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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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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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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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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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Travels With Charley : in Search of America (62 Edition)
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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The Best American Short Stories 2007
by Stephen King and Heidi Pitlor Publisher Comments Pop-culture icon Stephen King serves as the guest editor of this popular anthology, which includes such contributors as Richard Russo, John Barth, Jim Shepard, Alice Munro, William Gay, and Mary Gordon....
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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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I Hate Myself and Want to Die: The 52 Most Depressing Songs You've Ever Heard
by Tom Reynolds Publisher Comments Subtitled, "The 52 Most Depressing Songs You've Ever Heard". Reynolds painstakingly analyses the mysterious allure of songs that crush our spirits by looking at the 52 most depressing songs that have earned our slavish devotion over the years. Includes...
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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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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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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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Kon Tiki ((Rev)84 Edition)
by Thor Heyerdahl Publisher Comments The story of the Pacific journey by six men on a raft in search of the path taken by Kon-Tiki, a white voyager, 1500 years before....
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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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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 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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McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales (McSweeney's #10)
by Michael Chabon Publisher Comments A Vintage Contemporaries Original Includes: Jim Shepard's "Tedford and the Megalodon" Glen David Gold's "The Tears of Squonk, and What Happened Thereafter" Dan Chaon's "The Bees" Kelly Link's "Catskin" Elmore...
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo
by J. R. R. Tolkien Publisher Comments Three epic poems from 14th century England speak of life during the age of chivalry. Translated from medieval English....
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Under the Duvet: Shoes, Reviews, Having the Blues, Builders, Babies, Families and Other Calamities
by Marian Keyes Publisher Comments From the acclaimed bestselling author of Sushi for Beginners and Angels comes a collection of personal essays on shopping, writing, moviemaking, motherhood and all the assorted calamities involved in being a savvy woman in the new millennium. Her novels...
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Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times
by Kevin Smokler Publisher Comments An anthology of original essays from our most intriguing young writers, Bookmark Now boldly addresses the significance of the production of literature in the twenty-first century. Or simply, "How do we talk about writing and reading in an age where they...
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