Freebook! - Buy Two, Get One Free
 
 

Special Offers see all

Enter to WIN!

Weekly drawing for $100 credit. Subscribe to PowellsBooks.news for a chance to win.
Privacy Policy

More at Powell's


Staff Picks


spacer

Get Staff Picks...

News, bestseller lists, special Powell's offers, and more in your inbox.

More info about our Subject Newsletters

Staff Picks
Ann E.


There are 46 books in this aisle.

Featured Titles in Staff Picks - Ann E.
Page 1 of 3 next

A Short History of Nearly Everything
A Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson
Staff Pick
This learned and amusing work covers the origin of the universe to the human genome. A welcome journey with Bryson in typical wise and witty fashion.... (read more)

List Price $16.99
Your price: $7.95
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


I Remember Nothing: And Other Reflections (Vintage)
I Remember Nothing: And Other Reflections (Vintage)
by Nora Ephron
Staff Pick
The essays in Ephron's charming collection range from the very relatable (vignettes covering everything from egg yolks to Thomas Friedman) to the delightful and personal (as in "Journalism: A Love Story," which recounts her post-college days in a largely... (read more)

List Price $14.00
Your price: $7.50
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


The Outlander (P.S.)
The Outlander (P.S.)
by Gil Adamson
Staff Pick
The Outlander by Gil Adamson is a wondrous vacation for your mind. With its eccentric characters and luminous prose, this novel is a romping escapade of big fun.... (read more)

List Price $14.99
Your price: $7.95
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
by Steve Martin
Staff Pick
At times uproarious, often sentimental, and always laced with the wit and charm we've come to expect from Steve Martin, this is a warm and enjoyable portrait of his life in stand-up from childhood to his last show in 1981.... (read more)

List Price $15.00
Your price: $4.95
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


I Want My Hat Back
I Want My Hat Back
by Jon Klassen
Staff Pick
Jon Klassen's charming picture book transcends age. The story is simple but utterly hilarious. The illustrations are pointed and evocative; the way Klassen draws the animals' eyes, alone, is worth the price of admission. I've recommended this book more... (read more)

Your price: $15.99
New - Hardcover

add to wish list


1776
1776
by David McCullough
Staff Pick
Staying in the territory of his acclaimed epic biography John Adams, David McCullough follows George Washington and the Continental Army through the tumultuous first year of war. An exceptional narrative historian, McCullough vividly examines the... (read more)

List Price $32.00
Your price: $6.95
Used - Hardcover

add to wish list


I Remember Nothing: And Other Reflections
I Remember Nothing: And Other Reflections
by Nora Ephron
Staff Pick
The essays in Ephron's charming collection range from the very relatable (vignettes covering everything from egg yolks to Thomas Friedman) to the delightful and personal (as in "Journalism: A Love Story," which recounts her post-college days in a largely... (read more)

List Price $22.95
Your price: $4.95
Used - Hardcover

add to wish list


Into the Silent Land: Travels in Neuropsychology
Into the Silent Land: Travels in Neuropsychology
by Paul Broks
Staff Pick
"Into the Silent Land is a revealing study of the importance, as well as the limitations, of science in helping to define the nature of self. It's also a fascinating portrayal of bizarre and morbid medical accounts involving the physiology and anatomy of... (read more)

List Price $15.00
Your price: $8.00
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


After the Plague
After the Plague
by T. C. Boyle
Staff Pick
"Boyle's writing is up-front, his subjects plucked directly from everyday America, though uniquely displayed through his skewed lens. The result is a font of emotionally and culturally observant stories. After the Plague is no exception to this rule, and,... (read more)

List Price $15.00
Your price: $3.50
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


The Sea: A Novel
The Sea: A Novel
by John Banville
Staff Pick
Banville's fluid prose glides over the pages of The Sea, a rich story filled with heart and bittersweet longing. I pored over the luminescent descriptions of time and place and the beautiful characters that make up this world. Clearly the Man Booker was... (read more)

