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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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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 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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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.)
by Barbara Kingsolver and Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver
Powells.com Staff Pick After 25 years in the Arizona desert, in 2004, Kentucky-bred Barbara Kingsolver moved back to the Appalachians, to a Virginia farm just hours from her childhood home. Family called. "Returning," she explains in Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, "would allow my...
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Knockemstiff
by Donald Ray Pollock Publisher Comments In this unforgettable work of fiction, Donald Ray Pollock peers into the soul of a tough Midwestern American town to reveal the sad, stunted but resilient lives of its residents. Spanning a period from the mid-sixties to the late nineties, the linked...
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What Now?
by Ann Patchett Publisher Comments Based on her lauded commencement address at Sarah Lawrence College, this stirring essay by bestselling author Ann Patchett offers hope and inspiration for anyone at a crossroads, whether graduating, changing careers, or transitioning from one life stage...
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The Girl with No Shadow
by Joanne Harris
Publisher Comments Be careful what you wish for... Hailed as an "irresistible confection" (Entertainment Weekly), "as sweet, rich and utterly satisfying as a fine truffle" (Wall Street Journal), and "an amazement of riches" (New York Times), Chocolat won the hearts of...
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The Sorrows of an American
by Siri Hustvedt
Powells.com Staff Pick Siri Hustevdt's new novel shines; she is writing at the peak of her powers. The Sorrows of American is intelligent, witty, and plumbs unusual depths. It is also very difficult to put down. With this work, Hustvedt should finally be recognized as one of...
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Pravda
by Edward Docx
Powells.com Staff Pick Sharp, compelling, and dark. Edward Docx is fantastically gifted with prose and weaves a complex family saga and literary thriller. With descriptive powers rivaling Le Carre, and a setting that hops between Russia, London and New York, I devoured this...
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The Book of Dahlia
by Elisa Albert Publisher Comments From the author of the critically acclaimed story collection How This Night Is Different comes a dark, arresting, fearlessly funny story of one young woman's terminal illness. In The Book of Dahlia, Elisa Albert walks a dazzling line between gravitas and...
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Change of Heart
by Jodi Picoult Publisher Comments The acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author presents a spellbinding tale of a mother's tragic loss and one man's last chance at gaining salvation. Can we save ourselves, or do we rely on others to do it? Is what we believe always the truth?...
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All the Sad Young Literary Men
by Keith Gessen Publisher Comments A charming yet scathing portrait of young adulthood at the opening of the twenty-first century, All the Sad Young Literary Men charts the lives of Sam, Mark, and Keith as they overthink their college years, underthink their love lives, and struggle...
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The God of Animals: A Novel
by Aryn Kyle
Powells.com Staff Pick Alice Winston is one of the most likable characters I've come across in a long time; smart, tough, and intuitive beyond her years, her voice is both utterly realistic and absolutely captivating. Aryn Kyle's extraordinary debut novel treats the reader to...
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The Blue Star
by Tony Earley Publisher Comments Seven years ago, readers everywhere fell in love with Jim Glass, the precocious ten-year-old at the heart of Tony Earley's bestseller Jim the Boy. Now a teenager, Jim returns in another tender and wise story of young love on the eve of World War Two....
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A Curious Earth
by Gerard Woodward Publisher Comments In this successor to his Man Booker Prize finalist, Gerard Woodward slyly pits defiant Aldous Jones against the hazards of aging. Left with an empty house after the death of his wife, Aldous Jones is tempted to spend the whole day sitting in his...
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Armageddon in Retrospect
by Kurt Vonnegut Publisher Comments The first and only collection of unpublished works by Kurt Vonnegut since his death — a fitting tribute to the author, and an essential contribution to the discussion of war, peace, and humanity's tendency toward violence. Armageddon in...
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union (P.S.)
by Michael Chabon
Powells.com Staff Pick This book's premise is FDR's suggestion, back when Israel was being created, that the Jewish Diaspora settle in Alaska. Chabon makes that scenario a reality, except that when the book begins, the Sitka District is set to revert to Alaskan control...
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Wild Nights!: Stories about the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway
by Joyce Carol Oates Publisher Comments Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Samuel Clemens ("Mark Twain"), Henry James, Ernest Hemingway—Joyce Carol Oates evokes each of these American literary icons in her newest work of prose fiction, poignantly and audaciously reinventing the climactic...
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Things I Learned about My Dad: Humorous and Heartfelt Essays
by Heather B. (edt) Armstrong Synopsis Perfectly timed for Father's Day, this collection of hilarious stories by some of the brightest and most outrageous bloggers celebrates the joys (and otherwise) of fatherhood....
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A Mending at the Edge
by Jane Kirkpatrick Publisher Comments "Of all the things I left in Willapa, hope is what I missed the most." So begins this story of one woman's restoration from personal grief to the meaning of community. Based on the life of German-American Emma Wagner Giesy, the only woman sent to the...
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