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The Road (E-Book)
by Cormac Mccarthy  
Powells.com Staff Pick Being one of the few who didn't care for No Country for Old Men, I couldn't wait to read The Road. It is a spare, fierce novel, more a return to the writing in Outer Dark. It drew me in immediately; I didn't want to put it down, and kept reading until I...
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The Ruins
by Scott Smith
Powells.com Staff Pick Twelve years after his staggering debut, Scott Smith returns with The Ruins — and it's worth the wait. The Ruins is brilliantly suspenseful, almost unbearable in places, and shares A Simple Plan's mounting intensity. Smith's premise could lend...
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Kafka on the Shore
by Haruki Murakami
Powells.com Staff Pick In Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami brings the Oedipus legend to contemporary Japan. The reader is treated to his musings on art, culture, the loss of innocence and...cats, in his patented, magic-realist way. Easily his best novel translated into...
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Stumbling on Happiness
by Daniel Gilbert
Powells.com Staff Pick As fascinating and engaging as Malcolm Gladwell's Blink, Stumbling on Happiness is the perfect antidote to those self-help tomes that claim to offer the secret to a fulfilling life. Harvard professor Gilbert aims to show us why those books don't work,...
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Armageddon
by Max Hastings
Powells.com Staff Pick A meticulous, unprecedented account of the final year of WWII. History buffs beware: your time is not your own once Armageddon is in your hands. Recommended by Josephine...
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A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
by Robert M. Sapolsky
Powells.com Staff Pick I never imagined that a book written by a primate behaviorologist would make me laugh out loud. Sapolsky is a born storyteller, and I found his experiences of twenty years in Africa studying baboons absolutely fascinating. You get to know the...
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The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler
Powells.com Staff Pick If you haven't yet read any of Chandler's stuff, I envy you. Start with The Big Sleep and just keep on goin. By the time you are finished with all 5 of his novels and the few collections of short stories, you'll be wishing you were back at the beginning,...
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Drown
by Junot, Diaz
Powells.com Staff Pick The world in Junot Diaz's short story collection Drown is gritty, sad, and hilarious, and the pictures he paints of life in the Dominican Republic, and of Dominican immigrants in America, is rich with pathos. When Drown came out in 1996, Diaz was hailed...
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That Old Ace in the Hole
by Annie Proulx
Powells.com Staff Pick What engages the reader in this story is not a traditional plot line; rather, it's a garland of overtly detailed vignettes and anecdotes about a place and a roster of quirky characters that Proulx obviously loves creating. There's wit and wackiness...
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Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge
by Eleanor Herman
Powells.com Staff Pick "This is a witty and engaging book, intelligently written, with an endless amount of scandalous, hilarious, and eye-opening anecdotes. As Herman is the first to admit, though, many tales of the court were related by gossipy courtiers, memoirists eager...
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by Jared Diamond
Powells.com Staff Pick Diamond crafts a careful and thorough account of the environmental and cultural fragility of civilizations, from present-day Montana to the toppled statues of Easter Island. Collapse is both a fascinating study of humanity's ecological relationships and...
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Shadow Divers
by Robert Kurson
Powells.com Staff Pick Readers energized by the suspense and adventure of The Perfect Storm and Into Thin Air will be captivated by this remarkable account of wreck diving and discovery. Interweaving the excitement of locating a previously undiscovered WWII German...
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations . . . One School at a Time
by Greg Mortenson
Powells.com Staff Pick Nelson Mandela once said, "Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world." Mortenson and Relin's Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time is a powerful contribution to that arsenal. If there...
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Big Cats: Stories
by Holiday Reinhorn
Powells.com Staff Pick "Holiday Reinhorn's stories will invariably draw comparisons to assorted masters of the short story form. She has a darkness reminiscent of Mary Gaitskill and a flawless ability to inhabit the minds of the suburban disenfranchised that reminds one of...
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The Emperor's Children
by Claire Messud
Powells.com Staff Pick Absolutely brilliant. The best novel I've read in months, if not years, The Emperor's Children has left me powerfully moved; Claire Messud's knowledge of the human psyche is uncanny, and her characters became, in one afternoon, more important to me than...
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In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
Powells.com Staff Pick Do I really need to say anything? If you haven't yet read this book, you are doing yourself a disservice. Heck, take a day off work and give it the attention it deserves. Recommended by Clark...
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Light
by M. John Harrison
Powells.com Staff Pick If you enjoy authors like China Miéville and Iain M. Banks, you should really check out Light. A serial-killing quantum physicist's actions create ripples that are felt four hundred years in the future. Featuring a multi-layered plot that relies...
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Ten Days in the Hills (E-Book)
by Jane Smiley
Powells.com Staff Pick I have read, and enjoyed, Jane Smiley novels in the past, and Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Novel was a masterful study of both notable fiction and the fiction-writing process. But Ten Days in the Hills is now by far my favorite work of hers. Loosely...
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Christ the Lord
by Anne Rice
Powells.com Staff Pick Anne Rice certainly does her homework. Although she writes fiction, she is well-versed in the historical background of her subjects. Christ the Lord is no exception. The story centers on Jesus' life as a seven-year-old. Rice presents Jesus at this age...
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Early Bird: A Memoir of Premature Retirement
by Rodney, Rothman
Powells.com Staff Pick The former head writer for David Letterman, burned out from seventy-hour work weeks and Los Angeles highway congestion, abruptly retires — at age twenty-eight. Against the advice of friends, Rodney Rothman moves to Boca Raton, Florida, to hang it up...
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