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Every year, the booksellers at Powell’s submit their Top Fives: their five favorite books that were released in 2023. It’s a list that, when put together, shows just how varied and interesting the book tastes of Powell’s booksellers are. I highly recommend digging into the recommendations — we would never lead you astray — but today...
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Welfy Q. Deederhoth: Meat Purveyor, World Savior
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Eric Laster
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, September 25, 2014
Such a great, funny book--a kids' book that fully engaged this adult reader. Welfy Q. Deederhoth is a homeless runaway in New York City who finds himself caught between two worlds: one on earth, where he has spent his life as an unwanted nobody, and an alternate universe, where he is thought to be a very important somebody--and therein lies the heart of the story. At the same time, "Welfy" is very funny, playing with science fiction tropes and somehow working luncheon meats into the strategy to save an alien race from extinction. Very cool, smart, great dialogue and a lot of heart. The alien language may seem, at first, like someone fell asleep at the keyboard, but turns out to be a code that kids can decipher (clues abound). And said language probably amounts to a page or less of this 222-page novel. Original, enjoyable and highly recommended.
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Invisible Cities
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Italo Calvino
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, September 02, 2011
A timeless novella in a series of prose poems, translated from the original Italian, in which explorer Marco Polo talks with Kublai Khan and described for him 55 imaginary cities he's seen on his travels. Each chapter in this slim book is a short, beautiful burst of language.
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