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The Shack
by William P Young  Synopsis Mackenzie Allen Philips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his "Great...
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Sometimes a Great Notion
by Ken Kesey 
Powells.com Staff Pick Reading Sometimes a Great Notion (I finally made it past the first 100 labyrinthine pages after many failed attempts) had such a profound impact on me; it spoke so directly to my core and to what brought me to the land of big trees and ocean breeze (I'm...
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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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Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon
by Chuck Palahniuk
From Powells.com "Fugitives and Refugees is more than a book about the weird people and dark corners of Portland. Tucked surreptitiously between chapters are eleven 'postcards,' which, cobbled together, make up a sort of memoir of Palahniuk's years in his adopted city...
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The Hearts of Horses
by Molly Gloss Publisher Comments A breakout novel from the author of The Jump-Off Creek, the heartwarming story of a determined young woman with a gift for gentling wild horses In the winter of 1917, when a young woman shows up at his doorstep looking for work breaking horses, George...
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The Whistling Season
by Ivan Doig
Publisher Comments "Can't cook but doesn't bite." So begins the newspaper ad offering the services of an A-1 housekeeper, sound morals, exceptional disposition that draws the hungry attention of widower Oliver Milliron in the fall of 1909. And so begins the unforgettable...
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Broken for You
by Stephanie Kallos
Powells.com Staff Pick A beautiful story about a pair of damaged women with a forty-two-year age difference coming to a juncture in their lives that causes them to form an ageless alliance. Like pieces of opposite jigsaw puzzles they file the pieces and make them fit. Donna...
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The Brothers K
by David James Duncan
Powells.com Staff Pick A family drama of the highest order, in The Brothers K Duncan creates an intricate web of relationships and events that is fraught with upheaval, yet feels organic. I fell in love with every single character over the course of the novel, and by the end...
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Flight: A Novel
by Sherman Alexie
Powells.com Staff Pick Darkly funny, sharply observant, Flight lays bare the experience of a teenaged outsider circa 2007. Alternately heartbreaking and wondrous, Sherman Alexie's first novel in ten years tells the story of an orphan careening through foster homes until...
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A Mending at the Edge
by Jane Kirkpatrick Publisher Comments "Of all the things I left in Willapa, hope is what I missed the most." So begins this story of one woman's restoration from personal grief to the meaning of community. Based on the life of German-American Emma Wagner Giesy, the only woman sent to the...
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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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Attack of the Theater People
by Marc Acito Publisher Comments In praising "the witty high school romp" How I Paid for College, the New York Times Book Review said, it "makes you hope there's a lot more where this came from." There is. In this hilarious sequel Attack of the Theater People, Edward Zanni and his merry...
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Returning to Earth
by Jim Harrison Publisher Comments In the universally-praised Returning to Earth, Jim Harrison has delivered a masterpiece—a tender, profound, and magnificent novel about life, death, and the possibility of finding redemption in unlikely places. Donald is a middle-aged Chippewa...
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Reservation Blues
by Sherman Alexie Publisher Comments In the 111-year life of the Spokane Indian reservation, not one person has arrived by accident — until the day the black stranger appears with nothing more than the suit he wears and the guitar slung over his back. The man happens to be the...
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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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Peace at Heart: An Oregon Country Life
by Barbara Drake Review In 1987, Barbara Drake and her husband sold their home in Portland and moved to a farm in western Oregon's Yamhill Valley. In Peace at Heart, Drake reflects on ten years of country living and on the happiness that this rural landscape has brought her...
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A Land of Sheltered Promise
by Jane Kirkpatrick Publisher Comments Out of the Wilderness… Three Women. Three Eras. Three Miracles. 1901 Plagued by loneliness on the Big Muddy Ranch, a sheepherder’s wife awaits the outcome of her husband’s trial for murder. He is sentenced to life in prison–and...
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Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories
by Chuck Palahniuk
Powells.com Staff Pick Stranger than Fiction is the book Palahniuk's devoted readers have been waiting for since Fight Club. These lean, powerful essays wield the blunt force of Palahniuk's gritty novels without the endless digressions that have marred some of his more recent...
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Invisible Monsters
by Chuck Palahniuk Publisher Comments She's a fashion model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. But when a sudden freeway "accident" leaves her disfigured and incapable of speech, she goes from being the beautiful center of attention to being an invisible monster,...
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Homestead: Modern Pioneers Pursuing the Edge of Possibility
by Jane Kirkpatrick Publisher Comments Joining her husband in the fight to create a home out of a rugged stretch of sagebrush, rattlesnakes, and sand in eastern Oregon, Jane Kirkpatrick uneasily relinquishes the security of a professional career; the convenience of electricity, running water,...
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