Contemporary Literature
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Cloud Atlas: A Novel
by David Mitchell  
Powells.com Staff Pick "For readers who enjoy good stories wrapped around an inventive structure. Each tale is obliquely connected to another moving forward through time. And each has a totally different voice and style." Salli, Powells...
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Arthur and George: A Novel
by Julian Barnes
Powells.com Staff Pick Can I already announce the best book of 2006 in January? If so, here it is! With his customary elegant prose and intricate and wry observational skill, Julian Barnes narrates the true story of the relationship between Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and George...
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Case Histories: A Novel
by Kate Atkinson
Powells.com Staff Pick Discover one of my favorite writers with this artful detective story. Fans of Atkinson's earlier novels will marvel again at her skill in interweaving several narratives to find one central thread of truth. A real knock-out. Danielle, Powells...
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The Mysterious Secret of the Valuable Treasure: Stories
by Jack Pendarvis
Powells.com Staff Pick Pendarvis devises small worlds inhabited by the strangest people: A teenager reveals his ingenious idea for a revenge comic book series called "Sex Devil"; the mercilessly redundant owner of a "High, Squeaky Voice" dreams of his audio book career; and...
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Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Powells.com Staff Pick Ishiguro takes a meditative look at childhood, loss of innocence, and human deception and the drive for survival. This is a haunting narrative that is joyous and sad at once — reminiscent of Philip K. Dick, but with a very literary and poignant eye...
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When We Were Orphans (Vintage International)
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Powells.com Staff Pick "When We Were Orphans takes the Dorothy L. Sayers or Arthur Conan Doyle English detective story, replete with glamour and intrigue, and fashions an almost inside-out mystery, one in which what is done to you is hardly the point — it is what one does...
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When the Nines Roll Over and Other Stories
by David Benioff
Publisher Comments From the widely acclaimed author of The 25th Hour — a highly anticipated collection of cool, urbane, and skillfully crafted stories. David Benioff burst onto the literary scene with The 25th Hour, a debut praised for its "pungent, funny, urban...
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The Book of Revelation: A Novel
by Rupert Thomson
Publisher Comments In an edgy psychological thriller that is as mesmerizing as it is profound, Rupert Thomson fearlessly delves into the darkest realm of the human spirit to reveal the sinister connection between sexuality and power. <BR>Stepping out of his Amsterdam...
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Shopgirl
by Steve Martin
Publisher Comments From the actor, comedian, and New York Times bestselling author comes a bittersweet story of modern day love and romance. One of our country's most acclaimed and beloved entertainers, Steve Martin is quickly becoming recognized as "a gorgeous writer...
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Big Cats: Stories
by Holiday Reinhorn
Powells.com Staff Pick "Holiday Reinhorn's stories will invariably draw comparisons to assorted masters of the short story form. She has a darkness reminiscent of Mary Gaitskill and a flawless ability to inhabit the minds of the suburban disenfranchised that reminds one of...
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The Winshaw Legacy: Or, What a Carve Up!
by Jonathan Coe Publisher Comments If Charles Dickens and Agatha Christie had ever managed to collaborate, they might have produced this shamelessly entertaining novel, which introduces readers to what may be the most powerful family in England — and is certainly the vilest. A tour...
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My Life as a Fake
by Peter Carey
Powells.com Staff Pick One of Jill's Top Five picks for 2004. To read more staff Top Five lists click here....
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Explorers of the New Century: A Novel
by Magnus Mills Publisher Comments "When Magnus Mills gives the world a shake, you never know what might fall out of his pockets," proclaims the Los Angeles Times. In his terse new tour de force of a tale, Mills gives history a shake, and you'll never guess what the fallout is. Set at the...
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Train
by Pete Dexter
Powells.com Staff Pick Dexter's language is electric. I recommended this page-turning noir about a black caddy and his enigmatic benefactor to two coworkers; both were so impressed that they began stocking up on Dexter's earlier fiction before even reaching the last page. As...
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The Bride Stripped Bare
by Anonymous
Powells.com Staff Pick "There is something vaguely illicit — and let it be said, powerful — about penning a book anonymously. A nom de plume suffices if an author wishes to not have a certain work identified with the rest of their work. But with the use of 'anonymous'...
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The House of Sleep
by Jonathan Coe
Publisher Comments Like a surreal and highly caffeinated version of The Big Chill, Jonathan Coe's new novel follows four students who knew each other in college in the eighties. Sarah is a narcoleptic who has dreams so vivid she mistakes them for real events. Robert has...
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The Reasons I Won't Be Coming
by Elliot Perlman
Publisher Comments A collection of nine stories, full of passion and intelligence, from the author of the national bestseller Seven Types of Ambiguity. The nine smart, thoughtful stories in this collection explore the complex worlds of lovers, poets, lawyers, immigrants...
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Observatory Mansions
by Edward Carey
Publisher Comments Once the Orme family’s magnificent ancestral estate, Observatory Mansions is now a crumbling apartment complex, home to an eccentric group of misfits. One of them is Francis Orme, who earns his livelihood as a living statue. When not practicing...
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How I Live Now
by Meg Rosoff
Powells.com Staff Pick "This book for young adults simply captivated me like so few novels for adults will. In a voice that could tell you how to change a light bulb yet still hold you transfixed, fifteen-year-old New Yorker Daisy recalls a summer in the British countryside...
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Verandah People
by Jonathan Bennett
Publisher Comments In these powerful stories the ?verandah people? are Jonathan Bennett?s own compatriots: Australians for whom the ever-present verandah is both stage and shelter, a retreat from a hostile bushland or city street and a seductive barrier to participation in...
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