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Tree of Smoke: A Novel
by Denis Johnson  
Powells.com Staff Pick Ambition doesn't always translate into success, which is why some books that take authors nearly ten years to write become massive paperweights. Then there's Tree of Smoke, Denis Johnson's first novel in nine years and an unconditional masterpiece...
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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 Friday Night Knitting Club
by Kate Jacobs Publisher Comments The New York Times bestselling sensation that's Steel Magnolias set in Manhattan (USA Today)-now in paperback. Juggling the demands of her yarn shop and single-handedly raising a teenage daughter has made Georgia Walker grateful for her Friday Night...
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The Known World
by Edward P. Jones
Publisher Comments In one of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, Edward P. Jones, two-time National Book Award finalist, tells the story of Henry Townsend, a black farmer and former slave who falls under the tutelage of William Robbins, the most powerful man in...
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Daisy Miller (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Henry James Publisher Comments Famous novella chronicles a young American girl's willful yet innocent flirtation with a young Italian, and its unfortunate consequences. Throughout, James contrasts American customs and values with European manners and morals in a narrative rich in...
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No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories
by Miranda July
Powells.com Staff Pick Is there a creative project Miranda July can't conquer? If you've jealously posed this question before reading her fiction, stay away from the new collection. No One Belongs Here More Than You will only embitter you further. It's not enough for July to...
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Waiting
by Ha Jin
Publisher Comments This is the story of Lin Kong, a man living in two worlds, struggling with the conflicting claims of two utterly different women as he moves through the political minefields of a society designed to regulate his every move and stifle the promptings of...
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The Girl Who Stopped Swimming
by Joshilyn Jackson Publisher Comments Laurel Gray Hawthorne needs to make things pretty, whether she's helping her mother make sure the literal family skeleton stays in the closet or turning scraps of fabric into nationally acclaimed art quilts. Her estranged sister Thalia, an impoverished...
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Comfort Food
by Kate Jacobs Publisher Comments In this smart, delicious novel by the bestselling author of The Friday Night Knitting Club, a celebrity chef shows her friends and family the joy of fulfillmenta and manages to spice up her own life at the same time. Shortly before turning the big 5-0...
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No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories
by Miranda July Publisher Comments Award-winning filmmaker and performing artist Miranda July brings her extraordinary talents to the page in a startling, sexy, and tender collection. In these stories, July gives the most seemingly insignificant moments a sly potency. A benign encounter...
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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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Kalooki Nights
by Howard Jacobson Publisher Comments Max Glickman, a Jewish cartoonist whose seminal work is a comic history titled Five Thousand Years of Bitterness, recalls his childhood in a British suburb in the 1950s. Growing up, Max is surrounded by Jews, each with an entirely different and outspoken...
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Angels: A Novel
by Denis Johnson
Powells.com Staff Pick After having spent years as a poet, Johnson decided to move into fiction. Angels was the first fruit of that decision — and what a piece of fruit. Other authors would kill to have a work this strong in their canon, let alone a work this strong as...
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The Turn of the Screw (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Henry James Publisher Comments One of literature's most gripping ghost stories depicts the sinister transformation of 2 innocent children into flagrant liars and hypocrites. Elegantly told tale of unspoken horror and psychological terror creates what few stories in literature have...
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The Kommandant's Girl
by Pam Jenoff
Publisher Comments Nineteen-year-old Emma Bau has been married only three weeks when Nazi tanks thunder into her native Poland. Within days Emma's husband, Jacob, a fiery and independent scholar, is forced to disappear underground, leaving Emma and her parents imprisoned...
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Lost in the City
by Edward P Jones Publisher Comments “ To the list of fine short-story writers, add the name of Edward P. Jones....These 14 stories of African-American life...affirm...humanity as only good literature can.”...
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The Tenth Gift
by Jane Johnson Publisher Comments The art of embroidery uncannily links two fascinating women of different eras and their equally passionate love stories In an expensive London restaurant, Julia Lovat receives a gift that will change her life. At first glance it is a book of exquisite...
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Oxherding Tale
by Charles Johnson Publisher Comments One night in the antebellum South, a slave owner and his African-American butler stay up to all hours until, too drunk to face their wives, they switch places in each other's beds. The result is a hilarious imbroglio and an offspring -- Andrew Hawkins...
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Jesus' Son: Stories
by Denis Johnson
Publisher Comments Jesus' Son, the first collection of stories by Denis Johnson, presents a unique, hallucinatory vision of contemporary American life, and marks a new level of achievement for this acclaimed writer. Set in the Midwest and West, they are narrated by a young...
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Ulysses (90 Edition)
by James Joyce Publisher Comments Ulysses is one of the most influential novels of the twentieth century. It was not easy to find a publisher in America willing to take it on, and when Jane Jeap and Margaret Anderson started printing extracts from the book in their literary magazine The...
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