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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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How to Build a Robot Army: Tips on Defending Planet Earth against Alien Invaders, Ninjas, and Zombies
by Daniel H. Wilson
Powells.com Staff Pick Come on, Humans, stop kidding yourselves. You know that the robots are growing in strength. The confrontation is inevitable. You are unprepared! Buy this book or die. You pathetic bag of water. Recommended by Eugene Lamb, Powells...
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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
by Max Brooks
Powells.com Staff Pick Despite never having been into the whole "zombie thing," I picked up World War Z. Halfway through, it dawned on me that I was becoming really, deeply scared. A few more pages in and I was trying to figure out how, exactly, to make my house both...
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Matter
by Iain M. Banks
Powells.com Staff Pick Matter continues Iain Banks's humorous, thrilling, and complex universe, the Culture, where interstellar ships are the smartest and funniest characters of them all. Recommended by Doug Chase, Powells.com...
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The Time Traveler's Wife (Harvest Book)
by Audrey Niffenegger
Powells.com Staff Pick "Inspired by her grandparents' love story in which the grandmother outlived her husband by nearly three decades, Niffenegger has invented Henry and Clare, and their unique and complicated love story involving the ability to live in the past and future in...
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The Outlaw Demon Wails
by Kim Harrison
Powells.com Staff Pick Demons, elves, vampires, and witches... just a few of my favorite things! Thank heaven for Kim Harrison and her Rachel Morgan series, which feeds my addiction on a regular basis. It was hard, but I waited patiently, like a good little urban fantasy...
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Alchemist (98 Edition)
by Paulo Coelho
Powells.com Staff Pick Whether you want to take a journey or to be reassured that life is filled with wonder and magic, this beautifully optimistic book is for you. Follow Santiago, a shepherd who follows a dream to find treasure hidden under the pyramids, but ends up finding...
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Iron Kissed
by Patricia Briggs
Powells.com Staff Pick I love this series and couldn't wait for the third installment, Iron Kissed. It was well worth the wait! Mercy is a kick-ass hero who takes no prisoners and just happens to be a shape-shifting mechanic living in a world of werewolves, vampires, and other...
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
by Neil Gaiman
Powells.com Staff Pick The fact that it was written by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett should speak for itself, really. However, if you need more enticement than that, Good Omens is a comedy of errors centered on an attempt to thwart Armageddon. The unlikely perpetrators are...
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The Subtle Knife: His Dark Materials, Book 2 (His Dark Materials #02)
by Philip Pullman
Powells.com Staff Pick The second book in the fantastic His Dark Materials trilogy, The Subtle Knife is also the spookiest. It includes abandoned cities, orphans, soul-sucking ghosts, physicists, angel armies, zeppelins, parallel universes, arctic explorers, academic intrigue,...
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Ishmael (Large Format) (92 Edition)
by Daniel Quinn
Powells.com Staff Pick For those of us who have been in the rat race of modern culture long enough that we have stopped thinking, and for those of us who have never deeply examined our place in the world, this book is an awakening. It just may change the way you think about...
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Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files (Dresden Files #10)
by Jim Butcher
Powells.com Staff Pick Harry Dresden returns with a vengeance in Small Favor, the 10th book in the Dresden Files series. If you haven't read any of this series — start now! Jim Butcher sits at the top of the ever-growing list of Urban Fantasy authors. Harry Dresden is the...
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Ficciones
by Jorge Luis Borges
Powells.com Staff Pick This collection of short stories is Borges's best known work — and completely mind-blowing. You'll find more ideas in one of his five-page mysteries than you will in most full-length novels. Ficciones is fundamentally bizarre, unrestrainedly...
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A Hat Full of Sky
by Terry Pratchett
Powells.com Staff Pick This is a wonderful fantasy full of wit, witches, and suspense. Written by the well-known author of the Discworld series, A Hat Full of Sky follows the marvelous We Free Men but stands well on its own. So sit back and enjoy this great summer read...
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Bad Monkeys
by Matt Ruff
Powells.com Staff Pick Bad Monkeys twists, turns, shifts, and shakes its way through the story of one Jane Charlotte, a woman who claims to be member of a clandestine organization dedicated to fighting evil known as the Final Disposition of Irredeemable Persons. A gripping...
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His Dark Materials Boxed Set: The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass
by Philip Pullman
Powells.com Staff Pick "A 'big' story in an enchanting package. It may look like kid's fantasy but this trilogy is so much more. You'll love the way Pullman uses a cast of witches, rebellious angels, shape changing daemons in a setting that moves between parallel worlds to...
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Never Let Me Go: A Novel
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Powells.com Staff Pick Set in a (barely?) alternate England in the late 1990s, Never Let Me Go is the sum of Kathy's memories. Kathy is one of many "donors" who have been brought into being for purposes that, while well-intended, can come to no good. Ishiguro's novel...
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Perfume (01 Edition)
by Patrick Suskind Publisher Comments An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind's classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man's indulgence in his greatest passion—his sense of smell—leads to murder. In the slums of...
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A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire #04
by George R. R. Martin
Powells.com Staff Pick Is it fair to say a book that has been on the shelves less than two months is the best book of 2005? If it is written by George R. R. Martin, then, yes. We've been waiting two years for the fourth book in A Song of Ice and Fire series and I'm glad he...
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