. The women welcome her, each teaching Mary a new knitting technique and, as they do, reveal their own personal stories of loss...
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Maps and Legends
by Michael Chabon 
Publisher Comments Michael Chabon's sparkling first book of nonfiction is a love song in 16 parts — a series of linked essays in praise of reading and writing, with subjects running from ghost stories to comic books, Sherlock Holmes to Cormac McCarthy. Throughout...
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Of Love and Other Demons (Vintage International)
by Gabr Garcia Marquez Publisher Comments On her twelfth birthday, Sierva Maria - the only child of a decaying noble family in an eighteenth-century South American seaport - is bitten by a rabid dog. Believed to be possessed, she is brought to a convent for observation. And into her cell...
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Mistress of the Sun
by Sandra Gulland Publisher Comments The author of the internationally acclaimed Josephine Bonaparte trilogy returns with another irresistible historical novel, this one based on the life of Louise de la Vallière, who, against all odds, became one of the most mysterious consorts of...
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The Translation of Dr. Apelles: A Love Story (Vintage Contemporaries)
by David Treuer Publisher Comments Dr. Apelles, Native American translator of Native American texts, lives a diligent existence. One day he stumbles across an ancient manuscript only he can translate. What begins as a startling discovery quickly becomes a vital quest--not only to...
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Chambermaid
by Saira Rao Publisher Comments The devil holds a gavel in this wickedly entertaining debut novel about a young attorney’s eventful year clerking for a federal judge. Sheila Raj is a recent graduate of a top-ten law school with dreams of working for the ACLU but law school did...
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So Long at the Fair
by Christina Schwarz Publisher Comments The bestselling author of Drowning Ruth returns to the small-town Wisconsin she so brilliantly evoked with this gripping novel about love, marriage, and adultery. In the summer of 1963 a plot for revenge destroys a career, a friendship, and a family. The...
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The Song Before It Is Sung
by Justin Cartwright Publisher Comments From the Booker Prize nominee and Whitbread Prize winner, a sweeping novel about the nature of human freedom and human passion that received glowing praise in hardcover. On July 20, 1944, Adolf Hitler narrowly escaped an assassination attempt. He found...
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The Various Haunts of Men: A Simon Serrailler Mystery (Simon Serrailler Crime Novels)
by Susan Hill Synopsis Written with intelligence, compassion, and a knowing eye, the critically acclaimed mystery "The Various Haunts of Men" is an enthralling journey into the heart of a wonderfully developed town, and into the mind of a killer....
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The Seven Sins: The Tyrant Ascending
by Jon Land Publisher Comments To Dream...To Dare..To Win... The ancient motto, inscribed in Latin on a mysterious golden medallion, recovered from the ruins of the Roman Empire, has guided Michael Tiranno to heights few men have achieved. Once an orphaned farm boy in his native...
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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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A Personal Matter
by Kenzaburo Oe
Powells.com Staff Pick If you like your books to be a punch in the face, then consider A Personal Matter a good nose bleed of a novel. This is a depiction of human frailty, alienation, despair, and ultimate triumph. Coming to grips with the narrator proved to be quite a...
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Zoli
by Colum Mccann Publisher Comments A unique love story, a tale of loss, a parable of Europe, this haunting novel is an examination of intimacy and betrayal in a community rarely captured so vibrantly in contemporary literature. Zoli Novotna, a young woman raised in the traveling Gypsy...
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The Whole Truth
by David Baldacci Publisher Comments Dick, I need a war. Nicolas Creel is a man on a mission. He heads up the world's largest defense contractor, The Ares Corporation. Dick Pender is the man Creel retains to perception manage his company to even more riches by manipulating international...
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The Invention of Everything Else: A Novel
by Samantha Hunt Publisher Comments A wondrous imagining of an unlikely friendship between the eccentric inventor Nikola Tesla and a young chambermaid in the Hotel New Yorker where Tesla lives out his last days. From the moment she first catches sight of the Hotel New Yorker's most...
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The Book of Chameleons
by Jose Eduar Agualusa Publisher Comments Félix Ventura trades in an unusual commodity; he is a dealer in memories, clandestinely selling new pasts to people whose futures are secure and who lack only a good lineage to complete their lives. In this completely original murder mystery, where...
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Walk the Blue Fields
by Claire Keegan Publisher Comments Claire Keegan’s brilliant debut collection, Antarctica, was a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year, and earned her resounding accolades on both sides of the Atlantic. Now she has delivered her next, much-anticipated book, Walk the Blue Fields, an...
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A Spot of Bother (Vintage)
by Mark Haddon
Powells.com Staff Pick A second novel as good as the first. The follow-up to A Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is hilarious, dark, and entirely human. A Spot of Bother is the story of the highly dysfunctional Hall family: George, recently retired and going a bit...
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Dead Heat
by Dick Francis Publisher Comments After a six-year absence from the bestseller lists, Dick Francis roared out of the gate with 2006's Under Orders, demonstrating once again every ounce of his famed narrative drive, brilliant plotting, and simmering suspense. Hard on the heels of that...
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The Braindead Megaphone
by George Saunders
Powells.com Staff Pick Yes, some of these essays will make you laugh; George Saunders is freakin' hilarious. (If you doubt this, please see his Strange Letter Regarding Uranus.) But he is also a brilliant writer whose characters, even the non-fictional ones, will break your...
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