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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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When the Emperor Was Divine
by Julie Otsuka
Powells.com Staff Pick A breathtaking debut. Also a painter, Otsuka creates complex scenes and well-rounded characters with astonishing efficiency. Line by line her minimalist strokes disguise the massive canvas on which she's working: the internment of more than 120,000...
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The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien Publisher Comments One of the first questions people ask about The Things They Carried is this: Is it a novel, or a collection of short stories? The title page refers to the book simply as "a work of fiction," defying the conscientious reader's need to categorize...
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Animal Farm
by George Orwell Publisher Comments Animal Farm was George Orwell's satirical shot at the then-new totalitarianism of the left. It is so accurate that no one has been able to do it better or more effectively, or even come close. Who can forget "All Animals Are Created Equal, But Some Are...
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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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Astrid and Veronika (07 Edition)
by Olsson
Powells.com Staff Pick This book is a knock-out. But what a gentle punch. In the face of their personal losses, a friendship slowly and intimately develops between two women on a quiet plot of land near a small town in Sweden. This is a truly absorbing read that is sure to...
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Third Policeman (99 Edition)
by Flann O'brien
Powells.com Staff Pick One of the funniest books I have ever read, but also one of the most profoundly unsettling. This is a story told by a robber/murderer who ends up at a police station and discusses such vital issues as the location of eternity, the earth's sausage shape...
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At Swim-Two-Birds (Irish Literature)
by Flann Obrien
Publisher Comments The story of an Irish college student who — half to amuse himself and half to avoid work — writes an irreverent novel about the figures of Irish myth and legend in which characters come to life and riot against their author. At Swim-Two-Birds...
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Flann O'Brien: The Complete Novels (Everyman's Library)
by Flann O'Brien
Publisher Comments Flann O'Brien, along with Joyce and Beckett, is part of the holy trinity of modern Irish literature. His five novels — collected here in one volume — are a monument to his inspired lunacy and gleefully demented genius. O'Brien's masterpiece,...
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The Complete Stories
by Flannery Oconnor
Publisher Comments Winner of the National Book Award The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental contribution to American fiction. There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not appear in the only...
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Personal Matter (69 Edition)
by Kenzaburo Oe
Powells.com Staff Pick If you like your books to be a punch in the face, then consider A Personal Matter a good nose bleed of a novel. This is a depiction of human frailty, alienation, despair, and ultimate triumph. Coming to grips with the narrator proved to be quite a...
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Last Night at the Lobster: A Novel
by Stewart O'Nan
Publisher Comments Stewart O'Nan has been called "the bard of the working class" and has now crafted a frank and funny yet emotionally resonant tale set within a vivid workaday world seldom seen in contemporary fiction. Perched in the far corner of a run-down New...
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Divisadero
by Michael Ondaatje
Powells.com Staff Pick Reading Ondaatje's new book, Divisadero, is like listening to great music. You are caught up in the moment, the elegiac writing, and propelled into a different reality. The crescendo brings it altogether, the passion, the years of hurt and pain, and the...
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Be Near Me
by Andrew Ohagan Publisher Comments "Always trust a stranger," said David’s mother when he returned from Rome. "It’s the people you know who let you down." Half a life later, David is Father Anderton, a Catholic priest with a small parish in Scotland. He befriends two local...
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Sister Mine
by Tawni O'dell Publisher Comments Shae-Lynn Penrose drives a cab in a town where no one needs a cab—but plenty of people need rides. A former police officer with a closet full of miniskirts, a recklessly sharp tongue, and a tendency to deal with men by either beating them up or...
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Almost There
by Nuala O'faolain Publisher Comments Nuala O'Faolain burst upon the literary scene in 1998 with Are You Somebody?, a fiercely candid account of her youth and adulthood that became a surprise bestseller around the world. Almost There begins at that moment when O'Faolain's life began to...
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Redemption Falls
by Joseph O'Connor Publisher Comments 1865. The Civil War is ending. Eighteen years after the Irish famine-ship Star of the Sea docked at New York, a daughter of its journey, Eliza Duane Mooney, sets out on foot from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, crossing a ravaged continent on a quest. Eliza is...
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Wise Blood (62 Edition)
by Flannery Oconnor
Powells.com Staff Pick O'Connor is arguably one of the greatest Southern fiction writers of all time, if not the greatest. Wise Blood, her first book, would give the world a taste of the literary genius to come. Both an allegory and a fable about sin and redemption, it is...
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The Gravedigger's Daughter (P.S.)
by Joyce Carol Oates Publisher Comments Fleeing Nazi Germany in 1936, the Schwarts immigrate to a small town in upstate New York. Here the father—a former high school teacher—is demeaned by the only job he can get: gravedigger and cemetery caretaker. When local prejudice and the...
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Divisadero (Vintage International)
by Michael Ondaatje
Powells.com Staff Pick Reading Ondaatje's new book, Divisadero, is like listening to great music. You are caught up in the moment, the elegiac writing, and propelled into a different reality. The crescendo brings it altogether, the passion, the years of hurt and pain, and the...
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