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The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth about Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage
by Cathi Hanauer  
Powells.com Staff Pick Great essays like these give you an opportunity to look at the world through another person's eyes and re-examine your own experiences. The 26 included here take you on a journey through the a myriad women's lives. I laughed, I cried, I felt better about...
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Love: Ten Poems
by Pablo Neruda Publisher Comments The ten love poems collected here were each intoned in the movie The Postman. "Ode to the Sea" and "Ode to a Beautiful Nude" are here, among eight others....
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
by John Steinbeck Publisher Comments With his dog Charley, John Steinbeck set out in his truck to explore and experience America in the 1960s. As he talked with all kinds of people, he sadly noted the passing of region speech, fell in love with Montana, and was appalled by racism in New...
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Billy Budd, Sailor & Other Stories (Bantam Classic)
by Herman Melville Publisher Comments If Melville had never written Moby Dick, his place in world literature would be assured by his short tales. "Billy Budd, Sailor," his last work, is the masterpiece in which he delivers the final summation in his "quarrel with God." It is a brilliant...
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Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules: An Anthology of Outstanding Stories
by David Sedaris
Publisher Comments From the #1 bestselling author of Me Talk Pretty One Day and Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim comes a collection of the short stories David Sedaris loves most. Containing the work of both contemporary and classic writers, Children Playing Before a...
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The Revolution Will Be Accessorized: Blackbook Presents Dispatches from the New Counterculture
by Aaron Hicklin
Powells.com Staff Pick With contributions from Augusten Burroughs, Jonathan Ames, Neal Pollack, Naomi Klein, Chuck Palahniuk and more, BlackBook magazine's tremendous compilation of Dispatches from the New Counterculture offers an edgy collection of lucid and colorful prose....
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Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
by T. S. Eliot Publisher Comments Eliot's famous collection of nonsense verse about cats-the inspiration for the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats. This edition features pen-and-ink drolleries by Edward Gorey throughout.<BR>...
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Walden, Or, Life in the Woods (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Henry David Thoreau Publisher Comments Great book of American letters and a masterpiece of reflective philosophizing. Meditations on human existence, society, government and other topics....
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The Divine Comedy of Inferno (Bantam Classics)
by Dante And Mandelbaum Publisher Comments In this superb translation with an introduction and commentary by Allen Mandelbaum, all of Dante's vivid images--the earthly, sublime, intellectual, demonic, ecstatic--are rendered with marvelous clarity to read like the words of a poet born in our own...
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Walden and Civil Disobedience (99 Edition)
by Henry David Thoreau Publisher Comments Now completely repackaged, this edition celebrates 150 years of Thoreau's masterwork--his collection of his reflections on life and society. Includes "Civil Disobedience," his protest against the government's interference with civil liberty, and a new...
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Vintage Book of War Stories
by Sebastian Faulks Publisher Comments Twelve of the finest titles written around the often brutal subject of war. Each novel is a classic in its own right, and all belong together in the Vintage War Promotion series....
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Drinking, Smoking and Screwing: Great Writers on Good Times
by Sara Nickles Publisher Comments Before the notion of "political correctness" encroached on the ways people spoke, wrote, and conducted themselves in public and private, some of America's best writers embraced unsafe sex, excessive alcohol, and a good cigar. From the classically...
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Self-Reliance, and Other Essays (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Ralph Waldo Emerson Publisher Comments See 'Bhagavad Gita'....
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T. S. Eliot Selected Poems
by T S Eliot Publisher Comments Chosen by Eliot himself, the poems in this volume represent the poet's most important work before Four Quartets. Included here is some of the most celebrated verse in modern literature-" The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, " " Gerontion, " " The Waste...
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Waste Land and Other Poems (98 Edition)
by T. S. Eliot Publisher Comments This all-new Signet Classic contains many of T.S. Eliot's most important early poems, leading to perhaps his greatest masterpiece, "The Waste Land", which has long been regarded as one of the fundamental texts of modernism. By combining poetic elements...
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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003
by Dave Eggers and Zadie Smith
Powells.com Staff Pick This is the mix-tape of writing! Twenty-five pieces of fiction, nonfiction, humor, and alternative comics, come together in one literary compilation. Nonrequired Reading presents a refreshing selection from a diverse group of writers and publications...
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Waste Land & Other Poems
by T S Eliot Publisher Comments A superb collection of 25 works features the poet's masterpiece, "The Waste Land"; the complete Prufrock ("The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "Portrait of a Lady," "Rhapsody on a Windy Night," "Mr. Apollinax," "Morning at the Window," and others); and...
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Burnt Sugar: Contemporary Cuban Poetry in English and Spanish
by Lori M Carlson Publisher Comments This bilingual showcase of luminous 20th-century and contemporary Cuban poetry is edited by bestselling translator Lori Marie Carlson and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Oscar Hijuelos. Rather than an exhaustive survey, "Burnt Sugar" is filled with the...
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The Best American Short Stories (Best American Short Stories) 2006
by Ann Patchett Publisher Comments 'The set, boxed in a lavish silver metallic, features The Best American Travel Writing 2006, edited by Tim Cahill; The Best American Spiritual Writing 2006, introduced by Peter J. Gomes; and, like the first set, The Best American Short Stories 2006...
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Speaking with the Angel
by Nick Hornby
Publisher Comments Eleven completely new stories, narrated by 11 completely fabulous characters, written by 11 of the most celebrated voices in fiction today. Bestselling author Nick Hornby has brought together a star-studded group of writers to create this one-of-a-kind...
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