Special Offers see all
More at Powell'sEmployee Picks
|
Employee Picks
|
|||||||
|
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson Staff Pick The Warmth of Other Suns is a fascinating epic narrative of the Great Migration by the brilliant and beautiful Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Warmth of Other Suns (10 Edition) by Isabel Wilkerson Staff Pick The Warmth of Other Suns is a fascinating epic narrative of the Great Migration by the brilliant and beautiful Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson.... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $15.00 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories by Sherman Alexie Staff Pick What a powerful collection of short stories! Alexie really stretches his wings and explores fascinating new territories, while at the same time revamping his old works by placing them in new contexts. I was completely blown away by Mr. Alexie, as usual.... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin Staff Pick These brilliant essays, which ultimately form a profound meditation on what it means to be "native" to this complex and brutal country we call America, were originally published in the 1940s and 1950s. Sadly, it came as no surprise to me how timely and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder Staff Pick Tracy Kidder's incredibly moving and vivid new book follows and accompanies Deo, a survivor of the genocide in Burundi, through his remarkable journey to America and back home again. Kidder makes the abstract achingly personal and showcases a genuine... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
The 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) List Price $13.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America by Stephen G Bloom Staff Pick "You have got to read this book. The clash of cultures portrayed in this small town in Iowa is illuminating and riveting. When Orthodox Jews move into Postville and open a kosher slaughterhouse, local (and non-Jewish) Iowans figure this is just another... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |