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Powells.com Top 50 books for Wednesday, June 19
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
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#2
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Bad Monkey Signed Edition
by Carl Hiaasen
Publisher Comments
Carl Hiaasen is back doing what he does best: spinning a wickedly funny, fiercely pointed tale in which the greedy, the corrupt, and the degraders of pristine land in Florida — now, in the Bahamas too — get their comeuppance in mordantly... (read more)
Your price: $26.95
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#3
Literature
The Son Signed 1st Edition
by Philipp Meyer
Publisher Comments
Part epic of Texas, part classic coming-of-age story, part unflinching portrait of the bloody price of power, The Son is an utterly transporting novel that maps the legacy of violence in the American West through the lives of the McCulloughs, an... (read more)
Your price: $27.99
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#4
Special
TransAtlantic Signed Edition
by Colum McCann
Publisher Comments
In the National Book Award–winning Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann thrilled readers with a marvelous high-wire act of fiction that The New York Times Book Review called “an emotional tour de force.” Now McCann demonstrates once... (read more)
Your price: $27.00
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#5
Special
#6
Sports and Fitness
#7
Literature
The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien
Publisher Comments
One of the first questions people ask about The Things They Carried is this: is it a novel, or a collection of short stories? The title page refers to the book simply as "a work of fiction," defying the conscientious reader's need to categorize this... (read more)
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#8
Science Fiction and Fantasy
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
by Neil Gaiman
Publisher Comments
A brilliantly imaginative and poignant fairy tale from the modern master of wonder and terror, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is Neil Gaiman's first new novel for adults since his #1 New York Times bestseller Anansi Boys. This bewitching and harrowing... (read more)
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#9
Special
Full-Rip 9.0 Signed Edition
by Sandi Doughton
Publisher Comments
Scientists have identified Seattle, Portland, and Vancouver as the urban centers of what will be the biggest earthquake, also called a mega-quake, in the continental United States. A quake will happen — in fact it's actually overdue. The Cascadia... (read more)
Your price: $23.95
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#10
Children's Young Adult
Little Blue Truck
by Alice Schertle and Jill McElmurry
Publisher Comments
“Neigh!” said a horse. “Quack!” said a duck. “Beep!” said the friendly Little Blue Truck. Little Blue Truck is a joyful cacophony of animal and truck sounds that will have youngsters beeping and quacking —... (read more)
Your price: $6.99
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#11
Children's Middle Readers
Brisingr 1st Edition
by Christopher Paolini
Staff Pick
Brilliant! This, the third book in the Inheritance Cycle, was well worth the wait. There are dragons, thrills, and action aplenty — enough to satisfy any reader.... (read more)
List price: $27.50
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#12
Cooking and Food
True Brews: How to Craft Fermented Cider, Beer, Wine, Sake, Soda, Mead, Kefir, and Kombucha at Home
by Emma Christensen
Publisher Comments
This accessible home-brew guide for alcoholic and non-alcoholic fermented drinks, from Apartment Therapy: The Ktichn's Emma Christensen, offers a wide range of simple yet enticing recipes for Root Beer, Honey Green Tea Kombucha, Pear Cider, Gluten-Free... (read more)
Your price: $23.00
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#13
Literature
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
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#14
Science Fiction and Fantasy
Ready Player One
by Ernest Cline
Staff Pick
I had many books on my to-read list, but this one jumped straight to the top as soon as I got my hands on a copy. It has everything I love about video games and cartoons and anime from the '80s. The pacing of the book is great, and it quickly became one... (read more)
Your price: $14.00
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#15
Featured Titles
Counterclockwise Signed Edition
by Lauren Kessler
Publisher Comments
In this age of lunchtime lifts, wrinkle-erasing injections, furrow fillers, and lip plumpers, there's no question that anyone who aims to look younger easily can. But Lauren Kessler wants something more than to follow the cosmetic path to youthfulness... (read more)
Your price: $24.99
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#16
Gardening
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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#17
Literature
Atlas Shrugged
by Ayn Rand
Publisher Comments
Ayn Rand's epochal novel, first published in 1957, has been a bestseller for more than four decades as well as an intellectual landmark. It is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world — and did. Was he a destroyer or the... (read more)
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#18
Self Help
#19
Science Fiction and Fantasy
The Dog Stars (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Peter Heller
Staff Pick
A post-apocalyptic story with an open, elegant heart, Heller's debut novel follows a pilot, Hig, and an ex-military man, Bangley, in their fight for survival. Although stuck together in an uneasy partnership, they each flawlessly compensate for the... (read more)
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#20
Literature
Beautiful Ruins (P.S.)
