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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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Childrens Book
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A S Byatt
Myra
, January 11, 2011
I began this huge book as an ice-storm moved in and cut the electricity for eight days at the edge of the earth in W. OK. I read Byatt's deftly plotted story of the late nineteenth century becoming the twentieth century with the constant concern that I would not have enough batteries for my lantern. Byatt's prose is expansive. I was without the internet and went to maps and the dictionary frequently. Byatt stated in a radio interview that she filled seven notebooks with research notes for this book. I was only 50 pages away from page 675 ending the book when the power came on. I read to the end before taking the first hot shower in eight days. Byatt told an engaging story about relationships at the turn of the last century: women and men; fathers, mothers, and children; well-to-do and less-well-to-do; nations with other nations.
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Bastard Of Istanbul
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Elif Shafak
Myra
, June 11, 2008
Elif Shafak has bravely crafted a story intertwining a Turkish family in Istanbul and an Armenian family in San Francisco that is spiced with food and forbidden subjects--genocide, rape and incest. Shafak was accused of public denigration of Turkishness in Turkey but later acquitted.
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Not Your Mothers Slow Cooker Cookbook
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Beth Hensperger
Myra
, April 09, 2008
Food is my religion and I was appalled when my daughter gave me this cookbook. Cooking with a crock pot seemed like sacrilege, but I became a convert. The recipe for Lemon Chicken with Potatoes and Mushrooms on p. 285 is worth the price of the book, especially on a hot and humid August day.
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Peeling The Onion
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Gunter Grass
Myra
, February 03, 2008
Surviving the peace takes courage and stamina and Grass tells his story with courage and humor of surviving the last days of WW II as a young German soldier. But his memory of surviving the peace with the Allied Occupation is revealing and provides insight into Grass's fiction, especially _The Tin Drum_ and _The Flounder, two of my favorites.
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