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Powells.com Top 50 books for Friday, May 24
Welcome to Powell's Bestseller Room. If you're looking for a dependable recommendation, you're in the right place. Each week we stock our shelves with our customers' current favorites. And since Powell's prides itself on our cut-above-the-rest clientele, why not follow their lead?
#1
Special
#2
Cooking and Food
Cooked Signed 1st Edition
by Michael Pollan
Publisher Comments
Fire, water, air, earth — our most trusted food expert recounts the story of his culinary education. In Cooked, Michael Pollan explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen. Here, he discovers the enduring power of the four... (read more)
Your price: $27.95
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#3
Science Fiction and Fantasy
NOS4A2 Signed 1st Edition
by Joe Hill
Publisher Comments
Joe Hill, the acclaimed, award-winning author of the New York Times bestsellers Heart-Shaped Box and Horns, plunges you into the dark side of imagination with a thrilling novel of supernatural suspense that will have you flinching at shadows and checking... (read more)
Your price: $28.99
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#4
Featured Titles
Paprika (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Yasutaka Tsutsui
Publisher Comments
Widely acknowledged as Yasutaka Tsutsui's masterpiece, Paprika unites his surreal, quirky imagination with a mind-bending narrative about a psychiatric institute that has developed the technology to invade people's dreams. When prototype models of a... (read more)
List price: $15.00
Your price: $12.00
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#5
Literature
A Wild Sheep Chase
by Haruki Murakami
Publisher Comments
A marvelous hybrid of mythology and mystery, A Wild Sheep Chase is the extraordinary literary thriller that launched Haruki Murakami's international reputation. A lonely 20-something young man begins a surreal quest in which he confronts not only a herd... (read more)
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#6
Science Fiction and Fantasy
Wool
by Hugh Howey
Publisher Comments
In a ruined and toxic landscape, a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep. There, men and women live in a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect them. Sheriff Holston, who has unwaveringly upheld the... (read more)
Your price: $26.00
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#7
Business
#8
Featured Titles
Snow Country
by Yasunari Kawabata
Publisher Comments
Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata’s Snow Country is widely considered to be the writer’s masterpiece: a powerful tale of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty of western Japan. At an isolated mountain hot spring, with snow blanketing... (read more)
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#9
Cooking and Food
Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone
by Deborah Madison
Staff Pick
Working at Catacombs warehouse, I run across many, many cookbooks, and more often than not take them home to try them out. This cookbook has quickly become one of my favorites. Every recipe — really, every one! — that I've tried so far has been... (read more)
List price: $40.00
Your price: $14.98
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#10
Literature
Spring Snow (Sea of Fertility #1)
by Yukio Mishima
Publisher Comments
The first novel of Mishima's landmark tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility, Spring Snow is set in Tokyo in 1912, when the hermetic world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders — rich provincial families unburdened by... (read more)
List price: $16.00
Your price: $10.50
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#11
Literature
Villain (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
by Shuichi Yoshida
Publisher Comments
A young insurance saleswoman is found strangled at Mitsuse Pass. Her family and friends are shocked and terrified. The pass — which tunnels through a mountainous region of southern Japan — has an eerie history: a hideout for robbers... (read more)
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#12
Literature
The Woman in the Dunes
by Kobo Abe
Publisher Comments
The Woman in the Dunes, by celebrated writer and thinker Kobo Abe, combines the essence of myth, suspense and the existential novel. After missing the last bus home following a day trip to the seashore, an amateur entomologist is offered lodging for the... (read more)
List price: $15.00
Your price: $9.95
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#13
Literature
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
by Haruki Murakami
From Powells.com
Haruki
Murakami is generally considered the greatest Japanese writer of his generation,
but at times he seems more in tune with the culture of the West than of his native
country. Throughout his work, the food, music, movies, and literature... (read more)
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#14
Sustainable Living
Permaculture: A Designers' Manual
by Bill Mollison
Publisher Comments
This is the definitive Permaculture design manual in print since 1988. It is the textbook and curriculum for the 72-hour Certificate course in Permaculture Design.
