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The Sea: A Novel
by John Banville  
Powells.com Staff Pick Banville's fluid prose glides over the pages of The Sea, a rich story filled with heart and bittersweet longing. I pored over the luminescent descriptions of time and place and the beautiful characters that make up this world. Clearly the Man Booker was...
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Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog
by John Grogan
Publisher Comments The heartwarming and unforgettable story of a family in the making and the wondrously neurotic dog who taught them what really matters in life. John and Jenny were just beginning their life together. They were young and in love, with a perfect little...
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The Inheritance of Loss
by Kiran Desai Publisher Comments Kiran Desai's first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published to unanimous acclaim in over twenty-two countries. Now Desai takes us to the northeastern Himalayas where a rising insurgency challenges the old way of life. In a crumbling...
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Innocents Lost: When Child Soldiers Go to War
by Jimmie Briggs
Publisher Comments Ida, a member of Sri Lanka’s Female Tamil Tigers, fought with one of the longest-surviving and successful guerilla movements in the world. She is sixteen. Francois, a fourteen-year-old Rwandan child of mixed ethnicity, was forced by Hutu militiamen...
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Teacher Man: A Memoir
by Frank Mccourt
Publisher Comments Nearly a decade ago Frank McCourt became an unlikely star when, at the age of sixty-six, he burst onto the literary scene with Angela's Ashes, the Pulitzer Prize -- winning memoir of his childhood in Limerick, Ireland. Then came 'Tis, his glorious...
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Peony in Love
by Lisa See
Powells.com Staff Pick Lisa See aptly follows her blockbuster novel, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, with a lovely book that immerses the reader deep into 17th-century Chinese culture. Part love story, part ghost story, part historical fiction; See hangs the bones of her...
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Feathers
by Jacqueline Woodson
Publisher Comments Inspired by a poem she read at school, Frannie begins to see her world in a new light and deals with her brother's deafness, her mother's fear, and her best friend's faith in a hopeful new way....
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Where God Was Born: A Journey by Land to the Roots of Religion
by Bruce Feiler
Powells.com Staff Pick From the beginning of pre-history, human cultures have rooted sacred stories in actual landscapes, a legacy that becomes increasingly untenable as ballooning populations find it difficult to share their sacred places. Nowhere is this trend more evident...
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River of Doubt Theodore Roosevelts Darke
by Candice Millard
Publisher Comments At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt’s harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth. The River of Doubt—it is a...
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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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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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Ines of My Soul: A Novel
by Isabel Allende
Publisher Comments Born into a poor family in Spain, Inés, a seamstress, finds herself condemned to a life of hard work without reward or hope for the future. It is the sixteenth century, the beginning of the Spanish conquest of the Americas, and when her shiftless...
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Shalimar the Clown: A Novel
by Salman Rushdie
Powells.com Staff Pick Shalimar the Clown is a welcome addition to the Rushdie canon. Moving across the globe, Rushdie follows his characters from terrorist camps to the privileged world of Los Angeles, motivated by shades of love, curiosity, and burning vengeance. His...
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Mao: The Unknown Story
by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday
Powells.com Staff Pick Including previously unreleased details of Mao's relationship with Stalin, this astonishing look at the father of Communist China is engrossing as well as horrifying — truly an eye-opener. Recommended by Josephine, Powells.com...
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The Fate of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence
by Martin Meredith
Synopsis An epic biography of postcolonial Africa illuminates its current devastating problems. What happened to this vast continent, so rich in resources and history, to bring it so close to destitution and despair in the span of two generations?...
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A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
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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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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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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Restless Souls: The Making of American Spirituality
by Leigh Eric Schmidt
Publisher Comments Yoga classes and Zen meditation, New Age seminars and holistic workshops, the Oprah Winfrey Show, and books by Deepak Chopra -- all are part of the religious experimentation that has surprisingly deep roots in American history. In fact, they represent...
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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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