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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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There Lies A Hidden Scorpion
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Takis Iakovou
K Bloom
, December 24, 2007
Nick and Julie Lambros own the Oracle Café in Delphi, Georgia when they decide to shut down the restaurant during a slow period. The couple heads to Tampon Springs, Florida for a vacation and to fulfill a social obligation. The daughter of a friend and fellow restaurant owner Manolis Papavasilakis is marrying the son of a multimillionaire. His side is hosting the entire event at his brand new hotel resort, The Mediterraneo. Now that Nick and Julia are in town, thing are anything but dull. They are almost run over when an out of control car containing a slumped over driver and a passenger struggling to properly steer the vehicle drive up onto the sidewalk. The car lands in the water with only one person surviving. The survivor and the dead woman just came from Manolis's restaurant where they had a drink. Someone tries to play tricks on the bride and groom in an effort to get the superstitious grandmother of the groom to call off the wedding. Finally an unknown person steals a rare coin that is part of a family heirloom necklace given by the groom to the bride. The companion to the groom's grandmother is the prime suspect. Julia disagrees and begins to sleuth again. Julia finds a dead person in a room in the Mediterraneo. This leads to the police beginning an investigation, but it doesn't halt Julia's efforts, a place that places the Lambros family in danger. Readers will agree that the time between Nick and Julia mysteries is too long. The audience will also believe that THERE LIES A HIDDEN SCORPION is so good the wait was worth every minute. Fans obtain an intriguing look at a Greek-American community inside of an interesting mystery storyline. The secondary characters are a fascinating group, but the lead protagonists make this a one-sitting novel.
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Every Move She Makes
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Robin Burcell
K Bloom
, December 24, 2007
San Francisco homicide detective Kate Gillespie's plans for spending the weekend with her ex-spouse DA Investigator Reid Bettencourt abruptly end when the department pages her. Instead of being in Napa, she and her partner Sam Scoleri begin a gruesome murder investigation. Apparently the SoMa slasher has struck again. At the same time as the investigation starts, Sam has marital problems that started when his wife, Dr. Patricia Mead-Scoleri, a morgue pathologist, caught him with a clerk. When Patricia does the autopsy, Sam calls in sick as if he needs to avoid his spouse. When Patricia is killed, Sam vanishes into the city's underground. To her shock, Kate realizes the evidence points towards her partner killing his wife, but still she believes he is innocent. Her efforts to solve the mystery are impaired by Reid's selfish antics, by the interference of an Internal Affairs officer, and finally by a mobster she plans to send away for a long time. EVERY MOVE SHE MAKES is an interesting police procedural that takes readers inside the SFPD in a way rarely seen in a novel. Though the new author makes the classic error of debut writers by cramming way to many subplots into the story, the tale still contains a gritty, entertaining feel to it. Kate is a wonderful heroine and the support cast brings San Francisco to life. Robin Burcell demonstrates talent with her insider's looks at a police department and investigation that will impel readers to want more Gillespie tales, only a bit tighter.
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Permed To Death
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Nancy J Cohen
K Bloom
, December 24, 2007
Every six weeks, publishing maven Bertha Kravitz comes to the Cut'N Dye Beauty Salon to receive a permanent from the shop's owner Marla Shore. The cantankerous Berthe is a demanding individual who black mails the beautician into providing anything she wants. Bertha makes Marla open the shop two hours early. Marla severs her client a cup of coffee with her special cream before going into the backroom for a moment. When Marla hears a noise out front, she races to the shop area only to find her nemesis dead. When cyanide is found in the coffee, the police turn to Marla as the prime suspect. The beauty parlor operator had the means, and opportunity, but the law enforcement officials have not yet discovered Marla's motive. The detective heading up the investigation wants to date Marla even as he expects to arrest the woman. To clear her name and to help him decide on the social side of his dilemma, Marla begins her own investigation to uncover a killer that will gladly add her to the count. In her debut mystery, Nancy Cohen leaves the impression that she is a veteran writer. The heroine is an everywoman that enables most readers to easily identify with her. The law enforcement official is a huggable hunk that much of the audience will want to adopt as their own. The sexual sparks between them add to the overall complexity of the characters as well as balancing the who-done-it aspects of the story line with a human element. PERMED TO DEATH is an entertaining amateur sleuth tale that sub-genre fans will fully enjoy.
