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Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
by Shunryu Suzuki  
Powells.com Staff Pick Over the past 10 years I've owned several copies of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: I just can't resist giving it away. In fact, my first copy was given to me by a karate sensei who recommended I "not read it cover to cover, but instead read whichever chapter...
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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...
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Plainsong (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Kent Haruf
Powells.com Staff Pick This National Book Award finalist is recommended for those who seek the pure beauty of raw human interaction, humility, and grace. Plainsong is the story of human beings struggling to come together as a family. In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high...
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The Post-American World
by Fareed Zakaria Publisher Comments One of our most distinguished thinkers argues that the "rise of the rest" is the great story of our time. "This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else." So begins Fareed Zakaria's important new work on...
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The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
by A J Jacobs Publisher Comments 33,000 PAGES 44 MILLION WORDS 10 BILLION YEARS OF HISTORY 1 OBSESSED MAN Part memoir and part education (or lack thereof), The Know-It-All chronicles NPR contributor A.J. Jacobs's hilarious, enlightening, and seemingly impossible quest to read the...
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Mortal Syntax Signed
by June Casagrande Publisher Comments The only fun, friendly, and surefire defense against the grammar snobs. Having already made a name for herself with Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies, now in its fifth printing, June Casagrande returns with Mortal Syntax, taking on the 101 most...
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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...
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True Story of Hansel and Gretel (03 Edition)
by Louise Murphy
Publisher Comments In the last months of the Nazi occupation of Poland, two children are left by their father and stepmother to find safety in a dense forest. Because their real names will reveal their Jewishness, they are renamed "Hansel" and "Gretel." They wander in the...
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The Feast of Love
by Charles Baxter
Powells.com Staff Pick If you have ever loved, buy this book! How's that for a strong recommendation? Charles Baxter is, in my opinion, one of the most under-appreciated contemporary American authors on the scene. He is remarkably talented. This novel, set in Ann Arbor...
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Attack of the Theater People
by Marc Acito Publisher Comments In praising "the witty high school romp" How I Paid for College, the New York Times Book Review said, it "makes you hope there's a lot more where this came from." There is. In this hilarious sequel Attack of the Theater People, Edward Zanni and his merry...
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Bitter Is the New Black: Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass, Or, Why You Should Never Carry a Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office
by Jen Lancaster
Publisher Comments Jen Lancaster was living the sweet life — until real life kicked her to the curb. She had the perfect man, the perfect job — hell, she had the perfect life — and there was no reason to think it wouldn't last. Or maybe there was, but...
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The Lazarus Project Signed
by Aleksandar Hemon
Publisher Comments In two collections of stories, The Question of Bruno and the NBCC-finalist Nowhere Man, Aleksandar Hemon has earned unmatched literary acclaim and a reputation as one of the English language as most original and moving wordsmiths. In The Lazarus Project,...
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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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The Great Depression and the New Deal: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
by Eric Rauchway Publisher Comments The New Deal shaped our nation's politics for decades, and was seen by many as tantamount to the "American Way" itself. Now, in this superb compact history, Eric Rauchway offers an informed account of the New Deal and the Great Depression, illuminating...
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The Stone Gods: A Novel
by Jeanette Winterson Publisher Comments This new world weighs a yatto-gram. But everything is trial-size; tread-on-me-tiny or blurred-out-offocus huge. There are leaves that have grown as big as cities, and there are birds that nest in cockleshells. On the white sand there are long-toed...
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Why We're Liberals Signed
by Eric Alterman Publisher Comments The bestselling author demolishes myths about liberalism in a spirited polemic. Thanks to the machinations of the right, there is no dirtier word in American politics today than liberal — yet public opinion polls consistently show that the...
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The Secret History of the American Empire: The Truth about Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and How to Change the World
by John Perkins Synopsis From the author of the "New York Times" bestseller "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" comes an expos of international corruption. Perkins suggests how Americans can work to create a more peaceful and stable world for future generations....
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Armageddon in Retrospect
by Kurt Vonnegut Publisher Comments The first and only collection of unpublished works by Kurt Vonnegut since his death — a fitting tribute to the author, and an essential contribution to the discussion of war, peace, and humanity's tendency toward violence. Armageddon in...
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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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McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld
by Misha Glenny Publisher Comments With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the deregulation of international financial markets in 1989, governments and entrepreneurs alike became intoxicated by forecasts of limitless expansion into newly open markets. No...
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