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What I Talk about When I Talk about Running
by Haruki Murakami
Powells.com Staff Pick
Offers sparkling insights not only about the author's life, but about life itself.
Recommended by Gerry, Powells.com... ( read more)
Your price: $21.00
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Bad Monkeys
by Matt Ruff
Powells.com Staff Pick
Bad Monkeys twists, turns, shifts, and shakes its way through the story of Jane Charlotte, a woman who claims to be a member of a clandestine organization dedicated to fighting evil known as the Final Disposition of Irredeemable Persons. A gripping... ( read more)
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Powells.com Staff Pick
"What makes this book fascinating is the way that Levitt uses advanced economic techniques — the kind that would knock me unconscious quicker than chloroform if I had to read them in a textbook — and applies them to seemingly unexplainable... ( read more)
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Coraline
by Neil Gaiman
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Coraline and her parents have moved to a new flat. One rainy day, with her parents too busy to entertain her, Coraline takes her father's suggestion and begins exploring her new house from top to bottom. She discovers a curious, locked door in the... ( read more)
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Cloud Atlas: A Novel
by David Mitchell
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"For readers who enjoy good stories wrapped around an inventive structure. Each tale is obliquely connected to another moving forward through time. And each has a totally different voice and style." Salli, Powells... ( read more)
Your price: $14.95
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Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
by Haruki Murakami
Powells.com Staff Pick
Murakami's third short story collection for the West is a varied
assortment of sublime confections. His prose voice speaks to me in a
way few writers can. The story "The Kidney-Shaped Stone That Moves Every
Day" still haunts me. Recommended by Mike H.,... ( read more)
Your price: $24.95
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Number9dream
by David Mitchell
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Against the hyperkinetic backdrop of twenty-first-century Tokyo, Eiji Miyake searches for the father who abandoned him. Dreams and fantasy, fact and fiction merge in a complex narrative that rewards the ambitious reader. David Mitchell continues to prove... ( read more)
Your price: $14.95
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Altered Carbon
by Richard K. Morgan
Powells.com Staff Pick
This debut novel effortlessly blends the techno-fetish of William
Gibson, the hardboiled detective narrative of Dashiell Hammett and
the rapid-fire heroic bloodshed of the films of John Woo. If you
enjoy such cyberpunk classics as Snow Crash and... ( read more)
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Sputnik Sweetheart
by Haruki Murakami
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Haruki Murakami, the internationally bestselling author of Norwegian Wood and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, plunges us into an urbane Japan of jazz bars, coffee shops, Jack Kerouac, and the Beatles to tell this story of a tangled triangle of uniquely... ( read more)
Your price: $13.95
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Hello, I'm Special: How Individuality Became the New Conformity
by Hal Niedzviecki
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When being a rebel is sanctioned by society, what is left to rebel against?
Hal Niedzviecki has a blunt message for the army of tattoo and piercing enthusiasts, bloggers, skateboard warriors, and anyone else walking around with the smug certainty... ( read more)
Your price: $15.95
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The Ends of Our Tethers: Thirteen Sorry Stories
by Alasdair Gray
Powells.com Staff Pick
"The Ends of Our Tethers makes a welcome addition to Gray's canon. While Gray's longtime readers may find themselves wishing for something more substantive, they will be hard-pressed to find many flaws in this subtle and pleasing collection. Readers... ( read more)
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Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader
by Lester Bangs
Powells.com Staff Pick
"Simply put, Lester Bangs is the Charles Bukowski of rock criticism. He may have been deranged and obnoxious, but he was honest. Main Lines, Blood Feasts and Bad Taste provides a wealth of previously uncollected material sure to amuse, annoy, and... ( read more)
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Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in 12 Fish
by Richard Flanagan
Powells.com Staff Pick
It doesn't really have that much to do with fish. They're
just an excuse for William Gould to tell his life story as an inmate
in a penal colony on Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania). Shocking
in its brutality and touching in its humanity, this is... ( read more)
Your price: $14.00
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Abuse Your Illusions: The Disinformation Guide to Media Mirages and Establishment Lies
by Russ Kick
Powells.com Staff Pick
These essays, from some of the most potent radicals writing today,
serve to fill the massive informational void that American corporate
media chooses to ignore. Abuse Your Illusions is an essential
addition to post-9/11 discourse. Gerry, Powells.... ( read more)
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Glue
by Irvine Welsh
Powells.com Staff Pick
Who says punks can't age gracefully? A tale of four friends growing up and
growing apart, Glue demonstrates a maturity and optimism typically absent
in Welsh's oeuvre. This isn't to say that he's gone soft, or lost his
frequently cruel sense of humor.... ( read more)
Your price: $15.00
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The Wolves in the Walls
by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean
Powells.com Staff Pick
This rather spooky story centers on Lucy, a girl who believes there are wolves in the walls of her home — and she's right! The ways she and her family deal with a houseful of wolves make for a captivatingly strange and winning tale. Recommended by... ( read more)
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The Coma
by Alex Garland
Powells.com Staff Pick
In The Coma, Alex Garland (author of The Beach and the film 28 Days
Later) crafts a gripping novella that blurs the distinction between
dreams and reality. The Coma has a menacing undertow that will resonate
long after you've finished reading it... ( read more)
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Broken Angels
by Richard K Morgan
Powells.com Staff Pick
This is not your father's science fiction. Richard K. Morgan's wonderfully constructed antihero Takeshi Kovacs is back. The only thing that flows faster than the bullets is Morgan's imagination. Slick and hyperkinetic, Broken Angels is a worthy follow-up... ( read more)
Your price: $14.95
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Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984
by Simon Reynolds
Publisher Comments
Rip It Up and Start Again is the first book-length exploration of the wildly adventurous music created in the years after punk. Renowned music journalist Simon Reynolds celebrates the futurist spirit of such bands as Joy Division, Gang of Four, Talking... ( read more)
Your price: $16.00
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Speaking with the Angel
by Nick Hornby
Publisher Comments
Eleven completely new stories, narrated by 11 completely fabulous characters, written by 11 of the most celebrated voices in fiction today. Bestselling author Nick Hornby has brought together a star-studded group of writers to create this one-of-a-kind... ( read more)
List Price $13.95
Your price: $5.00
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