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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter # 7) by J.K. Rowling Staff Pick The seeds planted throughout the series bear fruit in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. How did Dumbledore's nose get broken? Or his hand burned to a crisp? You will find all the answers here. This is the finest book in the series; the writing is... (read more) List Price $79.95 Your price: $40.00 Used - Compact Disc 
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Dune (Dune) by Frank Herbert Staff Pick I'm sure other Powell's employees have chosen Dune as a staff pick, and for good reason: It's a science fiction classic. It is densely written and almost prophetic in nature. The spice, and the desert wars over it, sound so very much like our current... (read more) Your price: $59.95 New - Compact Disc
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Mavericks at Work by William C. Taylor Staff Pick With access to thirty-two companies across a wide range of industries — from Craigslist to Southwest Airlines to Pixar Animation Studios — the cofounder of Fast Company teams with one of the magazine's senior editors to profile the most innovative... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Compact Disc
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Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell Staff Pick Leave it to Sarah Vowell to roam across America in search of the motivations and culture of political murder. Obsessive, edifying, and, of course, witty, Assassination Vacation is unlike any other historical tourism or travel writing book you'll ever... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Compact Disc
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Percy Jackson and the Olympians #01: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan Staff Pick Here was a surprise find: a modern-day story set in New York but heavy in Greek mythology. Percy Jackson, who is diagnosed ADHD and always having trouble in school, discovers that his teachers aren't quite who they seem to be... and soon discovers that... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Compact Disc
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Nurtureshock: New Thinking about Children by Po Bronson Staff Pick Extraordinarily well-researched, Nurtureshock will change the way you parent or teach! I'm not either of those things, but it definitely changed the way I think about kids. Fascinating, gripping, and really a must-have for everyone who deals with kids.... (read more) Your price: $34.98 New - Compact Disc
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The Troubled Man by Henning Mankell Staff Pick The final installment in the Wallander series is a story about the transitory nature of memory. As Wallander sifts through the fading memories of witnesses and suspects to untangle the connections between recent events and those that occurred decades in... (read more) Your price: $45.00 New - Compact Disc
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Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon Staff Pick Brothers and Sisters! Flare up a big, mouthwatering, medicinal spliff and take a trip with the great Thomas Pynchon and his immaculately stoned anti-hero detective "Doc" Sportello through post-Manson L.A. as they attempt to solve the mystery of the... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Compact Disc
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A Tree Grow in Brooklyn by Betty Smith Staff Pick A book dealer came into Powell's rare book room one day while I was working and bought a beautiful first edition of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. She said it was her favorite book and a birthday present to herself. From the look in her eye and the way she... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Compact Disc
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Brick Lane CD by Monica Ali Staff Pick A phenomenally original novel that entwines Bangladeshi traditional beginnings with a gradual transformation into modern, multicultural life in contemporary London. Ali's narrator, Nazneen, holds all of her experiences close at hand and maintains a... (read more) Your price: $36.95 New - Compact Disc
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created by Charles C Mann Staff Pick As fascinating as his bestseller 1491, Mann's 1493 recounts how the world was forever changed by a "Columbian Exchange," when plants, animals, commodities, and people crossed oceans for the first time. Entertaining and insightful, this scientific history... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $35.00 Used - Compact Disc
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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris Staff Pick One of these days I'll find the time to construct an actual review of Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, but until I do let these words stand as my pledge: You will not regret purchasing this book. Further: You're unlikely to find more pure... (read more) Your price: $31.98 New - Compact Disc
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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach Staff Pick Following her usual template, Mary Roach finds a subject in the scientific community that is equal parts fascinating and scandalous, and writes an extensively researched and thoroughly amusing book about it. Beyond the initial titillation stemming from a... (read more) Your price: $34.95 New - Compact Disc
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Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth Staff Pick Okay, here's what you do: You buy these CDs of Ron Silver reading Philip Roth's first-person pervo classic, Portnoy's Complaint. You jam a walkman full of these CDs into the head of a stuffed animal or taxidermied granny or something. Press play, and for... (read more) Your price: $34.99 New - Compact Disc
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Peter and the Shadow Thieves (unabridged audiobook) by Dave Barry Staff Pick A perfect adventure for a lazy summer day, Peter and the Shadow Thieves is Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson's thrilling follow-up to Peter and the Starcatchers. The new book is every bit as clever and exciting, as it sweeps us from the fantasia of Neverland... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Compact Disc
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The Bread of Angels: A Memoir of Love and Faith in Damascus by Stephanie Saldana Staff Pick I almost left this book on the shelf, thinking it was just a spinoff of Eat, Pray, Love. I'm so glad I didn't! The bones of the story are similar: woman travels to foreign country on the heels of an emotional breakup and finds true love (that last part... (read more) Your price: $32.95 New - Compact Disc
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Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad Staff Pick In this remarkable portrait, Norwegian journalist Åsne Seierstad recounts with brutal honesty the day to day lives of one Afghani family persevering through life in a country beset by chaos. With the assent of the Khan family with whom she lives... (read more) Your price: $22.99 New - Compact Disc
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The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag: A Flavia de Luce Mystery by Alan Bradley Staff Pick I let out a little sigh of relief when I realized that book two of the Flavia de Luce series is just as great as the first one: fears of a sophomore slump were unfounded. The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag finds Flavia again stumbling upon an... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Compact Disc
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The Burning Wire (Lincoln Rhyme Novels) by Jeffery Deaver Staff Pick Jeffery Deaver is the master of plots, and his Lincoln Rhyme novels are the epitome of the police-procedural suspense novel. In The Burning Wire, Deaver is at the top of his game as Rhyme takes on an old nemesis while tracking a murderer who has an... (read more) Your price: $29.99 New - Compact Disc
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Mithermages #01: The Lost Gate by Orson Scott Card Staff Pick The action-filled opener in an exciting new series about a group of mages exiled to our world, The Lost Gate tells the story of Danny, a teenager who learns he has a unique magical talent — one that can get him killed or return the mages to their home... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Compact Disc
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