Georgie's Picks

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"For readers who enjoy good stories wrapped around an inventive structure. Each tale is obliquely connected to another moving forward through time. And each has a totally different voice and style." Salli, Powells... (read more)

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One of Jill's Top Five picks for 2004. To read more staff Top Five lists click here.... (read more)

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This is an essential guide for would-be authors. It is also an utter delight to read, full of sly anecdotes and blunt (almost wincingly so) advice. Georgie, Powells... (read more)

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I just finished rereading We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families because after reading Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning I thought that the atrocities committed in Rwanda might make more sense to me. There are eerie... (read more)

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When you can finally drag yourself away from the glorious photographs and into the kitchen to start cooking, you will be richly rewarded by these delicious, elegant, and surprisingly simple recipes. Hay's style is clean and uncomplicated, and she offers... (read more)

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Yay! Minette Walters is back, and with one of her best novels in years. Walters always combines psychologically astute characterization with various means to tell the story — newspaper articles, email exchange, and mutiple viewpoints. It all adds up... (read more)

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"The Family Tree combines all that you could wish of a novel — humor, pathos, sex, and tragedy. In a wry voice, reminiscent of Kate Atkinson's, Cadwalladr unravels a complicated and unerringly compelling story of three generations of women. Not to... (read more)

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Discover one of my favorite writers with this artful detective story. Fans of Atkinson's earlier novels will marvel again at her skill in interweaving several narratives to find one central thread of truth. A real knock-out. Danielle, Powells... (read more)

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Ishiguro takes a meditative look at childhood, loss of innocence, and human deception and the drive for survival. This is a haunting narrative that is joyous and sad at once — reminiscent of Philip K. Dick, but with a very literary and poignant eye... (read more)

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"Krugman's accusations against the Bush administration go much deeper than dishonesty....Krugman claims that we are currently witnessing a[n]...attempt by the Bush administration and his far-right supporters to undermine and eventually destroy two of the... (read more)

Publisher Comments
From the actor, comedian, and New York Times bestselling author comes a bittersweet story of modern day love and romance. One of our country's most acclaimed and beloved entertainers, Steve Martin is quickly becoming recognized as "a gorgeous writer... (read more)

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"When We Were Orphans takes the Dorothy L. Sayers or Arthur Conan Doyle English detective story, replete with glamour and intrigue, and fashions an almost inside-out mystery, one in which what is done to you is hardly the point — it is what one does... (read more)