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Awards for 2009 National Book Award for Poetry $19.95 New Trade Paper add to wish list New California Poetry #27: Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy Keith Waldrop Publisher Comments: "Keith Waldrop is one of the freshest, strongest poets in our language. Transcendental Studies shows how good he really is. Intelligence and lyricism live together in his work, exalted intellect and sly cunning, playfulness and heartbreak, they all dance... (read more) National Book Award for Young People's Literature $13.95 Used Hardcover add to wish list Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice Phillip Hoose Publisher Comments: “When it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. You cant sugarcoat it. You have to take a stand and say, ‘This is not right.” – Claudette Colvin On March 2, 1955, an impassioned teenager, fed up with the daily injustices... (read more) National Book Award for Nonfiction $37.50 New Hardcover add to wish list The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt T. J. Stiles Publisher Comments: A gripping, groundbreaking biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will created modern capitalism. Founder of a dynasty, builder of the original Grand Central, creator of an impossibly vast fortune, Cornelius “Commodore”... (read more) National Book Award for Fiction $10.50 Used Trade Paper add to wish list Let the Great World Spin Colum McCann eBook available Staff Pick: McCann chooses to describe one day in the life of New York City, the day in 1974 that the aerialist walked between the not-quite-finished Twin Towers. The chasm between rich and poor, the joy of connection, and the inevitability of our mortality are told through the lives of six different New Yorkers, including that incredible man dancing on that thin wire who epitomizes joy and triumph, if only for a short and precarious time. If you love New York, you’ve got to read this book. If you love the human journey towards the possible, you’ve got to read this book. Recommended by Miriam, Powells.com Past Winners Fiction 2008 $7.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list Shadow Country: A New Rendering of the Watson Legend Peter Matthiessen Poetry 2008 $7.98 Sale Trade Paper add to wish list Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems Mark Doty Young Peoples Literature 2008 $9.95 Used Hardcover add to wish list What I Saw and How I Lied Judy Blundell Fiction 2007 $5.48 Used Hardcover add to wish list Tree of Smoke: A Novel Denis Johnson Nonfiction 2007 $15.95 Used Hardcover add to wish list Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA Tim Weiner Young Peoples Literature 2007 $9.95 Used Hardcover add to wish list The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Sherman Alexie Fiction 2006 $6.95 Used Hardcover add to wish list The Echo Maker: A Novel Richard Powers Nonfiction 2006 $9.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl Timothy Egan Poetry 2006 $6.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list Splay Anthem Nathaniel Mackey Young Peoples Literature 2006 $12.50 Used Hardcover add to wish list The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume One: The Pox Party M. T. Anderson Fiction 2005 $10.50 Used Hardcover add to wish list Europe Central William T. Vollmann Nonfiction 2005 $5.95 Used Hardcover add to wish list The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion Poetry 2005 $40.00 New Hardcover add to wish list Migration: New & Selected Poems W. S. Merwin Young Peoples Literature 2005 $8.50 Used Hardcover add to wish list The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy Jeanne Birdsall Fiction 2004 $9.95 Used Hardcover add to wish list The News from Paraguay Lily Tuck Poetry 2004 $29.95 New Hardcover add to wish list Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003 (Wesleyan Poetry) Jean Valentine Young Peoples Literature 2004 $15.95 New Hardcover add to wish list Godless Pete Hautman Fiction 2003 $6.95 Used Hardcover add to wish list The Great Fire Shirley Hazzard Nonfiction 2003 $11.50 Used Hardcover add to wish list Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy Carlos Eire Poetry 2003 $3.25 Used Hardcover add to wish list The Singing C K Williams Young Peoples Literature 2003 $8.50 Used Hardcover add to wish list The Canning Season Polly Horvath 1 2 3 4 5 ... 6 next»

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