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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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Under the Banner of Heaven A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer
	Sierra Volk, September 24, 2011 Every religion has its raw, burning core that simultaneously inspires and terrifies its mainstream. (Zen Fundamentalists insist you must be two with everything.) "If Ron Lafferty is insane, it could be argued that so are most religious people. He believed he was receiving revelations from God, but revelation is a tenet of Mormonism. Despite carrying out horrible crimes, he felt he was doing the right thing, and was thus divorced from reality. But so is everyone who goes to war with a cross or a star or a crescent around their neck...."
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Nixonland The Rise of a President & the Fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein
	Sierra Volk, September 22, 2011 If you were alive in the '60s, you should read this book. If you are alive now, you should read this book. If you want to know why we have become what we have become, you should read this book. And the best part is: it's so well-written, you won't be able to put it down.
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