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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
by Sherman Alexie  
Powells.com Staff Pick Once I started this book, I couldn't stop reading. Not only is this young adult book funny and touching — it feels so real. Anyone of any age who has struggled to know themselves and has fought for happiness will find resonance in the words and...
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Used: $3.95 Trade Paper List Price $8.00
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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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Bless Me, Ultima
by Rudolfo Anaya Synopsis A masterpiece of Hispanic literature from "one of the nation's foremost Chicano literary artists" (Denver Post). This is the involving story of Antonio, a boy facing the conflicts in his life with the help of Ultima, a curandera who cures with herbs and...
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The Book of Dahlia
by Elisa Albert Publisher Comments From the author of the critically acclaimed story collection How This Night Is Different comes a dark, arresting, fearlessly funny story of one young woman's terminal illness. In The Book of Dahlia, Elisa Albert walks a dazzling line between gravitas and...
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Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe Publisher Comments Chinua Achebe's first novel portrays the collision of African and European cultures in people's lives. Okonkwo, a great man in Igbo traditional society, cannot adapt to the profound changes brought about by British colonial rule. Yet, as in classic...
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These Three Remain (Fitzwilliam Darcy Gentleman #03)
by Pamela Aidan
Publisher Comments A concluding installment to the best-selling trilogy follows Darcy's journey of self-discovery after Elizabeth Bennet's rejection of his marriage proposal, a period during which he hopes to renew his suit and finds his resolve tested by the machinations...
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Case Histories
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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Desert Solitaire
by Edward Abbey
Powells.com Staff Pick This memoir by Edward Abbey recounts his years as a park ranger working at Arches National Park in Utah. Abbey's keen eye and sharp writing clearly impart the beauty of the desert and the importance of preserving our limited natural resources. His...
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Flight: A Novel
by Sherman Alexie
Powells.com Staff Pick Darkly funny, sharply observant, Flight lays bare the experience of a teenaged outsider circa 2007. Alternately heartbreaking and wondrous, Sherman Alexie's first novel in ten years tells the story of an orphan careening through foster homes until...
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Bless Me, Ultima
by Rudolfo Anaya Synopsis When a curandera comes to stay with a young boy, he tests the bonds that tie him to his culture and finds himself in the secrets of the past....
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The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood
Powells.com Staff Pick Ever since The Edible Woman was first published in 1969, novelist and poet Margaret Atwood has regularly reaffirmed her position at the head of the table. Atwood possesses extraordinary literary gifts. When she simultaneously taps her world-class...
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Wake Up, Sir!: A Novel
by Jonathan Ames
Powells.com Staff Pick Wake Up, Sir! is a brilliant work of fiction that just happens to be laugh-out-loud funny, to boot (though it also has a stirring underlying sadness). Jonathan Ames is a daring and deeply honest writer whose work abounds with tender and heartbreaking...
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Beware of God: Stories
by Shalom Auslander Publisher Comments Shalom Auslander's stories in Beware of God have the mysterious punch of a dream. They are wide ranging and inventive: A young Jewish man's inexplicable transformation into a very large, blond, tattooed goy ends with an argument over whether or not his...
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The Yacoubian Building
by Alaa Al Aswany Publisher Comments This controversial bestselling novel in the Arab world reveals the political corruption, sexual repression, religious extremism, and modern hopes of Egypt today. All manner of flawed and fragile humanity reside in the Yacoubian Building, a once...
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
Publisher Comments A phenomenal #1 bestseller that has appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for nearly three years, this memoir traces Maya Angelou's childhood in a small, rural community during the 1930s. Filled with images and recollections that...
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Watership Down
by Richard Adams Publisher Comments "'That's the place for us.... High, lonely hills, where the wind and the sound carry and the ground's as dry as straw in a barn.... That's where we have to get to." -from "Watership Down Note to Teachers "Watership Down had its beginnings in a series of...
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Half of a Yellow Sun
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Publisher Comments With her award-winning debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was heralded by the Washington Post Book World as "the 21st century daughter of Chinua Achebe." Now, in her masterly, haunting new novel, she recreates a seminal moment in...
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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven
by Sherman Alexi Publisher Comments In this "compelling and impressive collection" (Washington Times), Sherman Alexie, a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, brilliantly paints a complex, grimly ironic portrait of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation. These interlinked tales are...
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Attack of the Theater People
by Marc Acito Publisher Comments In praising "the witty high school romp" How I Paid for College, the New York Times Book Review said, it "makes you hope there's a lot more where this came from." There is. In this hilarious sequel Attack of the Theater People, Edward Zanni and his merry...
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The Sum of Our Days: A Memoir
by Isabel Allende Publisher Comments In this heartfelt memoir, Isabel Allende reconstructs the painful reality of her own life in the wake of tragic loss—the death of her daughter, Paula. Recalling the past thirteen years from the daily letters the author and her mother, who lives in...
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