Employee Picks
Greta


There are 13 books in this aisle.

 
Featured Titles in Employee Picks-Greta:
Page 1 of 1

Vulnerable Observer : Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart (96 Edition)
Used: $10.00
Trade Paper
List Price $18.00

add to wish list
Vulnerable Observer : Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart (96 Edition)
by Ruth Behar

Recommended
by our staff
Publisher Comments
Eloquently interweaving ethnography and memoir, award-winning anthropologist Ruth Behar proposes a new theory and practice for humanistic anthropology--with the hope that it will lead us toward greater depth of understanding and feeling....
read more about this title
check for other copies

Motoring with Mohammed: Journeys to Yemen and the Red Sea (Vintage Departures)
Used: $5.95
Trade Paper
List Price $13.95

add to wish list
Motoring with Mohammed: Journeys to Yemen and the Red Sea (Vintage Departures)
by Eric Hansen

Recommended
by our staff
Publisher Comments
In 1978 Eric Hansen found himself shipwrecked on a desert island in the Red Sea. When goat smugglers offered him safe passage to Yemen, he buried seven years' worth of travel journals deep in the sand and took his place alongside the animals on a leaky...
read more about this title
check for other copies

Even in Quiet Places
Used: $7.50
Trade Paper
List Price $11.00

add to wish list
Even in Quiet Places
by William Stafford

Recommended
by our staff
Publisher Comments
Stafford's 90 poems show his understanding of freedom, social justice and ways to establish harmony in life....
read more about this title
check for other copies

Art of Drowning (95 Edition)
Used: $8.00
Trade Paper
List Price $14.00

add to wish list
Art of Drowning (95 Edition)
by Billy Collins

Recommended
by our staff
Publisher Comments
Billy Collins's poetry has been described by Gerald Stern as "heartbreakingly beautiful." Annie Proulx admits, "I have never before felt possessive about a poet, but I am fiercely glad that Billy Collins is ours." The New York Times calls him simply "the...
read more about this title
check for other copies

Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons : Poems (86 Edition)
Used: $8.00
Trade Paper
List Price $14.95

add to wish list
Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons : Poems (86 Edition)
by Marilyn Hacker

Recommended
by our staff
Review
"Hacker's impressive technical skills, combined with the sensitivity of her subject and her straightforward diction, prevent the book from becoming the flat diary a lesser poet might have written." Library...
read more about this title
check for other copies

Sahara Unveiled: A Journey Across the Desert
Used: $6.95
Trade Paper
List Price $13.00

add to wish list
Sahara Unveiled: A Journey Across the Desert
by Willia Langewiesche

Recommended
by our staff
Publisher Comments
The world's vastest and most forbidding desert is revealed in all its cruelty and wonder in this masterpiece of contemporary travel writing by the author of Cutting for Sign. William Langewiesche crossed the Sahara from Algiers to Dakar, determined to...
read more about this title
check for other copies

Violet: The Life and Loves of Violet Gordon Woodhouse
Used: $3.95
Trade Paper
List Price $14.00

add to wish list
Violet: The Life and Loves of Violet Gordon Woodhouse
by Jessic Douglas Home

Recommended
by our staff
Publisher Comments
Paperback edition of this acclaimed biography of Violet Gordon Woodhouse, the pioneering musician who included Picasso, Diaghilev, the Sitwells, Pound and Eliot amongst her social circle, and attracted passionate devotion from both men and women. Written...
read more about this title
check for other copies

Last Train To Memphis : the Rise of Elvis Presley (94 Edition)
Used: $10.00
Trade Paper
List Price $17.95

add to wish list
Last Train To Memphis : the Rise of Elvis Presley (94 Edition)
by Peter Guralnick

Recommended
by our staff
Publisher Comments
From the moment that he first shook up the world in the mid 1950s, Elvis Presley has been one of the most vivid and enduring myths of American culture. Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley is the first biography to go past that myth and...
read more about this title
check for other copies

How I Came West, and Why I Stayed: Stories
Used: $1.74
Trade Paper
List Price $9.95

add to wish list
How I Came West, and Why I Stayed: Stories
by Alison Baker

Recommended
by our staff
Publisher Comments
This classic Chronicle book remains available as a print-on-demand title. You can purchase it from an online bookseller or by order from your local bookstore....
read more about this title
check for other copies

It is Hard to Look at What We: Came to Think We'd Come to See (Pitt Poetry)
Sale: $8.50
Trade Paper
List Price $17.95

add to wish list
It is Hard to Look at What We: Came to Think We'd Come to See (Pitt Poetry)
by Michele Glazer

Recommended
by our staff
Synopsis
Michele Glazer is the author of It Is Hard to Look at What We Came to Think We'd Come to See, which received the 1996 AWP Award in Poetry. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Oregon's Literary Arts, Inc., and the...
read more about this title
check for other copies

Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley
Used: $10.00
Trade Paper
List Price $17.95

add to wish list
Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley
by Peter Guralnick

Recommended
by our staff
Publisher Comments
Unrivaled in its scope, detail, authority, and sheer readability, Guralnick's biography of Elvis Presley tells a quintessential American story of one of the most important entertainers of the century....
read more about this title
check for other copies

The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier
Used: $8.95
Trade Paper
List Price $23.00

add to wish list
The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier
by Adrienne Monnier

Recommended
by our staff
Powells.com Staff Pick
This is as good a place as any to confess my elaborate fantasy about living on the Left Bank in the 20's and 30's. While this community of modernists turned out a lot of cultural heavyweights (Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce), the people that...
read more about this title
check for other copies

Love, Death, & the Changing Seasons
Used: $6.50
Trade Paper

add to wish list
Love, Death, & the Changing Seasons
by Marilyn Hacker

Recommended
by our staff


read more about this title
check for other copies





There are 13 books in this aisle.

This way to more aisles in Employee Picks