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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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The Great Gatsby
by F Scott Fitzgerald Publisher Comments The exemplary novel of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgeralds' third book, The Great Gatsby (1925), stands as the supreme achievement of his career. T. S. Eliot read it three times and saw it as the "first step" American fiction had taken since Henry James...
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The Geographer's Library
by Jon Fasman
Powells.com Staff Pick The hunt for alchemical treasure through the ages threads through this literary whodunit. A small town cub reporter is drawn into the dangerous hunt and encounters murders, smugglers and mayhem. Lots of fun! Recommended by Kathi, Powell's City of Books...
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The Blue Flower
by Penelope Fitzgerald
Publisher Comments In eighteenth-century Germany, the impetuous student of philosophy who will later gain fame as the Romantic poet Novalis seeks his father's permission to wed his true philosophy — a plain, simple child named Sophie. The attachment shocks his family...
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Everything Is Illuminated
by Jonathan Safran Foer
Powells.com Staff Pick This book has been out for a few years, and maybe everyone has already read it. It's a story told in three ways: Jonathan Safran Foer is looking for someone who helped his grandfather escape the Nazis during World War II; Alex is the translator Foer...
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Can't Wait to Get to Heaven (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
by Fannie Flagg Publisher Comments Combining southern warmth with unabashed emotion and side-splitting hilarity, Fannie Flagg takes readers back to Elmwood Springs, Missouri, where the most unlikely and surprising experiences of a high-spirited octogenarian inspire a town to ponder the...
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A Passage to India
by E M Forster
Powells.com Staff Pick Ezra Pound said, "Fundamental accuracy of statement is the one sole morality of writing." I think this might be the best novel of cross-cultural misunderstanding written in the English language. On one level, it is pure sensual delight. On...
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One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd
by Jim Fergus
Publisher Comments One Thousand White Women is the story of May Dodd and a colorful assembly of pioneer women who, under the auspices of the U.S. government, travel to the western prairies in 1875 to intermarry among the Cheyenne Indians. The covert and controversial...
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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 Legend of Colton H. Bryant
by Alexandra Fuller Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of Donat Letas Go to the Dogs Tonight and Scribbling the Cat, the unforgettable true story of a boy who comes of age in the oil-fields and open plains of Wyoming; a heartrending story of the human spirit that lays bare where...
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Rock Springs
by Richard Ford Synopsis A collection of stories about ordinary men, women and children. Unemployed, on the way back to prison, marriages in tatters, the characters confront their fates with optimism, humour and flashes of insight....
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The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher Comments This is the definitive, textually accurate edition of a classic of twentieth-century literature, The Great Gatsby. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan has been acclaimed by generations of readers...
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Everything Is Illuminated: Movie Tie-In
by Jonathan Safran Foer
Powells.com Staff Pick This novel is one of the best I've ever read. Intriguing and fresh, it combines great comedy with great tragedy; Foer intertwines realistic storytelling with a stream-of-consciousness style to yield unpredictable gems. Everything Is Illuminated is both...
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The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text
by William Faulkner
Powells.com Staff Pick Faulkner is in a class of his own, and this is his best work. Moving seamlessly from its opening incoherence to its revelatory finale, it's almost as if he is teaching you how to read the novel as you are reading it! A family drama with some of the...
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The Sportswriter
by Richard Ford
Powells.com Staff Pick At the beginning of The Sportswriter, Richard Ford opens with the issues with which his novel will be most concerned: a man, his work, his home and sense of place, his relationship with family, and his expectation of "the good life." Frank Bascombe is...
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The Land of Mango Sunsets
by Dorothea Bent Frank Publisher Comments Her sleazy husband left her for a lingerie model who's barely more than a teenager, and her kids are busy with their own lives. But before Miriam Elizabeth Swanson can work herself up into a true snit about it all, her newest tenant, Liz, arrives from...
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
by Jonathan Safran Foer
Powells.com Staff Pick Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is one of those novels you'll be sorry to see end. Inventor, jewelry designer, Francophile, tambourine player, and pacifist, nine-year-old Oskar careens from Central Park to Coney Island searching for a lock to fit...
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So Big
by Edna Ferber Publisher Comments Winner of the 1925 Pulitzer Prize, So Big is widely regarded as Ferber's piece de resistance. This rollicking panorama of high and low life in the Windy City follows the travails of gambler's daughter Selina Peake DeJong as she struggles to maintain her...
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Lamentations of the Father: Essays
by Ian Frazier Publisher Comments When The Atlantic Monthly celebrated its 150th anniversary by publishing excerpts from the best writing ever to appear in the magazine, in the category of the humorous essay it chose only four pieces—one by Mark Twain, one by James Thurber, one by...
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The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen
From Powells.com Jonathan Franzen has an impressive resumé. After being named one of the best writers under forty by both the New Yorker and Granta, his third novel went on to win the National Book Award and garner praise from writers as diverse as Don...
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