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Powells.com Top 50 books for Thursday, May 2
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
Dirty Wars Signed Edition
by Jeremy Scahill
Publisher Comments
In Dirty Wars, Jeremy Scahill, author of the New York Times best-seller Blackwater, takes us inside Americas new covert wars. The foot soldiers in these battles operate globally and inside the United States with orders from the White House to do whatever... (read more)
Your price: $29.99
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#2
Featured Titles
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 by Augusten Burroughs that explores how to survive what you think you can't. If you're fat and fail every diet, if you're thin but can't get... (read more)
Your price: $15.00
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#3
Special
NOS4A2 Signed 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
Special
#5
Pacific Northwest
#6
Literature
#7
Special
Grant's Getaways Signed Edition
by Grant McOmie
Publisher Comments
Emmy Award–winning journalist and fifth-generation Oregon native Grant McOmie provides travelers with an in depth guide to 101 of the best Oregon destinations featured in his popular television series Grant’s Getaways, produced by KGW-TV and... (read more)
Your price: $16.99
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#8
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Cheese and Beer Signed Edition
by Janet Fletcher
Publisher Comments
The booming worlds of artisan cheese and craft beer meet in this first-ever guide, an introduction to two dozen popular craft-beer styles and the cheeses that pair best with them. Cheese and Beer capitalizes on the rapidly growing audience for craft beer... (read more)
Your price: $24.99
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#9
Special
Bink and Gollie Signed Edition
by Kate Dicamillo
Publisher Comments
All righty, then! Celebrate the tall and short of a marvelous friendship with a new Bink and Gollie adventure. Gollie is quite sure she has royal blood in her veins, but can Bink survive her friends queenly airs — especially if pancakes are not... (read more)
Your price: $15.99
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#10
Humor
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
by David Sedaris
Publisher Comments
A new collection of essays from the #1 New York Times bestselling author who has been called "the preeminent humorist of his generation" by Entertainment Weekly.
From the unique perspective of David Sedaris comes a new book of essays taking his... (read more)
Your price: $27.00
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#11
Special
Attempting Normal Signed Edition
by Marc Maron
Publisher Comments
People make a mess. Marc Maron was a parent-scarred, angst-filled, drug-dabbling, love-starved comedian who dreamed of a simple life: a wife, a home, a sitcom to call his own. But instead he woke up one day to find himself fired from his radio job... (read more)
Your price: $26.00
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#12
Special
The Yellow Birds Signed Edition
by Kevin Powers
Publisher Comments
A novel written by a veteran of the war in Iraq, The Yellow Birds is the harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to stay alive.
"The war tried to kill us in the spring." So begins this powerful account of friendship and loss. In Al Tafar, Iraq... (read more)
Your price: $14.99
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#13
Popular Fiction
The Orphan Master's Son
by Adam Johnson
Publisher Comments
An epic novel that elevates its acclaimed author to a whole new level, The Orphan Master’s Son is a stunning work of fiction that follows a young man’s undercover journey in the world’s most mysterious dictatorship, North Korea. Pak Jun... (read more)
Your price: $15.00
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#14
Children's Young Adult
Bat 6
by Virginia Euwer Wolff
Publisher Comments
In a powerful book set in post-World War II Oregon, sixth graders from rival towns prepare for the 50th annual softball game. Two of the players--a Japanese American who spent the war in an internment camp and a girl whose father was killed at Pearl... (read more)
Your price: $5.99
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#15
Health and Medicine
#16
Literature
The Whispering Muse
by Sjon
Publisher Comments
Sjón is one of the world's great writers. His work has been championed by the likes of Junot Díaz, David Mitchell, Björk, A. S. Byatt, Hari Kunzru, Michel Faber, and Alberto Manguel, who calls The Whispering Muse “an... (read more)
Your price: $22.00
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#17
Special
Life After Life Signed Edition
by Jill McCorkle
Publisher Comments
Award-winning author Jill McCorkle takes us on a splendid journey through time and memory in this, her tenth work of fiction. Life After Life is filled with a sense of wonder at our capacity for self-discovery at any age. And the residents, staff, and... (read more)
Your price: $24.95
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#18
Gay and Lesbian
A Simple Revolution
by Judy Grahn
Publisher Comments
A Simple Revolution is a unique memoir and a dramatic narrative of Judy Grahn's working class roots, her army career and discharge for being lesbian, her education as one of the first whites to attend Howard University, and her life as a celebrated poet... (read more)
Your price: $24.95
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#19
Business
The Secret of Shelter Island: Money and What Matters
by Alexander Green
Publisher Comments
Praise for The Secret of Shelter Island "Times like these cause us all to reexamine what really matters in our lives. The Secret of Shelter Island provides fresh perspectives, deeply felt insights, and compelling ideas about how to lead a richer life... (read more)
Your price: $24.75
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#20
Literature
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
by Maria Semple
Publisher Comments
Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best... (read more)
List price: $14.99
Your price: $10.49
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#21
Special
Feed Signed Edition
by M. T. Anderson
Publisher Comments
Identity crises, consumerism, and star-crossed teenage love in a futuristic society where people connect to the Internet via feeds implanted in their brains. For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon — a chance to... (read more)
Your price: $8.99
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#22
Special
Captain Phil Harris Signed Edition
by Josh Harris and Jake Harris
Publisher Comments
The electrifying behind-the-scenes story of the late Deadliest Catch star, from his own two sons. Prior to his untimely death in 2010, Captain Phil Harris was a star of Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch, the hit show that follows the exhilarating... (read more)
Your price: $25.00
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#23
Science Fiction and Fantasy
Changes (Dresden Files #12)
by Jim Butcher
Staff Pick
Jim Butcher takes risks with Changes, his 12th Harry Dresden novel. Darker than usual, it lives up to the title. The risks pay off: This is undoubtedly Butcher's best Dresden book. Harry faces his worst enemies and battles his darkest internal demons to... (read more)
Your price: $10.95
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#24
Literature
The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
Publisher Comments
The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father's servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. It is about the power... (read more)
List price: $16.00
Your price: $2.95
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#25
Cooking and Food
Mother's Best: Comfort Food That Takes You Home Again
by Lisa Schroeder
Publisher Comments
There's nothing like a home-cooked meal made with love.
And here's your chance to share the love with Mother's Best — 150 delicious recipes for comfort food that will soothe the soul and satisfy even the most ravenous appetite. All you have to... (read more)
List price: $28.00
Your price: $12.98
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#26
Featured Titles
Necessary Evil (Milkweed #3)
by Ian Tregillis
Publisher Comments
12 May 1940. Westminster, London, England: the early days of World War II. Again. Raybould Marsh, one of “our” Britain's best spies, has travelled to another Earth in a desperate attempt to save at least one timeline from... (read more)
Your price: $25.99
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#27
Christianity
The Shack
by Wm. Paul Young
Publisher Comments
Mackenzie Allen Phillips's youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation, and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later, in this midst of his... (read more)
List price: $14.99
Your price: $5.95
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#28
Law
Breaking Chains: Slavery on Trial in the Oregon Territory
by R. Gregory Nokes
Publisher Comments
When they were brought to Oregon in 1844, Missouri slaves Robin and Polly Holmes and their children were promised freedom in exchange for helping develop their owner’s Willamette Valley farm. However, Nathaniel Ford, an influential settler and... (read more)
Your price: $19.95
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#29
Mystery
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)
List price: $27.99
Your price: $19.59
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#30
Ornithology
#31
Science Fiction and Fantasy
Dresden Files #10: Small Favor
by Jim Butcher
Publisher Comments
THE New York Times Bestseller Harry Dresden's life finally seems to be calming down, until a shadow from the past returns. Mab, monarch of the Sidhe Winter Court, calls in an old favor from Harry, one small favor that will trap him between a nightmarish... (read more)
List price: $9.99
Your price: $6.95
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#32
Sports and Fitness
Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
by Michael Moss
Publisher Comments
From a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter at The New York Times comes the explosive story of the rise of the processed food industry and its link to the emerging obesity epidemic. Michael Moss reveals how companies use salt, sugar, and... (read more)
Your price: $28.00
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#33
Special
Husbands Signed Edition
