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Fifty Places to Hike before You Die: Outdoor Experts Share the World's Greatest Destinations by Chris Santella Staff Pick Sure, working at Powell's is pretty cool. But if I had my way, I would quit my job, toss this book in my rucksack, and hit the road to conquer all 50 treks outlined within. For now, I'll settle for some one-on-one time with this lush, detailed guide.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson Publisher Comments The year is 2312. Scientific and technological advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. Earth is no longer humanity's only home; new habitats have been created throughout the solar system on moons, planets, and in between. But in this... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $18.19 Sale - Hardcover
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Grow Cook Eat: A Food Lover's Guide to Vegetable Gardening, Including 50 Recipes, Plus Harvesting and Storage Tips by Willi Galloway and Jim Henkens Publisher Comments From sinking a seed into the soil through to sitting down to enjoy a meal made with vegetables and fruits harvested right outside your back door, this gorgeous kitchen gardening book is filled with practical, useful information for both novices and... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $20.97 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Year of the Beasts by Nate Powell and Cecil Castellucci Publisher Comments Every summer the trucks roll in, bringing the carnival and its infinite possibilities to town. This year Tessa and her younger sister Lulu are un-chaperoned and want to be first in line to experience the rides, the food... and the boys. Except this... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $11.89 Sale - Hardcover
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Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History by Florence Williams Publisher Comments Did you know that breast milk contains substances similar to cannabis? Or that it's sold on the Internet for 262 times the price of oil? Feted and fetishized, the breast is an evolutionary masterpiece. But in the modern world, the breast is changing... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $18.17 Sale - Hardcover
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Molly Moon's Homemade Ice Cream: Sweet Seasonal Recipes for Ice Creams, Sorbets, and Toppings Made with Local Ingredients by Molly Moon Neitzel and Christina Spittler Publisher Comments When Molly Moon Neitzel opened the first of her five boutique ice cream scoop shops in the spring of 2008, it was an instant hit with the folks of Seattle. So much so that they've been happily lining up for a cone or signature sundae ever since, and now... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $15.37 Sale - Hardcover
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The Duckling Gets a Cookie!? by Mo Willems Publisher Comments The Duckling asks for a cookie — and gets one! Do you think the Pigeon is happy about that?... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $11.19 Sale - Hardcover
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The Listeners by Leni Zumas From Powells.com Featured in Indiespensable Volume 33! Powell's subscription club offers signed first editions, exclusive content, and unique handpicked gifts. Read about this shipment on our blog!... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $11.17 Sale - Trade Paper
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The End by Salvatore Scibona Publisher Comments An incredible debut and National Book Award-nominated novel?it?s ?Memento meets Augie March. Didion meets Hitchcock? (Esquire). It is August 15, 1953, the day of a boisterous and unwieldy street carnival in Elephant Park, an Italian immigrant enclave in... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power by Rachel Maddow Publisher Comments "One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier," Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1792. Neither Jefferson nor the other Founders could ever have envisioned the modern national security state, with its tens of thousands of "privateers"; its... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Sale - Hardcover
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Aftermath: Stories by Scott Nadelson Publisher Comments The characters in Scott Nadelson's third collection are living in the wake of momentous events — the rupture of relationships, the loss of loved ones, the dissolution of dreams, and yet they find new ways of forging on with their lives, making... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $11.17 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Very Minor Prophet by James Bernard Frost Publisher Comments A Very Minor Prophet is the story of how Barth Flynn, a barista swimming upstream against purposelessness in Portland, Oregon, becomes the faithful scribe of Joseph Patrick Booker. Booker is a dwarf preacher who serves Voodoo donuts, Stumptown coffee... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.97 Sale - Trade Paper
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Dogs by Tim Flach Publisher Comments Based on the magnificent book Dogs by Tim Flach, this calendar features 25 of his compelling portraits of these adored companions. From the exquisite specimens entered in the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show to shelter dogs lovingly rescued by volunteers,... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $25.25 Sale - Hardcover
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Glow by Jessica Maria Tuccelli Publisher Comments In the autumn of 1941, Amelia J. McGee, a young woman of Cherokee and Scotch-Irish descent, and an outspoken pamphleteer for the NAACP, hastily sends her daughter, Ella, alone on a bus home to Georgia in the middle of the night—a desperate measure... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $18.17 Sale - Hardcover
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Every Man for Himself by Beryl Bainbridge Publisher Comments If ever a subject and a writer were perfectly matched it is here. The fated voyage of the Titanic with its heroics and horror has been dramatized many times before, but never by an artist with the skills and sensibility of Beryl Bainbridge. On... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $11.20 Sale - Trade Paper
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Garden Anywhere: How to Grow Gorgeous Container Gardens, Herb Gardens, Kitchen Gardens and More -- without Spending a Fortune by Alys Fowler Staff Pick Garden Anywhere is an apartment-dwelling wannabe-horticulturalist's dream. With easy-to-follow instructions and super-creative container garden ideas — like making window boxes out of wine crates and growing potatoes in feed sacks — this book is... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain (Vintage) by David Eagleman Publisher Comments If the conscious mind — the part you consider to be you — is just the tip of the iceberg, what is the rest doing? In this sparkling and provocative book, renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman navigates the depths of the subconscious brain to... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $11.17 Sale - Trade Paper
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Little Green by Loretta Stinson Publisher Comments In Little Green, Loretta Stinson's stunning, redemptive first novel, tragedy leaves Janie Marek orphaned. The action begins in 1976, with Janie a runaway and stranded on the freeway outside a Northwestern town after hitchhiking. Janie ends up working at... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $11.17 Sale - Trade Paper
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Welcome to Paradise by Mahi Binebine Publisher Comments Mahi Binebine's courageous novel takes place in Morocco, where seven would-be immigrants, pulled by the dream of a better life, gather one night near the Straight of Gibraltar, the ten-mile-wide waterway that separates Europe and Africa, to wait for a... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.47 Sale - Trade Paper
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Treasure Island!!! by Sara Levine Publisher Comments When a college graduate with a history of hapless jobs (ice cream scooper; gift wrapper; laziest ever part-time clerk at The Pet Library) reads Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island, she is dumbstruck by the timid design of her life. When had... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $10.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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