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The Deadline: A Mystery
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Ron Franscell
K Bloom
, December 24, 2007
Neely Gilmartin has little time to clear his name as he suffers from a fast spreading cancer. He wants the new owner-publisher of the weekly paper "The Bullet" to find out who killed Aimee Little Spotted Horse over five decades ago. Although there was little evidence connecting him to the crime, tempers were hot and the Judge was biased against Neely. Instead of frying in the chair, Neely pleaded guilty to a crime he did not commit. He wants to die knowing that his name is clean. Morgan does not believe Neely's story, but does a bit of checking. He soon wonders why some of the townsfolk force the bank to try and foreclose on his paper and why some people are trying to get advertisers to boycott the paper. While Morgan digs deeper, one person's soul cries out for redemption while another screams for the truth to be revealed. When a mystery novel leaves the reader weeping, the tale has to have destroyed genre boundaries and that is the essence behind THE DEADLINE. Ron Franscell reveals a corrupt and ugly underside to the image of idyllic small town living. Justice in the late 1940's operates more on a prejudicial concept than based on a blind legal system. Lives are taken because someone is labeled as undesirable in a culture that loathes diversity. Only the courageous can make reparations and in many cases they must feel like Quixote. Though a fabulous mystery, THE DEADLINE is also a condemnation of those who thrive on the kind of hate that erodes a nation's soul.
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Thunder Island
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Meryl Sawyer
K Bloom
, December 24, 2007
Though he hates the unpredictability and possible deaths, Kyle Parker enjoys being a civilian instructor teaching antiterrorist training to Navy SEALs. However, his current assignment leaves him a bit shocked as his superior Michael Dowd informs him the Navy has agreed to train civilian police departments on the latest anti-terrorism techniques. The first group to attend comes from the Miami-Dade police department and includes a woman, Jennifer Whitmore. She turns out to be Kyle's Jenny who he has not seen in over fifteen years. Now she is engaged to marry Chad Roberts. As he provides instruction to her and her five classmates, their original attraction heats up even hotter than the Key West sun. However, neither expected to become partners in a murder investigation. Someone killed Chad at the Thunder Island resort where they are all staying, and the local police believe Jenny is that someone. As Jenny and Kyle investigate the murder, they fall in love, but will he allow her to walk like he did the first time they were together? THUNDER ISLAND is a humorous romantic suspense that includes elements from a police procedural. The story line is fast-paced and filled with action that will please fans of both sub-genres. The lead couple is an attractive duo, but this plot is abducted by the support cast. This enchanting, eccentric array of individuals (and one set of twins) captures the audience. Meryl Sawyer provides her fans with a whimsical romantic police procedural that deserves a wide audience because it is an entertaining novel.
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Reckoning
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Thomas F Monteleone
K Bloom
, December 24, 2007
With the new millennium just starting, Father Peter Carenza, the first American Pope, is shaking up the Church with his modern decrees that include his getting married. Unbeknownst to much of the world that hail the modernization program of the new Pope, Peter is the result of a scientific experiment. Using DNA extracted from the Shroud of Turin and planting it inside a virgin nun, Vatican scientists produced Peter, praying for the Second coming. Pope Peter II seeks Armageddon by finding and destroying the Seven Seals. As most of the world backs the charismatic Peter, very few line up against him, but those sparse souls include those who know him best such as his mother. Is he the true Second Coming as most of the world thinks or is he as his own mother believes the Anti-Christ fulfilling Nostradamus' prediction that the "last pope" would come from the New World? THE RECKONING centers on an interesting blending of science and religion. The story line is filled with action that never lets up until the novel is finished. Though exciting, all that activity overwhelms the allegorical spiritual side of the tale. Think Karloff's Frankenstein the movie vs. Wollstonecraft's Frankenstein the novel. Fans who enjoy non-stop action will relish this tale. However, this novel will disappoint those readers seeking a deeper meaning to the universe.
