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Wallace Stegner and the American West
by Philip L. Fradkin  Publisher Comments Wallace Stegner was the premier chronicler of the twentieth-century western American experience, and his novels, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Angle of Repose and the National Book Award-winning The Spectator Bird, brought the life and landscapes of the...
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Madness: A Bipolar Life
by Marya Hornbacher 
Publisher Comments An astonishing dispatch from inside the belly of bipolar disorder, reflecting major new insights. When Marya Hornbacher published her first book, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia, she did not yet have the piece of shattering knowledge that...
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Dog Man: An Uncommon Life on a Faraway Mountain
by Martha Sherrill Publisher Comments How one man's consuming passion for dogs saved a legendary breed from extinction and led him to a difficult, more soulful way of life in the wilds of Japan's remote snow country As Dog Man opens, Martha Sherrill brings us to a world that Americans know...
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Helping Me Help Myself: One Skeptic, Ten Self-Help Gurus, and a Year on the Brink of the Comfort Zone
by Beth Lisick
Publisher Comments Grappling with her lifelong phobia of anything slick, cheesy, or remotely claiming to provide self-empowerment, Beth Lisick wakes up on New Year's Day 2006 with an unprecedented feeling. She is finally able to admit to herself that she's grown tired of...
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Farewell, My Subaru: An Epic Adventure in Local Living
by Doug Fine
Publisher Comments Advance praise for Farewell, My Subaru Fine is Bryson Funny. ----Santa Cruz Sentinel Fine is an amiable and self-deprecating storyteller in the mold of Douglas Adams. If you're a fan of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy-style humor -- and also looking to...
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The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
by A. J. Jacobs Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of The Know-It-All comes a fascinating and timely exploration of religion and the Bible. Raised in a secular family but increasingly interested in the relevance of faith in our modern world, A.J. Jacobs decides to dive in...
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The Sum of Our Days: A Memoir
by Isabel Allende Publisher Comments In this heartfelt memoir, Isabel Allende reconstructs the painful reality of her own life in the wake of tragic loss—the death of her daughter, Paula. Recalling the past thirteen years from the daily letters the author and her mother, who lives in...
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Escape
by Carolyn Jessop and Laura Palmer Publisher Comments The dramatic first-person account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect, and one woman's courageous flight to freedom with her eight children. When she was eighteen years old, Carolyn Jessop was coerced into an arranged...
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Shakespeare: The World as Stage (Eminent Lives)
by Bill Bryson
Powells.com Staff Pick A well-researched, well-written journey through Shakespeare's England. And who better as your affable guide than Bill Bryson? This slim volume is a perfect stocking stuffer. Recommended by Beth, Powells.com...
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Vintage International)
by Jean-Dominique Bauby Publisher Comments In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor-in-chief of French Elle, the father of two young childen, a 44-year-old man known and loved for his wit, his style, and his impassioned approach to life. By the end of the year he was also the victim of a rare...
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The House That George Built: With a Little Help from Irving, Cole, and a Crew of about Fifty
by Wilfrid Sheed Publisher Comments From Irving Berlin to Cy Coleman, from “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” to “Big Spender,” from Tin Pan Alley to the MGM soundstages, the Golden Age of the American song embodied all that was cool, sexy, and sophisticated in...
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The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food
by Jennifer 8. Lee Publisher Comments There are more Chinese restaurants in America than McDonald's, Burger Kings, and Wendy's combined. Egg rolls are as American as apple pie, and for New York Times reporter Jennifer 8. Lee, the story of the Chinese-American experience can be told through...
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John Adams
by David Mccullough Publisher Comments In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution; who rose...
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Helen Mirren: In the Frame: My Life in Words and Pictures
by Helen Mirren Publisher Comments Helen Mirren has been an internationally acclaimed actress -- and the recipient of many awards, transferring between stage, cinema and television -- for over 40 years. Known in her youth for a forthright style, a liberated attitude and a bohemian outlook,...
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The Legend of Colton H. Bryant
by Alexandra Fuller Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of Donat Letas Go to the Dogs Tonight and Scribbling the Cat, the unforgettable true story of a boy who comes of age in the oil-fields and open plains of Wyoming; a heartrending story of the human spirit that lays bare where...
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My Life in France
by Julia Child and Alex Prud'homme
Powells.com Staff Pick An inspiring look at the life and times of the culinary genius, Julia Child's My Life in France is a good-humored memoir of her influential and transformative early experiences in France with her then new husband, Paul. Julia's devotees, as well as those...
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The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom
by Simon Winchester Publisher Comments In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman ("Elegant and scrupulous"—New York Times Book Review) and Krakatoa ("A mesmerizing page-turner"—Time) brings to life the...
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The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus
by Joshua Kendall Publisher Comments The extraordinary true story of Peter Mark Roget and his legendary Thesaurus, Peter Mark Roget — polymath, eccentric, synonym aficionado — was a complicated man. He was an eminent scholar who absorbed himself in his work, yet he also possessed...
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ADHD and Me: What I Learned from Lighting Fires at the Dinner Table
by Blake E. S. Taylor Synopsis From an attempt to hurl his infant sister off the edge of a table to being lashed down to a dining room chair by an irate babysitter, the stories from Blake Taylor's life with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are at times hilarious, tragic,...
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Without a Map: A Memoir
by Meredith Hall Publisher Comments A New York Times Bestseller and 2007 Book Sense Selection Meredith Hall's moving but unsentimental memoir begins in 1965, when she becomes pregnant at sixteen. Shunned by her insular New Hampshire community, she is then kicked out of the house by her...
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