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• November 20, 2008
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What would you buy at Powell's for $1000? We put the question to ourselves and here's the answer: 70 books, between $1.50 and $75. And still more than a dollar to spare!

 
Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
Horn of the Moon Cookbook by Ginny Callan
A Good Doctor's Son by Steven Schwartz
Bridges by Judith Dupre
Visions of Jazz: The First Century by Gary Giddins
The Baseball Encyclopedia
The Urban/Suburban Composter by Mark Cullen
The Far Side: Last Chapter and Worse by Gary Larson
The Last Rock Star Book, or Liz Phair: A Rant by Camden Joy
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
As She Climbed Across The Table by Jonathan Lethem
Black Coffee Blues by Henry Rollins
Middle Passage by Charles Johnson
Sacred Hoops by Phil Jackson
The Penultimate Truth by Philip K. Dick
Batman The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller
Book of Dreams by Jack Kerouac
Big Sea by Langston Hughes
Under the Frog by Tibor Fischer
My Dark Places by James Ellroy
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Low Life by Luc Sante
The Shark Infested Custard by Charles Willeford
Bats by Glover Morril Allen
World of Bats: the Flying Goblins of the Night by Klaus Richarz
Plants and Animals of the Pacific Northwest by Eugene N. Kozloff
Yosemite and the Sierra Nevadas by John Muir
Forest Primeval; the Natural History of an Ancient Forest by Chris Maser
Art and Illusion by E.H. Gombrich
Acts of Worship: Seven Stories by Mishima Yukio
The Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant by Mavis Gallant
Art & Society in Italy 1350-1500 by Evelyn Welch
Acquainted with Grief by Carlo Emilio Gadda
The Pope and the Witch by Dario Fo
Straight Man by Richard Russo
Underworld by Don Delillo
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Charlie y la faabrica de chocolate by Roald Dahl
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Without Feathers by Woody Allen
Rosie by Anne Lamott
Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen
Frommer's Montreal and Quebec City by Frommer's
Centered Riding by Sally Swift
Cross Train Your Horse by Jane Savoie
Fish and Shellfish by James Peterson
Adobe 5 Photoshop in a Book (w. CD Rom) by Adobe Development
Adobe 8 Illustrator in a Book (w/ CD Rom) by Adobe Development
Preparing Web Graphics by Lynda Weinman
Beer Across America by Marty Nachel
Beer Here by Stuart A. Kallen
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
David Hockney by Marco Livingstone
The John Coltrane Companion by Carl Woideck (ed.)
Revolution in the Head by Ian MacDonald
Gopalpur: A South Indian Village by Alan R. Beals
Red Earth & Pouring Rain by Vikram Chandra
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Pure Drivel by Steve Martin
Tori Amos Anthology by Tori Amos
Frank Zappa: In His Own Words by Miles
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Heights of Macchu Picchu by Pablo Neruda

 

 

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