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by Philip Gourevitch  
Powells.com Staff Pick I just finished rereading We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families because after reading Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning I thought that the atrocities committed in Rwanda might make more sense to me. There are eerie... (read more)  List Price $15.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Kate Atkinson
Powells.com Staff Pick Discover one of my favorite writers with this artful detective story. Fans of Atkinson's earlier novels will marvel again at her skill in interweaving several narratives to find one central thread of truth. A real knock-out. Danielle, Powells... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Val Mcdermid
Publisher Comments On a freezing day in December 1963, thirteen-year-old Alison Carter vanishes from her village. Nothing will ever be the same again for the inhabitants of the isolated hamlet in the English countryside. Newly promoted inspector George Bennett is... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price $2.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by Cyndi Lee
Powells.com Staff Pick "One of the first things I loved about Om Yoga Today is that Cyndi Lee is writing for all of us who think that we should love yoga, or, rather, that we should do it more often but just never seem to have enough time....The book is tactile and easy to... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Pete Dexter
Powells.com Staff Pick Dexter's language is electric. I recommended this page-turning noir about a black caddy and his enigmatic benefactor to two coworkers; both were so impressed that they began stocking up on Dexter's earlier fiction before even reaching the last page. As... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Lee Child
Powells.com Staff Pick Everybody remembers their first roller coaster ride. The train turns a corner, there are no tracks ahead, and the contents of your stomach are making their way towards your mouth. Miraculously, tracks appear, your stomach settles, and the ride is over... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $14.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Pat Walsh
Powells.com Staff Pick This is an essential guide for would-be authors. It is also an utter delight to read, full of sly anecdotes and blunt (almost wincingly so) advice. Georgie, Powells... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Elizabeth George Publisher Comments Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley takes on the case of his career. When it comes to spellbinding suspense and page-turning excitement, New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George always delivers. As the Wall Street Journal raves, "Ms. George... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Krugman
Powells.com Staff Pick "Krugman's accusations against the Bush administration go much deeper than dishonesty....Krugman claims that we are currently witnessing a[n]...attempt by the Bush administration and his far-right supporters to undermine and eventually destroy two of the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Benioff
Publisher Comments From the widely acclaimed author of The 25th Hour — a highly anticipated collection of cool, urbane, and skillfully crafted stories. David Benioff burst onto the literary scene with The 25th Hour, a debut praised for its "pungent, funny, urban... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $16.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by David Mitchell
Powells.com Staff Pick "For readers who enjoy good stories wrapped around an inventive structure. Each tale is obliquely connected to another moving forward through time. And each has a totally different voice and style." Salli, Powells... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Minette Walters Publisher Comments With this stunning debut--a marvelous marriage of classic convention and contemporary sophistication--Minette Walters sets a new standard of excellence for the mystery novel. The three women living in seclusion at an elegant Hampshire country house have... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price $3.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by Nick Hornby
Powells.com Staff Pick Name one other book critic that consistently makes you laugh out loud without denigrating the work of his subject. Right, you can't. (If you can, please, let me know.) Hornby's monthly "What I've Been Reading" columns for the Believer magazine (collected... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sally Schneider
Powells.com Staff Pick I must have sixty cookbooks; this is my favorite. The detailed, extensive instructions will please beginners; meanwhile hundreds of 'improvisations' make it ideal for more advanced, imaginative cooks, too. The Roasted Turkey recipe, inspired by Alice... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jonathan Coe
Publisher Comments Like a surreal and highly caffeinated version of The Big Chill, Jonathan Coe's new novel follows four students who knew each other in college in the eighties. Sarah is a narcoleptic who has dreams so vivid she mistakes them for real events. Robert has... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Henning Mankell
Powells.com Staff Pick Discover Europe's favorite mystery writer. Sweden's Henning Mankell writes a first-rate police procedural that also serves as an indictment of contemporary society. His characters are fully drawn, full of frailties, unexpected courage, and are utterly... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Julian Barnes
Powells.com Staff Pick Can I already announce the best book of 2006 in January? If so, here it is! With his customary elegant prose and intricate and wry observational skill, Julian Barnes narrates the true story of the relationship between Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and George... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Edward Carey
Publisher Comments Once the Orme family’s magnificent ancestral estate, Observatory Mansions is now a crumbling apartment complex, home to an eccentric group of misfits. One of them is Francis Orme, who earns his livelihood as a living statue. When not practicing... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter
Publisher Comments In this wide-ranging and perceptive work of cultural criticism, Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter shatter the most important myth that dominates much of radical political, economic, and cultural thinking. The idea of a counterculture — a world outside... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Augusten Burroughs
Powells.com Staff Pick "Burroughs has a way of writing reminiscent of David Sedaris. His mock-naivete is a little shocking, a little naughty. He confesses to things that most people just don't admit to in polite conversation. But the twinkle in the eye is there, the nudge in... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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