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Powells.com Top 50 books for Monday, February 13
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
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)
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#2
Sociology
#3
Child Care and Parenting
#4
Religion Eastern
The Science of Yoga: The Risks and the Rewards
by William J. Broad
Publisher Comments
IN THIS REMARKABLE BOOK ABOUT YOGA, William Broad, a lifelong practitioner, shows us that uncommon states are integral to a hidden world of risk and reward that lies beneath clouds of myth, superstition, and hype.Five years in the making, The Science of... (read more)
Your price: $26.00
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#5
Special
What We Talk About When We Talk about Anne Frank Signed Edition
by Nathan Englander
Publisher Comments
These eight new stories from the celebrated novelist and short-story writer Nathan Englander display a gifted young author grappling with the great questions of modern life, with a command of language and the imagination that place Englander at the very... (read more)
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#6
Featured Titles
All There Is Signed Edition
by Dave Isay
Publisher Comments
A celebration of love from StoryCorps. In All There Is, founder Dave Isay shares stories of love and marriage from the revolutionary oral history project, revealing the many and remarkable paths that relationships can take. From the excitement and... (read more)
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#7
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)
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#8
Travel
Mad as the Mist and Snow: Exploring Oregon Through Its Cemeteries
by Johan Mathiesen
Publisher Comments
Mad as the Mist and Snow is a traveler's guide to Oregon's most celebrated and unique cemeteries. Organized into 18 regions and including detailed driving directions, this book profiles more than 200 cemeteries, including such legendary cemeteries as... (read more)
Your price: $27.75
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#9
Literature
The Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Staff Pick
Okay, never mind that The Shadow of the Wind starts off in a wonderfully mysterious bookstore and that there's a romantic element that is not schmaltzy, but "timeless" in the best sense of the word. What I loved was how I thought I knew where the author... (read more)
List price: $16.00
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#10
Anthologies
Pulphead: Essays
by John Jeremiah Sullivan
Staff Pick
I love collections of essays. I almost always have one (or two or three) in a pile on my bedside table. But not since I first read A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace have I loved a book of essays as much as I loved... (read more)
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#11
Literature
The Night Circus
by Erin Morgenstern
From Powells.com
Featured in Indiespensable Volume 30!
Powell's subscription club offers signed first editions, exclusive content, and unique handpicked gifts.
Read about this shipment on our blog!... (read more)
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#12
Special
#13
Biography
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
Staff Pick
This is an absolutely fascinating account of a line of cells that would proliferate to such a degree that they became immortal. Shaved from a tumor in a poor black woman in the 1950s, cultured without her knowledge, and grown to amazing proportions... (read more)
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#14
Germany
#15
Westerns
The Sisters Brothers
by Patrick deWitt
Staff Pick
This entertaining and heartbreaking story is told by a fabulous narrator, Eli Sisters. Eli and his brother Charlie are hired killers in late 19th-century Oregon and California, and this is the tale of their final job.... (read more)
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#16
Business
Raving Fans: A Revolutionary Approach to Customer Service
by Ken Blanchard and Sheldon Bowles
Publisher Comments
"Your customers are only satisfied because their expectations are so low and because no one else is doing better. Just having satisfied customers isn't good enough anymore. If you really want a booming business, you have to create Raving Fans." This, in... (read more)
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#17
Special
The Sisters Brothers Signed Edition
by Patrick deWitt
Staff Pick
This entertaining and heartbreaking story is told by a fabulous narrator, Eli Sisters. Eli and his brother Charlie are hired killers in late 19th-century Oregon and California, and this is the tale of their final job.... (read more)
Your price: $14.99
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#18
Biography
The Chronology of Water: A Memoir
by Lidia Yuknavitch
Staff Pick
Lidia Yuknavitch's memoir, The Chronology of Water, is fierce and voluptuous. Intimate and expansive. Hard, hard stuff presented in gorgeous language. I picked it up on impulse, read the first line, and was crying before I reached the end of the opening... (read more)
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#19
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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#20
Featured Titles
Mink River
by Brian Doyle
Staff Pick
I haven't enjoyed a book this much in so long! Set in a tiny coastal Oregon town, this story is populated with characters who seem to leap off the page and speak their lines into your ear. They are that real. Brian Doyle breaks all the so-called "rules... (read more)
Your price: $18.95
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#21
Featured Titles
#22
Mystery
#23
Special
No One Is Here Except All of Us Signed Edition
by Ramona Ausubel
Publisher Comments
In 1939, the families in a remote Jewish village in Romania feel the war close in on them. Their tribe has moved and escaped for thousands of years- across oceans, deserts, and mountains-but now, it seems, there is nowhere else to go. Danger is imminent... (read more)
Your price: $26.95
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#24
Literature
1Q84
by Haruki Murakami
Staff Pick
Part of the thrill was the anticipation. After waiting for over a year for its publication, I grabbed 1Q84 and swallowed it whole. While it read simply and progressed slowly, it filled like a three-course meal. Being a long-term Murakami fan, I have seen... (read more)
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#25
Sports and Fitness
Why We Get Fat: And What to Do about It
by Gary Taubes
Publisher Comments
Persuasive, straightforward, and practical, Why We Get Fat is an essential guide to nutrition and weight management. In this exciting new book, Gary Taubes, bestselling author of Good Calories, Bad Calories addresses the urgent question of what... (read more)
Your price: $7.99
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#26
Rare Books
Wildwood Signed Edition
by Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis
Publisher Comments
Prue McKeel's life is ordinary. At least until her baby brother is abducted by a murder of crows. And then things get really weird.
