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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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Not That You Asked
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Steve Almond
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, October 20, 2007
In (Not That You Asked):Rants, Exploits, and Obsessions, Steve Almond invites us readers to hear and then to feel his quirky experiences of teenagerdom to adultness. Like in other writing, Almond approaches his subjects straightahead with a sense of truth and rawness, written with colorful seemingly glib consciousness. Hysterical and comical, real and raw, Steve Almond succeeds with his book of essays to tell it as it is.
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Last Chinese Chef
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Nicole Mones
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, March 11, 2007
With The Last Chinese Chef, Nicole Mones winds a story of confronting grief, the love of food and the pursuit to live in the present with eloquence. While discovering the incredible history, passion and connectedness within the art of Chinese cuisine, main character Maggie stumbles into a relationship and confronts a closure she fears. Exploring and revealing the inherent beauty of this foreign culture, Mones creates a delicate story of living fully.
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Reasons I Wont Be Coming
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Elliot Perlman
carolyn espe
, February 21, 2007
Elliot Perlman captures your heart with this collection of short stories. To tears, you feel the pain and the fear of characters you know you met somewhere else. Each story is crafted so well; the narrator talks to you in a unique way to understand characters' ideas and choices. Demonstrating intense and uncomfortable relationships between people, Perlman shows an unprecedented sense of the human spirit and desires, whether confessional or discovering. When I finished, I wiped my tears and went for a walk in the sunshine, the collection is so powerful.
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Evil B B Chow & Other Stories
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Steve Almond
carolyn espe
, February 08, 2007
Steve Almond does it again!! Brilliantly crafting these stories, Almond tugs at your very inner self; you sense heartstrings unfelt before. In this collection of works, Almond shows "realness" in quirky characters dealing with their interesting situations, and you just want to cry because you know you've been there. Well-written and hysterically funny, The Evil B.B. Chow and Other Stories rocks American culture with incredible honesty and unfound clarity!
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