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Powells.com Top 50 books for Wednesday, May 16
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
Featured Titles
Are You My Mother? Signed Edition
by Alison Bechdel
Publisher Comments
From the best-selling author of Fun Home, Time magazines No. 1 Book of the Year, a brilliantly told graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her mother wanted to be. Alison Bechdel's Fun Home was a pop culture and literary phenomenon. Now, a... (read more)
Your price: $22.00
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#2
Literature
Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades Trilogy #1)
by E. L. James
Publisher Comments
When literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who is beautiful, brilliant, and intimidating. The unworldly, innocent Ana is startled to realize she wants this man and, despite his... (read more)
Your price: $15.95
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#3
Special
#4
Outdoors
Wild Signed 1st Edition
by Cheryl Strayed
Publisher Comments
A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe — and built her back up again.
At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake... (read more)
Your price: $25.95
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#5
Erotica
Fifty Shades Darker (Fifty Shades Trilogy #2)
by E L James
Publisher Comments
Daunted by the singular tastes and dark secrets of the beautiful, tormented young entrepreneur Christian Grey, Anastasia Steele has broken off their relationship to start a new career with a Seattle publishing house. But desire for Christian... (read more)
Your price: $15.95
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#6
Children's
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: $8.99
Your price: $6.50
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#7
Literature
Fifty Shades Freed (Fifty Shades Trilogy #3)
by E L James
Publisher Comments
When unworldly student Anastasia Steele first encountered the driven and dazzling young entrepreneur Christian Grey it sparked a sensual affair that changed both of their lives irrevocably. Shocked, intrigued, and, ultimately, repelled by Christian’... (read more)
Your price: $15.95
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#8
Featured Titles
The Listeners
by Leni Zumas
Special Offer
Introducing Indiespensable #33: The Listeners, by Leni Zumas
Subscribers receive:
* A custom hardcover edition of The Listeners produced exclusively for Indiespensable and signed by the author
* The Powells.com interview and Indiespensable Q&A... (read more)
List price: $15.95
Your price: $11.17
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#9
Literature
The Art of Fielding
by Chad Harbach
Staff Pick
If it weren't for the Morning News Tournament of Books, I would never have read The Art of Fielding. Baseball? No, thanks. But have no fear — it's not really a book about baseball. Henry Skrimshander is a shortstop prodigy who lives and... (read more)
Your price: $14.99
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#10
Children's
#11
Children's
#12
Science Fiction and Fantasy
A Clash of Kings:Song of Ice and Fire #02
by George R. R. Martin
Publisher Comments
A NEW ORIGINAL SERIES, NOW ON HBO. George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series has become, in many ways, the gold standard for modern epic fantasy. Martin—dubbed the “American Tolkien” by Time magazine—has... (read more)
Your price: $8.99
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#13
Cooking and Food
Ball Blue Book Guide to Preserving
by Ball
Publisher Comments
The Ball Blue Book of Preserving is the classic American guide to keeping fresh-tasting food on hand. Here you will find answers to every food preservation question, including vacuum sealing and packing with the Tilia FoodSaver, as well as unique gift... (read more)
Your price: $8.95
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#14
Small Press
#15
Crafts
#16
Literature
Home Signed 1st Edition
by Toni Morrison
Publisher Comments
America’s most celebrated novelist, Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison extends her profound take on our history with this twentieth-century tale of redemption: a taut and tortured story about one man’s desperate search for himself in a world... (read more)
Your price: $24.00
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#17
Children's
I Want My Hat Back
by Jon Klassen
Staff Pick
Jon Klassen's charming picture book transcends age. The story is simple but utterly hilarious. The illustrations are pointed and evocative; the way Klassen draws the animals' eyes, alone, is worth the price of admission. I've recommended this book more... (read more)
Your price: $15.99
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#18
Business
#19
Literature
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher Comments
Slaughterhous-Five is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid... (read more)
Your price: $7.99
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#20
Education
The Absorbent Mind
by Maria Montessori
Publisher Comments
In response to the crisis in American education, more than five thousand public and private schools across the nation have adopted the timeless Montessori Method of teaching, of which this book is the cornerstone. Written by the women whose name is... (read more)
Your price: $18.99
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#21
Mystery
In the Woods
by Tana French
Staff Pick
The only thing more exciting than a great thriller is a terrific debut by a great thriller writer! Tana French makes a tremendous splash with In the Woods, a harrowing mystery in the vein of Mystic River that wholly earns the comparison. I dare you to... (read more)
List price: $15.00
Your price: $6.95
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#22
Psychology
#23
Crafts
The Knitter's Companion [With 2 DVDs]
by Vicki Square
Synopsis
Now with two bonus instructional DVDs, The Knitters Companion Deluxe Edition is every knitters perfect reference guide! Chock-full of techniques, illustrations, and definitions, this resource has everything you need for knitting with confidence. Inside... (read more)
Your price: $24.95
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#24
World History
The Labyrinth of Solitude
by Octavio Paz
Publisher Comments
Octavio Paz has long been acknowledged as Mexico's foremost writer and critic. In this international classic, Paz has written one of the most enduring and powerful works ever created on Mexico and its people, character, and culture. Compared to Ortega y... (read more)
