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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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Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
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Kate Brown
Arden
, February 21, 2016
Kate Brown's Plutopia examines a fascinating piece of Cold War history in comparing the world's first two plutonium-producing cities: Richland, Washington, and Ozersk, Russia. As a student of history I found her work to be well-argued and extremely compelling. This book was actually required reading for me, but I found myself unable to put it down. Brown walks her readers through the origins of both plants and highlights the striking, sometimes eerie similarities between Richland and Ozersk. She does an excellent job proving her claim that these two cities were made in each other's images, and her descriptions of further similarities (such as corporate mismanagement and environmental pollution in both places) are also illuminating. She follows the cities from their founding in the 1940s and 1950s through to the present day, and her focus gradually shifts to the personal, social aspects of this history. She incorporated interviews with former plutonium workers into her narrative with great success, but also dug through both American and Russian archives to fill in the gaps. Plutopia is well-researched, well-argued, well-written, and an enjoyable and illuminating read.
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Stress Less Coloring – Mandalas: 100+ Coloring Pages for Peace and Relaxation
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Jim Gogarty
Arden
, February 18, 2016
The designs are absolutely beautiful, the pages are thick enough so marker doesn't bleed through, and an hour spent with this book is unbelievably soothing. Worth every penny.
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History of Britain At the Edge of the World 3500 BC 1603 AD
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Simon Schama
Arden
, January 10, 2015
Simon Schama tackles an enormous chunk of history in this first part of his three-part History of Britain, but he manages to cover it all in a way that leaves the reader feeling like they've absorbed a lot. My one minor problem with this work is that Schama focuses mainly on the rulers of Great Britain over time. This is completely understandable given the amount of material Schama has to cover, but it occasionally reads more like a history of British rulers rather than a history of Britain. Apart from this one minor issue, I thoroughly enjoyed Schama's work. He has a unique voice that keeps the reader engaged. He injects humor and fascinating little-known facts about British history into his work, and I was pleasantly surprised by how frequently I laughed out loud while reading. Schama's work is an accessible and entertaining introduction to British history.
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Name of the Rose
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Umberto Eco
Arden
, January 10, 2015
As other reviewers have noted, this is a book that a casual reader may find frustrating or tedious (hence the four-star review). However, if you are willing and able to commit a great deal of time to reading it, The Name of the Rose is a wonderful read. Eco's style is really what made the book for me. He's an absolutely fantastic writer, and without his voice this would be a very different book. It's hard to explain The Name of the Rose--picture a Victorian-style murder mystery set in a 14th-century monastery and imbued with the theology of the time, and you have a sense of the nature of the novel. If any of those keywords have sparked your interest, I highly recommend that you invest some time into this novel--it's well worth it, and a very fun (though long) read.
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Tigress of Forli Renaissance Italys Most Courageous & Notorious Countess Caterina Riario Sforza de Medici
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Elizabeth Lev
Arden
, October 25, 2014
A wonderfully entertaining biography. Engaging and suspenseful (even though you obviously know the end), it describes the fascinating life of an even more fascinating woman. A must-read for anyone interested in Renaissance women.
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