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Fools Crow (Contemporary American Fiction)
by James Welch  Publisher Comments The year is 1870, and Fool's Crow, so called after he killed the chief of the Crows during a raid, has a vision at the annual Sun Dance ceremony. The young warrior sees the end of the Indian way of life and the choice that must be made: resistance or...
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Exiles
by Ron Hansen Publisher Comments With Exiles, Ron Hansen tells the story of a notorious shipwreck that prompted Gerard Manley Hopkins to break years of “elected silence” with an outpouring of dazzling poetry. In December 1875 the steamship Deutschland left Bremen, bound for...
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The Pillars of the Earth (Oprah's Book Club Selection #60)
by Ken Follett Publisher Comments The brand-new selection from Oprah's Book Club! The spellbinding epic set in twelfth-century England, The Pillars of the Earth tells the story of the lives entwined in the building of the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has ever known — and...
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Sharp Teeth
by Toby Barlow 
Publisher Comments Capturing the pace and feel of a graphic novel, this spellbinding debut blends dark humor and epic themes with card-playing dogs, crystal meth labs, surfing, and carne asada tacos....
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On Chesil Beach: A Novel
by Ian McEwan
Special Offer Buy the set! Order On Chesil Beach now and receive the acclaimed 28-minute film about Ian McEwan for only $5 more....
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Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf Publisher Comments This brilliant novel explores the hidden springs of thought and action in one day of a woman s life. Direct and vivid in her account of the details of Clarissa Dalloway's preparations for a party she is to give that evening, Woolf ultimately managed to...
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Resolution
by Robert B Parker Publisher Comments The New York Times &bestselling author's richly imagined work of historical fiction: a powerful tale of the Old West from the acknowledged master of crime fiction. I had an eight-gauge shotgun that I'd taken with me when I left Wells Fargo. It didn't...
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The Steel Wave: A Novel of World War II
by Jeff Shaara Publisher Comments Jeff Shaara, America's premier author of military historical fiction, brings us the centerpiece of his epic trilogy of the Second World War. General Dwight Eisenhower once again commands a diverse army that must find its single purpose in the...
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Fearless Fourteen (Stephanie Plum Novels)
by Janet Evanovich Publisher Comments Personal vendettas, hidden treasure, and a monkey named Carl will send bounty hunter Stephanie Plum on her most explosive adventure yet. The Crime: Armed robbery to the tune of nine million dollars Dom Rizzi robbed a bank, stashed the money, and...
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T Is for Trespass (Kinsey Millhone Mysteries)
by Sue Grafton Publisher Comments trespass \'trespes\ n: a transgression of law involving one's obligations to God or to one's neighbor; a violation of moral law; an offense; a sin — Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition, Unabridged In what may be her most...
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The Hakawati
by Rabih Alameddine Publisher Comments An astonishingly inventive, wonderfully exuberant novel that takes us from the shimmering dunes of ancient Egypt to the war-torn streets of twenty-first-century Lebanon. In 2003, Osama al-Kharrat returns to Beirut after many years in America to stand...
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Black Flies
by Shannon Burke Publisher Comments Novelist Shannon Burke earned stunning reviews for his debut book, Safelight, and now he returns with the same minimalist intensity in this arresting follow-up. Black Flies is the story of paramedic Ollie Cross and his first year on the job in mid-'90s...
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The Girl of His Dreams (Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery)
by Donna Leon Publisher Comments Donna Leon’s Commissario Guido Brunetti mysteries have won legions of fans for their evocative portraits of Venetian life. In her novels, food, family, art, history, and local politics play as central a role as an unsolved crime. In The Girl of His...
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Stalin's Ghost: An Arkady Renko Novel (Arkady Renko Novels)
by Martin Cruz Smith Publisher Comments Investigator Arkady Renko, the pariah of the Moscow prosecutor's office, has been assigned the thankless job of investigating a new phenomenon: late-night subway riders report seeing the ghost of Joseph Stalin on the platform of the Chistye Prudy Metro...
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The Last Oracle
by James Rollins Publisher Comments What if you could bioengineer the next great world prophet: scientifically produce the next Buddha, the next Muhammad, or the next Jesus? Would it mark the Second Coming or initiate a chain reaction with disastrous consequences? A master at combining...
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Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories
by Tobias Wolff Publisher Comments "One of our most exquisite storytellers" (Esquire) gives us his first collection in over a decade: ten potent new stories that, along with twenty-one classics, display his mastery over a quarter century. Tobias Wolff's first two books, In the Garden...
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The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
by Dinaw Mengestu
Powells.com Staff Pick In a season rife with internationally flavored books about the dispossessed and the exploited, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears rises to the top. An unforgettable tale of an Ethiopian immigrant's struggle with his violent past and an uncertain...
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Pale Fire
by Vladimir Nabokov
Powells.com Staff Pick Pale Fire consists of a long, elegiac poem written by John Shade and a rambling commentary on the poem produced by a Professor Charles Kinbote. Shade's poem is a touching, emotional work portraying the poet's attempt to understand and confront death....
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The Girl with No Shadow
by Joanne Harris
Publisher Comments Be careful what you wish for... Hailed as an "irresistible confection" (Entertainment Weekly), "as sweet, rich and utterly satisfying as a fine truffle" (Wall Street Journal), and "an amazement of riches" (New York Times), Chocolat won the hearts of...
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Jesus' Son: Stories
by Denis Johnson
Publisher Comments Jesus' Son, the first collection of stories by Denis Johnson, presents a unique, hallucinatory vision of contemporary American life, and marks a new level of achievement for this acclaimed writer. Set in the Midwest and West, they are narrated by a young...
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