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A Man Without a Country
by Kurt Vonnegut  
Publisher Comments A Man without a Country is Kurt Vonnegut's hilariously funny and razor-sharp look at life (If I die — God forbid — I would like to go to heaven to ask somebody in charge up there, Hey, what was the good news and what was the bad news?), art (To...
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Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut Publisher Comments Slaughterhous-Five is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as...
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The Motel Life: A Novel (P.S.)
by Willy Vlautin
Powells.com Staff Pick Vlautin is a natural. He's managed to craft a debut novel that is funny, sad, uplifting, and honest, in a voice that seems effortless and yet leaves room for both the imagination of the reader and the growth of the writer. Vlautin is the kind of author...
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Luncheon of the Boating Party
by Susan Vreeland Publisher Comments A vivid exploration of one of the most beloved Renoir paintings in the world, adone with a flourish worthy of Renoir himselfa (USA Today) With her richly textured novels, Susan Vreeland has offered pioneering portraits of artistsa lives. Now, as she did...
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Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name (P.S.)
by Vendela Vida
Powells.com Staff Pick Let me say first that I read this book because of the title. Much like buying a book for its cover, I was drawn in by the possibility that this poetic directive would yield a satisfying story. I was not disappointed; there's a lot to appreciate here...
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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by Kurt Vonnegut Publisher Comments The first and only collection of unpublished works by Kurt Vonnegut since his death — a fitting tribute to the author, and an essential contribution to the discussion of war, peace, and humanity's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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Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name
by Vendela Vida
Powells.com Staff Pick Let me say first that I read this book because of the title. Much like buying a book for its cover, I was drawn in by the possibility that this poetic directive would yield a satisfying story. I was not disappointed; there's a lot to appreciate here...
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Northline (Harper Perennial P.S.)
by Willy Vlautin Publisher Comments Fleeing Las Vegas and her abusive boyfriend, Allison Johnson moves to Reno, intent on making a new life for herself. Haunted by the mistakes of her past, and lacking any self-belief, her only comfort seems to come from the imaginary conversations she has...
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Rain of Gold
by Victor Villasenor
Synopsis This phenomenal national bestseller has received extraordinary reviews and avid national media attention. Novelist Villasenor tells the true-life saga of one family's journey from the days of Pancho Villa in war-ravaged Mexico to the Prohibition era in...
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Breakfast of Champions
by Kurt Vonnegut
Powells.com Staff Pick After Slaughterhouse Five came out in 1969, Kurt Vonnegut entered a long period of depression and swore he would never write another novel. Fortunately he was lying, and in 1973, out came Breakfast of Champions; or, Goodbye Blue Monday (the subtitle...
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Girl in Hyacinth Blue
by Susan Vreeland
Publisher Comments Girl in Hyacinth Blue, "the little gem of a novel [that is a] beautifully written exploration of the power of art" (Parade), is now a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie starring Glenn Close and Ellen Burstyn....
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The Sirens of Titan
by Kurt Vonnegut Publisher Comments The Sirens of Titan is an outrageous romp through space, time, and morality. The richest, most depraived man on Earth, Malachi Constant, is offered a chance to take a space journey to distant worlds with a beautiful woman at his side. Of course, there's...
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Riding Toward Everywhere
by William T. Vollmann Publisher Comments Vollmann is a relentlessly curious, endlessly sensitive, and unequivocally adventurous examiner of human existence. He has investigated the causes and symptoms of humanity's obsession with violence (Rising Up and Rising Down), taken a personal look into...
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Their Dogs Came with Them
by Helene M. Viramontes Publisher Comments Award-winning author of Under the Feet of Jesus, Helena María Viramontes offers a profoundly gritty portrait of everyday life in L.A. in this lyrically muscular, artfully crafted novel. In the barrio of East Los Angeles, a group of unbreakable young...
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Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher Comments Slaughterhouse-Five is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as...
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Lincoln :a novel
by Gore Vidal Publisher Comments In this profoundly moving work of epic proportion and intense human sympathy, Abraham Lincoln is observed by his loved ones, his rivals, and his future assassins. Isolated in the ramshackle White House in the center of a pro-slavery city, Lincoln...
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Easter Island
by Jennifer Vanderbes Publisher Comments It is 1912. Elsa Pendleton, a young Englishwoman, is forced by circumstance into a marriage of convenience. Her one consolation is that she can now fulfil a great dream: to visit Easter Island and study its mysterious history. But as Elsa becomes...
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Cat's Cradle (Large Format) (63 Edition)
by Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher Comments One of Vonnegut's major works, this is an apocalyptic tale of the planet's ultimate fate, featuring a cast of unlikely heroes....
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God Bless You, DR. Kevorkian (99 Edition)
by Kurt Vonnegut Publisher Comments In what began as a series of quirkily characteristic ninety-second interludes for New York's public radio station, Kurt Vonnegut asks, on behalf of us all, the Big Questions. Could death be a quality? A place? Not an ending but an occurrence that changes...
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Pink
by Gus Van Sant Synopsis A first novel, by the film-maker Gus Van Sant. It tells the story of a maker of "infomercials" who lives in the Pacific Northwest, and his close encounters with two young men. He is attracted by their strange aura, especially as one of them reminds him...
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