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 Sale: $9.76 Trade Paper List Price $13.95 
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Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War
by Joe Bageant  
Powells.com Staff Pick Deer Hunting with Jesus is a hilarious, depressing, and painfully honest chronicle of an America often cited but rarely listened to: rural lower-class whites. With brilliant, spot-on detail, Joe Bageant reports on the historical, economic, and...
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The Silver Swan: A Novel
by Benjamin Black
Powells.com Staff Pick I don't ordinarily read mystery novels, but The Silver Swan is no ordinary mystery. Banville's command of prose is arresting, and though this is a difficult book to put down because it is so expertly plotted, it is also impossible not to savor...
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Sale: $16.50 Hardcover List Price $21.95
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X Saves the World: How Generation X Got the Shaft But Can Still Keep Everything from Sucking
by Jeff Gordinier
Powells.com Staff Pick I was very skeptical about this book when I first picked it up — and became even more so when Gordinier predicted my exact reaction. But X Saves the World is impossible to resist: a well-written, extremely funny, and, I have to say, unnervingly...
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Away: A Novel
by Amy Bloom
Powells.com Staff Pick Lyrical and moving, terribly sad but funny, too, Away is a major accomplishment and a pleasure to read. Amy Bloom's language is precise and graceful, and her characters and their journeys make America in the 1920s shine with life. Recommended by Tessa,...
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The Emperor's Children
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Powells.com Staff Pick Absolutely brilliant. The best novel I've read in months, if not years, The Emperor's Children has left me powerfully moved; Claire Messud's knowledge of the human psyche is uncanny, and her characters became, in one afternoon, more important to me than...
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Strange Piece of Paradise
by Terri Jentz
Powells.com Staff Pick I almost never read true crime books, and I'm not that fond of memoirs, either. But Terri Jentz transcends both those genres with her riveting story and elegant language. Mesmerizing, terrifying, and occasionally downright surreal, Strange Piece of...
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U-Turn: What If You Woke Up One Morning and Realized You Were Living the Wrong Life?
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Powells.com Staff Pick Bruce Grierson has written a beautiful, intelligent book about what constitutes a meaningful life; it is often funny, though never flippant, and its overriding tone is one of urgent curiosity: how do we end up doing what we feel we are meant to do...
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The Ministry of Special Cases: A Novel
by Nathan Englander Publisher Comments The long-awaited novel from Nathan Englander, author of For the Relief of Unbearable Urges. Englander's wondrous and much-heralded collection of stories won the 2000 Pen/Malamud Award and was translated into more than a dozen languages. From its...
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New England White: A Novel
by Stephen L. Carter
Powells.com Staff Pick I rarely read anything that could even vaguely be described as a thriller, but New England White, with its page-turning pace, multiple murders, and complex and far-reaching mysteries, must undoubtedly be called one. It is also a fascinating sociological...
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Saving Fish from Drowning
by Amy Tan
Powells.com Staff Pick Saving Fish from Drowning is a funny, almost magical look at group dynamics, altruism, and self-interest set against the beauty and repressive politics of Myanmar. Impressive and surprisingly moving. Recommended by Tessa, Powells.com...
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Sale: $9.80 Trade Paper List Price $14.00
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Away
by Amy Bloom
Powells.com Staff Pick Lyrical and moving, terribly sad but funny, too, Away is a major accomplishment and a pleasure to read. Amy Bloom's language is precise and graceful, and her characters and their journeys make America in the 1920s shine with life. Recommended by Tessa,...
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Son of a Witch: A Novel
by Gregory Maguire
Powells.com Staff Pick Son of a Witch is a pitch-perfect sequel to Wicked — as though Maguire hadn't written several other books in dramatically varied voices in the meantime. But his new novel is more meditative, symbolic, and unexpectedly relevant than its...
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Sale: $4.97 Hardcover List Price $23.00
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The Life All around Me by Ellen Foster
by Kaye Gibbons
Powells.com Staff Pick In 1987, Kaye Gibbons published Ellen Foster, the remarkable story of an orphan who struggles to claim her own identity in a violent and chaotic world. The sequel — The Life All around Me by Ellen Foster — has been worth the wait. In her new...
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Shadow of the Silk Road
by Colin Thubron
Powells.com Staff Pick Colin Thubron's Shadow of the Silk Road is a beautiful, important book; part travel writing, part sociology, part history, and part politics, it is hard to pin down to any one genre. But the book's warmth and genuine love for humanity and our...
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Sale: $11.98 Hardcover List Price $30.00
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What to Eat
by Marion Nestle
Powells.com Staff Pick I thought I knew quite a bit about food — I take flaxseed oil supplements because I'm a vegetarian, try to buy local organic produce, and buy my dairy antibiotic-free. But this information-packed book taught me that there's plenty I didn't realize &#...
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Sale: $24.98 Hardcover List Price $49.95
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The Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink
by Andrew F Smith
Powells.com Staff Pick The Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink is an enormous, encyclopedic reference dedicated to both the larger trends and the minutiae of American cuisine, with articles on subjects ranging from Crisco to restaurant labor unions. With beautiful...
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Crashing Through: A True Story of Risk, Adventure, and the Man Who Dared to See
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Powells.com Staff Pick Crashing Through is the remarkable story of Mike May, one of only a handful of people to gain sight after being blinded in an accident at age three. Robert Kurson (of Shadow Divers fame) does a wonderful job depicting both May's extraordinary life up...
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Intuition: A Novel
by Allegra Goodman
Powells.com Staff Pick Allegra Goodman is well known for her skillful, nuanced, and irreverent prose from such novels as Kaaterskill Falls and Paradise Park. Although the prose is just as strong in Intuition, the story and characters are so engrossing it's hard to slow down...
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The Outcast: A Novel
by Sadie Jones
Powells.com Staff Pick A deeply felt exploration of damaged families and relationships, Sadie Jones's gorgeous debut novel is subtle, moving, and surprising. Recommended by Tessa, Powells.com...
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