by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin  
Powells.com Staff Pick Nelson Mandela once said, "Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world." Mortenson and Relin's Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time is a powerful contribution to that arsenal. If there... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
by Walter Isaacson  Publisher Comments By the author of the acclaimed bestseller Benjamin Franklin, this is the first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available. How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson's biography shows how his scientific imagination sprang...(read more) Your price $22.40 (Sale - Hardcover) check for other copies 
by Michael Paterniti Publisher Comments Albert Einstein's brain floats in a Tupperware bowl in a gray duffel bag in the trunk of a Buick Skylark barreling across America. Driving the car is journalist Michael Paterniti. Sitting next to him is an eighty-four-year-old pathologist named Thomas Harvey, who performed the autopsy on Einstein in 1955 -- then simply removed the brain and took it home. (read more) Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for other copies
by Barbara Kingsolver and Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver
Powells.com Staff Pick After 25 years in the Arizona desert, in 2004, Kentucky-bred Barbara Kingsolver moved back to the Appalachians, to a Virginia farm just hours from her childhood home. Family called. "Returning," she explains in Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, "would allow my... (read more) Your Price $14.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Hunter S. Thompson  Powells.com Staff Pick When Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer bought the Modern Library in 1925, its mission was ? and still is ? to provide attractive, hardcover editions of important works of literature and thought to serious readers on a budget. The Modern Library became... (read more) Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for other copies 
Entertainment and Performing Arts 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... (read more) Your Price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Bibi Gaston Publisher Comments In 1927, at the age of twenty-three, Rosamond Pinchot was hailed as "The Loveliest Woman in America." At thirty-three, in a sudden, shocking, and highly public act, Rosamond took her own life, setting in motion generations of confusion in the family she... (read more) Your Price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for other copies
by Pete Jordan Publisher Comments Dishwasher is Pete Jordan's amusing memoir of his itinerant dishwashing extravaganza. For 12 years, I was the most prolific dishlicker of them all. From 1989 - 2001, I dished my way around the country, unwittingly searching for direction. From a bagel... (read more) Your Price $6.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for other copies
by Barack Obama Publisher Comments “A government that truly represents these Americans–that truly serves these Americans–will require a different kind of politics. That politics will need to reflect our lives as they are actually lived. It won’t be pre-packaged... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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Entertainment and Performing Arts by Dennis Stock Publisher Comments Published on the 50th anniversary of his death, this is the definitive photographic portrait of James Dean in both his professional and his private worlds, the real man behind the lingering legend.... (read more) Your Price $13.98 (Sale - Hardcover) check for other copies
by Bliss Broyard Synopsis Ever since renowned literary critic Anatole Broyard's own parents, New Orleans Creoles, had moved to Brooklyn and began to pass in order to get work, he had learned to conceal his racial identity. As he grew older and entered the ranks of the New York... (read more) Your Price $15.99 (New - Trade Paper) check for other copies 
by Augusten Burroughs
Powells.com Staff Pick "Burroughs has a way of writing reminiscent of David Sedaris. His mock-naivete is a little shocking, a little naughty. He confesses to things that most people just don't admit to in polite conversation. But the twinkle in the eye is there, the nudge in... (read more) Your Price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Augsuten Burroughs Publisher Comments This book is approved for consumption by those seeking pleasure, escape, amusement, enlightenment, or general distraction. This book is not approved to treat disorders such as eBay addiction or incessant blind dating. Doll collectors may experience... (read more) Your Price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Sean Wilsey Powells.com Staff Pick Strangely compelling, Sean Wilsey's bare-all memoir about his terribly eccentric family is as disturbing as it is entertaining. You know those moments in life when you think "this can't be happening"? Wilsey's life seems composed entirely of those... (read more) Your Price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for other copies
by Sarah Vowell
Powells.com Staff Pick Leave it to Sarah Vowell to roam across America in search of the motivations and culture of political murder. Obsessive, edifying, and, of course, witty, Assassination Vacation is unlike any other historical tourism or travel writing book you'll ever... (read more) Your Price $3.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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