by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin  
Powells.com Staff Pick Nelson Mandela once said, "Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world." Mortenson and Relin's Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time is a powerful contribution to that arsenal. If there... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
by Walter Isaacson  Publisher Comments By the author of the acclaimed bestseller Benjamin Franklin, this is the first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available. How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson's biography shows how his scientific imagination sprang...(read more) Your price $22.40 (Sale - Hardcover) check for other copies 
by Michael Paterniti Publisher Comments Albert Einstein's brain floats in a Tupperware bowl in a gray duffel bag in the trunk of a Buick Skylark barreling across America. Driving the car is journalist Michael Paterniti. Sitting next to him is an eighty-four-year-old pathologist named Thomas Harvey, who performed the autopsy on Einstein in 1955 -- then simply removed the brain and took it home. (read more) Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for other copies
by Barbara Kingsolver and Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver
Powells.com Staff Pick After 25 years in the Arizona desert, in 2004, Kentucky-bred Barbara Kingsolver moved back to the Appalachians, to a Virginia farm just hours from her childhood home. Family called. "Returning," she explains in Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, "would allow my... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Charles R Cross  Powells.com Staff Pick Published to coincide with the thirty-fifth anniversary of Jimi Hendrix's death, Room Full of Mirrors gives full voice to the music that continues to enthrall each successive generation of rock fans. Hendrix's colorful, tumultuous life is brilliantly... (read more) Your Price $7.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for other copies 
Entertainment and Performing Arts by Jeannette Walls Publisher Comments Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in... (read more) Your Price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Albert Camus Synopsis The final journals of Albert Camus were withheld from publication in France for twenty-nine years after his death in 1959, and are now published in English for the first time. His final journals offer a rare, intimate glimpse into the mind of one of the... (read more) Your Price $27.50 (New - Hardcover) check for other copies
by Michael Ruhlman Publisher Comments Now in paperback, the eye-opening book that was nominated for a 1998 James Beard Foundation award in the Writing on Food category. In the winter of 1996, Michael Ruhlman donned hounds-tooth-check pants and a chef's jacket and entered the Culinary... (read more) Your Price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for other copies
by Barack Obama Publisher Comments “A government that truly represents these Americans–that truly serves these Americans–will require a different kind of politics. That politics will need to reflect our lives as they are actually lived. It won’t be pre-packaged... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your Price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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Entertainment and Performing Arts by Chas Newkey-burden Publisher Comments An indisputable musical icon and controversial celebrity figure, Amy Winehouse’s unique blend of jazz, pop, and soul singing and songwriting have brought her a host of awards—including two prestigious Ivor Novellos and five Grammys—as... (read more) Your Price $26.95 (New - Hardcover) check for other copies
by Dean Saunders Publisher Comments The Costa Del Sol is a paradise for many. Sun, sea, beaches, and a laid-back lifestyle—no wonder it attracts so many ex-pat Brits. But for women who find themselves alone or trapped in stalled marriages, it can be a version of hell. That's where... (read more) Your Price $15.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for other copies 
by Augusten Burroughs
Powells.com Staff Pick "Burroughs has a way of writing reminiscent of David Sedaris. His mock-naivete is a little shocking, a little naughty. He confesses to things that most people just don't admit to in polite conversation. But the twinkle in the eye is there, the nudge in... (read more) Your Price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Sarah Vowell
Powells.com Staff Pick Leave it to Sarah Vowell to roam across America in search of the motivations and culture of political murder. Obsessive, edifying, and, of course, witty, Assassination Vacation is unlike any other historical tourism or travel writing book you'll ever... (read more) Your Price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Charles Slack Publisher Comments When J. P. Morgan called a meeting of New York's financial leaders after the stock market crash of 1907, Hetty Green was the only woman in the room. The Guinness Book of World Records memorialized her as the World's Greatest Miser, and, indeed, this... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for other copies
by Jill Bolte Taylor Publisher Comments A brain scientist's journey from a debilitating stroke to full recovery becomes an inspiring exploration of human consciousness and its possibilities On the morning of December 10, 1996 Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven-year-old Harvard-trained brain... (read more) Your Price $24.95 (New - Hardcover) check for used and sale copies
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