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New Arrivals Browse more New Arrivals in Literature $15.00 New Trade Paper add to wish list The Book of Unholy Mischief Elle Newmark $15.95 Used Hardcover add to wish list That Old Cape Magic Richard Russo $18.86 Sale Hardcover add to wish list The Children's Book A. S. Byatt $9.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list Say You're One of Them (Oprah #63) Uwem Akpan $28.00 New Hardcover add to wish list Last Night in Twisted River John Irving $9.50 Used Trade Paper add to wish list 86'd (P.S.) Dan Fante Browse more New Arrivals in Literature Sale!: New York Review of Books Classics Browse more Titles in New York Review of Books Classics Sale $10.46 Sale Trade Paper add to wish list The Dud Avocado Elaine Dundy $9.80 Sale Trade Paper add to wish list Dirty Snow Georges Simenon $9.06 Sale Trade Paper add to wish list The Invention of Morel Adolfo Bioy Casares Browse more Titles in New York Review of Books Classics Sale A to Z Browse more titles in Literature-A to Z The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver Staff Pick Waiting for a new Kingsolver novel has been like waiting for a favorite restaurant to reopen after renovations, only it's been nine years of anticipation. With the grand depth of The Poisonwood Bible, The Lacuna tells of historical and intercultural intrigue, amidst relationships that unfold slowly, drawing out their flavors. Kingsolver's research rewards us with accurate representations of exciting historical figures. Her themes of social change have a timeless relevance. It's a pleasure to be immersed once again in the kaleidoscope of Barbara Kingsolver's imagination and skill. Recommended by Andrea, Powell's City of Books... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $18.89 Sale - Hardcover add to wish list Reference Browse more titles in Reference Art Browse more titles in Literature-Art Pictorial Webster's: A Visual Dictionary of Curiosities by John M. Carrera Staff Pick This "visual dictionary of curiosities" is charming, quirky, and endlessly entertaining. (It's also very hard to put down.) Fascinating images reproduced from wood engravings illustrate words from albatross and abracadabra to zibeth and zodiac." Recommended by Tessa, Powells.com... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $24.50 Sale - Hardcover add to wish list A to Z Browse more titles in Literature-A to Z The Wild Things by Dave Eggers Staff Pick Not content to reinforce the foundation of Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, Eggers instead architects entirely new additions. Young Max's psyche is fully formed, and the Wild Things themselves are given wonderfully eclectic personalities, ensuring each new chapter is greeted with a sweet sense of anticipation. Recommended by Nathan W., Powells.com... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.96 Sale - Hardcover add to wish list A to Z Browse more titles in Literature-A to Z The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood Staff Pick A companion novel to Atwood's magnificent Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood conveys a very different perspective of the coming dystopian catastrophe. Darkly funny, incredibly believable, and surprisingly hopeful, Atwood's new novel is one of her very best. Recommended by Jill Owens, Powells.com... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.86 Sale - Hardcover add to wish list Featured Titles Browse more titles in Literature-Featured Titles Scorch Atlas by Blake Butler Synopsis In this striking novel-in-stories, a series of strange apocalypses have hit America. Entire neighborhoods drown in mud, glass rains from the sky, birds speak gibberish, and parents of young children disappear. Millions starve while others grow coats of... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper add to wish list Recently Arrived Used Browse recently arrived used titles in Literature $6.95 Used Hardcover add to wish list At eighty-two :a journal May Sarton $1.50 Used Mass Market add to wish list All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque $3.95 Used Mass Market add to wish list Animal Farm George Orwell $7.50 Used Trade Paper add to wish list All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy $5.00 Used Hardcover add to wish list Are You Afraid of the Dark? Sidney Sheldon $9.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list Adventure in Suicide Frank Robert Vivelo Browse recently arrived used titles in Literature Signed Editions Browse more titles in Literature-Signed Editions Last Night in Twisted River Signed Edition by John Irving Publisher Comments In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from... (read more) Your price: $28.00 New - Hardcover add to wish list A to Z Browse more titles in Literature-A to Z The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver Staff Pick Waiting for a new Kingsolver novel has been like waiting for a favorite restaurant to reopen after renovations, only it's been nine years of anticipation. With the grand depth of The Poisonwood Bible, The Lacuna tells of historical and intercultural... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $18.89 Sale - Hardcover add to wish list Bildungsroman Browse more titles in Literature-Bildungsroman The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery Publisher Comments The enthralling international bestseller. We are in the center of Paris, in an elegant apartment building inhabited by bourgeois families. Renée, the concierge, is witness to the lavish but vacuous lives of her numerous employers. Outwardly she... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper add to wish list Time Travel Browse more titles in Literature-Time Travel The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger Staff Pick "Inspired by her grandparents' love story in which the grandmother outlived her husband by nearly three decades, Niffenegger has invented Henry and Clare, and their unique and complicated love story involving the ability to live in the past and future in... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper add to wish list Sale Books Browse more titles in Literature-Sale Books Returning to Earth by Jim Harrison Publisher Comments In the universally-praised Returning to Earth, Jim Harrison has delivered a masterpiece—a tender, profound, and magnificent novel about life, death, and the possibility of finding redemption in unlikely places. Donald is a middle-aged Chippewa... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper add to wish list Used Books Browse more titles in Literature-Used Books The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz Publisher Comments The most talked about — and praised — first novel of 2007, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who, from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister,... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list

Bestsellers Saturday, November 21, 2009 Last Night in Twisted River Signed Edition by John Irving The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) by Stieg Larsson A Christmas Carol (Dover Thrift Editions) by Charles Dickens The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood Get Literature... News, bestseller lists, special Powell's offers, and more in your inbox. More info about our Subject Newsletters Interviews | November 19, 2009 Finding John Irving: The Powells.com Interview 1 comment By Dave [Editor's note: The following is a reprint of our 2005 interview with John Irving, whose new novel, Last Night in Twisted River, has just come out... Continue » $28.00 New Hardcover add to wish list Last Night in Twisted River John Irving Small Press | November 7, 2009 Small Press Conversation: Mykle Hansen and Andersen Prunty 0 comments By Kevin Sampsell When I took over the small press section at Powell's about eight years ago, I was immediately won over by a colorful little paperback book by local... Continue » $10.95 New Trade Paper add to wish list Help! a Bear Is Eating Me! Mykle Hansen Guests | November 6, 2009 Badass Authors: George Orwell 5 comments By Ben Thompson "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face, forever." —George Orwell, 1984 While fighting Nazis in the... Continue » $5.95 Used Mass Market add to wish list 1984 (Signet Classics) George Orwell Guests | November 5, 2009 Badass Authors: Alexander Solzhenitsyn 1 comment By Ben Thompson "One word of truth will outweigh the whole world" When you're in a Stalin-era Soviet Gulag, merely managing to haul your ass out of bed, trudge... Continue » $7.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Original Essays | October 28, 2009 Living Room 0 comments By Rachel Sherman In my novel Living Room, I write about the pain of mothering — about mothers who do not know how to be mothers. I finished my edits on the... Continue » $10.46 Sale Trade Paper add to wish list Living Room Rachel Sherman

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