Welcome to Powell's Bestseller Room. If you're looking for a dependable recommendation, you're in the right place. Each week we stock our shelves with our customers' current favorites. And since Powell's prides itself on our cut-above-the-rest clientele, why not follow their lead?
Top selling books at Powells.com at 10 a.m. for Wednesday, May 14
#1
Western Garden Book (07 Edition)
by Kathleen Norris (ed.) Brenzel
Nature Studies
Gardeners throughout the region will be welcoming a thoroughly updated and fresh-looking edition of the bible of Western gardening. With a new, easy-to-read design, more plant photography, larger illustrations, and more than 8,000 plant listings--500 of... (read more)
Used, Trade Paper
Your price: $17.00
List price: $34.95
#2
Out Stealing Horses: A Novel
by Per Petterson
Featured Titles
How we translate our past actions and experiences is at least as important as those actions and experiences themselves. Out Stealing Horses, itself superbly translated from the Norwegian, follows the arc of Trond Sander's life as he reflects during a... (read more)
Sale, Trade Paper
Your price: $9.80
List price: $14.00
#3
Practical Electronics for Inventors 2ND Edition
by Paul Scherz
Science Reference
THE BOOK THAT MAKES ELECTRONICS MAKE SENSEThis intuitive, applications-driven guide to electronics for hobbyists, engineers, and students doesn't overload readers with technical detail. Instead, it tells you-and shows you-what basic and advanced... (read more)
Sale, Trade Paper
Your price: $14.98
#4
Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beauty to the World
by Paul Hawken
Environmental Studies
Feeling crushed beneath the weight of ominous news, borderline-apocalyptic statistics, and global warming alerts that offer no recourse but panic? Paul Hawken's Blessed Unrest is the book you've been waiting for. Here is a call to arms with concrete... (read more)
Sale, Trade Paper
Your price: $11.20
List price: $16.00
#5
Are You Somebody? : the Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman (96 Edition)
by Nuala O'faolain
Ethnic Studies
Nuala O'Faolain attracted a huge amount of critical praise and a wide audience with the literary debut of Are You Somebody? Her midlife exploration of life's love, pain, loneliness, and self- discovery won her fans worldwide who write and tell her how... (read more)
Used, Trade Paper
Your price: $7.00
List price: $13.00
#6
Unaccustomed Earth
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Literature
Unaccustomed Earth is in many ways a deeply and authentically sad book. I would not advise reading the stories too quickly; they will each haunt you for days afterward (and, unusually in a collection like this, they are all equally strong). But Lahiri's... (read more)
Sale, Hardcover
Your price: $17.50
List price: $25.00
#7
Lavinia: A Novel
by Ursula K. Le Guin
Literature
A living legend who leaps fearlessly across genre boundaries, Ursula Le Guin offers one of her very best novels to date in this retelling of Virgil's The Aeneid, told from a perspective that very often got lost in even the most compelling Greek myths... (read more)
Sale, Hardcover
Your price: $16.80
List price: $24.00
#8
The Shack
by William P. Young
General
Mackenzie Allen Philips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his "Great... (read more)
New, Trade Paper
Your price: $14.99
#9
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (Oprah Book Club #61)
by Eckhart Tolle
Religion Western
The highly anticipated follow-up to the 2,000,000 copy bestselling inspirational book, The Power of Now. With his bestselling spiritual guide The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle inspired millions of readers to discover the freedom and joy of a life lived... (read more)
New, Trade Paper
Your price: $14.00
#10
Indiespensable Subscription (Unlimited)
Special
Powell's new subscription club delivers the best new books, with special attention to leading independent publishers. Signed first editions. Inventive, original sets. Exclusive printings.... Every six weeks, another installment to read and admire... (read more)
New, Set
Your price: $39.95 per shipment
#11
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by Michael Pollan
Anthropology
I talked about this book every morning at the water cooler and every evening at dinner. Pollan takes a possibly dry subject — agriculture — and makes it epic. Recommended by Beth, Powells.com (See all of our Staff Top 5s of 2006)... (read more)
New, Trade Paper
Your price: $16.00
#12
The Gnostic Bible
by Willis Barnstone
Christianity
A landmark work of scholarship and literary translation, The Gnostic Bible presents the most significant and beautiful sacred texts of gnostic mysticism. The gnostics were religious thinkers who believed that salvation is found through mystical knowledge... (read more)
Sale, Trade Paper
Your price: $11.98
