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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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1Q84
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Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin, Philip Gabriel
carlsfrog
, October 26, 2014
A very good, if very Asian and surrealistic novel. Well worth the read and the price as you follow the primary characters and their backups through a convoluted multi-worldly adventure/mystery.
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Spies of the Balkans
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Alan Furst
carlsfrog
, January 01, 2013
Okay, this isn't a new book or anything, but it views a different theater of war during World War II. We know about France and some of Eastern Europe and Russia, but Greece and Turkey are sort of a forgotten corner. As historical fiction, it is entertaining, but also highly informative, and the characters are real, interesting people... Just loved it!
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Leviathan 01
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Westerfeld, Scott
carlsfrog
, January 02, 2012
A fun alternate history - first of a trilogy. Supposedly for young adults, it is really interesting enough for all ages. Imagine a Europe of 1914 where there are two camps - rather like our world - except they have more than ideology and loyalties dividing them. The Darwinists have built on Darwin's and Huxley's discoveries to create life forms to replace machines in many applications. The Leviathan of the title is a whale based airship (a colony of hundreds of life forms, really) about 200 meters long. The Clankers have built on steam and internal combustion to extend the machine far beyond where it was in our world, fighting in armored walking machines. The main characters are Dylan (Deryn) Sharp - a girl passing as a male to get into the air service and a midshipman on Leviathan by a fluke - and Alex - the unacknowledged heir to the Hapsburg throne after his father, Archduke Ferdinand was assasinated. How they meet and the many adventures in this and the other two books are great fun and have inspired a lot of fan fiction! Light, fun reading for anyone over 12.
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest
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Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland
carlsfrog
, January 01, 2011
If you read the previous two books, this is the ultimate payback. There is a great deal of tension and the government connected bad guys seem a step ahead most all of the way. Still, in the end, good triumphs through a series of devious twists by the good guys. Just a perfect ending to the three books! It's a shame he didn't live to see this triumph, and write the other two novels he'd been working on. I recommend the trilogy to any lover of mysteries or thrillers. And, unlike some foreign language books, these are beautifully translated!
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