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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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Ordinary Skin: Essays from Willow Springs
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Amy Hale Auker
moon
, July 30, 2017
If you read Terry Tempest Williams, Edward Abbey or Kim Stafford you should try out Amy's essays! At home in Arizona she is one of the few women writers bringing Western landscapes to life.
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Russian Winter
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Daphne Kalotay
moon
, January 09, 2012
What a wonderful story enhanced by the artistic blending of fiction and real life characters....
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Fall of Giants Century Trilogy 01
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Ken Follett
moon
, January 24, 2011
Echoing the critics....Follett has done it again! From the opening scenes in a Welsh mining shaft right through the last paragraph he has you in his grip...I can hardly wait for Part 2!
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Barefoot Contessa How Easy Is That Fabulous Recipes & Easy Tips
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Ina Garten
moon
, January 21, 2011
I don't cook. I don't like to cook....but, this book inspires me to do just that! The recipes are easy, the ingredients are either already on hand or available at generic grocery store and the pictures make the finished meal seem totally "doable."
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Fall of Giants Century Trilogy 01
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Ken Follett
moon
, January 02, 2011
The opening alone is a grabber....suddenly you are in a mining shaft in Wales and you can't help but feel claustrophobic! The book is almost a 1000 pages and worth its weight in gold!
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Breaking Through the Stained Glass Ceiling: Women Religious Leaders in Their Own Words
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Maureen Fiedler
moon
, May 16, 2010
Fiedler, a Roman Catholic nun, uses long, personal interviews with women religious and spiritual leaders to understand their efforts to bring women into the leadership positions in the Catholic church. Her personal feminism provides a foundation for this timely discourse.
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Trace of Smoke
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Rebecca Cantrell
moon
, May 07, 2010
The first of the Hannah Vogel mystery series, it has all the makings of a must-read: a crime reporter in 1931 Berlin, murder in the family and the dark underbelly of the top ranks of the rising Nazi party.
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Jamies Food Revolution
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Jamie Oliver
moon
, November 06, 2009
At last, a book for those of us who are lazy and end up with take-out because we don't want to be gourmet cooks. His ideas make sense to us right brain people who aren't comfortable just adding a dab of this and a dab of that to make something taste great. Thank you, Jamie.
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The Book Shopper: A Life in Review
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Murray Browne
moon
, September 27, 2009
Powell's customers will love this selection of essays from a man who love's used book stores! The best writing tells about the atmosphere and the persons working in the stores....included is a tour of Browne's favorite authors.
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Coral Thief
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Rebecca Stott
moon
, September 27, 2009
The book is hypnotic and the reader has to be in a mood to tolerate Stott's slow ethereal story-telling.
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Writing Places The Life Journey of a Writer & Teacher
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William K Zinsser
moon
, May 20, 2009
Zinsser wrote the primer on how to write any non-fiction....now he is showing, not telling, how it is done. His autobiography is scrappy! With clarity and light-heartedness he lets the reader/writer sit on his side of the desk.
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Cezannes Quarry
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Pope, Barbara Corrado
moon
, November 24, 2008
The facts are that Cezanne had a wife and child, a torrid love affair with an unknown woman and was financially supported by Zola. The story is that the "other woman" was found dead....could he have killed her? Maybe! Using French daily life, culture and very factual history, Barbara Pope entertains, educates and keeps us reading to find out if he really did it.
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Spoonful Of Poison
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M C Beaton
moon
, October 18, 2008
Sometimes a person needs to read an oldfashioned, light weight mystery. A book that, while not deep, is well written with lively characters who come immediately to life. Detective Agatha Raison and her employees are those characters. The reader sees them from the beginning and the investigation is a joy ride. This was the first of Beaton's novels I have read but it wont be the last. If you have a free afternoon, try "a spoon full of poison."
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Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
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Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer
moon
, August 28, 2008
There is little to say other than I loved this book. A little fiction, a little history lesson and a great piece of writing using the cleaverness of letters, especially for all of us who belong to book groups!
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When the Heart Waits Spiritual Direction for Lifes Sacred Questions
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Kidd, Sue Monk
moon
, July 17, 2008
Susan Monk Kidd always writes to the weakest of us. We can find ourselves in her struggles...thank goodness!
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Life Class
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Pat Barker
moon
, February 09, 2008
Pat Barker has returned to the subject she knows best...WWI. It is 1914 and Barker tells the tale of three art students and their naivete at the beginning of the war to end all wars. The reader gets fleeting glances of real life characters from 20th century London and the gripping power of true nationalism.
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The Best Women's Travel Writing: True Stories from Around the World
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Lucy McCauley
moon
, January 21, 2008
This anthology gets better every year....I travel a lot and when I read something like this, I say, "why didn't I see it like that!"
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Out Stealing Horses
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Per Petterson
moon
, October 05, 2007
This is a wonderful book....will take you to a place you have never been!
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Maisie Dobbs: Maisie Dobbs 1
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Jacqueline Winspear
moon
, September 06, 2007
Maisie Dobbs is the best! I have read all the previous books and she has just enough spunk to make life interesting but not enough to be unreal. Winspear manages to capture life in London and the reader is easily transported there.
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American Food Writing An Anthology with Classic Recipes
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O'Neill, Molly
moon
, July 25, 2007
I don't cook but I love to read writing by and about food...This is one of the best! Who could have thought food could be so sexy!
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On A Pale Horse: Incarnations of Immortality 1
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Piers Anthony
moon
, July 23, 2007
For those of us who have never read fantasy because we were sure we wouldn't like it....this book/author is the way to go! Now I understand why so much enthusiasm about fantasy.
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Later At The Bar In Stories
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Rebecca Barry
moon
, July 05, 2007
It takes a very good writer to really carry one "novel" idea through her stories....Barry has done that....I want to go to that bar and watch the people from a back booth!
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Ask A Mexican
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Gustavo Arellano
moon
, June 27, 2007
The title is better than the book....well, the book is okay, funny and duly offensive but never REALLY funny. The author should have pushed the line just a little more!
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