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Powell's Books Reader
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All in a Day by Cynthia Rylant and Nikki McClure Publisher Comments This lovely book illuminates all the possibilities a day offers — the opportunities and chances that won't ever come again — and also delivers a gentle message of good stewardship of our planet. Newbery Medal winner Cynthia Rylant's poetic text,... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover 
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Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary by David Sedaris Staff Pick Sedaris diverges from his usual essays to give us a book of fables. Like all good fables and fairy tales, they're pretty gruesome and horrifying, and there's most always a moral to be found. These include a healthy dose of charm and wit, though. Ian... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea by Chelsea Handler Publisher Comments When Chelsea Handler needs to get a few things off her chest, she appeals to a higher power — vodka. You would too if you found out that your boyfriend was having an affair with a Peekapoo or if you had to pretend to be honeymooning with your... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux Publisher Comments Paul Theroux returns to the transcontinental expedition that made Great Railway Bazaar a classic of travel literature and realizes—in rich, anecdotal detail—how much the world has changed. Half a lifetime ago, Paul Theroux... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Atlantis Complex (Artemis Fowl #07) by Eoin Colfer Publisher Comments Artemis has committed his entire fortune to a project he believes will save the planet and its inhabitants, both human and fairy. Can it be true? Has goodness taken hold of the world"s greatest teenage criminal mastermind? Captain Holly Short is... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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A Most Wanted Man by John le Carre Staff Pick With A Most Wanted Man, legendary spymaster John le Carré tackles the "War on Terror" with this incisive critique that doubles as a stunning thriller. Espionage fans — and people who question the stories we're fed on front pages — will be riveted.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Food of a Younger Land: A Portrait of American Food Before the National Highway System, Before Chain Restaurants, and Before Frozen Food, When by Mark Kurlansky Publisher Comments From the New York Times bestselling author who "powerfully demonstrates the defining role food plays in history and culture" (Atlanta Journal-Constitution). In the throes of the Great Depression, a make-work initiative for authors — called... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Vegetable Gardener's Bible by Edward C. Smith Publisher Comments The invaluable resource for home food gardeners! Ed Smith's W-O-R-D system has helped countless gardeners grow an abundance of vegetables and herbs. And those tomatoes and zucchini and basil and cucumbers have nourished countless families, neighbors, and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Mortal Instruments #03: City of Glass by Cassandra Clare Publisher Comments Clary has to use all her ingenuity and newfound magical skills to get herself to the Glass City in Idris, the secretive Shadowhunters’ home country, where she is forbidden to go—for it is only there that she can find the cure to her... (read more) List Price $10.99 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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My Life as an Experiment: One Man's Humble Quest to Improve Himself by Living as a Woman, Becoming George Washington, Telling No Lies, and Other by A J Jacobs Publisher Comments One man. Ten extraordinary quests. Bestselling author and human guinea pig A. J. Jacobs puts his life to the test and reports on the surprising and entertaining results. He goes undercover as a woman, lives by George Washingtons moral code, and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow Staff Pick Heartbreaking in its honesty, this perfect jewel of a novel mirrors the real life of the author, who grew up biracial in Portland, Oregon, in the 1980s. After an accident claims her family, Rachel is sent to live with her grandmother in a predominantly... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $11.16 Sale - Trade Paper
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Dear American Airlines by Jonathan Miles Staff Pick Creatively constructed, this novel-in-a-letter has more to do with the main character's complaints about his own life than his missed flight. Dear American Airlines, the first novel by the New York Times cocktail columnist Jonathan Miles was surely... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.98 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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A Bedtime for Bear (Candlewick Readers) by Bonny Becker Publisher Comments When the impish Mouse comes to spend the night, Bear is in for a rude — and very funny — awakening in this irresistible new story starring the unlikely pair. Bear must have absolute quiet when he goes to bed. He likes to set out his glass of... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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A Common Pornography: A Memoir by Kevin Sampsell Staff Pick I loved Kevin Sampsell's A Common Pornography. Though by "loved" I mean "was impressed and cringed a lot." This collection of short "memory experiments" runs the gamut from hilarious to heartbreaking, and Sampsell has an incredible knack for illuminating... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Johnny Cash: I See a Darkness by Reinhard Kleist Staff Pick Reinhard Kleist gives us a dark and nuanced portrait of the Man in Black, with stunning black-and-white artwork that perfectly complements the retelling of Johnny Cash's life. Interspersed among the narrative are short selections of illustrated song... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $4.75 Sale - Trade Paper
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Applique Your Way by Kayte Terry Staff Pick The perfect addition to any stitcher's library and repertoire, Appliqué Your Way is a fantastic resource for expertly pulling off the often overlooked craft of appliqué. Includes 30+ chic and simple projects, patterns, and a genius lay-flat binding... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Spiral/comb
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Pretty Little Liars #07: Pretty Little Liars #7: Heartless by Sara Shepard Publisher Comments Four gorgeous girls are telling very ugly stories. First Emily, Aria, Hanna, and Spencer claimed they found a dead body in the woods behind Spencer's house, only to have it vanish without a trace. Then, when the same woods went up in flames, they swore... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Asta in the Wings by Jan Elizabeth Watson Staff Pick In Watson's captivating debut novel, the Hewitt family lives an isolated life in rural Maine. But when circumstances force them into society, they must reconcile their home life with the outside world, learning that isolation has many forms. A... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $9.80 Sale - Trade Paper
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Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer by Novella Carpenter Publisher Comments Urban and rural collide in this wry, inspiring memoir of a woman who turned a vacant lot in downtown Oakland into a thriving farm. Novella Carpenter loves cities — the culture, the crowds, the energy. At the same time, she can't shake the fact... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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