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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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Einsteins Dreams
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Alan Lightman
walkaways
, January 07, 2013
This novel is in fact a treatise on the many guises of time. Time, herein, is delineated in its multi-faceted physical, if ephemeral, but concrete nature as revealed since Einstein made his famous early 20th century jumps. While, simultaneously, Lightman--wonderful name for a physicist turned novelist--overlays washes of human time: e.g. a mother, who's child has grown up and moved away, perceives it. Time intermingled with love assume meta-metaphor status in this gentle delight.
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Desert Queen The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell Adventurer Adviser to Kings Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
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Janet Wallach
walkaways
, January 07, 2011
Finally finished and the best was last; a good biography and better foundation read for understanding early 20th century Middle East history. Gertrude Bell really was a genius, if anyone is. Feel badly that I grew up never having heard of her when her adventures and achievements make those of Amelia Earhardt look like flash-in-the-pan publicity stunts. This book also reveals just how arrogant and often silly ignorant the US efforts in this complex part of the world are--makes me blush.
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Remarkable Creatures
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Tracy Chevalier
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, January 01, 2011
An amazing gateway into the times of Jane Austen and Charles Darwin; they could have crossed paths and certainly knew some of the same people and now I do too.
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