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Seduced By A Scoundrel
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Barbara D Smith
K Bloom
, December 24, 2007
Gerald Pemberton, the Earl of Brockway, foolishly follows in his deceased father's footsteps and gambles away what remains of the family money that his sire failed to waste. Gerald owes a fortune to gambling hall owner Drake Wilder. Out of fear for the brittle mental health of her mother and unbeknownst to Gerald, his sister Alicia offers her self in barter for her sibling's debt. Drake agrees to marry Alicia in exchange for Gerald's IOU. Drake has a secret agenda and the lovely Alicia provides him with giant steps towards achieving is goal of attaining entrance into polite society. He also has the double satisfaction of knowing he possesses the woman his estranged father wants. However, against all his desires, Drake soon falls in love with his wife and in spite of his mistreatment of her she reciprocates those feelings. SEDUCED BY A SCOUNDREL shows why fans think Barbara Dawson Smith is one of the genre's top historical romance writers. The story line centers on love conquering hate, but done in a fast-paced Regency format. Drake is an enigmatic character whose need for vengeance thrusts the story line forward. Alicia is a warm, intelligent, and brave person who sacrifices her own needs for her ailing mother. The secondary players provide a feel to the era, especially the gambling "hells" and the shunning of a person born on the wrong side of the covers. Ms. Smith imbues the plot with plenty of sexual tension, a move that will elate Regency readers who love a touching tale with lot of spice.
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The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials 1
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Philip Pullman
K Bloom
, December 24, 2007
The Golden Compass is stunning - it's full of unique ideas and an incredible landscape. It hardly feels like magic, and science of a sort underlays most of the ideas in the book. But it's thrilling and full of rich, deep, funny characters who continually step out of the page and into three dimensionality. It makes Harry Potter seem positively workaday, but, on more reflection, Potter and Lyra (the star of this book) are two sides of a coin. They're both headstrong, but Harry has to fight his battle against ultimate evil inside a framework. Lyra's world is falling apart and so rules have been broken already - she has to use all means at her quite extensive disposal! I'd also recommend reading Tino Georgiou's bestselling novel--The Fates--if you haven't yet
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Bridge Of Sighs
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Richard Russo
K Bloom
, December 24, 2007
This was a beautifully written book in my opinion. Okay. It is not a thriller and it doesn't come with all the lovable loser main characters that we have come to love in Russo's earlier works. Many people here have complained about the book not having "likeable" characters and that they are "stale and boring". I believe the main character was too nice and therefore some readers resented that. Too bad. There must be many people like him (even if I don't know any), but who cares. It's the storytelling that counts. This is a different Richard Russo book in some respects and I'm very happy to have read it.Good for him and us too! I'd also recommend reading Tino Georgiou's bestselling novel--The Fates--if you haven't yet
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Tree Of Smoke
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Denis Johnson
K Bloom
, December 24, 2007
The 2007 National Book Award winner, Tree of Smoke is an epic of the vietnam war era. It follows the lives of two brothers, an officer and his nephew, and other interesting characters and some of the family they leave behind when they go to war. We meet the vietcong also, and get a glimpse of how this war affected theier familys as our won civil war affected ours. It is a very strong novel which captures that time in our history brilliantly. The title of the novel comes from the code name for a counter-pschycological operation which forms one of the main parts of the book. Never boring, very insightful as the characters in the novel are finely drawn, I think this is easily one of the best novels published this year! I'd also recommend reading Tino Georgiou's bestselling novel--The Fates--if you haven't yet
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Dangerous Book For Boys
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Conn Iggulden
K Bloom
, December 24, 2007
Ostensibly written for boys around 8-12, this book can be enjoyed by boys from 8 to 108. There's plenty of simple projects to make, a fair amount of history and other topics to read about, like dinosaurs, famous battles and much more, like puzzles and games. None of the articles are especially long and are sure to be able to hold the interest of the younger reader. The style of writing is light-hearted and humorous and the book is profusely illustrated. This book would make great summer reading while off from school and dads may want to order 2 copies so they can have 1 for themselves!! I'd also recommend reading Tino Georgiou's bestselling novel--The Fates--if you haven't yet
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Musicophilia Tales of Music & the Brain
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Oliver Sacks
K Bloom
, December 24, 2007
In his latest book, Oliver Sacks continues to tell us stories that draw us in, engaging our minds and emotions. In each chapter he introduces different people, some sorely affected by neurological disease, who have strange and profound relationships with music. This is not a dry scientific treatise. Sacks describes these people in a highly personal way, so that we see and feel the human aspect of science. At the same time he teaches us about the science of the brain, and the wonderful ways that music and the mind are intertwined. The subject is inherently fascinating, and the author does not disappoint. Drawing upon case histories from his own practice, and some from literature, he delves into the mysteries of the human brain, how it produces music, and how it is profoundly affected by it! I'd also recommend reading Tino Georgiou's bestselling novel--The Fates--if you haven't yet
