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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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Lush Life: A Novel
by Richard Price
Powells.com Staff Pick It's a given that fans of Price's earlier novels will rush to read Lush Life. In addition, fans of the HBO series The Wire — or anyone who enjoys a gripping read, period — won't want to miss this fantastic novel, which peels back the shiny...
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Water for Elephants (07 Edition)
by Gruen
Publisher Comments An atmospheric, gritty, and compelling novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932, by the bestselling author of Riding Lessons. When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a...
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Unaccustomed Earth
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Powells.com Staff Pick Unaccustomed Earth is in many ways a deeply and authentically sad book. I would not advise reading the stories too quickly; they will each haunt you for days afterward (and, unusually in a collection like this, they are all equally strong). But Lahiri's...
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The Pillars of the Earth
by Ken Follett Publisher Comments The Pillars of the Earth tells the story of Philip, prior of Kingsbridge, a devout and resourceful monk driven to build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has known...of Tom, the mason who becomes his architect — a man divided in his soul...of...
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Lavinia: A Novel
by Ursula K. Le Guin
Powells.com Staff Pick A living legend who leaps fearlessly across genre boundaries, Ursula Le Guin offers one of her very best novels to date in this retelling of Virgil's The Aeneid, told from a perspective that very often got lost in even the most compelling Greek myths...
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The Road (Oprah's Book Club Selection #57)
by Cormac McCarthy
Powells.com Staff Pick Strike-me-dead beautiful and bleak — this is the book I put into every customer's hands. Absolutely the best thing out of 2006, and perhaps many years preceding, The Road reminds me of McCarthy's early novels, only matured to perfection. Recommended...
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
Powells.com Staff Pick "It is a perfect book to make you feel good about the underdogs of the world. This book makes you feel like anyone can be a hero." Jonathan, Powells...
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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 Gathering
by Anne Enright
Publisher Comments The new novel from one of Ireland's most prominent voices, The Gathering is an extraordinary anatomization of a family confronting the ghosts of its history. A dazzling writer of international stature, Anne Enright is one of Ireland's most singular...
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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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Oil!
by Upton Sinclair Publisher Comments In Oil! Upton Sinclair fashioned a novel out of the oil scandals of the Harding administration, providing in the process a detailed picture of the development of the oil industry in Southern California. Bribery of public officials, class warfare, and...
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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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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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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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1984 (Signet Classics)
by George Orwell
Publisher Comments George Orwell's prophetic, nightmarish vision of Negative Utopia is timelier than ever-and its warnings more powerful....
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Black Voices (Signet Classics)
by Abraham (edt) Chapman Publisher Comments Featuring poetry, fiction, autobiography and literary criticism, this is a comprehensive and vital collection featuring the work of the major black voices of a century. An unparalleled important classic anthology with timeless appeal....
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Suite Francaise: A Novel
by Irene Nemirovsky
Powells.com Staff Pick A literary time capsule, Suite Française is a novel about wartime occupation written during the Nazi occupation of France. Irène Némirovsky's unfinished manuscript has been published more than 60 years after her death to worldwide...
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To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee Publisher Comments One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has earned many distinctions since its original publication in 1960. It won the Pulitzer Prize, has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than thirty million copies...
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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Edwin A Abbott
Publisher Comments Classic of science (and mathematical) fiction. Charmingly illustrated by author. Describes the journeys of A. Square, a resident of Flatland, and his adventures in Spaceland (three dimensions), Lineland (one dimension) and Pointland (no dimensions). A...
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