List Price $24.00
Your price: $3.95
Used - Hardcover

add to wish list


How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space
How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space
by Janna Levin
Staff Pick
Started as a series of letters to her mom, How the Universe Got Its Spots turned into Janna Levin's diary of her life as a scientist out to determine the size of the cosmos. Levin poetically mixes fascinating scientific details with personal anecdotes. A... (read more)

List Price $15.00
Your price: $8.00
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos
by Brian Greene
Staff Pick
In the first chapter of The Hidden Reality, Brian Greene writes, "There was a time when 'universe' meant 'all there is.' Everything. The whole shebang." Well, those days are over. From string theory to the Inflationary Multiverse scenario to artificial... (read more)

List Price $16.95
Your price: $9.00
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


The Sea
The Sea
by John Banville
Staff Pick
Banville's fluid prose glides over the pages of The Sea, a rich story filled with heart and bittersweet longing. I pored over the luminescent descriptions of time and place and the beautiful characters that make up this world. Clearly the Man Booker was... (read more)

List Price $14.95
Your price: $5.50
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Possession: A Romance
Possession: A Romance
by A.S. Byatt
Staff Pick
Byatt's use of language is lyrical and poignant. It drips from the pages like honey from a lover's tongue....Possession is the sheer essence of Byatt's work. She weaves the tale of a pair of literary scholars studying the lives of two Victorian poets. As... (read more)

List Price $16.00
Your price: $3.50
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Elizabeth Costello
Elizabeth Costello
by J M Coetzee
Staff Pick
"Elizabeth Costello is as good as fiction gets. Recently awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, J. M. Coetzee has surpassed his already transcendent talent for characterization with this divine portrayal of his most complicated protagonist to date... (read more)

List Price $16.00
Your price: $5.50
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Possession
Possession
by A S Byatt
Staff Pick
Byatt's use of language is lyrical and poignant. It drips from the pages like honey from a lover's tongue....Possession is the sheer essence of Byatt's work. She weaves the tale of a pair of literary scholars studying the lives of two Victorian poets. As... (read more)

List Price $17.95
Your price: $6.50
Used - Hardcover

add to wish list


Women
Women
by Annie Leibovitz
Staff Pick
Annie Leibovitz got her start at Rolling Stone in the early seventies. There she made a name for herself and produced some of the publication's most well-known photographs, including the famous shot of a naked John Lennon wrapping himself around a fully... (read more)

List Price $60.00
Your price: $19.95
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Bluelist: The Best in Travel 2007
Bluelist: The Best in Travel 2007
by Editors of Lonely Planet
Staff Pick
Literary itineraries, paranormal destinations, low profile countries, snapshot summaries of every country in the world, and so much more fill these pages. A fun read, even if you can't afford the airfare.... (read more)

List Price $19.99
Your price: $5.95
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


The Stories of John Cheever
The Stories of John Cheever
by John Cheever
Staff Pick
"I finished ['The Swimmer'] remarkably satisfied, but piqued, and randomly began to consume the stories one after another. This collection contains pieces spanning more than thirty years of Cheever's career. He writes old-fashioned stories with dateless... (read more)

List Price $18.00
Your price: $10.00
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Raichlen's Indoor! Grilling
Raichlen's Indoor! Grilling
by Steven Raichlen
Staff Pick
No one can touch Steve Raichlen in the realm of grilling. He is king. Here Raichlen brings his devotion and expertise indoors, providing a wide variety of sumptuous recipes, almost all of which include helpful tips and instructions on how to retool each... (read more)

List Price $18.95
Your price: $5.95
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


1 3 next»


There are 46 books in this aisle.

This way to more aisles in Staff Picks
spacer
spacer
  • back to top
Follow us on...




Powell's City of Books is an independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, that fills a whole city block with more than a million new, used, and out of print books. Shop those shelves — plus literally millions more books, DVDs, and eBooks — here at Powells.com.