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Every year, the booksellers at Powell’s submit their Top Fives: their five favorite books that were released in 2023. It’s a list that, when put together, shows just how varied and interesting the book tastes of Powell’s booksellers are. I highly recommend digging into the recommendations — we would never lead you astray — but today...
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Tribes We Need You to Lead Us
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Seth Godin
selka
, November 04, 2009
A light chat about how our modern society is communicating in a way that gives anyone with passion a position of influence. Concise concept; easy read.
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Kin Of Ata Are Waiting For You
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Dorothy Bryant
selka
, November 04, 2009
Spectacular! A magical, unforgettable, perfect success of a novel.
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Nobody's Father: Life Without Kids
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Bruce Gillespie
selka
, November 04, 2009
After the unparalleled, exceptional precedent of Nobody's Mother, a series of essays by women without children, I was unfortunately disappointed by Nobody's Father. I found the voices of the childless/childfree men in this volume to be without conviction, weak, and superficial. I had high expectations and was hoping for the depth, diversity and strength of the women's edition. Although a very important effort on an underexamined social topic, this book could have had tougher editing.
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The Reluctant Shaman: A Woman's First Encounters with the Unseen Spirits of the Earth
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Kay C. Whitaker
selka
, November 03, 2009
If you're interested in shamanic discovery, this is a very good first-person story of one woman's unexpected initiation. I appreciated her descriptive, emotional writing, her personal, feminine perspective, and the fast-moving narrative - so startling for the reader as to be unimaginable as reality for the writer.
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Far Journeys
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Robert A Monroe
selka
, November 03, 2009
This is the second of Robert Monroe's classic books on Out of Body experience, and it launches right out there into full-on boundless exploration. There is so much going on that he even builds his own vocabulary in an attempt to translate the non-physical experience. Monroe's writing shaped my view of the “afterworld” and my spirituality when I first read it in my early twenties, and his series of books remain the most thorough, scientific, and "action-packed" I've ever read on the subject. A must-read on the OOBE topic.
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Journeys Out of the Body
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Robert A Monroe
selka
, November 03, 2009
A classic in the field of Out of Body exploration. From a modern perspective, the writing style is dated, slow moving, and burdened by defensive explication, but what he has to say is important and all his books retain must-read status for anyone interested in the Out of Body phenomenon.
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Shakespeare: The World as Stage
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Bryson, Bill
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, November 03, 2009
Lovely. With the novel premise of defining the very lean menu of things we “know for sure” about the Bard, it distinguishes itself from the hordes of Shakespeare biographies by avidly shunning speculation and conjecture. Bryson builds a concise, informative picture of Shakespeare's place in history in a very readable, entertaining, engaging way, while exploring how and where the "facts" we think we know about Shakespeare developed along the way, too.
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Roomanitarian
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Henry Rollins
selka
, November 03, 2009
Rollins, unchanged. If he's your thing, it's more of the same. To me: disappointing. In my late teens, Henry Rollins was a hero of mine because of his straight talk on rage, athleticism, social hypocrisy, and the importance of shunning drugs and alcohol. What he had to say was very important to me then, but to read something recent and see he’s still saying the exact same thing in the same way as 15 years ago was a bit of a letdown. I’ve evolved so much, I hoped to see how a man I deeply admired had also done so.
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Holy Man
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Susan Trott
selka
, November 03, 2009
Perfect, fabulous, sweetly brilliant. This is one of my life-long favorite books. It’s heartwarming, hilarious, well written and a pleasure to read, and also gives you a virtuous sense of growth and time well spent, even after multiple rereads. There's always something to learn from the Holy Man's ample but gently offered wisdom. An ideal gift book.
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Hottest State
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Ethan Hawke
selka
, November 01, 2009
An absolutely torturous plunge into the hormone ridden twenty-something world of first love. Torturous because that world is very skillfully evoked, and swirls and surges up and down at a desperate, realistic pace just like the emotions of one’s early twenties. I appreciate his skill, and close the book most grateful to no longer be in my twenties myself.
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Stacked
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Susan Seligson
selka
, November 01, 2009
A wickedly readable exploration of the importance breasts have in our culture, and what it's like to have a big pair. Completely fascinating, and will be equally interesting reading whether or not you sport a pair of breasts yourself. You're guaranteed to learn something. I found myself wishing it was much longer. Even though she efficiently covers a lot of ground, it seemed like it could have been three times as long, and I was sorry when it was over.
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Golden Spruce A True Story of Myth Madness & Greed
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Vaillant, John
selka
, January 29, 2007
Fantastic! Powerful, engaging, and informative.
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