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Cloud Atlas: A Novel
by David Mitchell
Powells.com Staff Pick
"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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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
by Philip Gourevitch
Powells.com Staff Pick
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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The Cutting Room
by Louise Welsh
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Wow! A first novel with an intriguing plot and totally believable characters. An excellent writer who allows you to empathize with a protagonist who is not always deserving. Mark Ingraham, Powells... ( read more)
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Case Histories: A Novel
by Kate Atkinson
Powells.com Staff Pick
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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The Ice House
by Minette Walters
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With this stunning debut--a marvelous marriage of classic convention and contemporary sophistication--Minette Walters sets a new standard of excellence for the mystery novel. The three women living in seclusion at an elegant Hampshire country house have... ( read more)
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The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band
by Motley Crue
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The most influential, enduring, and iconic metal band of the 1980s reveals everything a tell-all of epic proportions.
This unbelievable autobiography explores the rebellious lives of four of the most influential icons in American rock history. Mö... ( read more)
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The Polysyllabic Spree
by Nick Hornby
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Name one other book critic that consistently makes you laugh out loud without denigrating the work of his subject. Right, you can't. (If you can, please, let me know.) Hornby's monthly "What I've Been Reading" columns for the Believer magazine (collected... ( read more)
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One Step Behind
by Henning Mankell
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Discover Europe's favorite mystery writer. Sweden's Henning Mankell writes a first-rate police procedural that also serves as an indictment of contemporary society. His characters are fully drawn, full of frailties, unexpected courage, and are utterly... ( read more)
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The House of Sleep
by Jonathan Coe
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Like a surreal and highly caffeinated version of The Big Chill, Jonathan Coe's new novel follows four students who knew each other in college in the eighties. Sarah is a narcoleptic who has dreams so vivid she mistakes them for real events. Robert has... ( read more)
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Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
by Chuck Klosterman
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"Klosterman's observations on American society, music, and the affairs of the heart (his in particular), are wide-eyed, enthusiastic, and thoughtful. Laugh-out-loud funny also comes to mind....Joining Klosterman on his travels is a pure pleasure... ( read more)
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A Place of Execution
by Val Mcdermid
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On a freezing day in December 1963, thirteen-year-old Alison Carter vanishes from her village. Nothing will ever be the same again for the inhabitants of the isolated hamlet in the English countryside. For the young George Bennett, a newly promoted... ( read more)
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The Lighthouse: An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery
by P. D. James
Powells.com Staff Pick
P. D. James's peerless reputation comes from her skillful combination of elegant prose and sharp psychological insight with wonderfully complex mysteries. She is a wise, eloquent, and humane novelist who explores all manner
of human frailty with the... ( read more)
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Giada's Family Dinners
by Giada De Laurentiis
Powells.com Staff Pick
From simple to prepare after-work dinners to hearty and generous meals for ten or more, Giada's recipes can really be used everyday with little fuss and much reward. The language is warm, the recipes are clear, uncluttered, and surprisingly rich and... ( read more)
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Arthur and George: A Novel
by Julian Barnes
Powells.com Staff Pick
Can I already announce the best book of 2006 in January? If so, here it is! With his customary elegant prose and intricate and wry observational skill, Julian Barnes narrates the true story of the relationship between Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and George... ( read more)
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Before I Say Goodbye: Recollections and Observations from One Woman's Final Year
by Ruth Picardie
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By turns humorous and heart-rending, an unforgettable account of a young woman's spiritual triumphs over breast cancer in the last year of her life Ruth Picardie was only thirty-three when she died, a month after her twins' second birthday and just under... ( read more)
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Seventy-eight Reasons Why Your Book May Never Be Published and Fourteen Reasons Why It Just Might
by Pat Walsh
Powells.com Staff Pick
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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The Best DVDs You've Never Seen, Just Missed or Almost Forgotten: A Guide for the Curious Film Lover
by Nyt
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For movie fans seeking a guide to intelligent, engaging films, this handbook by five "New York Times" film critics offers newly updated reviews of 500 movies, all available on DVD.... ( read more)
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Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture
by Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter
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In this wide-ranging and perceptive work of cultural criticism, Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter shatter the most important myth that dominates much of radical political, economic, and cultural thinking. The idea of a counterculture — a world outside... ( read more)
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Garnethill: A Novel of Crime (Garnethill Trilogy #01)
by Denise Mina
Powells.com Staff Pick
Denise Mina has created a compelling and completely sympathetic new crime heroine
in Maureen O'Donnell. With a history of sexual abuse, a raging alcoholic mother
and a drug dealing brother, the uninformed could accuse Mina of venturing into... ( read more)
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How I Live Now
by Meg Rosoff
Powells.com Staff Pick
"This book for young adults simply captivated me like so few novels for adults will. In a voice that could tell you how to change a light bulb yet still hold you transfixed, fifteen-year-old New Yorker Daisy recalls a summer in the British countryside... ( read more)
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