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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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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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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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Interpreter of Maladies
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Powells.com Staff Pick I don't read a lot of lit, because, honestly, I get bored easily; and even though I had a million little things nagging at me to put down this book, I couldn't. So I suppose that's about the best gauge of how good it is. The characters are so real, so...
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The Namesake: A Novel
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Publisher Comments Jhumpa Lahiri's debut story collection, Interpreter of Maladies, took the literary world by storm when it won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000. Fans who flocked to her stories will be captivated by her best-selling first novel, now in paperback for the first...
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Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
by Anne Lamott
Publisher Comments "Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write [it] was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table...
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Traveling Mercies : Some Thoughts on Faith (99 Edition)
by Anne Lamott
Publisher Comments A chronicle of faith and spirituality that is at once tough, personal, affectionate, wise, and very funny. Anne Lamott claims the best two prayers she knows are "Help me, help me, help me" and "Thank you, thank you, thank you." Despite — or because...
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Couldn't Keep It to Myself: Testimonies from Our Imprisoned Sisters
by Wally Lamb Publisher Comments In a stunning work of insight and hope, New York Times bestselling author Wally Lamb once again reveals his unmatched talent for finding humanity in the lost and lonely and celebrates the transforming power of the written word. For several years, Lamb...
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Home Land
by Sam Lipsyte
Powells.com Staff Pick A caustic and hilarious story about Lewis Miner, a man afflicted by a terrible high school experience and blessed with an acid tongue that takes no prisoners. Lipsyte's sentences are creations of absolute wonder and terrific angst. Recommended by Kevin...
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Einsteins Dreams
by Alan Lightman
Publisher Comments A modern classic, Einstein's Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, when he worked in a patent office in Switzerland. As the defiant but sensitive young genius is creating his theory of relativity, a new conception...
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Survival in Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanity
by Primo Levi Publisher Comments In 1943, Primo Levi, a twenty-five-year-old chemist and Italian citizen of Jewish race, was arrested by Italian fascists and deported from his native Turin to Auschwitz. Survival in Auschwitz is Levi's classic account of his ten months in the German...
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Motherless Brooklyn
by Jonathan Lethem
Powells.com Staff Pick The narrator, Lionel Essrog, known as The Human Freakshow, suffers with Tourette's syndrome and though you might not want to know him in real life, he's got to be one of the most brilliant characters ever created. His quirky rants put me off at first...
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Golden Notebook : a Novel (Classic Edition) (62 Edition)
by Doris Lessing
Publisher Comments Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the African experience of her earlier year. In a red one she records her political life, her disillusionment with communism. In a...
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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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You Don't Love Me Yet: A Novel
by Jonathan Lethem
Publisher Comments From the incomparable Jonathan Lethem, a raucous romantic farce that explores the paradoxes of love and art. Lucinda Hoekke spends eight hours a day at the Complaint Line, listening to anonymous callers air their random grievances. Most of the time...
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Independent People (46 Edition)
by Halldor K. Laxness
Powells.com Staff Pick "Independent People is epic and thorough, covering the sweep of generations as well as detailed hours ticking by during sleepless nights, ambling walks around the plains. It is a novel of contrasts, especially in its nuanced exploration of character...
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A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian: A Novel
by Marina Lewycka Publisher Comments With this wise, tender, and deeply funny novel, Marina Lewycka takes her place alongside Zadie Smith and Monica Ali as a writer who can capture the unchanging verities of family. When an elderly and newly widowed Ukrainian immigrant announces his...
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Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith (07 Edition)
by Lamott
Powells.com Staff Pick Anne Lamott's books give me the sensation of a refreshing spring rain. Suddenly, everything looks clean, bright, and just plain noticeable again. Her surprising turns of phrase, her wit, and her ability to write with a light but insightful hand make this...
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Soul
by Tobsha Learner Publisher Comments Learner’s The Witch of Cologne is an erotically-charged novel of people swept inexorably along by events they could not control. In Soul, Learner relates the story of Lavinia and Julia Huntington, passionate women trapped in emotional...
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River Song
by Craig Lesley Publisher Comments River Song rejoins Danny Kachiah, the Oregonian Nez Perce drifter and failed rodeo rider first introduced in Craig Lesley's award-winning novel, Winterkill. Danny is determined to get closer to his son, Jack, to teach him traditional ways to steer him...
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