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The Glass Castle: a Memoir
by Jeannette Walls
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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... ( read more)
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The Position
by Meg Wolitzer
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Crackling with intelligence and humor, The Position is the masterful story of one extraordinary family at the hilarious height of the sexual revolution -- and through the thirty-year hangover that followed.
In 1975, Paul and Roz Mellow write a... ( read more)
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Holidays on Ice
by David Sedaris
Synopsis
Sedaris's beloved holiday collection is new again with six more pieces, including a never-before-published story to help spread the cheer and mortification of the season. Along with such favorites as the diaries of a Macy's elf and the annals of two very... ( read more)
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The Last Chinese Chef
by Nicole Mones
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In her satisfying, sensual third novel, Nicole Mones takes readers inside the hidden world of elite cuisine in modern China through the story of an American food writer in Beijing. When recently widowed Maggie McElroy is called to China to settle a claim... ( read more)
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The Highest Tide
by Jim Lynch
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Are you captivated by stories of rare creatures living beneath the surface of the ocean? Do you like the idea of an eccentric teenage narrator handing out startlingly detailed descriptions of these creatures and other aquatic mysteries? Are you a sucker... ( read more)
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Lost in Austen: Create Your Own Jane Austen Adventure
by Emma Campbe Webster
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Bringing together Jane Austen's most beloved characters and storylines-a clever, playful, interactive, and highly entertaining approach to the wildly popular novels in which you, the reader, decide the outcome. Name: Elizabeth Bennet. Mission: To marry... ( read more)
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A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
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The best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Hemingway's frank portrayal of the love between... ( read more)
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Tree of Smoke: A Novel
by Denis Johnson
Powells.com Staff Pick
Ambition doesn't always translate into success, which is why some books
that take authors nearly ten years to write become massive paperweights.
Then there's Tree of Smoke, Denis Johnson's first novel in nine years and
an unconditional masterpiece... ( read more)
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Nights in Rodanthe
by Nicholas Sparks
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The latest #1 "New York Times" bestseller by Sparks is the tender story of hope and joy, of sacrifice and forgiveness--a moving reminder that love is possible at any age, at any time, and often comes when it is least expected.... ( read more)
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The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
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Privileged young narrator Amir comes of age during the last peaceful days of the monarchy in Afghanistan, then must endure revolution, invasion and a country's long struggle to triumph over violent forces.... ( read more)
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Tender is the Night
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
About the Author
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896 and was educated at St. Paul Academy, the Newman School, and Princeton University. In 1917 he left Princeton to join the army and shortly after his demobilization sold his first short... ( read more)
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Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
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Slaughterhous-Five is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as... ( read more)
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1984 (Signet Classics)
by George Orwell
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Celebrate the 60th anniversary of Orwellas masterpiece 1984 Written in 1948, 1984 was George Orwellas chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, Orwellas narrative is timelier than ever. 1984 presents a startling and haunting... ( read more)
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The Boleyn Inheritance
by Philippa Gregory
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Three women who share one fate: the Boleyn Inheritance ANNE OF CLEVES: She runs from her tiny country, her hateful mother, and her abusive brother to a court ruled by the terror of a vengeful king who despises her. Her Boleyn Inheritance: accusations and... ( read more)
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Angela's Ashes
by Frank Mccourt
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"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse... ( read more)
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Naked
by David Sedaris
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Whether
he is best known as a playwright, a radio personality, an essayist, or
satirist, David
Sedaris in Naked is screamingly funny. In the autobiographical
essays that comprise Naked, Sedaris reveals his childhood compulsions
(nervous... ( read more)
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A Thousand Splendid Suns: A Novel
by Khaled Hosseini
Powells.com Staff Pick
Never mind the sophomore slump — this book devours that cliché. As well as illuminating the rich history and familial culture behind war-torn Afghanistan, A Thousand Splendid Suns is filled with authentic relationships and characters that are... ( read more)
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Blindness
by Jose Saramago
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A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to... ( read more)
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You Suck: A Love Story
by Christopher Moore
Powells.com Staff Pick
You Suck is a comedy with real bite! Fans of Christopher Moore or
vampire fiction (or just curious newcomers) will find this a juicy,
deliciously hilarious tale. Read it freely... and leave behind some of
the happiness you bring!
Recommended by... ( read more)
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Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Harper Fiction)
by Gregory Maguire
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When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale, we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? And what is the... ( read more)
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