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The Monsters of Templeton
by Lauren Groff  
Powells.com Staff Pick Read it in hardcover. Honest. You're surfing the website of an independent bookseller in Portland, Oregon -- undoubtedly, you care about books, and likely you appreciate discovering the best ones before the masses catch on. Do yourself the favor of...
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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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Unaccustomed Earth
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Powells.com Staff Pick Unaccustomed Earth is in many ways a deeply and authentically sad book. I would not advise reading the stories too quickly; they will each haunt you for days afterward (and, unusually in a collection like this, they are all equally strong). But Lahiri's...
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Lavinia: A Novel
by Ursula K. Le Guin
Powells.com Staff Pick A living legend who leaps fearlessly across genre boundaries, Ursula Le Guin offers one of her very best novels to date in this retelling of Virgil's The Aeneid, told from a perspective that very often got lost in even the most compelling Greek myths...
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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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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 Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Diaz
Powells.com Staff Pick Darkly funny and at times heartbreaking, The Brief Wondrous Life is about Díaz's unlikely hero (an obese Dominican Trekkie terrified of dying a virgin) with a rich narrative voice that compels sympathy over pity as the inner workings of both Oscar 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 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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Suite Francaise: A Novel
by Irene Nemirovsky
Powells.com Staff Pick A literary time capsule, Suite Française is a novel about wartime occupation written during the Nazi occupation of France. Irène Némirovsky's unfinished manuscript has been published more than 60 years after her death to worldwide...
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People of the Book: A Novel
by Geraldine Brooks
Powells.com Staff Pick Give me a mystery (one that is structured around an antiquarian book, no less!), a historical setting, and an exquisite writer like Geraldine Brooks, and I am suddenly avoiding daily rituals like sleep and food. Nothing could deter me from turning the...
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
by Sherman Alexie
Powells.com Staff Pick Once I started this book, I couldn't stop reading. Not only is this young adult book funny and touching — it feels so real. Anyone of any age who has struggled to know themselves and has fought for happiness will find resonance in the words and...
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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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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
by Barbara Kingsolver and Camille Kingsolver and Steven L. Hopp
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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A Thousand Splendid Suns: A Novel
by Khaled Hosseini
Powells.com Staff Pick Never mind the sophomore slump — this book devours that cliché. As well as illuminating the rich history and familial culture behind war-torn Afghanistan, A Thousand Splendid Suns is filled with authentic relationships and characters that are...
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
Powells.com Staff Pick "It is a perfect book to make you feel good about the underdogs of the world. This book makes you feel like anyone can be a hero." Jonathan, Powells...
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March: A Novel
by Geraldine Brooks
Powells.com Staff Pick In her follow-up to Year of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks has taken historical fiction to another dimension altogether. Using America's Civil War as her frame, she plants a famous (but deeply mysterious) literary figure at its center: Mr. March, the absent...
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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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The Geographer's Library
by Jon Fasman
Powells.com Staff Pick The hunt for alchemical treasure through the ages threads through this literary whodunit. A small town cub reporter is drawn into the dangerous hunt and encounters murders, smugglers and mayhem. Lots of fun! Recommended by Kathi, Powell's City of Books...
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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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