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The Gun Seller
by Hugh Laurie  
Powells.com Staff Pick The Gun Seller reminds me of a well-made gin and tonic — crisp, hip, and refreshing, with a droll twist of lime. Recommended by Carrie, Powells...
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I Capture the Castle
by Dodie Smith
Powells.com Staff Pick An utter delight. This enchanting tale has long been a favorite of mine. It has just been reissued to coincide with the soon to be released movie version. Set in 1930s England, this story of young love beguiles with moated castles, moonlight...
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Change of Heart
by Jodi Picoult Publisher Comments The acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author presents a spellbinding tale of a mother's tragic loss and one man's last chance at gaining salvation. Can we save ourselves, or do we rely on others to do it? Is what we believe always the truth?...
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A People's History of American Empire: A Graphic Adaptation
by Howard Zinn Publisher Comments Adapted from the bestselling grassroots history of the United States, the story of America in the world, told in comics form Since its landmark publication in 1980, A People’s History of the United States has had six new editions, sold more...
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Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink
by David (edt) Remnick Publisher Comments Since its earliest days, The New Yorker has been a tastemaker–literally. As the home of A. J. Liebling, Joseph Wechsberg, and M.F.K. Fisher, who practically invented American food writing, the magazine established a tradition that is carried...
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Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam
by Pope Brock
Powells.com Staff Pick Charlatan reads like a highly imaginative novel and is everything a work of popular history should be. Recommended by Michal, Powells.com...
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Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines
by Nic Sheff Publisher Comments Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. In the years that followed, he would regularly smoke pot, do cocaine and Ecstasy, and develop addictions to crystal meth and heroin. Even so, he felt like he would always be able to quit and put his...
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Outlander
by Diana Gabaldon Publisher Comments Claire Randall is leading a double life. She has a husband in one century, and a lover in another... In 1945, Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon--when she innocently touches a...
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World Made by Hand
by James Howard Kunstler Publisher Comments In the best-seller The Long Emergency, James Howard Kunstler explored how the terminal decline of oil production had the potential to put industrial civilization out of business. With World Made By Hand Kunstler makes an imaginative leap into the future,...
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Things I Learned from Knitting (Whether I Wanted to or Not)
by Stepha Pearl Mcphee Publisher Comments The Yarn Harlot strikes again! Best-selling knitting author and humorist Stephanie Pearl-McPhee is back with an irresistible collection of witty observations on how knitting and life wisdom are spun together. In Things I Learned From Knitting (Whether I...
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Song Yet Sung Signed
by James McBride Publisher Comments From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Color of Water comes a powerful page-turner about a runaway slave and a determined slave catcher. Nowhere has the drama of American slavery played itself out with more tension than in the dripping...
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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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Chicken Coops: 45 Building Plans for Housing Your Flock
by Judy Pangman Publisher Comments Easy-to-care-for, productive, inexpensive, and full of personality, chickens are popping up in backyards throughout the country— in the suburbs, rural towns, and even on city plots. All it takes to keep a small flock is a bit of land and a properly...
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2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl
by Daniel Pinchbeck
Powells.com Staff Pick From the wind-swept desert of Burning Man, to the Bwiti ceremonies of Gabon, to sipping ayahuasca in Brazil, Pinchbeck takes the reader on a psychedelic journey to discover just what in the universe is happening — and will happen — on December...
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The Echo Maker
by Richard Powers Publisher Comments Winner of the 2006 National Book Award The Echo Maker is "a remarkable novel, from one of our greatest novelists, and a book that will change all who read it" (Booklist, starred review). On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, twenty...
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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
by Diane Ackerman
Powells.com Staff Pick Ackerman's bestselling books, including A Natural History of the Senses and An Alchemy of Mind, are illuminating windows into the human condition, and are distinguished not only by Ackerman's graceful and exuberant prose but by her inclusion of her own...
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The Three-Martini Family Vacation: A Field Guide to Intrepid Parenting
by Christie Mellor Synopsis The author of the wildly successful "Three-Martini Playdate" is back with more irreverent and useful advice about life with children. Wickedly funny essays offer helpful advice on harnessing the energy of toddlers-gone-wild: on vacation, out to dinner...
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Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy
by Ian W. Toll
Powells.com Staff Pick The birth of the U.S. Navy and its coming-of-age engagements are the subject of this richly told and intriguing history. More than a maritime account, this action-filled read skillfully relates the struggles of our country in its infancy. Recommended...
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A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World
by Tony Horwitz
Powells.com Staff Pick With the same sly humor and neighborly curiosity he brought to Confederates in the Attic and Blue Latitudes, in A Voyage Long and Strange Tony Horwitz roams the New World, surveying the destinations of history's foremost explorers: Leif Eiriksson...
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No Shortcuts to the Top Signed
by Ed Viesturs and David Roberts Publisher Comments This gripping and triumphant memoir follows a living legend of extreme mountaineering as he makes his assault on history, one 8,000-meter summit at a time. For eighteen years Ed Viesturs pursued climbing's holy grail: to stand atop the world's...
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