2001 January/February
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Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
by Anne Fadiman  
Publisher Comments Anne Fadiman is — by her own admission — the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of Fanny Hill, whose husband buys her 19 pounds of dusty books for her birthday, and who once found herself poring over her roommate's 1974...
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Revolutionary Road
by Richard Yates
Publisher Comments With a new introduction by Richard Ford. From the moment of its publication in 1961, Revolutionary Road was hailed as a masterpiece of realistic fiction and as the most evocative portrayal of the opulent desolation of the American suburbs. It's the...
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The Westing Game
by Ellen Raskin
Publisher Comments A Newbery Medal winnernow available in a Premium Edition. This brilliantly crafted, award-winning novel is an intriguing mystery that follows an eclectic group of characters as they struggle to be the first to solve the puzzle set forth Sam Westing's...
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Into the Forest
by Jean Hegland
Publisher Comments This deeply felt story of two sisters struggling to survive amid the collapse of technology and society is at once a classic tale of mythic proportions--and a modern myth with a timely message. "Beautifully written and often profoundly moving".--"San...
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Blanche on the Lam
by Barbara Neely
Synopsis Blanche White lends a refreshing African-American, female twist to the mystery tradition, as she turns from domestic worker to insightful--if reluctant--sleuth. A middle-aged housekeeper with a strong sense of humor, Blanche becomes an unlikely yet...
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The Greatest of Marlys
by Lynda Barry
Publisher Comments She's back! This is a Lynda Barry double-tall: the long-awaited collection of the best strips from her syndicated comics. Way back in the mid-1980s, comic illustrator and writer Lynda Barry introduced the character of Marlys Mullen, her crazy groovy...
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The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook
by Ina Garten
Publisher Comments For more than twenty years, Barefoot Contessa, the acclaimed specialty food store, has been cooking and baking extraordinary dishes for enthusiastic customers in the Hamptons. For many of those years, people have tried to get the exuberant owner, Ina...
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Girl with a Pearl Earring
by Tracy Chevalier
Publisher Comments Tracy Chevalier transports readers to a bygone time and place in this richly imagined portrait of the young woman who inspired one of Vermeer's most celebrated paintings. History and fiction merge seamlessly in this luminous novel about artistic...
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Native Tongue (00 Edition)
by Suzette Haden Elgin
Publisher Comments Called "fascinating" by the New York Times upon its first publication in 1984, Native Tonguewon wide critical praise and cult status, and has often been compared to the futurist fiction of Margaret Atwood. Set in the twenty-second century, the novel...
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The Voluptuous Vegan: More Than 200 Sinfully Delicious Recipes for Meatless, Eggless, and Dairy-Free Meals
by Myra Kornfeld
Publisher Comments There are many great reasons to eat vegetarian meals -- they're low in saturated fat, high in fiber, and chock-full of nutrients. But the considerable health benefits aside, gourmets often scoff at the likes of seitan and tofu, while vegans despair of...
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Time Stops for No Mouse: A Hermux Tantamoq Adventure
by Michael Hoeye
Powells.com Staff Pick "Hermux ranks right up there with literature's greatest mice of mettle: Stuart Little and Redwall's Martin the Warrior." Recommended by Mike...
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And Quiet Flows the Vodka, Or, When Pushkin Comes to Shove: The Curmudgeon's Guide to Russian Literature and Culture, with the Devil's Dictionary of R
by Alicia Chudo
Publisher Comments Russia has fascinated outsiders for centuries, and according to Alicia Chudo (the pen name of Gary Saul Morson), it is high time this borscht stopped. Examining one thousand years worth of unreadable writers, revolutionaries who can't hit the broad side...
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E=MC2 a Biography of the Worlds Most Fam
by David Bodanis
Publisher Comments Generations have grown up knowing that the equation E=mc2 changed the shape of our world, but never understanding what it actually means, why it was so significant, and how it informs our daily lives today—governing, as it does, everything from the...
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The Strangeness of Beauty
by Lydia Minatoya
Publisher Comments Three generations of American and Japanese women face a strained reunion in pre-World War II Japan. Etsuko and her young motherless niece travel to the ancient Japanese household of Etsuko's mysterious samurai mother. With Japanese militarism mounting...
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The Death of Vishnu
by Manil Suri
Publisher Comments Suffused with Hindu mythology, this story of one apartment building becomes a metaphor for the social and religious divisions of contemporary India, and Vishnu's ascent of the staircase parallels the soul's progress through the various stages of...
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The Way of the Human Being
by Calvin Martin
Publisher Comments Drawing on his own experiences with native people and their stories, Martin takes up the philosophical challenge of the Native American "way of the human being", leading us to rethink our entire sense of what is real and how we know the real....
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The Other Side
by Jacqueline Woodson
Publisher Comments Clover wonders why a fence separates the black side of town from the white side. When Annie, a white girl from the other side, begins to sit on the fence, Clover grows more curious as to why the fence is there. Illustrations....
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Shadow of the Hegemon (Ender Wiggins Saga)
by Orson Scott Card
Publisher Comments Card's prize-winning "Ender's Game" is one of the most popular science fiction novels ever written. Now Card returns with the sequel to "Ender's Shadow" in a tale long-awaited by his millions of fans. At last readers learn what happened on Earth after...
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True History of the Kelly Gang
by Peter Carey
From Powells.com "Sentimental attachment to geography irritated her, Australians were riddled with it," writes Tim Winton of his protagonist Georgie Jutland in his glorious new novel Dirt Music. As an Australian ex-patriot I concur. I can also add that...
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Mariette in Ecstasy
by Ron Hansen
Powells.com Staff Pick While reading Mariette in Ecstasy, I was reminded of the scene in Robert Graves's classic historical novel, I, Claudius, where cunning Livia Augusta speaks frankly ? for once ? with her fascinated nephew about why she spent the previous 300-odd pages...
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