by Jess Walter
Staff Pick
Jess Walter gets nearer the Pulitzer with Beautiful Ruins. Chance meetings during the 1962 filming of Cleopatra in Italy set in motion events that spiral into the present day. Walter captures perfectly how the best part of life is that it doesn't turn... (read more)
Your price: $15.99
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#21
Featured Titles
Joyland
by Stephen King
Publisher Comments
A STUNNING NEW NOVEL FROM ONE OF THE BEST-SELLING AUTHORS OF ALL TIME! Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the... (read more)
Your price: $12.95
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#22
Western Civilization
#23
Literature
And the Mountains Echoed Signed 1st Edition
by Khaled Hosseini
Publisher Comments
An unforgettable novel about finding a lost piece of yourself in someone else. Khaled Hosseini, the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, has written a new novel about how we love, how we take care of... (read more)
Your price: $28.95
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#24
Literature
Bring Up the Bodies (A John MacRae Book)
by Hilary Mantel
Staff Pick
Would the sequel live up to expectations? Actually, yes. Hilary Mantel's talent for rich detail and sensuous atmosphere is still apparent, and Bring Up the Bodies is, in some ways, a much more gripping, riveting, and textured read than Wolf Hall. For one... (read more)
List price: $16.00
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#25
Children's Young Adult
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games #1)
by Suzanne Collins
Staff Pick
Destined for widespread popularity and quite possibly a little controversy, this post-apocalyptic tale about teenagers who fight to the death to help feed their families is so riveting and heartbreaking, I ceased all essential functions until I finished... (read more)
List price: $10.99
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#26
Literature
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey
Publisher Comments
An international bestseller and the basis for a hugely successful film, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was one of the defining works of the 1960s. A mordant, wickedly subversive parable set in a mental ward, the novel chronicles the head-on... (read more)
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#27
Children's
Drama
by Raina Telgemeier
Publisher Comments
Raina Telgemeier, the New York Times bestselling author of the Eisner Award winner, Smile, brings us her next full-color graphic novel... Drama! Callie loves theater. And while she would totally try out for her middle school's production of Moon Over... (read more)
Your price: $10.99
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#28
Metaphysics
#29
Literature
Wolf Hall
by Hilary Mantel
Staff Pick
Do we really need another sweeping historical epic set in 16th-century England? One which possesses at its heart yet another subplot about Henry VIII and his volatile affections? We certainly do if the novel is written by Hilary Mantel. Written in a... (read more)
Your price: $16.00
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#30
Literature
Light Between Oceans
by M.L. Stedman
Publisher Comments
After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day’s journey from the coast. To this isolated island where the supply boat comes once a... (read more)
Your price: $16.00
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#31
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: $15.00
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#32
Popular Fiction
The Cabinet of Curiosities
by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Staff Pick
Weird happenings at NYC's Museum of Natural History follow the discovery of a 19th-century, mass grave. Spines cut from corpses. Impalements on dinosaur horns. It's all frightful enough to rouse the FBI's quirkiest investigator — the pale, enigmatic... (read more)
Your price: $7.99
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#33
Science Fiction and Fantasy
The Once and Future King
by T. H. White
Publisher Comments
T.H. White's masterful retelling of the saga of King Arthur is a fantasy classic as legendary as Excalibur and Camelot, and a poignant story of adventure, romance, and magic that has enchanted readers for generations.... (read more)
List price: $8.99
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#34
Featured Titles
The Boys in the Boat Signed Edition
by Daniel James Brown
Publisher Comments
For readers of Laura Hillenbrand's Seabiscuit and Unbroken, the dramatic story of the American rowing team that stunned the world at Hitler's 1936 Berlin Olympics. Daniel James Brown’s robust book tells the story of the University of Washington... (read more)
Your price: $28.95
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Business
#36
Latin America
#37
Featured Titles