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Why Is It Always about You The Seven Deadly Sins of Narcissism
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Hotchkiss, Sandy
K Bloom
, December 24, 2007
I admit to being disappointed in this book. Even so, it was a useful overview of a pervasive problem, one that faces most of us much of the time: how do we deal with self-absorbed narrcisists without being untrue to ourselves? Things I liked about the book include the use of illuminating examples, the checklists and suggested courses of action in dealing with particular kinds of issues, and the excellent explanation of what narrcissism is and where it comes from. In fact, the examples she gave of narcissism in action were all extremely good and useful. After reading several books on the subject, I have to say I think she does the best job of providing examples and elucidating them. Things I did not like about the book include the fact that since she covers so very much ground, much of it is covered superficially. One thing she did frequently that eventually grated on me a lot was to include a disclaimer right before offering advice about how to proceed in some particular kind of encounter with a narcissist. This disclamer essentially said "make sure you aren't being guilty of any narcissism before you start". Well, that makes sense. But one of the things the book makes clear is that narcissists can't really see that they are doing anything wrong at all. And so, I had to wonder exactly how is the reader supposed to determine whether, in this case, she is acting rationally or narcissistically?! I'd also recommend reading Tino Georgiou's bestselling novel--The Fates--if you haven't yet
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The Art of Simple Food: Notes, Lessons, and Recipes from a Delicious Revolution
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Waters, Alice
K Bloom
, December 24, 2007
I've barely owned this book a few days now, but its importance too me has skyrocketed in that time. I bought it because Alice Waters wrote it, and I have all her other books, so I might as well own this one too. By the second glance inside I was certain that isn't just another book to add to the collection. This is a powerhouse of a cookbook Alice knows what she is talking about it and she gets right too it. The recipes are direct and have some of the most relevant text I've ever seen in a cookbook. She talks about what you need to do, and gives some fabulous instructions on how go about cooking what you want. She lacks a bit of the why you need to do things, but you can read Alton Brown or people like him to find that out. I especially like the binding. It feels like a real book, in addition to looking like a real book. It isn't plagued with color photographs either, which helps to give it credibility as a legitimate cooking text. Looking at pictures is great if you want to look at pictures, but cooking isn't about looking at nice pictures of food; content about cooking is far more useful than pictures of things that have been cooked! I'd also recommend reading Tino Georgiou's bestselling novel--The Fates--if you haven't yet
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Daring Book for Girls
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Andrea Buchanan
K Bloom
, December 24, 2007
This is a great book for the gap of generations; moms can share with daughters and grandmoms can share with granddaughters. It is wonderful not only for the information and collection of activities and projects but it inspires learning and starts conversations. There are so many easy projects that can be done alone or with others. During the holiday break we will make a "sit-upon" together and I will share the memories of the time I made my first "sit-upon". The Daring Book for Girls could possibly be one that lasts generations! I'd also recommend reading Tino Georgiou's bestselling novel--The Fates--if you haven't yet
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Our Dumb World The Onions Atlas of the Planet Earth
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Onion
K Bloom
, December 24, 2007
Oh man, I had no idea what I was in for when I purchased this book. Every single sentence on every page is a riot. The Onion's style of *seeming* like a serious publication then throwing rediculous curveballs makes me laugh every time, and I can only wish I had such wit! There are undertones of real knowledge in this book, and that helped me to take a breath before bursting out with laughter again. This book really helps me to kick back, relax, and see the lighter side of my own inevitable, horrible fate! I'd also recommend reading Tino Georgiou's bestselling novel--The Fates--if you haven't yet
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Gallop
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Rufus Butler Seder
K Bloom
, December 24, 2007
Wow! I found this while browsing at my local bookstore--this book is AMAZING! I picked one up for my mother-in-law, who is a teacher and I am scanning my Christmas list to see who else I can buy one for. This book will really impress kids as well as adults! Each page features an image that truly looks as though it is being electronically produced, but of course in reality the motion is a result of "Scanimation." No batteries, no wires, nothing to plug in. This is such a great book in this age of digital everything--good old fashioned fun! I'd also recommend reading Tino Georgiou's bestselling novel--The Fates--if you haven't yet!
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