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by Mohsin Hamid Publisher Comments At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As dusk deepens to night, he begins the tale that has brought them to this fateful meeting... Changez is living an immigrant's dream of America. At... (read more) Your Price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Patrick Rothfuss Publisher Comments I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in.... (read more) Your Price $24.95 (New - Hardcover) check for used and sale copies
by Aryn Kyle Powells.com Staff Pick Aryn Kyle's story of Alice Winston resonates with my own childhood experience growing up among the ranchers and farmers in an isolated town. I recognized a kindred spirit in this independent young girl as she gradually discovered the tears and snags of... (read more) Your Price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Steven Hall Powells.com Staff Pick In The Raw Shark Texts, Steven Hall produces a novel that is both literary bravura and a thoughtful meditation of identity and loss. A stunning debut by a writer of enormous talent. Recommended by Gerry, Powells.com... (read more) Your Price $24.00 (New - Hardcover) check for used and sale copies
by Tracy Chevalier Powells.com Staff Pick The author of Girl with a Pearl Earring has done it again! With her new novel, Burning Bright, Tracy Chevalier recreates William Blake's London, circa 1790. Her eye for detail and her ear for dialogue are sharp as ever. With her books, the reader can... (read more) Your Price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Simon Rich Publisher Comments In Ant Farm, former Harvard Lampoon president Simon Rich finds humor in some very surprising places. Armed with a sharp eye for the absurd and an overwhelming sense of doom, Rich explores the ridiculousness of our everyday lives. The world, he concludes,... (read more) Your Price $12.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Sandra Dallas Publisher Comments An essential American novel from Sandra Dallas, an unparalleled writer of our history, and our deepest emotions... During World War II, a family finds life turned upside down when the government opens a Japanese internment camp in their small... (read more) Your Price $16.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by James Robertson Publisher Comments A Scottish minister who doesnt believe in God meets the devil in this beguiling American debut A good manand a good minister despite his atheismGideon Mack leads a respectable life that is shattered when he falls down a ravine and into the raging river... (read more) Your Price $24.95 (New - Hardcover) check for used and sale copies
by Michael Gruber Publisher Comments A distinguished Shakespearean scholar found tortured to death... A lost manuscript and its secrets buried for centuries... An encrypted map that leads to incalculable wealth... The Washington Post called Michael Gruber's previous work "a... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your Price $17.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Vanora Bennett Publisher Comments The year is 1527. The great portraitist Hans Holbein, who has fled the reformation in Europe, is making his first trip to England under commission to Sir Thomas More. In the course of six years, Holbein will become a close friend to the More family and... (read more) Your Price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Lore Segal Publisher Comments The thirteen interrelated stories of Shakespeare's Kitchen concern the universal longing for friendship, how we achieve new intimacies for ourselves, and how slowly, inexplicably, we lose them. Featuring six never-before-published pieces, Lore Segal's... (read more) Your Price $22.95 (New - Hardcover) check for used and sale copies
by Mark Doty Publisher Comments A memoir of the author's relationship with a pair of beloved canine companions is a tribute to their irrepressible personalities, their life-changing impact on the author and his family, and their role in how the author came to understand loss and grief.... (read more) Your Price $23.95 (New - Hardcover) check for used and sale copies
by Elise Blackwell Publisher Comments As the waters of the Mississippi rise in 1927, the moneyed powers of Louisiana must decide which Parish to flood in order to save New Orleans.... (read more) Your Price $9.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Robert Goolrick Publisher Comments It was the 1950s, a time of calm, a time when all things were new and everything seemd possible. A few years before, a noble war had been won, and now life had returned to normal. For one little boy, however, life had become anything but andquot;normal... (read more) Your Price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Jean P Sasson Publisher Comments The story of a female Kurdish freedom fighter, from the New York Times bestselling author of Princess In this gripping book, popular author Jean Sasson tells the story of Joanna Al-Askari Hussain– and, in the process, reveals the sad plight of the... (read more) Your Price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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