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Out Stealing Horses: A Novel
by Per Petterson  
Powells.com Staff Pick Hailed by critics across the globe, showered with awards, Out Stealing Horses is a book that true lovers of the written word will hold close to their hearts. With its captivating prose and characters who burrow under your skin and refuse to come out, Per...
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I Was Told There'd Be Cake
by Sloane Crosley
Powells.com Staff Pick Funny, charming, and self-effacing, Sloane Crosley's essays will resonate with you, whether or not you grew up playing Oregon Trail on the computer or have ever locked yourself out of your house — twice in the same day. Crosley's voice is...
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Used: $17.95 Hardcover List Price $25.99
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames
by David Sedaris
Powells.com Staff Pick Always a delight, never a disappointment, David Sedaris has come out with his finest offering yet. He has a deft touch, moving between sarcasm and sadness or, in this collection, between redneck babysitters and quitting smoking. Recommended by Beth...
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Gardening at the Dragon's Gate: At Work in the Wild and Cultivated World
by Wendy Johnson
Powells.com Staff Pick An indispensable guide filled with useful information culled from a lifetime of experience. Reading Johnson's delightful book is a Zen-like experience in itself. Recommended by Ted, Powells.com...
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Sale: $23.00 Hardcover List Price $27.95
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The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom
by Simon Winchester
Powells.com Staff Pick A truly fascinating book. Winchester captures the mood of China during the chaos of WWII and shows just how enormous an endeavor Joseph Needham undertook in writing his scientific history "for an audience already highly prejudiced against China and the...
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Sale: $10.50 Hardcover List Price $15.00
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Bigfoot: I Not Dead
by Graham Roumieu
Powells.com Staff Pick In my many years of gallivanting through the forest with my dear friend Sasquatch, we've often discussed fictional portrayals of him in books and on film. Somehow, these depictions always miss the essential bigfootiness of my huge, hairy companion. But...
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In the Woods
by Tana French
Powells.com Staff Pick The only thing more exciting than a great thriller is a terrific debut by a great thriller writer! Tana French makes a tremendous splash with In the Woods, a harrowing mystery in the vein of Mystic River that wholly earns the comparison. I dare you to...
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The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
by Natalie Angier
Powells.com Staff Pick Another winner from one of the best science writers around, The Canon, like Bill Bryson's Short History of Nearly Everything, provides a pleasurable understanding of science. Recommended by Beth, Powells.com...
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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
by Kate Summerscale
Powells.com Staff Pick At once a mystery and a history of early mystery novels, The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher is a page-turner. Summerscale picks apart a famous Victorian murder, the murder that sparked "detective fever" and inspired Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins to...
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Sale: $9.76 Trade Paper List Price $13.95
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Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War
by Joe Bageant
Powells.com Staff Pick Deer Hunting with Jesus is a hilarious, depressing, and painfully honest chronicle of an America often cited but rarely listened to: rural lower-class whites. With brilliant, spot-on detail, Joe Bageant reports on the historical, economic, and...
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Sale: $20.96 Hardcover List Price $29.95
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The Farm to Table Cookbook: The Art of Eating Locally
by Ivy Manning
Powells.com Staff Pick Farm to Table is my favorite cookbook since Sally Schneider's A New Way to Cook. Ivy Manning has a similar style to Sally in that she not only provides great recipes, she also teaches you how to cook — and how to use the produce you find throughout...
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Used: $16.95 Hardcover List Price $26.00
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Lush Life: A Novel
by Richard Price
Powells.com Staff Pick It's a given that fans of Price's earlier novels will rush to read Lush Life. In addition, fans of the HBO series The Wire — or anyone who enjoys a gripping read, period — won't want to miss this fantastic novel, which peels back the shiny...
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Sale: $11.86 Trade Paper List Price $16.95
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Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
by Jeremy Scahill
Powells.com Staff Pick Enter the secretive world of the most powerful private army on the planet. Here Scahill exposes the disturbing story of Blackwater, a shadowy private company offering specialized military services for hire. A dark study of both the organization and the...
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The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine
by Benjamin Wallace
Powells.com Staff Pick The Billionaire's Vinegar is a 2008 best buy. Wallace strikes an ideal balance between wine education and history lesson, leaving the reader with a pleasant and lingering aftertaste. I was fascinated by the journey of a 220-year-old bottle of wine, but...
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Sale: $10.46 Trade Paper List Price $14.95
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Travels with Herodotus (Vintage International)
by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Powells.com Staff Pick Several months ago, I happened upon a copy of The Shadow of the Sun. From its opening pages, I understood why I'd been hearing such laudatory praise about Ryszard Kapuściński for years — here was some of the most astonishing travel writing...
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The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death: Reflections on Revenge, Germophobia, and Laser Hair Removal
by Laurie Notaro
Powells.com Staff Pick If you gave David Sedaris a sex change and about nine shots of tequila, you'd have Laurie Notaro. Not that she's a drinker, but she is the kind of fearless that most people need alcoholic fortification to be. Far from triggering a chortle, or even a...
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Online Sale: $18.90 Hardcover List Price $27.00
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America America
by Ethan Canin
Powells.com Staff Pick America America is a sweeping, epic story that more fully explores themes Canin has written about previously — class, politics, fatherhood, wealth, and power — in a seamless and beautiful multigenerational American saga. Both an important work...
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The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
by Pico Iyer
Powells.com Staff Pick In The Open Road, Pico Iyer gives us a behind-the-scenes look at the Dalai Lama. This is more than a history book, though. The author shares his personal day-to-day spiritual journey in a way that will speak to Westerners. It's a wonderful book; I couldn'...
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Used: $14.95 Hardcover List Price $22.00
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The Story of a Marriage
by Andrew Sean Greer
Powells.com Staff Pick "With an amazingly deft hand, Andrew Sean Greer has pulled back the seemingly blissful curtain enshrouding the 1950s, the poodle skirts and happy days, and set his love story in the conflicted class, racial, and sexual constraints of post-WWII California....
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Used: $17.50 Hardcover List Price $25.00
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The Sorrows of an American
by Siri Hustvedt
Powells.com Staff Pick Siri Hustevdt's new novel shines; she is writing at the peak of her powers. The Sorrows of American is intelligent, witty, and plumbs unusual depths. It is also very difficult to put down. With this work, Hustvedt should finally be recognized as one of...
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