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Oil!
by Upton Sinclair  Publisher Comments In Oil! Upton Sinclair fashioned a novel out of the oil scandals of the Harding administration, providing in the process a detailed picture of the development of the oil industry in Southern California. Bribery of public officials, class warfare, and...
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The Thing about Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead
by David Shields 
Powells.com Staff Pick "I've been weirdly giddy ever since finishing the book," David Shields admits. "Somehow I find the mortality data strangely liberating." Somehow this isn't surprising. In The Thing about Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead, Shields takes readers from...
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The Jungle (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Upton Sinclair Publisher Comments 1906 best-seller shockingly reveals intolerable labor practices and unsanitary working conditions in the Chicago stockyards as it tells the brutally grim story of a Slavic family that emigrates to America full of optimism but soon descends into numbing...
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Snow Flower and Secret Fan (05 Edition)
by Lisa See
Publisher Comments Lily is haunted by memories — of who she once was, and of a person, long gone, who defined her existence. She has nothing but time now, as she recounts the tale of Snow Flower, and asks the gods for forgiveness. In nineteenth-century China, when...
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Resistance
by Owen Sheers
Powells.com Staff Pick A great read that combines the plot of a thriller (Normandy invasion fails; Hitler successfully invades England) with the subtle language of poetry. You are propelled through this story by characters that make you care about a time that never was and a...
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Ceremony
by Leslie Marmon Silko
Powells.com Staff Pick Ceremony cast a spell on me; I read it over the course of a day, reluctantly putting it down only to eat and walk with the dog. It is the story of Tayo, whose soul has been horribly broken, and of his perilous journey back to wholeness. How rare it is...
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The Catcher in the Rye
by J D Salinger Publisher Comments Ever since it was first published in 1951, this novel has been the coming-of-age story against which all others are judged. Read and cherished by generations, the story of Holden Caulfield is truly one of America's literary treasures....
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We Need to Talk about Kevin
by Lionel Shriver
Publisher Comments “ This is heavy material, but Ms. Shriver tackles it with admirable panache.”...
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I Capture the Castle
by Dodie Smith
Powells.com Staff Pick An utter delight. This enchanting tale has long been a favorite of mine. It has just been reissued to coincide with the soon to be released movie version. Set in 1930s England, this story of young love beguiles with moated castles, moonlight...
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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
by David Sedaris
Powells.com Staff Pick One of these days I'll find the time to construct an actual review of Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, but until I do let these words stand as my pledge: You will not regret purchasing this book. Further: You're unlikely to find more pure...
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The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel
by Diane Setterfield Publisher Comments Sometimes, when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your destiny. Reclusive author Vida Winter, famous for her collection of twelve enchanting stories, has spent the past six decades penning a series of alternate lives for herself...
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The Lovely Bones
by Alice Sebold
Powells.com Staff Pick By the time The Lovely Bones landed on bookstore shelves it had become the most highly anticipated book of the season. Then came the astonishingly enthusiastic critical response. Within two months, a million copies were in print. Still, readers...
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Blindness
by Jose Saramago
Publisher Comments A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to...
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Olive Kitteridge Signed
by Elizabeth Strout Publisher Comments In a voice more powerful and compassionate than ever before, New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Strout binds together thirteen rich, luminous narratives into a book with the heft of a novel, through the presence of one larger-than-life...
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Wallace Stegner and the American West
by Philip L. Fradkin Publisher Comments Wallace Stegner was the premier chronicler of the twentieth-century western American experience, and his novels, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Angle of Repose and the National Book Award-winning The Spectator Bird, brought the life and landscapes of the...
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
by David Sedaris
Powells.com Staff Pick Completely autobiographical and, as always, hilarious, Me Talk Pretty One Day is my favorite of all the David Sedaris collections. The first half of the book focuses on his childhood in North Carolina and his very unusual family; the second half details...
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Faraway Places Signed
by Tom Spanbauer Publisher Comments During a fateful summer, 13-year-old Jake Weber witnesses the brutal murder of a Native American woman by the town banker. Jake's parents forbid him to speak of the killing or name its perpetrator, even as the woman's African American lover stands...
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Perfume (01 Edition)
by Patrick Suskind Publisher Comments An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind's classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man's indulgence in his greatest passion—his sense of smell—leads to murder. In the slums of...
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The Lovely Bones
by Alice Sebold Publisher Comments Now in paperback: Alice Sebold's luminous first novel--one of the most celebrated literary debuts of recent seasons--that builds out of a family's grief the most hopeful and joyful of stories....
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White Teeth (Vintage International)
by Zadie Smith
Publisher Comments Zadie Smith?s dazzling debut caught critics grasping for comparisons and deciding on everyone from Charles Dickens to Salman Rushdie to John Irving and Martin Amis. But the truth is that Zadie Smith?s voice is remarkably, fluently, and altogether...
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