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The Monsters of Templeton
by Lauren Groff  
Powells.com Staff Pick Read it in hardcover. Honest. You're surfing the website of an independent bookseller in Portland, Oregon -- undoubtedly, you care about books, and likely you appreciate discovering the best ones before the masses catch on. Do yourself the favor of...
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Then We Came to the End: A Novel
by Joshua Ferris
Powells.com Staff Pick Then We Came to the End tells the story of an ad agency in decline, circa 2001. "We had a toy client, a car client, a long-distance carrier and a pet store," readers are told. We. Ferris uses the first person plural to present the agency's collective...
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Knockemstiff
by Donald Ray Pollock Publisher Comments In this unforgettable work of fiction, Donald Ray Pollock peers into the soul of a tough Midwestern American town to reveal the sad, stunted but resilient lives of its residents. Spanning a period from the mid-sixties to the late nineties, the linked...
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Mudbound: A Novel
by Hillary Jordan
Publisher Comments In Jordan's prize-winning debut, prejudice takes many forms, both subtle and brutal. It is 1946, and city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband's Mississippi Delta farm — a place she finds foreign and frightening. In the...
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The God of Animals: A Novel
by Aryn Kyle
Powells.com Staff Pick Alice Winston is one of the most likable characters I've come across in a long time; smart, tough, and intuitive beyond her years, her voice is both utterly realistic and absolutely captivating. Aryn Kyle's extraordinary debut novel treats the reader to...
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The Secret of Lost Things
by Sheridan Hay Publisher Comments A missing manuscript A young woman's voyage of discovery And the curious bookshop where it all begins... In this charming novel about the eccentricities and passions of booksellers and collectors, a captivating young Australian woman takes a job at a...
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Loving Frank
by Nancy Horan Publisher Comments I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright...
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The Boat
by Nam Le Publisher Comments A stunningly inventive, deeply moving fiction debut: stories that take us from the slums of Colombia to the streets of Tehran; from New York City to Iowa City; from a tiny fishing village in Australia to a foundering vessel in the South China Sea, in a...
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Bright Shiny Morning: A Novel
by James Frey Publisher Comments One of the most celebrated and controversial authors in America delivers his first novel — a sweeping chronicle of contemporary Los Angeles that is bold, exhilarating, and utterly original. Dozens of characters pass across the reader's sight...
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The Gift of Rain
by Tan Twan Eng
Powells.com Staff Pick I loved The Gift of Rain and will recommend it to all my bookselling friends. It's a beautiful work of historical fiction, but its themes also make it timely and relevant — a look at the excruciating choices that war inflicts on civilians. A small...
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Beautiful Children: A Novel
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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Girls in Trucks
by Katie Crouch Publisher Comments Sarah Walters is a less-than-perfect debutante. She tries hard to follow the time-honored customs of the Charleston Camellia Society, as her mother and grandmother did, standing up straight in cotillion class and attending lectures about all the things...
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The Somnambulist
by Jonathan Barnes Publisher Comments Be warned. This book has no literary merit whatsoever. Needless to say, I doubt you'll believe a word of it. Once the toast of good society in Victoria's England, the extraordinary conjurer Edward Moon no longer commands the respect or inspires the...
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The Story of Forgetting
by Stefan Merril Block Publisher Comments In Stefan Merrill Block’s extraordinary debut, three narratives intertwine to create a story that is by turns funny, smart, introspective, and revelatory. Abel Haggard is an elderly hunchback who haunts the remnants of his family’s farm in...
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Playing
by Melanie Abrams Publisher Comments Melanie Abrams’s debut novel is a provocative tale about love, betrayal, and how one young woman’s unconventional sexual reawakening uncovers the most guarded parts of her past. When Josie, an anthropology grad student, is unexpectedly...
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The Mayor's Tongue: A Novel
by Nathaniel Rich Publisher Comments A stunningly original novel of literary obsession and imagination that is sure to be one of the most highly anticipated debuts of the year. From a precociously talented young writer already widely admired in the literary world, The Mayor's Tongue is...
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Wolf Totem
by Jiang Rong
Publisher Comments An epic Chinese tale in the vein of The Last Emperor, Wolf Totem depicts the dying culture of the Mongols — the ancestors of the Mongol hordes who at one time terrorized the world — and the parallel extinction of the animal they believe to be...
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Deviant Behavior: A Novel of Sex, Drugs, Fatherhood, and Crystal Skulls
by Mike Sager Publisher Comments Jonathan Seede is the picture of Washington, DC, respectability, an urban pioneer with a pretty wife, a new baby, and a job at the town’s most esteemed newspaper. But ten blocks from the White House, on the notorious Fourteenth Street strip, a war...
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A Fraction of the Whole
by Steve Toltz
Powells.com Staff Pick A Fraction of the Whole is brilliant. Hysterically funny, yet profound. Themes of philosophy and literature, life and love, madness and creativity abound. I thoroughly enjoyed every page of Steve Toltz's debut novel. Perfectly absorbing with richly...
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After River
by Donna Milner Publisher Comments He will change their lives forever. . . . At fifteen, Natalie Ward believes her life is perfect. Growing up on a dairy farm in the mountains of British Columbia less than two miles from the American border, she knows little of the outside world. But she...
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