by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin  
Powells.com Staff Pick Nelson Mandela once said, "Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world." Mortenson and Relin's Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time is a powerful contribution to that arsenal. If there... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your Price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
by Tracy Kidder
Powells.com Staff Pick "It's won the Pulitzer and for good reason; it's beautifully written, inspired, and gives you something to think about the rest of the year." Hilary, Powells... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your Price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Ted C Fishman Publisher Comments China today is visible everywhere -- in the news, in the economic pressures battering the globe, in our workplaces, and in every trip to the store. Provocative, timely, and essential -- and updated with new statistics and information -- this dramatic... (read more) Your Price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Kate Summerscale
Powells.com Staff Pick At once a mystery and a history of early mystery novels, The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher is a page-turner. Summerscale picks apart a famous Victorian murder, the murder that sparked "detective fever" and inspired Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins to... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your Price $17.46 (Sale - Hardcover) check for used copies
by Ishmael Beah Publisher Comments My new friends have begun to suspect I haven't told them the full story of my life. "Why did you leave Sierra Leone?" "Because there is a war." "You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?" "Yes, all the time." "Cool." I... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your Price $11.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Jimmy Carter
Publisher Comments Following his #1 New York Times bestseller Our Endangered Values, the former president, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, offers an assessment of what must be done to bring permanent peace to Israel with dignity and justice to Palestine. President... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your Price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Rory Stewart Publisher Comments In August 2003, at the age of thirty, Rory Stewart took a taxi from Jordan to Baghdad. A Farsi-speaking British diplomat who had recently completed an epic walk from Turkey to Bangladesh, he was soon appointed deputy governor of Amarah and then Nasiriyah,... (read more) Your Price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Richard Zacks Publisher Comments Describes the 1805 secret mission, reluctantly sanctioned by Thomas Jefferson and led by William Eaton, to stop the Barbary pirates of North Africa from hijacking American ships, revealing how a ragtag group of men, aided by a band of European... (read more) Your Price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Diane Ackerman
Powells.com Staff Pick Ackerman's bestselling books, including A Natural History of the Senses and An Alchemy of Mind, are illuminating windows into the human condition, and are distinguished not only by Ackerman's graceful and exuberant prose but by her inclusion of her own... (read more) Your Price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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Thursday May 8, 2008
by Adam Nicolson Publisher Comments In October 1805 Lord Horatio Nelson, the most brilliant sea commander who ever lived, led the British Royal Navy to a devastating victory over the Franco-Spanish fleets at the great battle of Trafalgar. It was the foundation of Britain's nineteenth... (read more) Your Price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Catherine Merridale Publisher Comments A powerful, groundbreaking narrative of the ordinary Russian soldier's experience of the worst war in history, based on newly revealed sources. Of the thirty million who fought, eight million died, driven forward in suicidal charges, shattered by... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Danny Danziger Synopsis On June 15 1215, the Magna Carta was signed, challenging royal authority and laying the foundation for modern democracy. This title explores what it was like to be alive in that momentous year. Politics is interwoven with other issues - fashion, food... (read more) Your Price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Jared Diamond
Powells.com Staff Pick Diamond crafts a careful and thorough account of the environmental and cultural fragility of civilizations, from present-day Montana to the toppled statues of Easter Island. Collapse is both a fascinating study of humanity's ecological relationships and... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your Price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Tony Cohan Publisher Comments We walk the dimly lit town, along its Moorish walls of roseate hues. In the small, thronged central plaza, we sit on an iron bench gazing up at a quirky dripcastle church, its spires embedded in full complement of stars. Drop it, something whispers. Just... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Doris Pilkington Publisher Comments The remarkable true story of three young girls who cross the harsh Australian desert on foot to return to their home. Following an Australian government edict in 1931, black aboriginal children and children of mixed marriages were gathered up by... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your Price $5.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
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