Written for teachers, students and designers, it follows on and greatly enlarges on the... (read more)
Your price: $104.45
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#15
Foreign Languages
Essential Kanji
by P. G. O'neill
Publisher Comments
Essential Kanji is an integrated course for learning to read and write the 2,000 basic Japanese characters. It introduces the kanji that are now in everyday use, a mastery of which makes it possible to read most modern Japanese. Devised for either home... (read more)
Your price: $24.95
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#16
Literature
Thousand Cranes
by Yasunari Kawabata
Publisher Comments
Thousand Cranes, by Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata, is a luminous story of desire, regret, and the almost sensual nostalgia that binds the living to the dead. While attending a traditional tea ceremony in the aftermath of his parents’ deaths,... (read more)
List price: $15.00
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#17
Romance
#18
Featured Titles
Seven Japanese Tales
by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
Publisher Comments
In these seven stories, the author of The Makioka Sisters explores the territory where love becomes self-annihilation, where the contemplation of beauty gives way to fetishism, and where tradition becomes an instrument of refined cruelty.... (read more)
List price: $16.00
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#19
Featured Titles
In the Body of the World Signed Edition
by Eve Ensler
Publisher Comments
From the bestselling author of The Vagina Monologues and one of Newsweek's 150 Women Who Changed the World, a visionary memoir of separation and connection — to the body, the self, and the world. Playwright, author, and activist Eve Ensler has... (read more)
Your price: $25.00
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#20
Mystery
#21
Literature
Naomi
by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
Publisher Comments
Na-o-mi. The three syllables of this name, unusual in 1920s Japan, captivate a 28-year-old engineer, who soon becomes infatuated with the girl so named, a teenaged café waitress. Drawn to her Eurasian features and innocent demeanor, Joji is eager... (read more)
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#22
Popular Fiction
The Sixth Man
by David Baldacci
Publisher Comments
Edgar Roy-an alleged serial killer held in a secure, fortress-like Federal Supermax facility-is awaiting trial. He faces almost certain conviction. Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are called in by Roy's attorney, Sean's old friend and mentor Ted Bergin... (read more)
List price: $10.00
Your price: $3.95
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#23
Featured Titles
Life after Life
by Kate Atkinson
Publisher Comments
What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is... (read more)
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#24
Health and Medicine
#25
Literature
Norwegian Wood
by Haruki Murakami
Publisher Comments
This stunning and elegiac novel by the author of the internationally acclaimed Wind-Up Bird Chronicle has sold over 4 million copies in Japan and is now available to American audiences for the first time. It is sure to be a literary event.
Toru, a... (read more)
List price: $15.00
Your price: $12.00
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#26
Special
Go Big or Go Home Signed Edition
by Kat Von D
Publisher Comments
Renowned tattoo artist, author of New York Times bestsellers High Voltage Tattoos and The Tattoo Chronicles, and star of LA Ink, Kat Von D raises the bar with her most intimate work yet: Go Big or Go Home: Taking Risks in Life, Love, and Tattooing. Kat... (read more)
Your price: $29.99
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#27
Health and Medicine
Whole Life Nutrition Cookbook, 2nd Edition
by Alissa Segersten and Tom Malterre
Publisher Comments
Eating a whole foods, oligo-antigenic diet can change your health and your life. An oligo-antigenic diet reduces or eliminates foods you are sensitive to.
Completely eliminating foods, such as gluten and dairy for some people, while increasing fresh... (read more)
Your price: $22.95
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#28
Philosophy
Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
by Daniel C. Dennett
Publisher Comments
Over a storied career, Daniel C. Dennett has engaged questions about science and the workings of the mind. His answers have combined rigorous argument with strong empirical grounding. And a lot of fun. Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking offers... (read more)
List price: $28.95
Your price: $20.27
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#29
Literature
Grotesque (Vintage International)
by Natsuo Kirino
Publisher Comments
Life at the prestigious Q High School for Girls in Tokyo exists on a precise social axis: a world of insiders and outsiders, of haves and have-nots. Beautiful Yuriko and her unpopular, unnamed sister exist in different spheres; the hopelessly awkward... (read more)
List price: $15.95
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#30
Mystery
The Man Who Smiled (Kurt Wallander Mysteries # 4)
by Henning Mankell
Publisher Comments
After killing a man in the line of duty, Kurt Wallander resolves to quit the Ystad police. However, a bizarre case gets under his skin. A lawyer driving home at night stops to investigate an effigy sitting in a chair in the middle of the highway. The... (read more)
List price: $15.00
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#31
Mystery
The Dogs of Riga (Kurt Wallander #2)
by Henning Mankell
Publisher Comments
The first three novels in Henning Manning's Kurt Wallander series are now available in a trade paperback set. Mystery fans across America are discovering the international bestseller Henning Mankell and his character Kurt Wallander, the veteran... (read more)
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#32
Mythology
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
by Joseph Campbell
Publisher Comments
Despite their infinite variety of incident, setting, and costume, the myths of the world offer only a limited number of responses to the riddle of life. In this best-selling volume, Joseph Campbell presents the composite hero. Through Campbell's eyes, we... (read more)
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#33
Cooking and Food
#34
Humor
Famous Faces
by Takkoda
Publisher Comments
The ideal gift for anybody who enjoys a laugh For all who love... (read more)
Your price: $15.95
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#35
Crime
#36
Children's Young Adult
When Sophie Gets Angry Really, Really Angry...
