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		<title>What Is the Greatest Book on Working Ever Written?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 22:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roman Krznaric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Studs Terkel / Photo by James Warden What is the greatest book on working ever written? Easy. Studs Terkel's Working: People Talk about What They Do All Day and How They Feel about What They Do. The Chicago oral historian and radio host died in 2008 while I was researching my own book, How to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Dies in Summer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 16:32:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle M</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A modern day Huckleberry Finn with a twist of magical realism, Tom Wright's What Dies in Summer will leave you torn between page turning and savoring the luscious prose. Books mentioned in this post What Dies in Summer Tom Wright Used Hardcover $17.95]]></description>
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		<title>Seven Books That Actually Changed My Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 19:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Hanagarne</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Josh Hanagarne]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I'd predict that 99 percent of the small talk in the staff elevator at my library involves the following question and its answers: "Are you reading anything good?" Most recently I asked this of a woman holding The Poisonwood Bible, which I adored. "Yes!" she said, waving the book in front of me. "I'm almost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Find Fulfilling Work in 15 Minutes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 17:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roman Krznaric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When The School of Life launched its new practical philosophy book series, we celebrated with an event in London where each of the six authors &#8212; amongst them philosopher Alain de Botton &#8212; did a 15-minute talk distilling the most important and inspirational ideas from his or her book. We did our very best to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Top Five Reasons You Should Love Monsters</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Roellke Coddington</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Childrens]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: Rachel Roellke Coddington and Jolby will present their book at Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing on Wednesday, May 15, at 7:00 p.m. Greetings, adventurers! As you travel the evergreen roadways of the Pacific Northwest, you may find yourself in contact with many intriguing monsters. Let our book, Monsters under Bridges, be a guide [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Write a Personal Job Ad</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roman Krznaric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How are you supposed to discover your ideal job? The standard method is to fill out lots of questionnaires about your strengths and weaknesses, take some psychometric tests, and spend hours researching various professions. Well, here's an alternative. It's an exercise called The Personal Job Advertisement, which I devised for the courses on career change [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snow Child</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dianah</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Eowyn Ivey]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the 1920s, married couple Jack and Mabel leave their home in Pennsylvania and travel to Alaska to homestead a farm. Still grieving the loss of their stillborn child years before, Jack and Mabel are faced with the inhospitable land and deadly weather of Alaska. Their marriage begins to unravel; Mable feels lost and alone, while Jack [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Clarify Butter: A Writer&#8217;s Tale</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Lee</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cooking and Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edward Lee]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Chefs don't have time to write. While I was working on Smoke and Pickles, I was running a restaurant &#8212; a daily regimen of testing recipes, arguing with purveyors, and greeting guests that left little time for introspection. I wrote nights mostly, battling fatigue and the impending noise of sunrise. During the day, I gravitated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should We Aim to Be &#8220;Wide Achievers&#8221; in Our Careers?</title>
		<link>http://www.powells.com/blog/guests/should-we-aim-to-be-wide-achievers-in-our-careers-by-roman-krznaric/</link>
		<comments>http://www.powells.com/blog/guests/should-we-aim-to-be-wide-achievers-in-our-careers-by-roman-krznaric/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roman Krznaric</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sociology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For the last century everyone from career advisers to nagging parents have been telling us that the best way to use our talents is to become a high achiever &#8212; an expert in a narrow field. But one of the surprising discoveries I made while writing my latest book, How to Find Fulfilling Work, is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Collectible Poetry Books by a Portland Small Press</title>
		<link>http://www.powells.com/blog/contributors/collectible-poetry-books-by-a-portland-small-press-by-chris-faatz/</link>
		<comments>http://www.powells.com/blog/contributors/collectible-poetry-books-by-a-portland-small-press-by-chris-faatz/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 21:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Faatz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Adrian C Louis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Hitchcock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tomas Transtromer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There are so many books, and there are so many good books. And there are so many good books in particular during National Poetry Month, which we are energetically celebrating here at Powell's. And then, even among those good books, there are the really good books. In that vein, and in case you haven't already [...]]]></description>
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