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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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36 Arguments for the Existence of God
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Rebecca Goldstein
Frank Strada
, April 04, 2010
Goldstein has been referred to by some as a new "new atheist." However, like Cass Seltzer, her protagonist, she's an "atheist with a soul." It's about time the faith v. secularism issue gets tackled in a sensitive and creative way. I've read Hitchens, Dawkins, et al., and they are astute advocates of secularism and good writers all. But as Goldstein has said, sometimes the novel is the best way to get a point across and this very creative, funny and intellectually stimulating work does just that. (One of the funniest characters, Professor Klapper, reminds me of a religious Nero Wolfe - imagine that!) This book is a hard one to put down. You'll also want to keep it after you've read it, primarily for its appendix which contains all the traditional "proofs" of the existence of God along with their refutations.
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Lincoln & Whitman Parallel Lives In Civi
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Daniel Mark Epstein
Frank Strada
, March 28, 2010
I began reading this book wondering what possible connection there could be between Lincoln and Whitman and was pleasantly surprised to learn that there was a strong connection, indeed. The story begins with Lincoln in his Springfield law office leafing through a copy of Leaves of Grass and ends in 1887 with Whitman giving an emotional speech in New York commemorating Lincoln's death. Epstein does a magnificent job of bringing to life two of the most influential and interesting people in American history. I strongly recommend this book to anyone interested in history or literature.
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Summer of Hummingbirds Love Art & Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson Mark Twain Harriet Beecher Stowe & Martin Jo
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Christopher Benfey
Frank Strada
, January 01, 2010
Benfey has written a fantastic work of U.S. literary and art history. A Summer of Hummingbirds is a page turner that weaves the lives of several influential writers and artists through the 19th century. I was especially struck by new insights into Emily Dickinson and have a new appreciation for her poetry. Benfey also draws a portrait of Harriet Beecher Stowe and her family that illustrates their profound influence on American art, politics and literature. This book is one of the best non-fiction of the decade.
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Good Soldier Norton Critical Edition
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Ford Madox Ford
Frank Strada
, January 01, 2010
The Good Soldier was recommended to me as an example of a novel whose narrator can't be trusted to tell the truth. Curious, to say the least, I began reading and found myself involved in a perplexing and confusing chain of events - a puzzle, if not a crime, worthy of the best detectives to try to solve. But that's the surface. On a much deeper level, it is a thrilling study of human emotions and behavior. If I were teaching a course in psychology, I would put it on my recommended, if not required, reading list. Ford wrote this book in 1913, but it is certainly relevant today - some things never change.
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Betraying Spinoza The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity
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Rebecca Goldstein
Frank Strada
, January 01, 2010
One of the most intellectually and emotionally stimulating books I've read in a long time, Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity, not only presents a clear picture of Spinoza's life and philosophy, but also puts the reader in the midst of Europe and Judaism in the beginning of the Scientific Revolution. Goldstein knows her Spinoza, an underappreciated philosopher who should be listed as one of the foremost thinkers of the Enlightenment. She's the only Spinoza scholar to actually get me to read Spinoza in the original. Written for the layman, this book should be read by any thinking person who wants to more completely understand how we got to where we are today in the history of ideas.
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