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01.22: Steve Anderson
2014-12-18 22:04:26| Powells Books Events Calendar
Steve Anderson's new novel, Liberated (Yucca Publishing), asks whether a lone American captain can rescue justice in war-torn Germany. It's May 1945, the war's just over, and Harry Kaspar, an American captain in Germany, is about to take a new posting in the U.S. occupation. When Harry loses the command to Major Membre, he'll do almost anything to win the job back. Harry discovers a horrific scene — three German men tortured and murdered — and he reckons that solving the crime could teach the conquered townspeople about American justice, as well as help him reclaim that better posting. The only problem is that Harry's quest for the real killer will lead him straight back to his commander and eventually to his mentor, a can-do rebel U.S. colonel named Spanner. Recognizing that absolute power corrupted and then destroyed Major Membre and Colonel Spanner, Harry takes it upon himself to overcome any obstacle that gets in his way and set a new American example by which a terrorized town and a mix of battered peoples can rise up from the ashes of a brutal, demoralizing war. In Anderson's other new novel, Under False Flags (Yucca), two soldiers on opposing sides, forced into the brutal Battle of the Bulge, find the courage to desert a war gone sour. This is a gritty war tale that turns conventional notions of valor, heroism, and prestige on their head.
01.22: Miranda July
2014-12-18 20:04:24| Powells Books Events Calendar
From the acclaimed filmmaker, artist, and bestselling author of No One Belongs Here More Than You comes a spectacular debut novel that is so heartbreaking, so dirty, so tender, so funny — so Miranda July — that readers will be blown away. Here is Cheryl, a tightly wound, vulnerable woman who lives alone, with a perpetual lump in her throat. She is haunted by a baby boy she met when she was six, who sometimes recurs as other people's babies. Cheryl is also obsessed with Phillip, a philandering board member at the women's self-defense nonprofit where she works. She believes they've been making love for many lifetimes, though they have yet to consummate in this one. When Cheryl's bosses ask if their 21-year-old daughter, Clee, can move into her house for a little while, Cheryl's eccentrically ordered world explodes. And yet it is Clee — the selfish, cruel blond bombshell — who bullies Cheryl into reality and, unexpectedly, provides her the love of a lifetime. Tender, gripping, slyly hilarious, infused with raging sexual obsession and fierce maternal love, Miranda July's first novel confirms her as a spectacularly original, iconic, and important voice today, and a writer for all time. The First Bad Man (Scribner) is dazzling, disorienting, and unforgettable.
01.22: Phillip Margolin
2013-12-17 00:35:57| Powells Books Events Calendar
Known for his critically acclaimed contemporary thrillers, Phillip Margolin explores intriguing new territory in a compelling historical drama, set in 19th-century Oregon, which combines a heartbreaking story of slavery and murder with classic Margolin plot twists. Over two decades in the writing, Worthy Brown's Daughter (Harper) is a white-knuckle drama about two broken men risking everything for what they believe in. Powerfully evocative of time and place, woven through with rich historical detail, it charts new territory for Margolin — but its epic, deeply human scope is still defined by the suspense and energy his fans have come to expect from his books.
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