Your price: $14.50
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#25
Children's Young Adult
The Hunger Games Trilogy (Boxed Set)
by Suzanne Collins
Staff Pick
The Hunger Games is the best series I've read in years. If you haven't read it, you're in for a dystopian treat. I recommend the boxed set because, as soon as you finish one book, you'll want to start the next one right away!... (read more)
Your price: $53.97
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#26
World History
Detroit: A Biography
by Scott Martelle
Publisher Comments
Detroit was established as a French settlement three-quarters of a century before the founding of this nation. A remote outpost built to protect trapping interests, it grew as agriculture expanded on the new frontier. Its industry took a great leap... (read more)
Your price: $24.95
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#27
Cooking and Food
The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook
by Deb Perelman
Publisher Comments
The long-awaited cookbook by Deb Perelman of Smitten Kitchen—home cook, mom, photographer, and celebrated food blogger. Deb Perelman loves to cook. It’s as simple as that. She isn’t a chef or a restaurant owner—she’s never... (read more)
Your price: $35.00
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#28
General
#29
Featured Titles
DNA USA Signed Edition
by Bryan Sykes
Publisher Comments
The best-selling author of The Seven Daughters of Eve now turns his sights on the United States, one of the most genetically variegated countries in the world. From the blue-blooded pockets of old-WASP New England to the vast tribal lands of the Navajo... (read more)
Your price: $27.95
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#30
Germany
#31
Biography
#32
Reference
#33
Featured Titles
The Finkler Question
by Howard Jacobson
Publisher Comments
"He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another. So he should have been prepared for this one…" Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular and disappointed BBC worker, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish... (read more)
List price: $25.00
Your price: $7.95
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#34
General
#35
Special
This Is How Signed Edition
by Augusten Burroughs
Publisher Comments
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Running With Scissors comes a groundbreaking book that explores how to survive the "un-survivable" and will challenge your notion of self-help books
To say that Augusten Burroughs has lived an unusual... (read more)
Your price: $24.99
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#36
Foreign Languages
Introduccion a La Permacultura
by Bill Mollison and Reny Mia Slay
Publisher Comments
Written to introduce readers to Permaculture concepts and design strategies.
Topics include: energy efficient site analysis, planning and design methods, house placement, design for temperate, dry-land and tropical regions, urban Permaculture garden... (read more)
Your price: $39.98
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#37
INTL ST
Occupy (Occupied Media Pamphlet)
by Noam Chomsky
Publisher Comments
Easy to read, affordable, loaded with photos and practical advice for activists, “Occupy is another vital contribution from Chomsky to the literature of defiance and protest, and a red-hot rallying call to forge a better, more egalitarian future....... (read more)
Your price: $9.95
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#38
Science Fiction and Fantasy
#39
Featured Titles
What Money Can't Buy Signed Edition
by Michael J Sandel
Publisher Comments
Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we allow corporations to pay for the right to pollute the atmosphere? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight... (read more)
Your price: $27.00
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#40
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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#41
Literature
Glaciers (Tin House New Voice)
by Alexis Smith
Publisher Comments
Isabel is a single, twenty-something thrift-store shopper and collector of remnants, things cast off or left behind by others. Glaciers follows Isabel through a day in her life in which work with damaged books in the basement of a library, unrequited... (read more)
List price: $10.95
Your price: $7.50
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#42
Sale Books
Perfect
by Ellen Hopkins
Publisher Comments
Everyone has something, someone, somewhere else that they’d rather be. For four high-school seniors, their goals of perfection are just as different as the paths they take to get there.
Cara's parents' unrealistic expectations have already sent... (read more)
List price: $18.99
Your price: $8.98
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#43
Science Fiction and Fantasy
A Dance with Dragons: Book 5 of a Song of Ice and Fire
by George R. R. Martin
Publisher Comments
GAME OF THRONES: A NEW ORIGINAL SERIES, NOW ON HBO. Dubbed the American Tolkien by Time magazine, George R. R. Martin has earned international acclaim for his monumental cycle of epic fantasy. Now the #1 New York Times bestselling author delivers the... (read more)
Your price: $10.94
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#44
Cooking and Food
#45
Crafts
#46
Sale Books
Mortal Instruments #04: City of Fallen Angels
by Cassandra Clare
Publisher Comments
Who will be tempted by darkness? Who will fall in love, and who will find their relationship torn apart? And who will betray everything they ever believed in?... (read more)
List price: $19.99
Your price: $8.98
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#47
Science Fiction and Fantasy
American Gods: A Novel
by Neil Gaiman
Staff Pick
Do you ever wonder where gods go when all their worshippers are gone? Neil Gaiman tries to answer that question. Some live quiet lives in the Midwest, some don't remember who they are, and others have plans. Gaiman, as always, has a unique voice and good... (read more)
List price: $15.99
Your price: $7.95
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#48
Gardening
#49
Children's
Holes
by Louis Sachar
Publisher Comments
Check out the Holes tour with Louis Sachar! Monday, October 20th, 7:00 p.m. Andersons Bookshop, Naperville, IL Tuesday, October 21st, 7:00 p.m., Barnes & Noble, Skokie, IL Wednesday, October 22nd, 7:00 p.m., Harry W. Schwartz Bookshop, Brookfield, WI... (read more)
List price: $6.50
Your price: $4.50
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#50
Children's
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