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The Host
by Stephenie Meyer
Powells.com Staff Pick
The Host, Stephenie Meyer's first book for an adult audience, is a fascinating story of love and betrayal set against the backdrop of an alien invasion. In this thought-provoking and captivating novel, in which alien parasites take over human bodies, the... ( read more)
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The Savage Detectives: A Novel
by Roberto Bolano
Powells.com Staff Pick
A decidedly Mexican novel that spans the entire globe, The Savage Detectives is Homer's Odyssey, Hemingway's A Moveable Feast and Borges's Ficciones all rolled into one — and somehow becomes more than the sum of its parts in the process. Beautifully... ( read more)
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Atlas Shrugged
by Ayn Rand
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'\'\\\'\\\\\\\'\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'Published in 1957, Atlas Shrugged was Ayn Rand\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s greatest achievement and last work of fiction. In this novel she dramatizes her... ( read more)
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Tree of Smoke: A Novel
by Denis Johnson
Powells.com Staff Pick
Ambition doesn't always translate into success, which is why some books
that take authors nearly ten years to write become massive paperweights.
Then there's Tree of Smoke, Denis Johnson's first novel in nine years and
an unconditional masterpiece... ( read more)
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Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
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Slaughterhous-Five is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as... ( read more)
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You Suck: A Love Story
by Christopher Moore
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You Suck is a comedy with real bite! Fans of Christopher Moore or
vampire fiction (or just curious newcomers) will find this a juicy,
deliciously hilarious tale. Read it freely... and leave behind some of
the happiness you bring!
Recommended by... ( read more)
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A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
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The best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Hemingway's frank portrayal of the love between... ( read more)
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Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
by Cormac Mccarthy
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Cormac McCarthy's masterwork, Blood Meridian, chronicles the brutal world of the Texas-Mexico borderlands in the mid-nineteenth century. Its wounded hero, the teenage Kid, must confront the extraordinary violence of the Glanton gang, a murderous cadre on... ( read more)
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No Country for Old Men
by Cormac McCarthy
Powells.com Staff Pick
This may not be Cormac McCarthy's best book, or even one of the best books of the year (in fact, its construction is a bit incoherent), yet I remain a sucker for the peculiar blend of melancholy and savagery that permeates all of McCarthy's work... ( read more)
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Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Harper Fiction)
by Gregory Maguire
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When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale, we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? And what is the... ( read more)
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The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
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Privileged young narrator Amir comes of age during the last peaceful days of the monarchy in Afghanistan, then must endure revolution, invasion and a country's long struggle to triumph over violent forces.... ( read more)
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Blindness
by Jose Saramago
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A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to... ( read more)
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Naked
by David Sedaris
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Whether
he is best known as a playwright, a radio personality, an essayist, or
satirist, David
Sedaris in Naked is screamingly funny. In the autobiographical
essays that comprise Naked, Sedaris reveals his childhood compulsions
(nervous... ( read more)
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The Boleyn Inheritance
by Philippa Gregory
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Three women who share one fate: the Boleyn Inheritance ANNE OF CLEVES: She runs from her tiny country, her hateful mother, and her abusive brother to a court ruled by the terror of a vengeful king who despises her. Her Boleyn Inheritance: accusations and... ( read more)
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Jesus Land: A Memoir
by Julia Scheeres
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One of the most compelling, page-turning memoirs to come along in years-by turns jarring, shocking, and funny — a keenly moving ode to the dream of perfect family.
Sinners go to: HELL.
Rightchuss go to: HEAVEN.
The end is neer: REPENT... ( read more)
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Tender is the Night
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
About the Author
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896 and was educated at St. Paul Academy, the Newman School, and Princeton University. In 1917 he left Princeton to join the army and shortly after his demobilization sold his first short... ( read more)
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Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
by Gregory Maguire
Publisher Comments
When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale, we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? And what is the... ( read more)
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The Painted Kiss
by Elizabeth Hickey
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In this passionate and atmospheric debut novel, Elizabeth Hickey reimagines the tumultuous relationship between the Viennese painter Gustav Klimt and Emilie Flöge, the woman who posed for Klimt's masterpiece The Kiss -- and whose name he uttered... ( read more)
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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... ( read more)
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
by Haruki Murakami
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Haruki
Murakami is generally considered the greatest Japanese writer of his generation,
but at times he seems more in tune with the culture of the West than of his native
country. Throughout his work, the food, music, movies, and literature... ( read more)
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