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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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We Were In Auschwitz
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Janus Nel Siedlecki
evalowen
, July 01, 2015
Three former political prisoners of Auschwitz comment on their horrendous experience. The book is unique because the publisher (Willcommen) of the 2000 edition had a large number of them bound in the striped material from the clothing worn by inmates.
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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
evalowen
, April 02, 2015
In view of what California is experiencing right now, I found this book very relevant. Although the Dust Bowl was a man made disaster and California's drought is nature made. I learned so much about the erroneous farming methods and the resulting disaster; the desperate living conditions of the local populace who took a chance by remaining on their land, rather than relocating. As so often, the voice of reason was ignored. I find Timothy Egan's descriptions frighteningly real.
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Portrait of a Woman in White
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Susan Winkler
evalowen
, January 15, 2015
I have not read this book, only your review. However both title and contents sound to me like an appropriation of the excellent "Lady in Gold" the history of the Gustav Klimt painting of Adele Bloch Bauer and its acquisition by the Nazis.
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The Book Thief
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Markus Zusak
evalowen
, November 30, 2013
Interesting tale set in 1930's in a small German town near Munich. Death is the voiceover of this tale, as death was responsible for taking so many lives, of course it really was the Nazis. I do find Zusak using unusual words as adjectives, and some odd combinations of words for sentences. He is Australian so it is not as thought the book was translated. Though meant for teenagers it certainly resonates with adults also.
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Warmth Of Other Suns The Epic Story Of Americas Great Migration
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Isabel Wilkerson
evalowen
, January 01, 2013
I thought I knew how bad things were for African Americans during the pre Civil Rights era, and sadly continued, to some extent,even after desegregation. Isabel Wilkerson's factual, well researched history revealed much to me that I had not known.
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Becoming Alice: A Memoir
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Alice Rene
evalowen
, August 01, 2012
Although this memoir was written by Alice Renee about growing up in Portland, Oregon nobody I know personally was aware of her, nor had anybody heard of her book. I found out about it through a family member living in California. Both of us were refugees from Hitler's Europe and I too had many similar experiences and memories growing up in Portland during the forties and fifties. It is still a mystery to me that memoir writers have such terrific recall, down to the color of the shoes they wore in Kindergarten. I guess that is what makes these tales memoirs and not autobiographies. To be understanding of what happens when one is displaced from one's home of origin, books like that are very useful.
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Brontosaurus Memoir of a Sex Life
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Leanne Grabel
evalowen
, February 03, 2012
Leanne Grable writes prose as though it were poetry. Poetry is in her blood. I found the book interesting, but am ambivalent whether to say it is cathartic or narcissistic. She bares her life to an extreme which takes guts. She has dedicated her life to help incarcerated girls by teaching poetry is most admirable and hopefully makes a difference in at least one life.
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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
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David Mitchell
evalowen
, January 19, 2012
Fascinating and extremely well researched bit of history.There was a time when a country could insulate itself from outside influences. Not anymore with our present day technology.
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Becoming Alice: A Memoir
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Alice Rene
evalowen
, November 07, 2011
Since this memoir is about a young girl Ilse/Alice Rene who grew up in Portland, Oregon after escaping Nazi Austria, I found it unbelievable that no person I talked to had heard of her, nor of her book. I live in Portland, Oregon. Her story resonates with me, as I too have lived the same segment of history as she describes it.Her story is my story.
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