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The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway  
Publisher Comments The Sun Also Rises was Ernest Hemingway's first big novel, and immediately established Hemingway as one of the great prose stylists, and one of the preeminent writers of his time. It is also the book that encapsulates the angst of the post-World War I...
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Sale: $7.98 Trade Paper List Price $14.95
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Citizen Vince
by Jess Walter
Powells.com Staff Pick It's 1980 and Vince Camdon is caught between the worlds of criminal New York and sleepy, law abiding Spokane, Washington. And he can't even decide who to vote for in the upcoming election. With characters that recall Richard Russo at his finest, Jess...
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Sale: $6.98 Hardcover List Price $15.95
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The Hello, Goodbye Window
by Norton Juster and Chris Raschka
Powells.com Staff Pick Chris Raschka's artwork enlivens this charming tale from Phantom Tollbooth author Norton Juster. The pages are flush with colorful illustrations of a little girl and her grandparents, whose house has a very special window to greet and bid farewell to all...
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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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Wake Up, Sir!: A Novel
by Jonathan Ames
Powells.com Staff Pick Wake Up, Sir! is a brilliant work of fiction that just happens to be laugh-out-loud funny, to boot (though it also has a stirring underlying sadness). Jonathan Ames is a daring and deeply honest writer whose work abounds with tender and heartbreaking...
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The God of Small Things
by Arundhati Roy
Publisher Comments The story of the tragic decline of an Indian family whose members suffer the terrible consequences of forbidden love, The God of Small Things is set in the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India. Armed only with the invincible innocence of...
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Sale: $10.98 Hardcover List Price $26.00
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Peeling the Onion
by Gunter Grass and Michael Henry Heim
Publisher Comments In this extraordinary memoir, Nobel Prize–winning author Gunter Grass remembers his early life, from his boyhood in a cramped two-room apartment in Danzig through the late 1950s, when The Tin Drum was published. During the Second World War...
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Sale: $6.98 Trade Paper List Price $13.95
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Love Medicine (P.S.)
by Louise Erdrich
Publisher Comments The stunning first novel in Louise Erdrich's Native American series, Love Medicine tells the story of two families — the Kashpaws and the Lamartines. Written in Erdrich's uniquely poetic, powerful style, it is a multigenerational portrait of strong...
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Washington's Crossing (Pivotal Moments in American History)
by David Hacke Fischer Publisher Comments Six months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A powerful British force had routed the Americans at New York, occupied three colonies, and advanced within sight of Philadelphia. Yet, as David Hackett Fischer...
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The Shipping News
by E Annie Proulx
Publisher Comments When Quoyle's two-timing wife meets her just desserts, he retreats with his two daughters to his ancestral home on the starkly beautiful Newfoundland coast, where a rich cast of local characters and family members all play a part in Quoyle's struggle to...
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A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian: A Novel
by Marina Lewycka Publisher Comments With this wise, tender, and deeply funny novel, Marina Lewycka takes her place alongside Zadie Smith and Monica Ali as a writer who can capture the unchanging verities of family. When an elderly and newly widowed Ukrainian immigrant announces his...
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My Name Is Red
by Orhan Pamuk
Synopsis In Istanbul, in the late 1590s, the Sultan secretly commissions a great book: a celebration of his life and his empire, to be illuminated by the best artists of the day - in the European manner. But when one of the miniaturists goes missing and is feared...
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In Our Time
by Ernest Hemingway
Publisher Comments When In Our Time was published in 1925, it was praised by Ford Madox Ford, John Dos Passos, and F. Scott Fitzgerald for its simple and precise use of language to convey a wide range of complex emotions, and it earned Hemingway a place beside Sherwood...
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The Sea
by John Banville
Publisher Comments When art historian Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. The Grace family had appeared that long-ago summer as if from another...
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A Ship Made of Paper
by Scott Spencer
Powells.com Staff Pick This intense novel, a literary thriller with a heart, deals with issues of race, passion, and betrayal, and presents them in a manner that is fresh, challenging, and riveting. Scott Spenser knows his way around a good tale, and he has never told a better...
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Sale: $10.98 Hardcover List Price $25.00
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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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Elizabeth Costello
by J. M. Coetzee
Powells.com Staff Pick One of Jill's Top Five picks for 2004. To read more staff Top Five lists click here....
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The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (Perennial Classics)
by Oscar Hijuelos
Publisher Comments "It was a Saturday afternoon on La Salle Street," years and years ago when I was a little kid, and around three o'clock Mrs. Shannon, the heavy Irish woman in her perpetually soup-stained dress, opened her back window and shouted out into the courtyard, "...
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Sale: $10.98 Hardcover List Price $25.00
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Magic Seeds
by V S Naipaul Publisher Comments From the Nobel laureate–a spare, searing new novel about identity and idealism, and their ability to shape or destroy us. Willie Chandran–whom we first met in Half a Life–is a man in his early forties who has allowed one identity after...
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A Northern Light
by Jennifer Donnelly
Publisher Comments Mattie Gokey has a word for everything. She collects words, stores them up as a way of fending off the hard truths of her life, the truths that she can't write down in stories. The fresh pain of her mother's death. The burden of raising her sisters while...
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