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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
by Barbara Kingsolver and Camille Kingsolver and Steven L. Hopp  
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...
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by Dave Eggers
Publisher Comments The literary sensation of the year, a book that redefines both family and narrative for the twenty-first century. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the moving memoir of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his...
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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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Act One: An Autobiography
by Moss Hart Publisher Comments The Dramatic Story that Capitvated a Generation With this new edition, the classic best-selling autobiography by the late playwright Moss Hart returns to print in the thirtieth anniversary of its original publication. Issued in tandem with Kitty, the...
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas : a Savage Journey To the Heart of the American Dream (71 Edition)
by Hunter S. Thompson
Powells.com Staff Pick When Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer bought the Modern Library in 1925, its mission was ? and still is ? to provide attractive, hardcover editions of important works of literature and thought to serious readers on a budget. The Modern Library became...
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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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The Year of Magical Thinking (Vintage International)
by Joan Didion
Powells.com Staff Pick Best book of 2005, favorite book of the year...Slice the question any number of ways, but the book published last year that I'm most grateful for having read is The Year of Magical Thinking, a devastating affirmation of love and commitment, hope and...
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Don't Let's Go To the Dogs Tonight : an African Childhood (01 Edition)
by Alexandra Fuller
Powells.com Staff Pick In her 2001 debut, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller recalled in vivid, often excruciating detail coming of age in Rhodesia as a long civil war raged in neighboring Mozambique and her own country slid down the violent path toward an...
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Wallace Stegner and the American West
by Philip L. Fradkin Publisher Comments Wallace Stegner was the premier chronicler of the twentieth-century western American experience, and his novels, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Angle of Repose and the National Book Award-winning The Spectator Bird, brought the life and landscapes of the...
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
Publisher Comments A phenomenal #1 bestseller that has appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for nearly three years, this memoir traces Maya Angelou's childhood in a small, rural community during the 1930s. Filled with images and recollections that...
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Survival in Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanity
by Primo Levi Publisher Comments In 1943, Primo Levi, a twenty-five-year-old chemist and Italian citizen of Jewish race, was arrested by Italian fascists and deported from his native Turin to Auschwitz. Survival in Auschwitz is Levi's classic account of his ten months in the German...
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The Sexual Life of Catherine M.
by Catherine Millet Publisher Comments A national best-seller that was featured on such lists as The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe, and Publishers Weekly, The Sexual Life of Catherine M. was the controversial sleeper...
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Peeling the Onion
by Gunter Grass and Michael Henry Heim
Publisher Comments In this extraordinary memoir, Nobel Prize–winning author Gunter Grass remembers his early life, from his boyhood in a cramped two-room apartment in Danzig through the late 1950s, when The Tin Drum was published. During the Second World War...
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Shakespeare: The World as Stage (Eminent Lives)
by Bill Bryson
Powells.com Staff Pick A well-researched, well-written journey through Shakespeare's England. And who better as your affable guide than Bill Bryson? This slim volume is a perfect stocking stuffer. Recommended by Beth, Powells.com...
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The Mistress's Daughter
by A. M. Homes
Powells.com Staff Pick The Mistress's Daughter shows that truth is often stranger than fiction. In the hands of a lesser writer, the people in the book — including the author herself — would have been two-dimensional, bland, and unbelievable. What Homes has created...
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Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
by William Styron Publisher Comments A work of great personal courage and a literary tour de force, this bestseller is Styron's true account of his descent into a crippling and almost suicidal depression. Styron is perhaps the first writer to convey the full terror of depression's psychic...
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The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
Powells.com Staff Pick Best book of 2005, favorite book of the year...Slice the question any number of ways, but the book published last year that I'm most grateful for having read is The Year of Magical Thinking, a devastating affirmation of love and commitment, hope and...
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On Writing
by Stephen King
From Powells.com "In On Writing, Stephen King celebrates his influences, shares his first attempts at writing, sheds new light on some of his own books, reveals his process, offers his advice, and relates in vivid detail the story of the 1999 roadside accident that...
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The Liars' Club: a Memoir
by Mary Karr
Publisher Comments A tenth anniversary edition of the landmark memoir, with a new introduction by the author. When it was published in 1995, Mary Karr's The Liars' Club took the world by storm and raised the art of the memoir to an entirely new level, as well as...
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Rain of Gold
by Victor Villasenor
Synopsis This phenomenal national bestseller has received extraordinary reviews and avid national media attention. Novelist Villasenor tells the true-life saga of one family's journey from the days of Pancho Villa in war-ravaged Mexico to the Prohibition era in...
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