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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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11.22.63
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Stephen King
Rainman
, January 01, 2013
While I am not a Stephen King fan, 11/22/63 was a significant date both in our history (as the day JFK was assassinated) and in my personal life, because it was my very first full day in the US Army as a draftee. I find time travel very appealing as a subject and wondered what would happen if King's main character, Jake, was able to change history. I found the way he wrote this long novel very entertaining and recommend it.
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
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Timothy Egan
Rainman
, August 04, 2012
I spent Summers in a small West Texas town in the early 1950s when there was a worse drought than the one they are suffering now. The town of Merkel was on the edge of the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, which was worse then either of the others. I remember complaining about blowing dust filtering through closed windows, piling up on the sills. The book is a slice of history told through the voices of people who stayed, who witnessed the death of crops, huge clouds of dust that blew for days, burying fences, autos, houses and killing livestock. There is a PBS video about the subject, but it is only a preview compared to this comprehensive look at that "hard time."
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