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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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No Country for Old Men (05 Edition)
by Cormac Mccarthy Powells.com Staff Pick This may not be Cormac McCarthy's best book, or even one of the best books of the year (in fact, its construction is a bit incoherent), yet I remain a sucker for the peculiar blend of melancholy and savagery that permeates all of McCarthy's work...
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The Egg and I
by Betty Bar Macdonald Publisher Comments Reissue of this immortal, hilarious, and heartwarming classic about working a chicken farm in the Northwest....
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The Emperor's Children
by Claire Messud Powells.com Staff Pick Absolutely brilliant. The best novel I've read in months, if not years, The Emperor's Children has left me powerfully moved; Claire Messud's knowledge of the human psyche is uncanny, and her characters became, in one afternoon, more important to me than...
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Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
by Christopher Moore Powells.com Staff Pick Christopher Moore's Lamb is an utterly hilarious take on the story of Jesus. Told from the perspective of Jesus' smart-ass best friend, Biff, it is irreverent without being disrespectful. Lamb, or any of Moore's books, would be perfect for someone who...
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Remainder (Vintage Originals)
by Tom McCarthy Publisher Comments A man is severely injured in a mysterious accident, receives an outrageous sum in legal compensation, and has no idea what to do with it. Then, one night, an ordinary sight sets off a series of bizarre visions he can't quite place. How he goes...
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On Chesil Beach: A Novel
by Ian McEwan Special Offer Buy the set! Order On Chesil Beach now and receive the acclaimed 28-minute film about Ian McEwan for only $5 more....
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Atonement
by Ian McEwan Publisher Comments Ian McEwan, Booker Prize-winning author of Amsterdam, has created a symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness that provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative combined with the provocation we have come to...
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How the Dead Dream
by Lydia Millet Publisher Comments T. is a young real estate developer in Los Angeles with a reverence for money and the institutions of capital. Always restrained and solitary, he has just fallen in love for the first time when his orderly, upwardly mobile life is thrown into chaos by...
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Kafka on the Shore (05 Edition)
by Haruki Murakami Powells.com Staff Pick In Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami brings the Oedipus legend to contemporary Japan. The reader is treated to his musings on art, culture, the loss of innocence and...cats, in his patented, magic-realist way. Easily his best novel translated into...
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Cloud Atlas: A Novel
by David Mitchell Powells.com Staff Pick "For readers who enjoy good stories wrapped around an inventive structure. Each tale is obliquely connected to another moving forward through time. And each has a totally different voice and style." Salli, Powells...
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The Way the Crow Flies (P.S.)
by Ann-Marie MacDonald Powells.com Staff Pick Ann-Marie MacDonald writes beautifully; her words wrap around you and envelop you. The Way the Crow Flies is engaging and evocative. She captures the pure joy and pain of childhood better than anyone since Margaret Atwood. That would be enough but then...
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The Last Witchfinder: A Novel (P.S.)
by James Morrow Publisher Comments Horrified by the execution of her beloved Aunt Isobel, unjustly convicted as a witch, young Jennet Stearne, the daughter of an eighteenth-century English witchfinder, takes it upon herself to bring down the Parliamentary Witchcraft Act, inspired by a...
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Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings
by Christopher Moore Publisher Comments Just why do humpback whales sing? That's the question that has marine behavioral biologist Nate Quinn and his crew poking, charting, recording, and photographing very big, wet, gray marine mammals. Until the extraordinary day when a whale lifts its tail...
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Life of Pi
by Yann Martel Publisher Comments The son of a zookeeper, Pi Patel has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior and a fervent love of stories. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new...
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Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
by Cormac Mccarthy Publisher Comments Cormac McCarthy's masterwork, Blood Meridian, chronicles the brutal world of the Texas-Mexico borderlands in the mid-nineteenth century. Its wounded hero, the teenage Kid, must confront the extraordinary violence of the Glanton gang, a murderous cadre on...
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Atonement
by Ian McEwan Publisher Comments Ian McEwan's symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and the provocation we have come to expect from this master of English prose. On a hot summer day in 1935,...
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The True Story of Hansel and Gretel
by Louise Murphy Publisher Comments In the last months of the Nazi occupation of Poland, two children are left by their father and stepmother to find safety in a dense forest. Because their real names will reveal their Jewishness, they are renamed "Hansel" and "Gretel." They wander in the...
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Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Harper Fiction)
by Gregory Maguire Publisher Comments When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale, we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? And what is the...
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Crossing (94 Edition)
by Cormac Mccarthy Publisher Comments In The Crossing, Cormac McCarthy fulfills the promise of All the Pretty Horses and at the same time give us a work that is darker and more visionary, a novel with the unstoppable momentum of a classic western and the elegaic power of a lost American myth....
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