2002 November/December
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Erasure
by Percival L. Everett  
Publisher Comments Percival Everett's most recent novel, the academic satire Glyph, was hailed by the New York Times as "both a treatise and a romp." His new novel combines a touching story of a man coming to terms with his family heritage and a satiric indictment of race...
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
by Sijie Dai
Publisher Comments Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress is an enchanting tale that captures the magic of reading and the wonder of romantic awakening. An immediate international bestseller, it tells the story of two hapless city boys exiled to a remote mountain village...
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The Little Friend
by Donna Tartt
Publisher Comments The hugely anticipated new novel by the author of The Secret History—a best-seller nationwide and around the world, and one of the most astonishing debuts in recent times—The Little Friend is even more transfixing and resonant. In a small...
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My Losing Season
by Pat Conroy
Publisher Comments PAT CONROY—AMERICA’S MOST BELOVED STORYTELLER—IS BACK! “I was born to be a point guard, but not a very good one. . . .There was a time in my life when I walked through the world known to myself and others as an athlete. It was...
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Northern Lights (01 Edition)
by Lucy Jago
Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-288) and index....
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Edgewater Angels
by Sandro Meallet
Publisher Comments Set in the projects of Los Angeles, California, Edgewater Angels chronicles the adolescence of Sunny Toomer, a streetwise young man endlessly sandwiched between the right and wrong thing to do. In a neighborhood where an absentminded stare might be...
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Hello to the Cannibals
by Richard Bausch
Publisher Comments "My heart stopped peacefully, its beating grew slow and weak, and then just -- stopped. I died young. There is, really, only a little to tell." And so ended, in 1900, the short but remarkable life of explorer and writer Mary Henrietta Kingsley, most of...
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The Pharmacist's Mate: A Tale of Birth, Death, Guitars, and Goldfish
by Amy Fusselman
Publisher Comments This book is only sort of about electrical engineering on boats. In fact, it does not really involve engineering at all, though it does involve boats. This is Ms. Fusselman's first book, and while it involves the Navy and WWII, it is at its core a truly...
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The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream
by H. W. Brands
Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [509]-527) and index....
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Why Did I Ever?
by Mary Robison
Publisher Comments From the critically acclaimed author of Oh! and An Amateur's Guide to the Night, Mary Robison's first new work in over a decade. After a ten-year silence, Mary Robison has emerged with a novel so beguiling and funny, it has brought her live reading...
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Niagara Falls All Over Again
by Elizabeth McCracken
Powells.com Staff Pick Elizabeth McCracken's second novel follows the adventures of comedy duo Carter and Sharp from the last days of vaudeville through World War II-era films and the early days of television. Mose Sharp describes his three-decade collaboration with Rocky...
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Callie's Tally: An Accounting of Baby's First Year (or What My Daughter Owes Me)
by Betsy Howie
Publisher Comments According to reports, it costs upwards of $190,000 just to get a child to the point that college is a possibility. But none of these studies takes into account the hidden fees of parenthood: the doubling of caffeine expenses to combat sleep deprivation...
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The Dark Bride
by Laura Restrepo
Publisher Comments Already an international bestseller, Laura Restrepo's transcendent new novel is now available in the United States. One of the most provocative writers to emerge from the rich Latin American literary scene, Laura Restrepo is an author whose sensuous mix...
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The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break
by Steven Sherrill
Powells.com Staff Pick The Minotaur, M, a fantastical and once fearsome beast from Greek mythology is now reduced to a mundane existence in the gritty South. M dreams in concussions of memory; he 'dreams himself a zygote....in the dry trough of his birth canal the Minotaur...
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Innocents
by Cathy Coote
Publisher Comments Written when Cathy Coote was nineteen, Innocents is a taut, wickedly clever descent into the anatomy of an obsession, the debut of a precociously assured and provocative young literary voice. Forcing someone vulnerable and naive into a sexual...
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Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry
by Alan Dugan
Publisher Comments This monumental collection tracks a forty-year career of honest, tough artistry, and shows an eighty-year-old at the height of his poetic power, affirming with renewed vigor that art is a grounded practice with no room for pretension....
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Bear V. Shark
by Chris Bachelder
Publisher Comments Given a relatively level playing field -- i.e., water deep enough so that a shark could maneuver proficiently but shallow enough so that a bear could stand and operate with its characteristic dexterity -- who would win in a fight between a bear and a...
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Measuring America: How an Untamed Wilderness Shaped the United States and Fulfilled the Promise of Democracy
by Andro Linklater
Publisher Comments Measuring America is the fascinating, provocative, and eye-opening story of why America has ended up with its unique system of weights and measures—the American Customary System, unlike any other in the world—and how this has profoundly...
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Caramelo
by Sandra Cisneros
Publisher Comments The celebrated author of "The House on Mango Street" delivers an extraordinary new novel, told in language of blazing originality: a multigenerational story of a Mexican-American family whose voices create a dazzling weave of humor, passion, and...
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Look at Me
by Jennifer Egan
Publisher Comments In her first novel since her widely praised debut, The Invisible Circus, Jennifer Egan demonstrates once again her virtuosity at weaving a spellbinding story with language that dazzles. In this boldly ambitious and symphonic novel, she captures the tenor...
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