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The Devil's Highway
by Luis Alberto Urrea  
Powells.com Staff Pick In May 2001, in an area called the Devil's Highway, twenty-six illegal immigrants struggled across the desert border into the U.S. Most of them died in their effort. Using this tragedy to illustrate the fate of many immigrants, Urrea sheds light on...
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Bookseller of Kabul (03 Edition)
by Asne Seierstad
Powells.com Staff Pick In this remarkable portrait, Norwegian journalist Åsne Seierstad recounts with brutal honesty the day to day lives of one Afghani family persevering through life in a country beset by chaos. With the assent of the Khan family with whom she lives...
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Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
by Anne Lamott
Powells.com Staff Pick Readers of Traveling Mercies, Lamott's previous book on spirituality, will find here the same thoughtfulness and humor we've come to love. Whether writing about battles with her son, her mother's death, the church she's found to be home, or her loathing...
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I Could Tell You Stories : Sojourns in the Land of Memory (99 Edition)
by Patricia Hamptl
Powells.com Staff Pick This book of essays, focusing on the idea of memoir and memory, fell into my hands rather by accident; I started reading somewhat casually and was very happily drawn in. Hampl's voice is lovely: elegant and clear, she works through the concepts of...
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Notes of a Native Son
by James Baldwin
Powells.com Staff Pick These brilliant essays, which ultimately form a profound meditation on what it means to be "native" to this complex and brutal country we call America, were originally published in the 1940s and 1950s. Sadly, it came as no surprise to me how timely...
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Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America
by Stephen G Bloom
Powells.com Staff Pick "You have got to read this book. The clash of cultures portrayed in this small town in Iowa is illuminating and riveting. When Orthodox Jews move into Postville and open a kosher slaughterhouse, local (and non-Jewish) Iowans figure this is just...
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