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Lush Life: A Novel
by Richard Price  
Powells.com Staff Pick It's a given that fans of Price's earlier novels will rush to read Lush Life. In addition, fans of the HBO series The Wire — or anyone who enjoys a gripping read, period — won't want to miss this fantastic novel, which peels back the shiny...
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Unaccustomed Earth
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Powells.com Staff Pick Unaccustomed Earth is in many ways a deeply and authentically sad book. I would not advise reading the stories too quickly; they will each haunt you for days afterward (and, unusually in a collection like this, they are all equally strong). But Lahiri's...
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Lavinia: A Novel
by Ursula K. Le Guin
Powells.com Staff Pick A living legend who leaps fearlessly across genre boundaries, Ursula Le Guin offers one of her very best novels to date in this retelling of Virgil's The Aeneid, told from a perspective that very often got lost in even the most compelling Greek myths...
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The Gathering
by Anne Enright
Publisher Comments The new novel from one of Ireland's most prominent voices, The Gathering is an extraordinary anatomization of a family confronting the ghosts of its history. A dazzling writer of international stature, Anne Enright is one of Ireland's most singular...
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The Silver Swan: A Novel
by Benjamin Black
Powells.com Staff Pick I don't ordinarily read mystery novels, but The Silver Swan is no ordinary mystery. Banville's command of prose is arresting, and though this is a difficult book to put down because it is so expertly plotted, it is also impossible not to savor...
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The Savage Detectives
by Roberto Bolano
Powells.com Staff Pick Take one part Tom Robbins, one part James Joyce, add a dose of '70s nostalgia, and stir. What you get is the journey of a poetic soul across the broken landscape of our world. The Savage Detectives is at once illuminating and introspective, riveting and...
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People of the Book: A Novel
by Geraldine Brooks
Powells.com Staff Pick Give me a mystery (one that is structured around an antiquarian book, no less!), a historical setting, and an exquisite writer like Geraldine Brooks, and I am suddenly avoiding daily rituals like sleep and food. Nothing could deter me from turning the...
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Christine Falls: A Novel
by Benjamin Black Publisher Comments In the debut crime novel from the Booker-winning author, a Dublin pathologist follows the corpse of a mysterious woman into the heart of a conspiracy among the city's high Catholic society. It's not the dead that seem strange to Quirke. It's the...
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A Thousand Splendid Suns: A Novel
by Khaled Hosseini
Powells.com Staff Pick Never mind the sophomore slump — this book devours that cliché. As well as illuminating the rich history and familial culture behind war-torn Afghanistan, A Thousand Splendid Suns is filled with authentic relationships and characters that are...
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The Soul Thief: A Novel
by Charles Baxter Publisher Comments Here is an extraordinary new novel from one of our most admired and acclaimed writers, a creator of stunning, never predictable, glimmering fiction, full of mischief and insight (Los Angeles Times). During Nathaniel Mason's first few months as a graduate...
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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
by Max Brooks
Powells.com Staff Pick Despite never having been into the whole "zombie thing," I picked up World War Z. Halfway through, it dawned on me that I was becoming really, deeply scared. A few more pages in and I was trying to figure out how, exactly, to make my house both...
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Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes and Edith Grossman Publisher Comments Edith Grossman's definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece. Widely regarded as one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the adventures of the self-created knight-errant Don Quixote of La Mancha and...
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Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
by Jane Austen Synopsis Mr and Mrs Bennet live with their five daughters at Longbourn in Hertfordshire. Jane, the eldest, falls in love with Charles Bingley, a rich bachelor who takes a house nearby with his two sisters and friend Fitzwilliam Darcy. Darcy is attracted to the...
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The Reserve: A Novel
by Russell Banks Publisher Comments Part love story, part murder mystery, set on the cusp of the Second World War, Russell Banks's sharp-witted and deeply engaging new novel raises dangerous questions about class, politics, art, love, and madness — and explores what happens when two...
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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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World without End
by Ken Follett Publisher Comments Ken Follett has 90 million readers worldwide. The Pillars of the Earth is his bestselling book of all time. Now, eighteen years after the publication of The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett has written the most-anticipated sequel of the year —...
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Matter
by Iain M. Banks
Powells.com Staff Pick Matter continues Iain Banks's humorous, thrilling, and complex universe, the Culture, where interstellar ships are the smartest and funniest characters of them all. Recommended by Doug Chase, Powells.com...
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The Miracle at Speedy Motors (No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency)
by Alexander McCall Smith Publisher Comments In the latest installment of this infinitely enjoyable and best-selling series, Precious Ramotswe is doing what she does best — helping people with their problems and enjoying the simple pleasures of life. Mma Ramotswe is busy investigating her...
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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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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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