by David Sedaris  
Powells.com Staff Pick Always a delight, never a disappointment, David Sedaris has come out with his finest offering yet. He has a deft touch, moving between sarcasm and sadness or, in this collection, between redneck babysitters and quitting smoking. Recommended by Beth... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your Price $18.19 (Sale - Hardcover) check for used copies 
by Per Petterson
Powells.com Staff Pick Hailed by critics across the globe, showered with awards, Out Stealing Horses is a book that true lovers of the written word will hold close to their hearts. With its captivating prose and characters who burrow under your skin and refuse to come out, Per... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your Price $9.80 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Barbara Kingsolver and Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver
Powells.com Staff Pick After 25 years in the Arizona desert, in 2004, Kentucky-bred Barbara Kingsolver moved back to the Appalachians, to a Virginia farm just hours from her childhood home. Family called. "Returning," she explains in Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, "would allow my... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Sloane Crosley
Powells.com Staff Pick Funny, charming, and self-effacing, Sloane Crosley's essays will resonate with you, whether or not you grew up playing Oregon Trail on the computer or have ever locked yourself out of your house — twice in the same day. Crosley's voice is... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your Price $9.80 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Jeannette Walls Publisher Comments Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in... (read more) Your Price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher Comments A Man without a Country is Kurt Vonnegut's hilariously funny and razor-sharp look at life (If I die — God forbid — I would like to go to heaven to ask somebody in charge up there, Hey, what was the good news and what was the bad news?), art (To... (read more) Your Price $5.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Powells.com 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 $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Stephenie Meyer
Special Offer Stephenie Meyer's wildly popular Twilight Saga concludes with Breaking Dawn. Join us at Powell's City of Books to celebrate the release of this long-anticipated book! On Friday, August 1, we are thrilled to host Bella's Ball, a midnight release party for... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your Price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Jodi Picoult Publisher Comments New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her ability to tap into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she explores what happens when a young woman's past — a past she didn't even know she had — catches up to... (read more) Your Price $6.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
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by Truman Capote
Powells.com Staff Pick This is my author fantasy: me, Truman Capote, a front porch on a summer afternoon that stretches lazily into evening, and of course, mint juleps. I can't think of anyone else whose stories I'd rather hear told. Word for word, measure for... (read more) Your Price $5.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Anita Diamant
Publisher Comments Her name is Dinah. In the Bible, her life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the more familiar chapters of the Book of Genesis that are about her father, Jacob, and his dozen sons. Told in Dinah's voice, this novel reveals the... (read more) Your Price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Augusten Burroughs
Powells.com Staff Pick "Burroughs has a way of writing reminiscent of David Sedaris. His mock-naivete is a little shocking, a little naughty. He confesses to things that most people just don't admit to in polite conversation. But the twinkle in the eye is there, the nudge in... (read more) Your Price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Isabel Allende
Powells.com Staff Pick When was it decided that literary writers shouldn't write about adventure? Once upon a time authors like Stevenson and Dumas were associated with swashbucklers, now classics, Treasure Island and The Three Musketeers; today they'd be laughed right out of... (read more) Your Price $5.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Jonathan Safra Foer Publisher Comments Wildly inventive and moving follow-up to the acclaimed and award-winning "Everything Is Illuminated". When nine-year-old Oskar's father is killed in the September 11th attacks, he begins a journey through five boroughs of New York as he attempts to solve... (read more) Your Price $7.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Eugenides Jeffrey Synopsis This is the tale of a gene that passes down through three generations and flowers in the teenage body of Callie. Thanks to this gene, she begins to realise she is part girl, part boy. What results is a fable of the intricacies of gender and the untidy... (read more) Your Price $8.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
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