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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
by Bill Bryson  
Publisher Comments Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. The AT offers an astonishing landscape of silent forests...
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My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro
by Jeffrey Eugenides
Publisher Comments "When it comes to love, there are a million theories to explain it. But when it comes to love stories, things are simpler. A love story can never be about full possession. Love stories depend on disappointment, on unequal births and feuding families, on...
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The Paris Review Interviews, Volume II
by The Paris Review and Philip Gourevitch Publisher Comments Since The Paris Review was founded in 1953, it has given us invaluable conversations with the greatest writers of our age, vivid self-portraits that are themselves works of finely crafted literature. From William Faulkner's determination that a great...
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The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
by Bill Bryson Publisher Comments Following an urge to rediscover his youth, Bill Bryson left his native Des Moines, Iowa, in a journey that would take him across 38 states. Lucky for us, he brought a notebook. With a razor wit and a kind heart, Bryson serves up a colorful tale of...
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Desert Solitaire
by Edward Abbey
Powells.com Staff Pick This memoir by Edward Abbey recounts his years as a park ranger working at Arches National Park in Utah. Abbey's keen eye and sharp writing clearly impart the beauty of the desert and the importance of preserving our limited natural resources. His...
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Second Nature: A Gardener's Education
by Michael Pollan Publisher Comments In his articles and in best-selling books such as The Botany of Desire and The Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan has established himself as one of our most important and beloved writers on modern man's place in the natural world. A new literary classic,...
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The Paris Review Book of People with Problems
by Paris Review Special Offer Two-time National Magazine Awards Nominee, The Paris Review, offers Powell's readers an exclusive subscription offer — the best deal around. Click here for details. The Paris Review has introduced the important writers of the day...
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The Paris Review Interviews, I
by The Paris Review and Philip Gourevitch Special Offer Two-time National Magazine Awards Nominee, The Paris Review, offers Powell's readers an exclusive subscription offer — the best deal around. Click here for details. The Paris Review has introduced the important writers of the day...
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Leaf Storm: And Other Stories
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Publisher Comments <p>Contains <em>Leaf Storm</em>, <em>The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World</em>, <em>A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings</em>, <em>Blacaman the Good</em>, <em>Vendor of Miracles</em>, <...
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The Last American Man
by Elizabeth Gilbert
Powells.com Staff Pick Elizabeth Gilbert first met Eustace Conway in New York City, on the sidewalk in front of her apartment. He'd traveled from North Carolina, dressed in handmade buckskin clothing and "carrying an impressive knife on his belt." Gilbert, a...
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Perennial Classics)
by Annie Dillard
Publisher Comments Chapter 1. Heaven and Earth in Jest Chapter 2. Seeing Chapter 3. Winter Chapter 4. The Fixed Chapter 5. Untying the Knot Chapter 6. The Present Chapter 7. Spring Chapter 8. Intricacy Chapter 9. Flood Chapter 10. Fecundity Chapter 11. Stalking Chapter 12....
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The Solace of Open Spaces
by Gretel Ehrlich Publisher Comments Writing of hermits, cowboys, changing seasons, and the wind, Ehrlich draws us into her personal relationship with this "planet of Wyoming" she has come to call home. She captures the incredible beauty and the demanding harshness of natural forces in...
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The New Kings of Nonfiction
by Ira Glass Publisher Comments A collection of stories-some well known, some more obscure-capturing some of the best storytelling of this golden age of nonfiction. An anthology of the best new masters of nonfiction storytelling, personally chosen and introduced by Ira Glass, the...
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The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow: The Mystical Nature Diary of Opal Whiteley
by Opal Whiteley and Benjamin Hoff
Publisher Comments Long before environmental consciousness became popular, a young nature writer named Opal Whiteley captured America's heart. Opal's childhood diary, published in 1920, became an immediate bestseller, one of the most talked-about books of its time. Wistful,...
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Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
by Joe Simpson Publisher Comments Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had just reached the top of a 21,000-foot peak in the Andes when disaster struck. Simpson plunged off the vertical face of an ice ledge, breaking his leg. In the hours that followed, darkness fell and a...
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The Best American Short Stories 2007
by Stephen King and Heidi Pitlor Publisher Comments In his introduction to this volume, Stephen King writes, "Talent does more than come out; it bursts out, again and again, doing exuberant cartwheels while the band plays 'Stars and Stripes Forever'....Talent can't help itself; it roars along in fair...
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The Collected Stories (Fsg Classics)
by Grace Paley Publisher Comments This reissue of Grace Paley's classic collection — a finalist for the National Book Award — demonstrates her rich use of language as well as her extraordinary insight into and compassion for her characters, moving from the hilarious to the...
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A Year in Provence
by Peter Mayle Publisher Comments In this witty and warm-hearted account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to realize a long-cherished dream and actually move into a 200-year-old stone farmhouse in the remote country of the Lubéron with his wife and two large dogs. He endures...
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Refuge (91 Edition)
by terry Tempest Williams
Publisher Comments As Utah-born naturalist Terry Tempest Williams records the simultaneous tragedies of her mother's death of cancer and the flooding of the Bear River Migratory Bird Sanctuary, she creates a document of renewal and spiritual grace destined to become a...
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The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
by John Adams Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxxiii]-xxxiv)....
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