2005 March
There are 36 books in this aisle.
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Little Children
by Tom Perrotta  
Powells.com Staff Pick "What really makes Little Children shine is its theme of isolation. Never before have I laughed so much and so enjoyed a book whose message was so essentially sad....I closed the covers feeling sober, alone, and delirious from the sheer rush of the...
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The Glass Castle: A Memoir
by Jeannette Walls
Publisher Comments Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in...
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Bleachy Haired Honky Bitch
by Hollis Gillespie
Publisher Comments < P> Drawing on her peripatetic childhood as the daughter of a travelling salesman, and her adult residence in one of Atlanta's seedier crack neighbourhoods, columnist and NPR commentator Hollis Gillespie has assembled a comic, poignant memoir...
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Luncheonette: A Memoir
by Steven Sorrentino
Publisher Comments Steven Sorrentino had moved from West Long Branch, New Jersey, to New York City, with dreams of finding love and Broadway stardom. Venturing out of the closet and feeling free (at last!) from small-town America, Steven found his niche among the quirky...
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Fat Girl: A True Story
by Judith Moore
Publisher Comments A nonfiction She's Come Undone, Fat Girl is a powerfully honest and compulsively readable memoir of obsession with food, and with one's body, penned by a Guggenheim and NEA award-winning writer. For any woman who has ever had a love/hate relationship...
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A Question of Blood: An Inspector Rebus Novel
by Ian Rankin
Publisher Comments When a former soldier and recluse murders two 17-year-old students at a posh Edinburgh boarding school, Inspector John Rebus immediately suspects there is more to the case than meets the eye....
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In Fond Remembrance of Me: A Memoir of Myth and Uncommon Friendship in the Arctic
by Howard Norman
Publisher Comments Howard Norman spent the fall of 1977 in Churchill, Manitoba, translating into English two dozen "Noah stories" told to him by an Inuit elder. The folktales reveal what happened when the biblical Noah sailed his Ark into Hudson Bay in search of woolly...
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Aloft
by Chang-Rae Lee
Publisher Comments Set on affluent Long Island, Aloft follows the life of a suburban, upper-middle-class man during a time of family crisis. Jerry Battle's favorite diversion is to fly his small plane over the neighboring towns and villages. When his daughter and her fianc...
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Working Fire: The Making of a Fireman
by Zac Unger
Publisher Comments Zac Unger didn't feel like much of a fireman at first. Most of his fellow recruits seemed to have planned for the job all their lives; he was an Ivy League grad responding to an ad at a bus stop. He couldn't keep his boots shined, and he looked terrible...
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The Swallows of Kabul
by Yasmina Khadra
Publisher Comments Set in Kabul under the rule of the Taliban, this extraordinary novel takes readers into the lives of two couples: Mohsen, who comes from a family of wealthy shopkeepers whom the Taliban has destroyed; Zunaira, his wife, exceedingly beautiful, who was...
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The Deadly Dance: An Agatha Raisin Mystery (Agatha Raisin Mysteries)
by M C Beaton
Publisher Comments Bossy, impulsive, and unlucky in love, the all-too-human Agatha Raisin has proved to be a surprisingly effective---and endearing---amateur sleuth. But can Agatha make it as a private investigator? After getting mugged on vacation, in what she will always...
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Before the Frost: A Linda Wallander Mystery
by Henning Mankell
Publisher Comments Linda Wallander is bored. Just graduated from the police academy, she is waiting to start work at the Ystad police station and move into her own apartment. Meantime, she is living with her father and, like fathers and daughters everywhere, they are...
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Nam-A-Rama
by Phillip Jennings
Publisher Comments Everybody knows War is Hell. Only the Few and the Proud know what fun Hell can be. Here it is, folks: "How the cow ate the cabbage" in the CLASSIFIED words of the President hisself [sic]. TOP SECRET stuff. EYES ONLY. If you want to know the real story...
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Pinkerton's Sister
by Peter Rushforth
Publisher Comments It's turn of the century New York, a city bursting with new life as the old century's order makes way for the mercantile class. But in the Pinkerton household a 19th-century embarrassment remains: Alice Pinkerton--considered by neighbors as the "madwoman...
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Fires in the Dark
by Louise Doughty
Publisher Comments Fires In the Dark reveals the highly secretive and misunderstood world of the coppersmith gypsies. In 1927, when prosperity still reigns in Central Europe, Yenko is born to two Coppersmith Gypsies. His parents, Josef and Anna, are nomads who raise their...
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The Keeners
by Maura Shaw
Publisher Comments The rough beauty of County Clare is 17-year-old Margaret Meehan's whole world, and it is nearly perfect. But the year is 1846 and the potato blight has returned. Out of the devastation, Margaret's tale begins. Leaving her decimated family and the death...
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Lone Star Rising: The Texas Rangers Trilogy (Texas Rangers Trilogy)
by Elmer Kelton
Publisher Comments Western fiction legend Elmer Kelton brings together the first three books of his acclaimed Texas Ranger saga in this omnibus volume. Includes "The Buckskin Line, Badger Boy," and "The Way of the Coyote."...
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Season of the Snake
by Claire Davis
Publisher Comments The new novel by the award-winning author of Winter Range. When tragedy leaves her life in shambles, Nance flees her Wisconsin hometown and its reminders of grief, creating a new life in the West. She is a scientist, specializing in rattlesnakes and...
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Ponzi's Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend
by Mitchell Zuckoff
Publisher Comments In 1920, Charles Ponzi raked in millions of dollars by promising people he would double their investments in three months. Only later did anyone realize he was paying old investors with money from new ones, a trick known as robbing Peter to pay Paul...
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A Rare and Curious Gift
by Pauline Holdstock
Publisher Comments LOOSELY BASED ON THE LIFE of Artemisia Gentileschi, "A Rare and Curious Gift tells the story of Sofonisba, a brilliant painter gradually taking over her father's studio. Determined to avoid the depredations of men, she is fighting her own intensely...
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