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Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale
by Mo Willems Powells.com Staff Pick Cleverly expressive cartoons and photographic backdrops epitomize the hilarity and drama of young Trixie's lost-bunny crisis. Laugh-out-loud funny! Willems is a picture book genius. Recommended by Malia...
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Light on Yoga: Yoga Dipika
by B K S Iyengar Publisher Comments The definitive guide to the philosophy and practice of Yoga--the ancient healing discipline for body and mind--by its greatest living teacher. Light on Yoga provides complete descriptions and illustrations of all the positions and breathing exercises...
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Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
by John M Barry Powells.com Staff Pick "An account of the Mississippi flood of 1927 and how it changed America. When the river flooded, it was possible to travel in a boat, east to west in the South, two hundred miles. The book is an account of how engineers had tried to control the...
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Brunelleschi's Dome (00 Edition)
by Ross King Powells.com Staff Pick Of the many transformations that architecture has undergone throughout history, none is more important to the Renaissance than Filippo Brunelleschi's dome design for the Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral in Florence. Few books have introduced...
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Anniversary Edition (58 Edition)
by Dr. Seuss From Powells.com Even though he died in 1991, Theodor Seuss Geisel is still the bestselling author of children's books in the world. He's also author one of the best Christmas books ever written. How the Grinch Stole Christmas! has been translated into dozens of...
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The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired
by Francine Prose Powells.com Staff Pick In nine mini-biographies Prose finds the qualities in each woman that defines her as a muse. Elegantly written. Fascinatingly unique. Mark Ingraham, Powells...
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Asanas: 608 Yoga Poses
by Dharma Mittra From Powells.com "Asanas: 608 Yoga Poses is a handy visual reference tool and an aesthetically fascinating introduction to yoga's physical possibilities. Dharma Mittra's humble and very practical introduction offers appropriate advice for anyone with an interest in...
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Brunelleschi's Dome
by Ross King Powells.com Staff Pick It took decades of dedication from Brunelleschi and the entire Florentine community to create one of the most studied and beautiful structures in the world. In a steadily engaging and accessible manner, Ross King brings to life the challenges and...
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Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction
by Kurt Vonnegut Publisher Comments Never-before-collected, vintage Vonnegut. Vonnegut said that his last book, Timequake (1997), would be his last, but no one as imaginative and in love with language and story can resist the lure of the page, and it's obvious that he had a grand time...
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Galileo's Daughter
by Dava Sobel Publisher Comments Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of Galileo's daughter, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel has written a biography unlike any other of the man Albert Einstein called "the father of modern physics- indeed of...
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers: Western Edition
by National Audubon Society Powells.com Staff Pick Since its founding in 1905, the National Audubon Society has actively promoted wildlife protection and environmental education. Keeping in sync with the work of its namesake and inspiration, famed wildlife artist John James Audubon (1785-1851...
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City
by Alessandro Baricco Powells.com Staff Pick Baricco's characters unfold like big city streets; they meander and zoom through scenes that are scintillating, sad, thrilling, confusing, pathetic, and hilariously funny. Shatzy Shell ("no relation to the oil company") and Gould (a bed-wetting...
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Tibet, Tibet: A Personal History of a Lost Land (Vintage Departures)
by Patrick French Powells.com Staff Pick Far from a Hollywood interpretation, French's research on Tibet is enlightening, analytical, and passionate. This historical travel memoir may be the best of its kind. Recommended by Malia...
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Abarat
by Clive Barker Powells.com Staff Pick Wildly imaginitive and superbly illustrated. Barker's snapshot-styled otherworldly adventure is ideal for intermittent reading and intriguing enough to avoid putting down. Highly entertaining. Malia Susee, Powells...
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Light Action in the Caribbean
by Barry Lopez From Powells.com In 1986, Barry Lopez won the National Book Award for Arctic Dreams, his bestselling exploration of Northern Canada. His writing spans both fiction and nonfiction genres, and within the 13 stories that comprise Light Action in the Caribbean...
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What Do We Know: Poems
by Mary Oliver From Powells.com Celebrated for her skill at capturing ordinary moments and distilling their details, Mary Oliver reverently presents in these forty poems the extraordinary beauty that exists in nature. With a contagious sense of awe, she draws meaning from her natural...
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The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less
by Terry Ryan Powells.com Staff Pick Evelyn Ryan's family may have been one of the poorest in town, but her children did not go without the occasional taste of well-earned luxury. Their mother entered every contest imaginable (there were plenty in the '50s and '60s) and won everything from...
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The Truth about Dogs: An Inquiry Into the Ancestory, Social Conventions, Mental Habits, and Moral Fiber of Canis Familiaris
by Stephen Budiansky Powells.com Staff Pick "Dogs belong to an elite group of con artists at the peak of their profession, the ones who pick our pockets clean and leave us smiling about it," begins Budiansky's litany of introductory complaints in The Truth About Dogs. (Picture a...
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The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart
by Alice Walker From Powells.com Alice Walker won the Pulitzer Prize and American Book Award for The Color Purple and became known as one of the most important American writers in the twentieth century, she was very active in the Civil Rights movement. While working door-to...
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Leap
by Terry Tempest Williams From Powells.com When the young Terry Tempest Williams stayed at her grandmother's house, she slept under two thirds of a tacked-up reproduction of a famous triptych by Hieronymus Bosch. She was well acquainted with the 15th-century Flemish painter's Paradise and Hell...
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