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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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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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Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
by Stephen E Ambrose
Powells.com Staff Pick At the heart of the immense and growing interest in Lewis and Clark in recent years stands this book. WWII historian Stephen Ambrose had long harbored a private obsession for the Expedition of the Corps of Discovery, and in Undaunted Courage he...
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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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The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche
by Gary Krist
Powells.com Staff Pick You think you've got it bad trudging uphill in the snow every day to work and back? Just imagine you're stuck inside one of two trains trapped in the Cascade Mountains during a catastrophic blizzard... and then an avalanche hits! The only thing more...
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B Is for Beaver: An Oregon Alphabet
by Roland Smith and Marie Smith
Powells.com Staff Pick Not only are Roland Smith's myriad of kids books some of my favorites, but this recent title written with his wife Marie is a true gem! It's as approachable to picture books fans as it is to alphabet book seekers and lovers of the Northwest! I can't wait...
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Lullaby
by Chuck Palahniuk
Powells.com Staff Pick "This is arguably Palahniuk?s greatest gift: his ability to jab his finger right on the sharpest point of a nerve we might not even have known was exposed. In Fight Club, it was the growing dissatisfaction with a materialistic world bent on conformity...
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Breaking Clean
by Judy Blunt
Powells.com Staff Pick Blunt spent the first thirty years of her life circumscribed by traditions handed down by generations of homesteaders before her. In Breaking Clean, we encounter a life alternately brutal and breathtaking, a woman torn between the responsibilities of...
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Journals of Lewis and Clark (Rev 97 Edition)
by Bernard (ed.) Devoto
Powells.com Staff Pick Endorsed by Stephen Ambrose himself ("It is the ideal selection for the citizen-reader, an American classic in its own right..."), this selection of the journals of Lewis and Clark edited by celebrated novelist, literary scholar, and...
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Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West (Lewis & Clark Expedition)
by Stephen E Ambrose
Powells.com Staff Pick At the heart of the immense and growing interest in Lewis and Clark in recent years stands this book. WWII historian Stephen Ambrose had long harbored a private obsession for the Expedition of the Corps of Discovery, and in Undaunted Courage...
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Haunted: A Novel
by Chuck Palahniuk
Powells.com Staff Pick You've gotta love the reviews piling up for Haunted: "provokes a lot more nausea and eye rolls than deep thoughts" (Booklist); "all but dares the reader to be seasick" (New York Times); "a catalog of atrocities" (Library Journal); and my personal...
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Julia's Chocolates
by Cathy Lamb
Powells.com Staff Pick If you loved The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, you'll love Julia's Chocolates. It's filled with wonderfully eccentric and courageous women who grab hold of each other and find the courage to face their fears, all the while enjoying delicious...
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Fire At Eden's Gate : Tom Mccall and the Oregon Story (94 Edition)
by Brent Walth
Powells.com Staff Pick Speaking of great Republicans, Fire at Eden's Gate, the biography of Tom McCall, is tonic to those who wonder why conservation is no longer a principle espoused by our fearless leaders on the right. Send one to the White House while you're at...
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Fight Club (96 Edition)
by Chuck Palahniuk
Powells.com Staff Pick This one's somewhat redundant ? I mean, everyone raves about Fight Club. Adding my voice just seems trite. But?it's true?Fight Club was one of the most original novels published in the late '90s. Granted, it suffers from huge quantities of nihilism, but...
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The Journals of Lewis and Clark
by John Bakeless
Powells.com Staff Pick This selection of the Lewis and Clark journals, compiled by Harvard scholar John Bakeless, is the perfect selection for readers with a general interest in Lewis and Clark. Bakeless has edited down the voluminous journals into a relatively concise...
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The Prisoner Pear: Stories from the Lake
by Elissa Minor Rust
Powells.com Staff Pick I don't often read short stories, but Elissa Minor Rust's debut arrived on my desk last week with a yellow sticky note proclaiming, "Local author!" Why not, I figured — and what do you know, I've been returning for another story or two almost every...
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Uncle Mike's Guide to the Real Oregon Coast
by Michael Burgess
Powells.com Staff Pick Michael Burgess is the owner of Cannon Beach Books and author of "Uncle Mike's Therapy Page" in the local rag Upper Left Edge out of Cannon Beach. I've given this book to friends and relatives not living in Oregon too many times to count....
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