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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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Sale: $18.19 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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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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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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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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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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Stuff White People Like: A Definitive Guide to the Unique Taste of Millions
by Christian Lander
Powells.com Staff Pick Have you ever wondered what white people are all about? From modern furniture to Oscar parties to self-deprecating humor, hardwood floors, irony, and knowing what's best for poor people, the white race is finally demystified thanks to Christian Lander's...
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How Fiction Works
by James Wood Publisher Comments What makes a story a story? What is style? What's the connection between realism and real life? These are some of the questions James Wood answers in How Fiction Works, the first book-length essay by the preeminent critic of his generation. Ranging...
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Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean
by Douglas Wolk
Powells.com Staff Pick Douglas Wolk writes with a critic's authority, offering penetrating analysis of seminal comics writers and their best-known works alongside introductions to lesser-known talents. But he also writes with a fan's enthusiasm, and it shows through in...
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Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators
by William Stolzenburg
Powells.com Staff Pick What would our world look like without without wolves, giant cats, and other preying animals? William Stolzenburg examines the absence of once-prominent predators and how that affects our global ecosystem. There are a lot of alarmist books coming out...
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Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Marriages
by Katie Roiphe
Powells.com Staff Pick Reminiscent of Composing a Life, Mary Catherine Bateson's famous study of women's lives, Katie Roiphe's Uncommon Arrangements gives us a compelling sociological look at the inner workings of marriage. Culled from the histories of seven marriages from...
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Lost on Planet China: The Strange and True Story of One Man's Attempt to Understand the World's Most Mystifying Nation, or How He Became Comfortable Eating Live Squid
by J Maarten Troost
Powells.com Staff Pick Lost on Planet China is a must-read. The book, like its subject matter, contains multitudes. It's a travel-history-political-business-humor book. Roll Bill Bryson, Daniel Boorstin, and Thomas Friedman together and you get an idea of the scope of Troost's...
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Lopsided: How Having Breast Cancer Can Be Really Distracting
by Meredith Norton Publisher Comments A hilarious and wickedly irreverent look at life with cancer Lopsided is not your ordinary cancer memoir. Meredith Norton chronicles every step of her experience, starting with her bizarre symptoms while living in Paris to moving back home to California...
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