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New Arrivals Browse more New Arrivals in Employee Picks $25.99 New Trade Paper add to wish list The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride (Large Print) Daniel James Brown $18.89 Sale Hardcover add to wish list The Strain: Book One of the Strain Trilogy Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan $16.95 New Trade Paper add to wish list Out and about with Kids: Portland (4th Ed.): The Ultimate Family Guide for Fun and Learning Nelle Nix $9.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows $10.00 New Hardcover add to wish list Digging It: How to Garden Your Way Out of the Recession Bunny Henderson and Rebecca Lubow $11.16 Sale Trade Paper add to wish list The Best in Tent Camping: Oregon: A Guide for Car Campers Who Hate RVs, Concrete Slabs, and Loud Portable Stereos (Best in Tent Camping Oregon) Jeanne Louise Pyle and Paul Gerald Browse more New Arrivals in Employee Picks Literature Browse more titles in Employee Picks-Literature A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick Staff Pick Come a day, you might get sick of hearing about A Reliable Wife — so many people will have read it and raved to you about it. Here's some preventative medicine: read it first. Seduction, marriage, money, sex, drugs, murder... when Catherine Land... (read more) Your price: $23.95 New - Hardcover add to wish list check for other copies Sports and Fitness Browse more titles in Employee Picks-Sports and Fitness Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists Are Changing American Cities by Jeff Mapes Staff Pick Mapes's fantastic and inspiring Pedaling Revolution deserves to be read by everyone, from the cycle-curious to the cycle-phobic. Love it or hate it, the pedaling revolution is upon us — read all about it!... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper add to wish list check for other copies Children's Middle Readers Browse more titles in Employee Picks-Children's Middle Readers Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter #07) by J. K. Rowling Staff Pick I couldn't imagine a better ending for this extraordinary series. J. K. Rowling, thank you for staying true to your vision.... (read more) List Price $34.99 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover add to wish list check for other copies Special Browse more titles in Employee Picks-Special Sunnyside Signed 1st Edition by Glen David Gold Staff Pick A great American novel, Sunnyside contains multitudes. Glen David Gold follows his bestselling debut (Carter Beats the Devil) with an audaciously imagined history of Hollywood at the start of World War I, so unceasingly vibrant that even the book's... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Hardcover add to wish list check for other copies Literature Browse more titles in Employee Picks-Literature The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet by Reif Larsen Staff Pick Twelve-year-old T.S. Spivet draws maps of train routes and water tables, maps of loneliness, the resilience of memory, even a map of his sister shucking corn. Author Reif Larsen notes, "I think I'm gently expanding the definition of the word map." And... (read more) Your price: $27.95 New - Hardcover add to wish list check for other copies Featured Titles Browse more titles in Employee Picks-Featured Titles Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance -- Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem! by Seth Grahame-Smith and Jane Austen Staff Pick In Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Seth Grahame-Smith has paired Austen’s sublime language with the visceral, flesh-eating menace of the "dreadfuls." England was never this lively. We get sword fights, romance, a zombie plague, and, as a bonus... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list check for other copies Philosophy Browse more titles in Employee Picks-Philosophy Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work by Matthew B. Crawford Staff Pick One of the most engaging, thought-provoking books I've read in a long time. Matthew Crawford has delivered an accessible, carefully reasoned examination of work and America's evolving ideas about it, addressing a host of important subjects — for... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $18.16 Sale - Hardcover add to wish list check for other copies Literature Browse more titles in Employee Picks-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) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper add to wish list check for other copies Sale Books Browse more titles in Employee Picks-Sale Books Tree of Smoke: A Novel by Denis Johnson Staff Pick Ambition doesn't always translate into success, which is why some books that take authors nearly ten years to write become massive paperweights. Then there's Tree of Smoke, Denis Johnson's first novel in nine years and an unconditional masterpiece. This... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover add to wish list check for other copies Used Books Browse more titles in Employee Picks-Used Books The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins Staff Pick A typically bold and incisive book from one of our great science writers, The God Delusion pulls no punches. I gave a hardcover copy to my cousin last year, and he hasn't stopped citing passages since. "There are lots of people out there," Dawkins notes... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list check for other copies

Bestsellers Friday, July 10, 2009 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter #07) by J. K. Rowling The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work by Matthew B. Crawford The Likeness by Tana French Peak by Roland Smith Review-a-Day | May 30, 2009 Small Lives, Big World 0 comments By Review-a-Day Big World by Mary Miller Reviewed by Sheila Ashdown Powells.com Mary Miller's Big World is populated by women and girls, mostly unnamed, who share a... Continue » Review-a-Day | May 23, 2009 London's Yearning 0 comments By Review-a-Day Second Thoughts by Niklas Asker Reviewed by Gerry Donaghy Powells.com When viewing Niklas Asker's debut graphic novel Second Thoughts from a... Continue » $9.95 New Trade Paper add to wish list Second Thoughts Niklas Asker Review-a-Day | May 16, 2009 Kenneth Rexroth's Translations 1 comment By Review-a-Day Songs of Love, Moon, & Wind: Poems from the Chinese by Kenneth (trn) Rexroth Reviewed by Chris Faatz Powells.com One of the great loves of my... Continue » $8.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list Songs of Love, Moon, and Wind: Poems from the Chinese Kenneth Rexroth Review-a-Day | May 9, 2009 "Hello... Newman!" 4 comments By Review-a-Day Paul Newman: A Life by Shawn Levy Reviewed by Chris Bolton Powells.com A co-worker told me a story about a friend of hers who used to work for Paul... Continue » $21.95 Used Hardcover add to wish list Paul Newman: A Life Shawn Levy Review-a-Day | May 2, 2009 After Us, the Deluge 1 comment By Review-a-Day What We Leave Behind by Derrick Jensen and Aric McBay Reviewed by Jeremy Garber Powells.com "Industrial civilization is incompatible with life. It... Continue » $24.95 New Trade Paper add to wish list What We Leave Behind Derrick Jensen and Aric McBay

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