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New Favorites Every week the team at Powell's gathers to put newly released titles to the test, sending them through a brutal gauntlet of criticism. After hours of heated discussions, those with only the most merit rise to the top and are deemed the best books of the season, our New Favorites.

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Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield
Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield
by Jeremy Scahill
Publisher Comments
In Dirty Wars, Jeremy Scahill, author of the New York Times best-seller Blackwater, takes us inside Americas new covert wars. The foot soldiers in these battles operate globally and inside the United States with orders from the White House to do whatever... (read more)

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Life after Life
Life after Life
by Kate Atkinson
Publisher Comments
What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is... (read more)

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That Is Not a Good Idea!
That Is Not a Good Idea!
by Mo Willems
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That Is Not a Good Idea! is a hilarious, interactive picture book from bestselling author and illustrator Mo Willems, the creator of books like Dont Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, the Knuffle Bunny series, the Elephant and Piggie series, Goldilocks and... (read more)

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The 5th Wave
The 5th Wave
by Rick Yancey
Publisher Comments
Fifteen-year-old Cassie is the girl who lost it all. Her world ripped apart. Her mother and father dead. Her little brother captured. On a lonely stretch of highway, she runs from Them. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing... (read more)

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Forest Animals Journal
Forest Animals Journal
by Susie Ghahremani
Publisher Comments
Hand-painted bunnies, foxes, and beavers greet the first signs of spring in this sweet-as-can-be journal. Includes a bonus sheet of sticker tabs in animal shapes that fold over to flag — and add cuteness to — important pages. 5 x 7 1/8... (read more)

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Vegetable Literacy: Cooking and Gardening with Twelve Families from the Edible Plant Kingdom, with Over 300 Deliciously Simple Recipes
Vegetable Literacy: Cooking and Gardening with Twelve Families from the Edible Plant Kingdom, with Over 300 Deliciously Simple Recipes
by Deborah Madison
Publisher Comments
In her latest cookbook, Deborah Madison, America's leading authority on vegetarian cooking and author of Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone, reveals the surprising relationships between vegetables, edible flowers, and herbs within the same botanical... (read more)

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The Yellow Birds
The Yellow Birds
by Kevin Powers
Publisher Comments
A novel written by a veteran of the war in Iraq, The Yellow Birds is the harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to stay alive. "The war tried to kill us in the spring." So begins this powerful account of friendship and loss. In Al Tafar, Iraq... (read more)

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Bring Up the Bodies (A John MacRae Book)
Bring Up the Bodies (A John MacRae Book)
by Hilary Mantel
Staff Pick
Would the sequel live up to expectations? Actually, yes. Hilary Mantel's talent for rich detail and sensuous atmosphere is still apparent, and Bring Up the Bodies is, in some ways, a much more gripping, riveting, and textured read than Wolf Hall. For one... (read more)

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Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
by Maria Semple
Publisher Comments
Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best... (read more)

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Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking
Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking
by Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander
Publisher Comments
Analogy is the core of all thinking. This is the simple but unorthodox premise that Pulitzer Prize–winning author Douglas Hofstadter and French psychologist Emmanuel Sander defend in their new work. Hofstadter has been grappling with the mysteries... (read more)

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Red Moon
Red Moon
by Benjamin Percy
Publisher Comments
Acclaimed, award-winning author Benjamin Percy joins the GCP list with an epic and terrifying thriller set in the American West. They live among us. They are our neighbors, our mothers, our lovers. They change. When government... (read more)

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NOS4A2
NOS4A2
by Joe Hill
Publisher Comments
Joe Hill, the acclaimed, award-winning author of the New York Times bestsellers Heart-Shaped Box and Horns, plunges you into the dark side of imagination with a thrilling novel of supernatural suspense that will have you flinching at shadows and checking... (read more)

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The Stud Book
The Stud Book
by Monica Drake
Publisher Comments
A sharp-edged satire of contemporary motherhood from a comic novelist on the rise. In the hip haven of Portland, Oregon, a pack of unsteady but loyal friends asks what it means to bring babies into an already crowded world. Sarah studies animal behavior... (read more)

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The Dog Stars (Vintage Contemporaries)
The Dog Stars (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Peter Heller
Staff Pick
A post-apocalyptic story with an open, elegant heart, Heller's debut novel follows a pilot, Hig, and an ex-military man, Bangley, in their fight for survival. Although stuck together in an uneasy partnership, they each flawlessly compensate for the... (read more)

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Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story
Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story
by Jim Holt
Publisher Comments
Tackling the “darkest question in all of philosophy” with “raffish erudition” (Dwight Garner, New York Times), author Jim Holt explores the greatest metaphysical mystery of all: why is there something rather than nothing? This... (read more)

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The Woman Upstairs
The Woman Upstairs
by Claire Messud
Publisher Comments
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Emperor’s Children, a masterly new novel: the riveting confession of a woman awakened, transformed and betrayed by a desire for a world beyond her own. Nora Eldridge, an elementary school teacher... (read more)

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Smoke and Pickles: Recipes and Stories from a New Southern Kitchen
Smoke and Pickles: Recipes and Stories from a New Southern Kitchen
by Edward Lee
Publisher Comments
Chef Edward Lee's story and his food could only happen in America. Raised in Brooklyn by a family of Korean immigrants, he eventually settled down in his adopted hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, where he owns the acclaimed restaurant 610 Magnolia. A... (read more)

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The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum
The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum
by Temple Grandin and Richard Panek
Publisher Comments
A cutting-edge account of the latest science of autism, from the best-selling author and advocate Temple Grandin is a star, a Time Magazine top 100 Hero and an inspiration to millions worldwide. Since she started writing and speaking about autism, the... (read more)

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Steam Train, Dream Train
Steam Train, Dream Train
by Sherri Duskey Rinker and Tom Lichtenheld
Publisher Comments
The team behind the #1 New York Times bestseller Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site returns with another fabulous book for bedtime! The dream train pulls into the station, and one by one the train cars are loaded: polar bears pack the reefer car... (read more)

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Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II
Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II
by Mitchell Zuckoff
Publisher Comments
Two harrowing crashes... A vanished rescue plane... A desperate fight for life in a frozen, hostile land... The quest to solve a seventy-year-old mystery The author of the smash New York Times bestseller Lost in Shangri-La delivers a gripping true story... (read more)

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