You see, on every map of Portland, Oregon, there is a big splotch of green on the edge of the city labeled "I.W." This... (read more)
Your price: $95.00
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#27
Literature
March: A Novel
by Geraldine Brooks
Staff Pick
In her follow-up to Year of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks has taken historical fiction to another dimension altogether. Using America's Civil War as her frame, she plants a famous (but deeply mysterious) literary figure at its center: Mr. March, the absent... (read more)
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#28
Featured Titles
The Marriage Plot
by Jeffrey Eugenides
From Powells.com
Featured in Indiespensable Volume 30!
Powell's subscription club offers signed first editions, exclusive content, and unique handpicked gifts.
Read about this shipment on our blog!... (read more)
List price: $28.00
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#29
Mystery
Three to Get Deadly (Stephanie Plum Novels)
by Janet Evanovich
Publisher Comments
Janet Evanovichs Stephanie Plum Novels Are “Suspenseful.”---Los Angeles Times “Terrific.”---San Francisco Chronicle “Irresistible.”---Kirkus Reviews “Thrilling.”---The Midwest Book Review “... (read more)
Your price: $6.50
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#30
Children's Animals
Where the Red Fern Grows
by Wilson Rawls
Publisher Comments
Billy, Old Dan and Little Ann -- a Boy and His Two Dogs... A loving threesome, they ranged the dark hills and river bottoms of Cherokee country. Old Dan had the brawn, Little Ann had the brains -- and Billy had the will to train them to be the finest... (read more)
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#31
Literature
Cutting for Stone (Vintage)
by Abraham Verghese
Staff Pick
I'm used to reading good authors, but Verghese is so good, he blew me away. He writes with such detached compassion that Ethiopia becomes your homeland, and Matron, Ghosh, Marion and Shiva Stone, and all the rest become your friends, your neighbors, and... (read more)
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#32
Games
#33
Business
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by Malcolm Gladwell
Staff Pick
Somewhere along the way to guru-dom, Malcolm Gladwell got tagged as a business writer. Fair enough — The Tipping Point speaks more powerfully to the principles of succesful marketing than any pedestrian semester in the classroom. But while raves from... (read more)
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#34
Featured Titles
Contents May Have Shifted Signed Edition
by Pam Houston
Publisher Comments
Stuck in a dead-end relationship, this fearless narrator leaves her metaphorical baggage behind and finds a comfort zone in the air, "feeling safest with one plane ticket in her hand and another in her underwear drawer." She flies around the world... (read more)
Your price: $25.95
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#35
Literature
Zazen
by Vanessa Veselka
Staff Pick
Portlander Vanessa Veselka has written a phenomenal debut novel that kicks ass and takes names. Zazen (which is set in an slightly alternate universe, but is still wonderfully and satirically recognizable as Portland) is a brilliant, moving, maddening... (read more)
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#36
Gardening
Introduction to Permaculture
by Bill Mollison
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: $37.95
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#37
Biography
Bossypants
by Tina Fey
Publisher Comments
Before Liz Lemon, before Weekend Update, before Sarah Palin, Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher. She also had a dream that one day she... (read more)
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#38
Literature
Lost City Radio (P.S.)
by Daniel Alarcon
Publisher Comments
For ten years, Norma has been the on-air voice of consolation and hope for the Indians in the mountains and the poor from the barrios—a people broken by war's violence. As the host of Lost City Radio, she reads the names of those who have... (read more)
Your price: $13.95
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#39
Literature
State of Wonder
by Ann Patchett
Staff Pick
State of Wonder is Ann Patchett's best book yet (yes, even better than Bel Canto). Brimming with mystery, philosophy, intrigue, ethical questions, the flora and fauna of the Amazon jungle, and absolutely beautiful prose, Patchett's new novel should be at... (read more)
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#40
Literature
The House on Mango Street (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Sandra Cisneros
Publisher Comments
Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schools to universities across the country, and translated all over the world, The House on Mango Street is the remarkable story of Esperanza Cordero. Told in a... (read more)
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#41
Gardening
#42
Children's
The Giver
by Lois Lowry
Publisher Comments
In Jonas' perfect world, everything is under control. There is no war or fear or pain. But when Jonas learns the truth, there is no turning back.
In a utopian community where there are no choices — where everyone has his or her place in the... (read more)
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#43
Computers Reference
iPad 2 (Portable Genius)
by Paul McFedries
Publisher Comments
Everything you need to know about the iPad 2!
Finally decided to get the hottest device on the planet? If so, don't go far without the iPad's must-have accessory — your own copy of iPad 2 Portable Genius. This hip little guide will show you how... (read more)
List price: $25.00
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#44
General
#45
Literature
Olive Kitteridge
by Elizabeth Strout
Staff Pick
Set on the coast of Maine, this fantastic Pulitzer Prize winner (2009) is a terrific character study. Olive is an irascible, crabby old lady who is difficult to like. Yet, as her life, marriage, and story play out, her character changes in ways that... (read more)
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#46
Mystery
Junkyard Dogs (Walt Longmire Mysteries)
by Craig Johnson
Staff Pick
Gripping, gritty, and hilarious, Junkyard Dogs is the sixth in the Walt Longmire series, but you can dive in and thoroughly enjoy it without reading the previous books. Though once you've read one Craig Johnson novel, you'll feel the need to read all of... (read more)
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#47
Business
The One Minute Manager
by Kenneth Blanchard
Publisher Comments
The blockbuster #1 national bestselling phenomenon is back... not that it ever really went away. An easily-read story which quickly demonstrates three very practical management techniques, it also includes information on several studies in medicine and... (read more)
Your price: $5.95
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#48
Mystery
Firewall (Kurt Wallander Mysteries # 8 )
by Henning Mankell
Publisher Comments
The latest installment in the bestselling Kurt Wallander series has the taciturn detective confronting the public's increasingly vulnerability in the digitized world.... (read more)
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#49
Military
#50
Agriculture
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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