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Beautiful Children Signed
by Charles Bock  Publisher Comments One Saturday night in Las Vegas, twelve-year-old Newell Ewing goes out with a friend and doesn't come home. In the aftermath of his disappearance, his mother, Lorraine, makes daily pilgrimages to her son's room and tortures herself with memories. Equally...
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The Savage Detectives
by Roberto Bolano 
Powells.com Staff Pick Take one part Tom Robbins, one part James Joyce, add a dose of '70s nostalgia, and stir. What you get is the journey of a poetic soul across the broken landscape of our world. The Savage Detectives is at once illuminating and introspective, riveting and...
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People of the Book: A Novel
by Geraldine Brooks
Powells.com Staff Pick Give me a mystery (one that is structured around an antiquarian book, no less!), a historical setting, and an exquisite writer like Geraldine Brooks, and I am suddenly avoiding daily rituals like sleep and food. Nothing could deter me from turning the...
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Christine Falls: A Novel
by Benjamin Black Publisher Comments In the debut crime novel from the Booker-winning author, a Dublin pathologist follows the corpse of a mysterious woman into the heart of a conspiracy among the city's high Catholic society. It's not the dead that seem strange to Quirke. It's the...
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The Good Earth: Oprah Book Club #6
by Pearl S. Buck
Publisher Comments Though more than sixty years have passed since this remarkable novel won the Pulitzer Prize, it has retained its popularity and become one of the great modern classics. "I can only write what I know, and I know nothing but China, having always lived...
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The Soul Thief: A Novel
by Charles Baxter Publisher Comments Here is an extraordinary new novel from one of our most admired and acclaimed writers, a creator of stunning, never predictable, glimmering fiction, full of mischief and insight (Los Angeles Times). During Nathaniel Mason's first few months as a graduate...
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Jane Eyre (Bantam Classics)
by Charlotte Bronte Publisher Comments Charlotte Brontë’s impassioned novel is the love story of Jane Eyre, a plain yet spirited governess, and her employer, the arrogant, brooding Mr. Rochester. Published in 1847 under the pseudonym Currer Bell, the book heralded a new kind of...
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March: A Novel
by Geraldine Brooks
Powells.com Staff Pick In her follow-up to Year of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks has taken historical fiction to another dimension altogether. Using America's Civil War as her frame, she plants a famous (but deeply mysterious) literary figure at its center: Mr. March, the absent...
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Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague
by Geraldine Brooks
From Powells.com When London was stricken by the bubonic plague in the years 1665-1666, the houses of plague victims were sealed and guarded, locking in the well with the ill, allowing no access to food, water or human comfort. Samuel Pepys observed in his journal...
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Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)
by Emily Bronte Publisher Comments Published a year before her death at the age of thirty, Emily Brontë's only novel is set in the wild, bleak Yorkshire Moors. Depicting the relationship of Cathy and Heathcliff, Wuthering Heights creates a world of its own, conceived with an instinct for...
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The Reserve: A Novel
by Russell Banks Publisher Comments Part love story, part murder mystery, set on the cusp of the Second World War, Russell Banks's sharp-witted and deeply engaging new novel raises dangerous questions about class, politics, art, love, and madness — and explores what happens when two...
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Tenant of Wildfell Hall (96 Edition)
by Anne Bronte Synopsis First published in 1848, a novel in which a woman flees from a disastrous marriage with her child to a desolate moorland mansion. It portrays one woman's struggle for independence at a time when law and society defined a married woman as her husband's...
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The Savage Detectives: A Novel
by Roberto Bolano
Powells.com Staff Pick A decidedly Mexican novel that spans the entire globe, The Savage Detectives is Homer's Odyssey, Hemingway's A Moveable Feast and Borges's Ficciones all rolled into one — and somehow becomes more than the sum of its parts in the process. Beautifully...
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Fahrenheit 451: The Temperature at Which Book Paper Catches Fire, and Burns
by Ray Bradbury Publisher Comments Since the late 1940s, Ray Bradbury has been revered for his works of science fiction and fantasy. With more than 4 million copies in print, Fahrenheit 451 — originally published in 1953 — remains his most acclaimed work: "One of the most...
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Moloka'i (03 Edition)
by Alan Brennert
Powells.com Staff Pick There is no worse fate in Hawaiian culture than a broken up family. Though at the turn of the century, this is what happened to thousands of Hawaiians and others who of were forced into exile on Moloka'i. The characters here are richly described and the...
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Sharp Teeth
by Toby Barlow
Publisher Comments An ancient race of lycanthropes has survived to the present day, and its numbers are growing as the initiated convince L.A.'s down and out to join their pack. Paying no heed to moons, full or otherwise, they change from human to canine at will — and...
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Regeneration (93 Edition)
by Pat Barker Synopsis Set in a British military hospital during WWI, this novel blends fact and fiction, drawing its two protagonists from the pages of history. The author of Union Street (made into the film Stanley and Iris) portrays over whelmed men who try to come to terms...
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Jennifer Government
by Max Barry Publisher Comments Jennifer Government is Here to Help! In Max Barry’s twisted, hilarious vision of the near future, the world is run by giant American corporations (except for a few deluded holdouts like the French); taxes are illegal; employees take the last...
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Clockwork Orange ((Rev)86 Edition)
by Anthony Burgess
Publisher Comments In Burgess's infamous nightmare vision of youth culture in revolt, 15-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the state tries to reform him — but...
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The Feast of Love
by Charles Baxter
Powells.com Staff Pick If you have ever loved, buy this book! How's that for a strong recommendation? Charles Baxter is, in my opinion, one of the most under-appreciated contemporary American authors on the scene. He is remarkably talented. This novel, set in Ann Arbor...
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