List price: $26.95
#13
Core Performance Guide
by New Buildings Institute
Construction
Core Performance Guide is the nationally recognized source on how to deliver best-in-class energy efficiency and indoor environmental quality in high-performance commercial buildings. Core Performance brings together over 30 criteria defining high... (read more)
New, Spiral
Your price: $95.00
#14
The Host Signed
by Stephenie Meyer
Special
The author of the Twilight series of #1 bestsellers delivers her brilliant first novel for adults: a gripping story of love and betrayal in a future with the fate of humanity at stake. Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded... (read more)
New, Hardcover
Your price: $25.99
#15
Moyers on Democracy
by Bill Moyers
Politics
Bill Moyers on America today: “Here in the first decade of the twenty-first century the story that becomes America’s dominant narrative will shape our collective imagination and our politics for a long time to come. In the searching of our... (read more)
New, Hardcover
Your price: $26.95
#16
Woodworking Basics: Mastering the Essentials of Craftmanship
by Peter Korn
Crafts
Based on a two-week course in woodworking fundamentals offered at the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in Camden, Maine, this book takes a traditional approach to teaching, with the idea that learning basic skills is essential to craftsmanship. In the... (read more)
Sale, Trade Paper
Your price: $8.98
#17
Taking Charge of Your Fertility Rev Edition
by Toni Weschler
Child Care and Parenting
Includes bibliographical references (p. 432-444) and index.... (read more)
Sale, Softcvr W/Comp Media
Your price: $10.98
List price: $23.95
#18
Mexican Everyday
by Rick Bayless
Cooking and Food
At last, a cookbook that brings Mexican food within easy reach, companion to the all-new PBS series. In his previous books, Rick Bayless transformed America's understanding of Mexican cuisine, introducing authentic dishes and cooking methods as he walked... (read more)
New, Hardcover
Your price: $29.95
#19
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
by American Psychological Association
Psychology
With millions of copies sold, the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association is the style manual of choice for writers, editors, students, educators, and professionals in psychology, sociology, business, economics, nursing, social work,... (read more)
New, Trade Paper
Your price: $36.25
#20
Introduction to Permaculture
by B. C. Mollison
Gardening
Written to introduce readers to Permaculture concepts and design strategies. Topics include: energy efficient site analysis, planning and design methods, house placement, design for temperate, dry-land and tropical regions, urban Permaculture garden... (read more)
New, Trade Paper
Your price: $34.50
#21
Perfect Digital Photography by Jay Kinghorn
#22
Caring for Llamas & Alpacas: A Health and Management Guide (2nd Edition) by DVM and Ingrid Asmus Clare Hoffman
#23
The Splendid Table's How to Eat Supper Signed by Lynne Rossetto Kasper and Sally Swift
#24
The Simple Art of Perfect Baking by Flo Braker
#25
The Dud Avocado (New York Review Books Classics) by Elaine Dundy
#26
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
#27
Water for Elephants (07 Edition) by Gruen
#28
The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom by Simon Winchester
#29
I'll Be Sober in the Morning: Great Political Comebacks, Putdowns & Ripostes by Chris Lamb
#30
Conformity and Conflict : Readings in Cultural Anthropology (12TH 06 Edition) by James Spradley
#31
Build Your Own Underwater Robot: And Other Wet Projects by Harry Bohm
#32
How to Have a XXX Sex Life: The Ultimate Vivid Guide by Vivid Girls
#33
Ever Wonder Why? by Douglas B. Smith
#34
Mr Peabodys Apples by Madonna
#35
Building a Deck by Scott Schuttner
#36
A Que Si! (3RD 05 Edition) by M. Victoria Garcia Serrano
#37
Comic Wars: How Two Tycoons Battled Over the Marvel Comics Empire and Both Lost by Dan Raviv
#38
ABC for Book Collectors 8th Edition by John Carter
#39
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! by Mo Willems
#40
Explosive Child by Ross W Greene
#41
Hardheaded Weather by Cornelius Eady
#42
Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves by Sharon Begley
#43
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
#44
To Be a Father: 200 Promises That Will Transform You, Your Marriage, and Your Family by Stephen Gabriel
#45
The Paris Review Book of People with Problems by Paris Review
#46
My First Mandalas Coloring Book by Anna Pomaska
#47
Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades: The Complete Guide to Organic Gardening by Steve Solomon
#48
Getting Old Is the Best Revenge by Rita Lakin
#49
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter #07) by J. K. Rowling
#50
A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties by Suze Rotolo
