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A Long Way Gone, Signed 1st Edition by Ishmael Beah
What a Party! Signed 1st Edition by Terry McAuliffe
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featured interview
Ishmael Beah became a soldier at age thirteen, one year after rebels attacked his village, flushing him into the forest to survive as a fugitive with other boys his age. In A Long Way Gone, Beah describes Sierra Leone's civil war as he knew it, entirely absent of political context. Kill or be killed these were a homeless orphan's options. "Told in clear, accessible language by a young writer with a gifted literary voice," Publishers Weekly raves, "this memoir seems destined to become a classic." On the eve of publication, Beah discussed rehabilitation, forgiveness, hip-hop, moving walkways, and more.
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HARDCOVER
A feat of historical detection, House of Rain is the most significant, and certainly the most enthralling, book on American prehistory to appear in decades. NPR contributor Craig Child investigates the greatest "unsolved mystery" of the American Southwest: what happened to the Anasazi Indians?
In Finn, Jon Clinch takes us on a journey into the history and heart of one of American literature's most brutal and mysterious figures: Huckleberry Finn's father. The result is "a stand-alone marvel of a novel" (Entertainment Weekly) that springs from Twain's classic but takes on a fully realized life of its own.
DVD
From director Christopher Nolan (Memento), the film adaptation of Christopher Priest's acclaimed novel The Prestige stars Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine, and Scarlett Johansson in the twisting, turning story of a bitter rivalry between nineteenth-century magicians. "[W]onderfully engrossing, darkly mysterious and entertaining from start to finish," raves USA Today. All DVDs ship for free from Powells.com!
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PAPERBACK
Pulitzer Prize winner Gluck presents her eleventh collection of poems that takes its name from Averno, a small crater lake in southern Italy regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld.
Editor J. Peder Zane asked 125 celebrated authors to choose ten books they loved and the results are listed in The Top Ten, a fascinating book featuring suggestions by Stephen King, Paul Auster, A. M. Homes, Carl Hiaasen, Michael Connelly, John Irving, and many more. Keep a pen and paper handy there are dozens of suggestions for great reading here!
EBOOK
As Black History Month winds down, we pay tribute to a modern of the African-American community. Oprah's latest book club selection, The Measure of a Man, captures the essence of Academy Award-winning actor Sidney Poitier's extraordinary life.
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Blame Mardi Gras for my lethargy. Perhaps non-Catholics should rename Ash Wednesday how about Hangover Wednesday? At any rate, I've been absolved from pounding my throbbing head on my desk by this questionnaire that arrived in my email inbox. Everyone loves filling out a questionnaire, especially when it's about your favorite subject you. And books.
1. My favorite book:
Tastes like chicken.
2. My least favorite book:
Smells vaguely of elderberries.
3. The last book I threw at the wall was:
Unlikely to bounce off.
4. The last good book I threw at someone's head was:
The Dictionary. A page-turner!
5. Did that person deserve to have a book thrown at his/her head?
To quote Clint Eastwood from Unforgiven: "Deserve's got nothin' to do with it. We all got it comin', kid."
6. Did said book cause any damage to the target's head?
Not enough.
7. Do you regret throwing that book at the target's head?
I wasn't aiming at his head. But, yes.
8. If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?
A book-throwing tree, like something out of a very poorly written children's fantasy novel. "The prophets have decreed: Beware the book-throwing tree, especially during fire season."
Fill this out for yourself and send it to me at brockman@powells.com. I may not reply I may not even read them but I promise, at the very least, I'll glance at the subject lines for as long as I can hold my head up.
STEVE BERRY: ORIGINAL ESSAY
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The Alexandria Link
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SALLY HERIGSTAD: ORIGINAL ESSAY
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Help! I Can't Pay My Bills
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AMY STEWART: INK Q&A
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Flower Confidential
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CHIP HEATH & DAN HEATH: GUEST CO-BLOGGERS
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Made to Stick
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JAY GRIFFITHS: GUEST BLOGGER
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Wild
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When he returns from vacation, Bagheera and Oreo aren't home. No one has seen them for days.
The house isn't empty, however. He finds Fup and Bear in the basement with Zooey, his dog.
"You haven't even seen them?" he asks. Also, several times, between trips upstairs to unpack, "Bagheera and Oreo didn't tell you where they were going?"
Bagheera is likely camped under a neighbor's porch; he favors tight, dark spaces and local espionage. Oreo on the other hand favors food and petting, either-or, but better yet both. No doubt he's been boarding at Thelma's, whose kibble bowl kibble "pool," Oreo once called it is rumored to be almost as large as her ottoman, and the ottoman is said to be huge.
Fup favors an empty home now and then to escape the bookstore's commotion. Who knows, really, what Bagheera and Oreo have been up to? They invited her to housesit. She didn't ask why.
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