by Jane Espenson and Brad Bell
Publisher Comments
Written by Husbands creators Jane Espenson (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and Brad Bell, this is the comic-book continuation of the sitcom phenom. Husbands tells the story of famous gay newlyweds Brady and Cheeks, who sparked a media firestorm when they woke... (read more)
Your price: $14.99
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#34
Travel
#35
Cooking and Food
#36
Children's
Zita the Spacegirl, Book One: Far from Home
by Ben Hatke
Publisher Comments
Zitas life took a cosmic left turn in the blink of an eye. When her best friend is abducted by an alien doomsday cult, Zita leaps to the rescue and finds herself a stranger on a strange planet. Humanoid chickens and neurotic robots are... (read more)
Your price: $10.99
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#37
Featured Titles
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
by Sheryl Sandberg
Publisher Comments
Thirty years after women became 50 percent of the college graduates in the United States, men still hold the vast majority of leadership positions in government and industry. This means that women’s voices are still not heard equally in the... (read more)
Your price: $24.95
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#38
Featured Titles
Up Nights Signed Edition
by Daniel Kine
Publisher Comments
Up Nights, Daniel Kine's second book, is a classic road novel for a new generation. In raw, unrelenting prose, Kine tells the story of the complexities of human relationships when four friends embark on an existential journey through the underbelly of... (read more)
Your price: $13.95
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#39
World History
#40
Popular Fiction
Simple Genius
by David Baldacci
Publisher Comments
In a world of secrets, human genius is power. And sometimes it is simply deadly... A three-hour drive from Washington, D.C., two clandestine institutions face each other across a heavily guarded river. One is the world's most unusual laboratory, whose... (read more)
List price: $9.99
Your price: $5.50
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#41
Mystery
Red Mist (Kay Scarpetta Mysteries)
by Patricia Cornwell
Publisher Comments
The new Kay Scarpetta novel from the world's #1 bestselling crime writer. After working one of the worst mass killings in U.S. history, Scarpetta returns home to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Exhausted and ill, shes recovering at home when she... (read more)
List price: $9.99
Your price: $3.95
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#42
Mystery
Queen of the South
by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Staff Pick
This is the most full-blown novel yet from Pérez-Reverte, with a wonderfully drawn main character and a very intriguing plotline. If you've already enjoyed his work you'll be quite pleased with this one.... (read more)
List price: $16.00
Your price: $6.95
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#43
General
Britain Under Thatcher : Seminar (00 Edition)
by Anthony Seldon
Publisher Comments
This concise, accessible, and balanced historical analysis of the Thatcher years and their consequences analyzes many controversial aspects of Margaret Thatcher's premiership, including the Falklands War, the miner's strike, bitter relations with Europe... (read more)
List price: $28.95
Your price: $20.00
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#44
Children's Middle Readers
#45
World History
The Scramble for Africa (Seminar Studies in History)
by M. E. Chamberlain
Publisher Comments
In 1870 barely one tenth of Africa was under European control. By 1914 only about one tenth – Abyssinia (Ethiopia) and Liberia – was not. This book offers a clear and concise account of the ‘scramble’ or ‘race’ for Africa... (read more)
Your price: $35.25
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#46
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#47
World History
Fascist Italy (New Frontiers in History)
by John Whittam
Publisher Comments
Fascist Italy is a lively and concise introduction to the phenomenon of Italian Fascism and its impact. The author balances a re-evaluation of political, diplomatic and military developments with a full assessment of the more domestic and cultural... (read more)
Your price: $35.50
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#48
Business
#49
Children's Middle Readers
The Lightning Thief: Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book One
by Rick Riordan
Staff Pick
Percy Jackson is not normal. He's got ADHD and attention deficit, and he's been kicked out of every school he's ever attended. Now he discovers he's a half blood: half human, half Olympian god. But his problems are only beginning. Someone has stolen Zeus'... (read more)
List price: $7.99
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#50
Biography
Rossiya: Voices from the Brezhnev Era
by Alex Shishin
Publisher Comments
Rossiya: Voices from the Brezhnev Era is a poignant sketch of the Soviet Union prior to its disastrous invasion of Afghanistan. It is also a bittersweet tale of an American coming to terms with his Russian roots. One summer in the late 1970s, author Alex... (read more)
Your price: $21.50
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