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Selected Poems: 1970-2005
by Floyd Skloot  
Powells.com Staff Pick Frankly, Floyd Skloot deserves to be better known. His lovely poems, many dealing with subjects made familiar to his readers through nonfiction books such as In the Shadow of Memory, are rigorous and technically brilliant. He writes with equal and...
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The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical
by Shane Claiborne
Publisher Comments Many of us find ourselves caught somewhere between unbelieving activists and inactive believers. We can write a check to feed starving children or hold signs in the streets and feel like we've made a difference without ever encountering the faces of the...
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Pocket Poets #04: Howl: And Other Poems
by Allen Ginsberg
Powells.com Staff Pick "Do we need to say anything about Howl? This is, more than anything else, the book that launched the Beat movement. By turns wildly praised and bitterly reviled, it still packs a wallop today." Chris F., Powells.com...
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Testament of Devotion (92 Edition)
by Thomas Kelly
Publisher Comments Since its first publication in 1941, A Testament of Devotion, by the renowned Quaker teacher Thomas Kelly, has been universally embraced as a truly enduring spiritual classic. Plainspoken and deeply inspirational, it gathers together five compelling...
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This boy's life :a memoir
by Tobias Wolff
Publisher Comments In this unforgettable memoir of boyhood in the 1950s, we meet the young Toby Wolff, by turns tough and vulnerable, crafty and bumbling, and ultimately winning. Separated by divorce from his father and brother, Toby and his mother are constantly on the...
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Another World Instead: The Early Poems of William Stafford, 1937-1947
by William Stafford
Powells.com Staff Pick In Another World Instead, we receive a true gift: the early writings of one of our best-loved modern American poets. These poems, most of them composed while Stafford was interned as a conscientious objector during World War II, are small and...
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Buddhism Without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening
by Stephen Batchelor
Synopsis Former monk and author of "Alone with Others" and "The Awakening of the West" Stephen Batchelor now offers a straightforward, solid introduction to Buddhism that demystifies the discipline and explains simply and plainly how its practice can enrich our...
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Here, Bullet (05 Edition)
by Brian Turner
Publisher Comments Adding his voice to the current debate about the US occupation of Iraq, in poems written in the tradition of such poets as Wilfred Owen, Yusef Komunyakaa (Dien Cai Dau), Bruce Weigl (Song of Napalm) and Alice James' own Doug Anderson (The Moon Reflected...
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Reader: A Novel
by Bernhard Schlink
Publisher Comments Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding against the haunted landscape of postwar Germany. When he falls ill on his way home...
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The Reader
by Bernard Schlink
Synopsis Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding against the haunted landscape of postwar Germany. When he falls ill on his way home...
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Poems and Prose: A Bilingual Edition (European Poetry Classics)
by Georg Trakl
Publisher Comments A comprehensive English-language edition of verse by the Austrian poet An undeniable aura surrounds the name of Georg Trakl, a poet of intense inner vision and originality whose work stands alongside that of Yeats, Valéry, and T. S. Eliot. Besides...
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Poems of Nazim Hikmet (Karen and Michael Braziller Books)
by Nazim Hikmet
Powells.com Staff Pick Nazim Hikmet is one of the truly great individual voices of the 20th century. His eminently readable poems speak of the tragedies of his life — political repression, prison, the loss of love, poor health, and exile — in the voices of the...
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The Rule of Saint Benedict (Vintage Spiritual Classics)
by Robert P. Benedict
Publisher Comments Composed nearly fifteen hundred years ago by the father of Western monasticism, The Rule of St. Benedict has for centuries been the guide of religious communities. St. Benedict's rules of obedience, humility, and contemplation are not only prerequisites...
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Otherwise
by Jane Kenyon
Publisher Comments Otherwise collects a lifetime's work by one of contemporary poetry's most cherished talents. Opening with twenty new poems and including generous selections from Jane Kenyon's four previous books—From Room to Room, The Boat of Quiet Hours, Let...
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Homegirls and Handgrenades
by Sonia Sanchez
Powells.com Staff Pick Winner of the American Book Award, Homegirls and Handgrenades is strong, heroic, and deeply moving. The poems, ranging from haiku to fairly traditional free verse to longish story-like poems, are devastating. They speak of drugs and loyalty, politics...
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Pocket Poets #57: The Language of Saxophones: Selected Poems of Kamu Daaood
by Kamau Daaood
Powells.com Staff Pick "Jazz poetry at its best, Kamau Daaood's The Language of Saxophones is vibrant and rhythmic, relentlessly grappling with the myriad realities of life in today's world. This poetry is music for the soul." Chris F., Powells.com...
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San Francisco Poems
by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Powells.com Staff Pick "Lawrence Ferlinghetti was the founder of City Lights Books, and also a legendary Beat poet in his own right. This little collection consists of Ferlinghetti's poems about his beloved San Francisco." Chris F., Powells.com...
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Wisdom Distilled from the Daily: Living the Rule of St. Benedict Today
by Joan Chittister
Publisher Comments < P> Wise and enduring spiritual guidelines for everyday living & ndash; & ndash; as relevant today as when The Rule was originally conceived by St. Benedict in fifth century Rome.< /P>...
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Annie Oakley's Girl
by Rebecca Brown
Powells.com Staff Pick "A cult classic, Annie Oakley's Girl has been described as "one of the freshest, most memorable story collections of my lifetime" by Tillie Olsen. High praise indeed." Chris F., Powells.com...
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Entering Fire
by Rikki Ducornet
Powells.com Staff Pick "Rikki Ducornet's Entering Fire is a surreal, comic masterpiece, bubbling over with imaginative detail and hallucinatory intensity. Highly readable, highly provocative, and highly recommended." Chris F., Powells.com...
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