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The Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafon  
Powells.com Staff Pick Okay, never mind that The Shadow of the Wind starts off in a wonderfully mysterious bookstore and that there's a romantic element that is not schmaltzy, but "timeless" in the best sense of the word. What I loved was how I thought I knew where the author...
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Atlas Shrugged
by Ayn Rand
Publisher Comments Published in 1957, Atlas Shrugged was Ayn Rand's greatest achievement and last work of fiction. In this novel she dramatizes her unique philosophy through an intellectual mystery story that integrates ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, politics...
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The Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Powells.com Staff Pick Okay, never mind that The Shadow of the Wind starts off in a wonderfully mysterious bookstore and that there's a romantic element that is not schmaltzy, but "timeless" in the best sense of the word. What I loved was how I thought I knew where the author...
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Fountainhead, 50TH Anniversary Edition (93 Edition)
by Ayn Rand Publisher Comments In a brand-new Plume hardcover edition, here is the story of an intransigent young architect, Howard Roark, of his violent battle against a mindless status quo, and of his explosive love affair with a beautiful woman who worships him yet struggles to...
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Bridge of Sighs Signed
by Richard Russo Publisher Comments Six years after the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning Empire Falls, Richard Russo returns with a novel that expands even further his widely heralded achievement. Louis Charles ("Lucy") Lynch has spent all his sixty years in upstate Thomaston, New...
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Straight Man: A Novel
by Richard Russo
Powells.com Staff Pick Blame the Gothic romantic deep inside me (buried alive, in a coffin), but I've long had a soft spot for the famous evening of June 16, 1816, in which Lord Byron read a book of German ghost stories to guests at his home in Lake Geneva, Switzerland, then...
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Gilead (04 Edition)
by Marilynne Robinson
Powells.com Staff Pick This is one of the few books I have read that has made me actively slow down my reading pace. Every sentence, every word feels purely distilled into its most emotionally resonant core. Robinson's prose conjures up that curious feeling you get...
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Empire Falls: A Novel
by Richard Russo
Powells.com Staff Pick In lieu of the driving narrative voice of Straight Man, Empire Falls delves into a large cast of strong characters who will live on in the reader's mind long after the novel proper has ended. Russo's sprawling Pulitzer Prize winner impresses on many...
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Bad Monkeys
by Matt Ruff
Powells.com Staff Pick Bad Monkeys twists, turns, shifts, and shakes its way through the story of one Jane Charlotte, a woman who claims to be member of a clandestine organization dedicated to fighting evil known as the Final Disposition of Irredeemable Persons. A gripping...
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The God of Small Things
by Arundhati Roy
Publisher Comments The story of the tragic decline of an Indian family whose members suffer the terrible consequences of forbidden love, The God of Small Things is set in the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India. Armed only with the invincible innocence of...
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Housekeeping (80 Edition)
by Marilynne Robinson
Publisher Comments A modern classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, their eccentric and...
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Pedro Paramo (94 Edition)
by Juan Rulfo Synopsis Beseeched by his dying mother to locate his father, Pedro Paramo, whom they fled from years ago, Juan Preciado sets out for Comala. Comala is a town alive with whispers and shadows - a place seemingly populated only by memory and hallucinations. Built on...
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St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Karen Russell
Powells.com Staff Pick If Flannery O'Connor had somehow become enamored of magical realism, she might have created a short story collection such as this. Russell is evidently entranced by youth, and her various and sundry child characters are brought vividly to life in...
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Shantaram (05 Edition)
by Gregory David Roberts Publisher Comments In 1978, gifted student and writer Greg Roberts turned to heroin when his marriage collapsed, feeding his addiction with a string of robberies. Caught and convicted, he was given a nineteen-year sentence. After two years, he escaped from a maximum...
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Mating
by Norman Rush
Publisher Comments The narrator of this splendidly expansive novel of high intellect and grand passion is an American anthropologist at loose ends in the South African republic of Botswana. She has a noble and exacting mind, a good waist, and a busted thesis project. She...
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Death of Adam (05 Edition)
by Marilynne Robinson Publisher Comments In this award-winning collection, the bestselling author of Gilead offers us other ways of thinking about history, religion, and society. Whether rescuing Calvinism and its creator Jean Cauvin from the repressive puritan stereotype, or considering how...
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The Mayor's Tongue: A Novel
by Nathaniel Rich Publisher Comments A stunningly original novel of literary obsession and imagination that is sure to be one of the most highly anticipated debuts of the year. From a precociously talented young writer already widely admired in the literary world, The Mayor's Tongue is...
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Bridge of Sighs: A Novel
by Richard Russo
Powells.com Staff Pick Russo is a modern master of absorbing characters, brilliantly sharp dialogue, and a warm-hearted yet strangely thrilling storytelling style. The only sighs this elegiac novel produces are of wistful satisfaction. Recommended by Bolton, Powells.com...
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Lovehampton
by Sherri Rifkin Publisher Comments After a recent break-up sent her into a self-imposed “personal hiatus,” thirty-something New York TV-promo producer Tori Miller is determined to get a life. The fastest way? A Hamptons summer share house. She ditches her old...
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The Republic of East La: Stories
by Luis J Rodriguez Publisher Comments “ Twelve stories that spell out the experience of living in poverty- and violence-stricken East Los Angeles. It takes grit and humor to rise above the circumstances to rise above that urban enclave, and Rodriguez’ s characters have both.”...
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