by Molly Bang
Publisher Comments
This beautifully designed book tells the story of a little girl named Sophie, who learns that it's okay to be angry. Calmed by simple "time out" activities, such as watching the waves and the rustling branches, Sophie is soon smiling and feeling much... (read more)
Your price: $17.99
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#37
Featured Titles
VJ: The Unplugged Adventures of MTV's First Wave
by Nina Blackwood and Mark Goodman and Alan Hunter and Martha Quinn and Gavin Edwards
Publisher Comments
MTV’s original VJs offer a behind-the-scenes oral history of the early years of MTV, 1981 to 1987, when it was exploding, reshaping the culture, and creating “the MTV generation.” Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter, and Martha... (read more)
Your price: $25.00
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#38
Reference
#39
Beauty and Fashion
#40
Children's
Gregor the Overlander: Underland Chronicles #1
by Suzanne Collins
Publisher Comments
In the irresistible first novel by the author of The Hunger Games, a boy embarks on a dangerous quest in order to fulfill his destiny -- and find his father. New cover art coming July 1st! In the first novel of the New York Times bestselling series by... (read more)
Your price: $6.99
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#41
Featured Titles
The Woman Upstairs
by Claire Messud
Publisher Comments
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Emperor’s Children, a masterly new novel: the riveting confession of a woman awakened, transformed and betrayed by a desire for a world beyond her own. Nora Eldridge, an elementary school teacher... (read more)
List price: $25.95
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#42
Children's
The Empty Pot
by Demi
Publisher Comments
A long time ago in China there was a boy named Ping who loved flowers. Anything he planted burst into bloom. The Emperor loved flowers too. When it was time to choose an heir, he gave a flower seed to each child in the kingdom. "Whoever can show me their... (read more)
Your price: $17.99
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#43
Literature
The Tiger's Wife
by Tea Obreht
Staff Pick
The postwar chaos in the Balkans provides the backdrop for Obreht's superbly crafted debut. A young physician seeks to unravel the mystery that surrounds both her grandfather's death and the mystifying Deathless Man he encountered throughout his adult... (read more)
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#44
Children's
#45
Humor
Phaic Tan PB
by Santo Cilauro
Publisher Comments
From the Australian team that created the bestselling "Molvania" comes another hilarious send-up of the always-culturally sensitive travel guide. Jetlag's travel guide is the essential guide for the undiscerning traveler.... (read more)
Your price: $13.95
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#46
Christianity
Esther Member Book: It's Tough Being a Woman
by Beth Moore
Synopsis
Beth Moores newest Bible study is Esther: Its Tough Being a Woman. Esther may have been a queen, but her life was no fairy tale. An outsider, a foreigner, and an orphan, she found herself facing an evil plan to destroy her people. And you thought your... (read more)
Your price: $24.75
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#47
Popular Fiction
The Third Twin
by Ken Follett
Publisher Comments
Through her research on twins and the genetic components of aggression, scientist Jeannie Ferrami makes a startling discovery. Using a restricted FBI database, she finds two young men who appear to be identical twins: Steve, a law student, and Dennis: a... (read more)
Your price: $7.99
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#48
Audio Books
#49
Business
#50
Science Fiction and Fantasy
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Publisher Comments
From two delightful imaginations comes an unforgettable story in which the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ride motorcycles, the hound of the devil chases sticks, and the end of the world is subject to Murphy's Law...... (read more)
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