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Powell's Staff: Five Book Friday: In Memoriam (0 comment)

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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Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
	judy pilder, January 02, 2012 Eugenides has accomplished the rare, beautifully crafted novel -- the one we hope for each time we open to the first page. And more. He has found the writer's words to tell of mental illness. Two gifts. The novel and the knowing.
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Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry Garrard
	judy pilder, September 23, 2011 Never have I purchased a book AFTER reading it. THE WORST JOURNEY IN THE WORLD broke that record. I now own my own. This book is quite beyond words. It relates the 1910-1913 journey to Antarctica. Promoted as a quest to reach the South Pole for financial reasons (where have we heard that before), the expedition was to collect scientific information. Apsley Cherry-Garrard was one of three to venture in total darkness to find the breeding Emperor penguins. The support those explorers gave each other puts a new meaning to kindness. I read the book in summer--just one hundred summers after that dark journey for an egg. I will read it again in our only grey winter to come. Somehow, it is full of warm.
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Matterhorn A Novel of the Vietnam War by Karl Marlantes
	judy pilder, January 01, 2011 War is a horrid subject. Karl Marlantes knows that. His novel, MATTERHORN, brings the human, ugly reality to life. It is the finest book of war I have read.
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