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Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes and Edith Grossman  Publisher Comments Edith Grossman's definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece. Widely regarded as one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the adventures of the self-created knight-errant Don Quixote of La Mancha and...
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His Illegal Self
by Peter Carey 
Powells.com Staff Pick Peter Carey's latest manages to be both charming and disturbing; Dial and Che are unique and empathetic characters that will haunt you long after you put the book down. His Illegal Self also contains that rare achievement: an absolutely perfect ending....
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Alchemist (98 Edition)
by Paulo Coelho
Powells.com Staff Pick Whether you want to take a journey or to be reassured that life is filled with wonder and magic, this beautifully optimistic book is for you. Follow Santiago, a shepherd who follows a dream to find treasure hidden under the pyramids, but ends up finding...
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The House on Mango Street (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Sandra Cisneros
Publisher Comments Told in a series of vignettes stunning for their eloquence, The House on Mango Street is Sandra Cisneros's greatly admired novel of a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Acclaimed by critics, beloved by children, their parents and...
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel
by Michael Chabon
Powells.com Staff Pick This book's premise is FDR's suggestion, back when Israel was being created, that the Jewish Diaspora settle in Alaska. Chabon makes that scenario a reality, except that when the book begins, the Sitka District is set to revert to Alaskan control...
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The Alchemist
by Paulo Coelho
Publisher Comments "My heart is afraidthat it will have to suffer." the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky. "Tell your heart that the far of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes...
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Burning Bright
by Tracy Chevalier
Powells.com Staff Pick The author of Girl with a Pearl Earring has done it again! With her new novel, Burning Bright, Tracy Chevalier recreates William Blake's London, circa 1790. Her eye for detail and her ear for dialogue are sharp as ever. With her books, the reader can...
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The Family Tree
by Carole Cadwalladr
Powells.com Staff Pick "The Family Tree combines all that you could wish of a novel — humor, pathos, sex, and tragedy. In a wry voice, reminiscent of Kate Atkinson's, Cadwalladr unravels a complicated and unerringly compelling story of three generations of women. Not to...
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The Stranger
by Albert Camus
Publisher Comments Since it was first published in English, in 1946, Albert Camus's extraordinary first novel, The Stranger (L'Etranger), has had a profound impact on millions of American readers. Through this story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a...
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Warrior of the Light: A Manual
by Paulo Coelho Publisher Comments Warrior of the Light: A Manual is an inspirational companion to The Alchemist, an international bestseller that has beguiled millions of readers around the world. Every short passage invites us to live out our dreams, to embrace the uncertainty of life...
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Death Comes for the Archbishop (Vintage Classics)
by Willa Cather Publisher Comments Willa Cather's best known novel; a narrative that recounts a life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert....
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Invisible Cities
by Italo Calvino Publisher Comments In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo — Tartar emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan has sensed the end of his empire coming soon. Marco Polo diverts the emperor with tales of the cities he has seen in his travels around...
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Fifth Mountain (98 Edition)
by Paulo Coelho Publisher Comments Plot Summary When the novel begins, the year is 870 B.C., and the prophet Elijah is in his early twenties and fleeing for his life. His death has been ordered by the beautiful but implacable Jezebel, wife of Israel's King Ahab. His " crime"...
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union (P.S.)
by Michael Chabon
Powells.com Staff Pick This book's premise is FDR's suggestion, back when Israel was being created, that the Jewish Diaspora settle in Alaska. Chabon makes that scenario a reality, except that when the book begins, the Sitka District is set to revert to Alaskan control...
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
by Michael Chabon
Powells.com Staff Pick The story of two young comic book artists in 1940s New York City, Jewish boys, one of whom fled the German steamroller heading toward his home in Czechoslovakia in a coffin, Chabon's third and best novel is utterly original, a generous fictional addition...
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Nights at the Circus
by Angela Carter
Publisher Comments Sophi Fevvers — the toast of Europe's capitals, courted by the Prince of Wales, painted by Toulouse-Lautrec — is an aerialiste extraordinaire, star of Colonel Kearney's circus. She is also part woman, part swan. Jack Walser, an American...
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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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Summerland
by Michael Chabon
Powells.com Staff Pick I started reading Summerland on a road trip and couldn't put it down. I was hooked from the moment Ethan and a ragtag group of characters — including a depressed Sasquatch and the rudest fairy princess you can imagine — embark on their quest to...
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The Devil and Miss Prym: A Novel of Temptation (P.S.)
by Paulo Coelho Publisher Comments A community devoured by greed, cowardice, and fear. A man persecuted by the ghosts of his painful past. A young woman searching for happiness. In one eventful week, each will face questions of life, death, and power, and each will choose a path. Will...
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I Was Told There'd Be Cake
by Sloane Crosley Publisher Comments Wry, hilarious, and profoundly genuine, this debut collection of literary essays is a celebration of fallibility and haplessness in all their glory. From despoiling an exhibit at the Natural History Museum to provoking the ire of her first boss to...
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