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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Diaz  
Powells.com Staff Pick Darkly funny and at times heartbreaking, The Brief Wondrous Life is about Díaz's unlikely hero (an obese Dominican Trekkie terrified of dying a virgin) with a rich narrative voice that compels sympathy over pity as the inner workings of both Oscar and...
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Pravda
by Edward Docx
Powells.com Staff Pick Sharp, compelling, and dark. Edward Docx is fantastically gifted with prose and weaves a complex family saga and literary thriller. With descriptive powers rivaling Le Carre, and a setting that hops between Russia, London and New York, I devoured this...
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The Red Tent
by Anita Diamant
Publisher Comments Her name is Dinah. In the Bible, her life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the more familiar chapters of the Book of Genesis that are about her father, Jacob, and his dozen sons. Told in Dinah's voice, this novel reveals the...
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The Inheritance of Loss: A Novel
by Kiran Desai
Publisher Comments From the author of Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard comes a masterpiece set in a corner of the Himalayas where a rising insurgency challenges the old way of life — Kiran Desai's new novel about belonging and estrangement, exile and homecoming, is...
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The Whistling Season
by Ivan Doig
Publisher Comments "Can't cook but doesn't bite." So begins the newspaper ad offering the services of an A-1 housekeeper, sound morals, exceptional disposition that draws the hungry attention of widower Oliver Milliron in the fall of 1909. And so begins the unforgettable...
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The Madonnas of Leningrad (P.S.)
by Debra Dean Publisher Comments Bit by bit, the ravages of age are eroding Marina's grip on the everyday. An elderly Russian woman now living in America, she cannot hold on to fresh memories— the details of her grown children's lives, the approaching wedding of her grandchild...
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The Brothers K
by David James Duncan
Powells.com Staff Pick A family drama of the highest order, in The Brothers K Duncan creates an intricate web of relationships and events that is fraught with upheaval, yet feels organic. I fell in love with every single character over the course of the novel, and by the end...
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The Year of Magical Thinking (Vintage International)
by Joan Didion
Powells.com Staff Pick Best book of 2005, favorite book of the year...Slice the question any number of ways, but the book published last year that I'm most grateful for having read is The Year of Magical Thinking, a devastating affirmation of love and commitment, hope and...
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House of Leaves: A Novel
by Mark Z. Danielewski
Powells.com Staff Pick "Saints be praised, this is the best book of the new millennium. A veritable tour de force. Pynchon meets Stephen King meets Robert Hughes meets Borges meets Dante. Joycian. Jungian. Mythic. Any clich used by fawning literary critics...
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The Tea Rose
by Jennifer Donnelly
Publisher Comments East London, 1888 — a city apart. A place of shadow and light where thieves, whores, and dreamers mingle, where children play in the cobbled streets by day and a killer stalks at night, where bright hopes meet the darkest truths. Here, by the...
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Drown
by Junot Diaz
Powells.com Staff Pick The world in Junot Diaz's short story collection Drown is gritty, sad, and hilarious, and the pictures he paints of life in the Dominican Republic, and of Dominican immigrants in America, is rich with pathos. When Drown came out in 1996, Diaz was hailed...
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The Dud Avocado (New York Review Books Classics)
by Elaine Dundy
Publisher Comments The Dud Avocado follows the romantic and comedic adventures of a young American who heads overseas to conquer Paris in the late 1950s. Edith Wharton and Henry James wrote about the American girl abroad, but it was Elaine Dundy's Sally Jay Gorce who told...
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Perennial Classics)
by Annie Dillard
Publisher Comments Chapter 1. Heaven and Earth in Jest Chapter 2. Seeing Chapter 3. Winter Chapter 4. The Fixed Chapter 5. Untying the Knot Chapter 6. The Present Chapter 7. Spring Chapter 8. Intricacy Chapter 9. Flood Chapter 10. Fecundity Chapter 11. Stalking Chapter 12....
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The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
Powells.com Staff Pick Best book of 2005, favorite book of the year...Slice the question any number of ways, but the book published last year that I'm most grateful for having read is The Year of Magical Thinking, a devastating affirmation of love and commitment, hope and...
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Pravda Signed
by Edward Docx Publisher Comments Inspired by the author's own family history, Pravda is a haunting chronicle of suspicion and loss, love and loyalty, and the destructive legacy of deceit. Thirty-two-year-old Gabriel Clarke arrives in St. Petersburg from London to find his mother...
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Geek Love
by Katherine Dunn
Powells.com Staff Pick Christmas is a time for family, and if you spend one with the Binewskis, you'll never look at the family unit in the same way again. Told through the perspective of a bald, albino, hunchbacked dwarf, this story introduces us to a cast of carnival freaks...
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
by Sijie Dai
Publisher Comments Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress is an enchanting tale that captures the magic of reading and the wonder of romantic awakening. An immediate international bestseller, it tells the story of two hapless city boys exiled to a remote mountain village...
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Play It As It Lays
by Joan Didion Publisher Comments A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. Set in a place beyond good and evil...
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The Last Days of Dogtown
by Anita Diamant Publisher Comments A magnificent storyteller with vast imaginative range, Anita Diamant gave voice to the silent women of the Old Testament in The Red Tent. Now, in her third novel, she brings to vivid life an early New England world that history has forgotten. Set on Cape...
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Geek Love
by Katherine Dunn
Publisher Comments Geek Love is the story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias set out — with the help of amphetamine, arsenic, and radioisotopes — to breed their own exhibit of human oddities. There's Arturo the Aquaboy, who has...
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