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Q & A
by Vikas Swarup  
Publisher Comments Vikas Swarup's spectacular debut novel opens in a jail cell in Mumbai, India, where Ram Mohammad Thomas is being held after correctly answering all twelve questions on India's biggest quiz show, Who Will Win a Billion? It is hard to believe that a poor...
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The Solitude of Thomas Cave
by Georgina Harding
Publisher Comments In 1616, in the north Atlantic, an English whaling ship prepares to head back toward home. Thomas Cave, however, bets the rest of the crew that he can spend a winter on an Arctic island. From his post at the edge of the known world, Cave sees his own...
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And Baby Makes Two
by Judy Sheehan
Publisher Comments At thirty-seven, Jane Howe is pretty sure she has attained the perfect life: a well-paying job, fantastic friends, family close by (but not too close), and a Greenwich Village apartment that makes visitors drool with envy. But that’s before she...
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Invisible Listeners: Lyric Intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, & Ashbery
by Helen Vendler
Publisher Comments When a poet addresses a living person — whether friend or enemy, lover or sister — we recognize the expression of intimacy. But what impels poets to leap across time and space to speak to invisible listeners, seeking an ideal intimacy —...
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Alternadad
by Neal Pollack
Publisher Comments A few years ago, Neal Pollack was probably the least likely father you've ever met: a pop-culture-obsessed writer and self-styled party guy known mostly for outrageous literary antics. In typical fashion, he responded to the birth of his son by forming a...
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Dog Days: Dispatches from Bedlam Farm
by Jon Katz
Publisher Comments In five memorable books, readers have followed Katzs transformation from a suburban New Jersey dog owner to squire of Bedlam Farm. In his latest book, Katz chronicles the experience of life with animals--what they teach us, and what they bring out in us....
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The Painted Drum
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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Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash
by Elizabeth Royte
Powells.com Staff Pick In a clear, accessible, and entertaining style, Elizabeth Royte takes readers along the trail of our trash — from riding along in the garbage trucks with the "san men" to landfills, recycling centers, and other spots that are usually far from the...
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Oh Pure and Radiant Heart
by Lydia Millet
Publisher Comments Acclaimed author Lydia Millet's latest novel is a black-comic tour de force depicting atomic bomb creators Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, and Leo Szilard. Despite being dead, these scientists are spotted in Santa Fe by a shy librarian named Ann. She...
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Fallen
by David Maine
Powells.com Staff Pick Historical fiction can be a tough balance between fact and imagination. Biblical fiction, by extension, can be even more difficult to pull off — loaded as the stories and characters are with centuries of interpretation and emotion. Fallen...
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The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer: And the Birth of the Modern Arms Race
by Priscilla J. McMillan
Publisher Comments On April 12, 1954, the nation was astonished to learn that scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer faced charges of violating national security. Why had the charismatic leader of the Manhattan Project — the man who led the team that developed the atomic...
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Time of the Uprooted (05 Edition)
by Elie Wiesel
Publisher Comments Gamaliel Friedman is only a child when his family flees Czechoslovakia in 1939 for the reletive safety of Hungary. It will be the beginning of a life of rootlessness, disguise, and despair for him. Five years later, in desperation, Gamaliel's parents...
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Finn: A Novel
by Jon Clinch
Publisher Comments In this masterful debut by a major new voice in fiction, Jon Clinch takes us on a journey into the history and heart of one of American literature's most brutal and mysterious figures: Huckleberry Finn's father. The result is a deeply original tour de...
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Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix
by Charles R. Cross
Powells.com Staff Pick Published to coincide with the thirty-fifth anniversary of Jimi Hendrix's death, Room Full of Mirrors gives full voice to the music that continues to enthrall each successive generation of rock fans. Hendrix's colorful, tumultuous life is brilliantly...
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Gone to New York: Adventures in the City
by Ian Frazier
Publisher Comments Welcome to Ian Frazier's New York, a city more downtown than up, where every block is an event, and where the denizens are larger than life. His bewitching, inimitable voice, makes readers fall in love with America's greatest city all over again....
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Where Is the Cake?
by T. T. Khing
Publisher Comments An adventurous look-and-find book with new stories to follow and items to discover in each browsing Told entirely through pictures, Where Is the Cake? is a puzzle, a maze, an activity—and so much more! In each browsing, a new storyline will race...
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Empires of the Word (05 Edition)
by Nicholas Ostler
Publisher Comments The story of the world in the last five thousand years is above all the story of its languages. Some shared language is what binds any community together and makes possible both the living of a common history and the telling of it. Yet the history of the...
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The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa
by Michael Kimmelman
Synopsis The chief art critic of the "New York Times" delivers an uplifting art-is-good-for-you message that goes far beyond what's found in galleries and museums....
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Desertion
by Abdulrazak Gurnah
Publisher Comments Writing at the peak of his powers, Abdulrazak Gurnah gives us in Desertion a spellbinding novel of forbidden love and cultural upheaval, with consequences powerfully reverberating through three generations and across continents—from the heyday of...
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Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn
by William J Mann
Publisher Comments A fascinating biography of Katharine Hepburn furnishes a revealing study of the complex, intelligent, sophisticated woman behind the mythic Hollywood image, drawing on new interviews with friends and family and previously unavailable materials to capture...
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