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
by Max Brooks
Publisher Comments
Just in time for the release of the blockbuster Summer movie, World War Z, this boxed set includes two New York Times bestsellers from Max Brooks: World War Z and The Zombie Survival Guide. The box features line art from the graphic novel, Zombie... (read more)
Your price: $14.95
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#38
Construction
#39
Cooking and Food
Tea: History, Terroirs, Varieties
by Kevin Gascoyne
PW Review
"Tea has been a hallmark of civilization for millennia, having originated in China and spread across the globe. Throughout the years, a rich art and a complex science have developed around the cultivation and consumption of tea. Drawing on the collective... (read more)
List price: $24.95
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#40
Children's
Opposites (Boynton Board Books)
by Sandra Boynton
Synopsis
Serious silliness for all ages. Artist Sandra Boynton is back and better than ever with completely redrawn versions of her multi-million selling board books. These whimsical and hilarious books, featuring nontraditional texts and her famous animal... (read more)
Your price: $5.99
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#41
Cooking and Food
Seed, Soil, Sun: Earth's Recipe for Food
by Cris Peterson
Publisher Comments
Seed. Soil. Sun. With these simple ingredients, nature creates our food. Noted author Cris Peterson brings both wonder and clarity to the subject of agriculture, celebrating the cycle of growth, harvest, and renewal in this American Farm Bureau... (read more)
Your price: $7.95
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#42
Children's Nonfiction
Baby Animals (DK Touch and Feel)
by Inc. (cor) Dorling Kindersley
Publisher Comments
DK's beloved bestselling series gets a fresh new look With a sparkling new look, these bestselling DK classics are sure to become classics for a whole new generation of young readers. Babies and toddlers will be drawn to the captivating, tactile pages... (read more)
Your price: $6.99
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#43
Children's
Bubble Trouble (Rookie Readers: Level B)
by Joy N. Hulme
Publisher Comments
Rookie Readers "RM" have provided entertaining, high-quality introductions to reading for more than a generation. Each title features full-color, often hilarious illustrations and engaging stories that always involve a young child figuring out concepts... (read more)
Your price: $4.95
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#44
Children's
Fenway Fever
by John H. Ritter
Publisher Comments
Tom Gallagher finds himself in a tight spot. The fate of Dillontown rests on the outcome of one baseball game, winner take all. And it's all because Tom had to open his big mouth. If only he could get Dante Del Gato-the greatest hitter to ever play the... (read more)
Your price: $7.99
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#45
Foreign Languages
Mi Pais Inventado: Un Paseo Nostalgico Por Chile
by Isabel Allende
Publisher Comments
< p> El primer recuerdo que Isabel Allende tiene de Chile es el de una casa que nunca conoci& #243; la casa grande y vieja de la calle Cueto, donde naci& #243; su madre. Esta casa, evocada por su abuelo con tanta frecuencia que Isabel cree... (read more)
Your price: $12.99
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#46
Sports and Fitness
Ultimate Golf Techniques
by Malcolm Campbell
Publisher Comments
Over 500 lessons and tops from the world's greatest golf masters, gathered together in one volume. Would you like to have the graceful swing of Fred Couples,the winning power of Laura Davies, and the inventive genius of Severiano Ballesteros? You can... (read more)
List price: $34.95
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#47
Children's
Little Bear (I Can Read Books: Level 1)
by Else Minarik
Staff Pick
Most of my reading these days is done by request, and Little Bear is always in heavy rotation.
What can't that Little Bear do? He makes soup! He's a snow-day nudist! He goes to the "moon"! He convinces his mother to recap the previous three stories for... (read more)
Your price: $2.95
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#48
Children's Middle Readers
#49
Literature
Flight Behavior (P.S.)
by Barbara Kingsolver
Publisher Comments
New York Times Notable Book Washington Post Best Book Of The Year Amazon's Top 100: Editor's Choice Usa Today Best Book Of The Year Dellarobia Turnbow is a restless farm wife who gave up her own plans when she accidentally became pregnant at... (read more)
Your price: $16.99
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#50
Literature
In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences
by Truman Capote
Publisher Comments
National Bestseller On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and... (read more)
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