Bestsellers
There are 90 books in this aisle.
Browse the aisle by Title | by Author | by Price
See recently arrived used books in this aisle.
 Used: $7.50 Trade Paper List Price $14.00 
add to wish list |
|
The Inheritance of Loss: A Novel
by Kiran Desai  
Publisher Comments From the author of Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard comes a masterpiece set in a corner of the Himalayas where a rising insurgency challenges the old way of life — Kiran Desai's new novel about belonging and estrangement, exile and homecoming, is...
|
||||||
Used: $9.50 Trade Paper List Price $13.95
add to wish list |
|
Into the Wild
by Jon Krakauer Publisher Comments In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his...
|
||||||
New: $24.00 Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
The Hearts of Horses
by Molly Gloss Publisher Comments A breakout novel from the author of The Jump-Off Creek, the heartwarming story of a determined young woman with a gift for gentling wild horses In the winter of 1917, when a young woman shows up at his doorstep looking for work breaking horses, George...
|
||||||
Sale: $6.98 Trade Paper List Price $14.00
add to wish list |
|
The Whistling Season
by Ivan Doig
Publisher Comments "Can't cook but doesn't bite." So begins the newspaper ad offering the services of an A-1 housekeeper, sound morals, exceptional disposition that draws the hungry attention of widower Oliver Milliron in the fall of 1909. And so begins the unforgettable...
|
||||||
New: $12.95 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
The Good Husband of Zebra Drive (No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency)
by Alexander M Smith Publisher Comments In the eighth installment of Alexander McCall Smith's endlessly enjoyable, bestselling series, the judicious Precious Ramotswe comes to discover what is true, stable, and genuine in an ever-shifting world. There is rarely a dull moment in the life of...
|
||||||
Used: $8.95 Trade Paper List Price $14.00
add to wish list |
|
The Friday Night Knitting Club
by Kate Jacobs Publisher Comments The New York Times bestselling sensation that's Steel Magnolias set in Manhattan (USA Today)-now in paperback. Juggling the demands of her yarn shop and single-handedly raising a teenage daughter has made Georgia Walker grateful for her Friday Night...
|
||||||
Used: $8.00 Trade Paper List Price $14.95
add to wish list |
|
Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Publisher Comments In the late 1800s, in a Caribbean port city, a young telegraph operator named Florentino Ariza falls deliriously in love with Fermina Daza, a beautiful student. She is so sheltered that they carry on their romance secretly, through letters and telegrams....
|
||||||
Used: $7.50 Trade Paper List Price $14.00
add to wish list |
|
The Memory Keeper's Daughter
by Kim Edwards Publisher Comments Kim Edwardss stunning family drama evokes the spirit of Sue Miller and Alice Sebold, articulating every mothers silent fear: what would happen if you lost your child and she grew up without you? In 1964, when a blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to deliver...
|
||||||
Used: $7.95 Trade Paper List Price $11.99
add to wish list |
|
The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak Publisher Comments It's just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery... Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusak's groundbreaking new novel...
|
||||||
New: $14.00 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
The God of Animals: A Novel
by Aryn Kyle
Powells.com Staff Pick Alice Winston is one of the most likable characters I've come across in a long time; smart, tough, and intuitive beyond her years, her voice is both utterly realistic and absolutely captivating. Aryn Kyle's extraordinary debut novel treats the reader to...
|
||||||
New: $13.99 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
A Mending at the Edge
by Jane Kirkpatrick Publisher Comments "Of all the things I left in Willapa, hope is what I missed the most." So begins this story of one woman's restoration from personal grief to the meaning of community. Based on the life of German-American Emma Wagner Giesy, the only woman sent to the...
|
||||||
Used: $9.95 Trade Paper List Price $15.00
add to wish list |
|
Infidel
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali Publisher Comments In this profoundly affecting memoir from the internationally renowned author of The Caged Virgin, Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells her astonishing life story, from her traditional Muslim childhood in Somalia, Saudi Arabia, and Kenya, to her intellectual awakening...
|
||||||
Used: $15.95 Hardcover List Price $24.00
add to wish list |
|
Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
by David Sheff Publisher Comments What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our family? What did I do wrong? Those are the wrenching questions that haunted every moment of renowned journalist David Sheff's harrowing journey through his son Nic's addiction to drugs and tentative steps...
|
||||||
Used: $10.50 Trade Paper List Price $15.00
add to wish list |
|
Nineteen Minutes
by Jodi Picoult Publisher Comments Jodi Picoult, bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper and The Tenth Circle, pens her most riveting book yet, with a startling and poignant story about the devastating aftermath of a small-town tragedy. Sterling is an ordinary New Hampshire town where...
|
||||||
New: $14.95 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
The Female Brain
by Louann Brizendine
Powells.com Staff Pick Although initially turned off by the title, The Female Brain was one the most revealing gender studies I have ever read. More a case for feminism than a case for gender superiority, Brizendine explores the physiological reasons behind the differences in...
|
||||||
New: $15.95 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
The Yiddish Policemen's Union (P.S.)
by Michael Chabon
Powells.com Staff Pick This book's premise is FDR's suggestion, back when Israel was being created, that the Jewish Diaspora settle in Alaska. Chabon makes that scenario a reality, except that when the book begins, the Sitka District is set to revert to Alaskan control...
|
||||||
New: $7.99 Mass Market
add to wish list |
|
The Other Boleyn Girl
by Philippa Gregory Publisher Comments Two sisters competing for the greatest prize: the love of a king. When Mary Boleyn comes to court as an innocent girl of fourteen, she catches the eye of Henry VIII. Dazzled by the king, Mary falls in love with both her golden prince and her growing...
|
||||||
Used: $7.95 Trade Paper List Price $14.95
add to wish list |
|
Stumbling on Happiness
by Daniel Gilbert
Powells.com Staff Pick As fascinating and engaging as Malcolm Gladwell's Blink, Stumbling on Happiness is the perfect antidote to those self-help tomes that claim to offer the secret to a fulfilling life. Harvard professor Gilbert aims to show us why those books don't work,...
|
||||||
New: $23.95 Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files (Dresden Files #10)
by Jim Butcher
Powells.com Staff Pick Harry Dresden returns with a vengeance in Small Favor, the 10th book in the Dresden Files series. If you haven't read any of this series — start now! Jim Butcher sits at the top of the ever-growing list of Urban Fantasy authors. Harry Dresden is the...
|
||||||
Used: $10.95 Trade Paper List Price $15.95
add to wish list |
|
What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng (Vintage)
by Dave Eggers
Powells.com Staff Pick I can't lie — this is first Eggers book I've felt anything for. But I haven't read a novel that was so relevant, so timely, and so humane as this in a very long time. It's beautiful, horrible, sad, funny, real; it's impossible not to connect with...
|
||||||
