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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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Last Of Her Kind
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Sigrid Nunez
Roberta
, January 14, 2009
I have loved all of Nunez' previous books; this most recent one confirms how good she is. This story of Barnard women in the late 60s and early 70s will ring true, and amusing and touching, too, to anyone who was in school at the time, or knew someone who was. It will also explain the era and emotions to everyone else. Nunez captures activism, class differences, the desire to make a mark, the desire to be accepted, and so many other aspects of the time. This is a book that brings the reader new friends.
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Principles of Uncertainty
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Maira Kalman
Roberta
, October 22, 2007
If you read these 12 illustrated essays on NYTimeSelect last year as they came out each month, you've been waiting for this book to come out for a long time. If you didn't, you should have, and you would be. Maira's wisdom and wit, her talent with words and paint and camera, are deep, brilliant, heart-warming, thought-provoking, soul-stirring, laugh-making. This is a book to buy in multiple copies, because anyone you like will like this book. If they don't, maybe you shouldn't like them so much after all. My favorite on the screen was June 2006 (Cecil Beaton's sister! Kepler's collar! Mrs. Einstein who taught math!). In book form, where you can page back and forth, it's much harder to choose.
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Old Woman Who Named Things
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Cynthia Rylant
Roberta
, August 29, 2006
The Old Woman Who Named Things strikes a chord with kids, but is also a wonderful book for adults, especially those confronting their own or a loved one's getting old. My daughter asked me to read it to her class in elementary school, and I almost refused because I knew I'd cry when I got to the last page. I always do cry, no matter how many times I read the book: not because it's sad (it's happy) but because it's so life-affirming.
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