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Powell's Beth Lyons hails: "The Life of the Skies is at once a history of bird-watching in America, a meditation on changes in our views about killing animals, and a deeply personal book about the transforming qualities of a life spent observing the natural world. It is a book to treasure." Publishers Weekly concurs: "This beautifully written book is an elegy to the human condition at a time when wilderness is becoming a thing of the past."
Moving from the secluded beauty of the Adirondack wilderness to the skies above war-torn Spain and Fascist Germany, The Reserve is a clever, incisive, and passionately romantic novel of suspense that adds a new dimension to Russell Banks's extraordinary repertoire. The latest novel from the author of Cloudsplitter and The Sweet Hereafter is "a pleasure well worth savoring" (Scott Turow, Publishers Weekly).
Based on the acclaimed novel by Dennis Lehane (Mystic River) and featuring an unforgettable performance by Oscar nominee Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone is a harrowing, critically acclaimed thriller about two detectives searching for a missing child in the mean streets of South Boston. Starring Casey Affleck, Morgan Freeman, and Ed Harris, the directorial debut of Ben Affleck has been praised as a "superior police procedural, and something more — a study in devious human nature" (Roger Ebert). All DVDs ship for free from Powells.com.
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From Richard Preston, the bestselling author of The Hot Zone, comes an amazing account of scientific and spiritual passion for the tallest trees in the world, the startling biosystem of the canopy, and those who are committed to the preservation of this astonishing and largely unknown world. "Wild Trees owned me almost from the start," raves Larry Sears in the Christian Science Monitor. "This is a journey that I encourage you to take."
With the success of the acclaimed film adaptation There Will Be Blood, for which star Daniel Day-Lewis won a well-deserved Oscar, countless readers are rediscovering Upton Sinclair's classic Oil! If you've never read it, now is a perfect time to catch up with this epic account of the development of the oil industry in Southern California, featuring an unforgettable cast of senators, oil magnates, a Hollywood film star, and a crusading evangelist.
In Karen Hawkins's To Catch a Highlander, the third book in the delightful New York Times-bestselling Regency series, a beautiful, headstrong heiress must defend her home from the dangerously wicked Dougal MacLean.
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February 21, 2008:
Black Hats and Black Mantas
Engineers working in the "black world" of classified military projects are often referred to in military circles as "black hats." There are a lot of jokes about the difference between "white hats" and their spooky counterparts.
The image below isn't a patch per se. It's a memorial coin whose purpose remains a little bit of a mystery to me. Anyone who's spent some time with my book should be able to decode most of the symbols in the coin below, except one. The crescent-like shape above the cloud is a mystery. Anyone have any theories?
If you've got an idea, share it with our blog readers and Trevor. We'll pick our favorite interpretation on Monday, March 3, and send the winner a free copy of I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to Be Destroyed by Me!
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When Bear wanders outside to get some fresh air, Zooey fills in the missing pieces: "Bear was toreador-cool in those days," the ninety-pound Lab tells Oreo, Bagheera, and Chester. "Dogs or cats, regardless, he practically dared you to charge."
Zooey feels a hundred years old, remembering. To run for hours and hardly tire. Sneaking into a hotel one time, he climbed eighteen flights of stairs! That same year, he met Fup and Bear. The others weren't even alive.
"I'm not sure Bear had ever been dumped," Zooey says.
Fup had been gone two or three days when Bear found himself in front of the Tech store, not for any particular reason. Routine. Two blocks north, he spotted Jason approaching on the rebuilt ten-speed he'd salvaged from a yard sale the previous summer.
What would Powell's staff think of Bear hanging around the store? Was he welcome without Fup? Would he make them uncomfortable? Or was he being ridiculous?
Jason swung a leg over the crossbar and coasted coolly toward the stoop, one sneaker on a pedal and the other alongside, dangling above the sidewalk. Maybe he didn't notice Bear by the parking meter. Maybe he pretended not to. Bear couldn't tell.
How much did they know?
Bear sat perfectly still while Jason chained his bike to the rack. He couldn't stay, didn't want to face these people, wouldn't let them pity him if he had any say in the matter — Fup was gone, and he wasn't sure why. But she was gone.
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