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A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present (P.S.)
by Howard Zinn  
Powells.com Staff Pick For anyone who sat in a high school history class feeling like there was something more going on than you were being told, this book is a revelation. As engaging as a white-knuckled novel, Zinn's astonishing record of U.S. history from the perspective of...
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The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (P.S.)
by Michael Chabon
Powells.com Staff Pick Pulitzer Prize-winner Chabon's first novel (written for his master's thesis at UC Irvine) was published when he was twenty-five, and quickly became a bestseller. Set in the steel ciy, this hilarious coming-of-age story tells the tale of Art Bechstein's...
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Zorro: A Novel
by Isabel Allende
Powells.com Staff Pick When was it decided that literary writers shouldn't write about adventure? Once upon a time authors like Stevenson and Dumas were associated with swashbucklers, now classics, Treasure Island and The Three Musketeers; today they'd be laughed right out of...
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
by Eric Schlosser
Powells.com Staff Pick "What we eat has changed more in the last forty years than in the last forty thousand," Schlosser observes, yet most Americans know very little about how that food is made, where, by whom, and at what cost. Fast Food Nation traces the industry's...
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A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 (P.S.)
by Simon Winchester
Powells.com Staff Pick "If you liked Krakatoa, The Professor and the Madman, or any of Winchester's other works, you'll like this one. He explains geological ideas well, and is well on his way to being the new ambassador of geology's influence on human history. He places...
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The Painted Drum (P.S.)
by Louise Erdrich Publisher Comments When a woman named Faye Travers is called upon to appraise the estate of a family in her small New Hampshire town, she isn't surprised to discover a forgotten cache of valuable Native American artifacts. After all, the family descends from an Indian...
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We Need to Talk about Kevin (P.S.)
by Lionel Shriver Publisher Comments The gripping international bestseller about motherhood gone awry Eva never really wanted to be a mother—and certainly not the mother of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker, and a much...
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Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology (P.S.)
by Eric Brende
Publisher Comments What is the least we need to achieve the most? With this question in mind, MIT graduate Eric Brende flipped the switch on technology. He and his wife, Mary, ditched their car, electric stove, refrigerator, running water, and everything else motorized or "...
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Unless (P.S.)
by Carol Shields Publisher Comments Reta Winters, 44-year-old successful author of light summertime fiction, has always considered herself happy, even blessed. That is, until her oldest daughter Norah mysteriously drops out of college to become a panhandler on a Toronto street corner —...
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Haweswater (P.S.)
by Sarah Hall Publisher Comments The village of Marsdale is a quiet corner of the world, cradled in a remote dale in England's lovely Lake District. The rhythm of life in the deeply religious, sheltered community has not changed for centuries. But in 1936, when Waterworks representative...
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The Children's Blizzard (P.S.)
by David Laskin Publisher Comments The gripping story of an epic prairie snowstorm that killed hundreds of newly arrived settlers and cast a shadow on the promise of the American frontier. January 12, 1888, began as an unseasonably warm morning across Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota,...
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Lord Byron's Novel: The Evening Land (P.S.)
by John Crowley Publisher Comments Crowley delivers a stunning act of literary impersonation: imagining the novel the haunted, enigmatic Romantic poet Lord Byron never penned but very well might have--a story of two women from different centuries bound together by love, loss, and a need...
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Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods (P.S.)
by Michael Wex Publisher Comments A delightful excursion through the Yiddish language, the culture it defines and serves, and the fine art of complaint Throughout history, Jews around the world have had plenty of reasons to lament. And for a thousand years, they've had the perfect...
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The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession (P.S.)
by Paulo Coelho Publisher Comments The author of the international bestsellers "The Alchemist" and "Eleven Minutes" offers a new tale about one man's journey to capture a lost love, making surprising discoveries about his marriage and himself along the way....
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A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599 (P.S.)
by James Shapiro
Publisher Comments 1599 was an epochal year for Shakespeare and England. Shakespeare wrote four of his most famous plays: Henry V, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, and, most remarkably, Hamlet; Elizabethans sent off an army to crush an Irish rebellion, weathered an...
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The Emperor of Wine: The Rise of Robert M. Parker, JR., and the Reign of American Taste (P.S.)
by Elin Mccoy Publisher Comments This is the story of how an American lawyer raised on Coca-Cola caused a revolution in the way wines around the globe are made, sold, and talked about. The world's most influential wine critic, Robert M. Parker, Jr., has dominated the international...
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The Sad Truth about Happiness (P.S.)
by Anne Giardini Publisher Comments The daughter of beloved novelist Carol Shields ("The Stone Diaries") delivers her first novel--a bittersweet and comic story on the unexpected power of friendships and family, and the rewards of a more intense relationship with the world....
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Beasts of No Nation (P.S.)
by Uzodinma Iweala
Powells.com Staff Pick Told from the perspective of Agu, a child soldier in an unnamed West African war zone, Iweala somehow manages to create a strikingly intriguing coming-of-age tale that simultaneously explores some of the darkest moral abysses imaginable. Agu's halting...
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Suspension (P.S.)
by Robert Westfield Publisher Comments In this dark comedy, a young New Yorker attempts to isolate himself and escape from a city filled with impostors, axe-murderers, a show-tunes quoting ex-boyfriend who's missing, and an overprotective mother....
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I Didn't Do It for You: How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation (P.S.)
by Michela Wrong Publisher Comments Scarred by decades of conflict and occupation, the craggy African nation of Eritrea has weathered the world's longest-running guerrilla war. The dogged determination that secured victory against Ethiopia, its giant neighbor, is woven into the national...
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